What kind of child were YOU when you started kindergarten?

[C.Ann]

Describe what you were like..

I'll go first.. I was very shy, could already read, and was an absolute perfectionist - right down to worrying about if I got a speck of dirt on my dress.. I also remember I LOVED those really fat crayons!

Your turn..

 

[mamajoan]

ok C.Ann.. you asked, I will answer
I was tall, freckled and redheaded.. so I stood out in the bunch..
I was outgoing, chatty, happy and loved being able to be with all of these kids for long periods of time. ( rural farm living with just my little brother for company...so I was sooo happy to see all these TOWN kids) I hated NAP TIME... but I LOVED snack time and being chosen to help pass out the snacks... I still make peanut butter kisses for my kids just like mom sent to class when it was my turn for snack..
That was fun.. Thanks for asking C.Ann!

 

[AngieBelle]

I was very shy and kept to myself a lot (which continued many years after). I remember I loved playing dress-up in the little make believe area, and I hated cut and paste because the paste was so sticky. I was already starting to get teased by other kids that year, but it didn't get really bad until 3rd grade.

 

[Colleen A.]

AngieBelle, I think we had the same childhood!! I was painfully shy and didn't make friends easily. I cried at the drop of a hat. It got so bad, in grade school, I used to get myself physically sick, I hated it so badly. Kids can be sooooo mean!! When my own kids started school, I was just as nervous for them but didn't want to show it!!! When my son brought home a note from the teacher (in kindergarten) saying that he was really crying hard during the day, I about broke down myself!! I took some time to reassure him and let him put some items from home in him backpack (like a photo of all of us!) and the teacher said it really helped. I'm happy to report that history DID NOT repeat itself!!

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

VERY VERY VERY shy.

 

[dianeschlicht]

That's a tough one, since I didn't go to kindergarten! We had no kindergarten, so I went to 1st grade first! No adjustment problems here, but then my mother was the teacher! Small towns back in the early 50's were strange!

 

[Serena]

I don't remember much. I do remember I loved fingerpainting and I remember getting in trouble for dancing when I wasn't supposed to. lol

 

[glo]

I was tiny...the littlest in the class. Spoke absolutely no English whatsoever...and was extremely shy and quiet. Hated school...and it scared me to death...I used to stick my finger down my throat and make myself throw-up so my mom would have to come get me a few times a week.

 

[believe]

All I remember is taking up for my friends. I stood my ground where boys were concerned....they never messed with me like they did my friends.

 

[JasonLyons]

I was a smart ***

 

[browneyes]

I didn't go to kindergarten. I went straight to the 1st grade. I was shy. I loved eating the dried rice.

 

[browneyes]

Jason, you're still smart ***, but a sexy smart ***.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Like Diane, we didn't have kindergarten so my first school was all day first grade. I was very shy and homesick. I was also the smallest in the class. I would not eat my lunch at school. In second grade, when I finally ate lunch, my classmates cheered.

 

[Gail T AGAIN]

Oh do I remeber, my teachers name was Miss Fitzgerald. I was a spoiled little brat that was attached to my mother. this teacher treated me so well, I remeber her giving me special treatment. I used to gag myself so I would throw up so my mother would have to come to school but I never got to go home, my mom sould stay for a while until I calmed down then she would leave. I bet all the other kids hated me. Still to this day I have a hard time with change, Am a spoiled adult and dont like losing anyone from my life that has always been there. Maybe that is why i go to DW every yr. to feel like I am home again.

 

[danacara]

I was fifteen minutes late to every single day of Kindergarten because I insisted on watching the showcase showdown.

My favorite toy was the typewriter. My boyfriend, Jason, got caught kissing Lindsay Campbell's cheek on the playground. I was mega mad. We broke up very traumatically. I told my mother that I wanted the theme for my birthday party to be teddy bear wedding reception. We had a fake wedding in class and then we had teddy bear cookies instead of cake.

The school has an indoor pool downstairs from the Kindergarten classroom. One day, they left the classroom door propped open, and I escaped. They took attendance = no Dana. They called the police and searched the school. The officer found me in the pool playing with the second graders. I had changed into my bathing suit and put on my swimmies. I had to go to the police station with my mother to have a "very stern talk" about how escaping from Kindergarten was against the law.

I went to Sharon Tinsch's birthday party and rode the zip line. They told me to let go before we got to the end. I chickened out, didn't let go, and crashed into her neighbor's house at full speed. I broke my arm and got to wear a hot pink cast for three months, which was just the coolest.

 

[faith]

I was a shy, smart only child. I remember crying when Mom left. It was a rough first few days.

 

[Nutsy]

I was another shy one................didn't talk to hardly anyone & was very quiet............no problem kinda kid

 

[Lars624]

I had hair so long I sat on it & I used to wear it in two long ponytails. At my school back then you had to be tested & talked to individually by a psychologist before entering Kindergarten. At my session he asked me alot of questions about myself including did I have a bicycle to which I answered "no". My mom was there but was not allowed to say anything & she says now she wondered why I had said no until he asked me what I liked to do outside and I said pull my wagon & ride my tricycle. He said "I thought you said you didn't have a bicycle!" and I said " I don't my tricycle has 3 wheels & a bicycle only has 2" He then ended the session & said I was more than ready.

 

[nativetxn]

I didn't get to go to kindegarten The year I was supposed to start kindegarten was the first year the district offered it. The teacher told my mother that since I would only turn 5 about 10 days before school started she was worried that I would be too young (can you believe that?)

My mother says it's because I could already read and the teacher didn't want to have to deal with a bored kid.

I was so upset, I really wanted to start school.

 

[MerryPoppins]

I was painfully shy. I had friends, but I'm sure they approached me. I could never have approached a stranger to play. I do have fond memories of having friends over or going to their houses.

I was the good kid who did what she was supposed to do and never got into trouble. I wouldn't have dreamed of doing something that would make the teacher mad at me.

My teacher liked me, but at the beginning of the year she didn't think I was very smart. We had to meet with her one-on-one and tell what was happening in a picture. The picture was of a zoo. The bars were bent and a tiger was loose. All the people were running. She said to me, "Can you tell me what is happening in this picture?" I told her that I couldn't. I said that I didn't know. She called my mom to tell her that there was a problem. Mom was puzzled because she knew I was very bright. When she asked me what had happened, I told her that I didn't want to make my teacher feel bad that I knew what was happening in the picture and she didn't. Mom and Dad straightened me out, fast.

I liked music time. My teacher played the piano and we got to sing action songs. I really liked that part of the day.