Post on 12-Jul-2015
GOLDEN RULES OF “YESTERYEAR”
Remembering the Good Old School Days
Cursive
Practice, Practice, and
more Practice!!!
CRAYOLA CRAYONS box or 8
First Box of 8 Colors -- 1903. Schools used to give us a pack of these on the 1st day of school, free, along with a fat red pencil and an eraser.
Everything smelled awesome. That was the 60's!
SCHOOL CAFETERIA LUNCH TRAYS
What was your favorite lunch item?
I remember the yummy yeast rolls!
HALLOWEEN CLASS PARTIES
Back in the good old days, when kids could still wear their costumes to school and have a real Halloween
party/parade...
One Room SchoolReciting…over and over
Is that a dunce hat on that student????
The Old School Bell
Did they ever find Ottumwa’s Old
School Bell???
“The Schoolhouse Quilt”
An Apple a Day…..
Who remembers shining up an apple to take to your teacher?
OLD SCHOOLHOUSE LIGHT
“SIMPLICITY”
Schoolhouse Clock
Woo Hoo….It is 3:30PM
SLATES
and Wire Baskets
SO SPECIAL…
I miss those days!
PENCIL SHARPENERCan you remember the smell
of the pencil shavings?
Recess!
My favorite time of the school day!
TIME TO RESTRemember having to lay our heads
down on our desks and rest?
The Chalkboard
Remember being allowed to go outside and "clap" the erasers at the end of the day?
GEOGRAPHY
Oh, yes…geography in our elementary schools…
All those pull-down maps!