The Soccer Star: The Sally Rippin Holiday Program

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Read with Sally!

What kind of sports do YOU like? Billie B Brown likes soccer, and Jack likes ballet. There are all kinds of sports you can do to stay healthy!

PUSH PLAY!

Who is feeling ener getic today?

I am! I’m feeling as bouncy as a jumping jelly bean.

There are so many ways we can keep fit at home and I’m super excited to introduce yo u to my friend Barry, whose job it is to help pe ople stay fit.

Even little people like his daughter, Ta raji! Isn’t she adorable?

Do you have a favourite sport? I don’ t really watch much sport, but I do like to read. If I wear my tracksuit pants while reading a book, could that be counted as a sport?

See you next week!

Lots of love,

Sally

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PUSH PLAY!

Have you read The Soccer Star yet?

Why don’t you read along with Sally and see if you can finish it by yourself!

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Words are made up of parts called syllables. Each syllable has a vowel sound. A fun way to count syllables is to clap as you read each word.

Bat: 1 syllable (1 clap)

LILA! and drew this

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Here are some examples:

Meet

Lila is 7

TEACHER APPROVED

Monkey: 2 syllables (2 claps) Forever: 3 syllables (3 claps) See if you can clap the syllables for these words from The Soccer Star. Write down how many syllables each word has.

picture of Billie B Brown!

Billie B Brown Lila’s favourite Parade! book is The Hat

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soccer syllables

playground syllables

happy

bell syllables

banana syllables

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sad syllables

anymore syllables

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Billie is a soccer star. What are some sports

Today you are going to be a Billie B Brown detective!

You are looking for words that have ‘sh’ in them.

When you see

that you are good at? List them below.

TEACHER APPROVED ACTIVITY

s and h together they make a new sound – ‘sh’.

Write down as many ‘sh’ words as you can find in the book The Soccer Star.

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I found this many different words starting with ‘sh’:

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‘Every lunchtime they play on the monkey bars together.

Billie hangs upside down … They can see the whole playground from there. It is a good place to eat lunch.’

TEACHER APPROVED ACTIVITY

When we read books we pick up on patterns that authors use for their writing. We can use these patterns to help us become fantastic writers too! For this activity we are going to innovate on the book The Soccer Star. See if you can choose new words to fill in the gaps in this passage of text to make it your own. Get creative and see if you can use some interesting words. At the end, read the text out loud to make sure your new version makes sense.

Original passage of text:

Draw a map of your school’s playground. Where do you and your friends play? Draw yourself on the map playing with your friends.

Map of my school playground

Today a boy from their grade runs over. His name is Sam. Sam stands under the monkey bars and looks up at Billie and Jack.

Your turn! First, choose the names of your characters. Then fill in the gaps to create your own story.

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from their grade over. name is .

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TEACHER APPROVED ACTIVITY

Sally’s FUN facts about

SOCCER! rrible at When I was a little girl I was te – just ballet, but pretty good at soccer n fast like Billie B Brown! I liked to ru dI and kick a ball, so my friends an really started a soccer team. None of us evision followed soccer games on the tel e rules, and we didn’t understand all th but we had fun anyway!

What is your favourite sport?

There are so many amazing sports to choose from, but soccer is by far the most popular around the world and in lots of places it’s called FOOTBALL. I decided to find out some more about soccer so I looked up some fun facts to share with you.

DID YOU KNOW? Fact #1 Soccer is a sport play ed between two teams of eleven player s. It is played by 250 MILLION PLAYER S in over 200 countries, making it th e world’s most popular sport. Amazin g!

Fact #2 No-one knows exactly when soccer was created, bu t some people believe a versio n of soccer was played in C hina over 2000 YEARS AGO. W ow!

Fact #4

Fact #3

The first soccer balls were made from sewn-up clothing that was filled with little stones. Ouch! In Europe during the Middle Ages, soccer balls were made from inflated pig bladders. Ew!

Women started playing soccer around the same time as men did in England, but people used to think it was only a game for men.

What? Luckily, women’s soccer started to become very popular in the 1990s.

SOCCER STARS: • Who has the most Olympic soccer wins? The US women’s soccer team! They have won four out of five possible gold medals. Go team!

• The only player to ever score in three different world cups is David Beckham. David Beckham became famous when he played with Manchester United. Cool!

• Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has the most World Cup Championships. He was on the teams that won the World Cup back in 1958, 1962 and 1970. He helped Brazil with three of their five World Cup championships.

And he was voted the 20th century’s best soccer player.

Awesome!

Fact #5

An international soccer game is 90 minutes long.

The 90 minutes is divided in two 45-minute halves.

Hooray!

How to write a

GOOD STORY Hi there!

In the past t wo issues, Billie B Brown aut hor Sally Rippin shared her tip s on how to write the beginnin g and the middle o f a good sto ry. In the final par t of this thre e-part series, she of fers advice o n how to end a story.

