Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-02 | Page 4 | Kindergarten Instruction Has Purpose

1 Ki Kindergarten i nde I Instruction Has Has' Purpose By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Humph said Johnn Johnnys Johnny's 8 mother Here ere com comes s the kindergarten teacher Well Veil Im I'm ready for her Oh how do you do Miss Bright I 1 thought I saw someone coming up the walk Isn't It a lovely day Of ot course youve you've guessed what Ive I've come como to see Bce you about Mrs rs Brown I just had to ask you if you wouldn't let Jimmy come to our kindergarten Its It's so near and the days arc are so beautiful Every day when I 1 pass and see seo him playing alone I want to take him along Would you mind Its It's In connection connection tion Uon with the school and wont won't cost anything at all Its just this this' way this way said Mrs rs Brown determined to hold her own against the tho soft appeal in Miss Brights Bright's eyes I used to think kindergartens kin kin- were all aU right In a It sort of ot w way y I sent Lou and I didn't mind her fiddling around with mats and colored papers and countIng counting count count- ing colored balls although I sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times wondered If it it wasn't making a ninny out of her Anyway she got over it when she struck Number One Ono and they began to hammer some sense into her Educational Flourishes But now they're there trying to make amateurs out of ot them My goodness goodness goodness good good- ness I hear you teach tap dancing and cart wheels now Not only that but I see pictures In In the papers papers papers pa pa- pers of year olds having having haying hav hay ing their own orchestras playing on horns and mouth organs and tin pans and police whistles and every every- thing Im I'm not anxious for Jim Jimmy y to try out for Major Bowes Hes He's got to learn something solid saUd that counts Td rd have to do it over his body If it I 1 went to making making mak mak- mak-I mak ing a gigolo out of at him Miss Bright sighed So many I mothers feel teel as you do Mrs Brown and If It we were trying any 1 real foolishness I could agree with you perfectly Its It's pretty hard for lor a kindergarten teacher to explain explain ex ex- plain all the worthy reasons behind new ideas and even the tho old ones because It takes several years of study to know about early child de development de- de Tho The Deciding Factor What at seems to many mere merely foolishness is really organized play i And one of the best developers of the yo young ng child is a group of ot other children all doing the same samo things Then there is manipulation and conformity to toYes to- to Yes I know that I said I did not mind Lou getting it IL- ILAnd And I Io wouldn't o mind J Jimmy Only its it's these n new w things about dancing and somersaults and silly rackets on washboards I draw the line ate Miss Bright had to laugh I know I know she chuckled But even that has a real meaning As Association M- M of ot Ideas applied to music and rhythm Its It's all for a reason I I fir guess gues es I 1 can get along without more big words worth sighed Mrs Brown Mercy What's What that Ill I'll bet Jimmys Jimmy's climbing that trellis on the garage again Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Please excuse me Miss Bright Yes for goodness sake do stop and take him along I guess its it's a question question question ques ques- tion of saving his neck Jimmy come down Mother has something lovely to tell you Youre You're going to togo togo togo go to kindergarten and learn to stand on your head