tornadoes and lockdowns remind me a bit of kindergarten!

i love it when morning announcements begin with: teachers, make sure your students know the routine for tornadoes and lockdowns.  it's always nice to have the warning before the fact, and we had a pretty good idea of when the excitement would transpire because 3rd and 5th were in the middle of practice tests, so obviously it would have to take place right after. and of course it did.

i remember when i was in kindergarten in raytown, mo and whenever there was a fire drill, it really freaked me out. oh, the kindergarten days! things i remember from kindergarten:
-sitting in a circle playing 'who stole the cookie from the cookie jar'
-mrs. blair teaching us not to run with scissors.
-the girl who had a wig because she had cancer, so we learned about chemo.
-playing cat and mouse outside
-making turkey and pilgrim and indian things for thanksgiving (i was almost too excited because i knew my grandparents were coming for the holiday!)
-learning how to count (my brother taught me that 12 plus 12 was 24, and i was so excited to tell my teacher)
- wanting to be the lead singer for the song 'the sun'll come out tomorrow'
-always hoping that i could play the triangle in music...
-trying to play tic-tac-toe over the phone with haley (i think she cheated or one of us wasn't sure about our right and left...because she seemed to say she won, and it didn't look that way on my tic-tac-toe board...)
-i'd walk down to my friend's house once in awhile (don't recall her name, but she had reddish hair)..but one day she suggested we make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and she licked the spoon before she made mine. i was grossed out and all of a sudden i was no longer hungry.
-wiz kid owl calculators for david's birthday
-giant coloring book for my birthday
-gyroscope magnetic handheld toy-a favorite and i could sit there all day making that thing go back and forth faster and faster!!
-a billboard on the way to church with an ugly man and in my head, he was the boogey man.

there are more fun memories, but those are some that stick out right now. i don't think that everything i needed to know i learned in kindergarten, but i do think i got a pretty good start!
julie