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COURTESY OF ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL 
 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 
 
 PHOTOGRAPH BY 
 LEWIS B. H INE 
 
 FRONTISPIECE 
 
A Book of Programs 
 
 By jane L HOXIE 
 
 AUTHOR OF "A KINDERGARTEN STORY BOOK," 
 
 "HAND WORK FOR KINDERGARTENS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS' AND 
 
 "SUGGESTIONS FOR HAND WORK IN SCHOOL AND HOME 
 
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 E, STEIGER & COMPANY 
 
 PUBLISHERS AND MANUFACTURERS 
 
 OF KINDERGARTEN MATERIAL 
 
 NEW YORK 
 

 COPYRIGHT 
 
 1911 / 
 
 BY 
 
 JANE L. HOXIE 
 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGS 
 
 Introduction 5 
 
 PART I. 
 
 A General Program 7 
 
 •September and October 7 
 
 November 10 
 
 December 14 
 
 January 17 
 
 February 21 
 
 March 24 
 
 April 28 
 
 May and June 32 
 
 PART II. 
 
 A Nature Program 37 
 
 A. Animal Life — 
 
 Birds in the Fall and Winter 40 
 
 Birds in the Spring and Summer 61 
 
 Bees 63 
 
 Butterflies 62 
 
 Insects, — Ants, "Wasps, Crickets, Grasshoppers, Spiders, 
 
 Flies 39 
 
 Pet Animals 52 
 
 Domestic Animals 4S 
 
 Fishes, Frogs, Toads, Turtles, Snakes, Snails 56 
 
 The Squirrel 47 
 
 B. Vegetable Life — 
 
 Flowers ^^. , 65 
 
 Trees in the Fall and Winter 42 
 
 Trees in the Spring and Summer 59 
 
 Seeds and Nuts in the Autumn 43 
 
 Seeds in the Spring 58 
 
 Fruit 44 
 
 Grains and Vegetables 45 
 
 C. The Elements- 
 
 Wind 65 
 
 Water 54 
 
 Forms of: 
 
 Frost 49 
 
 Ice 49 
 
 Snow 49 
 
 Light- 
 Sources of: 
 
 Sun 51 
 
 Moon 51 
 
 Stars 51 
 
 360506 
 
CONTENTS. 
 PART III. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 An Industrial or Trade Program 67 
 
 Tile Housekeeper 67 
 
 The Fanner — 
 
 His Spring Work 68 
 
 His Fall Work 6il 
 
 The Miller and the Baker 71 
 
 The Carpenter and Other Workers Who Help to Build the 
 
 House 72 
 
 The Woodman 73 
 
 The Shoemaker 74 
 
 The Blacksmith 76 
 
 The Tailor and Other Workers in Cloth 77 
 
 Coal and the Miner 78 
 
 The Merchant 79 
 
 The Postman 80 
 
 The Engineer, the Motorman, the Conductor, the Coach- 
 man and the Chauffeur 81 
 
 The Policeman 82 
 
 The Fireman 83 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 A Festival Program 85 
 
 Columbus Day 85 
 
 Halloween ' 85 
 
 Thanksgiving 87 
 
 Christmas • 88 
 
 New Tears 89 
 
 Lincoln's Birthday , 90 
 
 Valentine's Day 91 
 
 Washington's Birthday 92 
 
 'Easter ^^ 
 
 Froebel's Birthday 94 
 
 May Day ^5 
 
 Decoration Day 95 
 
 Fourth of July 96 
 
 PART V. 
 
 A Sunday School Program 99 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The day of the programless kindergarten has gone by. The 
 time is past when the teacher may enter her little world with no 
 particular preparation for the day's work and with no definite 
 plan for the child's development. The kindergartner may no 
 longer seek her inspiration in the traiisierit vagaries of the hour 
 or in the shifting interests of her pupils. She must come to her 
 work thoroughly equipped with an insight based upon a definite 
 knowledge of the child's manner of growth and with a complete 
 comprehension of the best methods for the unfolding and nurture 
 of his mental, physical and spiritual life. In other words she 
 must have a program and that program must be founded uix>n 
 an understanding of the manner in which the individual develops 
 as well as upon a knowledge of the experiences and environ- 
 mental conditions of her particular group of humanity. This 
 does not mean that the kindergartner need be slavishly attached 
 to a plan of work, but it does mean that sihe must have formu- 
 lated and organized her ideas and her knowledge. Her work no 
 longer bears its previous fragmentary and erratic character, but 
 it has now become unified and definite. Her program is her an- 
 chor. From it she may stray but not too far afield and now, for 
 the first time, both the teacher and her children know true free- 
 dom — " freedom under the law." 
 
 Every good program must of necessity present transient as 
 well as permanent features and must change, in part at least, 
 from year to year to fit changing experiences and environmental 
 conditions as well as to meet new developments in child psychol- 
 ogy. 
 
 No single program can be universally applied for, although the 
 manner of growth is the same for all normal children, there is 
 great diversity in the individual as to the time at which par- 
 ticular tendencies ripen. Then, too, although every child bears 
 certain relations to his home, his school, his neighborhood and to 
 the great realm of nature, the details of these relations vary for 
 different children according to different localities and different 
 grades of society. 
 
 It will not be possible or desiirable for those wis!hing to follow 
 any of the progtams contained in this book to make use of all 
 the proposed exercises for a single month, week or day. Copious 
 suggestions have purposely been made so that each teacher may 
 select from among the whole those best suited to her particular 
 needs. 
 
 J. L. H. 
 
A GENERAL PROGRAM. 
 
 Subject for the Year. The CM Id and his Experiences in his 
 Relation to Kindergarten, Home Community and Nature. 
 
 I. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER. 
 
 A. Topics of the Months.* 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (a) Getting acquainted with teachers and children. 
 (h) Getting acquainted with rooms, furnishings and ma- 
 terials, 
 (c) The school janitor. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 (a) Members of the family. 
 
 (6) The interests and activities of father, mother, brother, 
 sister and baby. 
 
 5. Community. 
 
 (a) Activities of the city or village street In autumn. 
 (6) Cleaning of streets and parks. 
 
 4- Nature. 
 
 (a) Pet animals of the kindergarten and home. 
 
 {b) Animals observed during walks in park and street. 
 
 (c) The migration of birds. 
 
 (d) The autumn aspect of trees, plants and grass. 
 
 (e) The school garden. 
 
 B. Work of the Months. 
 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) The kindergarten: 
 
 The kindergarten rooms, chairs, tables, pictures, walls, 
 
 windows, cabinets, closets, playhouse, blackboards, fil- 
 ter and radiators. 
 
 The ownership of these objects. Our duty and re- 
 sponsibility relative to rooms and furnishings. 
 (&) The building containing the kindergarten rooms: 
 
 Its outside appearance. Flag, steps, entrance and fire 
 
 escape. ^ 
 
 (c) Our homes: 
 
 Father's work in providing means for sihelter, food, 
 
 warmth, liglut and clotliing. 
 
 Mother's work in caring for home, preparing food and 
 
 making clothing. 
 
 How the children can help. 
 
 * For collaboration in the selection of general topics for discussion, 
 throughout the year, acknowledgments are due to Caroline T. Haven. 
 
B. Work of the Months — Continued. 
 
 1. Talks — Continued. 
 
 (cf) Our journey between home and kindergarten: 
 Wliat streets we traverse. 
 By whom or what we are carried. 
 What we see by the way. 
 
 (e) General aspect of streets: 
 
 The street cleaner. 
 
 Our duty with regard to clean streets. 
 
 (f) Animals in the home: 
 
 - Their names, habits and activities. 
 
 The proi>er manner of caring for them. 
 (f7) The passing of summer and coming of winter: 
 
 General asi^ect of all nature at this season. 
 
 Frosty nights. 
 
 Southward flight of birds. 
 
 Falling leaves. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 {ay The Three Bfears, Fubles and^ Proverbs. iSarah E. 
 
 Wiltse.* 
 (ft) Coming and Going, Kindergarten Stories and Morninff 
 
 Talks. iSara E. Wiltse. 
 
 (c) The Wee, Wee Woman, A Kindergarten Story Book. 
 Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
 (d) Billy Bobtail, A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. 
 Hoxie. 
 
 5. Poems. 
 
 {a) Familiar Mother Goose Jingles. 
 (6) Sweet and Low. Alfred Tennyson. 
 
 4. Songs. 
 
 (a) Good-morning to All, Song Stories for the Kindergarten. 
 
 Mildred J. and Patty S. Hill. 
 (6) All for Baby, Finger Plays. Emilie Toulsson. 
 (c) Numbering the Fingers, Songs and Music of FroeheVs 
 
 Mother Play. Susan E. Blow, 
 (cf) Pussv Cat, Pussy Cat. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes 
 
 Set to Music. J. W. Elliott. 
 
 (e) The Kitten and the Bow-wow, Small Songs for Small 
 Sinf/ers. W. H. Neidlinger. 
 
 (/) Jkligration Song. Kindergarten Reriew, October, 1002. 
 Frances E. Jacobs and«Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
 (g) Cradle Song, The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 
 (h) Ring Song, Kindergarten Review, September, 1004. 
 
 Frances E. Jacobs. 
 (i) Parting Song, Song Echoes from Child Land. Harriet 
 
 •S. Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 * Some familiar home story is desirable for use during the first week 
 of kindergarten. 
 
B. WoKK OF THE MONTHS— Continued. 
 
 5. Games. 
 
 (a) Simple Ball Gaines, — 'hiding, rolling, tossing into a 
 
 basket, etc. 
 (6) Introducing Game. 
 (c) Simple Gymnastic Games, — running, jumping, skipping, 
 
 flying and racing. 
 id) Soft and Hard Balls, — children act as kitties and ponies, 
 
 Songs for Little Children, Part II. Eleanor Smith. 
 
 6. Instrnmental Selections, 
 (a) For oi)ening exercises. 
 
 Slumber Song. Heller. 
 {h) For marching. 
 
 March de Nuit. Gottschalk. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises. 
 (c) Arm Movements: 
 
 Sweeping and dusting. 
 
 Flying birds. 
 
 Swaying branches. 
 (&) Leg Movements: 
 
 Walking to kindergarten. 
 
 Movements of animals. 
 (c) Head and Neck Movements: 
 
 Looking for nests, birds, fruit, nuts, buds and leaves 
 
 in trees. 
 [{d) Body Movements : 
 
 Bending to pick up objects on the floor. 
 
 Bendmg to pick up bits of paper on the street. 
 
 Stooping to pat and stroke pet animals. 
 
 Gathering fallen nuts and leaves. 
 (e) Breathing Exercises : 
 
 Breathing deeply while playing — walk to and from 
 
 kindergarten. 
 
 Expulsion of breath in noises made by animals. 
 (/) Toe Exercises : 
 
 Standing on tiptoe to reach nuts, fruit, buds and leaves 
 
 on trees. 
 
 8. Gift.* 
 
 (a) First, Second and Third Gifts: 
 Objects in kindergarten. 
 The school building. 
 
 Things seen on the street and in the home. 
 Natural objects seen in the park and the country. 
 Activities of the home, school and street. 
 Activities of domestx animals. 
 
 9. Hand Work, 
 (a) Stringing: 
 
 Beads, nuts, seeds. 
 
 * (lifts numbered according to Kraus' Kindergarten Guide. 
 
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 B. Work of the Months — Continued. 
 
 9. Hand Work — Continued. 
 (&) Drawing: 
 
 School building, houses, furniture, animals, flowers and 
 
 leaves, 
 (c) Winding: 
 
 Horizontal lines, — use worsted or string and wooden 
 
 boards or pastboard. 
 id) Clay and Sand: * 
 
 Free expression of child's own ideas. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To park or country to observe condition of shrubs, trees, 
 
 grass, etc. 
 ( 6 ) To park or country to gather nuts and seeda 
 
 (c) To park or country to observe birds, squirrels and other 
 animals. 
 
 (d) To school garden to observe condition of plants and to 
 pull weeds and gather seeds. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material. 
 
 (a) Leaves, nuts, seeds, twigs and flowers. 
 (6) Animals in terrarium and aquarium and pet animals of 
 the home. 
 
 (c) Pictures of domestic activities. 
 
 (d) Pictures of Madonnas. 
 
 (e) Pictures of birds and other animals. 
 
 II. NOVEMBER. 
 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 <o) Care of rooms. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 (a) Preparation for winter In the home. 
 
 S. Community. 
 
 (a) Demonstrations incident to election day. 
 (6) Displays of baker, grocer, and fruiterer. 
 
 (c) The tailor and the shoemaker. 
 
 (d) The harvesting and other fall work of the farmer. 
 
 (e) Thanksgiving. 
 
 4. Nature. 
 
 (a) Preparation of plants and animals for winter. 
 (6) Shorter days, 
 (c) Fall winds. 
 
 B. Work of the Month. 
 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) Necessity of care and cleanliness in kindergarten rooms. 
 Delegate duties of dusting furniture, placing chairs, and 
 caring for cut flowers to different members of the class. . 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — ^Continued. 
 
 1, Talks — Continued. 
 
 (6) Mother's fall work in the home: 
 
 Cleaning, unpacking, and airing of heavy clothing and 
 
 bedding. 
 
 Buying and donning of winter garments. 
 
 Canning and preserving of fruit. 
 
 (c) Father's fall work in the home: 
 
 Buying and storing of fruit and vegetables for winter 
 
 use. 
 
 Buying and storing of winter fuel. 
 
 (d) How animals prepare for winter: 
 
 The shedding of feathers, fur, and hair, and the acqui- 
 sition of new warm coats. 
 Storing of food. 
 Hibernation. 
 
 (e) The preparation of trees and plants for their winter 
 sleep : 
 
 Ripening and falling of leaves. 
 Formation of buds for next year's growth. 
 -Dissemination of seeds. 
 (/) The harvest: 
 
 Fleshy fruits. 
 
 Kinds commonly seen. 
 
 General appearance of outside and internal parts. 
 
 Uses to man and animal. 
 
 Dry fruits. 
 
 Where grown, how protected, uses. 
 Gathering and storing of fruit and vegetables. 
 Harvesting, threshing, husking, shelling and grinding 
 of grain. 
 
 {g) Thanksgiving. 
 
 A holiday when father does not work. 
 
 A family day. 
 
 The Thanksgiving dinner. 
 
 The first Thanksgiving Day. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 (a) The Brownies, A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. 
 Hoxie. 
 
 (b) How a Little Boy Got a New Shirt, In the Child's World. 
 Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (c) The Shoemaker and the Elves. Adapted from Grimm's 
 Fairy Tales. 
 
 ((f) The Anxious I^af, Kindergarten Stories and Morning 
 Talks. Sara E. Wiltse. 
 
 (e) Rhoecus, Stories of Old Greece. Emma M. Firth. 
 
 (/) A Thanksgiving Story, Kindergarten Magazine, Novem- 
 ber, 1892. Susan P. Clement. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — ^Continued. 
 
 3. Poems, 
 a) How the Leaves Came Down. Susan Coolidge. 
 &) Fable. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 4. ^ongs. 
 
 a) Song of the Season, The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley 
 
 b) Sleep Seeds, a fragment from A Winter Lullaby. Reg- 
 inald De Koven. 
 
 c) Mother's Knives and Forks, Songs of the Child-World. 
 Jessie L. Gay nor. 
 
 d) Thanksgiving Song, A First Book in Vocal Music. 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 
 e) Autumn Leaves, Song Echoes from Child Land. Har- 
 riet S. Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 /) Good-by to Summer, Songs for Little Children, Part I. 
 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 g) Who Has Seen the Wind, The Song Primer. Alys E. 
 
 Bentley. 
 h) Flower's Lullaby, Song Stories for the Kindergarten. 
 
 Mildred J. and Patty S. Hill. 
 i) The Wind, — words by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Primer 
 
 of Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 ;■) Harvest Home, A Second Book m Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 
 Smith, 
 fc) Corn Song, A Third Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 
 Smith. 
 
 Games. 
 
 a) Sense Games. 
 
 &) Cherries Ripe, Songs and Games for Little Ones. Ger- 
 trude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 c) The Orchard, Song Echoes from Child Land. Harriet S. 
 •Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 d) The 1^'armer, Songs and Music of FroeheVs Mother Play. 
 Susan E. Blow. 
 
 e) The Little Shoemaker, Songs of the Child-World, No. 1. 
 Jessie L. Gaynor. 
 
 f) How the Corn Grew, Finger Plays. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 g) Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, Songs for Little Children, Part 
 I. Eleanor Smith. 
 
 h) The Mill, A First Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 
 Instrumental Selections, 
 a) For opening exercises: 
 
 Consolation, Op. 30, 2Vo. 3, Mendelssohn. 
 h) For marching: 
 
 Tabasco march, G. W. Chadwick. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises. 
 (o) Arm movements: 
 
 Beating rugs and blankets. 
 Swaying branches. 
 
 5. 
 
 6. 
 
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 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH — Continued. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises — ^Continued. 
 
 (a) Arm movements — Continued. 
 
 Shalving fruit aud nuts from trees. 
 
 Falling leaves. 
 
 Mowing, threshing and grinding grain. 
 
 (b) Leg movements: 
 
 Climbing trees to gather fruit and nuts. 
 Going to market. 
 
 (c) Head and neck movements: 
 
 Looking for nev^ buds on trees. 
 Swaying grain. 
 
 (d) Body movements: 
 
 Bending to gather nuts, leaves and seeds. 
 
 Swaying grain. 
 
 Picking up vegetables in field. 
 
 (e) Breathing exercises: 
 
 Prolonged ncvises of animals. 
 
 Sound of wind in trees and in grain field. 
 
 (/) Toe exercises: 
 
 Standing on tiptoe to measure height with that of 
 
 grain. 
 
 Reaching for fruit and buds on trees. 
 
 Getting stiffness out of new shoes. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Gifts: 
 Trees, fruit, vegetables. 
 
 Boxes for holding seeds and barrels for holding vege- 
 tables and fruit. 
 
 Barns, storehouses, mills, cellars. 
 
 Vehicles for transporting products of harvest and for 
 carrying winter fuel. 
 
 Grandfather's house and the table spread with the 
 Thanksgiving feast. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and painting: 
 
 Fruit and vegetables. 
 (&) Pasting: 
 
 Decorative designs from conventionalized leaf, fruit, 
 
 and flower forms. 
 
 (c) Tearing: 
 
 Leayes, fruit, vegetables, winter garments. 
 
 (d) Folding: 
 
 Seed boxes, fruit bas^kets, receptacles for storing cloth- 
 ing. 
 
 (e) Winding: 
 
 Vertical and horizontal lines. 
 (/) Sand: 
 
 Burrows of animals, grain fields, orchards, cellars. 
 iff) Clay: 
 
 Impressions of leaves, nuts, and seeds. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — Oontinued. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To park or country to observe condition of vegetable 
 
 and animal life. 
 (?') To the miller's or the baker's. 
 
 (c) To the shoemaker's. 
 
 (d) To the tailor's. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material. 
 
 (a) Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, leaves. 
 {h) Tools and appliances of the shoemaker, baker, and tailor, 
 (c) Cloth, leather. 
 
 {d)^ Pictures illustrating the first Thanksgiving and those 
 illustrating the activities of the harvest field. 
 
 III. DECEMBER. 
 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (ff) Care of potted plants. 
 
 (&) Care of terrarium and aquarium. 
 
 (c) Care of kindergarten pets. 
 
 id) Santa Olaus in the kindergartea. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 ia) Warming and lighting. 
 (6) Santa Glaus in the home. 
 
 5. Community. 
 
 (a) Lighting of streets^^ 
 {h) Christmas shopping. 
 
 (c) The Toyman. 
 
 » 
 
 ^. Nature. 
 
 (a) Christmas trees and greens. 
 
 (6) The frozen north land, the home of Santa Claus. 
 
 (c) Frost. 
 
 id) The first snow. 
 
 B. Work of the MojfTH. 
 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) Plants and animals of the kindergarten: 
 
 Through observation, study, and example inspire the 
 children with a desire to give fostering care to these 
 pets and beautifiei*s of the kindergarten rooms. Dele- 
 gate special duties relative to ihe care of these plants 
 and animals to different children. 
 
 (6) Sources of heat and light: 
 The miner. 
 The lamplighter. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — Continued. 
 
 1. Talks — ^Continued, 
 (c) Christmas: 
 
 A time of loving and giving, 
 ■Santa Claus. 
 
 The jolly old fellow wlho cannot give enough. 
 
 His reindeer, his sleigh, his pack, his toys. 
 
 What he does on Christmas eve. 
 
 His home. 
 
 Letters to Santa Claus. 
 
 More than one Santa Claus. 
 
 Each child a Santa Claus. 
 Christmas eve. 
 
 The chimney, the fireplace. 
 
 Hanging up stockings. 
 Christmas morning. 
 
 Toys. 
 
