Abstract:
The gross motor of children at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru can be classified between male and female children. In general, the ability of two groups based on the observation. There are some male children are not able to keep the balance of their body, the children are not able to go forward, walk to retreat, a side at straight line, while the female children are not able to jump without fall down, are not able to hop from the height, and the female children also are not able to keep the balance of their body. The purpose of this research is to know gross motor ability male children at the age 5-6 years at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru, to know harsh motoric’s ability female children at the age 5-6 years at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru, and to know whether there is differentiate of gross Motoric ‘s ability between male and female children at the age 5-6 years at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru. The research design that is used is comparative research. The data analysis is by using “t- test”. In collecting the data, the writer used observation. The result of this research showed that male gross motor ability at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru can be categorized into enough category, where the percentage is 59,81% . It can be proved by the mean score is 10,77, while the gross motor ability of female children can be categorized into enough category where the percentage is 47, 77%. It can be proved from the mean score is 8.6. The last result of this research showed there is differentiate of the gross motor ability of male and female children at age 5-6 years at TK Negeri Pembina 2 Pekanbaru where the ability of male children is better than the female children.
