Ahhhh - Blythwood memories...

• singing little choral concerts in the hallways for the other grades ("I'm a pink toothbrush , you're a blue toothbrush, have we met somewhere before...")
• getting SO excited in JK when the baby chicks began to hatch in the incubator!
• the incredible librarians who always knew EXACTLY what I would like to read.
  During library the girls would always get each other to do criss-cross-apple-sauce etc. "Will you colour on my back?"
• after-school pottery club
• "boys after girls!" in the playground
• Our amazing grade three teacher, Mrs Galloway, and how we all loved her so much we went to visit her at her house even after she was our teacher.
• That unique substitue teacher, Mr. Mannington, who we thought looked like an elf and who allowed us to stand on our desks to draw each other and who allowed us to chew gum as long as we brought some for everyone else. (We all seemed to look forward to Mr. Mannington subbing in!)
• Grade five math with Mr. Moreland - his highly entertaining way of teaching the base system. (Does anyone remember "squiggleys?")
• "Games Day" - being outside on the field on a VERY hot day - divided into teams competing at different stations - much excitement and fun on this day each year.
• Inner City Angels balloon send-off - we attached our names to helium balloons and sent them into the sky hoping that they would fly around the world and someone in some foreign land would report that they had found it. taking care of the class gerbil over the holiday and my brother accidently killing it! (poor thing was smushed in a closed door)
• the excitement of the Boyne River trip - dinner ritual, all the nature walks and discoveries, bird-watching, sleeping over in bunk-beds etc.

One horrible day when we were all suffering the loss of Mr. Moreland (extended absence due to illness) we had yet another substitute to whom we were very mean. Our class trouble-maker, Paul (last name I forget - he tragically died in grade six I think) started a chant "Down with Downward" and we all chimed in as she approached the room. There were all sorts of silly pranks and attempts to derail the substitutes. Switching names and seats, hiding, suspending ink from above the door. Yikes! What tenacity those subs must have had to be able to deal with us!

In grade four (?) we got a PET computer for the class and the teacher said, "one day, it is very likely that all of you will have a computer - IN YOUR HOMES" - and all of us sitting in utter awe and disbelief, trying to envision such a bizarre concept as a computer in a HOME!

- from Kathleen (Kathi Ann) Le Roux - class of '81