Teachers join their pupils at lunch and then have a lunch period of their own while children are at recess.
When planning your day, improvise wherever possible, like exercising while your eating at recess or studying in the library at lunch.
While their students were at recess, the teachers erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones.
He discovered his inferiority at school, noticing that the Jaiswals and Agarwals and Guptas, the children of merchants and shopkeepers, bought 2-rupee ice creams at recess, while his mohalla friends bought the 50-paise kind.
At recess, while others played vyshibaly, a Russian version of dodgeball, she passed the time walking back and forth on the curb, all alone, as if on a balance beam.
One woman began to crawl through the parted legs of another, as if a child at recess, while a third communed with the wall, splaying her limbs against its rust-colored surface.
The tobacco industry's marketing of electronic cigarettes to teenagers reminds me of the 1940s, when Big Tobacco would hire pretty girls to pass out free cigarette samples to teenagers at recess while we sat on the steps of our high school in Chicago.
I thought that if I had a boy's nickname, I too could play kickball on the dusty field at recess while all the other girls were banished to the church parking lot to jump rope.
When you pick your son up from school, avoid asking him questions like, "Did you sit alone at lunch again, honey", or "Did you stay in the classroom again at recess?" While he needs to be able to tell you the truth if he's had a hard day, he will be watching you for indications that you anticipate every day is going to be awful.
But every year, from the last week of June until the last week of August, I still can't help feeling like the kid stuck in detention while everyone else is out at recess.
