Healthy kids PE

Last week Cliodhna continued to prepare the children for sports day events.

They had their usual warm up games, this week Cliodhna introduced them to a new game called popcorn! Wow they had fun counting how many claps they could get in before their partner caught the ball. But they also had to use their thinking skills to work out what was the best way to throw the ball and get some claps in. Then it was remembering to clap! The aim was to throw the ball up high but also out to the partner to allow some claps. This was a lot of thinking but we had lots of hoping and jumping when the ball went where it was meant to go and some forgot to clap 🙈. It was fun! Children could try this at home with a partner or on their own - throw the ball up as a pop and count how many claps they can make before catching it. 

Finally the egg and spoon race. As we didn’t have 27 eggs and spoons we adopted the race using a cone and ball. But same rules, no holding the ball, no pushing the ball into the hole - really no cheating. This looked easier than it was, there was lots of work on balancing, thinking and concentrating. 

Have a look at the children having fun and learning.