Teamwork isn't My Thing, and I Don't Like to Share!

Teamwork isn't My Thing, and I Don't Like to Share! by Julia Cook

TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More

Share this story with kids in grades K though 6 before assigning the next group project Strengthen social and emotional learning and help kids learn to interact with each other in positive and constructive ways. Four simple steps each for using the social skills of teamwork and sharing are presented in rhyme so they are easy for listeners to recall when needed.

RJ's having another bad day. His teacher wants him to work with Bernice, Frankie, and Norma on a report about Egyptian mummies. After a frustrating school day with his team, RJ goes home to find only one cookie left in the jar - and his mom makes him share it with his sister With the help of his coach, RJ learns that working as a team and sharing are skills needed not just on the soccer field, but in school and at home too

This is the fourth storybook in Julia Cook's BEST ME I Can Be book series, which teaches children that social skills can make home life happier and school more successful.

The BEST ME I Can Be book series also includes:

• The WORST Day of My Life EVER
• I Just Don't Like the Sound of NO
• SORRY, I Forgot to Ask
• I Just Want to Do It MY WAY
• THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK... (I THINK?)
• I Can't Believe You SAID That

Julia Cook works as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Youth Research Centre. Her publishing and research interests are on the sociology of youth, time, risk and uncertainty, and religion.