Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-08
Educator Endorses
Kindergarten Moue

Some very worth while ideas on
The value of Kindergarten training to
The children have been given by Miss
Julia G. Staub of Evansville, Ind.
that city and state, who is vitality in
terested in the kindergarten move
tnent. Miss Staub says: (
"Experience has convinced me that
the child entering the first grade from
a well-organized and well-instructed
kindergarten has a far superior start
over the child who enters without
such training.
For example, the kindergarten
child has beer trained in handwork.
He knows how to handle scissors and
paste, crayons and water-colors, clay
and weaving materials. He is thus
occupation period, and he has a
splendid foundation upon which to
build the later more difficult study
lessons.
"a kindergarten child has learned
how to express his ideas orally, to
relate his experience, and to repro
duce stories which are the delight Of
all children. He has had much OPP
portunity to illustrate, by means of
drawings, crude though they be, the
various phases of the life he sees
.doOul I'LL Il IlcVCl say L ~dAA =
or II don't know how" He goes to
work and makes something.
"a kindergarten child never cries,
nor balks at the idea Of going to
school. lie is so interested in learning
the written and printed symbols for
the already familiar spoken word.
He has a rich fund of nature-knowl-
edge and story-lore from his term in
the kindergarten, and unless you are
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fully appreciate what his means.
Then, too, a kindergarten child
has been trained in rhythm, and if
o are up to date o. will want to
set aside some part of the day for
folk-games, and o know how much
these depend upon a of rhythm
in the children participating.
kindergarten training also accus-
toms a child to the later ways Of
school. He learns not to want a drink
every five minutes, and he isn't selfish
In his work n play, He has re-
ceived his first training in the CO.
operative ideals of American citizen
ship, and his greatest pleasure is in
lending a helping hand to his neigh
Dor.
II am so firm a, believer in the adj
have abolished desks in my first
grade ROOM. using instead the kinder
garten tables and chairs, with a wall
cabinet spaced off for each child's
belongings. I continue the games
which they have acquired in the
kindergarten and / build upon the
handwork taught there.
81 am trying to make the child feel
that he is simply making a forward
step when he enters the first grade
frort the kindergarten. so 1 preserve,
as far as possible, the atmosphere of
busy free activity, n some Of my
lB-year-old kindergarten-trained chill
dren are wonders in their esta blished
habits Of industry and alertness to
perceive and acquire new ideas"
Mrs. j. A. Poppler and Mrs. A. P.
Clifford entertained at dinner Friday
evening at Mrs. Poppler's apartments
in the Dinnie block. The affair was
given in honor of the twentieth wed
ding anniversary Of Mr.. and Mrs. q.
8. L'Esperance. 1928 Chestnut street.
Yellow chrysanthemums were used In
the living room and In the dining
room where with yellow candle
shades they made the table attrac-
tive There were fourteen guests and
they passed the evening at bridge.
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The girls of Larimorc hall enter.
tanned at an old fashioned Halloween
party last evening for the Sayre hall
young men. This party was to have
been given n week ago. but con
dictions necessitated the postpone
ment. There were us guests and a
light supper was served at the close
Of a pleasant evening of games an6
stunts.
Miss Cora McClaren of McCanna
N. D.. is visiting in the city as thu
Ftiest of her brother-in-law and sister
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Collins, 60
North Third street.