Did you ever get flowers or candy for Valentine’s Day?

Where did you spend Thanksgiving and with who when you were growing up?

Did you have picnics? Who with and where? What would you take with you?

Did you watch fireworks on the Fourth of July? Who and where did you celebrate it with?

Did you dye Easter eggs during Easter? Who helped you? Did you ever get a new Easter dress?

Did you and your schoolmates exchange Valentines in elementary school? Did you make them yourselves? Do you remember what any of them looked like? Did you keep them in anything special?

What was Halloween like for you growing up? Did you ever play tricks on people? What costumes do you remember wearing? Who did you go trick or treating with?

What did Christmas morning feel like when you were a child? Do you remember it being hard to go to sleep the night before?

What did your family typically do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

What Christmas decorations did you put up every year?

Did you ever get a surprise birthday party when you were young?

Can you remember a historic event that happened while you were in school? Who told you what had happened and what was it?

Do you remember having to stand up in front of class to read a paper or story? Did you have to do multiplication tables on the black board?

Do you remember your mother or father ever coming to your school?

Were you ever disciplined at school? How?

What was your attitude about going to grade school? Were you excited about it or were you bored by the whole thing?

Did you ever win any awards at school?

Did you say the Pledge of Allegiance to start your day? Did you say a prayer