Warm up
Ask children to find a space and sit down. Tell them that
they will be starting each games lesson with a warm up activity.
Talk to children about the way they use their muscles during
activity, discuss what happens to the body during exercise and why
it is important to warm up the body gradually.
Explain that the warm
up activity today is called Islands (see teacher factfile for
instructions). Explain how to play the game and start with the more
gentle movements, like walking, as children move around the islands.
As their bodies warm up get them to move more energetically such as
running or jumping. Gradually increase the speed at which pirates
have to get into groups on an island.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a bean bag or quoit and use it
in as many different ways as they can. Remind them about using both
equipment and workspace safely. Give children a few minutes to
practice learned skills and experiment. Move around the children
asking them to describe what they are doing, encouraging them and
making suggestions on how to improve or extend their skills.
Pick out
a few activities and ask children to demonstrate to the class. Get
the class to describe what they are doing and the skills they need
to use to perform these activities accurately. Try to pick out at
least one rolling and one sliding activity if possible.
Skill
Building
Tell children that in the next few lessons they will be
learning to send and retrieve apparatus accurately. Discuss what
this means. Ask children to take a bean bag and slide it along the
floor, then run after it and pick it up. Can they vary the distance
that the beanbag travels? Repeat the activity with a quoit - rolling
it and retrieving. Remind children to keep their eyes on the quoit.
Ask children to take a target such as a small cone and try to
slide a beanbag along the ground so that they hit the target.
Explain that children need to look at the target and take aim.
Tell
children to work in pairs and put their targets together so that
there is a gap in between. This time they need to slide their
beanbag between the two targets. Ask children to work with a partner,
sliding the bean bag so that it hits their partner's feet. Their
partner then has to retrieve the bean bag and slide it back to hit
their feet. Children should then work with a partner to slide a bean
bag through their partner's legs. The person who slides the beanbag
then has to run behind their partner to retrieve the beanbag.
Children then swap roles.
Concluding
Activity
Explain to children that
in some games the aim is to pass apparatus over a net in order to
score a point. Discuss how a ball is used in tennis and a
shuttlecock in badminton (show these if possible). Tell children
that they are going to try to score points by playing Bean bag
Badminton - but in their game they will try to slide the beanbag
over their opponent's line to score a point (see teacher factfile).
Cool Down
Ask children to describe how their bodies feel
after exercise. Discuss the importance of helping their bodies
recover from activity.
Ask children to lie on their backs and stretch
until all their muscles feel tense. Then ask them to relax. Repeat
on their tummies. Next tell children to lie very still, in a relaxed
position while the teacher describes the things they have been
learning today. Ask children to sit up slowly and describe the
things they need to remember to do when developing the skills of
sending and retrieving.
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