 The Christmas festival in the kindergarten. 
 
 The unselfish and spiritual intei*ijretation of Christ- 
 mas. 
 
 The Babe in the manger. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 (a) Picciola, The Story Hour. Kate Douglas Wiggin and 
 Nora A. Smith. 
 
 {h) The Story of the Forest, The Story Hour. Kate Doug- 
 las Wiggin and Nora A. iSmith. 
 
 (c) The Legend of the Christ Child, adapted from the Ger- 
 man by Elizabeth Harrison, A Christmas Festival Serv- 
 ice. Nora A. .Smith. 
 
 S. Poems. 
 
 (a) A visit from iSt. Nicholas. Clement C. Moore. 
 (6) Santa Claus and the Mouse, In the Child's World. Em- 
 ilie Poulsson. 
 
 4- Songs. 
 
 * (a) Santa Claus, Finger Plays. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (&) A Wonderful Tree, Songs and Games for Little Ones. 
 Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 (c) Deck the Hall, Wilkinson Collection. 
 
 (d) Ring Merry Christmas Bells, ,8ong Echoes from Child 
 Land. Harriet S. Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 (c) Christmas Greeting, Merry Songs and Games. Clara B. 
 
 Hubbard. 
 if) Santa Claus, Song Echoes from Child I^and. Harriet S. 
 
 Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 (g) Santa Claus, The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 (h) Christmas (Secrets, Songs of the Child-World, No. II. 
 
 Jessie L. Gaynor. 
 (f) Jack Frost, Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie L. 
 
 Gaynor. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — ^Continued. 
 
 5. Games. 
 
 (a) Hurrah for the Sleigh-Bells, ^07ig Echoes from Child 
 Land. Harriet S. Jeiiks aud Mabel Rust. 
 
 (&) The Toyman, Holiday ^ongs. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (c) Here We Go Kound the Christmas Tree, Adapted from 
 "As We Go Round the Mulberry Bush," Children's Old 
 and New Singing Gam^s. Mari Hofer. 
 
 ((7) Dramatization of coming of Santa Olaus. 
 
 (e) Pantomime, — hanging presents on Christmas tree. 
 
 6. Instrumental Selections, 
 (a) For opening exercises. 
 
 Christmas Eve (Nuteracker and Mouse King). Rein- 
 ecke. 
 (ft) For marching. 
 
 Funeral March of a Marionette, Gounod. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises. 
 (a) Arm Movements: 
 
 Riinging Christmas bells. 
 ( h ) Leg Movements : 
 
 IMaying reindeer. 
 
 Skating. 
 
 Movements of Mechanical toys, 
 (r) Head and Neck Movements: 
 
 Looking at gifts on tree. 
 
 Nodding of mechanical toys. 
 {d) Body Movements: 
 
 Playing snowball. 
 
 Bending like jointed doll. 
 
 Reaching and bending to put gifts on Christmas tree, 
 (r) Breathing Exercises: 
 
 Blowing Chriistmas trumpet. 
 
 Expulsion of breath in noises made by mechanical toys. 
 (/) Toe Exercises: 
 
 Reaching for gifts on tree. 
 
 Trying to be as tall as ti'ee. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth 
 Gifts: 
 
 Chimneys, fireplaces. 
 
 Houses, shops. 
 
 Sleighs. 
 
 Toys. 
 
 Boxes. 
 
 Trees. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and Painting: 
 Christmas tree. 
 Toys. 
 Santa Claus and his reindeer. 
 
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 B. WoSg OF THE Month — Continued. 
 
 9. Hand Work — Continued, 
 (ft) Basting: 
 
 Chains and otiier tree decorations. 
 Decorative designs. 
 Blotters, note covers, etc. 
 
 (c) Tearing: 
 
 Toys. 
 
 (d) Folding: ' 
 
 Candy boxes. 
 
 (e) Blue prints: 
 
 Blotters, calendars, needle books, etc. 
 (/) Raphia Winding: 
 
 Picture frames, needle-books, napkin rings, etc. 
 iff) Clay: 
 
 Toys. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To toy shop. 
 
 (ft) To park or country to see fir trees growing. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material, 
 (a) Christmas greens. 
 
 (6) Pictures illustrating Santa Claus legends. 
 (c) Pictures illustrating worli of heat and light. 
 
 IV. JANUARY. ^ 
 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (a) Materials used in work. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 ^ (a) Building of house. 
 {b) Home occupations. 
 
 3. Communitp. 
 
 (a) The new year, 
 (ft) Time. 
 
 (c) Activities of certain citizens. 
 
 (d) Winter sports. 
 ^. Nature. 
 
 (a) Winter. 
 
 (6) Natural light. 
 
 B. Work of the Month. 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) The passing away of the old year and the coming of the 
 
 new. Fresh duties and tasks. 
 (0) Time: 
 
 Ways of measuring. 
 
 Different divisions. 
 
 The clock. 
 
 Consequences of being behind time. 
 
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 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH — Contmued. 
 
 1. Talks — Continued, 
 (c) House building: 
 
 Materials used. * ' 
 
 Where found. 
 
 How prepared. 
 
 How transported. 
 The work ot the carpenter, mason, plumber, glazier, and 
 painter. 
 
 Tools -and appliances used. 
 {0) Home duties and occupations:'^ 
 
 The processes of washing, ironing, sewing, cleaning, and 
 baking considered in detail. 
 Tools, appliances, and materials used, 
 (e) Industrial occupations: 
 
 The special duties and activities of conductor, motor- 
 man, engineer, fireman, policeman, blacksmith, mer- 
 chant, and manufacturer. 
 
 Tools, appliances and materials used. 
 (/) AVinter: 
 
 General aspect of nature. 
 
 General appearance of frost, ice, and snow. 
 
 Causes. 
 
 Uses. 
 Sports: Skating, sliding, snowballing, sleigh riding, 
 snow forts, snow men. 
 iff) Light: 
 
 Sun, moon, and stars. 
 
 Appearance, use. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 (a) The Man on the Chimney, Boston Collection of Kinder- 
 garten Stories. - ♦ 
 (&) Rhoecus, Stories of Old Greece. Emma M. Firth. 
 
 (c) Ludwig and Marleen, A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane 
 
 L. Hoxie. 
 
 (d) The Little Gray Pony, Mother Stories. Maud Lindsay. 
 
 3. Poems. 
 
 (a) The Wind and the Moon. George MacDonald. 
 (ft) The Frost. Hanna F. Gould. 
 
 (e) The Jld Love. Charles Kingsley. 
 
 4' Songs. 
 
 (a) A New Year's Greeting, Holiday So7igs. Emilie Poulsson. 
 (ft) The Clock, Kindergarten Review, January, 1902. Frances 
 E. Jacobs. 
 
 (c) The Clock, The iSong Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 
 (d) Winding the Clock, 8o7igs of the Child-World, No. I. 
 Jessie L. Gaynor. 
 
 (e) Jaeky Frost, A Primer gf Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 (/) Earth's Dresses, A Primer of Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 
 Smith. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month— Continued. 
 
 4. Songs — Continued. 
 
 (g) Winter Jewels, Songs and Games for Little Ones. Ger- 
 trude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 (h) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, Songs and Games for 
 Little Ones. Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 (i) The Moon, Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Mildred 
 J. and Patty S. Hill. 
 
 (/) BlowingBubhles, Songs of the Child-World, No. 1. Jessie 
 L. Gaynor. 
 
 (k) Summer or Winter, A Primer of Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 (I) The Woodpecker, A Primer of Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 5. Games. 
 
 (a) Work, Work, Work, Music in Merry Songs and Games, — 
 
 The Nailor, Page 39. Clara B. Hubbard.* 
 (&) The Carpenter, Songs and Music of FroeheVs Mother 
 
 Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 (c) The Carpenter, The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 id) The Blacksmith, Earth, Sky, and Air in Song, Vol. 1. W. 
 
 H. Neidlinger. 
 (e) The Fireman, A Primer of Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 (/) Dramatization of the work of the motorman, conductor, 
 
 policeman, and merchant (with or without music). 
 (g) The Wandering Song, — Last verse only, word roaming 
 
 changed to skating in every case, Songs and Music of 
 
 FroeheVs Mother Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 (A) The Snow Man, Small Songs for Small Singers. W. H. 
 
 Neidlinger. 
 {i) Sleighing Songs, Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie 
 
 L. Gaynor. 
 {j) A Doll Party, — Children bring their dolls and other toys 
 
 from home and play freely. 
 
 6. Instrumental Selections. 
 (a) For opening exercises. 
 
 Melody in F, 1st part. Rubinstein. 
 (&) For marching. 
 
 Tannehauser. Wagner. * 
 
 7. Gymnastic exercises, 
 (a) Arm movements: 
 
 Washing, ironing, scrubbing, stirring cake, etc. 
 Swinging carpenter's hammer. 
 Swinging blacksmith's hammer. 
 Clock pendulum. 
 Snowball in 2. 
 
 * ' ' Work, work, work, work work and work away, 
 This is the wav we wash the clothes 
 On Monday, the washing day." 
 Repeat, changing wash to iron and Monday to Tuesday, etc. 
 
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 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH — Continued. 
 
 7. Gymuastic Exercises — Continued. 
 (6) Leg movements: 
 
 Skating, sliding. 
 
 Galloping, walking, and trotting horses. 
 
 Climbing fireman's ladder. 
 
 (c) Head and neck movements: 
 
 Looking at building on fire. 
 Looking at stars and moon. 
 Moving in time to clock pendulum. 
 
 (d) Body movements: 
 
 Picking up tools. 
 Making snowballs. 
 
 (e) Breathing exercises: 
 
 The tire whistle. 
 The alarm clock. 
 Whistle and bell of steam engine. 
 
 Deep breathing while playing at snowballing, skating 
 and sliding. 
 (/) Toe exercises: 
 
 Standing on tiptoes to hand tools to workmen. 
 Growing tall. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) Th'ii-d, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Gifts: 
 Houses, furniture, cars, engines, clocks. 
 Tools used by workmen. 
 
 Objects and appliances used in washing, ironing, scrub- 
 bing, baking, etc. 
 Snow forts, sleighs, snow crystals, etc. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and Painting: 
 
 Illustrate home occupatioBS, the trades and winter 
 sports. 
 
 (b) Cutting: 
 
 Tools and appliances used in home occupations and in 
 trades. 
 
 (c) Folding: 
 
 Articles of clothing. 
 
 (d) Sewing: 
 
 Overhanding of cheesecloth dusters. 
 
 (e) Weaving: 
 
 Paper or raphia mats for doll house. 
 (/) Construction work from mi-scellaneous materials: 
 
 Houses, cars, engines, wagons, etc. 
 (g) Sand: 
 
 House cellar, snow man, snowballs, snow fort. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To observe house builders at work. 
 {h) To blacksmith's shop. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — Continued. 
 
 10. Excursions — Continued. 
 
 (c) To worksliop in seliool building or to shop of cabinet 
 
 maker. 
 {d) To park or country to observe nature's winter aspect. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material. 
 
 ■ (a) Tools of carpenter and blacksmith, 
 (ft) Various kinds of timepieces. 
 
 (c) Tools and materials used in the home occupations. 
 
 (d) Iron, wood, stone, brick. 
 {€) Trade pictures. 
 
 (f) Mother Play picture,— The Light Bird. 
 
 V. FEBRUARY. 
 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 {a) Care of children for one another, — protection of younger 
 and weaker by older and stronger. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 (a) Indoor sports and games. 
 
 3. Community. 
 
 (a) Child's conduct in public. 
 
 (&) The postman. 
 
 (c) St. Valentine's Day. 
 
 \d) Our municipal servants. 
 
 (e) The soldier. 
 (/) Our heroes. 
 
 («7) Heroes of other lands. 
 {h) The knights of old. 
 
 ^. T^ature. 
 
 (a) Longer days. 
 
 (b) Freezing and melting, 
 
 (c) Continued observation of earth's winter aspect. 
 
 (d) Indoor planting of seeds. 
 
 B. WoBK OF the Month. 
 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) Proper and improper conduct in public places: 
 
 The child's relation to public servants and to others. 
 
 Littering the street. 
 
 Obstruction of sidewalk. 
 
 Catching on behind vehicles. 
 
 Gazing in at private windows. 
 
 Annoying drivers, stablemen, trades people, and others. 
 (h) The postman : 
 
 His work, his devotion to duty, his patience and hardi- 
 hood. 
 
22 
 
 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH — Continued. 
 
 1. Talks — ^Continued. 
 
 (c) St. Valentine's Day: 
 Its meaning. 
 
 A tiiiie to show friendliness and approval. 
 Legends concerning St. Valentine. 
 id) The soldier: 
 
 A public servant. 
 
 His accoutrements, his camps, his marches. 
 His bravery, unselfishness, endurance, 
 (e) Other public servants: 
 
 The governor and the president. 
 (/) Our heroes: 
 
 Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 His birthday. 
 George Washington. 
 His birthday. 
 His boyhood. 
 His life as a soldier. 
 
 Our first president and the father of his country. 
 ((/) Story of our flag: 
 
 How it came to be. 
 Meaning of the stars and stripes. 
 (h) The heroes' of other lands: 
 
 Bravery, daring, self-sacrifice. 
 The knights. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 {a) Little George Washington, TJic Story Hour. Kate 
 Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. 
 
 (b) Great George Washington, The Story Hour. Kate 
 Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. 
 
 (c) How Little Cedric Became a Knight, In Story Land. 
 Elizabeth Harrison. 
 
 (d) The Sailor Boy of Havre, Kindergarten Revieic, Feb- 
 ruary, 1898. 
 
 (e) Dora, the Little Girl of the Lighthouse, Boston Collec- 
 tion of Kinderyarten Stories. 
 
 if) The Little Hero of Haarlem, In the Child's World. 
 Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Poems. 
 
 (a) Answer to a Child's Question, Samuel Taylor Cole- 
 ridge. 
 
 -}. Songs. 
 
 (a) My Country, 'Tis of Thee! A First Book of Vocal Music. 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 
 (b) Columbia. A First Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 
 (c) The Star-Spangled Banner, A First Book of Vocal Music. 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 
 (d) Flag Song, Small Songs for Small Singers. W. H. 
 Xeidlinger. 
 
23 
 
 B. Work of the Month— Continued. 
 
 Jf. Songs — ^Continued. 
 
 e) The Drimi, A Fwst Book of Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 
 Smith. 
 7) Hail Columbia, A Second Booh in Vocal Mtisic. Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 Games. 
 
 a) Drop the Handkerchief, Songs of the Child-World, 
 No. I. Jessie L. Gaynor. 
 
 b) Bean Bag, Ball Race, Hide and Seek, Blind Man's 
 Buff, and other indoor games. 
 
 c) St. Valentine's Day, Holiday Songs. Emilie Poulsson, 
 
 d) Soldier Boy, Children's Old and New Singing Games. 
 Mari Hofer. 
 
 c) We March Like Soldiers, Songs of the Child-World, No. 
 I. Jessie L. Gaynor. 
 
 /) March, March, March, A Dozen and Ttvo. Louise P. 
 
 Warner. 
 g) Bugle Calls. — Assembly, Fatigue, Forward March, Mess, 
 
 Quick Time, Reveille, Lie Down, Rise, and Halt. 
 h) Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, A Third Book in 
 
 Vocal Music. Eleanor Smith. 
 i) The Arch, Songs, Games and Rhymes. Eudora L. Hail- 
 
 mann. 
 /) The Knights and the Good Child, Songs and Music of 
 
 FroeheVs Mother Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 k) The Lighthouse, wind and waves, without music. 
 I) The Musicians, Kindergarten Review, September, 1903. 
 
 Instrumental Selections. 
 
 a) For opening exercises. 
 Cradle Song. Grieg. 
 
 b) For marching. 
 Soldiers' March. Schumann. 
 
 Gymnastic Exercises. -— 
 
 a) Arm movements: 
 
 Waving of flags. 
 
 Saluting flags. 
 
 Saluting ofHcers. 
 ff)^ Leg movements: 
 
 Soldiers marching. 
 
 e) Head and neck movements: 
 Looking at flags on poles and buildings. 
 Bowing of cavalry horses. 
 
 d) Body movements: 
 Drill exercises of soldiers. 
 
 e) Breathing exercises : 
 Bugle calls. 
 
 /) Toe exercises : 
 
 Drill of soldiers. 
 
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 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH — Continued. 
 
 8. aifts. 
 
 (o) Third, Fourtii, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Gifts: 
 Post office and other public buildings. 
 Letter boxes. 
 Public conveyances. 
 
 Illustration of drill and maneuvers of soldiers. 
 Forts and camps. 
 Lighthouses. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and Fainting: 
 
 Flags. 
 
 Valentines. 
 (&) Cutting and Pasting: 
 
 Badges of red, white, and blue. 
 
 Frames for pictures of Lincoln and Washington. 
 
 (c) Folding, Cutting, and Pasting: 
 
 Letters and valentines. 
 
 (d) Construction Work: 
 
 Pasteboard letter box and postman's bag. 
 
 (e) Sand: 
 
 •Soldier eami>s. 
 
 Illustrate Dora of the Lighthouse. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To post office. 
 
 (6) To park or country to observe aspect of nature at this 
 
 season. 
 (c) To Zoo to see winter quarters of animals. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material, 
 (a) Flags and drums. 
 
 (&) Pictures illustrating various subjects treated. 
 
 (c) Mother Play picture, — ^The Knights and the Good Child. 
 
 VI. MARCH. 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (a) Mutual helpfulness. 
 
 2, Home. 
 
 (a) The furnishing and the uses of the separate rooms of 
 the house. 
 
 S. Community. 
 
 (a) The street cleaner. 
 
 (ft) Spring work of the farmer. 
 
 (c) Transportation. 
 
on 
 
 A. Topics of the Month — Continued. 
 4. Nature. 
 
 (a) Wind. 
 (&) Water. 
 
 (c) Melting of snow and ice. 
 
 (d) Awakening of life. 
 
 B. WOBK OF THE MONTH. 
 
 1. Talks. 
 
 (a) Ttie house in -wliich we live: 
 
 Number of rooms. 
 
 Uses of each. 
 
 Manner of furnishing. 
 
 Uses of contents. 
 (6) The farmer: 
 
 Spring plowing. 
 
 (c) Transportation: 
 
 The different appliances and forces for this purpose. 
 The carrying of people and of messages. 
 The carrying of food, clothing, fuel. 
 The carrying of building material. 
 
 (d) The Wind: 
 
 Different kinds. 
 Its work : 
 
 Transporting. 
 
 Purifying. 
 
 Drying. 
 
 Gathering and dispersing of clouds. 
 
 Turning of mills and weather vanes. 
 A playfellow: 
 
 Flying kites. 
 
 Turning pin wheels. 
 
 Sailing toy boats. 
 
 (e) Water: 
 
 Different forms. 
 Different bodies. 
 Uses : 
 
 A transporter. 
 
 A purifier. 
 
 A nourisher. 
 
 A motor power. 
 
 A home for certain animals. 
 (/) The awakening of life in the spring: 
 Starting of sap in trees. 
 Bursting of buds. 
 Opening of early flowers. 
 Springing of grass. 
 Germination of seeds. 
 Reapi)earance of hibernating animals. 
 Return of birds. 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — Coutiuued. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 a) The Wind and the ^im, In the Child's World. Emilie 
 
 Poulsson. 
 ;&) Odysseus and the Bag of Winds, In the Child's World. 
 Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 c) Coming and Going, Kindergarten Stories and Morning 
 Talks. Sara E. Wiltee. 
 
 [d) Little Half Chick, For the Children's Hour. Carolyn S. 
 Bailey and Clara M. Lewis. 
 
 [e) The Sleeping Princess, A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane 
 L. Hoxie. 
 
 [/) Dunuy, A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
 S. Poems. 
 
 a) Windy Nights. Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 &) What the Winds Bring. Edmund C. Stedman. 
 [€) Song of the Brook. Alfred Tennyson. 
 
 d) Who Lakes the Rain? For the Children's Hour. Caro- 
 lyn S. Bailey and Clara M. Lewis. 
 
 e) Blow, Wind, Blow! The Nursery Rhyme Book. Andrew 
 Lang. 
 
 [/) Boats Sail on the Rivers, Sing Song Rhymes. "Christina 
 G. Rossetti. 
 
 I 
 
 Songs. 
 
 a) The Song of the Rain, Songs and Games for Little Ones. 
 
 Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 ft) Sailing, Sailing (Sheet music published by Oliver Ditson 
 
 Company). Godfrey JVIarks. 
 0) Boating Song, Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie 
 
 L. Gaynor. 
 
 d) Wind Song, Songs for Little Children, Part I. Eleanor 
 iSmith. 
 
 e) Pussy Willow, Songs and Games for Little Ones. Gert- 
 rude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 /) The Snow Birds' Message, A Primer of Vocal Music. 
 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 g) The Little Trolls are Spinning, A Primer of Vocal Music. 
 
