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Netherlands, 1934 Sweden, 2006 Vietnam, 2014. Recess is a general term for a period in which a group of people are temporarily dismissed from their duties.. In education, recess is the American and Australian term (known as break or playtime in the UK), where students have a mid morning snack and play before having lunch after a few more lessons.
In Germany, 10:30 a.m. is a popular time for workers who started early (like craftspeople, builders, …) to eat a snack. Most people nowadays will attribute German self-awareness of this to an advertisement for Knoppers , a type of candy, with the saying "Morgens, halb Zehn, in Deutschland…"
School days often bring back fond memories for students—like recess, favorite teachers, or the excitement of annual celebrations.But for parents, school memories can look quite different. They ...
Holiday break, a U.S. term for various school holidays; Christmas break or Winter break, a break in the winter, typically around Christmas and New Years; Spring break, a recess in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere; Summer break, a typical long break in the summertime
The end of “standing on the wall” watching recess. According to Michael Amick, principal of Bellevue Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pa., there's been a slow movement away from punitive past ...
Giving kids time outside for physical and social activity helps them get ready to learn. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesAs parents and schools seek to support students’ social ...
Recess (break), a short intermission in an activity; Recess (motion), a break in a meeting of a deliberative assembly; Alcove (architecture), part of a room; A setback (architecture) especially across all storeys (a recessed bay or series of such bays) Recess, County Galway, Ireland; a village
Mining kids’ original thoughts as a source of entertainment has a long and cute history, from Johnny Carson’s reading of school-age kids’ letters on the Tonight Show in the 1970s and Rosie O ...