[Today’s run: 3.75]<\/p>\n
Recent events had me thinking about my elementary school days.<\/p>\n
I started school at Longfellow Elementary, which is long gone.\u00a0 We were bused in from the suburbs to this “inner city” school.<\/p>\n
Kindergarten –\u00a0 I think my teacher was Mrs. Keller ?\u00a0 I’m not sure about that name.\u00a0 I remember taking naps on the floor and having the letters of the alphabet on big cards up on the wall.\u00a0 I remember that Randy Harvey started our class a couple of weeks late…\u00a0 he was “the new boy”\u00a0 for a little while.<\/p>\n
First Grade – I don’t remember my teacher’s name.\u00a0 I remember that I had a problem that year with warts on my fingers.\u00a0 So on a few occasions I went to class with bandaged fingers.\u00a0 I had a friend, Glennis Yeager. She lived not too far from me and I remember going over to her house a couple of times.\u00a0 She had a dog named Snoopy.<\/p>\n
Second Grade – My teacher was Mrs. Noyes.\u00a0 I remember that because she said to spell it like “no – yes” but it sounded like noise.\u00a0 I remember that we read a book in class “Tan – story of a wild dog”, and she let me take the book home on weekends and read ahead.<\/p>\n
Third Grade – We had two teachers, two classes put together.\u00a0 I think one of them was Mrs. Thompson, not sure about that.\u00a0 I started piano lessons too.<\/p>\n
Fourth Grade – Mrs. Machessney (?)\u00a0 I can say it but I don’t remember how to spell it.\u00a0 I had a friend named Jimmy Moseby.\u00a0 He was a character.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the girls in my class was Karen Clay.\u00a0 She told me her cousin was Cassius Clay\u00a0 (I wasn’t sure who that was).\u00a0 This was the memory which is connected to recent events. I think this was the year when we had square dancing in the lunchroom\/gym.\u00a0 And one time we all lined up (in the gym again) and got vaccinated for something, with air guns.<\/p>\n
Fifth Grade – I started at the new school down the street from my house.\u00a0 No more school bus!\u00a0 Mrs. Sharp.\u00a0 Mrs. Sharp liked to wear low cut dresses (or so they seemed to me).\u00a0 One of the kids in my class was very good at swearing.\u00a0 So…\u00a0 I learned a lot of interesting stuff at the suburban school which I had not learned at the inner city school!\u00a0 We had a class on sewing and I made a vest.<\/p>\n
Sixth Grade – The new school had “open classroom”, four classes in one large space with each teacher having their own bunch in one corner of the large space.\u00a0 We did some things in our corner and some with other groups in the open area.\u00a0\u00a0 I did have music class in a separate room and some days the teacher wasn’t there.\u00a0 We had eraser fights instead.\u00a0 And we had an art class room too.\u00a0 I had two friends named Richard.\u00a0 One of the Richards was very good at chess. I went to his house sometimes and played chess with him.\u00a0 He always won; actually he just mopped the floor with me every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Today’s run: 3.75] Recent events had me thinking about my elementary school days. I started school at Longfellow Elementary, which is long gone.\u00a0 We were bused in from the suburbs to this “inner city” school. Kindergarten –\u00a0 I think my teacher was Mrs. Keller ?\u00a0 I’m not sure about that name.\u00a0 I remember taking naps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}