A practical guide to the English kinder-garten (children's garden) : for the use of mothers, nursery governesses, and infant teachers : being an exposition of Froebel's system of infant training : accompaniedby a great variety of instructive and amusing games, and industrial and gymnastic exercises, also numerous songs, set to music and arranged to the exercises . after a meal, nor continued so as to produce weari-ness, nor in improper places, such as closely confined rooms, in an impure atmosphere,or in the open air, when the weather is unfavourable. Having these conditions in view, the movem
A practical guide to the English kinder-garten (children's garden) : for the use of mothers, nursery governesses, and infant teachers : being an exposition of Froebel's system of infant training : accompaniedby a great variety of instructive and amusing games, and industrial and gymnastic exercises, also numerous songs, set to music and arranged to the exercises . after a meal, nor continued so as to produce weari-ness, nor in improper places, such as closely confined rooms, in an impure atmosphere,or in the open air, when the weather is unfavourable. Having these conditions in view, the movement plays of the Kinder Garten liavebeen arranged. To prevent deformities of the spine, no child is allowed to remain too long inone position. To secure the co-operation of mental, nervous, and muscular action, all movementsare accompanied with songs, which enlist the sympathies, excite the imagination, andcause the children to suit the action to the word. These plays are plays of union and order. Every motion is according to rhythm ; asthe hands of the clock are together at the hour of twelve, so the given muscles areexpanded or contracted, as the intention may be, when a given word is pronounced in agiven note; and there is not a muscle in the body, not an organ of the mind, requiringexercise, that by these plays does not receive its necessary ENGLISH KINDER GARTEN. 57 These plays are adapted to very young children; they have been invented bychildren, and collected, set to music and appropriate words by practical educators, whohave acquired the power to teach by observation. INTRODUCTORY SONGS. These and similar songs are sung at the commencement of the exercises, and duringsome of the games with the Third and Fourth Gifts. The Happy Home. ^^^sm^^^m^t=^^^^m. My Fa - ther, how that name I prize! Tis mu - sic in my
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