First Grade Friday Five

[acroyear]

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?
I had three (we seprated for english and math from our home-room teachers who covered everything else like social studies and art). I only remember two of them. Mrs. Deveaux, who in spite of the french name, was a very upstanding, thin black woman. I remember her mostly because my brother also had her as a teacher 6 years later. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened (I think the current total stands at 10 shared teachers in spite of the 6 year gap, and of those, 3 remembered me).

The other was Bobbi Armstrong, for english. I most remember her for intentionally mispronouncing "syllables" as "sallillables". I also remember her name because she switched to 3rd grade just as I got there, so she was my english teacher again 2 years later.

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
Bugs Bunny / Road Runner on CBS. 90 full minutes of it.

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?
Chris Coddington. Being guys, we probably fought more than played, per se. When I got back from California after grades 4/5, his family had moved to a neighboring town, so aside from a december birthday party (seeing The Watcher in the Woods from Disney), I haven't seen him since. That was december 1981.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?
at the time, Honey Comb. but at the time, I didn't eat cereal much because of milk intolerances (that like many other intolerances turned out to be a false alarm).

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?
at the time (still in first grade)? TV, though the options were limited. 2 hours of sesame street, 3 to 5, followed by Mr. Rogers and Electric Company. Jax didn't have any independent channels until 1980. Sometimes, the babysitter/housekeeper would have Match Game on instead. Now, I get far more of the jokes and innuendos than I would have at the time.

Comments

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

I envy you your early-childhood memory. I have relatively few memories before being five years old, and even then, most of my active memory begins in third grade. Most of what I remember is playing with my brother and friends, usually some kind of Tonka trucks or GIJoes, and always dirt and mud!