 Eleanor iSmith. 
 
 Games. 
 
 a) The Golden Boat Song, Golden Boat. L. O. Chant. 
 &) The Fish in the Brook, Songs and Music of FroeheVs 
 Mother Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 
 c) The Train, The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 
 d) Honk! Honk! The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 
 e) The Weather Vane, Songs and Music of Froehel's Mother 
 Play. iSusan E. Blow. 
 
 /) The Windmill, Songs and Music of Froe^eVs Mother 
 Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 
 g) Flying Kites (any music appropriate for a running ex- 
 ercise). 
 
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 B. Work of the Month — Continued. 
 
 5. Games — Continued. 
 
 (/«) The Trees, Songs and Music of FroeheVs Mother Play. 
 
 Susan E. Blow, 
 (i) The Farmer, Songs and Music of FroeheVs Mother Play. 
 
 Susan E. Blow. 
 (;■) The Farmer's Animals, Holiday Songs. Emilie Poulsson. 
 (k) Mr. Frog, Small Songs fm- Small Singers. W. H. Neid- 
 
 linger, 
 (/) Dobbin's Good-nigiht (Song, Seven Children's Songs. Grieg. 
 
 6. Insiriimental Selections, 
 (a) For opening exercises. 
 
 ,Sprfng's Awakening, Bach. 
 (&) For marching. 
 Aida, Verdi. 
 
 7. Oymnastic Exercises. 
 (o) Arm Movements: 
 
 Swaying trees. 
 Flying birds. 
 Weather vane. 
 Windmill, 
 Rowing. 
 (&) Leg Movements: » 
 
 • Hopping birds. 
 Stepping across brook. 
 Wading. 
 Messenger boy. 
 
 (c) Head and Neck Movements: 
 
 Birds and chickens drinking. 
 Looking at flying kites. 
 Looking at clouds. 
 
 (d) Body Movements: 
 
 Weather vane. 
 Cleaning streets. 
 Stooping to drink at brook. 
 Bending of trees. 
 
 (e) Breathing Exercises: 
 
 Noises of wind and water. 
 Blowing pin wheel. 
 (/) Toe Exercises: 
 
 Trying to pick pussy willows. 
 
 Walking on tiptoes to keep from wetting feet. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, 
 Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Gifts: 
 
 Houses, rooms, furniture, mills, bridges, weather vanes, 
 wagons, cars, boats, wheels, automobiles, balloons. 
 Telegraph and telephone lines. 
 Car tracks. 
 
28 
 
 B. WoBK OF THE MoNTH-^Contiuued. 
 
 8. Gifts — Continued. 
 
 (a) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth 
 Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Gifts — Continued. 
 
 Boxes, barrels, trunks, and other receptacles for hold- 
 ing transported articles. 
 Tools of the farmer and of the street cleaner. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 ( a ) Drawing : 
 
 Windmills, weather vanes, vehicles for transportation 
 purposes. 
 (&) Painting: 
 
 Pussy willow twig. 
 
 (c) Folding: ^ 
 
 furniture, boxes, bags, kites, pin wheels. 
 
 (d) Sewing: 
 
 Doll's clothing. 
 
 (e) Weaving: 
 
 Lamp mat. 
 (/) Construction work with miscellaneous materials: 
 
 Windmills, water wheels, weather vanes, boats, wagons, 
 
 bridges. 
 (g) Sand: 
 
 Representations of different bodies of water. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (fl) To near-by bodies of water. 
 
 (&) To park or country to observe swelling buds, springing 
 
 grass, awakening of animal life, 
 (c) To the country to see the spring plowing. 
 
 11. Supplementary Material, 
 (a) Buds, twigs, bulbs, seeds. 
 
 (&) Life in the terrarium and aquarium. 
 
 (c) House plants. 
 
 (d) Pictures illustrating talks and stories. 
 
 (e) Mother Play Picture,— The Weather Vane. 
 
 VII. APRIL. 
 
 A. Topics of the Month. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (a) Beautifying of rooms. 
 
 {h) The spring house cleaning. 
 
 Cleaning and arranging supply cuptboards. 
 (c) Friedrich Froebel's birthday. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 (a) Changes in clothing. 
 
 (b) House cleaning. 
 
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 A. Topics of the Month — Continued. 
 
 3. Community, 
 (a) Easter. 
 
 (&) Street-paving, digging of sewers, working on country 
 
 roads, 
 (c) Cleaning of streets, parks, and yards. 
 
 4. Nature. 
 
 (a) Germination of seeds. 
 (&) Trees and buds. 
 
 (c) Flowers. 
 
 (d) Birds and animals. 
 
 B. Work of the Month. 
 
 1. Talks, 
 (a) Home: 
 
 Mother's activities in early spring : 
 Cleaning and care of rooms and furnishings. 
 Care of clothing : 
 Buying, mending. 
 
 Adjusting to meet changes in weather. 
 (&) Friedrich Froebel: 
 
 His birthday. 
 
 What he did for little children. 
 
 His own childhood. 
 
 His love of nature. 
 (C) Easter: 
 
 Meaning of day. 
 
 Easter lilies and other flowers. 
 
 Easter eggs and rabbits. 
 
 The chrysalis and butterfly. 
 id) The passing of winter and coming of summer; 
 
 Growing grass. 
 
 Opening buds. 
 
 Springing seeds. 
 
 Planting of seeds and bulbs. 
 
 Spring habits of animals : 
 Frogs, turtles, flshes, snails, snakes, flies, bees, butter- 
 flies. 
 
 Birds : 
 
 Nest building. 
 Care of young. 
 Songs, 
 (e) Activities on the street : 
 
 The laborer who digs the sewer, cleans the street, and 
 
 performs other disagreeable but necessary work. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 (a) The Fairy Shoes. A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. 
 
 Hoxie. 
 (&) Coming and Going. Kindergarten Stories and Morning 
 
 Talks. Sara E. AViltse. 
 
30 
 
 B. WoBK OF THE MONTH — Continued. 
 
 2. Stories — Continued. 
 
 (c) Rhoecus. Stories of Old Greece. Emma M. Firth. 
 
 (d) Tlie Brownies. A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. 
 Hoxie. 
 
 (e) Dust under the Rug. Mother Stories. Maud Lindsay. 
 (/) The Snowdrop. The Children's Hour. Carolyn S. Bailey 
 
 and Clara M. Lewis. 
 {g) Froggj's Adventure. A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane 
 L. Hoxie. 
 
 8. Poems. 
 
 (a) The Voice of the Grass. Sarah Roberts. 
 
 lb) The Cow. Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
 (c) The Bluebird. Emily Huntington Miller. 
 
 id) What Does Little Birdie Say? Alfred Tennyson. 
 
 (e) The Little Plant. In the Child's World. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (/) Baby Seed Song. E. Nesbit. 
 
 4. Songs. 
 
 (a) "B0&&1/" Redbreast. The Song Primer. Alys E. 
 Bentley. • \ 
 
 (&) Flying Song, Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Mil- 
 dred J. and Patty S. Hill. 
 
 (c) All the Birds Have Come Again. Songs and Games for 
 Little Ones. Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 id) Over the Bare Hills Far Away. Songs and Games for 
 Little Ones. Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 (e) Plant Song. A Dozen and Two. Louise P. Warner. 
 
 (/) Snowdrops and Violets. Song Echoes from Child Land. 
 Harriet S. Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 {g) The First Flying Lesson. Small Songs for Small Singers. 
 W. H. Neidlinger. 
 
 ih) On Froebel's Birthday. Holiday Songs. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (i) At Easter Time. Songs and Games for Little Ones. Ger- 
 trude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 6. Gaines. 
 
 (a) In a Hedge. Songs for Little Children, Piirt I. Eleanor 
 
 Smith, 
 (ft) The Little Plant. Finger Plays. Emilie Poulsson. 
 (c) See-Saw. Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie L. 
 
 Gay nor. 
 \{d) The Giants. Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie L. 
 
 Gaynor. 
 (e) The Brownies. Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie 
 
 L. Gaynor. 
 (/) Rhythm Game. Songs of the Child-World, No. I. Jessie 
 
 L. Gaynor. 
 {g) Dancing Song. A First Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 
 Smith. 
 {h) Hansel and Gretel Dance. Children's Old and tJew Sing- 
 ing Gamcfi. Mari Hofer. 
 
31 
 
 B. Work of the Month — Continued. 
 
 5. Games — Continued. 
 
 (i) Transformation Game. Songs and Music of FroeheVB 
 
 Mother Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 (j) Ball Games, Running Games, Rolling Hoop, Skipping 
 
 Rope, Spinning Top and imitations of other outdoor 
 
 sports. 
 
 6. Instrumental Selections, 
 (a) For opening exercises. 
 
 The Spring Song. Mendelssohn. 
 (&) For marching. 
 Lenore. Rafif. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises, 
 {a) Arm movements: 
 
 Roliing Easter eggs. 
 Digging for seed planting. 
 Flying birds. 
 X6) I^g movements: 
 
 Flying and hopping birds. 
 Running on errands for mother. 
 
 (c) Head and neck movements: 
 
 Bird drinking. 
 
 Bird putting head under wing. 
 
 Looking for birds in trees and in the sky, 
 
 (d) Body movements: 
 
 Bending to pick up scraps of paper on street, in park 
 or in house. 
 
 (e) Breathing exercises: 
 
 Whistling of birds. 
 Calling to playmates. 
 (/) Toe exercises : 
 
 The child a bouncing ball. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, 
 Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth 
 Gifts : 
 
 The kindergarten and its furnishings. 
 
 The home and its furnishings. 
 
 Parks, streets, sewers, roads. 
 
 Places where birds build their nests. 
 
 Homes of animals. 
 
 Forms illustrating incidents of Froebel's childhood. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and painting: 
 
 Easter flowers, eggs, and rabbits. 
 (h) Pasting: 
 
 Decorative border design from conventionalized rabbit 
 
 form, 
 (c) Coloring of eggshells after the eggs have been boiled. 
 
B. "Work of the Month— Continued. 
 9. Hand Work — Continued. 
 
 (d) Making, with the help of sealing-wax, paint, pas-te, and 
 paper, eggshell cups, sailboats, etc. 
 
 (e) Blue prints: 
 
 Spring flowers. 
 (/) Sewing: 
 
 Frames for Easter pictures. 
 (g) Raphia winding: 
 
 Basket for Easter eggs or flowers. 
 (h) Construction work, with "outside material": 
 
 Dustpan, pail, broom, etc., used in house cleaning. 
 (i) Sand: 
 »^ Streets, parks, etc. 
 
 (;) Clay: 
 
 Bird's nest and eggs. » 
 
 Easter eggs. 
 
 Rabbit, 
 (fc) Wood work: 
 
 Window box for seed planting. 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To park or country to observe progress in grow^th of 
 
 grass and development of buds. 
 (6) To park or country to observe the birds. 
 
 (c) To park or country to observe 'the spring habits of ani- 
 mals. 
 
 (d) To pond or march to gather frog's eggs. 
 
 11. Supplementfiry Material, 
 (a) Spring flowers. 
 
 (6) Small animals that Ihibernate. 
 
 (c) Life in iterrarium and aquarium. 
 
 (d) Buds, nests, cocoons. 
 
 (e) Pictures of Friedrich Froebel. 
 (/) Mother Play picture, — The Nest. 
 
 (g) Pictures presenting symbolism of Easter time. 
 (h) Chickens, eggs. 
 
 VIII. MAY AND JUNE. 
 
 A. Topics of the Months. 
 
 1. Kindergarten. 
 
 (a) Garden beds in yard: 
 
 Planting, watering, weeddng. 
 
 2. Home. 
 
 (a) Games and sports in house and yard, 
 (ft) Care of garden beds and yards. 
 
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 A. Topics of the Months — Continued. 
 
 3. Community. 
 
 (a) May Day Festival. 
 
 (^) Games and sports in park and street. 
 
 (g) Spring work of the farmer. 
 
 /. Nature, 
 (a) Trees. 
 (h) Flowers. 
 
 (c) Birds. 
 
 (d) Insects. , • 
 
 (e) Summer. 
 
 B. WOBK OF THE MONTHS. 
 
 i. Talks. 
 
 (a) The common wild flowers: 
 
 Manner and place of growth. 
 
 Colors, odors, forms. 
 
 Use of flowers to insects and of insects to flowers. 
 
 (b) Examination and discussion of twigs, buds, leaves, trees. 
 {€) Observation of the growth of seedlings. 
 
 (d) Bees: 
 
 Kinds, appearance, homes. 
 Honey gathering, wax making. 
 Care of hive, care of young. 
 Use to plants and animals. 
 
 (e) Butterflies, moths, and caterpillars: 
 
 Appearance. 
 
 Food. 
 
 Cocoon and chrysalis making. 
 
 Transformation. 
 
 Uses. 
 (/) Insect life in general : 
 
 Appearance, habits, and uses of ants, spiders, flies, 
 
 crickets, grasshoppers, and wasps. 
 (</) The farmer's spring work: 
 
 Preparation of ground. 
 
 Sowing and planting. 
 
 Hoeing, weeding, harrowing. 
 (h) Grass: 
 
 Growth. 
 
 Harvesting. 
 
 Cutting, curing, storing. 
 
 Uses. 
 (i) The cow: 
 
 Her products. 
 
 2. Stories. 
 
 (a) The Queen Bee. Household Tales. Grimm Brothers. 
 (h) Pieciola. A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
 (c) What Happened on the Road to Grandfather Goodfield's.- 
 A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
34 
 
 B. Work of the Months — Continued. 
 
 2. Stmies — Continued. 
 
 (d) The Lost Comb. A Kindergarten Story Book. Jane L. 
 Hoxie. 
 
 (e) Dunny. A Kinderf/arten Story Book. Jane L. Hoxie. 
 (/) A Barn Yard Talk. In the Child's World. Emilie 
 
 Poulsson. 
 (g) The Life of a Silkwonn. In the Child's World. Emilie 
 Poulsson. 
 
 3. Poems. 
 
 (a) The Cow. Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
 (6) The Little Plant. In the Child's World. Emilie Pouls- 
 son. 
 
 (c) There Was a Tree -Stood in the Ground. '0/d School 
 Reader. 
 
 (d) If All the Seas Were One Sea. Nursery Rhymes. Hal- 
 lowell. 
 
 4. Songs. 
 
 (a) May Day. May Day) Revels. Novello, Ewer & Co., Pub. 
 (6) Away Among the Blossoms. Merry Songs and Games, 
 
 Clara B. Hubbard, 
 (c) Little Gripsy Dandelion. A Primer of Vocal Music. 
 
 Eleanor Smith. 
 {d) A Song lor Suimuer. Stories in Song. Elizabeth U. 
 
 Emerson and Kate L. Brown. 
 
 (e) Summer Song. Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Mil- 
 dred J. and Patity S. Hill. 
 
 (/) A Little Boy's Walk. Finger Plays. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (g) The Caterpillar. Finger Plays. Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (h) The Toad's Mistake. The Song Primer. Alys E. Bent- 
 ley. 
 
 (i) Baby Bye. Flag of the Free Collection. 
 
 (j) Grass Mowing. Songs and Music of FroebeVs Mother 
 Play. Susan E. Blow. 
 
 (fe) A Summer Lullaby. A First Book in Vocal Music. Elea- 
 nor Smith. 
 
 (?) The Little Elf. (1 First Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 (m) Farmyard Song. Seven Children's Songs. Grieg. 
 
 5. Games. 
 
 (a) May iSong, — an old English festival song. Wilkinson 
 Collection. 
 
 (b) Fly Singing Bird, — adapted from trio. K<iward Elgar. 
 
 (c) Caterpillar Song. Kindergarten Rcrieiv, March, 1902. 
 Frances E. Jacobs. 
 
 (d) The Counting Lesson. Finger Plays. Emilie Pouls.son. 
 
 (e) Busy Bees. Songs, Games and Rhymes. Eudora L. 
 Hailmann. 
 
 (/) The Bee. The Song Primer. Alys E. Bentley. 
 
35 
 
 B. Work op the Months — ^Continued. 
 
 5. Games — Continued. 
 
 ((J) Smelling Game. Sonr/s and Games for lAttle Ones. 
 Gertrude Walker and Harriet S. Jenks. 
 
 (h) The Storm. Music, first four measures of "The Snail" 
 in Songs and Games for Little Ones. Gertrude Walker 
 and Harriet S. Jenks.* 
 
 (i) Imitations of all kinds of outdoor sports and games ac- 
 companied by appropriate rhythmic music on piano. 
 
 (y) The SAving. Second Book in Vocal Music. Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 6. Instrumental Selections, 
 (a) For opening exercises. 
 
 Wild Rose. MacDowell. 
 (&) For marching. 
 
 Dorothy. Seymour Smith. 
 
 7. Gymnastic Exercises. 
 (a) Arm movements: 
 
 Swinging of scythe. 
 
 Flying of bees, butterflies, and birds. 
 (h) Leg movements: 
 
 Mowing of grass. 
 
 Flying. 
 
 Children at play, 
 (c) Head and neck movements: 
 
 Swaying and nodding of flowers. 
 {d) Body movements. 
 
 Working in garden. % 
 
 Picking flowers, 
 (e) Breathing exercises: 
 
 Noises of insects. 
 (/) Toe exercises: 
 
 Growing of grass and flowers. 
 
 8. Gifts. 
 
 (a) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, 
 Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth 
 Gifts : 
 
 Garden beds and fields. 
 
 Trees in woods where wild flowers grow. 
 
 Fences on farms. 
 
 Paths and roads through fields and meadows. 
 
 Farm buildings. 
 
 Farmer's tools and vehicles. 
 
 Beehives and honey boxes. 
 
 Toys used in games' and sports. 
 
 * ' ' Hear the softly falling showers 
 Calling to {he grass and flowers. 
 Hear the gently whispering breeze 
 Sighing softly through the trees. 
 Hear the mighty rushing gaje 
 Bounding over hill and dale. 
 See the vivid lightning flash, 
 Hear the roaring thunder crash." 
 
36 
 
 B. Work of the Months — Continued. 
 
 9. Hand Work. 
 
 (a) Drawing and painting: 
 
 Illustrations of talks and stories. 
 
 Flowers. 
 (&) Blue prints: 
 
 Flowers, 
 
 (c) Cutting: 
 
 Flower forms. 
 
 (d) Pasting: 
 
 Decorative designs with conventionalized butterfly and 
 flower forms. 
 
 (e) Folding: ^ 
 
 Butterfly. 
 
 May baskets. 
 
 May caps. 
 (/) Sewing: 
 
 May caps. 
 (g) Weaving: 
 
 May baskets. 
 {h) Sand: 
 
 Section of park where May dance is conducted, — use 
 
 stick for pole, colored worsted for ribbons, and paper 
 
 dolls for children, 
 (i) Clay: 
 
 Toys. 
 
 Farmer's tools. 
 
 Flower jar. ♦ 
 
 10. Excursions. 
 
 (a) To country or woods to gather wild flowers. 
 
 (b) To country or park to observe changes in trees. 
 
 (c) To country or park to observe insects. 
 
 (d) To farm to observe spring work and growth of croi>t. 
 
 (e) To apiary to observe bees. 
 
 (/) To park or field for May party. 
 
 11. Supplementary Materml. 
 
 (a) Caterpillars, cocoons, butterflies, and moths. 
 
 (b) Bees and other insects. 
 
 (c) Honey, honeycomb, and wax. 
 id) Wasps' nests. 
 
 (e) Flowers, leaves, buds, twigs. 
 
 (/) Mother Play picture, — Grass Mowing. 
 
37 
 
 A NATURE PROGRAM. 
 
 I. Purpose. 
 
 A. To awaken an interest in natural phenomena. 
 
 B. To call forth a fostering spirit or, in other words, to develop 
 
 a feeling of sympathy, care, and fellowship for plants and 
 animals. 
 
 II. Means Employed. 
 
 A. Care of pet animals. 
 
 B. Cultivation of plants. 
 
 C. Excursions to park and country. 
 
 D. Nature materials brought into the kindergarten. 
 
 E. Songs, stories, poems, and talks relating to plant and animal 
 
 life and to other natural phenomena. 
 
 F. Pictures. 
 
 III. General Topics fob the Year. 
 
 A. Animal Life. 
 
 1. Birds in the fall and winter. 
 
 2. Birds in the spring and summer. 
 
 3. Bees. v 
 
 4. Butterflies. 
 
 5. Ants, wasps, crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, flies. 
 
 6. Pet animals. 
 
 7. Domestic animals. 
 
 8. Fishes, frogs, toads, turtles, snakes, snails. 
 
 B. Vegetable Life. 
 
 1. Flowers. 
 
 2. Trees in the fall and winter. 
 
 3. Trees in the spring and summer. 
 
 4. Seeds and nuts in the autumn. 
 
 5. Seeds in the spring. 
 
 6. Fruit. 
 
 7. Grains and vegetables. 
 
 C. The Elements. 
 
 1. Wind. 
 
 2. Water. 
 
 (a) Bodies of. , 
 (&) Forms of. 
 
