KINDERGARTEN - VOLLEYBALL

BALL HANDLING TO THE AIR: Part 1 – Warm up with Bridge Tag. Part 2 - Introduce ball-handling skills with playground ball to the air. Teach the concept of follow through toward the target (which in this case is the space above the student in their own space). Discuss the concepts of throwing and catching, in relation to the ball going up, and catching the ball from above.

BALL HANDLING TO THE AIR CONTINUED: Part 1 – Set up three ball handling stations and three fitness stations. (2 Cardiovascular and 1 Strength) Part 2 - Explore the idea of catching the ball at various places, in relation to the body. (IE: Throw the ball up, and catch it while it is still above your head. Throw the ball up and catch it while it in front of your stomach. Throw the ball up and catch it when it is front of your knees. Etc.) Changing levels to throw and catch the ball. Practice changing levels to throw and catch the ball. Throw the ball up from a high level and change levels to catch it in a medium level. Give the students at least three different examples before moving on to part 3. Part 3 – This part should allow the children an opportunity to be creative. Start you toss in a high level, change levels to catch it. (The creative part is the choice of level to catch.) Choose a level to toss the ball into the air, and then change level to catch it. You can also combine the two concepts taught in part 2 to create the part three. Show me how you can start your throw from a high level, change levels to catch the ball, and catch it while it is still above your head! Throw the ball from any level you choose, catch it in a new level, but catch the ball when it is in front of your stomach.

TRAVELING AND BODY PARTS AND SHAPES: Part 1 – Set out stations of ball handling and fitness cards. Different from the ones used last lesson. Part 2/3 – Either by using the lesson in the book, or ideas from the activities section, work on body parts and shapes as well as traveling. This will provide a base for the later lessons that encourage the use of different body parts.

STRIKING A BALLOON TO SELF: Part 1 – Warm up with a fun warm up game that has lots of running! Part 2 – Striking a balloon to self, using a variety of body parts. Discuss what to look at, what part of the balloon the hand should hit when you want to hit it up to the air. Encourage the students to try a variety of body parts. Part 3 – After practicing a variety of body parts hitting the balloon up and staying in own space, create a sequence of 3 parts to hit the ball with.

STRIKE A BALL (YARN OR FOAM BALL) WITH ONE HAND OR THE OTHER: Part 1 – Clean up your back yard. (If you have indoor space, use balloons if not use yarn balls) Striking the ball, with the hand, over the fence into the other yard. Part 2 - Review the steps learned last lesson using yarn balls. Introduce the concept of the knees and legs helping with the direction the ball will go. Still work individually, and in own space. Part 3 - Should include hitting the ball to a target, with their hand.

RACKETS: Part 1 – Warm up with a Fitness work out. Part 2 - Be sure to include a safety session regarding swinging the rackets. Remind the students to put the racket down when you say freeze. Anyone not being safe with the racket should have to put the racket away as a part of his or her time out. Beanbag paddle play.

RACKETS: Part 1 – Warm up with a fun running game. Part 2 - Start with balloons (if you have no indoor space use yarn balls) in own space. Review the steps you used with hands to strike the ball. Part 3 - Introduce the yarn balls, or wiffle balls if you started with yarn balls. How many times can you hit it up in the air before it hits the ground? Can you hit the ball up, let it bounce once and then hit it up again? Can you hit it up into the air, turn the racket over and hit it with the other side. If you are using whiffle balls, can you use the racket to bounce the ball to the ground?

CONTINUE HITTING THE WIFFLE BALL WITH THE RACKETS IN OWN SPACE: Part 1 - Play clean up your backyard using striking a yarn ball with rackets. (Be sure you have plenty of space if your going to use the rackets for this game!) Part 2 - Fast review of striking. Part 3 - Hit the ball to the ground as many times in a row as you can. Hit the ball up one time and then down the next. Hit the ball using your racket one time, and your hand the next. Turn the racket over each time you hit the ball. Hit the ball with the racket held in your strong hand and then hit the ball with the racket in your weak hand. Each time you hit the ball, switch the racket to the other hand.