How to Play High Higher Highest

So what I would like you to do is within your group right now, I want you to find a ball that's comfortable for you or being bad whatever you can throw and catch comfortably. Anything in there that you can throw and catch comfortably, you are going to have many, many chances to come back and trade equipment. So please don't be disappointed if you feel like, oh I really wanted that thing because you will have the opportunity to get it. This group, if you are feeling like it's too many people to share then feel free to go to that basket. I am totally okay with that.

In class when we organize kids, if you have limited equipment then you have to be very specific. Here we have that flexibility that you can go to another place, the game is called high, higher, highest. And so what I am going to do is the focus for me is understanding that for my body, what is about the highest that I can make a ball travel away from me. But still catch it when it comes down, my cues are going to be that I am watching the ball, that I am reaching to meet it and that when it comes into me I am absorbing the force or giving with the ball. You might say giving the ball with second graders, by third graders we learn phrases like absorb the force that means bending my knees, pulling in a little bit but not trapping it against my body.

So high, higher, highest is can I toss a ball up so that it goes high and for high right now, we mean just above the head and come back down. Can I make it go higher? And a phrase I will use with the kids is like a medium, kind of medium up toward the ceiling and you will see the kids look just like you did and start to make that judgment and then what's the highest that I can throw it, but still catch it when it comes down because what's more important right now, throwing or catching? Catching and you have to focus that for the kids. When you make three in a row high, higher, highest then come and trade it in for another object. And I am interested in how many different objects are you comfortable throwing and catching.


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