{"id":606,"date":"2012-07-10T02:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:52:40","slug":"tree-swing-kindergarten-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/2012\/07\/10\/tree-swing-kindergarten-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree + Swing = Kindergarten Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/page-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-608\" title=\"The author, in the stripped shirt, enjoying his 5th birday party (c. 1957) at Mrs. Moore\u2019s kindergarten.\" src=\"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/page-2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/page-2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/page-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/page-2.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, in the stripped shirt, enjoying his 5th birday party (c. 1957) at Mrs. Moore\u2019s kindergarten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s that time again! Schools across the nation will open their doors to streams of children, hopefully eager to learn. Remember your first day of elementary school? Or kindergarten? What conjures up those long, lost days? Is it the scratchy sound of chalk on a blackboard? A nun&#8217;s sweet face as she raps your knuckles with a ruler? Or is it the smell of fresh baked sweet rolls from the school cafeteria?<\/p>\n<p>Or children\u2019s high-pitched, gleeful laughter on a playground? Could a tree be a time machine back to those days of \u201creading and \u2018riting and \u2018rith- metic\u201d? Me thinks &#8211; Yes! The front yard of the Cable One building on Debuys Road is anchored by such a tree. But fifty-five years ago that front yard belonged to someone else, Mrs. Moore. And Mrs. Moore\u00a0ran a kindergarten. My first day of kindergarten is\u00a0one of my earliest memories. I was five. My parents, with me riding shot-gun in my mother\u2019s lap, were the first to arrive that morning.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Late Summer 2012 Article\" href=\"https:\/\/anthonykalberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KAL312.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Download PDF &#8211; Late Summer 2012<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again! Schools across the nation will open their doors to streams of children, hopefully eager to learn. Remember your first day of elementary school? Or kindergarten? What conjures up those long, lost days? Is it the scratchy sound of chalk on a blackboard? 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