Nazarkevych L. Structure and content of physical education and recreational swimming lessons for children of junior preschool age.

In the process of studying scientific and methodological literature, differences in the approaches to the construction of physical education and recreational swimming classes for preschool children and the resolution of health problems related to the content of training, the direction of health effects, and the observance of the basic principles of physical education have been established. Based on the analysis of literary sources and the results of search studies, contradictions in the construction of the main part of physical education and recreational swimming lessons for preschool children have been revealed and the expediency of improving their structure and content through the use of mobile games in water throughout the main part of each lesson has been substantiated. In a comparative pedagogical experiment, lasting for 9 months, it has been proven that physical education and recreational swimming classes for children of junior preschool age according to the author's program with the use of mobile games in water throughout their entire main part, contributed to a more pronounced increase in the average of the functional state (by 24.9 %) and physical fitness (by 23.4 %) than similar occupations in the comparative program, which included the combination of the element of the exercises in the main part of the exercises and in swimming technique (65.0 % of time) with mobile games in water (35.0 % of time).