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Universal Journal of Educational Research 4(10): 2318-2322, 2016 DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2016.041010 The Effect of Integrated Movement Activities on Childrens FMS Shu-Chu Yang1, Shu-Jung Lin2,*, Li-Chuan Hsu3 1Department of Early Childhood Education, National ChiaYi University, Taiwan 2Department of Early Childhood Education, Nanhua University, Taiwan 3Department of Early Childhood Education, Chung Chou University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Copyright?2016 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The purpose of the present study was to planning and selecting interesting activities which are determine the effects of an integrated movement course on challenging, but not beyond their ability [1,2]. Moreover, the the FMSs of preschool children. Purposive sampling was development of FMSs is deeply influenced by a child’s used to select two classes at a public preschool in Chiayi City, everyday interactions with others, especially parents, Taiwan. The experimental group consisted of 9 boys and 12 teachers, and playmates. Thus parents and teachers need to girls, and the control group consisted of 11 boys and 8 girls. provide an environment and plan activities which promote Both were administered a pretest and a posttest. There were 5 the acquisition of FMSs [1,3]. results as follows: 1. For LS, the experimental group Over 80 percent of preschools in Taiwan have a (M = 32.38) performed better than the control group curriculum which includes games and activities designed to (M = 23.53). For OCS, the posttest revealed no significant develop physical skills. However, most of these are held only difference between the two groups.