Report from the Front:
As a music teacher, I sometimes have playground duty at my school. We're in a fairly tame part of the world, so it's usually a pleasure, just walking around, enjoying the fresh air, chatting with the kids. Just this week I saw a bevy of 6-year old girls swinging a long jumprope and chanting "Cinderella dressed in yella
went upstairs to kiss a fella
How many kisses did she get" etc.
Over on the swings a small boy "swang" as high as he could. When he was all the way back, he was completely in shade. When he was all the way forward, the sun sparkled all around him. I heard him singing "Sun.......shade.....sun......shade"
Hand-clapping games such as "Miss Mary Mack" usually take place on the bus or indoors on rainy days. But the games live on!