Summit School - Flame Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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MISS LEIGH Kindergarten. Memories of a large, light-filled room, of hundreds of clay figures, of easels and paints, of chairs just our size, of a goldfish tank in the corner, of a scarred wood bench, but especially of a silver-haired lady, who welcomed us quietly and made us forget that Mommy wasn't there and that we didn't know everybody. She showed us where to put our wraps. She taught us how to tie our shoes and pasted stars on our foreheads. When we learned to do something really hard such as travelling on the rings, she put a star on the chart. New and wonderful things we did. We made a house with rooms, a door, and windows. It turned into an airport, so we made a wind sock for it. We liked to make things, and there was plasti- cine for snakes, clay for marbles, and wood for airplanes. Later we would make harder things like clay people and cushioned footstools, but we al- ways started with snakes, marbles, and airplanes, We painted pictures with a blue line for sky, people with big hands and long fingers, and a green line for grass. She gave us our own boxes of flat- bottomed crayons, brand new. She is always there in our memories of kinder- garten, dressed in red or blue, speaking softly and gently. She showed us the squirrel that came to eat at the feeder, the nest of birds outside her window, the May Tree blossoming in white. She took us to the nursery to see the flowers, to the farm to see the turkeys, and to the station, where we rode on the Zephyr. A lamb came to school one day and another time a huge dog. Once we had a Hallowe'en party with ice cream and masks and pumpkins with candles and the room all dark. At Christmas there was a Santa Claus, only it was just a third-grader, and we were elephants and walking dolls. Miss Converse read a story from a blue book, and we sang Away in a Manger and O Come Little Children. We made presents for our families. Those are our memories of happy kindergarten days, filled with the love and sunshine which al- ways emanate from Miss Leigh.

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