Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 29, 2016

First grade art? Cow legs are simple then, just draw stick legs.

I “failed” first grade, but that’s because my teacher and principal wanted to hold me back on purpose. They said I had a speech impediment and then put me in the slower classes even though I was fine. Basically Richmond Public Schools sucked in 1996

at the kindergarten i was the only kid who’s drawings were not pined.

Sally in 1st grade. What grade is CB? And LVP?

Some of our first grade’s assignments are just so pointless. Though I feel sad for Sally for not knowing what a farm is.

It is hard to draw a cow, though

I never liked first grade art either.

The first two years of school were the hardest years of all my years of education. I expected that I would learn how to count, read and write, but no such luck, what I had to do was not even near to Sally’s task, drawing a farm.

Didn’t she get a “C” for a wire coathanger sculpture?

Wut maks yu sy that?

Sally’s head is gonna explode when she gets to fractions.

sad to be a loser like her…

My dad was in the US Air Force. I was born in Germany and failed the 1st grade because I could not speak English.

Use your imagination, Sally.

Feisty little thing, isn’t she? A Lucy in the making. Tsk, tsk.

I remember getting in trouble in first grade for being a smart a$$. I drew a triangle in the middle of a page full of scribbling. When asked, I told the teacher it was a sailboat in a storm. I was sent to the office & my parents were called. Apparently it was something in the way I answered the teacher. I was serious…it was a sailboat in a storm…she should have been able to see that!

I was often terrified in early school days. Everybody else always seemed to know what was going on but not me…I mean “I”. Especially perforations. I couldn’t get the perforations in my workbook (yes, a workbook in 1st grade; I went to a parochial school in the late 50s) to tear cleanly. My 1st grade teacher was a nun who strongly resembled the monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and I was scared to death of tearing a page. But I tell you what….all those bills with those little perforated tear-off thingys — I LAUGH at them today because of my early education.

I was sent home with a note because I colored grass red…

Oh Sally.

Don’t take it to heart that you are failing art.

Yes, I did intend to rhyme.

xxx

You so sure about that?

Sally = Calvin as a girl