🧒Two teams of five play.

⚽They put the ball in the hoop.

🧑‍🏫James Naismith was a teacher. In 1891 he made up the game.

❄️It was a game to play inside in the winter.

🏫It began at a school in Springfield.

🧺The first hoops were peach baskets hung ten feet up.

⚽The first games used a soccer ball.

⚽No running with the ball. Throw it where you got it.

🧺A person by each basket got the ball out.

🏫The game spread fast to other schools.

Words to know

• hoop: a ring
• teacher: a school helper
• baskets: woven boxes