Soccer Fun and Games
From Mister Rogers' Neighborhood · 1989
28 minPre-KK1st2nd3rdSocial-Emotional LearningHealth
Summary
Mister Rogers visits a soccer field, where Coach Dave Bartholomae and his players teach him the rules and let him try. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel Striped Tiger listens to his friends talk about soccer and feels left out — the part of this episode most classrooms will want to talk about.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Learning a new game — and what to do when a friend is on the outside of it.
- What rules of soccer did Mister Rogers learn?
- How could you tell Daniel was feeling left out?
- What is one thing a friend could have said or done to include him?
- When have you felt left out? What helped?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: soccer, rules, teammate, included, left out.
Try it: Write or draw one way to invite someone into a game at recess.
Try it: List two rules that make a game fair for everybody.