HURRAY!

How did you go with giving your character a BIG PROBLEM? Did you work out how to get them out of trouble again? Good! This is the simplest way to write a story:

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You might even want to write your story like a comic. I did this a lot and it’s a great way to create stories if writing is a bit tricky for you. Even stick figure comics are fine! You can make lots of them really quickly that way, especially if you have lots of great ideas.

Invent a character.

Give them a BIG PROBLEM that they have to sort out.

Don’t make it too easy for them to fix the problem. Make them ory fail a few times to make the st aders more exciting. We want our re to keep turning the pages!

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There are lots of things you might want to add to your story. You might want to illustrate it. You might want to turn it into a book. I used to make lots of books when I was young, just by folding up bits of paper. Usually I would make a fancy cover, too. Be careful, though – sometimes I would spend so much time on the cover that I wouldn’t feel like writing my story!

Find a solution to the problem.

Of course, if you w ant to be good at an ything, you know what you have to d o, don’t you? That’ s right. PRACTISE I’ve been practisin ! g writing stories fo r over forty years and some days it is still hard work. But I keep on trying.

And you should, to o.

GOOD LUCK!

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Barry!

Barry’s daughter,

Meet Barry! He’s made a fabulous video with his TOP 5 TIPS for staying active!

Barry Don was born in Kenya, but came to live in Australia nearly five years ago. Since then he has been working as a personal trainer, but his most important job is Papa to Taraji who is only two years old.

What is your favourite thing that you and Taraji like to do when you are not working?

We love racing together on our scooters.

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hey are Bananas – t ive us also g d n a y m m u y gy. lots of ener

What is your and Taraji’s favourite book?

Billie B Brown’s Animal Hospital Adventure! Taraji loves all the animals and making the sound of the ambulance.

What is the best exer cise we can do while we are at hom e to stay fit?

Keep active by making fu n obstacle courses at hom e or in your backyard! For ex ample, see how many handstands and cartwheel s you can do in a row!

There are lots of ways we can stay fit and healthy.

Let’s meet Barry and his daughter Taraji – they’re going to show us some super-dooper fun exercises!

Taraji!

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QUIZ!

How well do YOU know the Billie B Brown book,

The Soccer Star?

Take this quiz to find out!

1 How many freckles does Billie have?

6 In Chapter Two, where does Billie wait for Jack?

2 In The Soccer Star, what does the B in Billie B Brown stand for?

7 What are Jack, Benny and Sam going to make for their project?

3 Fill in the gap! Every lunchtime, Billie and Jack play on the ________ bars together.

8 _Circle the right answer: Ella and Tracey are …

4 While Billie and Jack eat lunch, a boy from their grade runs over. What is his name?

5 Circle the right answer: Sam thinks girls can’t play … basketball music soccer cards cricket

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9 What does Billie ask Jack to bring to the park?

10 Fill in the gaps! In Chapter Four, the new soccer player wears a red _______ and red _______ socks.

Answers 1. Fifteen (see page 1) 2. Brave (see page 2) 3. Monkey (see page 4) 4. Sam (see page 6) 5. Soccer (see page 7) 6. By the water taps (see page 13) 7. A soccer field (see page 15) 8. Best friends (see page 19) 9. His soccer ball and his red cap (see page 32) 10. A red cap and red stripy socks (see page 36)

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Next Week

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Y R A I AD

We are going to ask Sally a whole heap of questions …

Billie B Brown does!

Sometimes it’s fun to look back and see how much you have grown up!

What was her favourite book growing up?

The best thing that happened this week was

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This week, I have been reading

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Something that made me smile was

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The funniest joke I have heard is

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If I could have a superpower, it would be

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What other books or f d n e m m o c re e h s s e o d Billie B Brown fans?

If she could have ANY super power, what would it be?

And much more!

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Have you read the three brand new Billie B Brown books yet?

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You might have some of these Billie B Brown books in your bookcase, or they might be available as an ebook to borrow from your local library!

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Billie B Brown books can be found where all good books are sold. While it’s a bit tricky to get to the shops at the moment, we recommend checking if your local bookstore is doing delivery,

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or look up any of the fabulous Australian retailers who sell books online.

We are going to profile a different bookseller every week!

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Well, there is a very funny series called

Real Pigeons all about crime-fighting pigeons …! Maybe it could be your next book to curl up with? After you’ve finished all the Billie B Brown books, of course!

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CLICK HERE! Dymocks have loved Billie since she first published, 10 years ago!

‘I love the Billie B Brown books. Billie is such a fun and engaging character and her super-dooper everyday adventures are the perfect stories to encourage kids to read by themselves. They’ll be hooked in no time!’

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Let’s keep in touch. Email us!

Do you have questions? Suggestions? Maybe you just want to send us a picture of a butterfly!

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