I was in Mrs. Polleum's (sp?) 1st Grade class in Cumberland Elementary School in Whitefish Bay, WI back during 1995-1996.
I learned how to guess accurately with amounts of beans in a jar, cursive writing, spelling, and working on my audio deficiency disorder with a therapist whose name I couldn't remember for the life of me.
Whenever we were told to draw animals, I drew cows. It must be a Wisconsin thing.
Our mascot was the cougar which was pretty cool.
Our cross-town rival was Richards Elementary School whom we affectionately called the "Rich Nerds". Secretly, one of my best friends was in that school.
I was part of a clique known as the Nerd Herd. We often debated school policies which we liked and actively fought against those we didn't agree with. Because of the Nerd Herd, I held the record for number of detentions in the third grade at 87. The Nerd Herd was kind of like the Vox Populi of Cumberland Elementary and the teachers were trying to ZI my education so I couldn't fight them very well.
I remember I had a gym teacher I was deathly afraid of. I kept on having nightmare that she forced me to dig my own grave. Scary stuff for a first grader.