Sentence examples for extra recess from inspiring English sources

The second graders at the grammar school around the corner held an election — not for President, but on a ballot initiative: Should they have extra recess or extra activity time?

About a month ago, about half of the kindergarten parents signed a letter to the principal, Valerie Capitulo-Saide, asking for more unstructured time in the school day, an extra recess period and better procedures in recess.

"Rick Dissellio read a speech from Speedy, in which he promised that, if elected, he would end school early, have extra recess, and provide endless lunches of chocolate pizzandy (a local Pawnee delicacy at the time: deep fried pizza where the crust was candy bars)," she writes of the Trump-esque option.

"As teachers have become more aware of the importance of movement, we've given them more autonomy to build it into their classrooms little breaks, a little bit of extra recess, things like that," said Brian Gatens, the superintendent of the Emerson Public School system in New Jersey.

I mean, the education part is done, now it's just time to, what, watch movies, have extra-extra recess, and maybe some heavily sustained silent reading?

You could practically hose down the interior, and they designed the door handles with extra deep recesses so you could open them while wearing chunky mittens, a brilliant detail that.

Students might get an extra period of recess or gym, depending on the weather.

No, it didn't matter, and it's not going to matter as long as the Kings keep behaving with the boyish, relentless joy of those who keep fooling the teacher into giving them extra time at recess.

At Watson Elementary School in Rockville Centre, N.Y., Kate Zimmer's first grade class is busy filling out their ballots in a voting booth to decide: no homework tonight or 10 extra minutes of recess?

With the hypothesis that increasing time spent outdoors may be beneficial for the visual health of children, we included two extra 20-min recess programs five days per week among school-aged children in northeast China.

At A. W. Cox Elementary, birthdays are celebrated with an extra 15 minutes of recess, special pencils or a "birthday book club" with commemorative inserts.