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!