- Check the space and the kit.
- Get your child's attention first.
- Show it from two sides.
- Say one thing only.
- End on one that works.
Put the phone down where you can see it. Tap Next with your thumb, or use the arrow keys.
Is the space marked?
- The midline
- A baulk line
- Four shapes on the floor
- A start line for the shuttle
Two lines 9 m apart; two blocks or bean bags on each side; a small ball in the centre for the number game.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Stand behind the line, knees bent, ready.
- On "go", run to the cone 4 m past the line.
- Bend low and touch the cone with a hand or a foot, without stopping.
- Turn and sprint back over the line.
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- A cone 4 m past a line.
- On "go", run in and make a quick low touch on the cone with a hand or a foot.
- Sprint back over the line.
- Then number call: two children with the called number race to touch the cone and back.
How much: 4 runs and 6 number calls
Reach low, then go
Number call
The rules
Two teams; the players with the called number race to touch the cone and get back first.
- Each team stands behind its own line, 9 m apart; give each player a number
- Call a number: those players race to touch the cone in the middle and get back over their own line
- The first back scores
- 10 calls
Fair play: A grown-up starts 2 m behind the line.
- Points
- 1 point to the team of the first player back over the line.
- Fouls
- The point goes to the other team: not touching the cone; starting before the number; touching the other runner
- Win
- The team with more points after 10 calls.
- 3
- 5
- 7
4 shuttles in a row without dropping a block.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
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