PLAYGROUND PLAY

Hurting other children's feelings on the playground happens all of the time.  Johnny walks over to the basketball game and wants to play but immediately is told NO.  A reason is not given BUT perhaps if one was given like in five minutes you can play and take the place of one of us and we will rotate every five minutes. Or Lucy wants to play jump rope with some of the girls but one of the girls playing jump rope had a fight with her in the morning and DOESN'T want her playing so she speaks for the whole group and says NO.  One of the girls should have spoken up and told her that is wrong.  In these "2" incidents the Teacher needs to address each one individually and resolve them with each group of students that were in the situation and role play the correct actions to take so that next time when something like this occurs they will no the correct action to take.  Students' feelings do not need to be hurt needlessly like this on the playground it hurts their self-esteem and also affects their work when they return to their classroom.