Warm up
Quickly recap with children why it is important to warm up before
activity and how their bodies change during exercise. Explain that
they are going to play the warm up game from the last lesson called
'Treasure Islands' (see teacher factfile) and children will have to
use their fielding skills to play it. Explain to children what they
have to do and then play the game for a few minutes, starting with
the gentler movements and progressing to the more energetic.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a bat and ball and to practice bouncing the
ball down with a bat for a few minutes. How many times can the
children bounce the ball down without stopping?
Ask children to
practice tapping the ball up with the bat. How many times can they
do this without stopping? Can they tap the ball up on the bat while
they move around the workspace?
Ask one or two children to
demonstrate and remind children about the importance of holding the
bat correctly - curling fingers around the handle, holding the ball
firmly and with face upwards for tapping up, watching the ball at
all times etc. Next ask children to practice bouncing the ball then
hitting it into a space and retrieving it. Remind them how to use
the workspace safely and to avoid other children.
Skill
Building
Ask children to work in groups of three. One child should throw the
ball, another child hits it into a space with the bat and the third
child fields by running after the ball and retrieving it. Remind
children that they should try to overtake the ball and then turn to
face it before catching it. The child who is batting has three goes
and then the children change roles. The bowler and batter could
stand inside their own hoop so that the distance is the same for all
children in the group.
This activity can be varied by children
playing either cooperatively or competitively. At first they could
play cooperatively - the child who hits the ball can tap it upwards
so that the fielder can try to catch the ball.
When they children
have played this way for a few minutes encourage the 'batter' to try
to hit the ball further away. The bowler counts how many times the
batter can jump outside and back inside his/her circle before the
fielder returns to the bowler with the ball.
Concluding
Activity
Children to work in groups of three. Each group chooses three pieces
of small apparatus, one of which must be a ball of some kind.
Ask the
children to make up their own fielding game using the apparatus they
have chosen. Give them a few minutes to invent and discuss their
game then about five minutes to practice the game.
Ask each group to
explain the rules of their game and then to perform a quick snapshot
for the class to see. If they have not invented a method of scoring
challenge the rest of the class to suggest a way.
Cool Down
Ask children to stand quite still and tense every muscle in their
bodies, then relax them. Tell children to lay on their tummies, then
their backs and repeat this activity.
During the last period of
relaxation remind children of the activities they have worked on
during the lesson and the skills they have learnt.
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