Tonight's Schedule:5:30PM: Registration, coaches warm up with kids 6:15PM: Large Group welcome – curriculum intro 6:30PM: Team name review, welcome new kids, review team expectations 6:35PM: Warm-ups & games in Division, skills demonstration (Skill: Dribbling!) 6:55 PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Homes!) 7:15PM: Team Drill Work 7:45PM: Scrimmages 8:15PM: Camp Conclusion. Present “Olympian of the Night.” Teach Dance. 8:25PM: Snack dismissal 8:30PM: Check out 8:45PM: Debriefing in Divisions 9:00PM: Final Group Announcements 9:10PM: Volunteer Scrimmage! Tonight's Ways to "Go for the Gold" for Team MedalsValues Curriculum: Homes! 1. Kids add home ‘medals’ to division ring – team earns one medal if everyone adds a medal to the ring. 2. Coaches may award their team extra medals if players demonstrate excellent implementation of going for the gold themes (e.g using each other's names during scrimmage, working together during 'home' activity). Soccer Curriculum: Dribbling 1. Coaches may award team one medal for participating (as a whole team) in tonight's drill work with effort and teamwork, focusing to practice dribbling with confidence, quick feet, different parts of the feet, and awareness. Coaches -- report your team's medal count to your division leaders. Tonight's Skill: Dribbling Ways to “go for the gold” 1) Confidence - Having a positive attitude 2) Quick feet / Close control 3) Different parts of the feet 4) Awareness - Keeping your head up Dribbling: Coaching Points
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2) Lines (set up a 10x30 grid)
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5) Multi-goal soccer (set up a 30x30 grid)
DRIBBLING GAMES 1) Wickets - Set up a 20X20 grid (appropriate for all age groups) There are two teams. Divide players into 1’s and 2’s. Have all the 1’s spread around the designated area and stand with their feet spread well apart as “Wickets.” Have the 2’s dribble the ball in and through the “Wickets.” The objective is to see how many wickets they can dribble through in a given time. Switch teams. 2) Freeze Tag - Set up a 20X20 grid (appropriate for all age groups) Similar to the game “Wickets” combined with traditional freeze tag. 3) King of the Castle - Set up a 20X20 grid (appropriate for all age groups) All players have a ball at their feet. On the whistle, all players are to dribble around while attempting to kick a teammates ball out of the grid. Once a ball has been knocked out of the grid, the player collects his/her ball and waits on the sideline. He/she is out for that round. That last player with a ball at his/her feet is King of the Castle. 4) Thieves - Set up a 20X20 grid (appropriate for all older groups) Create 4 safe zones with the cones. Each player has a ball except for the 3-4 “Thieves” who will wear pennies. It’s similar to a traditional tag game with safe areas. If you get tagged by the “Thieves,” you lose the ball and become the “Thief.” When the play is stopped, at coach’s command, any player without a ball must do a “Fun Exercise” (i.e. 5 star jumps, 5 push-ups, etc.). Maximum of 2 players are allowed in each safe zone at one time. The 1st person who was in the zone must leave when the 3rd person enters the safety zone. 5) Alien attack - Set up a 20X30 grid (appropriate for older age groups) This game is basically, the “Humans vs Aliens” warm-up with soccer balls. Tonight's Value: Homes! Today's Goals: Go for the gold – learn about each other's homes!
1. Participants will learn about their teammates’ homes. 2. Participants will learn why “home” is important. 3. Participants will learn the connection between knowing about someone's home and going for the gold. Today's Connection to Go for the Gold: Where we are from, where we live, can tell us and others a lot about ourselves. Our home is where we feel safe and loved and the most ourselves, and when we share that with someone else they know us better and when we hear about someone else's home we can begin to understand them better. Knowing more about and understanding each other are steps to becoming better friends, better teammates, better members of our families, and better neighbors, which is what Going for the Gold is all about. Activities:
--Who can tell the new people what we're making this week? What did we add yesterday? --Respond to answers: --That's right, all week, each night we are going to decorate our Soccer Nights “Green” Division Olympic Ring, and at the end of the week we are going to combine all the rings to make the Soccer Nights Olympic Rings. Each day we will learn how we can “Go for the Gold!” together as a team, to become better friends and better soccer players! Remember, in your teams you can set goals tonight that all of you as a team will work together to achieve in order to earn medals.
