I Remember

First Grade

My teacher was Mrs. Davis and her classroom was across from the water fountain and Giget Denton's room.

We had readers with a fat red stripe across them.

One day our morning assignment was to write our numbers from 1 to 1,000. It took me a long time.

We did flash cards with our words. I kept mine in a little back index card box.

My mom brought Jello and bananas one day for the class (powdered Jello with banana dipped in it is delicious.) Mrs. Davis told us to wait until everyone had one, but I was so excited I ate mine. And then held my hand over the toothpick and acted like I hadn't. I'm sure she noticed, but didn't say anything.

Roy Lee had asthma and kept throwing up in the trashcan. There was a book about a fish called LeeRoy, and we loved reading it when he was at at school.

Someone in my class named Linda was burned by a gas grill exploding(?? I think that's what it was.) She always wore one of those hard plastic masks with a stocking mask over it to try and help it heal. She never wore shorts or short sleeves again, even though it must have been 4,000 degrees in the summer. I don't remember anyone teasing her about it. I hope she's ok.

I would hide my head and Adam Poe's head under our towel/blanket at nap time. He was dark complected and had dark hair.

One time everyone except 4 kids were out sick with the flu in miss Giget's room. They got to play games all day and goof off. I was so jealous. There weren't enough sick kids out of our room to do that.

I played the lead in the school play about Dental Health Month. I was supposedly asleep in a sleeping bag and my first line was "Who-who-who are you!?" said while rubbing my eyes and speaking to a bunch of giant posterboard teeth. I was in my nightgown in front of the whole school and it never occurred to me to be embarrassed.

Comments

[SJ]

Hmmm, first grade...

I don't remember much. Except I think that my best friend broke her leg in class. She had been sitting on her leg and it fell asleep. She got up to turn a paper in to the teacher and couldn't feel her leg - it was numb.

And, that's about it.