 (1) Rain. 
 
 (2) Frost. 
 
 (3) Ice. 
 
 (4) Snow. 
 
 3. Light. 
 
 (a) Sources of. 
 
 (1) Sun. 
 
 (2) Moon. 
 
 (3) Stars. 
 
38 
 
 lY. Teachers' References. 
 
 A. ^'ature Study and Life. Ciffton F. Hodge. Boston, Ginn 
 & Co. 
 
 B. Tenants of an Old Farm. Henry C. McCook. New York, 
 Fords, Howard & Hurlbert. 
 
 C. Text-Book in General Zoology. Henry R. Linville and 
 Henry A. Kelly. Boston, Ginn & Co. 
 
 D. Familiar Trees and Their Leaves. F. Schuyler Mathews. 
 New York, D. Appleton & Co. 
 
 E. The Tree Book. Julia E. Rogers. New York, Doubleday, 
 Page & Co. 
 
 F. Field Book of Ameriean Wild Flowers. F. Schuyler 
 JMathews. New I'ork, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
 
 G. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden. F. Schuyler 
 Mathews. New York, D. Appleton & C^. 
 
 H. How to Know the Wild Flowers. Mrs. William Starr 
 
 Dana. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 
 I. Bird Life. Frank M. Chapman. New York, D. Appleton 
 
 & Co. 
 J. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. Frank M. 
 
 Chapman. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 
 K. Bird Neighbors. Neltje Blanchan. New York, Doubleday, 
 
 Page & Co. 
 L. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music. F. Schuyler 
 
 Mathews. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
 M. Birds and Bees. John Burroughs. Boston, Houghton, 
 
 Mifflin & Co. 
 N. The Bee People. Margaret W. Morley. Chicago, A. C. 
 
 McClurg & Co. 
 O. The Insect Book. Leland O. Howard. New York, Double- 
 day, Page & Co. 
 P. The Butterfly Book. W. J. Holland. New York, Double- 
 day, Page & Co. 
 Q. The Sea-Beach at Ebb Tide. Augusta Foote Arnold. New 
 
 YorJ\, The Century Company. 
 R. American Fishes. G. Brown Goode. Boston, Estes & 
 
 Lauriat. 
 S. The Frog Book. Mary C. Dickerson. New York, Doubleday, 
 
 Page & Co. 
 T. Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers. John Burroughs. Bosh 
 
 ton, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 
 U. Domesticated Animals. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. New 
 
 York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 
 V. Star-Land. Sir Robert Starwell Ball. Boston, Ginn & Co. 
 W. The Fairy-Land of Science. Arabella B. Buckley. New 
 
 York, D. Appleton & Co. 
 X. The Song of Life. Margaret W. Morley. Chicago, A. C. 
 
 McClurg & Co. 
 Y. About the Weather. Mark W. Harrington. New York, D. 
 
 Appleton & Co. 
 Z. Mother Nature's Children. Allen Walton Gould. Boston, 
 
 Ginn & Co. 
 
39 
 
 TOPICS FOR SEPTEMBER. 
 
 A. Inh'ecisj^^Ants, Wasps, Crickets, Grasshoppers, Spiders, Flics, 
 
 B, Birds in the Fall and Winter. 
 
 WORK FOR SEPTEMBER.* 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — ^INSECTS. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Let the children name all the insects they can. Show 
 a colony of ants, either in the science room of the 
 school or in their natural enviromnent out of doors in 
 the park or garden, and let the children watch these 
 little creatures at their work. Tell how ants build 
 their homes, get their food, and care for their young. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or tablets. Make field, park, or road- 
 way where homes of ants xire to be found. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand Tray. Make ant-hills. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The appearance and ihabits of social wasps. iShow 
 nest of paper-making wasp and tell how this little in- 
 sect produces the paper from which her home is con- 
 structed. (Show nest of mud-dauber and mention some 
 of the interesting peculiarities of the solitary wasp. 
 Show the children some living si>eeimens of wasps or, 
 better still, take them where they may see a wasps' 
 nest and wasps at work in their natural environment. 
 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Represent trees and shrubs or out- 
 houses and porches where wasps' nests are often found. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Represent nest of paper-making wasp. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show living specimens or good pictures of crickets and 
 grasshoppers, or take the children to the field to ob- 
 serve the movements and to hear the songs of these 
 insects. Tell how these little creatures make their 
 music, get their food, and deposit their eggs. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Inclose a field or meadow. 
 
 * Although detailed suggestions are made for only two weeks of nature 
 work during each month, it will not be possible or desirable for the kinder- 
 gartner, wishing to follow this plan of work, to crowd all the proposed 
 exercises into her monthly program. It is taken for granted that she 
 will select only those suited to the needs and the environment of her 
 pupils, leaving the rest untouched. 
 
40 
 
 A. FiiiST Week— Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday — Continued. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Stringing of beads, disks, and straws or of nature 
 material collected during walk. 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The spider. Her form, color, nest, web, food, etc. Ob- 
 serve living spiders and watch them at work if i)os- 
 sible. Tell story of "Arachne" in Emma Firth's 
 Stories of Old Greece. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Lay in form of spider web. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw Sjpider web. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The appearance, habits, and uses of the housefly. 
 Read A Letter from a Fly in The Child-Gardeti for 
 September, 1803. Repeat the poem Baby Bye by Theo- 
 dore Til ton. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or blocks or tablets. Represent window where 
 the flies love to congregate. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold window. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — BIRDS IN THE FALL AND WINTER. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The migration of birds. The kind of birds that go 
 south and why they go. What they do while in the 
 warmer climia^te. Interest the ichildren in watching 
 for the migratory flight of birds, which may sometimes 
 even be seen from the window of the city kindergarten. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or blocks or tablets. Make representations of 
 cages and bird houses in the park where various birds 
 are confined, especially during the fall and winter 
 months. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut or tear bird form. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Name birds that do not migrate. Tell the story of 
 Coming and Goiny from Henry Ward Beecher's Nor- 
 xoood, or The Crane Express from Emilie Poulsson's 
 • In the. Child's World. 
 
 V 
 
41 
 
 B. SncoND Week — Contiuued. 
 
 2. Tuesday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 BIocl^s. Make section of tree in which children haye 
 seen the hojne of a woodpeclver. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand. Use twigs and bits of cotton wool and repre- 
 sent a section .of the park or country showing trees 
 with empty nests left by migratory birds. 
 
 5. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Describe our winter birds and their habits, — the pig- 
 eon, crow, nuthatch, chicadee, woodpecker, junco, house 
 sparrow, etc. Siliow Froebel's Mother Play iiieture. 
 The Pigeon House. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Tablets. Make picture of bird house in tree, or of 
 pigeon house on pole. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Make pigeon house or other bird houses, or 
 pictures of birds. 
 
 Ji. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The molting of birds and their acquisition of new coats 
 of down and feathers. Relate anecdotes sliowing how 
 some birds obtain focxl and shelter during the winter 
 months. 
 
 {b) Gift: 
 
 lilocks. Represent different places where house spar- 
 rows seek protection from the winter weather, 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Tasting. .Make decorative border design using conven- 
 tionalized pigeon or sparrow form as a unit. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 («) Talk: 
 
 (General review of w^eekly story and discussions. Lead 
 the children to talk aboiit their canaries or other pet 
 birds. 
 
 (/>) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Make pictures of birds, bird cages, birds' 
 drinking glass, bath tub, and seed tray. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model pet dove or canary. 
 
 TOPICS FOR OCTOBER. 
 
 A. Trees in the Fall and Winter. 
 
 B. Seeds and Nuts in the Autumn, 
 
42 
 
 WORK FOR OCTOBER. 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — TREES IN THE FALL AND WINTER. 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Observe the tr-ees and contrast their present appearance 
 with that of the spring. Examine the fruit of different 
 trees, both dry and fleshy. 
 {h) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Inclose field containing trees, or roadway 
 or avenue bordered by trees, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. By means of bare twigs and those contain- 
 ing leaves, represent a patch of wood as it appears in 
 the summer and as it appears in the late fall and 
 winter. 
 
 ». Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The formation and protection of buds in the fall. The 
 ripened and falling leaves. The function of leaves in 
 the spring and summer. How leaves act as a protection 
 for roots and seeds in the winter. Leaves as a fer- 
 tilizer. Encourage the children to gather and press 
 pretty-colored autumn leaves. 
 
 (5) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Furniture forms made from wood, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cutting or tearing of leaf fonns. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The manner in which trees provide for the protection 
 
 and scattering of their seeds. Recite Susan Coolidge's 
 
 poem, Hoic the Leaves Came Down. 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Outline leaf forms, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Leaf form used as unit of design. 
 
 J^. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the Story of The Anxious Leaf, from Henry Ward 
 Beecher's 'Noricood, or Rhoecus, from Elmma Firth's 
 Stones of Old Greece. ' 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make a picture of a tree with branches pointing 
 upward like the Lombardy poplar, one with branches 
 drooping Hke the weeping willow, and one with 
 branches nearlv horizontal like the apple tree, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Stringing of nuts or winged seeds from trees. 
 
43 __ 
 
 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 0. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The winter sleep of trees. The different uses of trees 
 
 to man. Touch on logging and lumbering. 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make lumber camp in wood or build log house. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Roll cylinders from intertwining strips and construct 
 
 log raft or log house. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— SEEDS AND NUTS IN THE AUTUMN. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show a*variety of seeds and seed pods. Tell how plants 
 
 work for the development and protection of their seeds ; 
 
 or go to the country and gather as many kinds of 
 
 seeds as possible. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or peg boards. Represent field of grain, 
 
 grove of nut trees, or avenue of maples, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Stringing of seed pods, seeds, or nuts. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Dissemination of seeds and nuts by means of wind and 
 of animals. Seeds that have wings and feathery at- 
 tachments. Seeds that have hooks and shaip points. 
 Seeds that have fleshy envelopes. Seeds that are good 
 for food. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make boxes for holding seeds. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold seed pocket, box, or basket. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Gathering and storing of seeds. Seeds used as food, 
 as medicine, for dyeing purposes, for the production of 
 perfumes. Seeds used for ornamentation. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Make forms of symmetry. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Arrangement of winged seeds in form of 
 decorative design. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The process which some seeds undergo for the pro- 
 duction of meal and flour. Visit gris.tmill, af possible. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Illustrate process discussed during talk, 
 
44 
 
 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 4. Thursday — Continued, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Lay designs with bright-colored seeds, or 
 reduce kernels of wheat or corn to flour or meal by 
 means of mortar and pestle, or go to school kitchen and 
 cook some simple cereal for the kindergarten luncheon. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Review talks of the week, or go to the country to 
 
 gather nuts. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Free choice of material and free play, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make impressions of acorn and oak leaf in clay ; or 
 
 paste decorative design, using oak leaf and acorn for 
 
 motive; or make toys from acorns, horse-chestnuts and 
 
 toothpicks. 
 
 TOPICS FOR NOVEMBER. 
 
 A. FruU. 
 
 B. Grains and Vegetables. 
 
 WORK FOR NOVEMBER. 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — ^FRUIT. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Ask the children to name the common fleshy fruits. 
 Refer each fruit mentioned to the kind of tree or vine 
 upon which it grew. Show several kinds of fruits and 
 discuss their forms and colors. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Blocks and worsted balls. Build fruit stand and place 
 balls (fruit) upon it. Let the children play at buying 
 and selling fruit. 
 
 (c) Hand W^ork : 
 
 Drawing or painting of apple, pear, orange, lemon, or 
 banana. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show how fruit develops from tiny buds. Play sense 
 , games, comparing different fruits as to form, size, color, 
 texture, odor, and flavor. 
 
 (l») Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make boxes, barrels, and baskets for holding 
 fruit. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Pasting. Decorative border made from conventional- 
 ized fruit forms. 
 
45 
 
 A. First Week — ^Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The outside and internal appearance of different fruits. 
 
 Show " blossom " in apple. Discuss the uses of fruit 
 
 to man and to animals. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards, sticks, or blocks. Inclose orchard, and 
 
 plant in the inclosure apple, pear, cherry, or plum 
 
 trees, 
 (c) Hand' Work: 
 
 Cut fruit forms, or string seeds of fruit, or make 
 
 decorative design of blot work. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The harvesting of fruit. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and Hailmann's second gift. Make wagon and 
 cover with boxes and barrels of fruit. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand tray. Use twigs and beads and represent an 
 orchard with fruit still hanging on the trees. Gather 
 fruit from orchard and send to market. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Canning, preserving, and drying of fruit. 
 (&) Gift: 
 * Blocks. Make fruit warehouse, or cellar for storing 
 
 preserved fruit, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Model different kinds of familiar fruit. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— GRAINS AND VEGETABLES. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Get the children to name all the grains and vegetables 
 they can. Discuss the uses of these fruits of the field 
 to both man and animal ; or take the children to the 
 green grocers, and let them identify the vegetables 
 there. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make receptacles for holding vegetables; or 
 make grocery store and stand. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw or paint pumpkin, 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: ' 
 
 The preparation of the ground for planting and sow- 
 ing. Care of growing plants. Harvesting of grain 
 and vegetables. Recite Miss Poulsson's finger play, 
 Hoic the Corn Qreic, 
 
46 
 
 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 2. Tuesday — Continued. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Second gift and sticks. Use sand tray and plow, plant, 
 and cultivate field. Watch growing grain, and finally 
 harvest it. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Decorative border. Use conventionalized 
 vegetable or grain forms for units of design. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Transportation and distribution of vegetables. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make wagon, boat, and cars for carrying vege- 
 tables. 
 
 (c) Hand W^ork : 
 
 Make baskets, barrels, bins, and wagons from ribbon 
 bolts; or represent cornfield in sand tray, using raphia 
 for shocks of corn, and orange-colored beads for 
 pumpkins. 
 
 ^. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Threshing of wheat and oats. Husking and sbelling of 
 corn. Grinding of grain. Tell story of The Buckwheat 
 from Sara Cone Bryant's How to Tell Stories to CIUI- 
 dren. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks and sticks, or tablets and sticks. Represent 
 threshing floor, flail, grain bins, and mill. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make cornhusk doll. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Recite Thomas Moore's The Potato or part of Whit- 
 tier's The Corn Song, or tell an adaptation of the 
 Greek myth of Persephone. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Outline vegetable forms, or make pictures 
 illustrating story. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Model ear of com on plaque, or model jar or 
 plate and use kernel of corn to press around edges 
 of modeled dibh, thus producing decorative effect. 
 S 
 
 TOPICS FOR DECEMBER. 
 
 A. The Squirrel. 
 
 B. Domestic AnimaiS. 
 
47 
 
 WORK FOR DECEMBER. 
 A. FiBST Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — THE SQUIRREL. 
 
 i. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Go to the park to feed and observe the squirrels, if the 
 day be mild enough for the gray squirrels to appear ; 
 or play with the pet squirrel of the kindergarten; or 
 study pictures of squirrels. Repeat Miss Poulsson's 
 The Squirrel; or recite, with appropriate motions, the 
 finger play, Five Little Squirrels* 
 
 (b) Gift: ' . 
 
 Blocks, sticks or tablets. Make hollow tree where 
 squirrel lives, or make squirrel cage. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Draw or paint squirrel or string some of the nuts he 
 likes to eat. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The winter habits of squirrels. New coats of fur, 
 hibernation, storing of food. Tell the story of 
 Brownie in the Kindergarten Magazine of March, 1893. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Use nuts and outline form of squirrel. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Make decorative border design, using con- 
 ventionalized squirrel form for motive. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The squirrel's nest. The home of the chipmunk. Dif- 
 ferent nests for different seasons — hollow tree, hole in 
 the ground, leaves in branches, etc. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Represent trees. Build house for pet squirrel. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold basket for holding nuts. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The activities of the squirrel — leaping, running, sit- 
 ting, walking, swimming, digging, etc. The different 
 kinds of food eaten and stored by squirrels. Tell 
 anecdotes of squirrels. 
 
 'Five little squirrels up in a tree. 
 This one says, 'What do I see?' 
 This one says, 'I see some boys!' 
 This one says, 'Let's run away!' 
 This one says, 'No, let us hide!' 
 This one says, 'I'm not afraid!' 
 'Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!' cry the boys, 
 And the five little squirrels run at the noise." 
 
48 
 
 A. FiKST Week — Continued. 
 
 4. Thursday — Continued. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Make wood, park, or field, where squirrels 
 are to be seen, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand tray. Make ground squirrel's winter home. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (o) Talk: 
 
 Review talks and stories of the week. Repeat Emer- 
 son's Fable. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks, rings or lentils. Outline basket for holding food 
 for squirrels. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Model squirrel, section of hollow tree or nuts. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — DOMESTIC AXIMALS. 
 
 X. Monday. 
 
 (o) Talk: 
 
 The horse. What he can do. His use to man. How 
 he should be cared for. Work horses, carriage horses, 
 cavalry horses, circus and show horses. Relate anec- 
 dotes illustrating the intelligence of the horse. Tell 
 story of Dunny in A Kindergarten uS7or.v Book, by Jane 
 L. Hoxie. 
 
 (5) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build barn or manger, water trough and horse 
 stall ; or make fence around pasture ; or build black- 
 smith's shop. 
 
 (c) Hand W'ork : 
 
 Cut and paste design of horseshoes; or model black- 
 smith's tools in clay ; or draw picture of horse in action, 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The cow. Her activities and her value. Her winter 
 and summer quarters. The care and kindness whicli 
 are her due. Her products. Read Stevenson's The 
 Coic. Show Froebel's Mother Piny Picture, Gra^s 
 Mowing. Tell the Norwegian story, A Barnyard Talk. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or peg boards. Make barn or stable ; 
 or inclose field. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Model cow in clay; or fold milk pail ; or make pail from 
 ribbon bolt, wire hairpin, and paper strip. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The sheep. Its appearance, habits, and products. 
 Relate anecdotes of pet sheep and lambs. Take the 
 children to the park or country to observe sheep in 
 the fold. The washing and shearing of sheep. Recite 
 Miss Poulsson's The Lamhs. Tell the German story, 
 How a Little Boy Got a New Shirt. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make sheepfold. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Making of worsted balls. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The pig. His appearance, habits and uses. Recite Miss 
 
 Poulsson's The Pigs. Read The Three Little Pigs, by 
 
 A. S. Scott-Gatty. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Make pigpen and trough, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Fold pig's trough. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Chickens and other domestic birds. Their habits and 
 uses. Recite Miss Poulsson's The Hen and Chickens. 
 Tell fairy story, The Little Red Hen, or story of Little 
 Half Chick. Show Froebel's Mother Play Picture, The 
 Farmyard Gate. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of hencoop and chicken yard. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Use blocks, stick, and toy animals and 
 represent a farmyard ; or make miniature chicken 
 coop from cardboard and toothpicks. 
 
 TOPICS FOR JANUARY. 
 
 A. Forms of Water. 
 
 1. Frost, Ice, Snow. 
 
 B. Light. 
 
 1. Sun, Moon, Stars. 
 
 WORK FOR JANUARY. 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— FROST, ICE AND SNOW. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The action of cold upon water. Illustrate expansion 
 of water when it freezes. 
 
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 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 1. Monday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards, tablets, or sticks. Represent a section of 
 the parlv or a country field in the winter time. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Roll spills, using white or silver intertwining paper, 
 then string to represent icicles: or. In the sand tray, 
 make a miniature field or park in the winter, using 
 cottonwool to produce the effect of snow and bare 
 
 ■twigs to represent trees. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The work of the frost. Its effect on animal and vege- 
 table life. Frost pictures. Read Hanna Gould's The 
 Frost. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Free choice and free play. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cutting or tearing pictures of children as they might 
 
 look when engaged in winter sports. 
 
 5. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Snow. Snow crystals. Uses of snow as a protector 
 of vegetable life, a promoter of childish sports, and a 
 facilitator of certain methods of traveling — sleighing, 
 snowshoeing. Tell an adaptation of Hans Cliristian 
 Andersen's Snow Man. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Make pictures of snow crystals with sticks; or build 
 snow fort with blocks. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw or paint forms of snow crystals; or make snow- 
 balls and snow men in the sand traj-; or cut and tear 
 snowballs and snow men. 
 
 J^. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Ice as a preservative. Its use in the preparation of 
 certain kinds of food and drink. The cutting and 
 storing of ice. Ice boats. Houses made of ice and 
 snow. Skating. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Illustrate the cutting and storing of ice. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand or clay. Make house of Eskimo : or cut blocks of 
 
 ice. 
 
