Tonight's Schedule 5:30PM: Registration, coaches warm up with kids 5:45PM: Coaching staff meets with Brian at bleachers to go over daily drills (in 2 shifts) 6:15PM: Large Group welcome – curriculum intro, juggling contest by division 6:30PM: Warm-ups & games in Division, skills demonstration (Skill: Controlling&Throw-ins) 6:50PM: Team Drill Work 7:20PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Trust!) 7:40PM: Scrimmages 8:15PM: Camp Conclusion. Present “Gold Medalists 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: Trust 1. Kids add trust ‘medals’ to division ring – team earns one medal if everyone adds a medal to the ring. 2. Teams earn 3 extra medals if they go through Jellyfish Jungle without hitting any jellyfish. Can earn 1 extra medal if they are working well together as a team. Soccer Curriculum: Controlling & Throw-ins 1. Bring ball to a complete stop 2. Set up next action (shot, pass, run, etc) Coaches may award team one medal for participating (as a whole team) in tonight's drill work with effort and teamwork, focusing on the two coaching points above. Tonight's Skill: Controlling&Throw-ins Ways to “go for the gold” 1) Bring the ball to a complete STOP 2) Set up the next action (shot, pass, run, etc.) Controlling: Coaching Points
Hold ball between two hands (hands spread to the side of the ball)
Videos to use as reference: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD9DF02717D5214F&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6HGHfR4bYA&feature=fvsr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0kGbG2jOnY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDXqDg4k9gQ&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiEj1pcfnM&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxpmr1s90dI 1) Pass and Control ..... (set up a 10x10 grid)
Progression (for older age groups):
3) Foot Control from Balls in the Air (set up a 15x15 grid)
Progression (for older age groups):
5) Throw-ins (set up a 10x10 grid)
Progression (for older age groups):
--Players may only take three steps with the ball --All throws must be using correct throw-in technique --One point for a goal scored directly from a throw --Two points for anyone who can score the ball from header Tonight's Value: Trust! Today's Goals: Go for the gold – Let's trust each other!
Trusting others and being someone other people can trust is very important both on and off the field. When we can trust people it means we can be in relationship with them and work together, and being in community is always better than being alone. Being someone others can trust means you are honest and dependable, two marks of having good character. Having good character and being community allow us to become better friends, better teammates, better members of our families, and better neighbors, which is what going for the gold is all about. Introduce Today's Theme: Let's Trust each other! Say: So far this week we have learned how two different things about us are very important - what are those things? NAMES & HOMES. Tonight we are going to learn how to Go for the Gold with TRUST. Who can tell me what it means to trust someone? (e.g. if you feel safe with them, if you know they respect and care about you, if you know you can tell them something and they won't tell anyone else, if you know they want you to succeed, etc...). These are all examples of trust. To go for the gold as individuals and teams we want others to be able to trust us and we want to be able to trust others. We can start right now at Soccer Nights. To work together as a team on and off the field we need to be able to trust our teammates. So we are going to play a game called “Jellyfish Jungle” where it will be very important that we trust each other, and also that we practice using each other's names to encourage one another to succeed!
Ok? Let's play! Send the first conga line out, and depending on pace and timing you can either wait until they are back to send the next group or you can send the 2nd set when the 1st set is half way out (with the latter the lines will end up crossing paths but this will just increase need for trust and communication). Also if you have smaller teams and want to have your whole team make one line that works too. If time allows, once the lines go through, switch up leaders. Older Divisions: Jellyfish Jungle
Wow! It can be hard to trust each other. Even if we believe they will always try to help and protect us, it is still scary walking through an obstacle course not being able to see. I want everyone to take a marker and write down a word or two that describes how you were feeling either when you were blindfolded or when you were leading. Curriculum Team should collect medals and glue them to division ring.
