In our home we don't usually follow sports religiously. (The exception is the University of Utah football. I love the Utes!) Hotch loves sports especially baseball and football and he always seems to know what is going on. To this day I have never watched the World Series or Super Bowl. Since I've made it this long I'm sure I can go the rest of my life without ever watching them. BUT...
Everything changes when it comes to the World Cup!
We live for World Cup! I watch every single game unless something really important comes up. Otherwise I am glued to the screen for about a month every four years. Hotch and I get so stoked to get our World Cup on. This is serious business in our home. We always make up brackets and root for our favorite teams. Personally I believe I out did myself with our huge wall bracket. We are mapping out the entire World Cup outcomes! Wish my photos did it more justice. It's okay to be jealous you don't have a huge World Cup bracket on your wall. Not everyone can be so awesome!
In order to get my kids pumped up for all the World Cup games I have printed out flags from each nation and we will research all of their locations, cultures, etc. We also have some fun activity sheets on the history of the World Cup and on the countries competing this year. Braxton is really interested in the past World Cup winners and has his own little system set up to record World Cup stats. We have been talking about the past host countries and will be spending quite some time learning about Brazil.
Here is a great link to some amazing World Cup printables.
My kids are so into watching soccer (football) this year which makes this World Cup that much more exciting! I love hearing them cheer and the explosions of joy or anger when a goal is made. Makes it such a blast!
Braxton and Delaney created their own game of soccer using Brax's Super Mario Bros. chess pieces. It was adorable and very competitive.
Here's the bracket we used to map our World Cup predictions. We might make a second bracket after the Group Stage to better predict what the outcome may be. Who knows we might have great brackets right now.
In order to get my kids pumped up for all the World Cup games I have printed out flags from each nation and we will research all of their locations, cultures, etc. We also have some fun activity sheets on the history of the World Cup and on the countries competing this year. Braxton is really interested in the past World Cup winners and has his own little system set up to record World Cup stats. We have been talking about the past host countries and will be spending quite some time learning about Brazil.
Here is a great link to some amazing World Cup printables.
My kids are so into watching soccer (football) this year which makes this World Cup that much more exciting! I love hearing them cheer and the explosions of joy or anger when a goal is made. Makes it such a blast!
Braxton and Delaney created their own game of soccer using Brax's Super Mario Bros. chess pieces. It was adorable and very competitive.
Not sure what the outcome of the World Cup will be this year, but here in the Hotchkiss home we are stoked to find out! If you want to find us over the next month just check the World Cup schedule. We'll be avoiding the world and glued to each match for the duration of the World Cup!
If your interested in getting your World Cup on too then check out the official FIFA website or print this PDF World Cup Schedule to find out when your favorite countries compete. (NOTE: Brazil is one hour ahead of EST.)
You can watch every match live streaming for free on Univision. Look for the video link with the countries playing along with the word gratis (free) or find the match link that says ver partidos en vivo (watch matches live).
(NOTE: Everything will be in Spanish. We don't mind hearing the announcers speak Spanish the entire time because we are here to watch the games. Hotch just pointed out that the only important word is GOALLLLL and that's the same in English and Spanish.)
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