Volleyball
Gr. 3-4
Class #2
Equipment needed:
- Jump Ropes (25)
- Volleyball Trainer Balls (15)
- Green nets (2)
- Volleyball Poles (2)
- Eye bolt to hook into wall (1)
Warm-up:
- "Jump Rope Around the World."
- All jump rope by themselves.
- Teacher begins to time the class jumping.
- Each student gets 5 "lives."
- When they miss with the rope the fifth time, they are "out."
(but not really)
- They go to another area in the gym (behind the purple line on
the storeroom side of the gym).
- They continue jumping once they use all of their lives.
- Once 10 students are in this area, the stopwatch stops.
- Class gets credit for 1,000 miles on the map for every 1:00
that they jumped.
- Class also gets the chance to earn extra credit mileage.
- Teacher picks one of the jumpers that used up all of their
lives but were continuing to jump behind the purple line.
- Give that person a hand held pulse monitor.
- If their heart rate is within the target range (150-180),
they earn a "free 1,000 miles" for their class.
Muscle of the week:
- "Gas-Trucks" (Gastrocnemeous) &endash;Introduce "calf stretch"
- From "push-up position".
- Step on one heel with the other foot.
- Press the heel down that you are stepping on.
- Alternate feet.
Skill Development:
- Introduce "serving."
- Underhand:
- Hold ball in left hand at waist level away from body.
- Like a golf ball on a tee.
- Make a "C" shape with your right hand.
- Swing right hand straight through the ball, making contact with
the heel of your hand.
- Follow through by having your right hand point at the target.
- Overhand:
- Hold ball over your hear, in front of you.
- Stand sideways and do everything that you would do to throw
a ball.
- Step with your front foot.
- "Throw" with your back hand.
- Follow through by pointing at your target.
- Make contact with the heel of your "throwing" hand.
Application:
- Messy Backyard (with serves).
- Divide class in half,
- On signal, each team tries to serve all volleyballs to the other
side.
- On whistle, each team gets one point for each ball on the other
side of the gym.
- Try to beat team's previous score to "win" round.
- If any team throws a ball after the whistle, the other team
gets all the points.
- *Stress proper technique…
- Repeat with different serve techniques
- Stop game part way through to have kids take their pulse (for :06,
then add a "0" to the number to get beats/minute).
- Anyone who's heart rate is within the target range (150-180) are
told that they are playing the game at the right speed.
- This makes the game "aerobic."
- Meaning that it takes a lot of breathing to play this game!
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