Rewind·Posted on Apr 7, 201738 Things You Did In Elementary School That You've Completely Forgotten AboutIt was all about getting those gold stars!by Brian GalindoBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Feeling super special whenever you earned a much coveted Weepul: 2. Having a reading nook — that in reality you wanted to spend all day in: 3. Cardboard pencil books that held your most ~valuable~ possessions (aka fancy erasers and crayons): 4. That feeling of adulation you felt whenever you got a gold star on your homework or test: 5. Learning how to tell time with one of these: 6. Having to cut paper with one of these relics — which really couldn't cut and also hurt your hand: 7. Having to get a hall pass whenever you were late or needed to go to the front office: 8. Using this sharpener — which basically sounded like a chainsaw being revved up: 9. Sitting in one of these not-so-comfortable classics, which, if you had long hair, also meant getting a few strands caught in the screws: 10. Drinking McDonald's Orange Drink (which basically tasted like sugar and very, very, very watered-down orange juice) at school functions: 11. Raising money for the school by selling these delicious chocolate bars... 12. ...and this shiny AF wrapping paper: 13. Playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? during computer lab time: 14. Being issued an old wooden ruler that had maybe a little too much of the metal blade exposed and could, TBH, probably be used as a weapon: 15. Knowing the lesson was going to get serious whenever your teacher pulled down the maps: 16. Saving the best Valentine's Day card from the pack for your BFF or crush: 17. Having flash cards for EVERYTHING: 18. Learning to read with Dick and Jane books... 19. ...and random books that had stories that made no sense: 20. Feeling cool whenever you got to write on the chalkboard with the teacher's chalk holder: 21. Or helping the teacher make perfect lines with one of these: 22. Drinking chocolate milk from those teeny-tiny cartons: 23. Eating everything with a spork: 24. Trying to use these glue bottles that looked like they had been around since the early ’70s: 25. Getting frustrated whenever you tried to open the top window with one of these: 26. Having about two minutes of fun playing tetherball (before the whole thing wrapped around the pole): 27. Having a set of cursive instructions at the top of the chalkboard: 28. And using your finger for a space when you first learned to write: 29. Being the kid in charge of handing out the calculators when it was math time — and best of all, having this snazzy carrier to hand them out with: 30. These weird bathroom sinks: 31. These old-school soap dispensers that were filled with that powdery pink soap: 32. Reading lots of books in order to get free Pizza Hut pizza: 33. Bringing home a monthly cafeteria calendar: 34. Having your classroom and school library decorated in new and old "Read" posters: 35. Having your book stamped anytime you checked something out from the school library: 36. Square pizza that tasted sorta like pizza: 37. Chewing disclosing tablets so that you could see how good a job you were doing at brushing your teeth: 38. And finally, getting hit in the face with one of these while playing kickball: