The increasing number of playgrounds in this country is due to this acknowledged need of exercise, especially for growing children.
Many of us live in the city, where the crowded streets, the closely packed apartments, and the city playgrounds form our environment.
In towns and cities there is no more imperative duty resting on the school than the furnishing of playgrounds and gymnasiums for children.
When in the later Newark grades the children are taught about Europe and Australasia, they are taught on a background of the geography of yards, alleys, squares, streets and playgrounds with which they are familiar.
By co-operation with the park commissioners, the playgrounds were made an integral part of the summer school work.
We asked the Board of Education to make their school playgrounds the neighborhood recreation centres.
It is so, at this moment, with the children's playgrounds in New York.
In Chicago they are setting limits to it with parks and playgrounds and the home restored.
The worst tenements were destroyed; parks were opened, schools built, playgrounds made.
It is specifically required that all pupils go on to the playgrounds during the intermissions (fri Krarterer) which come between all lessons.
The results of the Norwegians' enforced, frequent, and regular use of the playgrounds are in evidence on every hand.
The playgrounds are generally small, but some of the schools have, in addition to the grounds immediately surrounding the buildings, athletic parks of considerable proportions.
So it is with boys: men are made in our playgrounds as much as in the class-room; so, too, is it with you.
Come over and see our Clifton High School, with its spacious lawns and playgrounds and pleasant rooms, and you will be discontented with a righteous discontent.
In no other town in the world are there as many playgrounds per capita.
Children’s playgrounds are equipped and maintained in a great many mill centres, and instructors are employed to devote their whole time to assisting the children to get the best possible benefits from these.
Why, the draft I got for playgrounds was on that bank, and the date corresponds.
So a man wrote a letter to the papers about a month ago, pleading for a fund to put down small playgrounds in the crowded districts, where the little folk could come of an evening, and the mothers could sit, and the men might smoke a pipe.
Playgrounds are not a municipal luxury, but a necessary.
A place for everything and everything in its place" would be an efficacious even if old-fashioned remedy: playgrounds for the children, workshops for the idlers, reduction plants for the garbage and asylums for the beggars.
Since 1907 the work of playground leaders has been supplemented by storytelling done by public library assistants who visit the playgrounds by invitation, and who are scheduled for this work as a part of their regular library duties.
Kindergartners from five playgrounds agreed that by far the largest attendance was on Library day, many of the older children coming on that day only.
During the initial summer, five playgrounds were supplied, the total circulation being about 1,600.
All storytelling in the playgrounds is done by Children's librarians or by students of The Training School for Children's Librarians on the days books are exchanged.
The half-day playgrounds do wonders toward solving the problem of the vacation child.
The method was adopted throughout the library system and extended to the various children's reading rooms, home libraries, playgrounds and city schools.
In the playgrounds and vacation schools maintained by the Board of Education, storytelling is carried on by the supervisors and assistants.
Nearly all of the public libraries mentioned in the report send books to playgrounds when the playgrounds desire it.
See Handbook and Report of Parks and Playgrounds Association.
Mrs. Moyse has been deeply interested in a movement for providing playgrounds for children in Montreal, her efforts in that direction being untiring, and she is now a director of the Parks and Playgrounds Association.
He is identified with many movements which seek to meet and improve modern conditions, and to this end he is serving as a director of the Parks and Playgrounds Association, and is vice president of the Montreal City Improvement League.
Why should there be playgrounds when there is all outdoors in which to play?
Since many city homes have not a spot of ground for a garden or for outdoor play, they depend upon public parks and playgrounds provided by the city.
Most cities are also establishing public playgrounds apart from the schools, sometimes under the management of the school board, but often under that of a special playground or recreation commission.
They may be turned loose, for they can't get outside the fence, and in the clubs and playgrounds they are under the wisest and most friendly care.
I hope they will break more windows until the city fixes upplaygrounds for them!
I do not know where space was found for playgrounds for all these boys, for there seemed really very little room on the mountain top for anything except the extensive buildings.
Johnson, Superintendent of Playgrounds in Pittsburgh, and formerly Superintendent of Schools in Andover, Mass.
The movement to provide public playgrounds for children and more park space for all classes in our cities is one connected vitally with the health, strength, and endurance of the population.
Inspired by the splendid pioneer work of the National Playground Association, the cities and towns have recently made very rapid progress in the establishment of playgrounds and recreative centers for old and young.
The playgrounds could also be laid out and equipped on this occasion.
While the cities are cramped for playgrounds and purchase them only at a high cost, the latter can be secured in the country in sufficient size and at a relatively small expense.
The playgrounds which are fast becoming the headquarters of a kind of neighborhood guild, will furnish a substantial part of the material for this comprehensive social formation.
We cannot create and improve the public playgrounds which are open air parlors without honest and efficient city and town government," he said.
Courts and alleys fouled by bad drainage and piles of rubbish were playgrounds for rickety, pale-faced, grimy children.
The necessity for playgrounds is pressing, so pressing that an earnest, self-sacrificing effort has been made to meet it.
The parents cannot as individuals provide playgrounds or adequate discipline.
Of late the movement for large and small public parks and playgrounds has gone on rapidly in American cities.
In agricultural and sparse populations fresh air, sunshine, good water, and unbounded natural playgrounds for children, where they can grow into strong and efficient manhood, are free goods.
The public ownership of parks for the use of all gives a maximum of economy in the production of the most essential utilities--fresh air, sunshine, natural beauty, and playgrounds in the midst of crowded populations.
How about having public playgrounds in crowded districts, with bird and animal pets, and a house with a caretaker to supervise the play of the children.
Some of our thoughtful people are saying, "Better playgrounds without schools than schools without playgrounds.
People progress in the improvement of their playgrounds no less than in the ordering of their workshops.
Our mountains are much more attractive summer playgrounds than the Alps.
If in our great forest playgrounds we can lead this out-of-door life for a few weeks each year, it will make us healthier, stronger, and happier.
City Engineer Woodward was one of those who devised a general scheme for rebuilding the city, by which the new San Francisco was to be a city of magnificent buildings, terraces, boulevards, green parks and playgrounds and gardens.
The plan also provided for a new parade ground at the Presidio and the building of numerous parks and playgrounds throughout the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "playgrounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
