Warm Up
Choose one child to explain to the others how his/her body
feels and what we need to do at the start of each PE lesson. Remind
children that in the last two lessons they have warmed up playing a
game of Islands. Tell them that in this lesson they will be warming
up by leaving the islands and joining a ship to play Pirate Ship.
Teach the children some basic commands to which children must
respond with appropriate movements. When children first start to
play use the less energetic movements and move on to the more
energetic movements together with a quickened pace of change (see
teacher factfile for instructions).
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a ball and practice rolling,
chasing and retrieving it. Challenge them to jump over the ball
while it is rolling. Can they do this and then run ahead and still
retrieve it?
Ask children to find different ways to throw and catch a
ball. Give them a few minutes to experiment and help them to improve
their skill and technique while you move around the class, joining
in with activities and asking them to describe what they are doing.
Choose a few children to show what they have been doing and ask
others to describe what they have seen.
Skill
Building
Tell children
to take a bean bag and to practice throwing it up into the air and
catching it with two hands. Remind them to watch the bean bag at all
times until it is safe in their hands. Tell them to draw the bean
bag into their body as they catch it. Challenge children to throw
the bean bag slightly higher or just in front of them so that they
have to move to catch the bean bag. How many times can they throw
and catch the bean bag within 30 seconds without dropping it?
Ask
children to repeat the activity throwing and catching the bean bag
with one hand then throwing and catching while they move. Ask
children to take a hoop as well as their bean bag. Show children how
to throw the bean bag underarm to land in the hoop. Ask children to
practice this. If they miss the bean bag they should stand nearer to
the hoop and if they get the bean bag inside the hoop they should
move further away. Challenge children to get the bean bag in the
hoop 10 times.
Children then work with a partner to throw a bean bag
so that it lands at their partner's feet. This person should then
pick up the bean bag and throw it so that it lands at the other
child's feet.
Children should then throw the bean bag to their
partner who must catch it and then throw it back.
Concluding
Activity
Tell children that they are going to use the throwing skills
practiced today to play a team game in which they can score points.
The game is called Lily Pads and the aim is to get around the pond
as quickly as possible by throwing their bean bags on to the lily
pads (see teacher factfile for game instructions).
Cool Down
Children
keep their bean bag and sit in a space throwing the bean bag a
little way above them so that they can easily catch it. They then
hold the bean bag with both hands and stretch so that they lift it
as high as they can above their heads. They repeat this with each
hand in turn. They then open their legs and try to slide the bean
bag up and down each leg and around their backs. The cool down
activity finishes by children balancing the bean bag on their head
while they sit with straight backs and listen to the things they
have done in the lesson and the skills they have learnt.
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