[DOWNLOAD] "Chasing Friendship: Acceptance, Rejection, And Recess Play: First-Grade Children Frequently Blurred the Line Between Acceptance and Rejection While They Worked Through Peer Relationships Within the Complex Social Web of Playground Friendships." by Childhood Education " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Chasing Friendship: Acceptance, Rejection, And Recess Play: First-Grade Children Frequently Blurred the Line Between Acceptance and Rejection While They Worked Through Peer Relationships Within the Complex Social Web of Playground Friendships.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
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"Hey! Up here!" Jeff flashed a try-and-catch-me grin and ducked inside the white plastic turret, disappearing from view. Giggling at the confusion of his pursuer on the ground below, Jeff peered down through the diagonal slots that served as windows in the playground tower. Perched on top of the largest piece of equipment on the school grounds, the lookout tower was the perfect spot for dropping handfuls of soft, shredded wood on to the unsuspecting heads of friends and foes below. Jeff's target, Kevin, crawled under the protection of a nearby slide and began digging in the thick layer of mulch with his bare hands, shoving the dusty bark chips into soft rounded mounds, stockpiling ammunition. Meanwhile, Jeff waited, nestled inside the tower, hidden from view and protected from the intermittent bursts of wind that swirled across the playground. From his vantage in the circular tower, Jeff could scan the entire playground for potential allies: at the center of the L-shaped playground, clumps of 1st-graders swatted balls toward each other on various lettered or numbered four-square grids that dotted the large blacktop circle. Surrounding this expanse of grayed asphalt, wide patches of exposed dirt spread out into tawny grass not yet worn away by the erosive force of hundreds of sneakers. Squealing children twirled and dropped from steel and vinyl equipment sets that sprouted up out of islands of mushroom-colored wood chips. A few children seeking a private space or a hiding place tucked themselves in the nooks under plastic slides or, like Jeff, inside the protection of the lookout tower.