There is a big, cold storm that spreads across the dairy farm----and when the farmer milks the cow, Milly, she produces ice cream instead of milk!
Do you remember the days when our schools and libraries weren't air-conditioned? I can remember it being over 90 degrees in my classroom and trying to teach important concepts to hot, sweaty students. I can remember bringing in a box fan from home to try and cool my classroom---and it was so noisy that I practically had to yell in order to be heard. I can remember doing inventory in the un-air-conditioned library at the beginning of June and being hot, cranky, and grimy.
What are your memories of too-warm schools and libraries?
AND---what is your favorite flavor of ice cream? (The book doesn't indicate what flavor of ice cream that Milly produced). :-)
I only remember West High being too warm while I was in class. Or too too cold!!! One icy cold day my 4th grade teacher offered us hot chocolate, which turned out to be hersey kisses, not hot chocolate, I think I almost froze that day!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite flavor of ice cream is banana or marshmallow with hot fudge sundae toppings like walnuts and whip cream.
At the old Beacon Heights, the computer lab was the highest point in the building and was west facing. No air conditioning and students needing lots of water. (Thank goodness this was pre-computerized testing!) One day when I came in the room, I saw all of the students lying on the floor, passed out from the heat! It was just a joke on Mrs. Herron. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite ice cream flavor has to be mint chocolate chip - yum!
In the old Backman, I was the computer lab teacher for 3 years. Our computer lab was in an old chair closet behind the auditorium. It was long and narrow with no air circulating at all. The first 2 years it was so hot in there I thought the computers would melt. I finally complained to the District enough that they put an air conditioner just in that room. Since the rest of the school was not air conditioned I became the popular place to be. The next year they closed up that room and put all the computers in the library and a conference room off of the library. Yes, indeed, it really pumped up the temperature in the library. That was the year I became a Library Technology Teacher/computer teacher.
ReplyDeleteAdditional comment on the ice cream. My favorite ice cream is Strawberry with lots of hot fudge, bananas (the only nutritional part), and whipped cream. YUMMY!!!
ReplyDeleteeven the new buildings have problems. When they were building the new Franklin, the contractors left all the HVAC equipment on the roof uncovered all winter. When we came back to school in July (it was year-round then) the bearings on the fan unit for the library burned out. I had no air circulation at all except what would come through the open doors - none of the windows opened. It was that way for over a week until they got the problem diagnosed and the fan unit replaced.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, there was an Ice cream parlor run by a man named Dan Johnson, on 7th South and 9th East. He made his own, and it was the best. (But as he aged, he bought from one of the other makers in town.) Put me down for Burnt Almond Fudge, or Malt flavored (Snelgroves used to make that one).
ReplyDeleteI remember 2 elementary schools that had all windows along the South side. I would go home feeling sick. Here, sometimes the air conditioning goes out. One time I was teaching a lesson to some young mothers. It was so hot. I said "We are going to my car." We crammed in my car, did the lesson, and turned on the air conditioning.
ReplyDeleteOh, I forgot. My favorite ice cream is Farr's huckleberry
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like a great story. One that will have the children giggling. My sister, while living on the east coast convinced some of her friends that brown cows produced chocolate milk and the cowboys and Indians were still shooting at one another (late '70s). I like the idea of ice cream much better - if you've never tasted really cold raw milk it's almost better than ice cream. My favorite ice cream today is Java Chocolate Chip, tomorrow may be different though.
ReplyDeleteThose book inventory sessions without AC were HOT!
ReplyDeleteMy son, Lenny, conjures an amazing green tea ice cream that is my current favorite.
ReplyDeleteI was a home ec. teacher back in the day...at Bryant. The kids didn't have any energy to do anything, so I filled a large bowl with ice and put a box fan in front of it. It helped a little. I tried giving kids ice to eat, but that got disruptive...slurping and crunching.
ReplyDeleteI remember the summer we moved into the new Nibley Park library. I spent several weeks setting shelves etc. in 85+ degree library. My favorite ice cream was Snelgrove's Canadian vanilla. Woe is me it is no longer available. I like this book too. I read a great one called Don't Play With Your Food the other day at B&N.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite ice cream is any that will go with hot fudge topping. Also, a Heath concrete is yummy!
ReplyDeleteI remember the first year that I taught here at Newman. We were in the old school building and I was teaching first grade. During September, my classroom literally hit the 100*+ temperatures. One day, it was 107*. Yah, I remember just giving up on trying to get through to the kids and reading them a story while sitting/lying on the floor.
ReplyDeleteI was teaching in the old annex building on the Washington Campus and the temperatures in the fall were in the 100's. The tarmac would cook your tennis shoes. After recess I would have the children lie on the floor and cool down. We ate popsicles. I love ice cream, any kind, any time, any place.
ReplyDeleteMy first six years of teaching were with no air conditioning. I taught my first year in a tiny town in California amongst cherry trees. I taught resource in a room in the middle of three other classrooms. The windows did not open and if I kept the door open there was a layer of dust on everything within minutes. So just imagine the temperature in the 100s and being covered in dust. My next five years I taught in Ogden. It was a little bit better. Still no air conditioning but no dust!
ReplyDeleteI am very grateful for air conditioning in the library. I have come in the summer when there is no summer school to do things in the library and it is stifling. The district will not have the air conditioning on unless students are there.
My favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip.
I remember teaching in the hot of end of summer and fall and then again at the end of spring start of summer. Oh my, children walking like zombies in the hallway, pale, starring blankly ahead. Some would have nose bleeds, other fainted away in the class or hallway. I would prop open all the windows to get a nice warm breeze or not, just warm.
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