Movement skills/concepts

Rolling a ball along the ground, at a target, in different pathways and directions, and relationships (with others).

Set-up

• Small and large balls, cones, hoops, skittles, ropes and chairs.
• Children work in pairs, threes and fives, with one ball per pair or group, in a smooth, hard area.

Activity

• roll the ball to your partner through a target or obstacle, (e.g. between two cones, through a hoop, at a skittle, at another ball, along a line, under a chain, between ropes)
• take turns at rolling the ball to a wall target
• roll the ball to your partner, varying the distance between 3 and 10 metres
• roll it to your partner, then change places
• roll it as many times as you can in 30 seconds

In threes Can you …?

• roll the ball for the middle child to jump over
• play ‘piggy in the middle’, in which the middle player attempts to intercept the rolled ball

In fives

• roll the ball around/across a circle towards your partner or other players
• roll it to hit a skittle in the centre of a circle
• have one player in the centre who rolls the ball to others in turn
• holding a small ball in the fingers, held beneath a large ball with fingers spread
• stepping with an opposite foot into a roll
• long arm action, following through