Warm up
Tell children to find a space and sit down. Ask children if they can
remember what happens to their bodies during activity. Why is it
important to be active and why should we warm up our bodies before
rigorous exercise?
Tell children that today they are going to warm up
by playing 'Hide the Treasure' - an adaptation of the last lesson's
warm up called 'Treasure Islands'. Explain to children how to play
the game (see teacher factfile) and then play it for a few minutes,
making sure children warm up gradually by moving around the beanbag
treasure in progressively more energetic movements before calling
Pirates' then discuss at the end how their bodies have changed
during the warm up activity.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Remind children how they worked in groups of three during the last
lesson to throw, strike and field a ball. 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.
Ask one or two groups to demonstrate what they have been doing
and together discuss ways of improving skills used. Ask children to
repeat the activity and try to find ways of making it harder for the
fielder to collect the ball quickly (hit the ball into a different
part of the workspace etc.)
Skill
Building
Explain to children that in some games it is important to be able to
throw accurately over varying distances. Ask children to work with a
partner and to take a ball or beanbag depending upon their ability.
Children should practice throwing the ball to their partner who
should catch it. Remind children that when we work cooperatively, as
we would do with a person on our own team, we need to throw in a way
that lets our partner catch the ball. Tell children to stand just a
short distance away from their partner to begin the activity but
when they have each caught the ball they can move a little further
away. If they drop the ball they must move closer together again.
Challenge children to throw and catch the ball when they are
kneeling down as well as standing up. Can they still catch the ball
when they throw it while moving? Is this harder to do? What if they
try a bigger ball - does this make a difference?
Concluding
Activity
Tell children that they are going to use skills they have practiced
in this lesson to play a game that involves throwing a ball over
different distances. Use a large soft ball but the activity could be
adapted to use beanbags.
Children should be divided into teams of
four and each team should have a large soft ball. Tell the children
that the game is called 'Duck Down' (see teacher factfile) and
explain the rules to them. Play the game and then discuss what the
children found easy or difficult.
Cool Down
Children should each take a ball and walk in a line behind the
teacher to play 'Follow my Leader' . They must copy exactly what the
person in front of them does. The teacher should encourage children
to walk with good posture - straight backs, head up and looking
forwards. Stop at intervals to stretch the body - holding the ball
high above the head, out to the side, in front or behind. Lead the
children into a circle and sit down. The teacher needs to have the
ball box next to her/him.
Ask children to pass their balls around the
circle. When they reach the teacher he/she puts them into the box.
Children sit quietly and still while the teacher recaps on the
skills learnt in the lesson.
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