The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-02-21
THE KINDERGARTEN CHILD
IN THE FIRST GRADE

}! MISS felHdnueZ IOf many years
supervisor of the Primary Depart
ment.
Efficiency is a word which we heal
IN every hand in the last few years
tertain standards are set up and fine
Hy spun theories and elabOrately
planned organization have no place
n our regard unless they accomplish
something which tend toward world
)etterment. To use the common par
ance an individual or an organiza
ion to be worth while must make
good
Does the kindergarten make good
It merely day nursery, place of
afe amusement or does ii exercise a
more far reaching Influence?
In order that human being be
perfectly balanced that he may get
vs. nearly perfect knowledge OF the
outside world as possible it is neces-
iary that all his senses be we'll train
ed 1t has been found that if tins
ense training is not received in early
childhood the senses never become
70 perfectly developed 1t is fitting,
AIRY for, try hard as one may the
then, prepares the child
hen, that the kindergarten do this
work. If this is done we find the
;enses OF the naturally alert child
)etter balanced and those OF the
jhlegmatic child being reused from
ethargy. The latter is very neces
;ary for try hard as one may the
mind cannot be trained until it Is
tlert and ready to receive ideas. Tho
kindergarten then pre- ares the child's
mind to receive what we are pleased
o call formal knowledge or the les
ions taught in the school proper. The
senses are not developed merely by
ime without training so a child of
ichool age without training cannot
compete with the child from the good |
| say good kindergar-
.en, which implies good equipment
md a wise and well trained director |
The occasional child without training |
who does compete in every way may |
Je the exception that proves the rule |
t is usually found that the average |
'hild with kindergarten training does
lis school work more thoroughly and |
n less time than does the normal
hid without this training
The child from the Kindergarten
whose hand and brain have been
rained to work together attacks a
'iece Of practical work with the clear
,yed intelligence Of one Nho has
lefinite end in vi3N cHc knows in
etail how to attain .ha. e.a
The child in kindergarten gets hi,
irst view Of one of the requisites OF |
american citiZenship-tna of coon
ration with others or, in other words.
cam work Every one is working
or a common interest-the good of
he school Self interest at the ex-
ense of rights of others is minimiz-
d. Although this is a principle in
ulcated and promulgated from the
kindergarten through the university,
he kindergarten is the time for SOW
lg the seeds for this period: the
DOTS strike more deeply. The grade
eacher does not have to take the
me for this planting. for the roots are
rowing already Nourishment is all
hat is need That shyness which
ampers one in accomplishing ones
urposes is largely eliminated in the
indergarten The games and plays |
hich are engaged in there are so in
,resting that the child forgets that
g may be observed BY others Self
is lost the child learns
, stand on his own feet, he gains
lat poise as a child which in maturity
the man of the world
This is written by one who does not
resume 10 lay claim to the training
a kindergarten teacher. who pro-
.sses TO have the knowledge OF only
few of the fundamental principles
child study. The writer has been.
owever, an interested observer OF
he results of kindergarten as the
hid advances to the work of the
rade school and has been interested
/ studying the comparative ability Of
lie average child from kindergarten