The Effectiveness of the Application of the Cheerful and Creative Children's Gymnastics Model to Improve the Physical Fitness of Kindergarten Children

Noviria Sukmawati,Oktariyana Oktariyana,Muslimin Muslimin,Firmansyah Dlis,Ramdan Pelana

doi:10.13189/saj.2021.090605

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the application of the Cheerful and Creative Child Gymnastics model to improve the physical fitness of kindergarten children. This study uses a quantitative approach. The design used in this study was a pretest-posttest control group design. This study uses a physical fitness instrument designed specifically for children aged 3 and 7 years, namely the PREFIT Battery Test. From the results of PREFIT battery test data for kindergarten children with the test subjects totaling 60 kindergarten children (experimental group (n=30) and control group (n=30), it is known that the significance value (sig.) is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the Shapiro-test. Wilk > 0.05 then the data is normally distributed. Based on the results of the t-test using the independent sample test, the value of Sig (2-tailed) is 0.028 <0.05, therefore Ho (Statistical Hypothesis) is rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) is accepted so that there is an average difference. The mean significant difference exists between the post-test results of the experimental group and the post-test of the control group. To determine the effectiveness of the application of the Cheerful and Creative Children's exercise model, it can be tested by calculating the N-Gain Score, the average value of the N-gain score for the experimental class is 77.51% in the

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Childhood education seeks to develop physical, cognitive, artistic, language, emotional, social, and moral aspects, and religion of children from birth to six years of age through the provision of education to have the readiness to learn at the level of education
The Effectiveness of the Application of the Cheerful and Creative Children's Gymnastics Model to Improve the Physical Fitness of Kindergarten Children of early childhood education is to develop various potentials of children from an early age as preparation for life and being able to adapt to their environment
It can be concluded that the purpose of physical activity is to make as much control of physical activity as possible connected to the brain so that the brain can control various kinds of movements when doing physical activity or sports in the future

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Childhood education seeks to develop physical, cognitive, artistic, language, emotional, social, and moral aspects, and religion of children from birth to six years of age through the provision of education to have the readiness to learn at the level of education. The purpose of establishing early childhood education is to train children's cognitive, affective, and psychomotor from an early age using the play method. It is important to give to the nation's children early childhood education because early childhood (0-8 years) is a golden age in the process of brain growth and development so it is very appropriate to foster and develop all the potential of children, for example, intellectual, emotional, personality, and physical. It can be concluded that the purpose of physical activity is to make as much control of physical activity as possible connected to the brain so that the brain can control various kinds of movements when doing physical activity or sports in the future

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