WEEK 11 SESSION

Duration: 45 minutes AIM OF SESSION: Body awareness and catching

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS FOCUS EQUIPMENT

Warm-up: (5 min)

 Builders and diggers Cones are placed all over an area. The children are divided into 2 teams. One team represents the diggers and the other the builders.

The diggers must knock all the cones over and the builders must place all the cones upright. When the researcher blows the whistle, all children freeze and the researcher counts how many cones are down and how many are up. The team with the most cones wins.

 Endurance  Whistle  20 X traffic

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1. Catapult catch (10 min) Each child stands next to a catapult. The children are instructed to place a bean bag at the end of the catapult. On the whistle, the children hit the other end of the catapult with their foot, shooting the beanbag up into the air. The children need to catch the bean bag with 2 hands (10 catches).

Progression: Catch bean bag with 1 hand.

The children are now given a tennis ball and they are instructed to do the same (10 catches).

Progression: Catch ball with 1 hand.

 Hand-eye coordination  Catching  4 x catapults  4 x bean bags  4 x tennis balls

2. Body letters (10 min) Children are divided into teams of 2 or more. The researcher instructs the groups to make certain letters by using their bodies. The children lie on the floor and form the shape of the letter for example, P, B, S, N, L, C, D  Body awareness  Social interaction and communication  None

3. Crab soccer (15 min) Children are divided into 2 teams of 3. Each team is instructed to shoot their goals on the opposite side of the room through 2 marked cones. Children are instructed to walk like crabs, only using their feet to kick the ball (no hands).

A crab walk: Child must sit on the ground with hands behind body. The child lifts his/her buttocks from the ground, forming a table with his/her body. The child must walk sideways, keeping his/her buttocks off the ground at all times.

 Core strength  Body coordination  Dynamic balance  Team play  4 x traffic cones  6 x colour bibs  1 x mini soccer ball Cool-down: (5 min)

 Traveling hoop Children stand in a circle and hold hands. A big hoop is placed between 2 of the children. Each child needs to climb through the hoop by using their bodies as the hoop is moved around the circle. The children may not let go hands.

Progression: Use a smaller hoop and the researcher places some

weights onto the hoops to make this a little harder.

 Bilateral Coordination  Body awareness  1 x small hoola hoop  1 x big hoola hoop

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WEEK 11 SESSION 20

Duration: 45 minutes AIM OF SESSION: Catching and body coordination

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS FOCUS EQUIPMENT

Warm-up: (5 min)

 Sleeping giants The children must run around the room, being careful not to bump into 1 another. When the researcher shout “sleeping giants”, the children must all lie on the floor on their stomachs and pretend to sleep. When the researcher claps his/her hands, the children must get back up and start to run again.

 Endurance  None

1. Pass and run (15 min) Children are divided into pairs. Each pair must stand opposite to one another round a circle of rope. One person will stand inside the circle and the other on the outside of the circle. The pairs have to throw a ball to one another. Each partner needs to catch the ball with 2 hands at first. If the ball is dropped, both partners must leave their spot and run around the big circle and get back into their spot. They start throwing the ball to each other again.

Progression: Have the children catch with 1 hand, have the children stand

on 1 leg while throwing or use different types of balls.

Partner 1  Hand eye coordination  Object manipulation  1 x tennis ball  1 x soft ball  4 x ropes

2. Stations (10 min)  Core strength  Dynamic and static balance  Aiming and catching  Bilateral coordination  1 x ladder  2 x ropes  1 x ring set  3 x traffic cones  1 x soccer ball  1 x wall target  1 x balance Partner 2

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Each child begins at a station. After 2 minutes, the children rotate until each child has completed 2 minutes of each activity:

1. The child must get into a push-up position perpendicular to the ladder. The Child must walk with his/her hands along the ladder (The child walks like a caterpillar). The child places his/her hands inside a section of the ladder and then places his/her hands below the ladder. The child will walk in this push-up position until the end of the ladder. (Repeat to the left and right).

2. The child walks along the rope heel-to-toe. When the child reaches a therapy ring, the child bends down slowly and picks up the ring on the side of the rope and squeezes it 3 times in each hand and places the ring back next to the rope to continue walking.

3. The child performs star jumps until the 2 minutes are finished (may rest).

4. The child stands on the balance mat with 2 feet and throws a tennis ball at the target on the wall, catching the ball with 2 hands on return.

5. The child gets into the crab position. Child must sit on the ground with hands behind body. The child lifts his/her buttocks from the ground, forming a table with his/her body. The child must walk sideways, keeping his/her buttocks off the ground at all times) and kicks a soccer ball through a set of traffic cones (repeat).

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3. Animal walking (10 min) Children stand in a group on a line one next to the other. When the whistle blows the children must walk to the other side of the room according to instruction:

 Seal: Each child lay on the floor on his/her stomachs. The children lift up the front of their bodies by using their hands. The children need to walk on their hands, pulling their body and dragging their legs behind them.

 Crab: Child must sit on the ground with hands behind body. The child lifts his/her buttocks in the air, forming a table with his/her body. The child must walk sideways, keeping his/her buttocks off the ground at all times.

 Frog: The child sits on his/her haunches with arms between legs. On the whistle the child jumps forwards into the air and lands in the same starting position (on haunches, arms between legs).

 Ostrich: Child bends forwards to hold onto ankles. The child’s knees are slightly bent. The child walks forwards while holding ankles (the child must not let go ankles at any time).

 Caterpillar: Children need to start by bending down forwards onto their haunches. The child needs to walk slowly through 3 phases. Phase 1: The child walks forwards with hands into a push-up position. Phase 2: The child holds the push-up position for 1 second. Phase 3: The child walks slowly with his/her feet back onto his/her haunches. The 3 movements are repeated.

 Dynamic balance  Body coordination and awareness  Core strength  None Cool-down: (5 min)  Balance heel-to-toe and

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Children are divided into teams of 2. The children are instructed to stand heel-to-toe opposite 1 another (1m apart). Threading beads are placed on the floor in between the partners. Each partner has a string in his/her hands. 1 at a time, the partners need to bend their knees, to pick up a bead 1 at a time. The child stands up straight, still remaining in the heel-to-toe position, and threads the bead on the string. The game is completed once all the beads have been threaded (Repeat 2 times).

 Static balance  Manual dexterity

 Beads  Thread

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