It took me a while to think of fourth grade, clearly they were memories that I had blocked out and suppressed. Then I texted my mom to figure out how to spell my teachers name and she reminded me of a few things about my teacher, and all the memories came flooding back, scary and unstoppable, like a nightmare. It probably wasn't really that bad, but in my nine/ten year old mind I remember this year being the worst year of my elementary school career.
As I actually wrote my paper I thought it was funny, in a sardonic kind of way... and I thought it would be good to pass on to posterity, or at least give my elementary school friends a good giggle.
"I Feel Old"
When I was in fourth grade I went to Grovecrest Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, Utah. My teacher was a woman with short, curly, bright-red hair and huge, round, wire-rimmed glasses named Mrs. Lamoreaux. I remember her being loud, strict, and slightly crazy. She love to sing and we spent much time learning songs and dances that we used at the end of the year as our class put on a "broadway production," complete with matching wardrobes and many costume changes.
We had two play structures for our recesses. One we called, "the Big Toy," that mostly kindergartners played on and the another green and purple playground that we aptly named, "The Barney." One of our favorite games was to have a large boy sit at the bottom of a twirly slide, then have many children follow, resulting in us being stuck and squished until the large boy moved and we all toppled off the slide.
Excellent, right? I left out things like remembering children getting in trouble and having to sit in the corner, much high pitched yelling, and several times the main, in trouble, corner sitter actually grabbed his backpack and left the school ground while the teachers back was turned and didn't return for the rest of the day. That couldn't have been good.
4 comments:
I laughed really hard at this. I remember she used to come in and yell at Mr. McArthur all of the time, she was scary! Congrats on surviving 4th grade :)
Haha! The smash game! Poor Wade always had to be at the bottom cause he was the only kid in the school that could hold up 20 other kids. I remember being SO glad that I wasn't in Mrs. Lamereaux class even though I was DYING to be in a class with you and Mel. She was terrifying. I also vividly remember Devon Hussy ditching class. Ive always wondered if she was really as abusive as he claimed she was.
I forgot we called the play ground the Barney... Haha... I'm so excited that Heber it's to go to Grovecrest!
Yay! It was a terrible year, except for us becoming good friends! You were my saving grace! I remember Devin ditching and also him grabbing his ear and slamming him against the wall. I also remember the day you got your name written on the board and she made you feel so bad because you were the only kid in class that had not had there name written down all year long. You might have cried. I'm pretty sure I was the one that got you into trouble too...my bad.
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