Select and apply performance cues to combine and refine manipulative (sending, receiving, and accompanying objects) skills in increasingly complex movement activities such as lead-up games, including:
- throwing
- catching (gathering, collecting)
- kicking.
| (a) |
Demonstrate skillful moving of objects in a variety of skill development movement activities such as juggling scarves and beanbags, hot potato, keep-away, cup-stacking, and hackey-sack. |
| (b) |
Throw and catch small soft balls using extensions (e.g., soft lacrosse sticks, scoops) from both stationary and moving positions. |
| (c) |
Throw a ball at a target as a stationary opponent tries to block or deflect the throw. |
| (d) |
Throw and catch a variety of balls (e.g., football, basketball, softball), from a stationary and moving position, to and from partners who are both stationary and moving. |
| (e) |
Practise shooting at baskets using lightweight balls (e.g., sponge balls, soft-touch balls) keeping eyes focused on the goal, feet shoulder width apart with "shooting foot" forward and elbows close to the body; bending knees, placing shooting hand on the back of and slightly under the ball and non-shooting hand on the side of the ball with fingers, not palms, touching the ball; pushing ball upward towards the basket while extending legs; reaching hand up and "over" the rim. |
| (f) |
Kick a stationary ball to a stationary target and a moving target, such as a partner, by approaching the ball from various angles and making contact with the inside and outside of the foot alternately. |
| (g) |
Kick a moving ball at a net that is being defended by a goalie. |
| (h) |
Trap and/or deflect balls sent by others. |
