Art and music periods! We’d carve designs in potatoes, dip them in tempura paints and “print” them on burlap, draw still lifes with couloured pencils and painted in watercolours. And for music, we’d have all these hand-held instruments and sing goofy folk songs like Going to the Zoo.
A couple that stand out in my memory in particular were a idiotic faux-Mexican song about a donkey that talks and walks and eats with a knife and fork, and an African song (not Kumbayah), where we got to play thumb pianos. It sounded like “wats-cha (lalalalala) wats-cha (lalalalala) wats-cha (lalalalala)”. I had no idea what it was on about, but it was fun to sing.
I was in 2nd grade in 1976, and my whole class (probably the whole school) got to hear the ecstatic cheers that went up when Hank Aaron hit a home run at an afternoon game. It may have been his last one before retiring, I’m not sure. My elementary school wasn’t that far from the old County Stadium.