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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a teacher but one thing I've noticed this year with my 1st grade dd is how strictly timed everything is. [b]Like even the 8 seconds that each of them have to take a drink out of the water fountain[/b] or the timing of excess cleanup time that then gets subtracted from recess. (!!!)

So the first thing that popped into my head was that the teacher might not have/make time for "extras" which is a huge shame.[/quote]

To be fair, if there's no timer on a long line of kids at water fountain, those camels will suck down a water tanker each.  During group water breaks where I teach, the kids spell out w-a-t-e-r to time each other.  Kids are free to use the classroom fountain individually whenever they want, untimed, so long as they don't linger.

That recess thing though... Shameful.  I would never do that.

OP, I don't know about your situation.  In the teacher's place, I would allow the show and tell if we had time, but we don't always have time.  And if I let one kid share, chances are there are plenty of others who have some treasure they also want to share, and it's just not always possible.  Maybe the teacher didn't have time that day, but still wanted to value DD's excitement, so she suggested she could share at recess instead of waiting for a different day.  And my kindergarten DD has no idea when people are "annoyed," so I'm not sure how much stock I would put in that.[/quote]

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