23/07/09
Today we had a wonderful session with Clarke Osborne from PLAYBALL. Playball is a program developed by a sport coach in a sport environment, 20 years ago. The content of the program encompasses sport, movement and life skills. Basic skills and sport techniques are taught, providing children with an age-specific movement program. Children develop basic motor skills before they are able to tackle specialised sport skills. Focus in early childhood ages are on strongly improving motor development (muscle tone, dominancy - this needs to be discovered before any child can learn - bilateral symmetry and mid-line crossing) and fine and gross motor coordination, eye/foot/hand coordination. body balance, timing, directionality, spacial orientation and motor planning. Playball is a positive, unintimidating and non-competitive environment where results are achieved while having fun. The children are taught in a holistic manner - looking at the whole child. This is the same philosophy of kindergarten teaching. The life skills children learn include independence, cooperation, leadership, sportsmanship, communication, social respect, positive relationships and flexibility. The photos demonstrate the enjoyment of the children as they participated in a 35 minute session either with Coach Clarke or Coach Lou. The children's delight and enthusiasm as they participated in this program was evident for the entire playball session they engaged in and afterwards, they were so excited they were 'buzzing' around the kindergarten. Huge conversations about what they had just experienced and comments about how 'FUN' it had been, abounded. Thanks Clarke for contacting us and providing us with this free session for all of our children here at Greenhithe Kindergarten.
Chris :-)
Today we had a wonderful session with Clarke Osborne from PLAYBALL. Playball is a program developed by a sport coach in a sport environment, 20 years ago. The content of the program encompasses sport, movement and life skills. Basic skills and sport techniques are taught, providing children with an age-specific movement program. Children develop basic motor skills before they are able to tackle specialised sport skills. Focus in early childhood ages are on strongly improving motor development (muscle tone, dominancy - this needs to be discovered before any child can learn - bilateral symmetry and mid-line crossing) and fine and gross motor coordination, eye/foot/hand coordination. body balance, timing, directionality, spacial orientation and motor planning. Playball is a positive, unintimidating and non-competitive environment where results are achieved while having fun. The children are taught in a holistic manner - looking at the whole child. This is the same philosophy of kindergarten teaching. The life skills children learn include independence, cooperation, leadership, sportsmanship, communication, social respect, positive relationships and flexibility. The photos demonstrate the enjoyment of the children as they participated in a 35 minute session either with Coach Clarke or Coach Lou. The children's delight and enthusiasm as they participated in this program was evident for the entire playball session they engaged in and afterwards, they were so excited they were 'buzzing' around the kindergarten. Huge conversations about what they had just experienced and comments about how 'FUN' it had been, abounded. Thanks Clarke for contacting us and providing us with this free session for all of our children here at Greenhithe Kindergarten.
Chris :-)
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