Recess Time

No matter how much a student loves a particular subject, or how accomplished they are at it, they always love to take a break for recess! Since I've been subbing at the elementary schools again, I've had times when I was on watching recess duty. I've noticed that the kids play pretty much the same games that I played when I was in elementary school! Kickball, foursquare, tetherball, and soccer. I was great at tetherball when I was about ten years old. Except for the time I swung at the ball, missed, and got hit - smack on the side of my face by the ball! That one stung for sure! But I can have a sort of "recess" in my tutoring sessions as well. I always have a learning game planned for the day, and I cycle through my list of games so the kids don't get bored with one in particular. They really like the "cup game", where I hide words or math equations inside red Solo cups and they have to get three cups right three times without getting "ZONK!...