The most intelligent mother in the United States to-day, let her be kindergartner and psychologist and child-study specialist as much as she pleases, cannot give her children that broad early view of the organization of life.
Informal questions by the kindergartner and answers by the children, on its introduction, that it may be well understood.
The office of the kindergartner is hardly now more than to suggest, merely to watch the child in his creative work, and to advise when necessary as to the most artistic disposition of the simple material.
The kindergartner should be careful that he never builds hastily or lawlessly, and above all she should guide him to those forms which he will be able to construct with perfection and accuracy.
The children are invariably delighted with both hemispheres and ellipsoids, and need no stimulus from the kindergartner in their use.
Every direction given by the kindergartner should be followed by spontaneous work (either in word or deed) by the child.
It is not that the work with them is not in itself pleasing to the child, but that it has been forced upon him ad nauseam, and that the kindergartner has lacked interest in presenting it.
If the kindergartner does not recognize the relationship which exists between them and their relation to the child's mental and moral growth, she uses them with no power or intelligence.
One of the first uses of the point may be in following the outline of some form of life which the kindergartner has drawn in white or colored chalk on the child's table.
If a kindergartner is looked upon, or paid, or treated as a nursery maid, her ranks will gradually be recruited from that source.
The kindergartner it is who, living with the children, can make her work an integral part of the neighborhood, the centre of its best life.
It is the kindergartner alone who can prove the truth, who can substantiate the argument, who can show the facts.
If you can work out his principles (or better ones still when we find better ones) by other means, pray do it if you prefer; since the object of the kindergartner is not to make Froebel an idol, but an ideal.
Some years ago, a San Francisco kindergartner was threading her way through a dirty alley, making friendly visits to the children of her flock.
The kindergartner looks as if she were glad to be there, and the children are generally smiling.
And here the kindergartner has great room for the exercise of judgment, in the selection of suitable objects.
So Froebel's plan of having the kindergartner suggest a symmetrical drawing of lines in opposites, vivifies the sense of symmetry into a thought, whence springs a plan of making still another symmetry.
It is the part of the educated kindergartner to supply this want of judgment and analysis until the pupil catches the secret of gradualism and the law of opposites.
But the Kindergartner knows that it serves higher ends, and that it is at least always a lesson in order, enabling them to begin to enact upon earth "Heaven's first law.
Johnny was a sweet little fellow, one of eight children from a wretched tenement home down the street into which the kindergartner had found her way.
Each kindergartner also received for her special use a list of stories bearing on the thought she wished to emphasize each week, with the books containing these stories.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the obligation to Miss Fanny Chapin, of Chicago, a kindergartner of long experience, for the comradeship of thought which made the book possible.
Only a kindergartner can appreciate its many possibilities.
In other words, the true kindergartnerregards with scrupulous care the physical, the intellectual, and the moral.
It is the duty of the kindergartner to find that good, and efficient ones do it, straining energy where most needed, and finding greatest pleasure in the hardest problems.
It cannot be put into formulas, nor does it come by intuition into the scientific form in which a Kindergartner needs to have it.
But the above description of the plays gives no adequate idea of what can be made of them, such as the Kindergartner obtains at the Normal class; for they are much more than bodily exercises.
The most intelligent mother in the United States to-day, let her be kindergartner and psychologist and child-study-specialist as much as she pleases, cannot give her children that broad early view of the organization of life.
Of course the American kindergartner does not use "foolish" stories; but stories she does use, and to good effect.
For the possible scorn of those to whom all compromise is distasteful, the author of this Introduction seeks but one compensation--that any kindergartner who may happen to adopt his suggestion will let him study the results.
The Hull-House Woman's Club had been organized the year before by the resident kindergartner who had first inaugurated a mother's meeting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kindergartner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
