WEEK 14: CATCHING WITH A GLOVE

With the end of paddles comes a similar skill that is necessary to continue to build hand-eye coordination, catching with a glove. Our students will be introduced to gloves in week 14 and play a fun game for lots of catching practice. We will start with an introduction of the baseball glove and how to put it on and use it. We will catch our own tossed up fly balls and we will catch with a partner. The culminating activity, "Meteor Ball", will see two teams throwing pop-flys over a 25 foot middle area so that each team has chances to catch many balls. Students must throw high, no line drives, and they must have their own side of the activity area clean for bonus points at the end. Points are scored for every catch made during the game. It is a wild and exciting game giving lots of opportunity to catch with the glove.

Kindergarten through second grades will be rolling balls this week. They will learn the proper techniques, comparing the roll to the bowling movement and skee-ball in the video arcade. Students will work with a partner from different lengths and different rolling velocities. Students will then be put in groups of three and have a middle person as the target...well not really a target! The outside students will roll under the legs of the middle person and the middle person will have different skills they must do as the ball goes under thier legs. Groups will switch jobs. A target rolling game will end the class if there is still time!