Show young children in rural schools children whose first school year bear Is spent in the kindergarten are fortunate since the one roam school ran cannot not offer kindergarten work country children ol of kindergarten age should be kept at biome home According to information rec received eivid b ballio bureau of ofed edi uca tion tion department of at fhe interior arent in rural districts in increasing s numbers realize that children should wait until they ire are approximately six sir years ot of aae age before entering ing school teachers appreciating the injury often inflicted indicted by the change from the active outdoor outdoor lile life so essential to health and physical development to the sedentary life of the schools are doing much to make school lire life less sedentary and the transition irom from the free preschool pre school life to the more exacting demands of the school gradual and easy they see to it that children get exercise physical relief and education in using such materials as construe ti ait oit paper paste cramol cr ayola ayol scissors cis sois clay blocks and a set of type tor for printing where school boards have not furnished such supplies money la is often raised for their purchase thru the efforts ol of the parent teacher associations ciati ons and other organizations young children are taught to talk freely play games and to sing older children read aloud to them and tell them stories thus getting deeded practice and at the same time arous arousing in their listeners a desire to learn to read activities of this kind while apparently delaying childrens progress in hi learning to read really hastens it it is becoming quite general tor for children sufficiently mature to profit by bry first grade work to enter rural schools in the fall and after attending regularly for nine months montha to read through several primers and first readers before the year closes |