Warm Up
Remind children about the importance of being active and
warming up their bodies correctly. Tell them that in today's warm up
activity they will be finding lots of different ways for their
bodies to move but that they can only move in the way describe if
they are told 'Our teacher says' before the instruction. So when
they hear 'Our teacher says walk' they would walk but on 'jump' they
would carry on walking until 'Our teacher says jump'.
Start with the
less energetic activities and move on to the more energetic towards
the end of the warm up time.
Include walking, jogging, jumping,
skipping, hopping, running.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to take a ball of any size and to
practice throwing, bouncing and catching a ball in as many ways as
they can. Encourage them to try all these activities while moving as
well as static. Challenge them to try the activities with one hand
as well as two.
Ask children to work in pairs with just one ball to
practice throwing, bouncing and catching. Can they think of a
movement to fit in after the ball bounces and before they catch it?
Choose a few children to show what they have been doing and ask
others to describe what they have seen.
Discuss the important skills
needed to throw a ball so that a partner can catch it and to catch
the ball without dropping it. If possible pick out both an underarm
and an overarm throwing activity. Ask other children to say what
they notice and discuss why it might sometimes be better to use one
method rather than another.
Skill
Building
Ask children to work with
a partner and to throw the ball underarm for their partner to catch.
Tell them to start quite close together and then to increase the
distance. Does this make the task harder or easier? Remind them that
the catcher must watch the ball at all times, reaching for the ball,
cupping it and bringing it in towards their chest. The thrower must
throw the ball so that their partner can catch it. Ask children to
vary the height of the throw.
If there is a wall throw the ball
against it so that it bounces for their partner to catch. If not use
a hoop and bounce the ball inside the hoop for their partner to
catch.
Challenge children to try to send the ball to their partner
while they are on the move. What must they remember when doing this?
Ask children then to work in threes using a hoop as well as a
ball. Children take turns to hold the hoop while the others throw
the ball through the hoop to their partner. Again remind them how to
aim through the hoop and to watch the ball if they are catching it.
Children could then work in groups of five or six. They stand in
a circle and throw the ball across the circle for another child to
catch. Children could choose to catch the ball while it is still in
the air or to let it bounce first.
Concluding
Activity
Children work
in their original group of three. They take a ball and one other
piece of apparatus from the selection offered and make up a simple
target game.
Give the children a few minutes to discuss their ideas
and collect equipment, then a few more minutes to practice the game.
Let each group show a snapshot of their game to the rest of the
class.
Cool Down
Play 'Copy Teacher' silently. Children watch and copy
the teacher's actions. Include slow stretches and curls to the
ground. Touch different parts of the body and try to stretch these
in different directions - e.g. stretching the elbow out from the
body and then slowly drawing it in again.
Let children lay still
while they listen to a quick recap of what they have learnt in
today's lesson together with skills they have been practising.
Choose one child to describe how their body changed during the Cool
Down session.
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