Nightly Plan: Monday, July 23

Tonight's Schedule

5:30: Registration, coaches warm up with kids
6:15PM: Large Group welcome – curriculum intro
6:25PM: Division Leaders divide kids into teams
6:35PM: Team name – establish team guidelines/expectations based on RRT
6:45PM: Warm-ups & games in Division, skills demonstration (Skill: Passing!)
7:05PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Names!) **NOTE: curriculum has been moved to before team drill work all week
7:20PM: Team Drill Work/play
7:50PM: Scrimmage
8:15PM: Camp Conclusion. Present “Olympians of the Night.” Teach Dance.  
8:25PM: Snack dismissal
8:30PM: Check out
8:45PM: Debriefing in Divisions
9:00PM: Final Group Announcements 

Tonight's Ways to “Go for the Gold” for Team Medals

Values Curriculum: Let’s learn each other’s Names!
1. Kids add name ‘medals’ to division ring – team earns one medal if everyone adds a medal to the ring.
2. Coaches may award their team one extra medal if players demonstrate excellent implementation of night's theme (e.g using each other's names during drillwork & scrimmaging).

Soccer Curriculum: Passing
1. Coaches may award team one medal for participating (as a whole team) in tonight's drill work and implementing passing with accuracy, pace, and timing in team scrimmage. 

Coaches -- report your team's medal count to your division leaders in time for closing large group.

Tonight's Skill: Passing

See Also Pages 8, 9 and 26 of Soccer Curriculum Packet.

Ways to “go for the gold” (passing points that can earn team medals if they display effort to learn them)
1) Accuracy
2) Pace
3) Timing

Push Pass: Coaching Points

• Head down and eyes on the ball
  
• Place non-kicking foot approx. 6 inches to the side of the ball with room for kicking foot to swing through, and toe pointed in the direction of the pass.
  
• Pass with the “instep” of the foot, ankle locked at right angles to the direction of the pass, knee slightly bent, contacting the middle of the ball.
  
• Follow through, so your teammate can see the bottom of your shoe.
  
  

Video to use as reference:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD9DF02717D5214F&feature=plcp 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXrf0TIphg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXrf0TIphg&feature=relmfu

1) Accuracy (set up a 10x10 grid)

• X1 passes to X2 and moves to a new position along his/her line.
  
• X2 controls, then returns pass to X1 in his/her new position
  
• X2 then moves to new position along his/her line.
  
  

Emphasize: 

• Balls played to feet
  
  

Game: 

• Players receiving the ball are to stand with their legs apart.  
  
• Players score points by passing through the legs (2 points) or by hitting a leg (1 point).  
  
• See how many each player can score in 2 minutes.
  

2) Pace (set up a 10x10 or 10x15 grid)

• X1 and X2 pass back and forth between themselves. 
  
• After each pass, X1 and X2 must...

1. sit down
   
2. belly dive
   
3. spin 360
   
4. jump up for a header
   
5. etc.
   

Progression (for older age groups): 

• Move one line backwards and forwards every 20 seconds, forcing them to alternate between longer and shorter passes. 
  
  

Emphasize: 

• For X2 to be up and on his/her feet by the time the ball reacher him/her (i.e. the pass should be at correct pace for partner to control).
  
  

Game: 

• How many passes can they accumulate in one minute?
  
  

3) Timing (set up a 10x10 or 10x15 grid)

• X1 watches X2 make a run for the corner cone. 
  
• X1 passes the ball so that X2 and the ball reach the cone at the same time, allowing X2 to control the ball near the cone.
  

Progression (for older age groups): 

• have X1 start from a sitting position / lying position.

Emphasize: 

• Good communication between X1 and X2 and for X1 to be looking up observing X2‘s run. 

PASSING GAMES 

• Ten Pin
  
• Across the Border
  
• Multi-goal Soccer
  

Tonight's Value: Names!

