I start the school year with my ankle wrapped in an Ace bandage. I fell off the hammock at my grandmother’s house in North Carolina and intend to milk my injury for all it’s worth.
We learn cursive. Every day, we learn a new cursive capital letter and practice writing the name of classmates whose names start with that letter.
Ashley. Ashley. Ashley.
Evan. Evan. Evan.
We finally get to H and Mrs Harrington has us practice her name rather than mine. I’m disappointed, but don’t say anything.
I’m seated next to a girl named Melissa. She tells Mrs Harrington that I talk too much. After several complaints, Mrs Harrington confers with Ashley, a girl I sat beside earlier in the year. I hear Ashley confirm that I talk too much. It stings.
I learn all the words to the Animaniacs theme song so I can sing along with all the other kids on the playground. I’ve never seen Animaniacs, but I know I’m supposed to love it.
I’m invited to Ashley’s birthday party and show up in a dress and Church shoes. There’s a Moon Bounce, so I need a different outfit. Ashley’s mom let’s me borrow some of Ashley’s clothes and I’m very excited to wear her slip-on shoes. I’m not allowed to have slip-on shoes.
We move to Midland, Texas before I learn the 11 and 12 times tables.
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Kristin says
Love this. Exactly how I felt in school..
Helena says
It’s funny how universal some of those childhood experiences are.
Niken says
oh, 3rd grade. love this post!
i’m an indonesian and i was excited for 3rd grade because i’d get english subject at school for the first time.
Helena says
Oh wow, how cool! I wish I started a language that young. My children surely will!
renita says
For reasons that continue to mystify me, I switched schools two months into 3rd grade and had a heck of a time adjusting. (We moved across town, but my parents timed it rather badly.)
And I remember several humiliations before I finally settled in and made some friends. Several kids from nearby walked to school (it was maybe 5-6 blocks, seemed farther at the time) and my parents told me I would walk with Amanda. On the way home, at one point, Amanda turned around and said “stop following me!” I was mortified and cried the rest of the way home, thinking I was going to get lost.
As is the way of 8-year-olds, Amanda and I later became good friends.
David R. says
This reminds me of the classic Southpark Season 4 episode “Cartman’s Silly Hate Crime 2000” in which Cartman is sent to juvie and learns that, in the big house, there are two kinds of kids–those who like Animaniacs and those who don’t like Animaniacs. He is forced to cast his lot before learning which one is the dominant clique. Apparently in your school it was easier to guess.
Helena says
Oh, Cartman.
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