The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-09

| TWo-Half Day Programs Scheduled
The play school program as devel
oped by the Laboratory will servs
approximately 40 children from t.
school age with halliday program
one in the morning and one in the
afternoon. The morning group will
contain younger children while the
afternoon group will serve older chill
dren. Most of these children will be
from upper-income bracket families
and will pay $3.50 per quarter. Fruit
juice, cod-liver oil, etc. will be pro
vided A university bus will provide
transportation to and from school. A
small charge to pay the wages Of the
driver will be made. The two pro-
the same building on the campus and
with an adjacent play space outside
for the use of all the children. The
outdoor equipment of the two former
programs will be used. New equip
ment will be provided as needed from
the fees charged for the services of
the school,
Activities Featured
The program of the school will fea-
ture activities suitable for small chill
dren-free play, supervision play, mu-
sic appreciation, story telling, CONVEX
sation, dramatization, art expression,
games, etc. The unit method in which
the staff will encourage group activ-
tiles featuring the above types of
child expression will be used. In this
way, the children will have a variety
of creative experiences together there
by achieving specific skills, habits of
working together, experiences of sue
cess, freedom from tensions and am
pie opportunity of associating with
children of their own age level, some
thing which most families cannot pro-
vide the aid of a pre-school program.
The behavior of the children will be
observed and their physical
mental and social needs will be
studied in order to provide every OPP
portunity to have their needs met
In this way, healthy and capable child
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in training will have every chance to
learn specific ways of working with
children in order to secure these ends.
When they later work on jobs involv-
ing work with children, they will be
able to render better services to chill
1ren throughout Montana, thereby
making the University stronger
service agency for the people of Mon
ana. This is in line with the funda- |
mental purpose of a state university
School Will Profit From
Earlier Experiences
The activity program outlined above
s much more than a pious hope. The
wo programs which have been re-
GENTLY merged have advanced beyond
he experimental stage and have dem
'nstrated their value to the commun-
ty. The nursery school has had
light years of practical experience.
The play school has had three years
# practical experience. l cannot
peak with authority about the for
ner. I can tell the story Of the play
chool. The chief purpose of this
rticle is to tell about how the play
chool grew from scratch, so to speak,
o the present hopeful and satisfying
ituatoin. 1t provides fascinating
HAPPIER in current Montana education
| history.
dothers Initiate Program
In the summer of 1889, a group of
re-school mothers who had studied
re-school problems in the Pre-School
tudy Group of the American Asso-
iation of University Women asked
he help of the Laboratory to form a
lay school to serve their children
he Laboratory had earlier estab-