1

Tis the season for School Fairs! I haven't seen the paratrooper in years

2

Getting to take the weekly reader home on Fridays with your little bag of $.25 popcorn

3

Getting your friend's autographs and folding the pages in for reasons we will never know

4

Another fair ride of yesteryears. Now, the rides are almost all the same.

5

Counting down the days when you wouldn't have to smell cafeteria food

6

Trying to get a few more weeks out of your cracked lunch box

7

Or eat this for lunch because who eats corn and milk with pizza?

8

Signing each other's PE shirts and your mom fussing because she was going to make you reuse it the next year since you didn't grow

9

Every school bathroom had these sinks with the foot thing maybe it's time to bring them back

10

And realizng your gym bag really smelled rank

11

PE changed from structured play and games to "Oh who the duck cares, grab something and be active"

12

Extra recess time became the norm and extra time at morning break

13

FIELD trips every week

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And extra movies and projector presentations

15

Getting to really just play more

16

And emptying your trapper keeper, finding homework from October in the back folder and a note from your BFF in your pencil pouch

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Your mom giving you extra money for the ice cream treats and after lunch snack cart

19

The cheerleaders throwing their end of the year pep rally