What did you learn in elementary school that you thought was cool.

[Sequoia]

I thought molecules were super and that a virus was a crafty trickster.

[tk2kewl]

1. I learned to say the alphabet backwards.

:shrug:

[boilerbabe]

54. Didn't have to do that until a roadside sobriety test....n/t

[no name no slogan]

2. that you can't touch your ear with your elbow

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. (Begins trying desperately to touch ear with elbow)

[no name no slogan]

6. Don't bother, I just tried it again

and it still doesn't work. :(

[EastTennesseeDem]

22. Well I can lick my elbow. Can you?

No wait, I can't lick my elbow either. I lied.

[boilerbabe]

49. I got suckered into trying it, too! No-go....n/t

[mainegreen]

10. Shit, you're right. Doesn't matter which elbow or ear.

Dammit.

:(

[skygazer]

3. We did a unit in 6th grade about the relationship between wolf, caribou and Inuit

It was absolutely fascinating to me and really made me aware of the way nature works. I've never forgotten that class, or that teacher.

[boilerbabe]

48. I bet the caribou got the shitty end of that deal!! n/t

[LostinVA]

5. Putting white flowers in an ink bottle will draw the ink up into the flowers and turn them blue!

Second Grade.

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. Ink bottle?! You must be as old as...as....as....me! nt

[LostinVA]

58. DAMN YOU!!!!!!

I can JUST barely remember the Moon Landing.

[MorningGlow]

7. Hatching baby chicks in an incubator

An oldie but a goodie.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Awesome.

I bought my friend who teaches first grade one a few years back. Those little kids love, love, love seeing those chicks hatch.

It's an amazing lesson. If I had a way to get rid of the chicks? I'd get one for myself. :)

[Roon]

23. We had eggs in an incubator in kindergarten

and Tom knocked it over when we were moving our chairs for an activity and the eggs all fell on the floor into a big, grisly mess.

[trof]

8. That Earl Ledbetter would drink ink right out of the bottle.

Earl wasn't 'quite right'.
He was left back in first grade.

[jobycom]

14. Was he related to Marcel?

[alphafemale]

27. We got a kid to eat a luna moth between two slices of bread

The kid would eat just about anything on a dare.

That's about the only one I remember though.

That one stuck with me for some reason.

[boilerbabe]

50. At least you let him make a sandwich

An old friend of mine used to eat moths at parties for our enjoyment (yuck). He didn't use bread, but did wash them down with beer. Wait, I'm disqualified, since I was in high school, and he is 12 years older....Well, we did act like we were in elementary school.

[boilerbabe]

51. Then there's the guy that used to eat clay...

Seems like first grade was the grade where we lost half our class!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. The balance of nature

Somewhere along the line they stopped teaching about that.

[tigereye]

12. drawing something without looking at the paper, and without lifting the

pencil from the paper. A great nun who was the itinerant art teacher taught us that - nice memory!

[jobycom]

15. That bees won't sting unless the are angered or frightened.

Has served me well in various outdoor adventures.

[Sky Masterson]

16. That it was fun to share my nap rug with cute girls

:)

[ThomCat]

35. With cute boys too.

:)

[Arugula Latte]

17. "M-i-s-s-I-s-s-I-p-p-I"

Also, how to make your pencil look rubbery by holding it loosely in the middle and moving it up and down quickly.

[HopeHoops]

18. How to do armpit farts - those are cool

Oh, and spitting between the gap in my teeth from the top of the overhand bars. That was cool.

[HopeHoops]

19. OOOH - got another one!

Sing Yankee Doodle but replace all of the first letters with an "F" - now THAT was cool!

[baldguy]

20. In kindergarten I learned that the little red-headed girl named Karen wore yellow underwear.

[surrealAmerican]

21. If you put cream in a jar and shake it up for a long time ...

... it turns into butter (first grade). That impressed me almost as much as the chicks hatching.

[MilesColtrane]

24. I learned that Ruth Luna liked me.

Yes.

I had skills, even back then.

[Critters2]

25. The burro theme in "Grand Canyon Suite" really does sound like a burro. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. I learned all about mold.

