Recess As Curriculum!
2009 February 26
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We might be able to, were it not for the ambulance-chasers who pounce on every playground injury as if it were a vessel containing the nectar of the gods. I heard the other day of a strict “no running on the playground” policy that is being instituted at one elementary school. Huh?
qb, father of three t3stost3ron3-fu3l3d boyz
Duh, that is like saying a person does better work, after getting some sleep.
Great article.
All school work and no play makes Jack a fat boy!
I’ve questioned this myself. We had a recess time for about 20 minutes in the morning and a lunch time recess for about 20 minutes. Our time at school was longer than now. But it didn’t seem that way. The bus brought us about 20 minutes before school began too. That social time, to get it out of your system before study time made you feel more adult at an early age. You knew you had to change your thought process according to where in the day you were at. By the tinme we were in high school we had open campus at lunch time. We could go to the cafeteria, home, or a fast food place by the school. It was all choices. And we knew we had to return to the class room at a certain time and everyone did. We directed our lives and if we stayed in the boundaries all went well. When someone stepped outside the line, they were punished. So goes life.
As a third grade teacher, I would add a hearty AMEN! And if we could arrange for all sunny days with outdoor recess, that would be even better!
A body needs to hear the word, “Recess!” whatever the age.
As a retired Texas elementary teacher who is now back part-time tutoring kids for the TAKS test, I can tell you that it’s TAKS, TAKS, TAKS, all the time!! It’s the name of the game from August through April testing dates. Recess is and will be a casualty as long as Tx. schools are RULED by this test!!! (Now there’s a hot topic for you, Mike!!)
this is a no-brainer! Adults call it coffee break. All ages need to unwind every few hours even for 15 minutes.
A good friend and excellent preacher is happy to allow his sermons to be put on CD and DVD, but refuses to let them be put online. When I asked him why, he told me that the fastest growing church in the world is the one that stays at home on Sunday.
Parents need recess, too!!
I love it. About time we see more common sense being proven with research.
And ee. We have the same problem in Alabama. You teach what is tested and unfortunately there is no test for recess.
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Wait a second? They don’t have recess anymore?
What kinda Commie schools are we sending our kids to?!?!?
I really didn’t know schools had nixed recess.
I know I function better with a recess included in my day!
Indeed. More recess is a good thing.
Without recess kids don’t learn as well.
Tomorrow, thousands of children across the great state of Texas will walk into classrooms with drab, papered-over walls and spend the day either slaving over a bunch of standardized paper – having spent most of the previous several months preparing to do that with other stacks of standardized paper, ad nauseum – and then, if they finish early, they will put their heads on their desks instead of being allowed to go outside for fresh air, read a book, draw, write, or anything else. Their parents may bring them lunch, but they cannot stay to eat it with them.
This, qb is sorry to say, is the “kinda schools we are sending our kids to.” And there are so many unspoken messages buried in the whole thing, it gives me hives.
q TAKS-adverse b
BTW, please delete the word “either” from line 2. Now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
qb
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said it best – “The training of children is a profession where we must know how to waste time in order to save it”