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Tonight's Schedule - **please note some differences in red5:30PM: Registration, coaches warm up with kids 5:45PM: Coaching staff meets with Brian at bleachers to go over daily drills (in 2 shifts) 6:10PM: Large Group welcome (starting a bit early tonight) 6:20PM: Warm-ups & games in Division, skills demonstration (Skill: Finishing & Defending) 6:35PM: Team Drill Work 7:10PM: Scrimmages (before curriculum tonight) 7:35PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Encouragement!) 7:50PM: Closing Large Group. Present “Gold Medalists of the Night.” Teach Dance 8:00PM: Dismiss to teams, set up for parents game 8:10PM: Parents Game, kids seated in teams while snack is distributed 8:30PM: Check out 8:45PM: Debriefing in Divisions 9:00PM: Final Group Announcements 9:15PM: Flatbread/Sacco's Volunteer Afterhours! Tonight's Ways to “Go for the Gold” for Team MedalsValues Curriculum: Encouragement Kids add trust ‘medals’ to division ring – team earns one medal if everyone adds a medal to the ring. Soccer Curriculum: Finishing & Defending 1. Bring ball to a complete stop. 2. Set up next action (shot, pass, run, etc). Coaches may award team one medal for participating (as a whole team) in tonight's drill work with effort and teamwork, focusing on the two coaching points above. Coaches may award medals to team throughout the night in instances where kids are demonstrating the values of "go for the gold." Coaches should keep track of team medal count and report to division leaders at the end of the night. Tonight's Skill: Finishing & Defending Ways to “go for the gold:” 1) Shooting with the instep (pass the ball into the goal) 2) Shooting with the laces (low driven shot with power) 3) Knowing when to defend an attacker vs. space 4) Preventing the ball being played forward on defense Finishing / Shooting: Coaching Points: • Have a positive attitude • Select type of shot (instep or laces) • Select vulnerable part of goal (corners) • Accuracy first; power second • Ankle locked and toe down (for laces) • Head down and steady • Non-kicking foot should be well up to the ball • Strike through the middle to top half of the ball • Land on kicking foot • Follow up shot for potential rebounds Defending: Coaching Points: • Be aware of where other attackers are • Challenge the player with the ball ASAP and at an angle that will cut off a forward pass • Stay low to the ground and balanced • Concentrate and watch the ball • Be patient and stay on feet • If you are further away from the ball, you may want to defend space by being goal-side of the attacker in a position where you can see both the ball and other attackers Videos to use as reference: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD9DF02717D5214F&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrzfmkGtnYE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbdedDgzEsQ 1) Shooting Technique (set up a 20x20 grid) • Have the group form two lines, each player with a ball • First line set ball down and prepare to shoot • On coaches command, players shoot one-by-one • As line one collect their balls, line two step forward, place their ball and prepare to shoot • Line one goes to the back Progression (for older age groups): ➡ Have players switch positions on the line Emphasize: • Walk through the coaching points above 2) Shooting a moving ball (set up a 20x15 grid) • S (coach) has the balls while players form a line. S plays a pass for X to run on and shoot on goal. X must collect ball and return to S. Initially have the players “pass” the ball into the goal. Move onto shooting with the laces. Think about placement rather than power. Progression (for older age groups): ➡ Switch sides to work on both feet. ➡ Add a defender to chase X. Variety of shots (for older age groups): • Balls moving away from the attacker (S1) • Balls moving across the attacker (S2) • Balls moving towards the attacker (S3) 3) Continuous shooting (set up a 20x20 grid) • S1 and S2 are set up on the sides with plenty of balls at their feet • X1 runs to meet pass from S1 and shoots • X1 then turns, goes around the cone in the center ready to shoot the pass from S2 • X1 has five or six shots, then X2 takes over Progression (for older age groups): ➡ S can lay the ball off in various ways...left, right, in the air to thigh or chest. 4) Slalom (set up a 30x20 grid) • S is a server and has all the balls. • X1 and O1 are competing - try to match players according to speed. • On servers command they “slalom” through the cones to see who can be first to get to the pass from S and shoot on goal. • The player who does not gain possession of the ball will try to then defend against a shot. Progression (for older age groups): ➡ Have players start from various positions...sitting, lying, star jumps, etc. 5) Defending: Practice one (set up a 10X20 grid) • A1 hits a low driven pass to A2 • A2 must try to get the ball back to A1 by making a forward pass while D closes down to block any forward initiative by A2 Progression (for older age groups): ➡ Serve balls in the air to A2 ➡ A2 to have as option to take on D 6) Defending: Practice two (set up a 20X15 grid) • A3 passes to A1 or A2 who work together to beat D1 and D2 with a forward pass back to A3. • D1 and D2 seek to block any forward pass back to A3, win the ball, or force A1 and A 2 out of play. Progression (for older age groups): ➡ Allow A3 to come into the field of play SHOOTING GAMES 1) Captain catapult - Set up a 20X10 grid (appropriate for all age groups) Team X shoot continuously for 2 minutes. Players cannot begin their run until previous player has shot. For each goal that is scored, team X win a point. Team O must not let any ball stop behind the goal line. If so, another point is scored for team X. After two minutes, tally up points for team X then switch for team O. If the goal is large enough, the team behind the goal provides their own goalkeeper. Progression - Adjust distances depending on age of kids. 2) Shooting numbers - Set up a 20X10 grid (appropriate for older age groups) Divide the group in half and assign each person a number (try to match them up according to speed). Coach places a ball between the center cones and shouts out a number - or a combination of numbers - and the players in turn must sprint around the box on the outside of the markers to reach the ball first and get off a shot. Progression - Adjust distances depending on age of kids. Feed the ball into different areas of the box. Tonight's Value: Encouragement! Today's Goals: Go for the gold – Let's be encouragers!
