Another week has already came and gone! I am so lucky to work with such wonderful kiddos on a daily basis! Just a reminder as the weather is getting colder and the sickness bug is going around: If your child isn't feeling well or needs to sit out for a various reason please sent me a note letting me know! Thank you! Kindergarten- 2nd Graders:We continued to work on our dribbling and soccer skills this week. We made so many improvements from last week, I am so proud! The Kindergarten through 2nd graders started the week out playing "Red Light, Green Light" using their soccer dribbling skills. If they were caught moving after the red light, they moved off the field and went to practice their dribbling skills around cones on the sidelines . We had to use our strategy skills and find out that we couldn't just kick the ball, and instead needed to learn to work on controlling the ball! Kiddos this age LOVE this game, and were so excited to play! We played "Scooter Soccer" as our culminating activity to our foot dribble practice. We tried it with traditional indoor soccer balls, and tried it with the over-sized inflatable balls. As mentioned on the Human Kinetics Website, "As children play on scooters, their increased physical activity contributes to the development of their gross and fine motor skills, refining and developing muscular strength in their upper and lower bodies. In addition, scooter play helps develop balance." The kids definitely felt that as many of them were surprised to see how much of a workout it was! 3rd-5th GradersThe older kids continued to work on the refinement of their skills once again. This week we really focused on kicking with a purpose, accuracy, and ball control. We played both "Pin Soccer" and "Sideline Soccer". These activities were very different in the fact that pin soccer there are not a lot of strict rules, you could kick the ball all over and it would be okay because there would be a goal over that way. When we started sideline soccer, the students really realized that in a traditional soccer game it has a time limit and the less we work on accuracy and ball control/sharing/passing the ball the less less likely you were to try and score. The students were divided on different color teams and it was exciting to hear them plan with their teammates while acting like bummers to help keep the ball in for the colors that were playing.
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