Catching+and+Throwing

__Catching & Throwing__

Catching and Throwing are essentials skills to every game played in the Primary Independent Inter-school Sport Competition. These skills are taught at kindergarten level and continued up all through primary. Here are some activities used to teach and encourage better catching and throwing. The best way to improving throwing and catching is __REPETITION__.

HOW ARE MOUNT SINAI KIDS TAUGHT?
1. Watch the ball 2. Heel of hands together to catch 3. Fingers around the ball 4. Pull ball into your chest.

**Catching**
__Ball Drop__
 * Demonstrate dropping ball from shoulder height ( in front of you), let it bounce and catch it, pull ball into chest. Let kids practice.
 * Who can do 5 ?, 10 ? , 15 ?
 * Walk around, can you do the same without bumping into each other.
 * Who can do 5?, 10 ? 15 ? etc.
 * Move to throwing the ball underarm in the air and catching it - walk and do this

__Pair up__
 * Ball between 2 students. Start about 5 metres away.
 * Throw ball to partner - underarm
 * //Tips:// Eye contact, hands outstretched at waist height (catcher)
 * Thrower steps onto opposite foot to hand and releases ball, Point heel of hand to partner. Repeat.
 * Differentiate by moving pairs further apart

Throwing
__Shot Clock__
 * Set up 5 balls in a diagonal line with a bin about 10 metres away from the first ball
 * Students go through and try and throw all the balls in the bin
 * Time students as they get better