Online RSVP Activities

Can’t make it to the ‘K?’ Bring RSVP to your classroom with the activities below!

Learn about the home states of Royals players past and present with these Crossword Puzzles!

Arguably, no sport values statistics like baseball. Fantastic Facts explore the most common statistics your students see. Included in the lesson are:

• Salvador Perez Baseball Card
• Match Game - Print and cut the words and abbreviations. Have the students match the abbreviations with the words to learn eleven statistics you will see on a baseball card
• Baseball Card Questions - Use the Salvy’s statistics to learn how to read a baseball card
• Definitions Answer Key
• Grades 1-2 & 3-4 worksheets and answer key

• Match game: Print and cut the words and definitions, then have them the students match them. Discuss their matches as a class. Did everyone make the same match? Are some of the words and definitions similar?
• Have the students choose a character trait and write a paragraph on how they represent that trait.
• Some character traits feel easy to do, while others take more work. Have students write a paragraph on ways they can work on improving that trait.

Every month a fiction or non-fiction baseball book highlights a Character Connections trait. Read the book with your class, discuss the highlighted trait(s) found in the book, and answer the questions (or create your own!).

Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

By: Deborah Hopkinson with pictures by Terry Widener

Description: Inspired by the true story of Alta Weiss who at age 17 played for the semi-professional all-male Vermilion (Ohio) Independents baseball team in 1907.

Character Traits: Perseverance and Courage

Discussion questions:

• Why do John and Alta’s father call her a “Girl Wonder?” What does the term “Girl Wonder” mean to you?
• Do you think Alta should have stopped playing baseball because she was “almost a lady?” Why or why not?
• Alta was nervous the first time she pitched, have you ever been nervous the first time you tried something new or performed?
• Discuss how Alta shows perseverance and courage in the story.

Get Creative!

Have students write, talk about, or draw pictures of a time they showed courage or perseverance.

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