Works for Me Wednesday: Scoring a Goal, FOR OUR TEAM!

I don’t know much about soccer, but that didn’t stop me from volunteering to coach a U6 (4- & 5-year-olds) team for our local homeschool soccer league.  Practice started off well.  The kids mastered the “no hands in soccer” rule relatively quickly, and in just a couple of weeks, the team went from running along-side the ball, patiently waiting for their opponent to pass them the ball, to getting in there to take the ball for themselves.

In a few weeks, our very young team was kicking, passing, and scoring… and we might have actually won a game or two, if the kids could have just remembered which goal was ours and which was the other team’s!  We scored one goal after another… for the other team!

And then I had an idea, a way to help the kids remember which way to kick, to pass, and to score for our team!  I attached a small stuffed fox to the top of the goal.  It was that simple!  Our team, the Red Foxes, started racing that ball toward the goal, the correct goal.  They scored for our team again, and again, and again… and were extremely excited to finally WIN A GAME!

Six preschoolers jumping for joy at winning a soccer game,

thanks to a little red fox attached to the top of the goal…

It works for me!

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