3-10 yrs:Skills and coordination
 
skill for kids >> 3-10 yrs >> skills and coordination

Skills and coordination

The skills and coordination section provides you with all the practical information and activities you need to help kids develop fundamental perceptual motor skills such as kicking, throwing and striking, which are the building block skills of sport as well as general coordination.  It is also full of modified sporting games for kids that further develops these fundamental skills and introduces them in a fun way to sport.

 
 
   Categories
         Locomotion and balance

cricket stumpsThis section covers the development of locomotion skills and balance between the ages of 3 and 10 years. You will find information on how play can be used to help young kids acquire different locomotion forms, achieve faster, more efficient and accurate movement. You will also find information on how to move for specific sports and how to encourage kids to move while maintaining balance.


   Articles + Activity Videos
         Catching and interception

throwingCatching and interception are fundamental skills that relate to many sports. This section deals with how you can facilitate their development through play. It also teaches you how fun activities and modified sporting games can help advance catching and interception skills which in time, develop into sport specific skills.


   Articles + Activity Videos
         Throwing and striking

throwing ballThrowing and striking are fundamental skills that relate to many sports including tennis, soccer, baseball and cricket. The articles and videos in this section will help you understand the basic development of throwing and striking and how you can design activities and play games that lead to kids becoming more coordinated and adaptable at these skills. It also shows as how these skills become sport specific skills.


   Articles + Activity Videos
         Kicking and punting

kickingKicking and punting skills are fundamental to many sports including football, rugby and Australian rules football. This section deals with the progression of these skills from basic kicking and punting, to coordinated and adaptable skills that are easily transferable into sport specific skills. The section also contains plenty of modified kids' games that encourage this progression of skills.


   Articles + Activity Videos
         Skill combinations

having funIn the skill combinations section you can learn how different skills can be combined to form fun activities that build general coordination, adaptability and train attention.


   Articles + Activity Videos
         Play sessions

kids playingPlay sessions with young kids between 3 and 10 years can include a whole variety of activities and modified sporting games that involve different fundamental skills such as throwing, kicking, striking and movement ability. The videos of play sessions you can see in this section develop general coordination and body awareness, adaptability and visual perception skills. Best of all kids love them!


   Articles + Activity Videos
 
 

  faqs | terms and conditions | site by hoopla family | copyright 2012