They still have gym class in our school district, all the way through Freshman year in high school. During elementary school, it's only 2 times per week. In middle school it's every day in that semester, but then they have a different class the next semester.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:56:53 PM)| |  | guidogodoy wrote: | | Oh, good to hear about the recorders! The songs that I mentioned are the ones that stuck out in my mind.
Does gym class still exist there? Speaking to those with kids around here, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo or at best cut down to something goofy like once a week.
| | | HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS wrote: | | Yes, both my sons started to play the recorder in school in 4th grade. Everyone has to learn to play it in our school district. Kind of a prep for band to introduce them to playing music and hopefully joining band.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Amazing story about your sister. Very Kewl indeed. Would have been touching to have been there at the same time as the landing. Heck, you saw my posts about a small graveyard in Hawai'i, I could only imagine.
About Gallipoli, I have NO idea if they still do it but here we all had to learn to play the "recorder" (basic flute if you don't know it). Common song was "Waltzing Mathilda" and, oddly enough, the "Austrian Hymn." Never knew much about what we were playing until the later grades and we learned the history but I cannot get either songs out of my head if I tried. Both easy, yet haunting tunes.
I think I still have my recorder at my mother's house. Hell, why would she give away my six/seven-hole piece of plastic? LOL! "Nobody waiting for me to grieve or pity...." one of the lines (or close to it).
Wonder if the "kids" today still have to learn the recorder? Be curious to know in an age where gym classes are going the way of the dodo.
| | | Becks wrote: | | That's interesting that you guys learnt about Gallipoli too! My sister was extremely lucky this year - she was at ANZAC cove for the dawn service, as a part of the New Zealand Defence Force contingent (she's a civilian working for NZDF). To be there, at the exact time those men landed on the peninsula, would have been spine tingling.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Fine info about your "Memorial Day," Becks. Always curious.
About Gallipoli? People my age learned it in Elementary School+ In EVERY textbook and, yes, it did include NZ and their massive losses.
While I take the day to remember those who gave their lives for my freedom, I also give thanks to those who currently (or will) serve their nations. IMO, they deserve more than a day.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Happy Memorial Day to all my American friends. Sending my respects to all serving personnel around the world!!!
As a point of interest, our equivalent of memorial day is ANZAC day (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) on the 25th of April - we commemorate all NZers lost in war and those who came home, April 25th marks the day ANZAC forces landed at Gallipoli in 1915. Gallipoli was a huge disaster, it's worth learning about, as sad as it is.
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