Thinking about elementary school

[pipi_k]

6. You are

a month older than I am.

Funny thing...I was thinking about my elementary schools too not long ago.

I went to three of them. Sounds like a bad joke, but they were:

Jefferson, Lincoln, and Washington.

The first one has been turned into an apartment building...the other two, as far as I know, are still functioning school buildings.

This is Jefferson School, which I loved because it was so old, and looked like a castle...



I can still remember the smells...the old wood floors...the wooden desks...the smell of the oaktag and manilla paper we would draw on...the crayons and pencils.

It's also where we learned to "duck and cover", although we didn't hide under our desks. We went down into the basement and lined up against the walls with our hands over our heads.

I also remember the mid-morning milk breaks we had. My mom paid 15 cents per week. The milk guy would drop off trays and trays of milk for us kids. Sometimes we got it while it was still cold/cool. Other times it had warmed just a bit. Warm milk makes me think of Grades K - 2.