We used to play Red Rover at school--we always called Nathan Goldstein because he was little and, if you held your hands tightly, he'd just flip around your arms when he hit instead of breaking through. We also played fox and geese when there was snow on the yard of the Meeting house--I don't remember the rules, but it involved walking a big circle in the snow divided into quarters, and people running in the tracks.

My favorite was Frogger--a bizarre and unsafe take-off on the old video game. We had a playground that had 4 or 6 swings in a row, and we'd get people swinging hard on all the swings, and the rest of us had to run in between down the length of the swingset. It's a wonder nobody got their head kicked off.

Clapping games like Miss Suzy and Miss Mary Mack were all the rage when i was in second grade (?). I think the pattern we used was rights, together, lefts, together, both, together, [hands on thighs], together--"together" meaning you clap your own hands--while chanting Miss Mary Mack. Miss Suzy probably had a different clap because that one doesn't seem to fit the rhythm.