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In the month of October, grades 3-5 have been participating in a soccer unit. During their classes, the students have learned the different skills that are needed to compete in a soccer game. They practiced dribbling, passing and kicking. The skills that they practiced during class, they then incorporated them into 2 different types of modified soccer games. Sideline Soccer is one of the modified games the students played. The class was broken into 6 smaller teams. When their team is called to play, it is 4 vs 4 or 5 vs 5 and 1 student is the goalie. They play 1 minute rounds, and are a sideline player. If the ball gets kicked out of bounds the sideline players are responsible to throw it back in to their teammates. The other modified game is Number Soccer. Each student is given a number, when their number is called, they come out and play. Everyone else that is not playing on the sideline, become the goalies. The goal for each team is the length of the gym. This makes for a very exciting game. The students love it.