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A Trip Back in Time
Filed in Bits & Pieces Fridays
Today’s Bits & Pieces is designed to bring us back to our childhood. To that time when playing was, essentially, our work.
1) What was your favorite section in P.E. during the elementary school years?
2) When you had to play by yourself, what was your favorite things to do when you were little?
3) Tell us about a toy you had to have? Why? Did it live up to your expectations?
4) What section in P.E. did you despise most?
Looking forward to your answers!
~Elizabeth
August 27th, 2010 at 3:25 am
1) We had these little square things with roller skate wheels we got to play with on Fridays.
, so yes I’d say it did.
2) Read…what else?
3) An adult size rocking chair when I was ten. I had the chair long enough to rock my first child in it
4) Every part of it except the square thingies with wheels on Fridays! I never was athletic, and still am not.
August 27th, 2010 at 7:38 am
1) I vaguely remember PE in St. Joe’s. Kick ball maybe was best?
2)Erector set and Legos. Or building a model if I had one
3)Space 1999 Eagle spaceship. Played with it for years. I’ll bet my mom still has it somewhere.
4)The gymnastics set we did in HS. Reminded most guys at that age that we weren’t very coordinated!
August 27th, 2010 at 8:41 am
P.E. in elementary school, ugh.
1. Red Rover was probably my favorite, charging at the boys I liked.
2. Reading also.
3. Getting a large package of little plastic cowboy and Indian figures.
4. Worst part of P.E. was the blue outfits the girls had to wear (this was the early to mid-1960s), looked like old-fashion bloomer sets that made our butts look bigger, to disguise the fact we were girls. Then this year in the advertisements actually saw that some “designer” was trying to bring the bloomer sets back in fashion. I just laughed out loud, shook my head, and I bet they didn’t sell any. Horrible things.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:23 am
1. What Shel said! Loved those things. @Shel: They’ve improved them, nowadays, of course. They’re antimicrobial plastic with handholds, so you’re less likely to lose a finger under a wheel.
2. It usually involved adventuring in the back yard, and later, in the woods. Some things you never outgrow.
3. The Starbird space station. Finally got it for Christmas. It was dreadful. All cardboard with bits of plastic here and there. The ship, however, was very cool. On a related note, this was my introduction to Latin: caveat emptor. I’m sure that’s what I muttered when, as a 7-year-old, I struggled to assemble the thing Christmas Day.
4. Anything that required running or climbing. Which is a bit ironic, because I did a great deal of both in the woods.
August 27th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
First off, I love these answers!!!! They all made me smile!
Here’s mine…
1) What was your favorite section in P.E. during the elementary school years?
I had two. The hundred yard dashes (I was really good at those) and…square dancing. Seriously.
2) When you had to play by yourself, what was your favorite things to do when you were little?
I was a big Barbie girl. But I also loved to sit at the desk in my room and read for HOURS. Oh…and write books!
3) Tell us about a toy you had to have? Why? Did it live up to your expectations?
I had to have Baby That-a-Way one year. Because she could crawl all by herself!!! So I asked Santa to bring her and he did. And she crawled alright, she just sounded like a coffee grinder every time her legs moved. Sigh.
4) What section in P.E. did you despise most?
Anything where teams were picked. I wasn’t always the fastest (despite my stint as a good dash runner in my early elementary school days), and I wasn’t super popular…so I was one of those last four or five picked and I hated that.
August 27th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Carol, your answer on the bloomers made me pause. While that was sad, I think the way girls dress for school now (p.e. too) has gone to the whole other extreme. I guess we can hope it will come more toward the middle one day…
August 27th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
1. I loved when did the dances (square, polka, jitterbug, etc.)
2. I read
3. I had to have my doll house where I can design change out the designs often
4. Teams -I was always the last one picked.
August 27th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Elizabeth, our square dancing was through music class; I also loved that. And I agree that most girls and young women now dress like harlots. Schools should have uniforms, IMO, even through high school.
August 27th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
1. Gosh, I think softball and tennis….hard to remember!
2. Be outside….either ‘exploring’ (i.e. walking through fields or the woods on the edge our our houses) or role-playing (ok, I’m copping to Charlie’s Angels)
3. Not sure if this counts as a toy..but a Commodore Plus 4 (with an Okidata printer of course) …. I guess it did at the time–technology sure has come a long way!
4. Well –as opposed to a few of you, any of the dancing…I was (and still am) self conscious about dancing. I’m pretty coordinated in sports—-but really NOT when it comes to dancing :-/
August 27th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
With you all the way on the uniforms, Carol!
I liked the role-playing games, too. Just only when I was playing with other people, Nikki. A favorite for my friends and me was up on a huge rock next to my house. We’d play “ship” and it was a lot like “lost in space.”
August 27th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Just to clarify —- the role-playing was (usually) with other people too LOL
August 28th, 2010 at 11:10 am
My friends and I had such fun after school and during lunch, mostly up to fourth and fifth grade. We were secret agents, archeologists, ship captains, pirates, cowboy and Indians, lots of imagination. Really glad that so many writers have not forgotten how to role-play to bring us the wonderful stories I love to read today.
August 28th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Interesting observation, Carol. I wonder…if we polled writers…how many of them were more of the kinds of kids who role played as opposed to watching tv or playing games. Very interesting.
And Nikki, I figured that. Just made me laugh!
August 28th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
1. scooter races in PE…so much fun!
2. read
3. an etch a sketch. It definetely lived up to my expectations. I could play with it for hours.
4. The dreaded rope climb. I never could get more than about two feet off the ground. I’m still feeling sad about it.
Are you doing research for a new book???
August 29th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Sharon, I completely forgot about the scooter races!!! Those were so much fun!!!
Nope, no research. I just love learning these kinds of things about people. Makes me happy.