Tennis Tots Week 9 🎾🦀
It all begins with an idea.
Week 9– 45 mins
📅 First week in November
👶 Age range covered in this lesson plan: Walking age to approx. 6 years.
This lesson plan references individual games and activities designed by Summit Tennis. There will be links to the specific documents below, and copies are available in the folders in the kit bags; but please visit https://www.summit-tennis.com/coaches-corner and enter the password.
This is a general plan to cover a wide range of ages. IT IS UP TO THE COACH TO APPLY THE GENERAL LESSON PLAN TO THE AGE OF THE TOTS THEY ARE TEACHING (EVEN IF THE AGES ARE MIXED IN THE SAME GROUP) 🔁 Progressions: Activities with added complexity to challenge older children (approx. 2.5 years+) 🪶 Feathers: Activities simplified for younger Tots (under 2.5 years)
☀️ Coaching Tips : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFn1wsw3S7c
• Sit children down to control them
• Say “Freeze” instead of stop
• Big claps after each exercise
• Use parents & assistant coaches
• Be happy!
• TRY TO GET AROUND TO EVERY CHILD AT LEAST ONCE AND HAVE “MOMENT” WITH THEM
✅ Lesson Checklist
☐ 🔥 Warm-Up (5 mins) https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/warm-up
☐ 🎾🐾 Whac-a-Mole 🟡 https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/whac-a-mole
☐ 💧 Interlude – Quick Drink & Register Check
☐ 🏰 🎾 Coaches Tower (Build a bonfire version 🔥) https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/coaches-tower
☐ 😴 Sleeping Giants https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/sleeping-giants
☐ 🚀 Fireworks https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/fireworks
☐ 🐒 Chase the Tail, for the last couple of minutes while tidying up https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/chase-the-tail
🎾🦀 ⚡Tennis Titans– Week 9
It all begins with an idea.
Week 9 – 50 mins (Titans)
📅 First week in November before half term
😎 Age range covered in this lesson plan: 5-9 years onwards. Please see the individual PDFs associated with the checkbox activities below. This is a general plan to cover a wide range of ages. IT IS UP TO THE COACH TO APPLY THE GENERAL LESSON PLAN TO THE AGE OF THE TITANS THEY ARE TEACHING (EVEN IF THE AGES ARE MIXED IN THE SAME GROUP)
🔁 Progressions: Activities with added complexity to challenge older children
🪶 Feathers: Activities simplified for younger Titans
☀️ Coaching Tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFn1wsw3S7c
• Sit children down to control them
• Say “Freeze” instead of stop
• Big claps after each exercise
• Use parents & assistant coaches
• Be happy!
• TRY TO GET AROUND TO EVERY CHILD AT LEAST ONCE
AND HAVE “MOMENT” WITH THEM
✅ Lesson Checklist
☐ 🔥 Warm-Up (5 mins) make sure you do the progressions: https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/warm-up
☐ 🍝 Meatball Madness: https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/meatball-madness
☐ 🎾 Rally Progressions https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/rally-progressions
☐ 💧 Interlude – Quick Drink & Register Check
☐ 🏰 🎾 Hitting stations https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/hitting-stations
☐ 🚀 Fireworks https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/fireworks
☐ 🚀 Space Hop https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/rockets or Jailbreak: https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/jailbreakv1
☐ 🐒 Chase the Ghost (tail) for the last couple of minutes while tidying up: https://www.summit-tennis.com/games-and-activities/chase-the-tail
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Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
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