Here is a start at what I remember from Rheems Elementary school from Kindergarten through 6th grade. The school building had been built a few years earlier, but I had no idea, nor did I think about that, while I was there.

Later I would discover that I was, in Myers-Briggs personality type terms, an "intuitive" student where most students are "sensing". In general, the term "sensing" means that one needs to "sense" what one is learning and learns it exactly as presented by the teacher without thinking much about why one is learning it that way. An "intuitive" learner has "intuitions" about what way to go and then follows those intuitions, going beyond what the teacher might be teaching but, at the same time, not always paying attention to what the teacher is teaching.

As an example, by 5th and 6th grade, from reading biography and history books from the library, I had pieced together a mental model of history from Alexander the Great, Hannibal, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Revolutionary War, Napoleon, the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, etc., but none of that was of use in class. On the other hand, as I later recalled, I had no idea what Juan and Maria had done in the social studies stories from Central and/or South America.

So, throughout K-12, college, graduate school, and beyond, there were always things that all the other students would learn and know, but somehow I missed learning those things. But, on the other hand, I would sometimes perplex teachers by coming up with ideas, questions, answers, etc., that they had never considered (and sometimes would not consider). These traits became more and more useful in eventually getting a PhD (computer science) and in research, but in grade school, these traits probably had to be endured by teachers and others.

• Kindergarten: Miss Herr
• Grade 1: Mrs Knauf
• Grade 2: Mrs Lehman
• Grade 3: Mrs Bucher
• Grade 4: Mrs Kenderdine
• Grade 5: Mrs Kilhefner
• Grade 6: Miss Longenecker