ACTIVIDADES FÍSICAS RECREATIVAS PARA MEJORAR EL DESARROLLO PSICOMOTOR EN NIÑOS DE SEGUNDO AÑO DE EDUCACIÓN GENERAL BÁSICA DE LA UNIDAD EDUCATIVA FISCAL TIBURCIO MACÍAS

Abstract

The development of psychomotor skills in children is constituted as a relative point within the learning process, it is known that physical education provides an important growth in these essential skills for the child in the formative stage, The main objective is based on implementing a program of recreational physical activities for psychomotor development in children in the second year of the elementary school “Tiburcio Macias”, the applied methodology maintains a mixed approach, using the descriptive method and research inductive-deductive to detail the problem from a particular to general perspective in what is known as the problem within the educational institution, the results were taken through different applied instruments, in the survey it was known that teachers do not maintain a coordinated planning in relation to physical exercises that produce an optimal psychomotor development, the skills test applied in the students reflected that in despite of the existence of acceptable movements in the different physical indicators, certain deficiencies are perceived in some skills in second grade children; Being able to conclude that it is necessary to adopt physical activity programs to improve psychomotor development.