Today's Goals: 

1. Participants learn their teammates names.
   
2. Participants learn why names are important.
   
3. Participants learn the connection between learning names and going for the gold.
   

Today's Connection to Go for the Gold:

Learning each other's names is part of going for the gold because the way we can be better friends, better teammates, better members of our families, better neighbors all starts with knowing the people around us. When we know each other and begin to understand each other, everything is so much better and more fun than when we are just on our own. 

1. Introduce Today's Theme: Names!

This week we are going to learn several ways that we can GO FOR THE GOLD together as a team. The first way we do that is to learn each other’s names.
Who can tell me one reason names are important? why do people and things have names?
- names set things apart from other things. 
- names define who we are, they tell other people who we are
- names can say things about us or give us goals to live up to (ex. if you are named after your grandfather whose name means ‘strong,’ you might want to try to be very strong, or to be like your grandfather in other ways.)
- names can tell us about where people are from (ex. some names are common to certain parts of the world - the name Seamus comes from Ireland, the name Helima has Arabic origin, and it means gentle, mild-mannered, and generous.)

Part of going for the gold includes learning each other's names because the way we can be good friends, good neighbors, good members of our families, good teammates, all starts with knowing the people around us. When we know each other and begin to understand each other, everything is so much better than when we are just on our own. If Coach _________ is dribbling down the field and sees his teammate across the field, wide open, but doesn't know her name, he can't very well pass her the ball can he? Or if __________ is at school and needs help with an assignment, she can't ask for that help or help someone else if she doesn't know her classmates. Learning names is something easy and yet SO important! Let's start by playing a fun game that will help us do this:

2. Today's Game

Younger Divisions
Have kids and coaces sit in a circle by team. (important that teams are separate, this will be too crazy if done with whole division together.) This is a call and response activity, so you’ll want to start by setting a beat (clapping or hands on knees).
Coach/volunteer starts: "My name is Kaiti and I like goats.” 
Everyone echoes this: "Your name is Kaiti and you like goats."
Next person (to right or left of person who starts): "My name is Brian and I like soccer"
Everyone: "Your name is Brian and you like soccer"

If the 2nd-3rd graders seem on top of this, you can add in rules like “we all have to stay on the beat or we start over!” 
With the 1st graders, focus on the whole team being engaged and participating.

Older Divisions - Hand Shake Game
Team stands in a circle and the Curriculum Coach begins the game by going across the circle to a player, looking him in the eye and, shaking his hand, says, “Hello, I'm Coach Suzie.” The player then says “Hello, Coach Suzie, I'm Johnny.” Coach Suzie then takes Johnny's spot and Johnny crosses the circle and introduces himself to another teammate in the same way. This goes on until everyone has crossed the circle and the last person introduces herself to Coach Suzie, starting it back over. Then repeat the cycle, making the kids stay in the same order and this time go faster. Suzie will go to Johnny, Johnny to Megan, Megan, to Amir, Amir to Helima, Halima back to Coach Suzie. (Keep in mind each time they have to say the names, look the other person in the eye, and run to their spot).

Go through the cycle a few times until they are running to get through it.
Then pause the game and say, “OK, team I want you now to raise your right hand in the air.”Wait till everyone does so. “Ok, now I want you to take your right hand and point it at the person who you ran across to meet.” (wait till they do that) “Ok, keeping your right hand out, I want you to take your left hand and point to the person who ran to meet you.”

On the count of 3, I want everyone to shout as loudly as they can the two names of the people on our team who they met tonight!

2. Today's Ring Activity

Younger Divisions
Pass out tonight's gold medals. Kids will write: 
My name is ______________ 
I was named by _________________ 
My name means ______________________
If there is time and kids want to ask their parents for the answers to the 2nd two fill-ins, let them go ask them. If not, tell them they can earn an extra medal for their team if they go home and ask and bring back the answer tomorrow.

Older Divisions
 Kids should be in pairs.
Pass out tonight's gold medals . They will have a space for:
My friend's name is ______________ 
His name means ______________________.

If there is time and kids want to ask parents for the answers to the 2nd two fill-ins, let them go ask them. If not, tell them they can earn an extra medal for their team if they go home and ask and bring back the answer tomorrow.