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 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Take short walk in park or country while large fleecy 
 snowflakes are falling and examine these; or go to a 
 place where ice is being cut and stored for summer 
 use; or show pictures illustrating the forms of snow 
 crystals, or those depicting the harvesting of ice. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or tablets. Make pictures of sleighs, ice boats, 
 houses for storing ice, etc. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make doll's sleigh from pai)er, wood, or pasteboard. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — SUN, MOON AND STARS. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Draw from the children their observations and ideas 
 of the sun, moon, and stars. Give them some idea, if 
 possible, of the distance between the earth and these 
 bodies. Inspire the children with a desire to watch 
 for the appearance of the moon and .stars in the even- 
 ing, and get them interested in observing the setting 
 of the sun. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or tablets. Represent our window where 
 we sit and watch the stars in the evening. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 flaking of soap bubbles. Observe effects of light upon 
 them. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The sun. Its light and heat. A preserver and pro- 
 moter of animal and vegetable life. The healing and 
 cleansing power of sunlight. The reason why the sun 
 shines only by day. Observe the effect wihich the sun- 
 light has upon the glass prism. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make a representation of the sun. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Observe the spectrum and itry to match lits colors with 
 bits of cloth, worsted, paper, and natural objects ; or 
 make window transparency. 
 
 S. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The moon. Her use and beauty. Why we rarely see 
 the moon except at might. Read George MacDonald's 
 The Wind and the Moon, or tell the story of Lndwig 
 and Marleen in A Kindergarten Story Book, by Jane 
 L. Hoxie. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Illustrate poem or story. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut from silver paper forms to represent the moon in 
 lier various phases. 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The stars. Their mystery and beauty. Fixed stars. 
 TAvlnkling and shooting stai"s. W'hy the stars are vis- 
 ible only at night. The milky way. Tell A Legend of 
 the Great Dipper, from Sara Wlltse's Kindergarten 
 Stories and Morning Talks. I^t the children recite- 
 the nursery rhyme. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. 
 
 (5) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make star forms and place in ix>sition to rep- 
 resent the Great Dii>per as it appears in the skj-. 
 
 <c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold silver star, or paste stars in the form of a decora- 
 tive design. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Review talks and sitories of tlie week, or show and dis- 
 cuss Froebers Mother Play picture. The Light Bird. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Lentils or balls. Representations of the movements of 
 heavenly bodies ; or give a color lesson, making use of 
 tihe si>ectrum. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Wind or sew §tar form, or use color tops. 
 
 A. Pets. 
 
 B. Watek. 
 
 A. First Week. 
 
 TOPICS FOR FEBRUARY. 
 WORK FOR FEBRUARY. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — PETS. 
 
 1. Mo'nday. 
 
 (a) Talk: ^ 
 
 Encourage each child to talk about his own particular 
 pet at home, — to tell its name, what it can do and how 
 it should be cared for. Observe especially the i^t ani- 
 mals in the kindergarten. Tell how these pet animals 
 prepare for winter by getting new warm coats of 
 feathers or of fur. 
 
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 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 1. Morula I' — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 ISticlvs and rings. I^t each child 'malj;e a picture of 
 ithe dish from which his pet eats, or of the kennel or 
 house in which his pet lives or sleeps, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Ask each child to make a picture of the 
 pet he lias at home, or of the pet animal of the kinder- 
 garten. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The dog. His faithfulness and courage. Tell anec- 
 dotes of St. Bernard and colHe dogs, whic^h rescue 
 freezing and drowning people. Tell how the shepherd 
 dog cares for the sheep. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Tahlets, sticks, or blocks. Make dog's kennel. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model dog; or make snow-covered mountain, 
 in sand tray, where a St. Bernard rescued a man from 
 freezing ; or make a body of v/ater where a child was 
 saved from drowning by a faithful collie. 
 
 3. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The cat. His antics and his uses. How he should be 
 cared for. Have some child bring a pet cat to visit 
 the kindergarten. Repeat Miss Poulsson's Mrs. Pussy's 
 Dinner and tell one of the Topsy Stories in A Kinder- 
 garten Story Book. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make pictures illustrating story, or 
 make Mrs. Pussy's plate, mat, and bed. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Make decorative border using conventional- 
 ized cat form as unit of design. 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The canary, parrot, dove, or other pet bird. How it 
 
 acts and looks. What we can do for it. Its use in 
 
 giving pleasure to us. 
 (?>) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or tablets. Make picture of house or 
 
 cage in which pet bird lives, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Coloring or painting bird; or cutting and tearing form 
 
 of canary, parrot, or dove. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell story of BiJIy BoJitail from A Kindergarten Story 
 Boole by Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 5. Friday — ^Continued: 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Bloclis, sticks, tablets, or lentils. Illustrate story, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model pet animals. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — WATER. 
 
 i. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The different forms of water, — steam, vapor, mist, or 
 
 fog, frost, ice, snow, rain. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 ■Sticks and rings. Make picture of pump, fountain, or 
 
 old-fashioned well. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 •Soap bubble party. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (0) Talk: 
 
 Bodies of water, — ^springs, fountains, brooks, water- 
 falls, rivers, ponds, lakes, bays, oceans. Read parts of 
 Tennyson's Song of the Brook. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Rings (half and quarter). Represent different bodies 
 of water. 
 
 (0) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Represent different bodies of water; or 
 make sailboat from walnut shell, paper, and hairniu, 
 and sail on miniature pond. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Uses of water, — to drink and preserve life of plants 
 and animals, for cleansing purposes, to travel through 
 and over. Water, the home of certain animals. 
 Water, a fire tighter. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks and rings. Make receptacles for hold- 
 ing water, — tubs, pails, cisteras, pitchers, bottles, swim- 
 ming tanks, etc. 
 
 (C) Hand Work : 
 
 Make wooden water wheel and go to brook in country 
 where it may be used ; or construct raft with logs made 
 from intertwining papers or from real twigs. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Use of water as a motive power in running engines 
 and turning machinery. Water as a disintegrator of 
 earth, rocks, etc. Telf story of Little Hero of Haarlem 
 from Miss Poulsson's In the Child's World. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 4. Thursday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make engines, mills, steamboats, etc. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Construction of engine or boat from miscellaneous ma- 
 terials. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Water as the home of fishes, frogs,, turtles and other 
 
 animals. Use Froebel's Mother Play Picture, The Fish 
 
 in the Brook, 
 (6) Gifit: 
 
 Blocks. Build piers and bridges, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Draw or model some of the creatures which live in the 
 
 water. 
 
 ' TOPICS FOR MARCH. 
 
 A. Wind. 
 
 B. Fishes, Frogs, Toads, Turtles, Snakes, Snails. 
 
 WORK FOR MARCH. 
 A. FiBST Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — WIND. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Draw from the children their ideas about the wind and 
 
 what they have observed with regard to its effects. 
 
 Things that the wind can do. Recite Edmund C. Sted- 
 
 man's poem. What the \Vinds Bring. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures showing the wind's work, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make weather vane from cardboard, pin and stick and 
 
 place on top of building made from kindergarten blocks. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The wind as a helper in transportation. The wind as 
 
 a sower of seeds. Tell story of Odysseus and the Bag 
 
 of Winds, from Emilie Poulsson's In the Child's World. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or rings or thread. Make picture of sailboat, 
 
 or of balloon, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting of decorative border, using modified sailboat 
 
 or balloon fbrm as unit of design. 
 
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 A. FiBST Week— Continued. 
 
 S. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The wind as a purifier. The wind as an instrument 
 
 in producing and dispelling clouds. T^l ^sop's fable, 
 
 The Wind and the Sun. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Thread. Make picture of the traveler in the fable, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing or painting. Illustrate The Wind and The 
 
 Sun. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk; 
 
 The help of the wind in turning windmills, and weather 
 vanes and in drying clothes. Tell story of 2'he Discoti- 
 tented Weather Vane. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks, blocks, or peg boards. Make weather vane or 
 windmill, or make poles and line for holding wet cloth- 
 ing while it dries in the wind. 
 
 (c) Hand AVork : 
 
 Cntting and tearing of windmill or weather vane or of 
 clothing dried in the wind. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The wind as a play-fellow, flying kites, blowing flags, 
 turning pan wheels, etc. Recite Stevenson's Windp 
 Xi(/hts or William Hewitts The Wind in a Frolic. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Kight-angled scalene triangular tablets. Make kite 
 form and. by repeating it along a line, convert into 
 decorative border design. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold kite, balloon, or pin wheel from large and strong 
 material so that the completed object may be used out 
 of doors in the wind. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — ^FISHES, FROGS, TOADS, TURTLES, SNAKES, SNAILS, 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The fish and his home. The nest that some fishes 
 build. How fishes eat, swim, breathe. How some 
 fishes care for their young. The hibernation habits of 
 some kinds of fish. Show Froebel's Mother Play pic- 
 ture. The Fish in the Brook. Observe the goldfish in 
 the aquarium. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build bridge over pond or river; or mako 
 picture of fishing boat with sticks; or represent stream 
 and fish with quarter rings. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 1. Monday — Continued. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Make different bodies of water containing 
 fish; or draw or paint a goldfish. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 («) Talk: 
 
 Toads and frogs. Obsei've tliem in garden or terra- 
 rium or show pictures of these animals. Speak of 
 their activities and uses. Collect eggs of frogs and 
 toads. Tell the story of The Lost Comb from A Kind- 
 eryarten Story Book, by Jane L. Hoxie. Repeat finger 
 play rhymes, Ten Little Froys, by E. A. Goodwin, in 
 Child-Garden for January, 18W; or Froy's Finyer Play 
 in the Child-Garden for October, 1893. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make picture of ten-arlum or pond 
 where frog's eggs may be obtained. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting. Make decoratiye border design using con- 
 ventionalized frog form as unit. 
 
 5. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Turtles. Observe pet turtles of the garden and aqua- 
 rimn. Talk of the curious structui-e of turtles, their 
 food, hibernation and other habits. Tell the fable of 
 The Hare and the Tortoise, from ^sop. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make picture of a turtle. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand tray. Model garden turtle in sand ; or make a 
 pond where water turtles live, and construct a minia- 
 ture turtle from raisins and cloves, to live in the pond. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Observe snakes and land snails in terrarium and talk 
 of their habits. Show snail's eggs. Observe especially 
 the curious house of the snail and speak of his manner 
 of seeing, feeling, and creeping. Observe the grace, 
 beauty, and coloring of the snake. 
 . (6) Gift: 
 
 Rings or lentils. Make snake and snail forms. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Model snake and snail. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 General review of talks and stories of the week. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 5. Friday — Continued. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 String, rings, lentils, or tablets. Illustrate story of 
 The Lost Comb or The Hare and the Tortoise. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Draw pictures of the animals observed during the week. 
 
 TOPICS FOR APRIL. 
 
 A. Seeds in the Spring. 
 
 B. Trees in the Spring and Summer. 
 
 WORK FOR APRIL. 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — SEEDS IN THE SPRING. 
 
 i. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Examination of different kinds of seeds. Placing of 
 seeds in water or on moist cotton-wool or sand or saw- 
 dust. Watering of seeds and thtir exposure to the sun- 
 light. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, tablets, or sticks. Making of window ledge or 
 window box for seeds. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Paste flat seeds in form of decorative border design. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Further examination of seeds especially of those soak- 
 ing in water and those placed on moist cottou-wool or 
 sawdust. Repeat The Little Plant from In the Child's 
 World; or Baby Seed Song, by E. Nesbit. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Lentils. Lay forms of garden beds. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 String seeds. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (o) Talk: 
 
 Preparing of earth in garden beds out of doors or in 
 window boxes. Planting and sowing. The work of the 
 wind, sun, and rain as related to seeds and their 
 ' development. Repeat Finger Play, The Little Plant, 
 by Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of garden tools. 
 
 (e) Hand Work: 
 
 Cutting and tearing, or folding of tools. 
 
50 
 
 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 If. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The farmer's spring planting. 
 ib) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, tablets, or sticks. Inclose farmer's field. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Lay out garden beds in forms of circles, 
 
 squares, oblongs, and triangles and border with bright 
 
 colored seeds. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 General review of the week's work ; or make a chemical 
 
 garden.* 
 (Jj) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Make hot beds, cold frames, and 
 
 greenhouses, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Flower garden, represent sprouting seeds 
 
 with colored sticks ; or use clay and make mosaics with 
 
 seeds of various colors. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— TREES IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Take a walk in the park or country and observe trees 
 as to their general form, parts, color of bark and 
 twigs, roughness or smoothness of bark, buds, etc. ; or 
 show pictures of trees and let the children name all the 
 different kinds of trees they can. Encourage the chil- 
 dren to bring buds and twigs from the country. Put 
 horse chestnut buds in jar of water in kindergarten 
 window and watch their development. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Encourage the building of various things 
 that are made from wood. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing or painting of pussy willow or horse chestnut 
 twigs and buds. 
 
 * Place a quantity of sand in a wide-mouthed bottle or fish-globe to the 
 depth of two or three inches. In this layer of sand slightly imbed a few 
 pieces of 
 
 copper sulphate, 
 iron sulphate, 
 aluminium sulphate. 
 Pour over the whole a solution of sodium silicate (commercial water- 
 glass) one part and water three parts, care being taken not to disarrange 
 the chemicals in pouring in the solution. 
 
 Upon standing a week or so, a growth of the silicates of the various 
 bases used will be seen in various colors. Now displace the solution of 
 sodium silicate with clear water, care being taken not to disarrange or 
 break down the growth. Standard Formulary. 
 
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 R. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Use specimens of twigs and buds brought from the 
 country. Get the children to identify these as far as 
 possible. Tell how the trees eat, drink, and breathe. 
 Name the different parts of a tree and explain the 
 uses of each part to the tree itself. Show, by means of 
 specimens of buds in different stages of development, 
 how the tree provides for the protection and hence 
 final development of its leaves and fruit. 
 
 {})) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, sticks, or tablets. Represent trees, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Pasting of leaf, flower, bud or seed forms in decorative 
 
 border design. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the myth of Rhoecu6 from Stories of Old Greece, 
 
 by Emma Firth. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks, or sticks, or tablets, or string and lentils. Lay 
 
 out a park with its paths and roads and indicate the 
 
 position of its trees. 
 
 .(c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Represent park and its budding trees by 
 means of twigs. 
 
 ^. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show sections of tree trunks and tree branches and 
 specimens of bark. Count rings of growth and tell 
 the children what they mean. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Peg Boards. Make rows of trees, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Make bas-relief of budded twig. 
 
 5. Friday. . 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Consider the uses of trees, their shade, their l)eauty, 
 their products — wood, bark, rubl>er, sugar, gum. drugs, 
 cork. etc. Trees as a protection against wind and 
 drouth. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make sugar house in woods, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Free tearing and cutting of tree and bud forms. 
 
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 TOPICS FOR MAY. 
 
 A. Birds in the Spring and Summer. 
 
 B. Butterflies. 
 
 WORK FOR MAY. 
 A. First Week. 
 
 GEXERAL SUBJECT, — BIRDS IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The return of the birds and their activities in the 
 spring. Show pictures of different liinds of birds and 
 let the children name as many of the native birds as 
 they can, also, induce them to tell what they know of 
 the colors, habits, and songs of these creatures; or take 
 the children to the park or country to observe the birds. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Let the worsted balls represent migratory birds, which 
 have returned from the south and are looking for places 
 in which to build their nests. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make decorative border design, using conventionalized 
 bird form for unit. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show nests of different birds. Let the children ex- 
 amine these nests and tell of w^hat materials they are 
 made. Lead them to mention the different places in 
 which birds build theiir nests and to tell what tools are 
 employed in the construction of these homes. Show 
 how the different kinds of nests, by means of their 
 form, size, and* material, are adapted to the young of 
 different birds. Discuss Froebel's Mother Play picture, 
 The Xest. 
 . (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build houses and barns under the eaves of 
 which robins and swallows may place their nests, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing of bird's nest. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The family life of birds. Tell of love and patience 
 shown by the father and mother birds in building the 
 nest, caring for the eggs, and feeding and protecting 
 the young birds. Repeat Tennyson's What Does Little 
 Birdie Say? 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Let the children design miniature 
 park, with curved and straight walks and flower beds, 
 and let them indicate places in this park for trees and 
 hedges where the birds may nest. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Make robin's nest and eggs. 
 
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 A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 If. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell story of The Robin's Xest, by Jane L. Hoxie in 
 Kindergarten Review for May, 1909. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of rows of trees in the park or 
 country where birds love to build their nests. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Try to construct bird's nest from raphia. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 <a) Talk: 
 
 Illustrate, by means of nests of robin, oriole, yellow 
 bird, humming bird, chimney swallow, fly catcher, etc., 
 the manner in which different nes-ts are secured or 
 hung, in trees and other places, by the birds construct- 
 ing them. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make stone wall upon which a bird built her 
 nest. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model bird's nest and eggs. 
 
 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT, — BUTTERFLIES. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show living butterfly or moth and talk of its form, 
 color, and movement. Show, chrysalis or cocoon and 
 examine. If possible observe a moth or butterfly gath- 
 ering nectar from a flower. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make terrarium or butterfly cage, or use pegs 
 or tablets for outlining garden or park. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Folding. Make butterfly by means of two squares, 
 each folded diagonally back and forth several times, 
 tied together in the center after folding is completed. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The life of the caterpillar, how it crawls, what it eats, 
 process of shedding skin, making of cocoon or chrysa- 
 lis, its long sleep. Some caterpillars that burrow in 
 the ground. Show specimens of several kinds of co- 
 coons and chrysalides. 
 
 (1)) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make trees; or use rings or lentils to repre- 
 sent flower forms. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing or painting of butterfly and chrysalis. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Go to park or country to observe moths and butter- 
 flies; or repeat Miss Poulsson's The Caterpillar. Ex- 
 plain and illustrate the difference in appearance be- 
 tween a moth and a butterfly. 
 
 (1)) Gift: 
 
 Lentils, sticks, or rings. Outline butterfly form. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cutting or tearing of butterfly forms; or pasting of 
 decorative design with butterfly form used as unit. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the story. The Life of a Silkicorm, from In the 
 Child's World, by Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Balls, sticks, or blocks. Illustrate story. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut butterfly form from tissue paper and with brush 
 and paint indicate spots and streaks as seen on living 
 butterfly; use a tiny clothespin for body and head of 
 Insect. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 General review of talks a-nd stories of the week. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build summer house in flower garden. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Make bas-relief of butterfly, cocoon or flower. 
 
 A. Bees. 
 
 B. Flowers. 
 
 A. First Week. 
 
 TOPICS FOR JUNE. 
 WORK FOR JUNE. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— BEES. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 {a) Talk: 
 
 The bumblebee and the honeybee. Working bees, queen 
 bees, drones. The particular function of each class of 
 bees. Homes of bees — hive, hollow tree, hole in the 
 ground, etc. Have specimens of living bees to show 
 if possible, or go to park or country to observe bees at 
 work in their native elements. 
 
A. First Week — Continued. 
 
 1. Monday — Continued. 
 {h) Gift: 
 
 Half spheres and cylinders from Hailmann's second 
 gift. Make representation of old-fashioned straw hive; 
 or rei^resent apiary with third gift. 
 (C) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Make apiary. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 \a) Talk: - 
 
 The community life of the bee. Each bee has a spe- 
 cial work to do. Feeding and caring for young. 
 
 (0) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards and cubes from Hailmann's second grift. 
 Make field or orchard containing apiary. 
 
 {€) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Make clover field. 
 
 S. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell story of The Queen Bee from Grimm's Fairy Tales. 
 
 or tell What Happened on the Road to Grandfather 
 
 Goodfield's from A Kindergarten Story Book by Jane L. 
 
 Hoxie. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or tablets. (Make hexagonal forms showing the 
 
 shape of wax cells of the honey-bee. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut or tpp.r flower forms ; or make border design from 
 
 conventionalized flower foi*ms. 
 
 4. Thursdav. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The bee as a wax maker and a honey gatherer. The 
 making of pollen into bee bread. Show si)ecimens of 
 honev in comb, bee bread, wax, queen bee cells, etc. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Rings or lentils or thread. Make flower forms. 
 
 (e) Hand Work: 
 
 Paint or draw flower forms. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 How bees clean, ventilate, and otherwjge care for their 
 hives. Have small Ik)X of honey in comb and let chil- 
 dren taste. Retell story of The Queen Bee. 
 
 {h) Gift: 
 
 Sixth. Make three models of cubical hives, raising 
 each hive slightly from table by means of two square 
 prisms. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model beehive, honeycomb, or flower form on 
 plaque. 
 
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 B. Second Week. 
 
 GENERAL SUBJECT,— FLOWERS. 
 
 Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Take tlie children to the park, or woods or garden to 
 see flowers growing out of doors; or bring into the 
 kindergarten as many wild flowers as possible. Let 
 children examine blossoms, inhale perfume, and talk 
 about flower forms and colors. Repeat Miss Pouls- 
 son's Tlie Little Plant. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Balls. Represent roses, violets, buttercups, etc. Play 
 color games. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Paint balls or flowers. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Examine a complete plant and talk about 'its different 
 parts and the function of each. Tell the story of Pic- 
 ciola in A Kindergarten Stfyry Book by Jane L. Hoxie. 
 
 (?;) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Illustrate story. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 ('utting or tearing of flower forms, or modeling of 
 flower jar in clay. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (rt) Talk: 
 
 Study Froebel's Mother Play picture The Flower 
 
 Basket. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks or tablets. Lay out garden (beds and make 
 
 garden tools. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make blue prints of flowers gathered iln garden, wood, 
 
 or field. 
 
 ^. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The uses of plants and their blossoms. Tell how flow- 
 ers help the insects to find their nectar and how insects 
 help the plants to multiply and be vigorous. 
 
 {h) Gift: 
 
 Rings. Make conventionalized flower forms. 
 
 Cc) Hand Work: 
 
 E^old flower basket; or make border design from con- 
 ventionalized flower forms. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Review talks and stories of the week or play sense 
 sames with flowers. 
 
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 B. Second Week — Continued. 
 5. Friday — Continued. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Make a flo^^'er garden. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Malve garden beds; or string colored 
 
 beads; or string disks and straws to represent garland 
 
 of flowers. 
 
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 AN INDUSTRIAL OR TRADE PROGRAM. 
 
 I. PUEPOSE. 
 
 A. To broaden the child's experience. 
 
 B. To present facts of interdependence in a comprehensive way. 
 
 C. To arouse and instill feelings of respect and gratitude for 
 labor and for the laborer. 
 
 D. To inspire the child with a desire to be helpful. 
 
 II. Means Employed. 
 
 A. Excursions to shops, mills and various centres of industry. 
 
 B. Pictures illustrating trades. 
 
 C. Songs, poems, stories and talks treating of labor and the 
 laborer. 
 
 D. Tools, implements and materials used in different trades and 
 industries. 
 
 III. Topics. ' 
 A. The Housekeepee, 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Washing day, — necessity for, utensils used, materials 
 
 and processes employed. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make tubs, wash board, bench, baskets, etc. ; or 
 
 use peg boards and sticks and make yard and poles 
 
 and line for drying clothes, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make wash tub from ribbon bolt and wash board from 
 
 wooden slats and corrugated paper. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Ironing day, — necessity for, utensils employed, process. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make stove and ironing board; or use sticks 
 and make picture of clothes horse. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Let children heat toy iron on block stove and fold and 
 iron various garments made from paper ; or let them 
 cut garments free hand ; or let them fold real Japanese 
 napkins, to be used during the kindergarten luncheon 
 period, employing toy iron to form creases. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Sewing or mending day. Examination of garments 
 previously washed and ironed — putting on lost buttons, 
 sewing up of rips, patching, darning. Making of new 
 garments. Mother's work box. 
 
6S 
 
 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 A. The Housekeeper — Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Fourtli. Make work box. 
 . (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Construct work box from empty cracker box, thimble 
 from tinfoil, needle book from scraps of flannel, spool 
 of thread from two pasteboard circles and a rolled 
 paper cylinder, and scissors from gray cardboard and 
 a Dennisou paper fastener. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Cleaning day. Scrubbing of floors, walls and windows. 
 Sweeping and dusting; cleaning of rugs and carpets. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Outline broom and dustpan or make pictures 
 of house and furniture. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make broom from dowel stick and raphia or from 
 slat and torn paper strips, and dustpan from i)aste- 
 board and tinfoil ; or overhand cheese cloth duster with 
 needles and worsted; or weave mat for floor of doll 
 house. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Baking day. The necessity for such a day. Implements 
 and materials used in baking. Process employed. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make pictures of dishes, tins, cooky 
 cutters, etc. ; or use Second Gift, letting cylinder repre- 
 sent rolling pin, cube represent bread or cake and ball 
 represent dumpling or pudding. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Let the children go to school kitchen and actually bake 
 something; or let them make various products of the 
 oven from clay. 
 
 B. The Farmer, His Spring Work. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Preparation of the ground for planting. Take the 
 children if possible Vv^here they may actually see the 
 spring plowing in progress. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of farm implements. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand Tray. Prepare field for planting, using dampened 
 sand and blocks or toy tools. Sow dry sand for seed. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 B. The Farmer, His Spring Work— Continued. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Sowing of grain and planting of vegetables. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make space inclosing forms representing fields 
 
 all ready for planting and sowing, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold farmer's barn ; or fold pocket, apron or bag used 
 
 for holding seeds during planting time. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Cultivation of growing crops. Use Miss Poulsson's 
 Finger Play, How the Corn Grciv. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Represent field, stable, barnyard, etc. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Construct farm wagon, using spools or pasteboard disks 
 for wheels, spool box for wagon box and dowel sticks 
 or sections of round reed for axles and tongue. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the Norwegian story, A Barnyard Talk, from Miss 
 Poulsson's In the Child's World. Dramatize this story, 
 using toy animals as puppets. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make farm buildings. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Illustrate story, or draw from living model 
 of dog, cat or fowl. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The cow and her products. Grass mowing. Uses of 
 
 grass and hay. Examine Froebel's Mother Play picture, 
 
 Grass Mowing, 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings, or lentils, or thread. Outline stable, 
 
 cow, milk pail, milk wagon or milk train, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Model farmer's tools in clay; or represent. field of hay 
 
 cocks in the sand tray. 
 
 C. The Farmer, His Fall Work. 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Harvesting of grain, 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks and rings. Make scythe, hoe, cradle, 
 
 wagon, granary, etc. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 C. The Fakmer, His Fall Woek — Continued. 
 
 1. Monday — Continued, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make corn field or wheat field in sand tray; or give 
 color lesson, using color tops and red, orange, yellow 
 and black ears of corn. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Digging of potatoes and harvesting of other vegetables. 
 Take children to country to see jjrocess of harvesting 
 if possible. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make barrels, crates, boxes, bins, wagons and 
 cellars for the holding and storing of vegetables. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Model vegetables in clay ; or draw or paint pictures of 
 vegetables ; or make cellars, bins, etc., in sand tray, 
 using hollow tin forms. 
 
 3. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Gathering of fruit. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Froebel's or Hailmann's Second Gift. Make fruit boxes, 
 bins and barrels with large forms; or construct fruit 
 wagon by means of small forms and sticks. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 By means of twigs and beads represent orchard of fruit 
 trees in sand tray ; or paste border design using con- 
 ventionalized apple and leaf form for units of decora- 
 tion. ,_ 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Storing and marketing of fruits, grain and vegetables. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build fruit and vegetable stalls and stands 
 and let balls represent fruit and vegetables. Play at 
 buying and selling. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make garland by stringing kernels of bright colored 
 corn, which have been soaked over night, and sections 
 . of the scouring rush. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Care of farm animals. Preparation of farm buildings 
 and yards for the coming winter. Fall pUnving. Sow- 
 ing of winter wheat, 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Tablets. Make pictures of farm yards and buildings; 
 or use enlarged blocks and make farm yard and build- 
 ings on the kindergarten floor. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 C. The Farmer, His Fall Work — Continued. 
 5. Friday — Continued. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Model farm animals in clay; or make farm yard in 
 sand tray. 
 
 D. The Miller and the Baker. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The mill and the miller. Water power for the grind- 
 ing of grain. The mill wheel, mill stones, mill pond, 
 and mill dam. Repeat Miss Poulsson's finger play, The 
 Mill. Take the children to see the miller at work, if 
 possible. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build mill or dam; or make picture of water 
 wheel with sticks. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut or fold mill wheel. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The baker. Take the children to the baker's shop if 
 possible; or go to the school kitchen and examine and 
 use various materials and implements employed in bak- 
 ing, or, if this is not possible, bring these materials and 
 implements to the kindergarten room and examine and 
 use them there. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make baker's shop or a kitchen ; or make pic- 
 tures of baking utensils with sticks and rings. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make cakes, pies, puddings, bread, etc., using damp 
 sand and hollow tin forms for the purpose. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Examine and discuss Froebel's Mother Play picture, 
 
 Pat-a-cake. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Rings. Make pictures of cookies, pies, etc. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model cakes, cookies, rolls, pies, etc. 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the story of The Gingerbread Boy, from For the 
 Children's Hour, by Carolyn S. Bailey and Clara M. 
 T^ewis ; or tell Sweet Porridge, from Grimm's Household 
 Tales. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 D. The Miller and the Baker — Continued. 
 4 Thursday — Continued. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build a table and set it with dishes made 
 from tablets, sticks and rings. 'Place lentils, beads, 
 shells and seeds on dishes to represent various kinds of 
 'food. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Go to school kitchen and bake something for a birth- 
 day party or something to be used for the Thanksgiv- 
 ing celebration; or cut cross sections of beets and car- 
 rots to represent fancy cakes and cookies. These sec- 
 tions of vegetables may be laid in the form of decora- 
 tive designs, if desired. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Review previous talks and stories. Repeat old Pat-a- 
 cake nursery rhyme. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Lentils, Outline form of gingerbread boy; or make pic- 
 tures illustrative of subjects treated during the week. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut or tear forms of cakes, pies, cookies and forms of 
 various implements used in the process of making and 
 baking articles of food. 
 
 B. The Carpenter and Other Workers Who Help to Build 
 THE House. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Digging of the house cellar. Take the children to 
 watch the progress of this work if i>ossible. 
 
 {!)) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of shovel, pick-axe, scraper and 
 wagon used in digging the house cellar. 
 
 <c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Dig cellar. 
 
 £. Tuesday. 
 
 (c) Talk: 
 
 Laying of foundation for house. The mason and the 
 tools and materials of his work. The making of mor- 
 tar. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build foundation walls of house ; or use sticks 
 and make pictures of mortar board, hod and trowel. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model bricks for foundation wall. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 E. The Carpenter and Other Workers Who Help to Build the 
 House — Continued. 
 
 3. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The superstructure of the house. Materials used in 
 its construction. The iron worker and the carpenter. 
 Making of the chimney. Tell the story of The Man on 
 the Chimney, from The Boston Collection of Kinder- 
 garten Stories. 
 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Fourth. Build chimney. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Drawing. Illustrate talk or story. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Finishing of the house. Inside woodwork, plastering, 
 painting. The glazier and the plumber. Take the chil- 
 dren to a carpenter's shop, if possible, and let them use 
 some of his simplest tools; or bring carpenter's tools 
 and wood into kindergarten and let children experi- 
 ment with them there. Encourage the children to find 
 different places in the kindergarten room where the 
 carpenter has used his various tools. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make carpenter's bench and tools. 
 
 (e) Hand Work : 
 
 Fold house ; or construct doll house from wooden bores. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The sources of materials used in the construction of the 
 house. Manner in which these materials are prepared 
 for use. Examine and discuss Froebel's Mother Play 
 picture, The Joiner. 
 
 (b) Gift: 
 
 Fifth, Build houses of different architectural styles. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Construct house from rolled paper cylinders or from 
 twigs ; or make block house in sand tray. 
 
 F. The Woodman. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The forest and the life of the tree 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build woodman's hut. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Represent forest by means of twigs. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 F. The Woodman — Continued. 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the story of The Honest Woodman, from In the 
 
 Child's World, by Emilie Poulsson. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make pictures of the woodman's 
 
 axe and the stream into which it fell, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Drawing. Illustrate story. 
 S. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The preparation of trees for the saw mill, — cutting of 
 
 branches, sawing Into logs. Drawing of logs to stream. 
 
 Floating of logs to mill, 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Quarter rings. Represent log chain, 
 (c) H^nd Work : 
 
 Tearing or cutting and pasting of paper chains; or 
 
 making of clay chains. 
 J^. Thursday. 
 (o) Talk: 
 
 The saw mill. Manner in which logs are converted into 
 
 lumber. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Half square tablets. Lay representation of circular saw. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Sand tray. Make saw mill or lumber camp in woods, 
 
 using twigs for the building of mill and camp. 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Trace briefly the progress of lumber from the tree In 
 
 the forest to the shop of the carpenter. Re-tell the 
 
 story of The Honest Woodman. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Second. Let the cube represent the woodman's house. 
 
 the cylinder a tree which was turned into a log by the 
 
 woodman's saw and axe, and the sphere the woodman's 
 
 horse that drew the log to the river brink, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make chains from pine cones, maple keys, acorns and 
 
 the winged seeds of the ash ; or construct baskets. 
 
 picture frames and napkin rings from birch bark and 
 
 raphia. 
 
 G. The Shoemakeb. 
 1. Monday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Show shoemaker's tools and bits of leather of various 
 grades of thickness and finish ; or visit a shop and 
 watch the shoemaker at his work. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 G. The Shoemaker — Continued. 
 
 1. Monday — Continued. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build a shoemaker's sliop. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Cut or tear tools used by the shoemaker and some of 
 the boots and shoes which he manufactures or repairs. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Sources of leather. Manner in which leather is pre- 
 pared for use. Take the class to a tannery if possible. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Thread. Outline boots and shoes. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Weave mat from red or bronze leather strips; or make 
 pictures of boots and shoes with shoe pegs. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell the story of The Elves, from Grimm's Household 
 
 Tales; or tell The Fairy Shoes, from A Kindergarten 
 
 Story Book, by Jane L. Hoxie. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of shoemaker's bench, chair and 
 
 tools, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make doll's shoes from bits of pliable colored leather. 
 
 4- Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The shop where shoes are sold but not manufactured. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build counters, shelves and boxes for use in 
 
 shoe shop, 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Make desk blotter. Cut cardboard and blotting paper 
 
 in the form of a shoe sole, decorate cardboard with 
 
 blot design and fasten all together by means of tiny 
 
 leather thongs. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Shoes made from material other than leather, — wooden 
 shoes, cloth shoes, rubber shoes. 
 
 (?>) Gift: 
 
 Group work on the floor with large blocks. Build a 
 shoe shop and play at buying and selling. For this 
 purpose use the boots and shoes previously made by 
 the children from leather, clay and paper. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Clay. Model boots and shoes. 
 
7Q 
 
 III. Topics — Continued. 
 H. The Blacksmith. 
 
 1. Monday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 •Show pictures of the blacksmith, his shop and his tools ; 
 or visit a blacksmith's shop and observe the shoeing 
 of horses at first hand. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build shop or forge. 
 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 With a pasteboard box make representation of the in- 
 terior of a blacksmith shop. Cut, tear and fold, from 
 black paper, the anvil, the forge, the bellows, the tongs, 
 the hammer, horseshoes, nails, etc., and arrange them 
 in the proper order in this box. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Some special features of the blacksmith's work, the 
 sharpening of horseshoes, the making of nails and the 
 forging of chains. 
 
 (b) Gift: • 
 
 Rings. Represent horseshoes and chains. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold the blacksmith's bellows; or cut or tear his apron. 
 
 S. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: n . 
 
 Tell the story of The Little Gray. Pony, from Mother 
 
 stories, by Maud Lindsay; or the story of The Nail, 
 
 from Grimm's Household Tales. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Lentils or thread. Illustrate story, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Illustrate story. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Iron, the source of the blacksmith's material. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. 'Make wagons and cars for the transi)ortation 
 
 of iron and iron ore. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. Play at digging for iron ore. 
 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) T4ilk: 
 
 Rubber shoes for horses. Review stories of the week. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 lentils. Outline large and small horseshoes, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Clay. Model horseshoes, chains, forges, horseshoe 
 
 nails, etc. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 I. The Tailob and Other Wobkebs in Cloth. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Let the cliildren name the different garments which 
 they w^ar and lead them to tell who made their coats, 
 dresses, trousers and jackets. Mention the tools and 
 appliances used by the tailor and the dressmaker. 
 Visit a tailor's shop if possible. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make shop, sewing table and machine. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Make pictures of tools used in tailoring and 
 dressmaking. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The cutting and fitting of garments. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Thread. Outline different garments, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Cut garments for paper dolls. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The sewing of garments. Tell the German story of 
 How a Little Boy Got a New ^Shirt, from In the Child's 
 World, by Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Illustrate story. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 •Sew doll's clothing. 
 ^. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Examine different fabrics and tell of What materials 
 they are made. Discuss the processes of spinning, 
 weaving, dyeing, etc. Cause Children to see primitive 
 methods of spinning and weaving if possible. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings or lentils. Make pictures of loom, 
 spinning wheel, spindle, carding apparatus, etc. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 .( 'Olor wool or otilier material to be used in the occupa- 
 tion work, using Diamond dye or Easy dye. 
 5. Friday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Teach the children Miss Wiltsie's rhymes of The Lit- 
 tle Boy at Our House. Play touching game (sense 
 game) with scraps of silk, woolen, cotton and linen 
 cloth. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build warehouses where cloth is stored pre- 
 vious to shipment to retail dealers. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 I. The Tailor and Otheb Woekebs in Cloth — Continued. 
 5. Friday — Continued, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Weaving. Make rugs for the doil house, using wool 
 roving or strips of felt; or weave doll's Tam-o-shanter 
 cap on the Schute weaving card. 
 
 J. Coal and the Mines. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The necessity for fuel, especially for heating purposes. 
 
 Examine coal and tell where it is found and how it is 
 
 procured. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build stove or fireplace; or represent fireplace 
 
 with tablets or tiles, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold and cut fireplace; or construct grate and fireplace 
 
 from cardboard boxes. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell how it was first discovered that coal would burn. 
 
 {h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make coal wagons and coal cars. ' 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make shovel and hod, using pea sticks, wire hair pins, 
 paijer and pasteboard. 
 5. Wednesday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Describe briefly the appearance of a coal mine, the 
 manner of entering it, its cave-like interior, its tracks 
 and cars, its shafts, etc. Describe the miner and his 
 tools and the way he uses them. Take the children to 
 see a mine if possible. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make shaft for entering mine and arrange 
 tackle in it for hoisting purposes. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 (Sand tray. Make a representation of a coal mine and 
 carry on the various activities of a mine, such as dig- 
 ging, shoveling, hoisting, dumping and drawing coal. 
 
 ^. Thursday. 
 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell very simply the story of the origin of coal. Show 
 pictures of tropical vegetation and specimens of fossil- 
 ized ferns and wood. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of trees and ferns. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw coal wagon, cars, shovels, pails, etc. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 J. Coal and the Mines — Continued. 
 5. Friday. 
 » Talk: 
 
 Discuss the dangers and hardships of the miner's life. 
 Tell of his scanty pleasures. 
 h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build miner's hovel. 
 [c) Hand Work: 
 
 Ciay. Model miners' tools, lamp, etc. 
 
 The Merchant. 
 
 Monday. 
 
 a) Talk: 
 
 Encourage the children to name all the different kinds 
 of tradesmen with whom they are familiar. Dwell 
 especially upon the groceryman and his duties. 
 
 h) Gift: 
 
 . Blocks. Make groceryman's store, shelves, counters, 
 boxes, etc. 
 
 c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make groceryman's scales from sticks, twine, wire and 
 paper and play at buying and selling groceries in the 
 sand tray. Use paper money made by the children. 
 
 Tuesday, 
 a) Talk: 
 
 The fruiterer, his duties and his wares. 
 6) Gift: 
 
 First Gift and large blocks. Group work on the floor. 
 
 Build fruit stand and play at buying and selling fruit, 
 c) Hand -Work: 
 
 Paint or draw fruit, or model it in clay. 
 
 Wednesday, 
 a) Talk: 
 
 The dealer in dairy products. 
 T)) Gift: 
 
 Second and Third. Build milk wagon and peddle 
 
 bottles (cylinders) of milk and balls and cubes of 
 
 butter and cheese, 
 c) Hand Work: 
 
 Construct milk wagon from cardboard boxes, spools and 
 
 slats. 
 
 Thursday, 
 a) Talk: 
 
 The dry goods merchant. 
 h) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make pictures of store, show windows, shelves 
 
 and counters, 
 c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold and roll paper to represent bales of cloth an^ 
 
 play at buying and selling. 
 
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 III. Topics— C^mtinued. 
 K. The Mekchant — Continued. 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The toyman and his wares. Take children to visit toy 
 
 shop. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 First, Second and Third. Make various toys seen in 
 
 the toy shop, 
 (c) Hand Work:* 
 
 Clay. Model toys. 
 
 L. The Postman. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Duties of the postman. His devotion to his work. His 
 long hours and few holidays. His exposure to all 
 kinds of weather during the performance o£ his tasks. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make letter box. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold letter and envelope. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The postman's uniform, his letter bag and his whistle. 
 
 Collecting and delivering of mail. 
 {!)) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make picture of postman's bag. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold, cut and paste a postman's bag, using large heavy 
 
 paper. 
 
 3. Wednesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The Post-office. Take children to visit it. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build post-office, 
 (e) Hand Work: 
 
 Make a large cardboard post-box and play at posting 
 
 letters therein. 
 
