Warm up
Ask children to find a space and sit down. Choose a child to say why
it is important to warm up our bodies before we exercise vigorously
and how our bodies change during exercise. Remind children of the
warm up activity in the last lesson song 'If you're happy and you
know it' (see teacher factfile) and spend a few minutes moving from
the gentler to the more strenuous types of movement to accompany the
song. Encourage children to suggest another two ways of moving and
make up appropriate verses to accompany the movement.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a ball and working alone to practice bouncing,
throwing and catching while on the move. Select two children to
demonstrate and ask the others to describe what they see. Recap on
the important skills needed to catch the ball accurately. Discuss
with children the difference between bouncing and catching and
dropping and catching. Demonstrate the two actions then get children
to practice dropping and catching. Challenge them to catch the ball
at different parts of the bounce having been dropped - eg. near the
bottom of the bounce, near the top. Can they let the ball bounce
twice after dropping it before catching it? Can they drop it and
then turn around before catching it etc. Can children suggest other
actions they can do before catching the ball after the drop?
Ask
children to choose a partner and keep just one ball. One child drops
the ball and the other child has to catch it. Ask them to take a
hoop and take turns to drop the ball inside the hoop for their
partner to catch.
Skill
Building
Ask children to work with a partner and practice throwing a ball to
their partner in a cooperative way so that they can catch it.
Practice this skill stationary at first, reminding children about
tracking the ball, reaching out towards it and cupping their hands
around it when catching so that they can draw it in towards their
body. Challenge them to throw the ball while moving - slowly at
first and then more quickly if they are confident.
Teach the children
how to play 'Hoop Drop and Catch' (see teacher factfile) reminding
them how to work cooperatively so that their partner does catch the
ball. When children have played this game for a few minutes
encourage children to turn it into a competitive game where they try
to run ahead of their partner and drop the ball into the hoop before
their partner gets there.
Concluding
Activity
Remind children of the game 'Bean Bag Circle' played in the last
lesson. Explain that they are going to play the same game again but
today they will use a ball instead of a bean bag to throw around the
circle. Today's game is called 'Ball Circle' (see teacher factfile).
Cool Down
Leave the hoops on the floor and ask children to move around them
first by jogging then by skipping and lastly walking. In between
these actions call 'hoops' and children have to quickly sit inside a
hoop. After one trial take three or four hoops away each time. Any
child not in a hoop has to sit down and stay quite still on the
floor.
After all hoops have disappeared ask children to remain
sitting very still while the teacher goes over the skills learnt
during the lesson. Encourage children to describe skills needed to
carry out actions accurately and to say how their bodies have
changed.
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