The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-27

mencement exercises of the graduating
Gloss represents the daily work
of the kindergarten, showing its
methods in actual practice and sug-
costing the principles upon which they
are founded
The graduates, wearing badges of
white and green upon their white
gowns, will be seated in the center of
the stage. At the left will be the
principals of the Savannah kindergar-
tens-graduates of last year-and at
the right the junior class.
The Graduating Exercises.
One of the graduates. Miss Margaret
V. Converse, recently received an APP
pointment as principal of a summer
kindergarten at Columbia, S. c., and
is in entire charge of a school of thirty
five children, with only one unframed
assistant. She will return to Savan-
nah tomorrow to receive her diploma.
After the opening songs of greeting
by the class and Miss Backus' address,
there will follow short talks on kinder
garten subjects, explaining the va
rious phases of kindergarten work.
These talks are very sensibly limited
to five minutes each and will deal with
actual experiences in the kindergarten
showing the way in which the little
foreigners difficulties are met, the need
for the private as we'll as for the free
kindergarten, and the mothers stand
point. viewed from the kindergarten
and from the home. These points will
be briefly discussed by Miss Boggs,
Miss Spencer and Mrs. Watt.
The rhythm work, which has been
brought to such perfection in the Sa-
vannah system and which always
, arouses admiration in visitors, will be
exemplified by the training school
in various ways. The songs
will be worked out by clap
ping the big rhythm, and then
the time variation, and then by half
the school doing one and half the other.
This will undoubtedly be one of the
best parts of the programme, as any
one who has seen the children in their
rhythm exercises can readily believe.
Somewhat later in the evening two
more of the rhythm movements VIII
be given, the Rocking Chair" and the
Rocking Horse"
The March Ball Drill.
There will be a march and ball drill
under the direction of Miss Sara Charl-
ton, whose wonderful skill has never
been better illustrated than in the re-
suits she has accomplished in a short
the school who have been, for the most
part, hitherto quite unframed in TINS
line.
The latter portion of the programme
VIII be- devoted to a Ten Minute Ron
Call of Educational Quotations" Thls
Will comprise brief extracts upon prac
teal subjects selected from the best
educational thought in literature ana
with each quotation will be given
short sentence or two telling some
thing of the author himself. 1t is
hoped to make these little talks, and IN
fact, the entire programme as far as
possible informal.
The Pupils, work.
At the close of the regular exercises
the visitors will be asked to inspecI
the material results of the classes III
manual training. Much of the basket
work will be exhibited. some done III
splints, in colored strips, fancy straw;
sweet grass, reed and rata, plaiteu
and in all colors.
Another attractive exhibit will Dc
the art work, which, when 1t is re-
membered that it is done, for the mos
part, by those entirely unframed III
technical art is quite remarkable. Es-
pecially good are the tone pictures
some of which, in gray tones, nave
been mistaken at short distance To-
photographs, and others done in brll,,
liant poster effects that are clever anu
original.
The programme and the exhibit WIZ
he quite different from those OF lasN
year and even more inviting.