1. Share with the group something a teammate of yours is good at. 2. Encourage a teammate during a scrimmage or a drill. 3. Add to the division rings something that you like about your team, your coach, your family, or Soccer Nights! Today's Connection to Go for the Gold: Encouraging others is an important part of going for the gold because part of being in relationship with other people, whether they're on your team, in your class at school, or in your family, is being kind to one another and cheering each other on to succeed. Just like you root for a team who you want to see win a game, we should root for each other to do well in all things. When we encourage each other we become better friends, better teammates, better members of our families, and better neighbors, which is what going for the gold is all about. Introduce Today's Theme: Encouragement Say: Tonight, we are going to go for the Gold together to be better encouragers! Can anyone tell me what it means to encourage? It's a pretty big word! Exactly - to say something kind to someone, to remind them that they can go for the gold, try their hardest, to cheer someone on so that they will succeed. Just like we root for a team who we want to see win a game, we should root for each other to do well in all things. When we encourage each other we become better friends, better teammates, better members of our families, and better neighbors, which is what going for the gold is all about. Now we are going to do an activity in our teams where we'll get to practice encouraging each other AND add to our division ring! Tonight's Activity: Soccer Nights Olympian (all ages): Pass out a cut-out of the ultimate Soccer Nights gold medalist to each team.
This might be more difficult for the younger kids, but try to get them to say something nice about someone on their team. If this doesn’t seem effective, try asking them about someone they look up to: it could be someone in their family, a friend, or even a superhero or princess character they love. Ask them why they think that person is strong or why they like them, and then add those things to the Olympian. In this situation, however, encourage coaches then to direct those qualities back to the team (e.g. Oh you like Superman because he is strong and he helps people? That’s great - you know what? I think there are some supermans on this team. When Isabelle made that long shot in the game yesterday, she showed how strong she was. And when Vincent poured water for the team earlier tonight he showed how he loves to help others) Share.
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!) 7:55 PM: Team Drill Work 7:25PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Homes!) 7:40PM: Scrimmages 8:15PM: Camp Conclusion. Present “Gold Medalists 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 Medals: Values 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 one extra medal 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
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!
- 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 buildingfriendships 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 out ½ sheets of paper and paper medals. Kids will be given markers and will have a few minutes to “draw home”on the ½ sheet. 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 they should write their name on the medal and tape the medal to their ½ sheet. 2nd/3rd grade: When they are done drawing they should write on their medal one thing they like about their home, and then tape the medal to their drawing. 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:
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) Have kids stick their drawings to the division ring. 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). Curriculum Team should collect medals and glue them to division ring. Hey all! Thanks for sharing your stories during debrief time. It really was inspiring to hear how the kids are learning the names of their teammates, and getting excited about playing soccer.
In case you missed it, here are the stories that were shared at the end of the night: Max – Team Coach, Orange Division "I had one student who was incredibly shy, and didn’t want to speak up. It was actually incredibly difficult because I couldn’t catch her name right away. And she has an awesome name. During the warm-ups & drills, she was very shy, and didn’t want to get involved. But the second we got to the scrimmage, she was all over the pitch. She was all over the ball, and as a defender, she defended half the shots on goal, and almost made a couple! It was the biggest transformation I saw tonight, and it was really inspiring." Alex – Assistant Coach, Red Division "My story is about a girl. When we were doing the scrimmage everyone wanted to be goalie. So I told them to either go to offense or defense. I told them to pick two people on the defense side, and three people on the offense side (because there were more people on the offense side) who wanted to be goalie. Each day, I was going to have one of those kids be goalie. Bella looked really sad, and it looked like she wouldn’t even play if she wasn’t goalie. So I put her in as goalie, and she looked excited. At one point she said to her teammates, ‘I need some defense!’ She was really good at goalie. I asked her how her day was, and she said, ‘At the beginning it was boring, but once I became goalie I had fun!’" Petre – Team Coach, Green Division "In our team, we had a kid that actually learned the name of everybody on the team after the first 10 minutes, plus the three values! And just taught everyone else. I thought, ‘Okay, kid! You can take it from here!’" Matt – Team Coach, Blue Division "We were just scrimmaging, and I was just playing with this little boy and his father. We were just passing the ball back and forth, and a little girl—yea high (lifting his hand not much past his knee)—came running along ready to kick the ball. It was just encouraging to have the parents there, saying thanks, and ready to have some fun. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!" Claudyne – 3-5 year olds "There was this little girl who didn’t know how to hula-hoop, so I taught her. She’s actually better than me now!" Grant – Lead Volunteer, Registration & Snacks "Registration is kind of crazy on the first night – we have walk-ons, we have people who thought they signed up, but really didn’t sign up, we have--unfortunately--some disappointed kids, and some disappointed parents as well if the kids couldn’t play. But we had some awesome volunteers tonight. Evadne and I really wanted to make sure that we gave some shout-outs to some people, specifically Sarah, Taylor, and Nicholas. They went back to the Vineyard and transferred all the paper forms, all 78 of them, onto the database. Now I don’t have to go back and do that late tonight! I'm so thankful for their work!" Brian – Coaching Director "There was a kid who arrived late named Henry* on Daniele’s team. I was watching when Henry came on over to his team, and Daniele said to the kids, ‘Alright guys! We have a new player who got here late. I just want to introduce him to the team!’ All the kids smiled and shouted, ‘Hi Henry!’ There was one kid who even before Daniele did that said, ‘Oh Henry! I remember you from last year! Hey!’ Henry just smiled and looked happy that someone remembered him from last year. Those little connections mean a lot. They are connections between youth that might not happen otherwise. They are really powerful. It was super great!" Susanna – Lead Volunteer, Parents Team "The night was chock-full of fun moments. Well, there was one particular pair of parents that were really passionate and said that Soccer Nights was great and should happen year-round. Optimally, twice a day. We’ll just leave it as a cliff hanger, and see how that story unfolds…But it was a great connection to make!" *Names of children in stories have been changed. If you have an awesome story that wasn't shared during debrief time, be sure to post a comment below with your story by 3pm today! Everyone who shared a story will enter the chance to win a gift certificate to JP Licks (yum!). It's raining. We know. (And thundering and lightening)Here's what you should know:
Either way, we wont make the call until 5pm. So in the meantime, plan on coming, bring an umbrella and embrace your love of the rain. Look it could be fun! Tonight's Schedule:5:30: Registration, coaches warm up with kids 6:15PM: Large Group welcome – curriculum intro 6:30PM: Division Leaders divide kids into teams 6:40 PM: Team name – establish team guidelines/expectations based on RRT 6:50 PM: Warm-ups & games in Division, skills demonstration (Skill: Passing!) 7:05 PM: Team Drill Work/play 7:35PM: Small Group Curriculum (Theme: Names!) 7:50PM: Scrimmage 8:15PM: Camp Conclusion. Present “Gold Medalists 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 scrimmage). 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. Tonight's Skill: PassingSee Also Pages 8, 9 and 26 of Soccer Curriculum Packet. Ways to “go for the gold” 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.” “Ok, I want everyone to look in front of you at our team, and answer me, if you were a bird flying above this what would it look like? A spider web, a net? Well let's see if we can form one.” Walk forward slowly, with hands still out, until each player has grabbed hands with the two people they were introduced to. Tell your team to get ready and then start to lean slowly backwards, until there is slight tension on their grasps. After a moment or two of leaning back, bring them back to a regular stance. “Wasn't that cool? We were holding each other up as a team. The ties we made even just by meeting each other and learning each other's names can be powerful and strong. We don't learn each other's names just to do so, but because to start relationships and community with others is to go from being as strong as just one person, to as strong as many. And we'll learn over the next several days that each and every person on our team is important to the team. Just like if someone let go when we were all leaning backward, what would happen? That's right, we'd all fall to the ground!” 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. Curriculum Team should collect medals and glue them to division ring. Get excited! It's going to be great! Bullying Definitions*
Major Bullying OffensesExamples of major instances of bullying could include:
Specific Follow-Up Steps for Bullying & Physical FightingSpecific follow-up steps for bullying and physical fighting
Ultimately, it will be up to the discretion of the volunteer and staff to determine the severity of bullying. If a volunteer or staff is unsure, they should consult other staff and volunteers present.
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[*] Cambridge Public Schools Anti-Bullying Policy document Consequences for Not Meeting ExpectationsStep 1 (1st offense) ·
Step 2 (2nd offense) ·
Step 3 (3rd offense)
Step 4 (4th offense)
Automatic 4th Offenses1. Physical violence 2. Any type of major bullying **For these situations it is not a guarantee that child will be permitted back into the program Follow-Up Steps to 4th Offense BehaviorsProcedures when a 4th offense behavior occurs
What happens the next day? Except in cases of physical violence or bullying (please see Bullying Definitions below), a new day means a clean slate! We encourage you to follow up with the child at the start of the evening. Encourage him/her to display positive behavior on this new evening Example: “Hey! I know you had a rough day yesterday. How are you doing today?” behavior-management-boo-to-bullying.html Vineyard Community Offerings aims to provide programs and events that are safe and fun for people of all backgrounds and cultures. To foster this environment, we have adopted the following policies and procedures regarding behavior expectations. Program wide expectations to which all participants are held:
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