Object: a basketball

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like to play sports? What sports do you like? (Allow them to name 4 or 5) Those are a lot of fun. But do you know what's not fun? Getting picked last for a team. Before we play games like basketball, or soccer, or football, we have to choose people to be on our team. And it hurts our feelings if we are not picked right away to be on somebody's team. We feel sad. We all want to know that we are accepted, that people like us and want to have us around. And it hurts when w…