When they found this one, I bet it was like the scene in the original Planet of the Apes, when Taylor (Heston) found the talking human doll in the cave, and the science minister knew it's existence had to be suppressed and sealed the cave.
Posted on 06/07/2015 10:54:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Not bad for a bunch of Okie’s!
Looks like someone changed the calendar to December before it WAS December given that the turkey and pilgrim stories were still up and November is the month with 30 days. Maybe it was a class joke.
They were probably out on vacation at the end of December and didn’t care
I saw this on msn on my computer.
It was wonderful.
We had an exchange student from Argentina. There students learn cursive first, because they never have to lift their pen or pencil off the paper.
The learn proper manuscript in high school.
That sounds reasonable, as Thursday the 29th (in red) was Thanksgiving that year.
What a great turkey!
I’m red-faced; when I tried to paint a turkey in 2nd grade, everybody laughed at my turkey.
-JT (she of no artistic or hand-eye coordination...still ;-)
I’m not sure.
I’ve been writing creatively, as well as through very extensive personal correspondence, all of my life; and I found that upon the transition from writing on paper - or even on an old-fashioned typewriter - to writing on the Internet, the tendency to confuse homophones greatly increased in Internet writings. I first noticed this on Usenet more than 20 years ago; people whose educations and erudition were apparent would frequently make those same mistakes.
I think some ‘brain-thing’ happens, or is different, when writing to the internet/on a computer, even with people who, for instance, clearly know the difference between ‘who’s’ and ‘whose’.
I’m not sure why it’s true; but my ‘working hypothesis’ is that “talking” to one another, in the way that we are doing now, is more like ‘speech’ than it is like ‘writing’. Our brains are getting confused by the conflation of two different means of communication.
-JT
By the time I was going to school, the classic black slate had been supplanted in some cases by a light/medium green “slate”. I suppose at that point the term “blackboard” had lost some of its value...kids did notice the difference!
A fellow in my old hometown, who went to school at one of the same schools I did (albeit decades earlier), went on a rant about the replacement of the school’s chalkboards with whiteboards and projection screens in the 00’s. He did have a point...chalkboards don’t have BSOD moments or go dry when left out, and besides, think of all the generations of students that had been educated with those boards since the 1920s. :(
December began on a Saturday in 1917 so the first line is correct. The last line is correct for November 1917. Maybe they did not bother to correct that line because the pupils would not be in class? How many days did they get off over the Christmas to New Year’s period?
In a "grandpa" voice... Sonny, back in the olden days, we had school almost every day... we only got off 3 days a month, none of this weekend nonsense... and our months only had 28 days... and we were thankful...
When they found this one, I bet it was like the scene in the original Planet of the Apes, when Taylor (Heston) found the talking human doll in the cave, and the science minister knew it's existence had to be suppressed and sealed the cave.
Chinese classroom
http://tinyurl.com/qj9lwh2
The Chinese had to know their multiplication tables just to locate their desk!
Sorry if this is a dumb question. How does that multiplication wheel work? I can’t figure it out.
I loved getting Weekly Readers in the mail in the summer along with my Golden Magazine! I remember all those activities you mentioned,too.
We made fingernails with Elmers and rulers. Do you remember klick-klacks?
I heard the wet paper
Well they changed the blackboards to green boards (easier on the eyes) so perhaps that’s why the name was changed to chalkboards.
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