 4. Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The country postman and his horse and cart. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make postman's gig. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold and roll papers carried by postman and play at 
 
 delivering them. 
 
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 III. Topics — ^Continued. 
 L. The Postman — Continued. 
 5. Friday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Discuss ancient methods of delivering mail by means 
 of horseback riders, stage coaches, etc. Play at col- 
 lecting and delivering mail by stage coach. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make stage coach, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw pictures of the postman on his beat. 
 
 M. The Engineer, the Motorman, the Conductor, the Coach- 
 man AND CHAUFFEUB. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Discuss the work, the bravery and the endurance of 
 
 the engineer. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Build or represent engine, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw picture of engine; or construct an engine from 
 
 boxes, spools and ribbon bolts. 
 
 2. Tuesday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The motorman. His alertness and patience. His long 
 
 hours and exposure to wet and cold. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Build or represent trolley or cable 
 
 car. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make car from cracker boxes, sticks and milk bottle 
 
 tops or button molds. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The conductor. His patience and courtesj\ His long 
 hours. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Make large car on floor with big blocks, all the chil- 
 dren working together. Play at riding iu car. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold conductor's cap, or make dimes and nickels from 
 pasteboard and tinfoil, and play at taking fare on 
 trolley rides. 
 
 4- Thursday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The chauffeur. 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make aHtoraobile. 
 
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 III. Topics— Continued. 
 M. The Engineer, the Motorman, the Conductor, the Coach- 
 man AND the Chauffeur — Continued. 
 
 4. Thursday — Continued, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Construct automobile from sticks, pasteboard boxes, 
 tinfoil, etc. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The coachman or cabman. 
 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Make cab. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Tear or cut representations of the various vehicles con- 
 sidered during week. 
 
 N. The Policeman. 
 
 1. Monday. 
 
 I (a) Talk: 
 
 The policeman's dress and appearance. The mounted 
 
 police. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks and sticks. Lay out a section of town, making 
 
 streets and houses therein, patrolled by a particular 
 
 policeman, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Fold, or cut and paste policeman's hat. 
 
 2. Tuesdai/. 
 - (a) Talk: 
 
 Some special duthes of the policeman, — helping pedes- 
 trians to cross crowded thoroughfares, regulation of 
 movement of cars and other vehicles. 
 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Tablets. Lay crosswalks where policemen assist pedes- 
 trians. 
 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make policeman's badge. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The duties of the policeman in stopping runaway horses, 
 
 dispersing crowds and caring for the sick and injured 
 
 on the streets. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 Sticks. Make picture of police headquarters, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Drawing. Illustrate the performance of various police 
 
 duties. 
 
 4. Thursday, 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Tell how the policeman finds and cares for lost children 
 and directs bewildered travelers. 
 
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 Iir. Topics — ^Continued. 
 N. The Policeman — Continued. 
 
 4. Thursday — Continued. 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Lentils or thread. Malve picture of policeman on duty, 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Sand tray. MalvC streets and wailvs on a particular 
 policeman's beat. 
 
 5. Friday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The duties of a policeman at a fire. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Peg boards. Illustrate the establishment of fire lines 
 
 in a big city. 
 (0) Hand Work: 
 
 CJay. Model mounted policeman. 
 
 O. The Fireman. 
 
 J. Monday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The necessity for firemen, especially in the city. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks. Build engine house. 
 (c) Hand Work : 
 
 Cut and fold fire house. 
 
 2. Tuesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 Api>earance of the fireman. His manner of living, etc. 
 (&) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Make some of the furnishings of a 
 
 fire house, 
 (c) Hand W^ork : 
 
 Cut or tear fireman's hat and coat. 
 
 3. Wednesday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The fireman's duties in the fire ihouse. Care of engine, 
 
 horses, etc. 
 (h) Gift: 
 
 Blocks or sticks. Make fire engine, stables for horses, 
 
 etc. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Draw fire horses. 
 //. Thvrsday. 
 (a) Talk: 
 
 The fireman at work during a fire — extinguishing fire, 
 
 rescuing people, pulling down dangerous walls, etc. 
 (ft) Gift: 
 
 Sticks and rings. Make . pictures of fire wagons, lad- 
 ders, buckets, fire hooks, axes. etc. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make small fire ladders from wood. 
 
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 III. Topics — Continued. 
 
 O. The Fireman — (Continued. 
 5. Friday. 
 Ja) Talk: 
 
 The fireman as a hero. His fearlessness and the pri- 
 vation he suffers. Relate anecdotes of his bravery. 
 (6) Gift: 
 
 lentils or tablets. Illustrate some phase of a fireman's 
 activities. 
 (c) Hand Work: 
 
 Make fire bucket from ribbon bolt and red-€oated cut- 
 ting paper. 
 
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 A FESTIVAL PROGRAM. 
 
 I. Topics. 
 
 A. Columbus Day. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 By means of simple description try to make the children 
 compreliend the condition of this country previous to the 
 year 1492. Tell them how and by whom the new world 
 was disco'vered and try to make them understand the 
 bravery, hardihood and patience possessed by such an 
 explorer as Columbus and the many privations that he 
 must have endured on his voyage of discovery. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 Story of Christoi>her Columbus for Little Children (In 
 Story Land). Elizabeth Harrison. 
 
 3. Poem : 
 
 Our Land.* Laura F. Armitage. 
 
 Jf. Song: 
 
 Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (A Second Book in 
 Vocal Music). Eleanor Smith. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 Dramatization of incidents in life of Columbus, 
 (a) Sailing across the ocean. 
 (&) First sight of new land. 
 
 (c) Parley with the Indians. 
 
 (d) The return home with news of the discovery. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 iSticks. Make representations of one of the sail boats 
 used by Columbus on his voyage of discovery. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Fold sail boat. 
 
 B. Halloween. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Halloween, the fairies' day. A time when fairies are 
 supposed to reign supreme and to perform all manner 
 of curious and elfish pranks. Let the children tell all 
 the fairy lore they know. Recount to them curious old 
 halloween customs, many of which have been preserved 
 to the present time. Make Jack-o-lantern or roast nuts 
 and apples in fireplace or on stove. 
 
 * To be found in "Holiday Songs and Every Day Songs and Games," 
 by Emilie Poulsson. 
 
I. Topics — Continued. 
 
 B. Halloween — Continued. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 (a) Tlie Fairy Slioes (A Kindergarten Story Book). 
 
 Jane L. Hoxie. 
 (&) Tlie Slioemalver and the Elves (Grimm's Household 
 
 Tales). Margaret Hunt. 
 
 3. Poem: 
 
 The Fairies.* William Allingham. 
 
 J/. Song: 
 
 The Little Elf (A First Bool' of Vocal Music). Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) Jack-o-lantern plays. 
 
 1. Put lantern on floor in center of ring. All join 
 hands and dance around it singing, " Here we go 
 round the pumpkin man," to the tune of " Round 
 the Mulberry Bush." 
 
 2. Let one child hold lantern while he chases all the 
 others and tries to touch some member of the class 
 with it. 
 
 3. Place lantern in middle of ring and let children try 
 to hit it with balls rolled over the floor. 
 
 4. Take lighted lantern into darkened room or closet 
 and see how many of the children are brave enough 
 to walk up to it and touch it, unaccompanied by a 
 playmate or a teacher. 
 
 (6) Bobbing for apples, 
 (c) Menagerie. 
 
 1. Make masks from paper, flour or sugar bags. Cut 
 holes in each bag for nose, eyes and mouth, and then 
 draw or paint on each one the face of a cat, dog, 
 rabbit or other animal. By means of movement and 
 sound let eac;h child represent the animal whose 
 face is shown upon the mask he wears. 
 0. Gift: 
 
 Use large nuts for lentils and let children illustrate talk 
 or story. 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 (a) Make a transparency by cutting holes in the sides or 
 cover of a pasteboard box. (Use any design preferred.) 
 Paste over these holes, on the inside of the box, trans- 
 parent paper, either white or colored. Fasten lighted 
 candle in box. 
 (/>) Draw or paint Jack-o-lantern. 
 
 (c) Make lanterns from weaving mats, or from squares of 
 manila paper. (The latter may be decorated by the chil- 
 dren previous to cutting the strips.) 
 
 To be found in " One Thousand Poems for Cliildren," by Roger Ingpen. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 C. Thanksgiving. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 A holiday when father does not work. A family day 
 when we all go to grandmother's perhaps, or when we 
 invite our aunts, uncles and cousins to visit us. Refer 
 to the work on the harvest, previously given, and tell the 
 children simply and briefly how the first Thanksgiving 
 celebration came to be. Speak of different things for 
 which we are thankful, — home, mother and father, brother 
 and sister, warm, comfortable clothing, good wholesome 
 food. As an expression of their gratitude let the chil- 
 dren prepare a basket of fruit and vegetables or other 
 food, which they have contributed, to be taken to some 
 children's hospital. If possible, let the pupils of the kinder- 
 garten themselves carry this basket to its destination. 
 
 2. Stort/: 
 
 A Thanksgiving iStory {Kindergarten Magazine, Novem- 
 ber, 1S92). 
 
 S. Poem: 
 
 A Ghild's Thanksgiving,'^ Frederick Manley. 
 
 4. i^ong: 
 
 Harvest Home {A Second Book in Vocal Music), Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) Play going to grandmother's. Let one child dress in cap. 
 kerchief and apron, to represent grandmother, and let 
 her then welcome to her country home all the other 
 children, who come in a big sleigh drawn by prancing 
 horses covered with tinkling sleigh bells. Use a Thanks- 
 gi\ing Song, in Eleanor Smith's First Book of Vocal Music. 
 
 (6) Old-fashioned plays at grandmother's house: 
 
 (1) Blind man's buff. 
 
 (2) Puss wants a corner. 
 (8) Hunt the thimble. 
 
 (4) Drop the handkerchief. 
 
 (5) P>utton, button, who has the button? 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 Group work on the floor. Use large blocks, sticks, rings 
 and tablets. With very large bricks and cubes make a 
 long dining table and a number of chairs, in which the 
 children may actually sit. Spread the table with shells, 
 ^seeds, beads, nuts, etc., to represent Thanksgiving goodies. 
 Let sticlvs act as knives, forks and spoons, and tablets 
 and rings as plates, cups, platters, etc. Let the children 
 play at dining at this table, or let them use their dolls 
 to represent the guests entertained by grandmother. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 String popcorn and cranberries, or roast nuts and apples. 
 
 * To be found in " A Prhner of Vocal Music," by Eleanor Smith. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 D. Christmas. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Review some points brought out in the morning talks 
 during the month of December. Lead the children to 
 express the thought that each and all vvho love and give 
 at this season are thereby converted into veritable Santa 
 Clauses, and that even the tiniest child of all in the 
 kindergarten may, by his own efforts, become a Santa 
 Claus to some one. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 The Legend of the Christ Child* Elizabeth Harrison. 
 
 3. Poem : 
 
 A Visit From St. Nicholas, Clement C. Moore. 
 
 4. Sonff: 
 
 The First Christmas {Holidays Songs and Every Day 
 Songs and Games), Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Oames : 
 
 (a) Dramatization of A Visit From St. Nicholas: 
 
 (1) Children hang up stockings and go to bed and to sleep. 
 (2^ Parents hear noise and, looking out of window, dis- 
 cover Santa Claus with his sleigh, his pack and his 
 reindeer. 
 (3) Santa Claus appears upon roof, comes down chimney, 
 tills stockings and rides away. 
 
 (6) Christmas Morning: 
 
 (1) Children awaken to sound of big church bells, which 
 usher in the glad day. 
 
 (2) Each child rises, dresses and washes and runs to take 
 down his stocking. 
 
 (3) Children take gifts out of stockings and. show by panto- 
 mimic actions what they found there. 
 
 (4) All play together with these imaginary toys In time to 
 appropriate rhythmic music. 
 
 (c) The Christmas Tree: 
 
 (1) Children form a ring and dance around the tree, 
 singing, " Here We Go Round the Christmas Tree," to 
 the tune of *' Mulberry Bush." 
 
 (2) Let each child take from the tree the gifts that he 
 himself has made and present them to his parents or 
 friends present at the festival. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 Group work on the floor with large blocks. Build a 
 chimney and a fireplace and, bv means of these, play at 
 sending letters of thanks to Santa Claus for Christmas 
 gifts received, or play at sending letters of request for 
 special gifts desired. 
 
 * To be found in " A Christmas Festival Service," by Nora A. Smith. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 
 D. Christmas — Continued. 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Let children mal^e candj' and place it in cornucopias or 
 boxes, previously prepared, and then present it to parents 
 and friends present at the Christmas Festival. 
 
 E. New Years. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Show pictures symbolizing the departure of the old year 
 and the coming of the new. Mention the number of days, 
 weeks and months that go to make up a year. Name 
 the different seasons and tell what special features char- 
 acterize each one. Speak of New Year's Day as a time 
 for many new beginnings. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 An All-the-Year-Round Story (hi the Child's World). 
 Emilie Poulssou. 
 
 3. Poem: 
 
 Ring Out, Wild Bells (first two verses only). Alfred 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Jf. Song: 
 
 A New Year Greeting (Holiday Songs and Every Day 
 Songs and Games). Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) Ringing of New Year's Bells. Use the song "Old Year 
 and New Year " in Holiday Songs and Every Day Songs, 
 by Emilie Poulsson. 
 (&) Dramatization of the passing of the old year and the 
 coming of the new. Let children represent Father Time, 
 the Old Year, the New Year and the twelve months that 
 have just passed. Use long veils of white and colored 
 cheesecloth to simulate the different aspects of the dif- 
 ferent months, — thus January should wear a veil of 
 white, June one of green, October one of brown or orange, 
 and so on. Let the twelve months form in procession in 
 their proper order preceding the old year. After all have 
 come and gone, let the new year appear alone, typifying 
 the year that is just beginning. As the procession moves 
 slowly along the children, standing in the ring, will enjoy 
 naming the most prominent things which each month 
 brings, as January brings snow and cold weather, etc. 
 Father Time may appear with the conventional scythe 
 and hour glass. The Old Year may lean heavily upon a 
 staff and the New Year may wear a chime of merry 
 sleigh bells. "The Old Year and the New" and "The 
 Little New Year," songs which are to be found in Songs 
 and Games for Little Ones by Gertrude Walker and Har- 
 riet Jenks, contain suitable words and music for the 
 carrying out of the thought of this game. 
 
Topics — Continued. 
 
 E. New Years — Continued. 
 
 5. Games — Continued. 
 
 (c) Making ISevv Year's c^lls. 
 
 1. On foot. Use Visiting Game, In Song Echoes from 
 Child Land, by Harriet Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 2. In a sleigh. Use Hurrah for the Sleigh Bells, In 
 {^ong Echoes from Child Land, by Harriet Jenks and 
 Mabel Rust. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 First Gift balls with strings. Let different balls repre- 
 sent New Year's bells of different tones, using longer or 
 shorter strings as the case may be and let the children 
 imitate the tones of the different bells. With the large 
 blocks build bell towers and place a belJ within each 
 tower. 
 
 7. Hand TFor7c: 
 
 Make a chime of bells from colored paper circles. With 
 the scissors cut each circle along a straight line from a 
 point in its circumference to its center. Lap the cut edges 
 of each circle together until it takes the shape of a funnel 
 or hollow cone. Paste the lapped etlges and hang by means 
 of a worsted string attached to the summit of the cone. 
 
 F. Lincoln's Birthday. 
 i. Talk: 
 
 Show various pictures of Lincoln and tell the children 
 that he was such a good and brave man and did so much 
 to help the people of this country that, although he has 
 been dead la long time, we wish to remember his birth- 
 day. Dwell especially upon Lincoln's life as a boy and 
 as a young man. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 Tell anecdotes of Lincoln that are simple enough to be 
 understood and appreciated by little children. 
 
 S. Poem: 
 
 The American Flag. Joseph Rodman Drake. 
 
 Jf. Song: 
 
 The Star-Spangled Banner (A Second Booh in Tocal 
 Music). Eleanor iSmdth. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) t»lay games of pioneer and primitive life as typical of 
 things Lincoln would see and do when a child. T'!^ the 
 Sawing Game, in Songs and Games for Little Ones, by 
 Gertrude Walker and Harriet Jenks, and The Farmer, in 
 Songs and Mnsic of FroeheVs Mother Play, by Susan E. 
 Blow. 
 
 (ft) Let the children piny at shoveling paths, bringing m 
 wood, hoeing and weeding vegetables, gathering fruit, etc. 
 
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 I. Topics— Continued. 
 
 F. Lincoln's Birthday — Continued. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 With blocks try to represent tlie cabin where Lincoln 
 lived wlien a boy. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 With sand, sticks, blocks and twigs try to give a some- 
 what adequate idea of the early surroundings of such a 
 home as Lincoln's. 
 
 G. Valentine's Day. 
 
 1. Tall: 
 
 Tell legends of the good St. Valentine, who was so fond 
 of little children. Relate the myth of the mating of the 
 birds on February 14th. Tell the children about carrier 
 pigeons. 
 
 2. Htory: . 
 
 Big Brother's Valentine, from For the Children's Hom% 
 Carolyn S. Bailey and Clara M. Lewis. 
 
 3. Poem: 
 
 Ansicer to a Child's Question. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 
 J/. Somj: 
 
 The Valentine's Message (Holidaij Songs and Every Day 
 Songs and Games). Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 Delivering valentines. 
 (a) The children carry valentines to each other. Use When 
 
 You Send a Valentine in Holiday Songs and Every Day 
 
 Songs and Games by Emilie Poulsson. 
 (h) Play postman and deliver valentines. Use St. Valentine's 
 
 Day, in Holiday Songs and Every Day Songs and Games, 
 
 by Emilie Poulsson. 
 (c) Play at carrier pigeon. Let child who represents pigeon 
 
 carry a valentine, which is fastened to a string about his 
 
 neck. Use Little Dove You Are Welcome, in Songs and 
 
 Games For Little Ones, by Gertrude Walker and Harriet 
 
 Jenks. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 With the blocks make little boxes in which valentines 
 may be posted. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Make valentines, using flowers, hearts, doves, cupids, 
 Dennison seals, lace paper, etc. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 H. Washington's Birthday. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Show a picture of George Washington and get the chil- 
 dren to tell whom it represents and what they know about 
 the man who is called the Father of His Country. Im- 
 press three things upon tL minds of your pupils, namely, 
 that, when George Washington was a boy, he always 
 minded his mother, he was never afraid of anything and 
 he always told the truth. Illustrate these points with 
 anecdotes of the boyhood and youth of our first President. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 Little George Washington and Great George Washington 
 (The Storii Hour), Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. 
 Smith. 
 
 3. Poem : 
 
 American Hymn* (second verse only), M. Keller. 
 
 4' Soncj: 
 
 Flag Song (A First Book in Vocal Music) , Eleanor 
 Smith. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) Soldier Boy {Children's Singing Games), Mari R. Hofer. 
 After the leader has chosen his quota of soldiers, in 
 playing the above game, let the teacher ask the regiment 
 the following question : "What is your country V" To 
 which the soldiers may reply : 
 " Our country is America. Our flag red, white and blue, 
 
 And to the land of Washington we ever will be true. 
 
 Then wave the tlag, the bonny flag, and give three loud 
 hurrahs 
 
 For our beloved America and for the stripes and 
 stars.'' 
 All the children in the ring may join in the three cheers. 
 Then let the soldiers march away to duty, to the accom- 
 paniment of some martial music, while those forming the 
 ring make a camping ground. As the regiment returns each 
 soldier stacks his flag, goes to his tent and camps down 
 for the night, while the pianist plays softly Tenting On 
 The Old Camp Ground* At last morning dawns and the 
 soldiers are awakened by the Reveille. Each one seizes 
 his flag and marches away to the tune of John Brown's 
 Body, or Tramp, Tramp. Tramp, the Boys Go Marching. 
 Finally, let each soldier march to his former place in the 
 ring and hold his flag in front of him with the lower end 
 of the staff resting on the floor, 
 (ft) The Arch (Songs, Games and Rhymes),.Eu(\ori\ L. Ilail- 
 mann. 
 
 * To be found in ''A Third Book in Vocal Music," by Eleanor Smith. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 H. Washington's Birthday — Continued. 
 
 6'. Gift: 
 
 Group work on the floor with big blocks. Let the chil- 
 dren build a triumphai arch, which they can really march 
 through. Decorate the arch with tiny flags. Let each 
 child make a triumphal arch with small blocks on the 
 table. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 {a) Fold soldier's tent, or make tent by pasting a flag-decor- 
 ated paper napkin about a pasteboard foundation formed 
 like a tent. Fasten tiny flag to summit of ten^ 
 
 (&) Fold soldier cap from oblong of coated blue cutting paper. 
 Turn up lower edges so that a white band show^s all 
 around the brim of the cap. Cut feathers from red 
 paper and fasten to side of cap. 
 