- home can be lots of things - it can be a house, the place you live; it can be a city or town where you live or where you were born, it can be a place you don't live but maybe your family is from there. As we grow and get older, we might have more than one place we call home, but each of these places has a place in our hearts and is filled with memories and importance to us. For example, if you asked me what my home is, I would say: North Cambridge, because that's where I live now and where my life is, and I want to stay here. But I'd also say Maine, because that's where I grew up and it's where my Mom and Dad are and I will always love it there and have memories of home. Yesterday we learned that knowing someone’s name is a great first step to building friendships and community, to working together to go for the gold. Well believe it or not but knowing about each other’s HOMES is just as important! Why? Well where we are from, where we live, can tell us and others a lot about ourselves. My home is where I feel safe and loved and I love to be, so when I share that with someone else they know a little more about me and when I hear about where someone is from I can begin to understand them a little better. Especially at Soccer Nights, where so many of us come from so many different states and cities and countries, learning about those places is so cool! And it makes us more connected to our teammates and our community. So tonight we are going to learn something about each of our teammates’ homes.
Curriculum team will come around and hand paper medals. Kids will be given markers and will have a few minutes to “draw home”on the medal. Encourage them to be creative and draw whatever home means to them. This could be a picture of their family, their house, their room, the country they are from, etc. 1st grade: When they are done drawing on the medal they should write their name on it. 2nd/3rd grade: When they are done drawing they should write on their medal one thing they like about their home. Curriculum volunteers (or parents) should glue medals to division rings (can do ½ facing one way and ½ facing the other way in order to show both pictures and words) Older Divisions: Coaches should split their team into pairs. Curriculum team will come around and hand out paper medals. Kids will be given markers and will have a few minutes to ask their partner the 3 questions about home:
Kids should first write their partner's name on their medal, and then write the answers to the questions. Halfway through instruct them to switch.
Going around the circle, have everyone on your team introduce their drawing by saying “My name is _____ one thing I like about my home is _____________ (Note: If you don’t have time to go around the entire circle, pick a few volunteers) Older Divisions: Share/Build a Pyramid/Human Home Going around the circle, have everyone on your team introduce their partner by saying “This is my friend _____, and their family comes from ____________ and now their home is in ________. One thing they like about their home is _____________ After the first pair shares, they should get on their hands and knees and begin the pyramid. (Say: we are going to build a human house). The next pair introduces each other and adds to the pyramid. Keep adding to the pyramid until everyone has gone (if there are a lot of kids, start a new pyramid - as many as seem safe, coaches’ discretion).
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Eric, Coach, Blue division- "I know we were focusing on passing tonight, but we must have taught our team some defensive skills because we were guarding both goals during our scrimmage. So, I'm glad we imbued them with some defensive skills."
Alex, Assistant Coach, Red division- "There was a kid named Amir. And we were having a drill, so we had to know people's names. And he didn't know the girl's name, so he said "Hey! What's your name?" And she told him her name, then he said "Hey (girl's name), I have to pass you the ball! Get open!" And he passed her the ball." Gloria, Coach, Orange Division- "We assigned our kids positions regardless of their preferences. So one of our kids was assigned to be goalie, and he did not want to be goalie. He said "I'm not good at being goalie. I'm not going to be goalie." And he was making a big deal about it. And we just told him that he needed to be goalie, and he was still pouting. Then he said it one more time, "I'm so bad at goalie. I'm going to miss." Then one of the kids who had been kind of rambunctious said to him, "You just have to practice. The more you do it, the better you're going to be." And that turned out to be true during the game. The first ball came right by him, and he watched it roll by. Then the second ball came by and it was really difficult, but he stopped the ball." Marvin, Coach, Green Division- "This is my first year at Soccer Nights, and I enjoyed it. We had this one kid named Andy. And as soon as I saw him running around I thought, Oh, I'm going to have my hands full with him. We got to the drills, and he paid attention and focused. He did a great job. But what impressed me most about Andy was when we did the scrimmage on the other side. We set up the teams. We had 15 kids, so we played 10 on 10 and had 5 kids subbing in and out. I had one kid that said "Hey, I have to leave early. You mind if I jump in?" So I go up to Andy and say, "Hey, can you do me a huge favor? He has to leave early. Can you let him play first?" And he goes, "Sure no problem." He takes off his jersey, sits