Basketball League

I am a coach/instructor at the New Castle YZONE for the youth basketball league. The league is for children from grades 1st through third grade. All of the kids are at different skill levels, so it is sometimes difficult to teach them concepts. So, we break them down into groups based on grade, and skill level in that grade. We have about 20 kids that come every saturday. For the first half of the hour we teach them a skill they can use, and the second half they get to play 5 on 5 basketball. On 11/20/10, we worked a lot on defense. We taught them about defensive stance, and on ball off ball defense. I worked with the younger kids, who don't have as much knowledge of the game. We also played knockout, and dribble tag. With the younger kids we decided that for the next week we would have them play 3 on 3, so all the kids would get a chance to be involved in the action.