Warm up
Ask children to find a space and sit down. Recap quickly on the
importance of warming up their bodies, how their body changes during
exercise and why exercise is fun and good for them.
Ask children to
choose a partner and explain that they will warm up by playing
Follow my leader - Children will take turns to be the leader. The
teacher gives a movement and the leader moves in that way but varies
the movement for their partner to copy. e.g. The teacher may say
'jump' and children would move in this way but find different ways
of jumping for their partner to copy.
Give children a variety of
movements but start with more gentle movements like walking and
progress to the more energetic such as jumping in order for the body
to warm up gradually.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a ball and experiment with ways of bouncing,
throwing and catching it. Challenge them to bounce the ball harder,
or throw it higher in order to make the task harder or to choose a
smaller ball. For those children who have difficulty encourage them
to choose a larger ball. Choose two children to demonstrate what
they have done and get the rest of the class to describe what they
see.
Can they repeat these activities using their stronger hand or
their weaker hand? How many times can they catch a ball before they
drop it? Move around the children reminding them to keep their eyes
on the ball and to cup their hands around it, drawing it into their
bodies when they catch it. Ask children to find a partner and to put
one ball away. Ask them to throw the ball to their partner using an
underarm throw so that their partner can catch it. If they miss the
ball tell them to move nearer and if they find the task easy to move
further away.
Skill
Building
Explain to children that when working with a partner they can work
cooperatively or compete against their partner. Discuss what this
means. Tell them that they are going to play a game called Bench
Tennis (See Teacher Factfile) and that they will use both these ways
of working. Ask the children to work cooperatively in the first part
of this session. They need to throw so that their partner catches
the ball every time. Challenge them to see how many times they can
throw and catch the ball in one minute. Ask them to repeat the
activity. Did they manage to throw and catch more times the second
time?
Put out a variety of obstacles for children to throw the ball
over and let the children spend a few minutes throwing over one type
of obstacle before they move on to another. Next tell children that
you want them to compete against their partner. This time they have
to try to catch the ball more times than their partner. They score a
point every time they catch the ball. First person to score five
points is the winner.
Coach children on how to improve their skills
by considering the best place to stand to catch the ball, making
sure they watch the ball and are always ready to catch and thinking
about how they will change their throw depending upon whether they
are cooperating or competing.
Concluding
Activity
For this activity children will work alone. They will need a ball
and should take another piece of apparatus of their own choice.
Explain to children that the aim is to make up their own game that
involves throwing and catching. Encourage children to think of a way
that they can score points in their game. Let children spend a
few minutes inventing and playing their game then ask them to find a
partner. They should then take turns to teach their game to a
partner.
Cool Down
Ask children to stand in a large class circle. Remind them of the
game Tinker Tailor learnt in earlier lessons and the actions that
accompany it. (See Teacher Factfile). Say the rhyme a few times with
children doing the appropriate actions.
Put the ball away and ask
children to sit very still in the circle. Remind them of the
activities performed and the skills they have learnt in today's
lesson.
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