What is your earliest school memory?

[reecejackox]

Being sent out of an assembly

 

[Mandy Poppins]

I remember we moved to the newly built elementary school halfway thru kindergarten. I can remember the old buidling did not have enough room and my class was in a smaller building beside the old school for a few months.

 

[sasywtch]

Our Kindergarten teacher lived down the street so we'd walk to her house and walk to school with her. No way would parents ever let their kids do that today

 

[TLSnell1981]

A paper cut. I bled on a library book and was afraid I would be in trouble. Of course I wasn't but I was a six year old child trying to be on my best behavior

 

[amcnj]

Hmmm. I have a number of them from kindergarten, but don’t really know which of them was the earliest. Well actually I guess arriving for the first day of school and lining up outside to enter the building must have happened first!

 

[Schneewittchen37]

In nursery school, so I was 4, I remember sitting in a circle with my class while the teacher played guitar and we all sang the Itsy Bitsy Spider. It was some hippy-dippy schooling back then. Montessori school. No rules. All fun.

Also from that year:

• I remember playing with modeling clay with my two friends, Georgie and Elijah at school.
• I remember carpooling to school in my Dad's 1971 Pontiac Firebird with Georgie and Elijah. We found green bar continuous computer paper in the backseat and made "confetti". Dad was not pleased.
• I remember going to Georgie's house after school one day. Georgie's little toddler brother was sick and was standing naked in the bathtub covered in poo. This was hilarious to us. Not so much for Georgie's mom.

 

[NannyBeBe]

There was no kindergarten when I was a child, so school started with first grade. That was approximately 70 years ago, but I can still see my first grade teacher's face. Her name was Miss Pike. She was kind and caring and she set the stage for my outlook on school.

 

[Moliphino]

I remember some other kid getting a horrible nosebleed in preschool. I remember thinking it looked like red whipped cream.
Unrelated, my preschool had a zipline and it was awesome. And one of the roads to get there had horrible potholes, so us kids would sit in the back seat of the van and loosen our seatbelts as much as we could and see if we could hit the ceiling.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Crafts in kindergarten. I can still picture where in the school that classroom was.

 

[lynxstch]

The only thing I remember all the time is winning the spelling bee in 3'rd grade. The prize was a big glass container filled with sour balls. It fell off the desk and broke, and the wonderful teacher not only cleaned it up, but brought me another one the next day (I made it home with that one safely, lol)

 

[SandyinMonterey]

I remember I hit my forehead, I think on a vice or something large and metal like that. Needed stitches.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

First day of first grade (I skipped kindergarten.) I remember the teacher, Mrs. DeFelice, saying that she was very nice but that if we misbehaved she could be a witch. I was scared that she could turn into a real witch. I actually came to love her to bits and regard her as one of my favorite teachers even 50 years later.

 

[yensid's offspring]

Walking to school, with my mother, on my first day of Kindergarten.

 

[Moliphino]

First day of first grade (I skipped kindergarten.) I remember the teacher, Mrs. DeFelice, saying that she was very nice but that if we misbehaved she could be a witch. I was scared that she could turn into a real witch. I actually came to love her to bits and regard her as one of my favorite teachers even 50 years later.

When I was in first grade, a second grader on my bus told me my teacher was a witch. I would cry every day because I was afraid.
Yeah, that kid was just badly behaved and didn't like it that she didn't let him get away with it when he was in her class. She was perfectly nice, just didn't tolerate bad behavior.

 

[tvguy]

Two things from Kindergarten:

1) At nap time, I was shocked when my arm slipped off my sleeping mat that the floor was VERY hot. The school had radiant heat. Hot water was circulating in pipes in the concrete slab. We had forced air heat at home so that was my first (and to date, my only) exposure to radiant heat..

2) For some reason my dad picked me up at school one day in Kindergarten. Parents rarely dropped off or picked up kids from school in 1962. Our school district was set up so that every student was within a mile of an elementary school, so kids walked or rode their bikes. The day my dad picked me up another student started screaming "don't get into that car, it's a stranger". I had to explain it was my dad. Things sure have changed. They went to an open enrollment system about 20 years ago, and few students go to their neighborhood school anymore. It is gridlock at the start and end of school now as parents drop off and pick up their kids. Not sure how all there parents get time off work to pickup their kids. And with the sharp drop in enrollment over the last 20 years, many of the neighborhood elementary schools closed, so even if kids attend their closest school, it usually isn't within walking distance.

 

[Sinder]

One of my classmates was pulled by his hair to the back of the room where he had to sit in a cubby for the rest of class. Learned very early not to piss of a Nun

 

[ratherbeshiny]

I wasn't allowed to play with my cousin during lunch, a teacher caught us and sat me on a bench alone. I remember crying looking at the playground.

I'm going to ask my mum what she remembers about this, I guess the teachers were trying to encourage us to make other friends?

 

[E&Cmom]

First day of Kindergarten. Our parents ( mine and my friends/ neighbor) thought we missed the bus so they drove us in and we ended up being the first ones there. I still remember the set up of my kindergarten class.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Our Kindergarten teacher lived down the street so we'd walk to her house and walk to school with her. No way would parents ever let their kids do that today

Hope the teacher got paid for babysitting before and after school! Now days parents are expected to pay for daycare.

 

[MamaBelle4]

There was a little boy who sat in front of me in kindergarten and he kept leaning back against my desk. "All four legs on the ground, please" over and over. He wasn't listening, so the next time he leaned back, I yanked my desk out of the way. He crashed to the floor and *I* got in trouble!

I thought that was so unfair - HE was the one not listening, I was just trying to help!

(I mean, obviously now I realize that he could have been really injured but 5 year old me was just indignant at the injustice of it all)