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Indoor "Recessitation", Grades 1-2
Have Loads of Recess Fun! Pick an activity below!
Activities Using the Internet
- There's a Big Library for you on the Information Highway!
We know you like to go to the library in your school and community to pick
out good books. You should also visit the Internet Public Library
It's fun to do at home and also when you can't go outside for recess-and
anytime!
At this library can learn to say hello in more than 2,700 different languages.
Can you read that number? See if you can find all those "hellos,"
Then, with your friends, try saying lots of different "hellos"
to everyone. At home, your parents will be soooo impressed with how you
know lots of languages!
If you have time, you'll want to try some of the other fun activities at
the Internet Public Library. You could stay there for days and weeks, even!
- Help Curious George Solve a Problem....
Travel on the Internet to see Curious
George and play the hat game with him.
- Write a creepy story...
Try Houghton Mifflin's Wacky
Web Tales. Get some help writing a very strange story.
- Can your dog count? Can you?
For lots of arf arf and woof woof, go to Blue
Dog Can Count. Watch Blue Dog bark out the correct answers! Blue Dog
can help you learn your math facts, too. You and your friends will just
love Blue Dog!
- Go to the Little Planet.
On the Internet you'll find the Little
Planet Magazine where you can read stories, do lots of activities,
and learn about good books.
- Meet monsters who love math....
Monster
Math is a fun place where the monsters pop up to do math puzzles with
you. See if you can count their toes and heads and fingers and eyes and
....
- Do you like sports?
If you like sports and games about sports, use your computer to go to Sports Illustrated for Kids. At this
special sports place on the Information Highway, you can find out about
lots of sports and solve some puzzles, too. Try the tile puzzles.
- Join Winnie the Pooh Online.
Winnie
the Pooh and Friends is a place on the Internet where you can take
an "expotition" through the "hundred aker wood"; find
a Pooh coloring book; send in your Pooh pictures; and dress up like Pooh
characters, take your picture and send it to the Pooh site. You can your
friends will have a great time creating costumes for dressing up like Pooh
friends.
- Frogs, frogs, and more frogs. What an amphibian?
If you simply love those little hopping creatures, you'll enjoy World of Amphibians.
There are more frogs and amphibians there than you can ever imagine. Invite
you friends to join you on a "froggy field trip" to find lots
of froggy pictures and their voices, too!
- Go on a Recess Field Trip
You can certainly fool your mom and dad when you tell them you went to
the White House with your friends during recess or maybe you took a trip
to a beautiful National Park. Trips on the computer are called Virtual
Field trips. Use your imagination when you travel. Here are some terrific
places to visit during recess:
White House
Mount
Rushmore
The National Parks
The Arctic
Classroom Activities
(can be used with and without computers)
- The Spelling Teachers
You and a group of your classmates will be Spelling Teachers during recess.
Make a list of all your spelling words. Mix up the letters in the funniest
ways you and your friends can think of. Take turns writing each mixed-up
word on the chalkboard. Check the words and make sure you have all the
letters in each word. If you have time, with paper and markers, make some
awards that say, BEST SPELLER or BEST MIXED-UP SPELLER. Be very neat when
you make the awards.
Invite your classmates to figure out what the words are and write the correct
ones on the chalkboard. See how long it takes for your classmates to figure
out the mixed-up words. Give your awards to the winners. If you still have
more recess time, make up some more spelling games using words from your
reading.
Although we know you'll love using the chalkboard when you are the Spelling
Teacher, you can also use the computer to write down you crazy spellings!
We know you love the computer, too!
- Our Class
Write down the names of all the people near you in the classroom. Make
the list on your computer or on paper. Go to each person on your list and
find out something they like to do. Maybe it's playing baseball, reading
a book, helping with a baby sister, or cooking? Then, with a computer paint
program or on a big piece of paper, draw pictures of your classmates doing
their favorite things. Write something really nice about each person under
the drawings.
- Pets
Go around your classroom and discover what types of pets each student in
your class likes. Make a list on paper or on your computer. Have some friends
help you find out how many people have dogs, cat, birds, no pets, etc.
Make new lists showing the people who have dogs, the people who have cats,
the people who have fish, and so on. Some people will be on more than one
list, and some people will not have any pets at home. The people who don't
have pets at home can put their names on the lists with the animals they
prefer.
If you have lots of Indoor Recesses during a week, you and your friends
might get together to write some stories and plays about pets. You can
draw pictures of them, and you can even put them in your school clothes
in your pictures! With a partner, you might make some slide shows about
pets on your computer.
- Young Scientists
It's always fun to observe the birds outside your school and school windows.
If you can put up a bird feeder that you can see from your room, during
Indoor Recesses, you'll be able to observe what birds come to your feeder.
Of course, you'll have to remember to keep feed in your feeder. You'll
especially enjoy watching the birds with a pair of binoculars. Especially
notice what types of beaks the birds have, what they like to eat, their
size, and colors.
Using your computer or paper, draw pictures of the birds that visit your
feeder. Look up information on feathery visitors and learn their names
and bird calls. You can record the calls on your computer, too.
- Just Chatting
Lots of times it's fun to just sit on the floor and chat with your classmates.
See if you can find someone in your room whom you don't know very well.
Invite that person and maybe some others to chat with you.
What do you talk about? Talk about school projects, sports, pets, using
computers, helping projects you can do together-whatever. By chatting,
you can find something interesting about everyone in your class. You might
want to make a list on your computer of all the people you've chatted with.
Write something nice about each person, print out the list, and share it
with everyone.
- Helping
Ask the teacher if you can help in any way during recess. Your teacher
may like you to count papers, hand out worksheets, straighten bookshelves,
water the flowers, write a thank you note to someone who helped your class,
plan a party, erase the chalkboard, help others with using computers, teach
somebody something, run an errand, help a new student meet everyone in
the class, etc. It's so much fun and so important to help!
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