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Identifier: whattodoatrecess00john (find matches)
Title: What to do at recess
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, George Ellsworth, 1862-1931
Subjects: Games Schools
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Tag; ThreeDeep; Flag Race, Relay Race, Potato Race, Jump Race;Numbers Change; Little Hare; Tommy Tiddlers Ground;Where s Your Shepherd ? Singing Games : London Bridge; Farmer in the Dell;Looby Loo; I Put My Right Hand In; On the Bridge; ITook a Walk One Evening; The Gay Musician ; Greetingand Meeting; Round and Round the Village; Did You EverSee a Lassie ? (26) WHAT TO DO AT RECESS Dances : First of May (Swedish); Oxdans (Swedish); Reapthe Flax (Swedish); Mountain March (Norwegian); WashingClothes (Swedish); May Pole Dance ; Bleking ; Lott ist Todt (German). Miscellanp:()US : Duck on the Rock (with bean bags);Rolly-Pooly; Spud; Dodge Ball, Corner Ball, Keep Ball; GraceHoops; Center Base; Jump Rope; Jackstones; Kite Flying;Jumping ; W^restling ; Stick Wresding ; Tumbling; Stunts ;Blind Mans Buff; Tops; Tipcat. Track and Field Events (boys ten to twelve years ofage): Sixty-Yard Dash; Relay Race (four boys each to run220 yards); Running Broad Jump, Running High Jump,Standing Broad Jump.
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Airships (27) Ill Do not think, if you are a grammar-school teacher,that you do not need to consider the play life of yourpupils. Your girls especially need to have their playsupervised, perhaps even more than at any previousage, and your boys certainly require the best playopportunities that you can give them. If you are awoman, you especially need the advantage that wouldcome to you by interesting yourself in the play ofyour pupils. If you are a man, you will forfeit oppor-tunity, prestige, and power if you do not. Your pupils are old enough to organize, and it willbe well for them to organize in their efforts to securesome simple apparatus, such as bars, rings, ladders,swings, teeter ladders, standards, etc. By all meansencourage organization for the conduct of individualathletics (mentioned on page 22) and for the conductof group athletics (mentioned on page 23). Thisorganization may take the form that suits the size ofschool, age of pupils, and other local conditions. Itwill be f

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