#stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP #PEatHome1 Now try using your hand to Roll-a-Ball Skittles roll the ball into a space in EXPLORE front of you. Chase after it You will need to find 6 more objects for this and pick it up. Try doing this activity. Empty plastic bottles, milk cartons or You’ll need a ball or you over a short distance and cardboard tubes are perfect but anything tall can use a small soft toy, and narrow will work. then over a longer distance. or a pair of rolled up socks. Arrange your ‘skittles’ into a small Ask someone to help you group and stand a short distance away. Bright ideas: now. Could you roll your ball Roll your ball at your skittles. - Can you roll your ‘ball’ along the to them so they can stop it How many can you hit or knock down and pick it up? with your ball? Count each skittle that floor using different parts of your you knock down or hit. body? Try using your foot, hand, knee, elbow or nose! What other body Stand further away if you knock parts could you use? them all down. Challenge someone Expressive Arts and Design Personal, Social and to play a game with you. Emotional Development Sit on the floor with your ball. Some people at cricket matches play musical - Can you roll it down different parts instruments to make an exciting atmosphere. Talk to someone in your home of your body – your legs, arms or about which activity you really your back maybe? Can you make your own musical instrument enjoyed. Can you say why you at home? A simple way is to fill an empty enjoyed it? bottle with some grains of rice. You don’t Parent’s Tip! have to use rice – anything small that makes a CRICKET - Now can you roll your ball under Talk about which activity you Encourage your child to be your body and through your legs? great sound when shaken is fine. thought you were good at, and creative in the ‘explore’ task. – Or use an empty container or box as a drum. say why. Allow them to be confident Could you do this You can tap rhythms with your hands or use a handling and moving the ball. standing up? spoon! Then talk about other activities What sounds can you make? that you think you are brilliant at Help your child to roll accurately Keep looking at the ball as Can you shake or tap along to your favourite doing! at the skittles by looking at the songs? target, bending their knees and you explore these skills. standing slightly sideways on. Swing their arm so that it ends @KESSPB Where can I find out more about Cricket? up pointing at the target. @awhitehousePE http://moseleycc.co.uk/ Make sure you have enough safe https://suttoncoldfieldcricketclub.weebly.com/ space to complete the tasks! PE at Home at Home PE @SarahLayPE https://walmleysportsclub.co.uk/ EYFS #stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP French Cricket #PEatHome1 You will need a safe space and a ‘tee’ for this activity. Your tee can be a You will need your tennis racket, cricket bat or toilet roll or the cardboard roll inside. ‘striking object,’ a soft ball or pair of socks and your EXPLORE family to play with you! Practice ‘striking’ your ball off the tee One player stands with their legs together and holds You will need:- with your bat. the bat in front of them to protect their legs. 1. A cricket bat, tennis Don’t take your bat too far behind Another player takes the ball and bowls it to the batter, racket or any bat or item you, as you come forwards, try to trying to hit the legs below the knees. that is safe to use strike the ball off the tee without 2. A soft ball or rolled up knocking it over. All other players space out around the batter. pair of socks Once you have mastered batting off The batter is out if the ball hits their legs below the your tee, ask one of your family if Bright ideas: knees or if they are caught out. If this happens, swap they will roll the ball to you and see if the batter. you can hit it back. - Use your bat to take your ball on If the batter hits the ball they can turn a journey. Make sure you are around to face the next bowler. holding the bat with two hands. The next ball must be bowled from Dribble the ball around your space, Mathematics Challenge! DT Challenge! wherever it lands. keeping it under control Use a ruler to measure the length of each A cricket bat is a special piece of The batter scores a point cricket bat to the nearest centimeter (cm) equipment, designed to help the for every ball hit. - Still holding your bat with two batsman hit the ball as far as possible A. hands, can you balance your ball Bats are usually made of a cane on your bat? Can you bounce the handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade ball on your bat as many times as B. Parent’s Tip! CRICKET possible without it dropping off? Using the link below, can you trace or Help your child to get a copy the cricket bat and label each of comfortable grip on the bat, – - Make sure you are in a safe C. the parts? because this is cricket they https://coloringhome.com/coloring- should use two hands space, put the ball on the floor in page/1815246?album=coloring-page-of-bat- together with right hand below front of your bat. Can you strike D. and-ball the left (right handers). the ball forwards along the Encourage your child to keep Can you design and colour your bat to CHALLENGE watching the ball. ground? make it look very special? You may Get them to aim along the Put the cricket bats in order from want to put your name or draw your smallest to largest favourite animal on to it ground so they cannot be caught out. @KESSPB Where can I find out more about Cricket? http://moseleycc.co.uk/ @awhitehousePE https://suttoncoldfieldcricketclub.weebly.com/ Make sure your space is safe and that there is no one in front or behind you when completing your striking tasks. PE at Home at Home PE @SarahLayPE https://walmleysportsclub.co.uk/ KS1 #stayhomestayactive PRACTICE DEVELOP #PEatHome1 You’ll need a little bit of space to move in for this next activity. Fielding in cricket and being able to throw accurately at the stumps is an Put the ball on the floor. Practice important part of the game. EXPLORE picking it up quickly so that you have a secure grasp on the ball. You are going to develop a ‘turn and Now put the ball on the floor. Practice throw’ game to improve your You’ll need a ball or you can running in and picking it up quickly, so accuracy at this. use a small soft toy, or a pair that you have it under control ready to Start with a still ball on the floor. of rolled up socks. throw. Find something to use as a target Ask someone to help you or roll it (stumps) and put that behind you a yourself if you need to. Practice running short distance away. Bright ideas: towards a rolling ball, pick it up swiftly Practice picking the ball up quickly, - Pass the ball around different parts of and keep good control ready to turning and throwing at the ‘stumps’ throw in to the stumps. your body – try your head, waist, knees and ankles. Try a different size of target. Try going both ways around your body. Devise a simple scoring system. Which was harder? Why? Geography Challenge! Maths Challenge! In England there are 18 County In cricket you can score 4 runs when a hit What could you do to Cricket Clubs. ball reaches the boundary and 6 runs when improve the accuracy - Pass the ball in a figure of 8 through it reaches the boundary without touching of your throw? your legs. Do this around knee height. Warwickshire the floor. Go both ways. How quickly can you do County Cricket Try this cricket runs maths problem. this without dropping the ball? Club’s home ground is in A cricket team scores 48 runs in a Birmingham. game made up entirely of 4s and 6s. Parent’s Tip! CRICKET Can you flick the ball under your legs Encourage your child to and up behind you? Make sure you Find out: ‘play’ with the ball in the – What are all of the possible ways have enough space to do this * Which other counties have County that this score can be achieved? explore phase to develop safely! Cricket Clubs. their ball handling skills. * Which city or town the home ? x 4s and ? x 6s = 48 Now can you do it and turn ground is in. How many ways did you find? round quickly to catch it! Talk to your child about * Find these counties and how they could improve Extra Challenge: For each possibility what is cities/towns on a map of England. their throw accuracy in the the fraction of 4s and 6s? Can you show each fraction in its simplest form? develop phase. @KESSPB Where can I find out more about Cricket? @awhitehousePE http://moseleycc.co.uk/ https://suttoncoldfieldcricketclub.weebly.com/ Make sure the space is safe and away from hazards when PE at Home at Home PE @SarahLayPE KS2 https://walmleysportsclub.co.uk/ completing your throwing tasks.