 (c) Make red, wliite and blue badge from one-half , inch 
 intertwining strips. Fasten together by means of gilt 
 star. 
 
 {d) Paint flag. 
 
 I. Easter. 
 
 1. Talk:' 
 
 Tell the children very simply of the true significance of 
 Easter time. Speak in a general way of the awakening 
 of plant and animal life in the spring. Show cocoons 
 and chrysalides and specimens of living moths and butter- 
 flies, if possible. Examine lily and hyacinth bulbs and 
 plants of the same in bloom. Touch on the significance 
 of the Easter egg, and tell the German legend of the 
 Easter rabbit. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 (a) The Snowdrop (Fairy Tales), Hans Christian Andersen. 
 (&) The Life of a Silkworm (In the Child's World), Emilie 
 Poulsson. 
 
 3. Poem: 
 
 The Voice of Spring, Mary Howitt. 
 /f. Song: 
 
 At Easter Time OSongs and Games For Little Ones), 
 Gertrude Walker and Harriet Jenks. 
 
 5. Games : 
 
 (a) Caterpillar Song (Kindergarten Review, March, 1902), 
 
 Frances E. Jacobs, 
 (ft) Snowdrops and Violets (Song Echoes from Child Land), 
 
 Harriet Jenks and Mabel Rust. 
 
 (c) Birds in Autumn, second verse only (Holiday \8ongs and 
 Every Day Songs and Games), Emilie Foulsson. 
 
 (d) Hopping rabbit. 
 
 (e) Roll Easter eggs if a suitable place is available, ii not 
 play hiding games with eggs. 
 
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 I. Topics — Continued. 
 I. Easter — Continued. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 (a) Let First Gift balls represent Easter eggs and play color 
 
 games with them. 
 (&) JMake window box, with Fourth Gift, for holding Easter 
 
 lilies, 
 (c) Lay out garden beds, with rings, for holding early 
 
 flowers. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 (») Color Easter eggs. 
 
 (6) Make egg-shell boats, cups and saucers, vases, etc. Use 
 paper strips, glue, sealing wax and paint. 
 
 (c) Paint or draw Easter lily or rabbit. 
 
 (d) Model Easter eggs in clay. 
 
 J. Froebel's Birthday. 
 
 i. Talk: 
 
 Tell the children what is known of the childhood of 
 Friedrich Froebel. Dwell especially upon his lack of 
 playmates and of toys. Explain how, because of his 
 lonely infancy, when Froebel became a man, he wished 
 to do something to make little children happy and so 
 he planned the kindergarten for us all. 
 
 2. Stonj: 
 
 Froebel's Birthday (The Story Hour), Kate D. Wiggin 
 and Nora A. Smith. 
 
 3. Poem: 
 
 Song for FrochcVs Birthday* Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 -J. Song: 
 
 On Froebel's Birthday (Holiday Songs and Every Day 
 Songs), Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 J. Games: 
 
 Select some of the simple Mother Plays and, while pre- 
 senting them, give the children to understand that they 
 are playing some of the very games which Friedrich 
 Froebel himself actually made for the kindergarten. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 Let the children have free choice of material and free 
 play. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Mount or frame small pictures of Friedrich Froebel 
 which the children may carry home. 
 
 To be found in "In the Child's World," by Emilie Poulsson. 
 
95 
 
 I. Topics — Continued. 
 
 K. May Day. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 If it is possible talie the eliildren to the woods for flowers, 
 or go to the parlv or country, or even to the school yard 
 and have a frolic in the open. If this cannot be, tell 
 some of the May Day traditions, let the children choose 
 a queen and help them to pass this joyous festival hap- 
 pily indoors. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 The Sleepin.? Princess (A Kindergarten Story Book), 
 Jane L. Iloxie. 
 
 3. Poem : 
 
 The May Queen. Alfred Tennyson. 
 
 4. Song: 
 
 May Song {May Day Revels), John E. West. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 May pole dance, using " Old English Maying Song," from 
 the Wilkinson Collection. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 With blocks build the castle of the Sleeping Beauty or a 
 throne for the May Queen. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 (a) Make red, white and blue May caps from cambric or 
 tissue paper. 
 
 ih) Make miniature May pole from dowel sticks and cheese- 
 cloth or paper strips. Clothes-pin dolls may act as 
 dancers to twine this pole. 
 
 (c) Make wreathes and badges from colored tissue paper for 
 use at May party. 
 
 ((?) Let the children fold May baskets and, filling them with 
 flowers that they have gathered, let them, according to 
 old May-Day custom, hang these baskets upon the doors 
 of playmates or friends. 
 
 L. Decoration Day. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Tell the children what Memorial Day means and tell 
 them that flowers and flags are placed upon the soldiers' 
 graves in token of our respect and gratitude for the 
 brave and heroic service which these soldiers rendered 
 to our country. 
 
 ^. Story: 
 
 (a) The Stupid Little Apple Tree* John Kendrick Bangs. 
 (6) A Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of 
 To-day {In Story Land), Elizabeth Harrison. 
 
 * To be found in " The Outlook " for 1893. 
 
96 
 
 i; Topics — Continued. 
 L. Decoration Day — Ck)ntinuecl. 
 
 3. Poem : 
 
 •Soldier Rest! Thy Warfare O'er, from Ladif of the Lake, 
 Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 4. Song: 
 
 Soldiers True (Holiday 8o7igs and Every Day Songs and 
 Games), Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 Soldier Boy (Children's Singi^ig Games), Mari R. Hofer. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 Make memorial building or monument with blocks. 
 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Make flag. 
 
 M. FouKTH OF July. 
 
 1. Talk: 
 
 Tell briefly and simply what Independence Day means 
 and how the American people obtained their freedom. 
 
 2. Story: 
 
 (a) Jimmieboy's Fireworks (old file of The Outlook), John 
 
 Kendrick Bangs. 
 (h) The Boston Tea Party (Grandfather's Stories), James 
 
 Johonnot. 
 (c) Rebecca, the Drummer (Grandfather's Stories), James 
 
 Johonnot. 
 
 S. Poem: 
 
 Independence Day,* Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 4' Song: 
 
 Fourth of July (Holiday Songs and Every Day Songs 
 and Games), Emilie Poulsson. 
 
 5. Games: 
 
 (a) The Band. Let the children use ditt'erent musical in- 
 struments like drums, cynibals, triangles, musical dumb- 
 bells, tambourines, etc., and try to keep time to martial 
 music, played by kindergartner on piano. 
 
 (h) Marching Soldiers. While standing in the ring let the 
 children simulate noise of regiment passing, by clajtping 
 liands and stamping feet in time to martial music played 
 on piano. 
 
 6. Gift: 
 
 With blocks make a fort or erect a band stand or a plat- 
 form from which fireworks are to be displayed. 
 
 * To be found in "Holiday Songs and Every Day Songs and Games." 
 
07 
 
 1. Topics — Continued. 
 M. Fourth of July — Continued. 
 7. Hand Work: 
 
 Make fire ora<:'kers. Use red-coated cutting paper, white 
 paper and white string. Write a patriotic sentiment on 
 the wihite paper; roll it and fasten one end of a short 
 string to the roll. Make a hollow cylinder of the red 
 paper and slip the white roll inside this cylinder, taking 
 care to let a short end of the string hang out, by means of 
 which the white roll may be extracted. 
 
99 
 
 A SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAM. 
 
 Brief outline of a year's work for cliildreii between the ages 
 of six and ten. 
 
 I. Home Relations. 
 
 A. To parents (teaching reverence for that which is above the 
 cliild). 
 
 1. Stories and tall^s to inculcate obedience, gratitude, helpful- 
 ness, diligence and trustworthiness. 
 
 B. To brothers, sisters and playmates (teaching reverence for 
 the personality of equals). 
 
 1. Stories and talks bringing out generosity, unselfishness, 
 justice, brotherly and sisterly love. 
 
 C. To servants and dependents. 
 
 1. Stories and talks teaching the respect due to those who 
 serve us faithfully, and those teaching self-reliance on the 
 part of the child. 
 
 - D. To pets and animals that serve us (teaching reverence for 
 that Avhich is beneath the child). 
 1. Talks bearing on the proper care and treatment of animals. 
 
 II. Relations to Outside World. 
 
 A. Society (taken along the line of the yearly festivals). 
 
 1. Thanksgiving. 
 
 (a) Talks on the beauty of charity as a means of showing 
 gratitude. 
 
 2. Christmas. 
 
 (a) Stories and talks showing love, good will, generosity, 
 unselfishness and kindness toward all. 
 
 3. Birthdays of great men (teaching reverence for that which 
 is above the child). 
 
 (a) Stories and talks presenting the ideal character, or 
 presenting ideals of courage, bravery, justice, truthful- 
 ness, humility, reverence and patience. Stories of gods, 
 heroes, giants, knights, etc. 
 
 4. Easter. 
 
 (a) Stories of transformation and of .newness of life. 
 
 5. Decoration Day. 
 
 (a) Talks and stories presenting ideas of patriotism, devo- 
 tion to duty, sacrifices of the individual for the un- 
 versal, strength in unity, etc. 
 
 B. Industry. 
 
 1. Trades and occupations. 
 
 (a) Talks on those who serve us Industrially, — the car- 
 penter, mason, tailor, siiinner, weaver, sihoemaker, black- 
 smith, baker, farmer and all who contribute to our 
 welfare. Talks teaching respect for labor and for the 
 ideal laborer. 
 
100 
 
 il, REJ^Tiorfs, TO Oxjtsuje Wobld — Continued. 
 
 C. Nature (teaching reverence for that wiiich is beneath the 
 child). 
 1. The seasons. 
 
 (a) Talks on the different aspects of nature at different 
 times of the year. Stories t^'pifying ijurity, growth, 
 strength, vigor, freshness, etc. 
 
NOTES 
 
NOTES 
 
STEIGER'S KINDERGARTEN CATALOG, 
 
 tlie most comprehensive list of kindergarten material and books, will 
 be mailed gratis upon request. As a guide to prospective purchasers 
 we herewith give an index of most of the material referred to in Miss 
 Hoxie's Book of Programs, with the pages of our catalog, on which 
 such material is listed, given. 
 
 Page 
 Beads, Orange colored (see Hail- 
 
 mann's Wooden Beads) 38 
 
 Blocks, Wooden 2 
 
 Books 46 — 54 
 
 Cardboard 10 
 
 Chain Paper 19 
 
 Clay, Modeling 34 
 
 Colored Beads, Wooden 38 
 
 Constructive Paper ■ 34 
 
 Crayons, Colored Wax 17 
 
 Cutting-Papers 31—32 
 
 I>isks for Stringing, Paper 37 
 
 Dowel Sticks (see Pea Sticks) 33 
 
 Drawing 17 
 
 Drawing Practice Paper 17 
 
 Flags, Grumnied Paper 39 
 
 Folding-Papers 29—31 
 
 Frcebel's Mother Play Pictures 36—37 
 
 Oame Books 52—51 
 
 Gift: I 1 
 
 II 
 
 III 
 
 IV 
 
 V 
 
 VI 
 
 VII 
 
 VIII 
 
 IX 
 
 X 
 
 XI 
 
 XII 
 
 XIII 
 
 Hailmann's Wooden Beads 
 
 Wooden Lentils 
 
 Interlacing Strips, Paper 18 — 19, 28 
 
 Page 
 Paper-Folding 29—31 
 
 Strips, Intertwining 18—19, 28—29 
 
 , Tearing 29—32 
 
 , Tissue 31 
 
 , Transparent (see Japanine Paper) 
 
 (see Tissue Paper) 
 
 Paste 
 
 Pasteboard (see Cardboard) 
 Pea Sticks, Round 
 Peg Boards 
 Pegs 
 
 Pictures of Animals, Birds etc. (see 
 Object Teaching Chart Catalog) 
 
 of Froebel, Lincoln, Washington 
 
 , Frcebel's Mother Play 36—37 
 
 Portraits of Froebel,Lincoln,Washing- 
 
 36 
 
 Intertwining Strips, Pajier 18—19, 28 
 Itindergarten Books 46 
 
 I^entils, Hailmann's Wooden 
 
 Natural, Seed 
 
 ]VIother Play Pictures, Frcebel's 
 i*aint Boxes 
 Painting 
 Paper, Chain 
 
 , Constructive 
 
 — — , Cutting 
 
 Fasteners, Brass 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2—3 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6—7 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 29 
 
 29 
 
 52 
 
 38 
 
 8 
 
 37 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 34 
 
 31—32 
 
 6 
 
 36 
 39 
 39 
 
 7 
 39 
 
 1 
 35 
 25 
 35 
 35 
 39 
 
 8 
 
 36- 
 17- 
 17- 
 
 ton 
 Raffia 
 Reed, Round 
 Rings, Steel Wire 
 Round Reed 
 Rubber Balls 
 ^and Tables 
 
 Tools 
 
 Tray 
 
 , White 
 
 Seals, Valentine, Christmas etc 
 Seeds (for Point Work) 
 Shells 
 Silver Paper 
 
 Strips 
 
 Song Books 
 Square Sticks 
 Sticks, Round Pea 
 
 , Square 
 
 Straws for Stringing 
 Strips, Paper 
 
 , Paper Intertwining 
 
 , Silver Paper 
 
 Tablets 
 
 Tearing 
 
 Tissue Paper 
 
 Transparent Paper (see Japanine.Paper) 30 
 
 (see Tissue Paper) " 31 
 
 "Water-Color Paints 17—18 
 
 Weaving-Mats 19—28 
 
 31 
 
 19 
 
 52—54 
 
 6—7 
 
 33 
 
 6—7 
 
 37 
 
 18—19, 28—29 
 
 18—19, 28—29 
 
 19 
 
 3 
 
 29—32 
 
 31 
 
 Special attention is invited to the Standard Kindergarten Toxt-Book: 
 
 THE KINDERGARTEN GUIDE. 
 
 An illustrated handbook designed for the self-instruction of kindergartners, 
 
 mothers and nurses. 
 By Maria Kraus-Bcelte and John Kraus. 
 First Volume: The Gifts. 453 pages, 8vo, with 2078 illustrations. Strongly 
 sewed, in stiff paper cover, with marbled edges. $2.00 ; bound in cloth, $2.75 
 
 Second Volume : The Occupations. 418 pages, 8vo, with 1522 illustrations and 
 12 chromolithographed plates. Strongly sewed, in stiff paper cover, with marbled 
 edges. S2.25; bound in cloth, $3.00 
 
 The contents of these 2 volumes are issued also as the following separate numbers: 
 No. 1. The First and Second Gifts. (The Ball.— Sphere, Cylinder and Cube.) With 
 50 illustrations. Paper, $0.35; cloth, $0.65 
 
No, 2. The Thikd, Foubth, Fifth and Sixth Gifts. (Froebel's First, Second, Third 
 
 and Fourth Building Box.) With 497 illustrations. Paper, S0.70; cloth, $1.00 
 No. 3. The Sevknth Gift. (The Tablets.) With 554 illustrations. Paper, $0.50 ; 
 
 cloth, $0.80 
 No. 4. The Eighth Gift. (The Connected Slat.) The Ninth Gift. 
 
 ing.) The Tenth Gift. (Stick Laying.) With 509 illustrations. 
 
 cloth, $1.00 
 No. 5. The Eleventh Gift. (Ring Laying.) The Twelfth Gift. 
 
 (Slat-Interlac- 
 Paper, $0.70; 
 
 (The 
 
 Thread 
 Paper, 
 
 Game.) The Thirteenth Gift. (The Point.) With 468 illustrations. 
 $0.70; cloth, $1.00 
 
 No. 6. The First Occupation. (Perforating.) The Second Occupation. (Sewing.) 
 With 204 illustrations. Paper, $0.50; cloth, $0.80 
 
 No. 7. The Third Occupation. (Drawing.) With 351 illustrations. The Fourth 
 Occupation. (Coloring and Painting.) With 83 chromolithographed illustrations 
 on 12 plates. Paper, $1.00; cloth, $1.30 
 
 No. 8. The Fifth Occupation. (Paper-Interlacing.) The Sixth Occupation. (Mat- 
 Weaving.) With 223 illustrations. Paper, $0.50; cloth, $0.80 
 
 No. 9. The Seventh Occupation. (Paper-Folding.) The Eighth Occupation. (Pa- 
 per-Cutting and Mounting, Free Cutting and Silhouetting.) With 444 illustrations. 
 Paper, $0.60; cloth, $0.90 
 
 No. 10. The Ninth Occupation. (Peas-Work.) The Tenth Occupation. (Cardboard- 
 Modeling.) The Eleventh Occupation. (Modeling in Clay.) With 300 illustra- 
 
 ' tions. Paper, $0.50; cloth, $0.80 
 
 Sample pag:es from The Kindergarten Guide will be furnished gratis. 
 
 OCCUPATION BOXES FOR THE NURSERY. 
 
 A full set of Kinder« 
 dergarten Occupa- 
 tions for the Nursery, 
 
 boxes containing an as- 
 sortment of properly 
 made kindergarten ma- 
 terial for one child, with 
 directions for its use, 
 will be mailed upon re- 
 quest. 
 
 These make useful, 
 enterlaining and ap- 
 propriate gifts for the 
 little ones. In particular 
 can we recommend the 
 following two boxes 
 which not only contain 
 a generous supply of 
 material but are exceed- 
 ingly reasonable in price: 
 
 CHAIN-MAKING AND BEAD-STRINGING. 
 A box containing 200 strips of colored kindergarten paper for making chains, 200 
 colored straws, 54 wooden 
 beads, 200 paper disks and 
 squares and 6 laces for 
 stringing. Price, net $0.50 
 (including postage. No dis- 
 count). 
 This assortment of kin- 
 dergarten material paovides 
 entertaining and instructive 
 amusement for children of 
 four to seven years of age. 
 The ends of the first strip are 
 pasted together, each success- 
 ive strip is past thru the pre- 
 ceeding one and its ends 
 joined in similar manner, 
 forming a chain which, when 
 draped as a garland over pic- 
 ture-frames, curtains etc., 
 forms an attractive decora- 
 ion. 
 
The laces past thru the straws and paper disks or squares alternately, the paper 
 being punctured in the center by the tab at the end of the lace, form equally attrac- 
 tive festoons, a fit ornament in the nursery. 
 
 Stringing the wooden beads in a systematic manner with due regard for the 
 variety in form and color, the assortment comprising red, orange, yellow, green, blue 
 and violet spheres, cylinders and cubes, affords not only any amount of entertain- 
 ment, but, as the materials described above tend to develop the power of observation 
 in the little ones by teaching them to discriminate between the several colors as well 
 as the properties of the various forms, Frcebel's principles of learning by doing and 
 learning while playing are practiced in these occupations. 
 
 CARD SEWING. 
 
 This attractive box of easy sewing cards with blunt-pointed needles and worsted, 
 as well as a perforating pad and needle afltbrds instructive amusement to boys as well 
 as girls. The perforated cards withotit printed designs give the little ones opportu- 
 nity to develop their inventive faculty bv devising an endless variety of designs. 
 Price, net )80.50 (including postage. No discount). 
 
 CRAYON WORK AND PAINTING. 
 
 Frcebellian drawing and its sequel occupation, painting, develop neatness and 
 precision. They also teach the elements of arithmetic, besides giving the child 
 opportunity to exercise his desire to express the impression which objects and scenes 
 have made on his mind. In attractiveness to the child this occupation is second to none. 
 
 This box contains designs showing a short course in Frcebellian drawing, a 
 copious svxpply of drawing paper ruled on both sides in quarter-inch squares, two 
 quires of superior drawing and water-color paper, half a dozen long colored crayons 
 and water-color paints with brushes. Price, net $0.50 (including postage. No 
 discount. 
 
 MAT WEAVING. 
 
 This occupation, popular among litte boys as well as girls, while entertaining, 
 affords instruction in the elements of aiithmetic. It promotes accuracy, neatness and 
 generosity, some of the articles capable of being made from mats, such as napkin- 
 rings, needle-books, sachet-bags, cornucopias etc., making acceptable little presents 
 or relatives and friends. It stimulates the inventive faculties and develops the sense 
 of color harmony in the child. 
 
 This package, while exceedingly reasonable in price, contains a cardboard mat with 
 wooden strips already inserted to teach the child how the weaving is done, a patented 
 
 steel weaving-needle of simple pattern, some twenty weaving-mats with the requisite 
 fringes and a few fancy silver and gold mats, as well as illustrated instructions 
 explaining the use of the needle and material. Price, $0.^5 (including postage. No 
 
 FANCY MATS FOR WEAVING. 
 
 ^i.^^y^I <^?^*aining Sround and oval fancy weaving-mats and fringes of various 
 (Postage 15c )^^' ^"^^^^^^ designs and 1 Ball's steel weaving-needle. Price $0.75 
 
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