Catching Solo

Learning Outcomes

Catching a variety of objects, catching while moving in different pathways and at different levels and speeds .
 

Description Of Activity

Describe how the ball/object feels think of the texture/hardness

• roll the ball/object over your body up and down, round and round, down a leg or arm
• roll it along the ground slowly, run round in front of it and pick it up
• holding the ball/object in a two-hand nest, drop it and catch it while standing/ kneeling/walking along
• Drop the ball/object from one hand and catch it in the two-hand nest
• throw the ball/object up, a little higher each time, and catch it how high can you go?
• throw the ball/object up with one hand and catch it in the two-hand nest
• bounce or throw the ball/object and clap your hands then catch it
• see which ways you can catch as you move around (e.g. one hand and then the other)
• relaxed ngers forming a nest about the size of the ball/object
• eyes on the ball/object
• reaching for the ball/object

Equipment/Material Required

A variety of balls (small, large, soft, hard, spiky) and objects (beanbags, quoits). Children, with a ball/object each, are spread out in a dened hard at area.