Adults Remembering Kindergarten CONTEST! EXTENDED
Submitted by Sarah Gonzales
on April 6, 2011 - 12:36pm 
A handful of Alaskan adults get hilariously (and pensively) Old Skool when they share their strongest memories of Kindergarten with Kristin Spack in the piece below.
What do you remember about going to school way back when? Let us know in the comments - the randomly chosen winner gets an awesome Kids These Days! tote bag, perfect for hauling Trapper Keepers and Star Wars lunch boxes!
Contest ends Friday extended to next week!
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Looks like you won, Jamie!
Looks like you won, Jamie!
Thanks for sharing this awesome memory with KTD - if there was one topic we had totally failed to consider about kid-raising it was the sticking-things-up-noses thing. Yours is a lesson we can all learn from!
Email your info and I'll get a bag out to you!
SG
In 1984 I sat on my carpet
In 1984 I sat on my carpet square placed on the large tile floor of my kindergarten classroom. It was circle time and Justin McKay was sitting across from me on the other side of the circle. He was a lifelong friend at this point in my life, so as we pass the time by slyly flicking a pebble across the smooth tile floors to one another, I thought nothing of picking up the pebble to smell it. The small pink nurse slip still reads, "Jamie has a rock stuck in her nose. She says she can feel it "Way Back"! Blowing has not worked and she should be seen by a doctor."
Below the pebble, to this day still taped to the pink slip of paper it reads, "One more blow did it!" This slip now serves as a reminder to my 7 and 9 year old kids that, no matter how big it appears chances are, it still may fit in your nose.
Although I'm not *really*
Although I'm not *really* playing, I'll go first to warm up the comments section. :)
Halloween 1981 and mom dressed me up as a panda bear for the Kindergarten hallway Halloween parade. The only black shoes I had were my tap dancing shoes, so I brought them to wear with my costume, otherwise it was sneakers for the rest of the day. At parade time we lined up in the carpeted classroom then filed into the tile hallway. Oh god, I was clickety-clacking and everyone was looking at me. I remembered feeling horrified and wanting to hide. Pandas are solitary creatures!
- Sarah G
KTD Producer