Finnish Skill-based Movement Activities

The ability to anticipate and react to changes in balance as the body moves through space.

The ability to maintain a stationary body position while performing a task.

The awareness of space between oneself and another object or person. Learning positional vocabulary with the body to understand direction, distance and location.

Movements whereby the body travels through space from one location to another primarily using the feet for support. The hands and feet can also be used together.

Part of the gross motor skills group. The hands or feet or any other body part moves or manipulates an object.

Movement organized around the axis of the body involving the spine in different spatial planes.