Gus: “In the 4s, my mom had brought in wood to make small boats and that inspired us to all want to make things out of wood. So two days later I went down with Seth to the woodshop and got wood. I saw older kids making things with chisels and I thought, ‘Wow, when will I get to do that?’”

Olivia P: “4s K: I remember at rest time I would always sleep with my Hello Kitty blanket and my special BunBun.”

Dora: “I remember in the 4s I did not know how to speak English so Lily, this girl, translated what I said since she spoke French.”

Freddie: “I remember in kindergarten that we would build with the blocks and one time I went inside it and hid from the teachers. Then when Louise wanted me, I popped up and said, “Here I am!”

Ben: I remember in kindergarten Jack and I would yell whenever we could “blue and green make aquamarine.”

Zach: “I remember when we first got big buddies in kindergarten I had my brother as a buddy and he kept on hitting me until the teacher saw both our last names and then we got separated.”

Emily: “I remember when we were little buddies in kindergarten and all of us had 4th grade buddies. To me I thought they were 15 years old. Now I am one of those big kids.

Piper: “In first grade, I remember when everyone was sad because we didn’t have a class pet and the next day we got “Cutie!”

Cooper: In first grade, I remember when we got fish and my name won and the name was “Blackal” because the fish was black.

Tilda: “I remember making the playground in first grade. Colette and I did ‘relaxation.’ I remember that we needed help with relaxation because there were only two people. ‘Nature’ combined with us and we became ‘relaxature.’”

Colette: “I think 2nd grade was really fun. I loved going on all of the field trips and I remember on one field trip we saw this turkey walking around and we saw a man dressed up as The Statue of Liberty. I think we got to do a lot of fun things in second grade.”

Jack: “In second grade, I met Zach and we became amazing friends, and still are.”

Lila: “I loved the field trip when we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and we were so scared that it was going to fall because one of the towers was not on bedrock!”

Kate: “I remember when I was in second grade I was about to be a sister. A couple of months before my mom gave birth to Henry I took in pictures of Henry in my mom’s stomach and I told the class how much I wanted him. My mom even still tells everyone how every night I would tell god to please give me a baby brother and my mom said she was too old but a year or two after she did. Now I am asking for a sister named Elizabeth and my parents are like, “Nooo!” But it could happen.”

Johnny: “I remember in afterschool in third grade we tried to write googolplex. Jake said it was impossible but we kept trying.”

Margaret: “I remember in third grade everyone would speak super quietly so Rich would tell us to speak like Meadow. We would laugh and speak more like Meadow. I remember that in kindergarten there was only one day where there were only six people and I was one of those six people. Everyone else was sick. I have to admit that day was pretty fun.”

Meadow: “On the farm trip in third grade I went into the forest by myself on a hike. I felt so brave. It was a lot of fun being alone. Up on the hill when everything was still. No sound. Just air blowing on the trees. So peaceful, like I was the only person alive. Then I heard the bell ring and I ran back to the farm. I almost tripped. I will never forget that memory.”

Olivia B: “I remember when Rachel said, “Make this line lineer during the PE walk and then she wrote a story that had a bunch of typos in it and she said, “What’s wrong with this story?” and I said, “Make this story lineer!”

Oni: “I remember in third grade, we got to have frogs and we had to order them four times then on the 5th time we got them one frog finally survived. The one that survived eventually escaped over spring break and dried out.”

Eli: “…on the farm trip in fourth grade, Cooper got stuck between the bunkbed and the wall and right before he got out I went to get Celeste and when we came back, he was on his bed. And when Celeste left he kept on doing it…”

Polly: “In 4th grade we got to be an emcee. I went 2 times. The first time was about New Year’s Eve, and the second time was about Star Wars and I love Star Wars!”