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• Caillou - "The World Around Me"
  Caillou is excited when Miss Martin takes him and his friends to the park for some special activities. They have a beanbag race: a relay race using one beanbag per team. All these rules are not easy to grasp, and the kids have a few comical mishaps in the process. Caillou discovers that you don't always have to win to be proud of yourself.
• Berenstain Bears - "Too Small for the Team"
  Sister wants to join the school soccer team, but Coach thinks she still has some growing to do before she's ready to compete. Sister grudgingly accepts the position of team manager instead. It's a tough job, but sister's perseverance doesn't go unnoticed.

Do in Class

• Arthur: Cooperate - Play cooperative games that require teamwork and the ability to work together to solve problems.
• Arthur: Team Efforts - Use games to discover how working together is easier than working alone.
• Dragon Tales: Just for Laughs: Egg Hunt - Encourage teamwork through this cooperative egg hunt game.
• Dragon Tales: Hand-In-Hand - Build teamwork skills by holding hands and accomplishing something together.
• Dragon Tales: Just the Two of Us - Work together with a group to create a collaborative story. Sit in a storytelling circle, begin a story and allow each person in the circle to add an idea.
• Dragon Tales: Pigment of Your Imagination - Develop skills in cooperation and teamwork while solving a homemade jigsaw puzzle. Divide the pieces into two groups, give one to a partner and work together to assemble the pieces into a picture.
• It's My Life: Team Sports - Learn more about why it's important to work together when you're part of a team. (Advanced Reading)
• ZOOM: Cooperation Dots - Try this team building activity to help students learn to work together to accomplish a goal.

Read

• Teamwork
  By Ann Morris
  Published October 1999 by William Morrow & Company
  This picture book for children 4-8 explores the concept of teamwork in work and sport with text and color photos of different kinds of teams from many cultures around the world, even the animal world. An index tells where the photos were taken and provides background information and a world map pinpoints each country.
• The Bat Boy and His Violin
  By Gavin Curtis and E.B. Lewis
  Published April 1998 by Simon & Schuster Children's
  Readers age 4-8 will love the colorful illustrations that accompany the story of Reginald, a little boy who loves the violin. Reginald's father is the manager of the last-place team in the Negro Leagues until Reginald becomes the team's bat boy and his fiddling inspires a team winning streak. A great story about fathers and sons, winning and losing, and doing what you love.

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