The Different Looks of Free Time (Thick Description)

Homework has just been handed out and one table has two students who are taking advantage of the free time to get some of their homework done.  Two students at this table are concentrated on getting as much spelling homework done as they can.  They are not wasting time looking around the room, or chatting with others at their table.  These two students only take their eyes off of their notebook paper to look for the next spelling word to write.  Two girls that sit at this table are using the time to finish up a math assignment that they need to complete in order to have recess tomorrow.  One of the girls works out a problem and then moves on to look through her Scholastic book order which happens to be sitting next to her on her desk.  While the other student working on math  is very pre-occupied with looking around the room to see what everyone else is doing.  There is yet another student at this table who has chose to use his time different from everyone else.  He has his homework out and in front of him, but is completely enamored by the mechanical pencil that he is taking apart.  It is now time to move on so I tell the class to pack up their things to get ready to leave the classroom for lunch.  One of the students that is described above who has been working hard on completing a spelling homework assignment shouts out to the other student (who was also working hard on a spelling assignment) and says "I almost finished it, I got done with one!  Then, I started another one!"