CHILDREN OF PERESTROYA: What we did in class (36 photos)

I suggest we remember how we entertained ourselves during lessons at school. It is clear that many of you will now say: “We learned in class...”. I do not believe :)

Notebook games

1. The most common and favorite notebook game of all time was and remains “Battleship”:

2. Another good, childish, intellectual game “Hangman”:

One of the players thinks of a word - writes the first and last letter of the word on paper and marks the places for the remaining letters. A gallows with a noose is drawn. The second player suggests a letter that can be included in this word. If such a letter is in a word, then the first player writes it above the lines corresponding to this letter - as many times as it appears in the word. If there is no such letter, then a circle in a loop representing a head is added to the gallows. The second player continues to guess the letters until he guesses the entire word. For each wrong answer, the first player adds one body part to the gallows. If the torso in the gallows is drawn completely, then the guessing player loses and is considered hanged. If the player manages to guess the word, he wins and can guess the word. How many have we hanged...

3. Great strategy game "Dots":

A game for two people - for you and your desk neighbor. The task is to surround the enemy's points with dots of your color. The opponents take turns placing dots at the intersection of the lines of the checkered sheet, each with their own color. When you create a continuous (vertically, horizontally, diagonally) closed line, an area is created. If there are enemy points inside it (and there may be points that are not occupied by anyone else’s points), then this is considered an encirclement area in which it is further prohibited for any player to place a point. If there are no opponent's points, then the area is free and points can be placed in it.

4. Classics of the genre - "Tic Tac Toe":

If the lesson is very boring and long, then there is another option:

All my notebook covers, blotters and drafts were covered with tic-tac-toe :)

Do you remember blotters? So cool, soft, pleasant to the touch. I've always loved drawing stuff on them.

5. But the most exciting game for two was “Tanchiki”! This was our World of Tanks!

A double sheet of paper was torn out of the middle of the notebook and tanks were drawn on each half of the battlefield. During his turn, the player drew a bold dot with a pen on the end of the muzzle of his tank, folded the sheet along the fold, and on the reverse side drew the same dot in the place where the trace of the “shot” was visible. As a result, an ink imprint of a dot remained on the enemy’s field. If he hit an enemy tank, he was considered killed. Tanks could be painted on as the game progressed.

6. When your desk neighbor was sick, you could occupy yourself alone by drawing “braids” in the margins of your notebook:

The “braids” could be double, triple, quadruple, etc. Usually they indulged in this in high school, when parents no longer looked at notebooks and they were not submitted for testing...

7. Drawing margins in a notebook.

When the “victim of the board” has already been selected and answers at the beginning of the lesson, you can occupy yourself with drawing the fields in your notebook. Borderless notebooks were about the size of unwashed socks and an unkempt head. 4 cells from the edge, red pen.... shiiiiiiir... next sheet.....

8. When all the fields have already been drawn, the braids have been drawn, the games have been played, then you can use the cool officer ruler:

This was our Paint Brush. Various combinations of icons, their intersections, shading, shading, etc. A huge field for imagination!

9. Coins could also be used for pies and lunches.

Particularly cool prints came from the end of the KOH-I-NOOR pencil - it had such a yellow varnish there.

10. The notebook was not only our inexhaustible source of inspiration, but also a useful storehouse of information:

Who learned the Pioneer Oath from a notebook?

What about the Anthem of the Soviet Union?

What about the multiplication table and the metric system of measures?

Crafts

The notebook taught us not only spelling and mathematics, but also the basics of origami:

Crafts

The notebook taught us not only spelling and mathematics, but also the basics of origami:

The first time I saw a BMW exactly like this:

We were shipbuilders...

Or this:

Or this:

It was wonderful with water, at recess, down a flight of stairs, at fifth-graders going to lunch...

Or in class, suddenly, swing this:

From a notebook you could make a talking crow:

Girls made shirts from colored covers of old notebooks

From the new notebooks - “fortune tellers” and “secretaries”:

A candy or chewing gum wrapper, magazine clippings and postcards were placed in each fold. The pages were painted with patterns and numbered. At recess, the girls approached the boys and asked them to name a number at random. When the number was named, the desired page was opened, the fold was opened, the prediction written there was read, or the candy wrapper was given away, if there was one. The girls played a guessing game among themselves, thus exchanging the contents of the fortune tellers.

Another notebook hobby for girls is “Questionnaires”:

This was their shrine and charm. It was possible to steal her profile from a girl during recess and run around recreationally to her heart's content... It was cooler than pulling her pigtail :) I still remember the phrase from my sister’s profile: “One year is 365 days, 8760 hours, 525,600 minutes..." In general, all sorts of girly stuff :)

If you didn’t want to do anything, or got a bad lesson in class, then the rest of it could be spent doing the most exciting activity - drilling eraser with a pencil:

Many of my erasers had large through holes and could easily be put on a pencil... No, I was not a bad student :) During all 10 years of school, I had only 3 or 4 “C” grades in a quarter. :) I just liked drilling erasers and gnawing on pen caps - I “ate” them to the ground...

And I just loved scratching the covers of notebooks with my fingernails...

There are such cool discrete traces left on it, it’s a thrill.... It’s like popping bubble bags.

And during the lesson it was possible to add up various bad words from counting sticks, which caused muffled giggling from the neighbors at their desks :)

Turn!

There were many games during recess. Almost all of them were sports - coughing up millet from rods, catching up, blind man's buff, bullying girls, fights, football with someone's briefcase, "dogs" with a bespectacled man's diary, etc. But among the games there were also calm ones.

"Chick", for example:

It was necessary to hit a stack of others with one coin so that the maximum number of them turned over. Let’s say that if the coins were placed “tails” up, then the player could take for himself those coins that, after being hit with the “cue ball”, turned “heads” up. Teachers persecuted me for this game. She was considered a gambler and for money. Actually, that's how it was...

Later, the coins depreciated and were replaced by another currency - inserts:

The principle of the game is the same - after clapping the palm of the hand on a stack of inserts, the player could pick up those that turned face up. Actually, that’s why everyone had very tattered inserts in their collections - the consequences of numerous games.

Well, there's not much to say about Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Playing in class often resulted in both players being removed from the class. And their foreheads were red after it... :)

Football at school could be played not only with a ball, a can and a briefcase. We sometimes played table football with a foam ball.

We made (drew with a pencil) a goal on a flat table, the center of the field and, with the clapping of our palms, we drove a light ball back and forth. It was fun. The game is definitely not for a lesson - it’s too emotional :) By the way, it’s very suitable for the beach in the summer.

Pebbles.

There were several game options. They threw pebbles onto the floor, drove each of them between two others with a finger, threw them up and caught them with the back of their hand, etc. I'm sure everyone will tell you about their rules. That's all I could remember. And this is definitely not a complete list. Share your memories, tell us what you did during lessons (except studying) and breaks. :) Precisely in terms of “quiet” games.