We have had a lot of indoor recess over the past
few weeks due to the rainy weather. Here are some pictures to show you
what that looks like in our classroom. I am experimenting with taking
pictures with my tablet, so please excuse the lack of clarity in many of the
shots.
Some of these activities are also done during 10
minutes of free time each day. Ten minutes a day is a lot of instruction
time to give up each day. Think about it; that is almost an hour a week!
How do I justify that?
I justify it by making sure that during those 10
minutes each day, Mrs. Duhamel and I spend the time working with someone who
needs a little something extra. If you send in a note that your child did
not understand their homework or something on a test, we will probably go over
that information during free time. It is not meant as a punishment, but
as an opportunity to provide extra instruction on a confusing topic. If
someone has a difficult time keeping up with class work, they will be given
that time to work on it. Again, this is not to punish someone for working
slowly, but to give them a little extra time to catch up.
Over the course of the school year, all of your
children will have worked with the teachers at some point during free
time. Please understand that free time is not an extra recess, but rather
an additional learning time during which some children receive one-on-one or
small group instruction. I like to think of this time as a chance to give
students something extra, not a chance to take something away from them.
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