In 6th grade we did a class project where we grew mold on all kinds of stuff. There was a whole collection of moldy food -- bread, fruit, etc., on a counter at the back of the classroom. It stunk but it was really interesting.

[petronius]

38. I had to wait until my undergrad apartment to learn that one...

[skooooo]

28. In mid-70s learned if we didn't change path of development..

..that by the 21st century, things would really be screwed up environmentally. Yes, they knew it was going to happen, and even put it in school books. No one could stop it from happening and now here we are.

[alphafemale]

29. That you can spread glue on the palm of your hand, let it dry and peel it off.

And it looks like you are peeling off a layer of skin and make the teacher about pass out.

:evilgrin:

[LostInAnomie]

30. I learned that if you want to get a chick pregnant...

... you have to put your wiener in their butt. If you want twins you have to do it twice in a row.

[boilerbabe]

52. Hahaha-must have been one hell of a health class.

Did you eventually figure out the right hole? Heeheee.

[JVS]

56. What do you mean "right hole"? The only thing wrong with the lesson is that it doesn't have...

the word "don't" before the word "want". Edit it in such a fashion and it makes perfect sense.

[JVS]

55. Advice that has served you well, I'm sure.

[Xipe Totec]

31. To spin tops

[ashling]

33. Remember when the TOP expert

would put on a show at the 5 & 10 ? And the Yo yo masters? Hell, remember a 5&10? LOL

[Xipe Totec]

34. What I remember is sharp shooter kids

who could split your top in half with a well aimed strike.

You can see the split top near the edge of the circle.

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

32. Toured a bodega

And learned how sherry and brandy were made.

Lived overseas where this was a perfectly acceptable field trip for 5th graders. Even got a travel-size bottle of brandy to take home - which we drank on the bus.

[Skittles]

36. Ghastlycrumb's Tinies

http://www.freewebs.com/goreyfan/

[sohndrsmith]

37. the transformations of the evolutionary process. Whales still have

finger bones (phalanges), horses used to be no bigger than dogs - that sort of thing. I still find that kind of thing cool.

[csziggy]

39. That daring the smart ass kid in the lunch room to eat everybody's prune whip

Is funny - until he gets locked in the boy's room at the end of the day.

(For those wondering WTF prune whip is, it was an evil concoction that the lunch ladies invented when they got cans of stewed prunes and bags of dried milk and had to use it somehow. It was purple and about the consistency of Cool Whip.

[struggle4progress]

40. Sodium ignites spontaneously when added to water. Nobody would give me any sodium, though.

Less cool but definitely interesting: if you burn sulfur and paraffin together, you can choke pretty badly on the fumes; also, steel wool fires are more fun if you add an oxidizing agent -- but you sometimes have to lie to the pharmacist to get some of the stuff

Also, it doesn't take much current to set off flashbulbs: they offer many possibilities for startling people

Magnets! Whoa!

[Richardo]

41. During mummification, the Egyptians pulled out the brain through the nose

...with a hook.

[Beam Me Up]

42. Learning to spell the word LOOK.

"Look at the word LOOK," my first grade teacher said. She pointed out each letter with her middle finger and made all us kids repeat the letters after her: " L O O K " and then she'd say, "Look at the word LOOK" again.

This is when I began to understand they were really messing with my mind. It was somewhat later that I began to make the connection between SPELLING and casting spells, though. Oh, the entrainment of human consciousness to the limitations of verbal language. A world made of words; a universe of yack.




typo

[MilesColtrane]

57. I had the kid's book, "Baby's First Fnord".

[Jamastiene]

43. Magnetism fascinated me.

Magnets still do fascinate me to this day.

[elleng]

44. That I'd trade ANYTHING for a hard salami sandwich!!!

.

[jeff30997]

45. Quantum Physics.

I was a very gifted child but my teen years badly fried my brains.:crazy:

[old mark]

46. I learned that I really hated school.

I still do.

Everything I needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten.


mark

[JVS]

47. How to tell time!

[boilerbabe]

53. I still can't do that and I am almost 48!! n/t