- 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?
Paper and pencil; the safety rules your club or range gives you, copied out.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Read the club's safety rules aloud, slowly, one at a time.
- Read the range commands in the order the club gives them, and what each one means.
- Draw a range: the firing line, the target line, and an arrow for "down range".
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- Read the safety rules aloud.
- Say the range commands in order, as the club gives them.
- Draw a range with the firing line and the target line.
- Make a rules poster together.
How much: all the rules, twice
Say all of them, in order
Range officer says
The rules
You act as range officer and give a command; the child says what happens next.
- Use only the commands on the club's list
- Give a command; the child says what everyone does next
- Every few turns, ask "which rule keeps us safe here?"
- 10 commands, then swap
Fair play: The grown-up must give the commands without the list.
- Points
- 1 point for each right answer; 1 more point for naming the rule behind it.
- Fouls
- The round ends, and you talk about why: pointing anything at a person, even a finger or a pencil; skipping a rule or a command; laughing it off: this one is for real
- Win
- Beat your best from 10 commands.
- 8
- 14
- 20
All the rules and 4 commands said in order without help.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
Well played.
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