Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Peter Rabbit (Start Time: 2020-02-15 09:15:00)

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Peter Rabbit

Warm up

Circle of cones, one for each player attending. Ask the children to stand at a cone each to make a circle. Go around the circle asking each child their name and putting a ball on their cone.

Stretch- ask everyone to pick up their ball and hold the ball as high as they can. Up to the sky. On your tippy toes. Now stretch down to the ground and touch your toes.

Body parts- name different body parts for the children to put their ball on working your way down to the feet.

Who can put the ball on their head?

Who can put their ball on their nose?

Who can put their ball on their ear?

Belly?

knee?

can you hold the ball between your knees?

can you do it with no hands and wiggle?

can you put the ball on your foot?

can you put your foot on the ball?

Now ask them to try and change feet and count. Arms out to balance changing feet doing toe taps.

Can we move the ball between our feet with little kicks and walk like a penguin?

Can we squeeze the ball between your feet and hop like bunny rabbit? hop hop hop

Put the balls in the goal.

send everyone for a little drink then bring them back and demonstrate next progression.

Add the yellow cones and hurdles around the circle as shown.

First stage without the ball can we go around the hall if we come to a cone can we bunny hop over it and shout "over" if we come to a hurdle it's a rabbit hole can we crawl under it and shout "under"

Send for a drink then demonstrate the next stage.

take away the hurdles

Can we use our little kicks around the hall and when we come to a yellow cone do a bunny hop over the cone. as you go over shout "over".

Let them play go around giving lots of praise and advice to the children.

Send for a drink and then demonstrate the next progression.

Take away the yellow cones and add the hurdles

little kicks around the hall if you come to a hurdle pass the ball under the hurdle and shout "under"

Go around giving lots of praise and high fives. Now add the yellow cones and demonstrate doing "under " and "over".

Ask the players to leave their balls and collect the cones in and put on the correct pile at the side.

shooting

Set up pop up goal and ask children to take turn scoring a goal off a cone.

lots of encouragement and cheering high fives etc after a couple of gos ask the children to put the balls back in the bag.

Sit down with the children tell them they were fantastic and give everyone a sticker.