Please answer today's question here or on your own blog, any time until next weekend. Just link to this blog (or to this post) so I can follow the progress of the discussion.
The question is: Do you remember your first day of school?
I remember my first-ever day of school and the smell and shine of the big red pencils for new writers. I had no desire to be there and saw no purpose. How I missed my mother!
I posted on a variation of this last week. It was a lot of fun for me. But really, I want to offer someone up for a post of the day and I'm unsure how to do it. Is it here that I come? Well, here it is just in case.
My first school was at the bottom of Dial Hill in Clevedon,Somerset,1948 and I was four. I lived in St.Edith's Orphanage and begged to be allowed to go, in a long crocodile with all the older children and I suppose the idea pleased the nuns as I was the youngest and needed the supervision of a sister who could then be freed up to do whatever it was the nuns did when we were not around. It was a two roomed school house and I remember the nauseating smell of hot milk and the sight of a boy, trousers down, across the knees of the teacher as she tweezed splinters out of his bottom.
yes!!!! kindergarten, septemer 1967... good lord~! there was three of us that were new and we were scared... we each picked on another of us, and followed each other around that first morning.... i think it was me, ,and nancy and karen... at the last reunion we even talked about it. some memories never fade
Interestingly I dont .. but I do have a lot of earlier childhood memories and ones of later school years but I dont remember much about the first day of school as a little kid .. I skipped kindergarden and went straight into first grade .. something to do with the month I was born in ..
My first day of pre-school? no. I don't remember any first days of school except the first day of school IN A NEW TOWN, and the first day of high school. Those are memorable.
Not the first day at school... I remember earlier in playschool (now called nursery), and I remember my first school and first teacher, and some events from then, but not the first day strangely enough...
I remember it as though it were yesterday instead of 1959. My Grandmother was an accomplished seamstress. She had made me lots of new clothes for school. On the first day I wore a light green dress with a lace collar and a green sash. I was treated as it was every morning to a big breakfast. Which at our house was homemade biscuits, with homemade jellies and jams. This was followed by bacon fried to a crispy crunchy state, and two eggs soft scrambled. Which was washed down by a large glass of ice-cold milk. Then my Grandmother walked me to school where after meeting all the other children and my teacher I promptly threw-up all over my new dress and school shoes.
I remember parts of my first day at school. I was a very shy, very nervous little girl and think I would have preferred my mom to stay with me all day to hold my hand! Since I am left-handed, I was ridiculed and teased by a number of the other children about writing (or rather colouring at that point) with the "wrong hand". Unfortunately, I don't remember it as a very happy time of my life. I just hope I can make it more of a positive experience for my own children!
I remember my first day of school, because one of my new class mates wailed very loudly and enthusiatically for 2 hours after his mom left. Even being offered some sweets by the teached wouldn't calm him down which whereas I was practically drooling at the sight! Being a boy it wasn't a very good start to his schooling career.
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I remember my first-ever day of school and the smell and shine of the big red pencils for new writers. I had no desire to be there and saw no purpose. How I missed my mother!
l will post today on this David...great question...
I posted on a variation of this last week. It was a lot of fun for me. But really, I want to offer someone up for a post of the day and I'm unsure how to do it. Is it here that I come? Well, here it is just in case.
http://stompergirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/confession.html
Take a visit. It's well worth the read for any parent.
erin
My first school was at the bottom of Dial Hill in Clevedon,Somerset,1948 and I was four. I lived in St.Edith's Orphanage and begged to be allowed to go, in a long crocodile with all the older children and I suppose the idea pleased the nuns as I was the youngest and needed the supervision of a sister who could then be freed up to do whatever it was the nuns did when we were not around. It was a two roomed school house and I remember the nauseating smell of hot milk and the sight of a boy, trousers down, across the knees of the teacher as she tweezed splinters out of his bottom.
yes!!!! kindergarten, septemer 1967... good lord~! there was three of us that were new and we were scared... we each picked on another of us, and followed each other around that first morning.... i think it was me, ,and nancy and karen... at the last reunion we even talked about it. some memories never fade
Interestingly I dont .. but I do have a lot of earlier childhood memories and ones of later school years but I dont remember much about the first day of school as a little kid .. I skipped kindergarden and went straight into first grade .. something to do with the month I was born in ..
:-Daryl
My first day of pre-school? no. I don't remember any first days of school except the first day of school IN A NEW TOWN, and the first day of high school. Those are memorable.
I'd love to answer this one, but I don't remember my first day!
:(
I have just made a post on your question, David...you do stir the memories, not all of them good.
hope to write this one up some time this week
Not the first day at school...
I remember earlier in playschool (now called nursery), and I remember my first school and first teacher, and some events from then, but not the first day strangely enough...
I remember it as though it were yesterday instead of 1959. My Grandmother was an accomplished seamstress. She had made me lots of new clothes for school. On the first day I wore a light green dress with a lace collar and a green sash.
I was treated as it was every morning to a big breakfast. Which at our house was homemade biscuits, with homemade jellies and jams. This was followed by bacon fried to a crispy crunchy state, and two eggs soft scrambled. Which was washed down by a large glass of ice-cold milk.
Then my Grandmother walked me to school where after meeting all the other children and my teacher I promptly threw-up all over my new dress and school shoes.
I can only image the first impression I left. LOL
What a great question at this time of year for those of us in the Americas. I did a post on it so I hope you come over to read it.
I had to write about this on once at school itself. Yes I do. I will definitely try and work this one into a post.
I don't want to remember. I'm sure I was extremely apprehensive and crying.
I remember parts of my first day at school. I was a very shy, very nervous little girl and think I would have preferred my mom to stay with me all day to hold my hand! Since I am left-handed, I was ridiculed and teased by a number of the other children about writing (or rather colouring at that point) with the "wrong hand". Unfortunately, I don't remember it as a very happy time of my life. I just hope I can make it more of a positive experience for my own children!
I remember my first day of school, because one of my new class mates wailed very loudly and enthusiatically for 2 hours after his mom left. Even being offered some sweets by the teached wouldn't calm him down which whereas I was practically drooling at the sight! Being a boy it wasn't a very good start to his schooling career.
Good question. I posted here:
http://pticester.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/weekend-wandering/
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