MOVEMENT

Children have a natural need for movement and physical activity.

Gross motor equipment such as climbing structures and balance beams promote both physical and brain development by allowing children to strengthen and develop their muscles, coordination, and spatial awareness.

"Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas."  Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood.