1. Present yourselves
2. Whistle
When we hear the whistle, we "stop and listen!"
3. We are sitting on the "Sportball line!"
Week 7, we keep it as simple as possible all the time for the 2 to 3 to build their confidence.
Make it slightly harder for the 4-6 years old
We name 5 to 10 body parts, then we encourage the kids. Repeat two more sets.
If the group is comfortable, you can try tricking them or going as fast as possible.
1. Car/push up position pretending to be a car, wave to the birds with one hand, followed by opening the trunk by lifting one leg, followed by putting gas in the tank by lifting the other leg
2. Timbits and donuts/make small rotation with your arms to make small timbit and make a bigger rotation(stretching rotator cuffs)
3. Reach for the stars in the sky/Get as tall as possible by going on your tippy toes to reach the stars and grab them to bring them back to earth (get really small after each star and go back up for more, 3 in total), but oh no the sky is all dark, we have to put the starts back (repeat process of getting small to going on your tippy toes and strech as high as possible
Always keep it simple for the 2-3, which means they simply jump as high as possible the entire season.
Every week from now on, the jumps can vary for the 4-6 years old such as
Keep it simple every single week.
For the 2-3 year old: For the first two weeks, we race everyone together, but starting on week 3, the parents wait for the kids on the Sportball line, as the kids huddle around the coach and on the count of 3, everyone runs to mom and dad to give them a big hug!
For the 4-6 year old: The kids race against the coach, where the coaches looses every week, but wins on week 6. Every time the coach looses, we ask the kids what we can tell the coach who lost and who is sad. The kids will normally say, nice try and we make the group repeat a nice thing to the looser of the race. When the coaches win, it's important to tell them the nice things that they told the coaches in the previous classes, such as "nice try".
Each child has their own hula hoop on the ground. They have to bring as much treasure back into their hoops, but with the hockey sticks. Make sure you show them to keep the blade on the ground and to not swing around as to not hurt other firends The 4-6 can count how many balls they collected with the help of the coaches