Grade school memories

With the kids both in grade school, I tried to think back about the things I could remember from my early grade school days. It's not much, lemme tell ya.

* I remember my folding mat I used for naptime in kindergarten
* I remember going to the library next to Norman School and checking out books on UFOs from noted kook George Adamski
* I remember Ms. Zook
* I remember not being able to tie my shoes

Interestingly, all that is from kindergarten, and I think primarily from my first half of kindergarten, which was on the Kansas side. I did the second half of my kindergarten on the Missouri side and it was apparently far less memorable. To me anyway. Don't remember much about first through fourth either. I remember answering some math problem correctly. I remember singing "The 12 Days of Christmas" (yes, in its entirety) in front of some class. I remember Flutophone lessons. I think in fourth grade I remember a girl named Janatha. Oh, and I remember actually missing a word in a spelling test, when I used the British spelling of the word "theater." I was quite mad.

Hm, all this talk is dislodging more memories. I recall one teacher's punishment of drawing a circle on the blackboard and making the person put their nose up against it. I remember the excitement of being chosen to go clean the erasers on some strange eraser-cleaning thing in the basement.

Oops, that's it. No more memories until I hit Bryant and fifth grade.