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[Caaareful Shopper]

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@1Snickers wrote:

@Caaareful Shopper   I’d love to hear the poem! 

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@1Snickers  I'm looking for a site that may have a good audio version of it.  There are so many awful versions -- over exaggerated, and missing the true language.  Just awful.  Reading it is like first taking a history class, then a dialect class, then re-reading it for meaning.    Maybe youtube has somethat cut through the over dramatic ones....

[Zaimee]

Loved my 3rdgrade teacher, Mrs. Wind (PS 79 NYC). She had fluffy, white Marilyn Monroe hair(1960). She taught us origami and took us on a field trip to the LaGuardia airport. We got to sit in a plane because her husband was a pilot. She painted her nails, each one a different color. She had me go to other classes to show off my left handed cursive writing.

I became a teacher because of Mrs. Wind. Just retired after 44 years, 

[trenet]

Missing a lot of school due to illness, being home to watch Jeopardy with Art Fleming.  

Winning the School Spelling Bee

In first grade, Picking out pretty stickers (mostly flowers and animals) to put on long ribbons for completed workbooks and books read. 

[1Snickers]

   In the fifth grade we made hand puppets. I made many and the teacher would let me take them to the lower grades for a puppet show.

  My puppets didn’t talk but I would listen to them and  tell the kids what they said. I had: Witch Hazel, Little boy blue, Hawaiian girl, a Lamb, cat & dog, etc.

   Soon  I had helpers joining me with the shows and once we had a show in the auditorium.

   Then we had a field trip to collect fossil shells. I was so interested and the puppets were forgotten when I found a fossilized whalebone and many giant scallop shells. 

   Fun times!

[DrakesMomma]

My favorite memory is being safe at school because I wasn't at home. 

[faeriemoon]

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@Anonymous032819 wrote:

I don't have any favorite elementary school memories, sorry.

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Neither do I.  Couldn't wait to be done with it.  Back in the day teachers were allowed to be "mean" and they took full advantage of it.

Hated it.

[Caaareful Shopper]

@1Snickers 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpl8VzLq0EE

This is the only good interpretation I've found.  Imagine being in 3rd grade, in the Bronx, NY, eyes wide open in awe! 

[Zaimee]

@Caaareful Shopper 

There is an elementary school in Miami, Fl. named after this poet, Dunbar Elementary .

I was born in The Bronx.

[dex]

@Bridgegal @Your story reminded me of a girl in about eighth grade who kept putting up her hanr to go to the bathroom but the teacher wouldn’t let her.She finally stood up and peed on the floor while the whole class went crazy.That teacher was in trouble for that as the girl had a bladder infection and kept telling him that.

[viva923]

when i was in 2nd grade i fell in love with Donald linskins. I even kissed him during recess. The young man moved I never saw him again after 2nd grade. That was a memory that was kind of cute for me in grade school.

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