The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-09


established this year with Queen
Emma hall for its headquarters, and
that an able, trained Kindergarten,
Miss Hannah E. Eastman, one of Mrs.
Cooper's own choice workers has been
secured to aid us as organizer. The
four successful minor kindergartens
already established in the years 1928,
for the Hawaiians, Portuguese, Chi
nese and Japanese, have been placed
under her supervision; while the fifth
free kindergarten, for the children of
American, English, German and ,peo-
pie of various nationalities has been
opened under Miss Eastman's particu-
lar teaching.
She has a training class for teachers
which includes all the teachers al
ready employed in our mission schools,
as of necessity in beginning the work
we could not secure teachers who had
taken the regular course. And it is
to awake the desire of others to know
and possibly enter this class in future
that this article Is prepared.
To give little idea of what kinder
garten teaching is, and how it lays
foundations for future work, L con-
dense exceedingly the programme of
the two years course laid down for
teachers in the Golden Gate Associa-
ton.
1. Observation and Work - First
Year. Games and songs with form
gifts, by which the square, rectangle,
oblong and circle are all made familiar
to the little eye, with recognition of
angles. By form gift is meant, that
after the children have learned all
these things, they receive as their own
the article that gave the lesson.
2. Observation and Work-Second
Of orrhn in hn
fifth and sixth gifts. Much combina-
ton and practice in making all these
forms in clay and paper.
8. Modelling and Drawing-First
Year. Automatic exercises for both
hands in games, songs and dictatiOn.
Tracing outlines with hands and fin
gers and with pencils. Cardboard
sewing. Drawing simple objects con-
structed in the kindergarten.
4. Second Year. Drawing from
simple forms in nature and art. Out
lining and shading. Modelling in clay
and sand.
5. Color Work-First Year. Color
and rainbow games. Recognition of
the standard prism colors. Matching
colors. Second Year. Selecting col
ors in nature and art. Testing the
children's color perceptions. Water
coloring, after nature, fruit and
flowers.
6. Number Work - First Year.
Number game with beads, blocks,
sticks and reeds to develop the idea of
one and more than one. Counting in
groups of twOs, threes, fours and fives.
By the end of the first year children
should be brought up to ten or twelve
in numbers.
Z. Number Work - First Year.
Giving and guessing games. DeveI-
oping in simple ways formation of
numbers in groups of twos, threes,
fours and on to higher numbers,
counting backwards and forward.
Dividing and selling with toy money.
s. Size and Dimension-FirstY Year.
Training of eye in size, length and
width accuracy of the aim. Second
year-Weight and measure by object
lessons and practice in inches, feet,
and lifting different weights.
8. Life and Nature.-Lessons and
talks on plants, flowers; observations
and stories on animals-al1 to develop
direct love and sympathy in the
child; lessons on the human frame
from their own bodies.
10. Locality and Geography.-Talks
on earth and sky; develop ideas of
right and left, in direction, and the
points of the compass observation on
the locality of the homes; on rivers,
lakes, earth, air, sky.
II. Physical and Chemical Proper
plants, animals,
and minerals; simple experiments
making cabinets OF natural objects.
u. Training in morals and polite
ness by talks, stories and influence.
Is. Biography and history.
II. Language, free hand drawing
and writing.
Is. Physical training.
1t is evident from this brief review
of the course for kindergartners that it
is no trifiing affair to be successful
teacher, and that the course for chill
dren is an education as we'll as pas
time.
In the words of one article in the
valuable report already alluded to:
alt goes without saying that there
must be good, moral character, sincere
love for children, and an enthusiasm
for teaching; also, good, firm health
to he a successful Kindergarten"
Yet it is hoped that this "enthu-
siasm for humanity" may spread, and
that many who cannot devote them
selves to teaching may catch this
spirit at home, and that those who
have means may help in the establish
ment of the Free kindergarten on all
these islands.
1t is earnestly desired to form a
mothers class, which may meet Occa-
sionally and have the benefit of lec-
lures on kindergarten methods, illus
trated by the educated movements of
the little ones in classes; but this
must be developed in the future. Such
classes are now quite feature of this
kindergarten work in Chicago and
other cities. a TEACHER.
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