Warm up
Ask children to sit in a space and remind them that each gymnastics
lesson will start with a warm up. Discuss the importance of warming
up their bodies and how the body changes during exercise. Ask
children to walk around the workspace. Challenge them to use
different parts of their feet to do this - soles, heels, toes,
sides. Tell them to repeat the activity but to jog around on
different parts and then to run around on different parts. Were some
activities difficult to do?
Floor Work
Ask children to spend a few minutes moving around the workspace
using different parts of their bodies but keeping their movements
near to the floor. Move around the children and ask them to describe
what they are doing. Discuss ways they could improve their
movements. Challenge children to find ways of moving where their
bodies are far away from the floor. Give them a few minutes to
explore different ways then ask one or two children to demonstrate
the ways they found. Try to choose children who have jumped in
different ways. Ask other children to describe what they have
done.
Discuss with children what is happening to their bodies when
they jump and land. Explain the importance of landing safely and
demonstrate how to land by absorbing the shock of landing by
'giving' at the hips, knees and ankles. Explain the danger of
'jarring' bones. Ask children to suggest ways of jumping higher
(using their arms to gain height, keeping the head up).
Explain that
children can make shapes in the air just as they can on the ground.
Get them to make a stretched shape and also a curled shape by
sitting on the ground and with their legs bent up and their back
straight.
Ask children to practice running and jumping into a space
to make a shape in the air. Can they make a different shape each
time they jump? Can they make a different shape after they have
landed on the ground?
Small
Apparatus
Each child should take a hoop and sit inside it in a space of their
own. Ask children to find ways of moving around their hoop using
different parts of their body. Ask children to find different ways of
jumping into and out of their hoop. As children practice move around
and discuss what they are doing. Talk about ways they could improve
their movements. Choose a few children to demonstrate different ways
they have found. Tell children to jump into and out of their hoops
again using some of the different ways they have seen. Encourage
them to use two feet to two feet, two feet to one foot, one foot to
two feet, one foot to the same foot, one foot to the other
foot. Challenge children to use their hands and feet to jump into and
out of their hoops. Encourage children to put some of these jumps
together.
Cool Down
Ask children to hold their hoop above their head and then jump
through it as they lower it to the ground in front of them. Repeat
this. Now ask children to stand still while holding the hoop in
front of them, then to raise the hoop above their heads stretching
as far away from their bodies as they can. Repeat this movement to
each side and then in front of them. Put the hoop on the ground,
stretch their bodies up as high as they can then curl up very slowly
into their hoop lying on their side. While children are lying
quietly recap on the things children have practiced during this
lesson.
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