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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 slide along 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 the children 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. Little kids switch interests quickly and go through a series of activities.
Girls do not seem interested in electronic games, but they definitely are interested in mobile telephones. Girls like these at aged 8 , 9 . A teacher tells us, "This is the age my girls are. They like then not so much as to text each other but as a music ipod. They were swopping tunes with each other the other day.
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. A teacher tells us, "Computer games are popular and my boys have the play station linked to their TV. It is a multimedia centre and allows you to switch from games to TV broadcasts. video films and photographs and music audio channels."
The games they play during the winter include chasing tag activities that invarabnly have children rolling about in the snow.
A teacher tells us, "One boy was in the play ground yesterday walking round reading his Harry Potter book. It is in Russian. That was a lovely sight to see a games boy player enjoying a book."
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 the children 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.
There might be others making snowmen or rolling snow into large boulders."
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.
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