Show I FROM FROl SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE jw h W I C m tr w i c. c K X l v S. S t k J I 1 IV Vacation cat on Ushered In With Ceremony At Kindergarten Novel School for Tiny Nationals Nationals Nationals Na Na- Comes to Close Pupils Give Program in English Closed until September 15 That's the present story of one of the least known yet most colorful of f all organizations in Salt Lake th the kindergarten of the Mexican mission at t West Fourth South street The vacation started Monday I Mexican children 5 to 6 years old children who usually dont don't know a avord word vord of English at the start of the school chool year are prepared in language and nd Americanism for their entry into the ic public schools the thc following year car Closing exercises of the ten en were held at the thc mission Monday afternoon and many friends and relatives saw and heard the results of one years year's training Mrs J J J- W W. Thompson founder of the ic project which is sponsored by the Catholic Womans Woman's league leacue called attention at at- to the fact that the songs they sang ang and the thc pieces they spoke were in n English And this is from children chil chil- dren ren who until thc they were taken here last ast fall had heard nothing spoken in I their homes but Spanish she ex ex- The chief chef thing the sisters and md teachers have ha to overcome is the timidity r of these foreign children who ho are used to customs in their childhood entirely different to ours Here ere at the kindergarten we introduce intro intro- duce uce them to a new world In this work we have been assisted greatly by y Miss Verona Toronto and Miss Genevieve enevieve Van Derk A typical kindergarten program was as presented by the thc children It included recitations The Sailboat and nd The Rainbow Band songs Diddle Diddle Dumpling and The Little Yellow Dandelion those Dandelion those things typical of average American kindergartens An exhibit of drawing painting raffia affia and other handiwork was on display at the closing exercises A naturalness in flower and bird studies was pointed out in this art work vork Sister M. M Santo is the mother supe supe- nor of the school S S c 2 t. t 4 I I r 5 Little Mexican children In the kindergarten of the Mexican mission mission mission mis mis- sion at West Fourth South street Monday held their closing exercises exercises exer exer- of the school year ear Those above c aro arc singing Tho The Rainbow Son Song and holding their rainbows aloft The trio below is swaying to the music of ot The Sailboat son song I |