Video: Rounders / Baseball (Part 3)

﻿Hi everyone, my name is Alistair and today we going to play baseball. For this lesson you will need a softball, a bat, some cushions, and a baseball cap. If you haven't got all of these items, you can substitute them with things you have around your home. And that's absolutely fine. Press pause while you get things ready. Let's get ready. Find a quiet clear space to work away from distractions. Ensure the area is safe and that your child is feeling fit and well to take part in the lesson. Check you're wearing the right clothes for sports and physical activity. I'd really recommend your child to be as independent as they possibly can with this. Make sure your resources are nearby and use a familiar reference to prepare the learner that the activity is going to start. This could be a symbol, a sound, or even a song. Press pause while you get things ready. It's time to look, listen, and learn. First, before we play baseball, we need to get our muscles ready for exercise. Going to do some yoga poses today and we've got a whole unit of movement and balance. So I really recommend you checking out those brilliant lessons. We're going to try and practise some stretches and yoga poses and the first one is called the tree. So I'm going to put my feet together, and put my hands together and just stretch up and put my arms above my head keeping nice and still. I look a bit like a tree. It's a brilliant stretch, I can feel that in my tummy muscles. And we turn that into what we call the half Crescent pose it's a bit like when you see a half moon at night and all we do is very slowly stretch out to the side. You can see my body is turned into something that looks a bit like a half moon. And then I come back up to like the tree. I go back down to the other side to my half moon pose, again, and stretch backup. We're going to try some yoga poses on our mat now. I'm using yoga mat, you could use a towel, it could be on the carpet, whatever works best for you in your home. And the first pose, I'm going to try on my mat is going to be the table. So I'm going to come down onto my hands and knees and put my hands in front of me like that. And I'm going to put my head down and my back's straight so I look like a table. Again, if you can pull your tummy muscles in, you can really start to feel that stretch along what we call your core muscles. So I'm going to hold my pose like a table, and then I'm going to slowly come down onto my yoga mat and stretch my hands out in front of me. And then I'm going to pull my hands back. And what I'm going to do is lift my head. If I lift my head like that I can really feel the pull on my tummy muscles there. And then I'm going to come back up into my table pose, so my head down, my back nice and straight, like a table. There are some brilliant stretches there and it's great, Yoga is a fantastic thing to get our muscles ready and is also really relaxing so I feel ready, for some exercise. I also feel really calm. So try your yoga poses, and then we'll get to play some baseball. Pause the video to complete your task. For our next activity, we're going to practise our bowling or as we call it in baseball, our pitching so we're going to pitch the ball and aim for some of our targets. And that will really help us when we come to play a baseball match, later. I've set some targets up on my wall there just out of coloured card. I've got some cushions on the floor that will act as my bases. And to start off with, I'm going to use my ball that's wrapped in tin foil. If your child is visually impaired, or if they've got a sensory preference, this can be a great motivator for these activities. So I'm going to use my foil ball to start with. When I'm aiming for my targets, I remember all those skills we've looked at in physical development in terms of making sure my body is facing the right direction. I'm going to start off going under arm so that idea of anticipation that we've used throughout, so one, two, three, and then pitch the ball and I'm going to aim for my target. So the yellow spot is going to be this one so one two, three, and pitch the ball and then I can move around those different targets. See how accurate we can be with our skills and looking for really coordinated fluid movements. You could turn that into a bit of a competition if you want to score points for every target that you hit. And then we can make that skill more difficult by using a smaller ball. So I have a sponge ball, I have a tennis ball, and see if we can hit those targets, you can move your mark back to make things more difficult, or you could move it closer to the target if you want to make it a bit easier for your child. Using the step principle, I would think if your child is a wheelchair user, you might want to adjust the height of some of the targets down. So using my sponge ball aim for my targets there, changing directions if I come over here, more practise needed for that one for the foil one in the middle and the lower one down there. So you can play around and aiming for those different targets and hopefully your child will show real persistency as they're aiming for those targets, and they can hit all of them. We want to add some movements into that activity. So I've got my cushions on the floor, which as bases for us, and a way to get some movement into this activity is, you can stand on our marker, and then we can run to our pink cushion, touch the cushion, come back to the middle, and then aim for our targets. I can run to my grey cushion, come back to the middle and then aim for our targets there. So that's a great way of getting some movements into this activity, and also mirrors what we might find in a baseball match. To finish off with, if your child is feeling really