Play with the ball alone
Ready when: nothing, this is the first card.
What you are learning
Watching and getting under a ball: throwing it up, moving under it and catching it above the forehead with the fingers spread, then setting it up to yourself with the fingers making a triangle. The hands learn the shape of the set before any game.
Words on this card Set
- Set
- Pushing the ball up with the fingers, the thumbs and first fingers making a triangle above the forehead.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Throw the ball up and catch it just above the forehead, fingers spread wide, knees a little bent.
- Throw it higher, move under it, and catch it again.
- Make a triangle with the thumbs and first fingers above the forehead and push the ball up a little without moving the feet.
Your part while they practise
Count.
Step by step
- Throw the ball up and catch it above the forehead, fingers spread.
- Clap once before the catch.
- Throw it high, move under it and catch.
- Set it up to yourself a little, fingers making a triangle, feet still.
How much: 5 tries 10 min a session 4 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Beat your count
Count catches above the head in a row, then sets to yourself in a row.
Who plays: the child against their own best.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Catch above the head and count until a miss
- Then set to yourself and count
- 3 tries of each; add the best of each
- Fair play
- A grown-up claps twice before each catch.
- Points
- 1 point for each catch or set in your best tries.
- Fouls
- The count stops
- A catch below the chin
- The feet move during a set to yourself
- The ball slapped with one hand
- Winning
- Beat your best total.
- 8 points for 1 star
- 15 points for 2 stars
- 25 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
A balloon.
Add a clap before the catch.
What you will see, and what to say
- the eyes drop
Watch the ball to your hands
All the way. - the child stands flat
Knees a little bent
Ready legs.
Self-check
10 catches in a row above the head.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains tracking, hand-eye coordination.
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