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We luckily have a gym at out school, but during the two hour period of lunch/recess time for the 9 grades at our school, there is inevitably PE class going on at some point in the gym. It's the PE teacher's classroom, and if she's teaching class (which she is), you can't just take the kids in there and let them run around during her class time.
Indoor recess is one thing I DON'T miss now that I'm a librarian (my first year in the library). Of course, they come to my class after being indoors and they are 10 times more squirelly, but that's to be expected. ;)
V- have you noticed the return of Rubik's cubes and yo-yo's? It's hit our school big-time. The kids all love these *new* fun toys. Makes me giggle. They don't know yo-yo's are decades and decades old and the Rubik's cube is 20+ years old. ;)
I've always wondered if the recess first would make sense. I would guess it would!
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Not seeing the Rubik's cubes and yoyos here.
We tried recess first last year. The kids loved playing first, but then they really lollygagged eating their lunches. We're back to eat first.
Veronica
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I just had this conversation with my sister - her 8 year old has type 1 diabetes and even with the insulin pump, they've been having a heck of a time keeping her blood sugar under control & she's been having heart palpitations for the last month or so... Part of the problem seems to be that they haven't had recess for the last 2 months because of the temperatures (they live in Virginia). So while dealing with a cardiologist and the rest of that, my sister has been asking the teacher... why haven't they had recess because it really hasn't been that cold and I think below freezing is supposed to be the temperatures they cancel recess for...
The teacher told her to talk to the principal, because she couldn't talk about it... and the principal said that it was because about half the student body comes to school without a coat because their families can't afford it, and she wasn't going to watch kids outside at recess freezing to death. So they've decided my niece can walk around the class room for 5 mins every hour so that she can have some more exercise.
