﻿Hi, I'm really looking forward to our lesson today, I hope you are too. Before we get started, this is just a little reminder. We're here to support any approaches you might already be using, and any work you might have already been set. We know that this lesson is going to be going out to so many different children and families. So if you're not sure about anything, or have any questions, then please do contact your usual therapy team. Hi, in today's lesson we're going to look at throwing and how we can improve our skills when throwing to a target on the floor or when throwing to a target on the wall. Okay, so for our first part of ball skills, we're going to be doing throwing. But why a ball skills so important? When we are doing ball skills we are having our eyes, and our hands, or our eyes and our feet work together. And we can improve how accurate we are with our hands and our feet, which will help us with other games and activities, such as writing or using a knife and fork. And it will help us to figure out how to move a whole bodies, or where we need to position ourselves. We can also practise how much strength and effort we need to put into a movement. And this will stop us being too strong or too weak to be successful for that specific activity. Why should we practise throwing? Well, as we said earlier, it's really important to improve how we use our hands and our eyes together. And we use our hands for most things, so it helps us to practise using just the right amount of force or strength that we use and not too much or too little. There are lots of games and activities that need really good coordination between our hands and our eyes. What we're going to need for today's lesson, is a small object to throw such as a ball or bean bag, a target to throw towards on the floor, a box or pillow or just a spot. And then we need some paper or some cardboard and some tape. And we're going to use that for the target we going to throw to on the wall and somewhere that you can stand. Once you've got everything you need, restart start the video. Our first activity, we're going to be throwing to a floor target. Okay, so put your target on the floor, it could be anything like a pillow, or you want to throw something into a box or just a spot. Stand in the same place each time so the distance is always the same and then you're going to throw with one hand. Try and see how many times you can do this successfully in say, 10 goes. Let's watch the video. My first target is going to be to throw just over this blue line, okay? Nice throw, nice little underarm throw. Throw, both hands practising . Throw, and throw. Okay, collect those. Once you feel really happy doing that, now I'm going to try for the little blue square ahead of me. Okay, still standing by the blue line, can't move away yet. And nice underarm throw, little bend. And again, oh, almost. And, got it. What we're going to do now, is we're going to start over here, and we want to throw over that blue line. Okay, you can see the blue line there. In fact, I'm going to put the yellow bean bag right there, so you can see where we're aiming for, we're aiming for the yellow bean bag, or a little bit further. I'm standing in my little square, and this is quite far guys. So, nice strong core, bend down and throw. Down and throw. Other hand and other hand. Okay, so underarm throw works really well for this. If you did an overarm throw, you would find that you might struggle with how hard you're pushing, okay? But I want you to practise that as well. So, sometimes you can see with my overarm throw, I really am using a lot more power, even with my left hand, and it's missing the blue square. So remember, if you want to go closer, underarm. If you want to go further, I can move back, and I can go overarm, and you can see it's going over. Okay, pause the video to complete that task. For our next activity, we were going to a target which is at our heat height. Okay, so make sure there's nothing on that wall that can break and make sure that you've checked with the adult or your parent or carer that it's fine for you to be throwing to that wall. Let's watch the video. Okay, so when we're throwing, we can either throw underarm, or we can throw overarm, with a push. The overarm is going to be the hardest to throw. Okay, so if you watch me, I'm standing quite close 'cause it's my first time practising . We're going to go underarm, and just gentle. When you end, make sure your hand is still stretched out. Did you see that? Let's look again. It's still stretched out. Okay, so I want you to practise that. And then, when you're feeling more confident, you can move further back, and now you can practise throwing overarm. So let's see if we can get to our chicks on the wall there. Green chick, purple chick. Let's go, so again, the same thing, you're going to push throw and have your hand stay at the end, don't do that, it won't get there. No animals we're hurt in the making of this video. Pause the video, and have a go at throwing to a heat height target. The activities that we've just done can be changed in a number of ways, so you can make the size of the target bigger or smaller, you can move the target further away, or you can bring it closer to make it easier. You can also practise throwing overarm and underarm, and try and move the target so they're not all at the same distance, so you have to keep on changing your position, and how hard you're throwing. Remember, do the best for you. Practise, practise, practise. Have fun, thank you for listening. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your efforts at throwing on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak. See you next time.

In this lesson, we will be learning to throw to a target.

In this lesson, we will be learning to throw to a target. Resources provided by University of Gloucestershire (CC BY-NC-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0)

Lesson overview:Ball skills: Throwing

Core Content

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Gross motor skills: