Physical activities in Kindergarten: the italian Project a Region in Motion- Play motor Path in the Preschool "Run, Jump & Learn"

Background. The implementation of a project to promote correct lifestyles of the child is a pedagogical and educational path that aims to decline different and complementary ways of promoting health education. Physical activities in the preschool constitute an inescapable range of experience which is, at the same time, a junction and denominator of further educational interventions. Various scientific evidences and good practices affirm the preventive role of structured motor activities regarding numerous pathologies typical of contemporary society and solicit physical education programs and correct eating habits. A priority for scientific research is to offer institutions (schools, local administrations) guidelines to develop multi-component programs, increase the levels of daily physical activity of the child through play, active transport, the reduction of periods of inactivity, developing the motor skills learning. There is a need to implement joint actions by the family, school and community, to comply with the Guidelines concerning the quantity and quality of daily physical activities of children, formulated by the international scientific bodies. Objectives of the project: a. develop and implement a training plan, with particular reference to teaching methods, aimed at preschool teachers; b. promote a motor intervention for all children during the whole school year; c. promote a motor intervention for all children during the whole school year. In the following contribution, starting from the relationship between motor development and physical activity, a national project for preschool is presented: "A Region in Motion - Play-motor path in the preschool" run, jump & learn "aimed at schools of and that involved in the first edition the regions of Calabria, Basilicata, Marche, Puglia, Sicilia, Umbria. Methods. Motor experiences, supported by correct methodologies, contribute to selfperception, the learning of different languages and to acquire correct modes of interpersonal and social relationship. The project has developed educational courses aimed at learning different languages through physical-motor activities; the teaching methodology was oriented to the discovery, autonomous and mediated by the teacher, of executive variants of the movement and to the resolution of problems for the development of creativity.