Recess duty as a teacher goes one of two ways: quietly uneventful or filled with stories to share later. From my mere two days outside this last week before break, the highlights are:
Interaction 1: I hear, “I’m having a baby!” I turn around to say something, when the student corrects, “I’m a rat having a baby!” Interaction 2: Chalk writing on the side of the building says: Goodrich (another school). The nearest students try to convince me we have invaders, are under attack, and must call police for backup. Interaction 3: After talking to a student about crossing the bike path to get balls, I walk away. Thinking of something I forgot to say, I turn around and poke him directly in the eye. Of course, he’s a student who is convinced I have now blinded him. We walk to the nurse together. Interaction 4: A student asks me to push him on the swing, which is against our recess rules (safety of kids getting hit while pushing). He’s one of our ELs in 1st grade, who did not have swings at his school in Nigeria. I teach him to pump his legs. Interaction 5: I remind a group of students we can’t play “kill” anything at school. They counter that they are scientists doing experiments on rats. The rats keep escaping, therefore they must be injected with sleep serum to return them to their cages. (Interaction 1 now makes more sense.) Interaction 6: I see a new chalk message on the sidewalk. It reads: I love broing. I interpret this to mean “I love bro-ing.” As in “Hey, bro!” “What’s up, Bro?” or “Woah, bro, you can’t do that.” Then again… two of the smiling suns are crossed off. So perhaps they don’t actually love the bro-ing?
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Lisa Goldman
3/25/2023 08:19:47 am
Never a dull moment at recess!!!
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Elyse Kizior
3/25/2023 12:30:26 pm
Love all of these, especially broing! Never a dull moment on recess duty.
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Melanie White
3/25/2023 02:33:32 pm
The format that you chose here suits the eclectic nature of these interactions and your use of short sentences effectively demonstrate the choices a teacher has to make on recess duty. And that picture had me creating stories in my head and chuckling at the many interpretations! I'm so glad that I stumbled across your post today!
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