Physical Education and Batting Skills

Batting
This new year will start with students involvement in hand
and eye coordination. A favorite thing for the students to
participate in is batting.
Batting allows students to work on striking skills and
requires the deveopment of hand and eye coordination,
timing, body positioning, spacial awareness and tracking.

1. Eye and Hand Coordination
is required by watching the ball sitting on a stationary
cone or batting tee. The students must swing correctly
to hit the ball with the bat.
Not as easy as it sounds.
2.Timing
this requires the student to hit the ball not just with
power, but to time during the swing rotation when to hit
the ball. This skill transfers over to when the ball is
physically pitched to the student.
3. Body Position
is important for proper transfer of weight during the
swing and contact with the ball. Proper body position
can allow for weight transfer which makes for increased
power and distance with hitting the ball.
wrong body position can create injuries to back, arms
and shoulders from being off balance, bad stance and
incorrect head position.
4 Spacial Awareness
sa is important because students need to be sure of
their surrondings, how their body position will direct
ball flight and where the ball is in relation to the
ball when swinging.
5. Tracking
tracking means keeping the students "eyes" on the
ball before, during and after contact.

Students will continue working on batting then
transition to kicking skills.

Jacksonville Giants Vouchers for ARE Students

Jacksonville Giants Vouchers for ARE Students

Andrew Robinson Elementary School students and parents.
The JACKSONVILLE GIANTS have formed a partnership
with Andrew Robinson Elementary School.

ARE is inviting ARE students and parents to come and
join in the fun at the GIANTS game. Coach William Jackson,
PE teacher at Andrew Robinson Elementary has vouchers
for ARE parents that are first come – first serve.

A limited number of these are FREE.

Join MR. BIGGS for a free exciting game of GIANTS BASKETBALL
on Saturday, December 3rd.

Parents pick up your free voucher card from
Andrew Robinson Elementary School, so you and your
family can go to the game for free. The
vouchers are one voucher card per family.

This is Season 2 Opener on Saturday, December 3rd,
starting at 7pm at the Jacksonville Memorial Arena
The JACKSONVILLE GIANTS vs. GULF COAST FLASH

The JACKSONVILLE GIANTS are a proud recipient of the 2010-2011
Duval Schools Business Partner Recognition Program

For more information:
Call: (904) 355-6531
Web: jacksonvillegiants.com

Vouchers will be available for parents to pick up at
Andrew Robinson Elementary from Thursday 9am to
Thursday 3pm and Friday 9am to Friday 3pm.

One voucher per family.
Don’t miss out on the fun.

Developing Ball Handling Skills

Students in grades Kindergaten and Second Grade are working on
developing skills related to gross motor and fine motor skills.
The gross motor skills are similar to ball handling:
Catching, Dribbling, Bouncing, Throwing, and Shooting

These are what I consider foundational skills to build confidence
and gross motor skills that lead up to increased eye and hand
coordination.

Fine motor skills are more focused with finger and hand manipulation.
They are more specific in design and execution.
I like to combine each into developmental lessons that
are in stations or centers.

Stations include:
Placing milk crates about the multipurpose room
and allowing students to shoot different balls / materials
into the crates.
Stations are:
1. Bean Bags
2. Tennis Balls
3. Smaller 9" basketballs
4. Regulation size basketballs
5. Shuttlecocks

Each requires a different kind of force execution
so the students even as young as Kindergarten can
learn that balls and other materials require not just
force, but finesse.

I incorporate the word "finesse" into the lesson
and use visual examples.