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FroebelS Occupations Kate Douglas Wiggin,Nora Archibald Smith,Houghton Miffline Company No preview available - 2019 |
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angles Arnswald artistic ball beads beautiful Beersheba blackboard cardboard centre Chemnitz chil child circle circular drawing clay colored paper Combinations corner course crayons cube delight dergarten dexterity Diagonal dictation direction dren easily Exer exercises figures fingers flowers freehand Froebel says garten gartner geometric progression geometrical forms gifts give hand horizontal lines ideas inch instinct interlacing invention John Richard Green kinder kindergar kindergarten knowledge lesson linear drawing little children material ment method mind modeling mucilage nature needle objects oblong occu occupation outlines paper cutting paper twisting pation pattern peas pencil Perforating picture plane geometry play practice pricking produced pupil sand scissors Series D shade simple slate slats solid songs space sphere square sticks story string strips symmetrical teacher teaching tertiary colors things tints and shades tion triangles various Vertical lines weaving wooden
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Page 24 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile.) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?
Page 3 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Page 160 - The things a child can make, May crude and worthless be, It is his impulse to create Should gladden thee. "Drawing," says Froebel, "attests the mind's creative power and offers a seemingly simple form for its exertion." In the kindergarten it has been our rule, as in Cincinnati, to have drawing every day, and no occupation is more heartily enjoyed nor does any furnish a surer test of progress on the part...
Page 144 - Almost invariably, children show a strong propensity to cut out things in paper, to make, to build— a propensity which, if duly encouraged and directed, will not only prepare the way for scientific conceptions, but will develop those powers of manipulation in which most people are so deficient.
Page 117 - It has indeed been stated, even at the beginning of this undertaking, as a fundamental truth, that the plays and occupations of children should by no means be treated as offering merely means for passing the time (we might say, for consuming time), hence only as outside activity, but rather that by means of such plays and employments the child's innermost nature must be satisfied.
Page 48 - That there is next to nothing of pedagogic value the knowledge of which it is safe to assume at the outset of school life.
Page 155 - Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Page 61 - And well it stamps our human race, And hence the gift to understand, That man within the heart should trace Whate'er he fashions with the hand.
Page 143 - A parallel to this would be the mason's habit of noticing only the brick and mortar, or the stone and cement, in his inspection of the architecture — say, of Sir Christopher Wren. A child overtrained to analyze and classify shades of color (examples of this one finds occasionally in a primary school whose specialty is "objective teaching...