Mama Kat Thursday: School Dayz
The Mama Kat writing challenge today was to share, "an elementary school memory." For me, elementary school was 1st through 6th grade held in building in the middle of farm fields. It was rural Indiana. It was also the 1960's. There were no television in the classrooms. (Computers smaller then the size of a room didn't exist yet.) So on days when it wasn't nice enough to play outside, we had to play games inside, so I remember games so old-fashioned, I wonder if modern kids have ever played them! I recall in 3rd grade playing "Upset the Fruit Basket." For this game, the teacher stopped at each desk, whispered a name of a fruit to each student, then one student stood by the teacher, the odd-man out, their desk unavailable for use, all waiting in eager readiness for their fruit to be called. Indoors, the game worked very much like musical chairs. After a potent pause, the teacher would suddenly call "grapes" and all the "grape...