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Family History TuesdayZ | Early School Memories

Journal prompt: What is the earliest memory you have about being in school?Journal prompt: What is the earliest memory you have about being in school?

My Journaling:
I remember bits and pieces of Kindergarten. I remember being so excited and nervous at the same time to go to school. I was sad because my best friends, Beverly and Misty were younger than me and that they weren’t going to get to go to school yet. I felt sad because I just knew that I was going to be missing out on our friendship and that they were going to have all kinds of adventures without me. I also remember feeling so grown-up.

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I still remember how the classroom and the playground at Valley Elementary in Orderville, Utah looked when I attended in 1984-85. I remember the large wooden cubbies that held all of our school stuff. I remember how exciting it was to have my own crayons and other supplies and even then, I liked to have everything in its place in my cubby. I remember the tables and I remember being so excited to see my name where I was supposed to sit. I remember a long shelf that surrounded the entire room, that later as we learned letters in the alphabet – we filled that shelf with blow-up Letters of the Alphabet. I remember being so excited about the beginning of each week to see what the next letter was going to be and I couldn’t wait to see what the blow-up letter looked like. I can still remember where the teacher’s desk was and I remember the play area had these large plastic bricks that we would build houses with. I remember the rug area where we would listen to stories and have naptime and snacktime. I loved it when the lunch ladies would bring in those little cartons of milk (I always had chocolate) for a snack. I remember playing with toys (especially My Little Ponies) outside the classroom (by the stairs, right by the door) at recess. I remember Mrs. Gehrig and what a great teacher she was. I always felt special when I was talking to her and somehow even today when I talk with her I feel like her student.

I suppose I don’t remember too many specifics about the Kindergarten that I attended, but I do remember more than I thought. I guess it is more impressions and feelings that I remember. I don’t remember too much about the people in my class at that point in our lives – though (being from a small community), most of those people were the ones I graduated with in 1997.
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It was interesting to me to have my son JJ go to preschool in my Kindergarten classroom in 2005 and 2006 – it felt and looked so different. As a kindergartener, it felt so big, but it seemed so small when I took JJ to school.



 

Family History TuesdayZEach Tuesday, I am going to be offering prompts or ideas. If you don’t write in your journal regularly – I am going to encourage you to write just ONCE A WEEK and answer the question/idea that I give on Tuesdays. These ideas hopefully will spark a memory and you will be able to capture that in what you write/record so that it can be left for your children/grandchildren/family/friends. Give as much detail as you can when answering.

Will you do this for me? Will you do this for your families? You can write it down in a journal, you can type it up on a computer or journaling software, you can take a recorder and talk, you can videotape your answers, you can even scrap a page with the journaling. It doesn’t matter how you do this – it’s just important that you do it. The memories, the dates, the information is the only real thing we can leave to our families when we are gone.

Filed Under: Family Tree TuesdayZ, Personal Tagged With: childhood, journal, kindergarten, memories, personal, prompt, school

Life 365 | Week 9

Monday, February 22, 2010
feb22I spent all early afternoon getting Beth registered for Kindergarten. I still can’t believe she is going to Kindergarten next year. Because Foothill Elementary isn’t our area school (since JJ was placed there for his special class) – I had to get signatures from our area school so it just took awhile.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
feb23It was JJ’s first Blue and Gold Dinner for Scouts and this marked the Scouts’ 100th Birthday so it was pretty special. JJ helped me make a fun cake that we entered into the cake contest and he got the Most Festive Cake Award. They got to play games and have a pizza dinner and we got to watch a wonderful Indian hoop dancer! A fun night!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
feb24I have come to really love Freecycle.org. I have gotten rid of a few things that have become useful to others and have gotten things myself. Today, I got an awesome Toaster Oven! So cool and its FREE!

Thursday, February 25, 2010
feb25I got out my manual plastic binding machine and we made some heart and star books out of construction paper. The kids really enjoyed getting to draw and color in them!

Friday, February 26, 2010
feb26It was kind of a downer week for me this week. Just everyday and design struggles got the best of me this week and left me kind of down. But after some amazing emails from Amy and from a new friend, Tristi, and from my visiting teachers, I just felt lifted up. And it became even better today when Tristi emailed me letting me know that both of us were featured in the Mormon Times, since we had both blogged about our experience of getting to know each other a bit better. So fun!

Saturday, February 27, 2010
feb27We donated some of our books to a special company who is giving books to Africa to encourage literacy. It was fun going through all of our books and having the kids help pick out some that they don’t read anymore. I hope that the kids are learning a bit about service and sharing.

Sunday, February 28, 2010
feb28We have decided to start reading books with our kids. I’ve never really had a good schedule of reading to the kids and so I really wanted to get this started. We are starting with the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia and we have read the first couple of chapters so far. The kids seem to enjoy it so I hope they get a lot out of it.

And here is my weekly layout:
week9I used my “Digital 365” kits to create this layout!

Filed Under: Layouts, Life 365-2010, Personal, Project Life Tagged With: 2010, award, book, books, crafts, design, donating, family, kindergarten, layout, life, memories, moments, narnia, personal, school, scouts, toaster oven

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Recipe ThursdayZ | Chickey Pasta

This week’s recipe  |  CHICKEY PASTA A delicious pasta dish that is light and yummy! The chicken pieces are heaven – in fact, you could just make the chicken and use as homemade chicken nuggets! Chickey Pasta Save Recipe Print Recipe My Recipes My Lists My Calendar Ingredients2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into[Read More…]

DeDe Smith

I am DeDe Smith of DesignZ by DeDe and I’m the proud creator of the TearZ, ScatterZ, and many more collections! I am a Digital Scrapbook Designer. I specialize on creating digital kits that help customers scrapbook the special moments in their lives. I hope that you can use my products to share your story[Read More…]

Jolly Holiday Surprise Adventure | First Magic Moments LO

I am so thankful that I started writing some of my memories down about this trip on the blog, because I think there is a lot I could have missed! I’m so thankful to not forget these stories! I didn’t write everything down, so from now on this album might not be as detailed, but[Read More…]

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