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Primary school children have free time for play at various times during the school day. This includes both recess and lunchtime. The children use this time for various activities which have varied greatly over time. The weather and time of year is another factor. In good weather there are all kinds of playground games. This varies sasonally. Modern boys are enchanted with hand-held electronic modern games. In the West we began to see these games in the eary 1980s. I'm not sure when they appeared in Russia. They fit in easily to the school day. As they are a good diversion when the children can go outside. They can be played individually or competitively. As they can be played in just a few minutes or easily put on hold if time runs out and taken up later. While the boys are mesmerized by the games, the girls couldn't care less about them.
Primary school children have free time for play at various times during the school day. This includes both recess and lunchtime.
The weather and time of year is another factor. In good weather there are all kinds of playground games. This varies sasonally. Russan children are used to and prepared for cold weather. Thus snow and cold does not deter them. A Russian reader writes in 2009, "Children play out most days here in Russia. It does not matter what the weather is they play out. They change from indoor school clothes and wrap up in warm outdoor clothes. At the moment theseare ski suits which are thick water proof garments. There has only been one day when the children did not play out. It was too cold, even for Russian children to venture outside.
The only children who do not go out are ones who have been sick and bring notes from their parents requesting permisson for their child to stay indoors during the lunch break. (The children involved are to happy about this because of all the fun outdoors.)
The children use their free time for various activities which have varied greatly over time.
The games they play include chasing tag activities that invarabnly have children rolling about in the snow. The slide is changed in to a toboggan slope. The children line up with a hard plastic seat. This they sit on and hold the hand grip, push off and slide down onto the snow and then slidealong a good few yards before coming to a stop. Several children have learnt how to link themselves together so they go down in a group. This is great fun. The teacher on duty is often needed to keep thechildren safe until they have got themselves in position for the ski run.
Other children have a large circle plastic dish which they sit in and this slides down theski slope. Some children make this circle plastic tray twirl around as it goes down the slope. This is an added thrill.
Meanwhile on the back field the PE teacher instructs the children who have brought their skis how to do this activity. This is very popular with all ages of children. Other boys enjoy finding large slabs of ice and throwing them against a wall to break theminto smaller pieces. There might be others making snowmen or rolling snow into large boulders." The children do stay indoors for rainy weather. Modern boys are enchanted with hand-held electronic modern games. In the West we began to see these games in the eary 1980s. I'm not sure when they appeared in Russia. They fit in easily to the school day. As they are a good diversion when the children can go outside. They can be played individually or competitively. As they can be played in just a few minutes or easily put on hold if time runs out and taken up later. While the boys are mesmerized by the games, the girls couldn't care less about them. The issue of the Soviet/Russian computer industry is one HBC hs begun to consider.
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