Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-11-23
New kindergarten

AL a recent meeting or the
school board it was decided to
equip q room and elect a spe-
,ial teacher for kindergarten
work. One of the rooms in the
second ward building has been
set aside for this purpose and
Miss Irene Baker, of Atlantic,
has been elected to fill the DO
sition of teacher. Miss Baker
comes very highly recommend
ed and is a graduate of the
Kindergarten Course of the
Iowa State Teachers College at
Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Work in this new department
will commence next Monday,
November Goth. The younger
pu. lis from Miss Brandrif and
MISS Shurt's rooms will be
transferred and will make up
this new room. Parents will
send their children to the regu-
~ teacher Monday morning 40
usual and the pupils will be
taken to their new teacher in
the second ward. No rev pu.
pills will be admitted at this
time as the pupils now enrolled
will make more than enough
for this new department. The
pupils in Miss Brandriff's room
will attend from now on both
sessions of school.
We might say that the OBJ
ject' of the Kindergarten is to
adapt the child to a changed
environment, ie.. to a new so.
cial condition. The freedom of
the home is modified and the
activities are directed so as to
develop logically all his natur-
al powers. In order to coordin-
ate the Kindergarten and pri-
mary grades, the kindergarten
exercises are modified toward
the close of the year in prepar-
alton for promotion. There
are periods of silent work and a
greater proportion of independ-
emit work. The change from
hearing and speaking words to
reading and writing them is
made just as easy and uncon-
scious for the pupils as possible.
The work in general consists
of Language, Nature Study,
Music, Physical Training,
Hand work, Numbers. Games
and Stories. The hand work il
suggested by the Kindergarten
gifts and occupations. 1t in.
cludes building with blocks,
Gifts 260 designing and out
lining objects witt, tablets.
sticks, rings, seeds etc, Model.
ing in clay and sand; drawing,
painting, weaving. sewing; pa
per folding; paper cutting and
mounting. The gift work io-
cludes all the Frowbelian gifts
The ten occupations are taught
Number is developed in every
phase of the work by counting;
by the gift work in number
combinations, with the blocks,
in construction and folding.
Games will be emphasized
and of the following nature:
Pure activity games. tradition
al, representative, trade, and
Mother Play games.
Stories of the following kinds:
Traditional. Folk Stories, Fairy
ST. ries, Fables. MYTHS. Heroic
Stories. Historical, Humorous
and Nature.
In this brief outline we can
not give full infor nation hut
the kindergarten work is being
given a prominent place in the
schools all over the country.
Supt. of Schools.
Don't think that piles can't
be cured. Thousands of obsti-
nate cases have been cured by
Doan's Ointment. so cents at
any drug store. n 80
presents the bride and groom
left on the afternoon train for
short wedding trip.
The bride is a graduate from
Brownell hall, Omaha; the
groom of Grinell college, Iowa.
The Rev. G. G. Rice of Coun.
Gil Bluffs performed the mar.
|riage ceremony of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. C. Milliman and of their
daughters given in marriage.
He is SO years of age and the
great uncle of the bride today,
Mrs. Frank Potter.