Children investigate how balls fall and roll, what materials balls can be made from, and why different games use different balls. Construction, comparison, and a child-made ramp game reinforce movement while literacy review and size and correspondence tasks extend the inquiry.
What children learn
- Observe that balls fall when thrown upward and can roll from one place to another.
- Compare balls by size, material, and suitability for different games.
- Explore how ramps and other structures affect a ball's movement.
- Revisit letters Aa-Ii, big and small, and one-to-one correspondence.
Key activities
- Dropping and throwing balls to observe upward and downward movement
- Rolling different balls and comparing how they move
- Deciding whether different balls suit games such as cricket or football
- Making balls from newspaper, fabric, dough, clay, and cotton
- Building a ramp-based ball game from tubes and recycled materials
You’ll need
paper, rubber and plastic balls, marbles and table-tennis balls, newspapers and fabric strips, dough and clay, cotton and yarn, cardboard tubes and sticks, tape and chalk, large dice, letter cards and loose parts
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy