Body-Kinaesthetic Program for Toddlers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

pandemics that occur throughout the world have issued various policies including school from home. The process of playing and learning in this situation will certainly have an impact on various aspects of a child's development, including his physical motor development. At toddler age children need a lot of movement, running, jumping and more body-kinaesthetic intelligence exploration, but these pandemic conditions make exploration very limited. In this case, the teacher and parents need to find and develop programs that can meet the needs of toddler-age children to move. Based on this, this article aims to find out how to provide appropriate and sustainable stimulus in developing bodilykinaesthetic intelligence that can be implemented by teachers and parents during school from home. This research will lead to ideas of gross motor activities that are right on target for toddler age children by packaging their activities in the form of play. The method used in this research is library research and development, in which the researcher conducts a study of literature studies related to motor development of toddler-age children to then develop their body-kinaesthetic development programs. The results of this study are expected to be a reference for teachers and parents in stimulating toddler age children while implementing the school from home program.

Lower Elementary School Student Non-Locomotor Movement Profile During COVID-19 Pandemic

“…The pandemic does not stop development as long as children have the desire to learn and parents and teachers guide them to fulfill all their needs (Wahyuni & Kurniati, 2021). Activities provided by the teacher serve as examples to be repeated at home (Li et al, 2015).…”