on the bench and waits. I thought that was wonderful. I was telling my assistant coach Bryson that we love that our team has no super stars, so everyone is on the same level. And everyone was cheering eachother on. It was a great time. But Andy stuck out because he helped his teammate without being upset." Jeff, Assistant Coach, Green Division- "This story is similar to the last one. It's a story of self sacrifice. So, I was trying to figure out positioning for kids on Terry's team. And everyone wanted to play forward. No one wanted to play defense. And no one wanted to play goalie. I had to figure out positions quickly, and this one kid who I had promised to play forward, I went to him and said, "I really need you to play goalie. Can you play goalie for me?" And he shook his head, so I said "Please, I'll get you forward next time." So he goes back and he plays goalie, and I'm showing him how to play goalie. And all of a sudden he's doing really well. We stopped to take a break, and I told him that the goalie is the most important person on the team. So, he started smiling then he comes off the field. And Terry says, "You know what, you get MVP for making a sacrifice for the team." And then his eyes just completely lit up." Evadne, Lead volunteer, Registration- "Today is usually a really crazy day for registration because we take walk-ons. Last year there was a mob of people that we had to have the police hold back. So, this year we had a system. We had everyone who wanted to register to line up against that building over there. And they all listened and lined very peacefully. That was a huge improvement. One of the parents came up to us and said, "You guys are really organized." And I was like, "I know!" And all the registration people did an excellent job. I want to give a shout out to Sarah and Nick who came to the Vineyard with me and entered data for all the people who signed up today, so I don't have to spend 3 hours doing it tomorrow morning or tonight. Huge thank you to them! Samantha, Volunteer, 3-5 year olds- "I was with teh 3-5 year olds, and we played duck duck goose for most of the night. And during one of the rounds, one of the little boys became very upset because he wasn't getting picked. The next round, a little girl was picked so he said, "Why do you only pick the pretty ones?! Excuse me!" Louise, Volunteer, Parent Pals- "We didn't get to talk to all the parents tonight, but the ones we talked to were the best. There were a lot of discussions about the difficulties of immigrating to the US and the complexity of being of this culture and another culture. There was also a lot of guessing about my ethinicity. Some people thought I was Hindi. I am not Hindi, I am not Spanish, and I am not Italian. That's just FYI for you guys. So we had a lot of great conversations, and that's our recap." Princess Michaiah, Lead volunteer, Parent Pals- "So last session, Susanna and I met a whole lot of parents, and it was awesome. And they were all waiting to see what the sexes of my babies would be. And so, cliff hanger...we got to talk to a lot of parents and I got advice from them. But one thing we didn't want to do was get a medal from them and put their names on them because we had already memorized their names. So, we had this great idea to have the parents that we knew to go around and meet other parents and fill out the medals, then come back to introduce us to those new parents." Tonight's Schedule5:30: 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 MedalsValues 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
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2) Pace (set up a 10x10 or 10x15 grid)
PASSING GAMES
Tonight's Value: Names! Today's Goals:
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. Hi all! Thanks for an awesome week of Soccer Nights. We couldn't leave Session 1 without sharing one last story.
Thanks to Rachael for sharing her thoughts about Soccer Nights. We feel the same. :) Rachael - Curriculum, Orange Division “This is my second year volunteering. I don’t think we always quite recognize the significance of the time we spend doing this. Really. Truly. A week from now, or a month from now---I think it’s going to hit you that this is huge for the city of Cambridge. This is huge for parents to be out here playing soccer with their children. They wouldn’t be out here playing soccer with their kids like this without us doing this. I think this is a huge initiative for the city of Boston. That is not to be undervalued. We’re playing a role that might be bigger than we even give ourselves credit for. I even see huge growth from last year to this year. Last year, the parents were a little less connected. This year, having your team working with the parents—I marvel at that. I absolutely marvel at that! You look up and kids are active, and parents are active and engaged with us. I can’t say enough good things about this program. I clout it to everyone at work, and I just really want you to reflect on the impact this can have on our city. Many of us are transient, right? In 5 years, you might be living in another city, and if the door opens for you to get this going in another city, or another town, or to partner with a church and the police (like we’ve done here), that’s what transforms communities. That’s what transforms cities. And that’s what transforms countries. I know that’s a little bit philosophical, but I do see that this is what is going on here. And that’s huge.” |
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