Childless Not By Choice (est. 2002)

AdminDiane · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: Kindergarten

Mine was Mrs. Jacobs, Room 3, first floor of a 3-story bldg.

Mrs. Jacobs was tall and sweet. Blue eyes, a hair bun. She let us take naps and listen to the record player. We used large building blocks to make raceways in the classroom. My first boyfriend was named David, who lived across the street from the school. He was soo cute and used to push me on the swings.

First day of school I cried and cried. A little, red-headed, freckle-faced classmate named Mary Lou comforted me saying..."Don't worry. Your Mom will be back later". I hated leaving my mother. Mary Lou remained a friend for many years after that.

Our "desks" were round tables with little-people chairs.

The Open House Mom attended was on Nov 14, 1962....thirteen years to the day that she died. (I have a copy of the sign-in roster is how I know this!)
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Lynn · Moderator: Lynn Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 3102 Gender:

I loved my K teacher...her name was Mrs. Frost...I remember playing a lot and sleeping on our towels (and one unpleasant experience when the boy next to me had an "accident" on his towel)...I remember loving our playground and I have this vivid memory of being on the jungle gym and I had some M&Ms in my hands (probably from snack) and I was pretending they were vitamins and I was a nurse...

My 1st grade teacher was the COOLEST...Miss Evans...she ADORED kids...she would dress up...I remember when she came in as the Easter Bunny...I just loved that...she denied it was her...and we all laughed...she really was tuned into her kids...I always felt like she cared!

My other favorite elementary teacher was Miss Galbraith...it was her first year teaching when I had her...in 5th grade...she was so pretty and cool. She played the guitar and read us Charlotte's Web ( I always picture the characters with her voice to this day!) She made me decide I for sure was going to be a teacher when I grew up! She has this cool chalk holder and that sealed the deal...that was one of the first things I got when I became a teacher...hee Very Happy

Seeker · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject:

I remember 'duck and cover' in kindergarten.

In first grade, I was selling milk for 3 cents (because even at 6 I could make change correctly) when we heard Kennedy had been assassinated and we were all sent home.

As a Navy brat (remember - duck and cover in kindergarten) I asked if it was time for a nuclear war.

I had a GREAT childhood!

It's also one reason I love the movie "The Iron Giant".
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AdminDiane · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

Dan, you prompted another memory.

We had "air raid" drills. When we heard the siren, we had to go into the clothing (cloak) rooms and hide, covering our heads.

Yeah, we had a great childhood, too. Did not learn bridge (that fascinated me about you guys!!), but some say I live too much "in the past." I don't think I live in it, per se, as much as I remember it so vividly. Our parents did such a great job of it...sorta like an Ozzie and Harriet world. I've told Dad that......that he and Mom created a world that we still love are feel safe within. I wanted that for my own child. Maybe that is why I mourn my loss so deeply. I longed to watch the "rerun" of my life....yet it never "aired". Confused

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monetthe1 · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

I was in NJ-- school #2 ( Grades K-6) in one building.

I had Mrs. Toth-- who had a maturnity leave during my year. She reminded me of Minnie Mouse ( who I never really cared for-- Big black hair).

She didn't understand my budding creativity. We were learning about the letter S-- coloring a sun. Everyone knows all suns are yellow. I raised my hand and said I had seen an orange sun. She said that was ridiculous. All suns are yellow. Do a good job and color your sun. I colored mine orange-- I got in trouble. Lost center time.

We had mats, towels, etc brought from home for rest time. I had a bamboo mat, that smelled like tea bags to me. I was probably the quietest kid in there, but got in trouble for talking and lost clay time alot. Actually, it was the boys who were next to me that talked all the time. I just listened.

One day, I was playing with the cardboard blocks, and the shelf fell out-- Mrs. Toth yelled at me. If I remember correctly, it wasn't that sturdy to begin with. I hurt my hand, she didn't seem to care much about that-- I lost clay time.

Hmmm....maybe this is why I'm not a 3D artist, I was never allowed to play with the clay.

But I loved school and over looked all this as a kid. I think more of it not that I am grown.
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barb419 · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

I can still remember that term, Diane. Cloak room..ohh that takes me back there.. also we carried book "satchels", and a plastic cover for our desk tops, a blanket for rest time, and a smock for art... everything was so much more simpler, wasn't it... I loved grade school so much..
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Elizabeth Ann · Senior Brewer Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 135 Gender:

It was in Anchorage, so it was always warm and I felt as if I were defrosting when I entered the "extra" wood building outside the main school.

We had to pick cranberries and bring them in one day... the teacher brought warm, mashed bananas and blended it all together for a wonderful treat (I'm pretty sure sugar was added!)

We played "The Farmer Takes a Wife" all the way on down to the "mouse takes the cheese", which nobody wanted to be!

Duck, duck, goose...

Ramona the Pest was my favorite book...it had so much in it that was like real life to me.

I fell in love for the 1st time with a kid named Danny Delaney (I knew him only as "Danny TheLady"--couldn't pronounce stuff.) Because he was the image of the old nursery rhyme: "Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, silver buckles on his knee..he'll come back and marry me, pretty Bobby Shaftoe. Bobby Shaftoe's FAT AND FAIR, combing down HIS YELLOW HAIR, HE'S MY LOVE FOREVER MORE, pretty Bobby Shaftoe." I do believe it was the chocolate doughnuts he got to bring for breakfast, though.

Lori was a little girl who had long, brown ringlets and wore blue eyeshadow! I wanted to be like her so badly!

Got home at noon some days, on other went in the afternoon. Loved to watch H.R. Puffinstuff to see what Jimmy would do next...he had the coolest little English accent!

Everything seemed rather fuzzy, until I learned I had bad eyes two years later and became a four-eyes. Phooey.
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Seeker · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

Elizabeth Ann - give me a perspective - you were in kindergarten in .... ?
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Unexplained IF - 3 children in heaven...
Treasure your children... love them with care... The world would be different... if they were not there... The Blacksmith's Gift
Love to my departed doggy daughter Akiko
Love to my still loving sheltie Crystal

wana · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:21 am Post subject:

Mine was 'Juffrouw Kerssloot' and how fun if i translate: Miss cherryditch!
Ohw i loved her! it was the mid seventees in holland and the classroom was divided in corners, to play house, play with water, make works with paint and some tadpoles in a corner to watch their transformation.And my Miss standing over you with her long hair and bell bottom jeanssuit 'overall', remember those? their getting into fashion again!

A few years ago i brought my nephew to the same place ('the bublebeehyve') NOTHING was changed! same smell,same colors (orange/brown,all trendy again) but how strange everything tiny! haha!
Even a tiny sister of one of the boys in my class back then, now as a mum bringing her kids..I can't describe how that felt..nice,weird,sad,scary and fun al together.
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Elizabeth Ann · Senior Brewer Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 135 Gender:

Dan, I caculate kindy-garden was 1971. Alaska.

Wana....the bublebeehyve was still the same! how wonderful. Last year I got to take my dearie to my old 7/8/9th grade school (a small Catholic one)...and EVERYTHING was just the same. I felt so happy, just sitting on the swingset and looking in the big windows.
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