Let’s ‘Play to Learn’
- Children explore throwing different objects into different containers.
- Children place a throw-down marker one pace away from the container and throw an object into the container. Children decide how many successful throws have to be achieved before they can move back another pace and so on.
- Encourage children to take turns and record their achievements.
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- the surface is clean and free from obstructions
- any spilt water is mopped up immediately if indoors
- children do not throw objects inappropriately
Place a range of equipment in each ‘garden’.
Opportunities to
- control large body movements
- send objects over short distances
- recognise and use different pieces of equipment
Questions
- Which is easier: to get an object into a bucket that is close or into one that is further away?
- Why is it more difficult to get an object into a smaller bucket?
- What difference is there between the sound an object makes as it plops into a small bucket or a large bucket / a plastic bucket or a metal bucket?
- What difference does the size of the object make to the sound made by the object as it plops into the water?
Can you see the child?
- Achieving increasing control over large body movements
- Sending objects successfully over short distances
- Recognising and using different pieces of equipment
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Most of the time
Encourage the child to:
- throw a variety of objects
- throw at increasingly more difficult targets
- throw from a further distance
- aim at targets on the wall or at a higher level
- discuss how the target can be made more difficult
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Sometimes
Encourage the child to:
- throw at a large target
- concentrate on the target
- discuss which objects might be easiest to throw
- practise skills using the Technical Skills Cards