confident, you can start to practise in over-arm pitches in baseball. Now that would be exactly the same skill aiming for those targets, but we point to the target and then throw the ball like that and that would help you with your fielding as well. We'll try that point at the target and then aim it again, different directions. Point and aim for the target. So we had a really good practise of our skills there. I think we are ready to play baseball. Pause the video to complete your task. To finish off, we're going to play a game of baseball. I've got my baseball cap on, so I'm ready to play baseball. And I really would recommend sort of dressing up in different clothes, making this as fun as you possibly can. You and your child will have a great time trying out these different sports and being physically active, so you can find it really motivating. And if you want to, you could put some posters up, you could design some different kind of placards for your favourite baseball team. You could have the National Oaks versus the Specialist Superstars in a World Series game of baseball. So I've got my court set up. I've used some cushions as my bases. I've got spot there. And the idea being is that we're going to strike the ball and then move from base to base. You can practise all of your skills here of striking and batting, of bowling and pitching and fielding. So we're putting all of those skills together into a match situation. And you can make that as competitive as you want to. So I have my little rounders batter, my little mini baseball bat here, remembering those safety points of that there's no one behind me, I'm in a safe place to swing. And what we can do is, we can play our shots. I'm on my own here, but you follow the ball for your child, they could strike and then move from base, to base, to base and see if they can hit a home run which would be amazing. All of our activities can be done either seated or standing. So I'm going to practise seating first. Again, thinking about the step principle, make sure there's enough space for your child to manoeuvre from base to base and think about those bases being a touch higher so they can touch them on their way around. So I've got some different balls here, we could use a larger ball to make the activity easier, or a smaller tennis ball or sponge ball. So I'm going to practise my striking so, that wasn't too bad. And then I would move from base to base. Some other activities we can do but this is we can get some larger balls. And we can either throw them in different directions. And then the fielder is, that could be you, it could be a brother or a sister, who are playing together as a family. And then you have to move from base to base and see if you can get all the way around before the fielders get the balls back to the middle and then be ready to move on. So I have a couple of balls here. You could do that, you could kick them like in football, you can throw them, you can start to introduce the idea of tactics here for your child. So if I throw the ball straight back to the bowler, they're going to have the balls. I'm not going to get very far around my baseball pitch. So I need to start to think about where are the fielders, I'm throwing in a different direction. So I might throw a ball over there, out of the way. So the fielders have got to go and get that ball back. And I might throw another one that way there. So again, the fielders have to go and get the ball back. You could do that by striking. So I have my tea tray here. So again, remember, if you haven't got a baseball bat or a racket, you can use household items. I've got my tea tray, and I'm going to just again, think about those tactics, I'm going to hit the ball in different directions, that's going to make my fielders work really hard. So there's one, it's gone that way. And then I think another one this time, it's going to go that way. So my fielders we'll have to go and get the ball, and I'll move around my bases as fast as I can, and see if I can hit a home run. Hope you have an amazing time and lots of fun playing baseball. Pause the video to complete your task. To make our lesson easier, you could use large, soft balls and practise striking with your hand before progressing on to using a bat. You could use a ramp to support bowling accuracy, and make the scoring areas larger when batting. To make it harder, look at our masterclass sessions with elite sportspeople sharing their top tips. You could decrease the size of bats and balls when practising our striking skills. More ideas, ask your parents or carer to help you search for table cricket specific content. The Lords Taverners would be a good place to look. Play baseball against your parents, carer or sibling. And finally, you could design your own baseball cap. All of our activities can be adapted using the step principle that's looking at the space, the task, the equipment we use, and how people can help us. For example, using a balloon with beads or ricing to support visually impaired learners. We could use bigger, brighter, tactile, more weighted resources, you could adapt the space and activities to suit wheelchair users. For example, ensuring the height of the bases are an appropriate and comfortable level. Brilliant baseball everyone. Bye. See you next time. Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to, please ask your parents or carer to share your work on Twitter, tagging a@OakNational and using the hashtag #LearnwithOak. We'd love to see your brilliant baseball.

Lesson summary: Rounders / Baseball (Part 3)

In this lesson we practice our skills and play a Baseball match.

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Lesson summary: Rounders / Baseball (Part 3)

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