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258 Reading: The Sport of Champions!
Audio Recordings
“Going Bass Fishing” on Anna Moo Crackers by Anna Moo.
“Gonna Fly Now” (Theme from Rocky) on Rocky: Original Motion Picture Score by Bill Conti,
et. al.
“Kids in Motion” on Kids in Motion by Greg and Steve.
“The Sports Song” on Big Rock Rooster by Daddy a Go Go.
Riddles and Jokes
Q. Why was the tennis player asked to leave the library?
A. Because he was making a racquet!
Q. Why did the chicken cross the playground?
A. To get to the other slide!
Q. Did you hear the joke about the jump rope?
A. Oh, skip it!
Reader’s Theater Scripts
Use the script for “Jack Climbs to the Top of a Very Tall Vegetable and Finds a Very Large
Individual with an Attitude Problem” from Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured
Folktales for Readers Theater by Anthony D. Fredericks, available through netLibrary, a
Texshare resource, to tell the story about a former NBA player and a bean stalk. This book also
includes a script for “Cinderella Visits the Shoe Store and Gets a Pair of Air Jordans.”
Stories
The Jogging Gingerbread Boy
(Traditional. Adapted by Jeanette Larson.)
There once was an old man and an old woman who lived in a little old house on the edge of
town. They would have been a very happy except they had no child, and they wanted one very
much. One day, when the little old woman was baking, she decided to make a cookie in the
shape of a little boy. She stretched the dough, and bent the dough, and pulled it in several
directions. Then she popped the cookie into the oven. After awhile, she went to the oven to see
if the cookie was baked. As soon as the oven door was opened, the little gingerbread boy
jumped out, and began to run away as fast as his legs would carry him.
The little old woman called her husband, and they both started running after him. However, they
could not catch him. Soon the gingerbread boy came to a schoolyard, filled with girls jumping
rope. He called out to them as he went by, yelling: “I've run away from a little old woman, a
little old man, and I can run away from you, I can!” The girls set down their ropes and ran after
the gingerbread boy. But, though they ran fast, they could not catch him.