Essays

Recess plays very important role in the learning, social development, and health of school children. Because recess is one of the few times in the school day when children can interact freely with other students. It is a valuable time in which we can observe children's social behaviors, their tendency to bully and fight, as well as their leadership and prosaically behaviors. Seeing how the students interact socially can help teachers intervene in situations involving aggression or social isolation.

Physical inactivity poses health threats for children as well as for adults. Inactivity is associated with the tripling of childhood obesity accompanied by increases in health problems such as tension and depression. The most obvious characteristic of recess is that it constitutes a break from the day's routine study. For people of all ages and in all fields, breaks are considered essential for sound health and alertness. Experimental research on memory and attention found that memory is improved when learning is spaced rather than presented all at once. The findings

are compatible with what is known about brain functioning; that attention requires periodic novelty that the brain needs downtime to recycle chemicals crucial for long-term memory formation.

Both the teachers and the students feel exhausted after working for four periods. So they eagerly wait for recess. As-soon-as the recess bell goes the students rush out of the class-room. There is much noise and laughter. Some students rush to the urinals. Some go to the water taps and some go to the school canteen. Some rush

to the play ground; some go to the library to read magazines and newspapers.

Play is an active form of learning that unites the mind, body, and spirit Children's learning occurs best when the whole self is involved. Play reduces the tension that often comes with having to achieve or needing to learn. In recess, adults do not interfere and children relax.

Children express and workout emotional aspects of everyday experiences through unstructured play. Children permitted to play freely develop skills for seeing things through another person's point of view—co-operating, helping, sharing, and solving problems. The development of children’s perceptual abilities may suffer when so much of their experience is through television, computers, books, work-sheets, and media that require only two senses. The senses of smell, touch, and taste, and the sense of motion through space are powerful modes of

learning. Children who are less restricted in their access to the outdoors games, gain competence in moving through the larger world. Developmentally, they should gain the ability to navigate their immediate environs and lay the foundation for the courage that will enable them eventually to lead their own lives.

In the present time when students are mainly engaged in viewing television serials, find little time to play, recess gives them opportunity to develop freely and they learn a lot through the playing and enjoying during recess.                

Vocabulary

1. aggression—assault, onslaught, foray; 2. compatible—in harmony, reconcilable; 3, interfere—check, block, hamper, handicap; 4. triple—triumvirate, triad, trine, trinity; 5. isolation—aloneness. solitariness, loneliness; 6. novelty—trifle, gimmick, curiosity, gimcrack; 7. competence—ability, capacity, proficiency, adeptness; 8. enable—authorize, entitle, qualify, fit; 9. recess—niche, nook, corner, cavity; 10. interfere—block, hamper, handicap, cramp; 11. depression—reactive; 12. exhaust—wear out, fatigue, drain, weary.