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Baseball Biographies
By karen

I have kids use empty two litre bottles to make a model of a baseball player. They fill the bottle with water and cap it. Then they attach a head and decorate the bottle to look like the player of their choice. They also
have to write a biography of their player.
In another lesson, I use the famous "whose on first" routine from Abbot and Costello. I find a version on the web, print the routine and have the kids listen to it. You really understand the importance of punctuation from this routine and the kids love it!
Another thing I do is have every kid pick a team, make a pennant and follow the stats

of the team. We use the paper (or I go online and print them) about once a week. It helps kids with positive and negative numbers, averages and besides, it's lots of fun! Also, go online and look up a player each day (the national site is pretty good). I have the kids read about the player and then they make a comic.