Eureka Reporter | 1905-08-18 | Page 7 | Mistakes of the Youngsters

MISTAKES OF THE youngsters echoes from the kindergarten heard at the teachers convention A party of teachers at the conven tion af ocean grove recently were dis cussing the mistakes made by catl dren especially in bej of single words some instances were cited A kindergartner told of one young ster in her class who interpreted the line in a school song there s a giant in me hid as referring to something wrong his head and indeed even those who have not the least strain of gaelic n their blood may find a weird and perverse tendency in that phrase in me hid to suggest strange meanings another teacher told of a little girl in a sunday school class this time who in the hymn onward christian soldiers sang christ the railroad master leads against the toe it was the same pupil who origin abed this reading of a sentence in the twenty third psalm my cup dumped over one child rendered a line in a song buckles it over his dirty back tor sturdy bad and another tot in repeating the lord s prayer suddenly stopped to call for an explanation of the line which he recited give us this day our dirty bread the sensitiveness of children was illustrated in the last story I 1 have been drilling a class for some exercises at a school entertain ment said one teacher the chil dren were divided into battalions and the leader of the first group was a youngster oung ster of unusual precocity very bright indeed but often led by his cleverness into mistakes which the more stupid pi pile would never have made the first battalion Is going too fast I 1 corrected and this little chap breaking into tears ran to a seat and laid his head on the desk sobbing it took several minutes to comfort and console him and assure him that I 1 been making fun of him he thought I 1 had said the first italian is going too fast and he re dented it