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You are never too young to start playing sports.
- Coach Darren
Many of the same benefits that tweens, teens and adults gain from playing sports can also be attained at the Nursery School level. Among those benefits are: improved hand-eye coordination, gross motor skills, spatial awareness, footwork, agility, and teamwork to name just a few.
As the coach in the Nursery School Gym Program, my primary goal in the sports program is that the children have FUN! Depending on the children’s age, boys and girls come to the gym for organized sports class once or twice a week. Each class begins with a series of footwork drills followed by a demonstration for the "sport of the week." The sports played are basketball, baseball, football, soccer, hockey, tennis, golf and my personal favorite.....lacrosse!
During gym time, the children do not play an actual football "game" or lacrosse "game." Rather, they learn all the skills that are involved in playing that particular sport. For instance, by the end of the school year the children will know how to cradle, scoop, and toss a ball with a lacrosse stick. Each week class ends with a race of some form. Towards the end of gym class anticipation sets in for the children- they cannot wait for the races to begin! Some of the races we run are the whistle race, the music race, or a beloved favorite…the chicken race! For those of you who are not familiar with the chicken race, we divide the children into four teams in each corner of the gym with an oval track of cones set up in the middle. One child from each team runs with a rubber chicken around the cones back to their team and passes the chicken to the next runner. The children adore it and we always have a blast!
I look forward to working with your children and getting to know all of you better as the school year progresses!
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