The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-06-14
School Exhibit
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teacher who does it largely by holding their
interest.
! One of the most important consider
atoms in kindergarten course is that the
children are taught obedience and rever-
ence for their elders-something lament
ably absent in the home training OF some.
Those who, through no fault OF their own,
have missed the advantages OF proper train
ing, act very differently after attending
school for few weeks.
Of invaluable aid in kindergarten work
is music. Through following the piano,
they are taught singing, marching and
rhythm; for instance, in their pretty drills
they change instantly from march to
skip, from a run to hop, simply by dis
tingushing the time and without word OF
direction from the teacher.
Much of the work assigned the children
! is for the purpose Of developing initiative
and self-reliance. They are given great
deal of free-hand work, including draw
| ing, free-hand cutting, elementary design
ing, simple water color painting and tracing.
It is surprising to see into what an almost
| infinite number of designs building blocks
can be constructed Hundreds of different
/ children may take the same set of blocks
and you never will see any two designs
exactly alike unless under direction. thus,
originality in the child is developed
Bead stringing is used for teaching color,
form and numbers Not one adult in a
hundred can name all the colors of the
rainbow but these little folks learn to give
them readily from colored cubes, cylinders
and balls. Peg boards, a constant source
of delight, are used in teaching them form,
design, color and numbers.
In drawing a picture, Of a carpenter at
his bench, for instance, each child brings
out his own original conception. In
group of pictures showing the family wash
ing on the line one child had brought stove
out into the yard to dry the clothes In de-
picting the story of the Israelites crossing
the Red Sea, one small artist represented
stolid dark figures marching across CLEAN
ing red expanse.
In a sand table, one noticed cardboard
school building, while here and there over
the grounds were toboggan slides, swings,
teeter-totters, ETC., all made by the children.
A source of great delight to the little
folks, as well as older ones, was glass case
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Japanese spinning mice.
Each of the four seasons of the year, with
all their suggestions, are taught the children.
For instance, there were cut-out pictures On
the walls of Fall leaves, pumpkins, baskets
of grapes, and turkeys indicating Thanks
giving. Winter was shown by miniature
snow scenes, with farm houses and ever
green trees. Spring was represented by
boys flying kites and by pretty little draw
ings of pussy willows done by the children,
something not easy even for an unskilled
grown person. A real pussy willow is
shown the children and the drawings are
made from the original
We cannot mention all the cunning OBJ
jects and designs on display, but we must
not omit the inevitable Noah's Ark, with
doors wide open while immense lions, ele-
plants, giraffes, bears, tigers, rhinoceroses
and other animals, cut from picture books,
marched in sedately, two by two. Neither
must we fail to mention the doll house of
four rooms kitchen, dining room, parlor
and bedroom-all nicely furnished, and
every part constructed by the little folks
themselves.