Smyrna times., 1935-08-29

STUDY GROUPS
New Division at School Com
posed of Those Too Young
to Enter First Grade
l. A r G E ENROLMENT

a HluCu ldISCI 6uIOlilllCHl 10 ca
pected this year in the Kindergart-
en- Department of the Smyrna
Special District Schools for the en-
suing year, says Miss Helen @.
Foard, teacher. This increase is
due to the fact that there will be
quite a change in this little depart
ment. To just the regular Kin
dergarten class there will be added
a pre-Kindergarten Class. This
pre-Kindergarten class will be held
in the morning from 8:45 to 11:30
and will consist of the younger
children, those who will be too
young to enter the first grade the
following year, so therefore will be
retained in Kindergarten and will
enter the older group of Kinder
garten pupils in September, 1886.
The children entering this class
must be at least four years four
months of age by this September.
The other class will be held in the
afternoon from 1890 to $40 and
it will be the regular Kindergarten
group for children who will enter
first grade next September. A dis
tinct and separate program will be
carried out in each group and the
work will be planned in accordance
with the child's ability and age; in
this way there will be no repetition
of either work or play for the little
child who will remain in Kinder
garten two years; just as the ad-
vanced Kindergarten group enters
first grade, so will the pre-Kinder-
garten group enter the advanced
Kindergarten and find new adjust
ments to make and new work to
do.
Program for Advance Kindergarten
THE program for the advanced
Kindergarten, says Miss Foard,
will consist of the usual habit
building, health training, muscular
development. but added to this will
be small program of reading,
writing and counting which tends
to make a stronger link between
kindergarten and First Grade. In
the pre-Kindergarten group great
allowances will be made for the
childs age and mental ability and
the work will deal mostly with
habit building, health training, and
physical, and mental adjustments
that a child has to make to new
surroundings and new companions.
This pre-Kindergarten group is a
great opportunity for the little
child who has few companions at
home and who would consequently
prove a problem to his mother, for
when a child has little to occupy
him he is inclined to wander on the
streets and become in great danger
of traffic, whereas in Kindergarten
he will find safety and companion
ship and directed play, both in
doors, and out, in the sunshine and
fresh air. kindergarten places
health foremost and always on
class days there is a play period
out of doors, and every day a rest
period indoors. Your little child
will learn how to play with other
children unselfishly and without
danger to himself or to others.
Attention of Mothers is Enlisted
"All of you mothers VINO have
little children who are four years,
four months. or five years four
months, bring them around to the
lovely new Kindergarten room in
the new building of the Smyrna
Schools, Friday, September the 8,
at one o'clock, to be enrolled in
either the pre-Kindergarten group
or the kindergarten. Further ex-
PLANTATION of the work for each
group will be gladly given to you
at that time. We especially hope
the mothers who live outside of
| town will make an effort to send
their little ones to kindergarten,
but at least stop in and talk it
over Friday afternoon"