Hide and Seek

In the school where I teach, there are classes for the equivalent of junior’s in high school where they get to choose a sports option. We offer a dozen or so choices, and one of them is “Playground games.” It’s just for fun, and the older kids enjoy playing like they did when they were smaller. For our last class, I proposed to play hide and seek. Otherwise known (for me at least) as “watching over the student’s bags while they get lost in the woods.” I think they had fun. I wouldn’t know. I was watching their bags.

I took a photo of the park where we were playing. It was really ideal, because the kids had lots of hiding places and we always timed the end of the game so that everyone knew when they had “won” and could come out from hiding. I mean, it was planned, and we had rules and stuff. But most of the class I was laughing to myself because I had no real idea where my students were.

It’s also interesting playing with smartphones (which they used to time the end of the game), because some of the kids just telephoned their friends and listened for their phone to ring (if they hadn’t turned off the ringer.)

We did a bunch of variants but it was just really, really silly. And fun.