Fifth Grade

Ms. Edna C. Gardner

Julius Fuller described his time in fifth grade as a trouble-maker. He said “she had a way of getting you out of the rooms to stand you in the corner and she’d kind of grab you by your ears… but there was no harm done. You’re gonna get into trouble sometimes.”

George Penn recalled "Then we had Miss Gardner; she taught fifth grade. She taught me how to read, you know--write and read--and internalize what you're reading. She’d go over and over and over it, and she says “Now, what did you just read?”  I said, “Words out of this book.”  “Well, what did the words mean?” So you had to do that; you had to learn."