~School Days~ - Faith Sisters Scrapbooking Gallery

Photos of me from preschool to 6th grade and the two elementary schools I attended…my mom was pretty hair inpaired =)
SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazills Basics
Patterned Paper: Tropics Blooming Love: Prima; Me Likey Fresh Pick: Sassafras
Font: Papyrus
Adhesive: Vario: EK Success; Vellum Adhesive Runner, Zots:Therm O Web
Embellishments: Chalk: Colorbox; Pen: Sakura; Sweet Treats Cardstock Pieces: Sassafras; Sweet Rubons: Colorbox; Coralee’s Creations Red Hot Alpha: Adorn-It
JOURNALING:
I attended Happy Land Preschool and Williams Elementary School from Kindergarten through 5th grade and Cullen Elementary School in 6th Grade. We lived right around the corner from Williams Elementary, so every morning my brother would walk to school. When we got home, Nanny Tyler was waiting for us til my mom got home. We lived a few blocks from Cullen Elementary, so I would walk to school with a few friends that lived on our street.
All my friends were in the same Kindergarten class but when we reached first grade, they were put into my mom’s class and I was put in the class with the OTHER first grade teacher. Her class was the only one I ever got into trouble in. She would put masking tape put across my mouth for talking too much. I was glad when that year was over. =)
For the most part, I loved school and all my teachers. I was always on the honor roll and was the teacher’s pet in all of my classes. My favorite subjects were reading and science and my least favorite were math and social studies.
My favorite teacher was Mrs. Hauser who was my third grade teacher. During this year my two closest friends decided to close me off from their friendship. I was so hurt and lost and just would mope around at recess. Mrs. Hauser saw what was happening and let me stay in the class and erase the chalkboards and straighten up the classroom supplies. She assured me that there was nothing wrong with me and if those girls were truly my friends they would not treat me this way. I took her words to heart and started making new friends on my own. To this day I still send her cards and stop by and visit whenever I go home, she had such a positive and powerful impact on my life.
Fifth grade was an interesting year for me. I had my first male teacher and I basically just smiled at him and he gave me all A’s. I honestly didn’t learn a thing that year and since our neighborhood was changing, my parents decided to move to a different area with better school.
It was hard being a new kid in a new school for 6th grade. Most kids had attended the school since kindergarten and friendships and cliques were already made. Fortunately there was another new girl in my class and we became best friends from then thru high school.
I remember the cafeteria windows being blacked out and the ~duck and cover~ drills we would have to go thru in case the atom bomb was dropped. I remember having to watch a movie about train safety, because some school children were killed crossing the tracks. Thanks to that film, I am still deathly afraid of trains to this day. I remember be sooo scared when they lined us up to get the polio vaccine in the school cafeteria. I remember Thursdays were hamburger day in the cafeteria and Fridays were candy apple day. I remember the Christmas pageants and May Pole dances and school carnivals where I would win a baby duck or a gold fish by tossing a ping pong ball into a cup of water. I remember my teacher crying when she told us President was shot. I remember waving to the motor parade when President Eisenhower drove by. I remember the smell of mimeographed test papers and number two pencils. I remember excitement for the first day of a new school year and the thrill of the last day of the school year. But most of all I remember that school was interesting and fun and that I loved learning new things.

Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Ephesians 5:10