Let’s ‘Play to Learn’
Encourage the children to explore:
- Working as a pair to send and receive a ball with each child remaining in their ‘side/half’ of the ‘garden’
- Working as a pair – ‘A’ sends a ball against a wall for ‘B’ to receive, ‘B’ sends it to the wall again and ‘A’ receives it
- Keeping the objects in the ‘garden’ – aim for highest consecutive rally
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- the surface is clean and free from obstructions
- children work in ‘gardens’
Opportunities to
- develop increasing control and co-ordination
- send and receive an object over greater distances
- develop an increasing awareness of space in which to work safely
Questions
- With which ball did you get your highest score?
- Which ball do you enjoy playing with most?
- What did you do to ensure you were both safe when sending and receiving against a wall?
- What do you and your partner need to do to achieve a higher score?
Can you see the child?
- Developing increasing control and co-ordination
- Sending and receiving an object
- Developing an increasing awareness of space in which to work safely
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Most of the time
Encourage the child to:
- send and receive an object over greater distances
- send the object to partner, then move to touch a line or spot before returning to catch the ball again
- make up more complex rules
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Sometimes
Encourage the child to:
- practise each aspect before playing a game
- send and receive over short distances
- collect/catch the ball or object and return to the middle of their half before sending the object again