Are you looking for a FUN and EXCITING new way to introduce the sport of Softball to your students this spring? Softball Ontario has the COMPLETE package available for loan FREE-of-CHARGE!
ACTIVE Softball enables elementary school students in grades 6 to 8 to learn the FUNDAMENTAL movement skills and concepts of the sport of softball. This program is a great way to keep your students active and fulfill elements of the physical education curriculum. The Active Softball Game can be used indoors OR outdoors so you still have an activity to do during those rainy days in spring!
What is included in an Active Softball Kit?
An Active Softball Kit consists of everything you will need to introduce your class to the game of softball. Each Kit contains the following:
• An Active Softball Game Board (4’ x 4’) • A set of six (6) playing pieces and dice • Activity Cards – A Set of 72! • A “Rules and Skills” Guide (Yours to Keep!) • A “Skills Test Challenge Booklet (Yours to Keep!) • Equipment o 9 Softball Gloves o 8 Softballs o 4 Safety Bats, o 2 Throw-Down Base Sets o 1 Batting-T • Free Gifts and Activity Books for your students!
All equipment is manufactured using child-safe materials. Once you near the end of your loan period and your students have improved their softball skills, you even have enough equipment to have a full game of softball!
Win a FREE Pizza Lunch for your Class! Each teacher who registers their class to participate during the months of April, May or June 2011 BY March 31, 2011 by 4:30pm will be entered in a draw to WIN a FREE Pizza Lunch for your class! ($100.00 value!)
If you request an ACTIVE SOFTBALL Kit to use each teacher who submits a completed Feedback Questionnaire with the returned Active Kit will automatically be rewarded an AWESOME “Sportfolio.” On the inside of the “Sportfolio” you will find a softball diamond dry-era board featuring all of Softball Ontario’s program information and a full note pad to write on!
What is the Skill Test Challenge?
The Skills Test Challenge is NEW for 2011 and is used to help evaluate participants on their basic movement skills and concepts and healthy eating. Each of the skills evaluated in the Skills Test Challenge fit within the 2010 Health and Physical Education Curriculum!! There are twenty-two (22) skill tests included in this Manual, which will test both your students’ basic physical abilities and their softball specific skills. Softball Ontario asks that you test your participants on FIVE (5) Skills Tests and input those results on our Softball at School Website( www.softballatschool.ca)! The Softball Skills Test Challenge can be run at any point in your curriculum seeing as you will now have all the necessary equipment from the Active Softball Kit in your possession.
How Can Your Local Softball Association Help?
Softball Ontario has received inquiries as to whether an individual from Softball Ontario is able to come to the school and help with the Active Softball Kit. Who better to do this then our Local Softball Association Volunteers who know the game best! Teachers who are interested can fill out an “X” in the box under number of participants and Softball Ontario will contact your Local Softball Association for a volunteer to come out and help! How can you participate in the Active Softball Program?
The Kits are available on a first-come - first-served basis; contact Softball Ontario as soon as possible to book your month. For further details on Softball Ontario’s ACTIVE SOFTBALL program or to borrow an Active Softball Kit for your school, please contact Carly Laxton at (416) 426-7150 or by email at claxton@softballontario.ca. Softball Ontario looks forward to seeing our Local Associations utilizing this awesome Program!
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