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!