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Inventing Kindergarten - The Gift - English and Spanish TEXT
Inventing Kindergarten - The Gift - English and Spanish TEXT
Inventing Kindergarten - The Gift - English and Spanish TEXT
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aim of this gift was to teach the child about color, about right and left, and
to develop the movements of the eyes, hands, arms and feet in various
plays.
Primer juguete: seis bolas suaves de varios colores para los nios ms
pequeos. El objetivo de este juguete era instruir al nio sobre el color, la
derecha y la izquierda, y desarrollar el movimiento de los ojos, las manos,
los brazos y los pies en juegos diversos.
Second Gift: Sphere, cube and Cylinder made of wood. The aim was to
teach form to alert the child to similarities and dissimilarities of objects
and to draw attention to corners, sides and edges of the various shapes.
Ninth Gift: Whole and half wire rings, also for laying figures.
Tenth Gift: This gift relates to drawing, which is done here on sheets of
paper ruled into squares. According to the Milton Bradley catalog this was
the most systematic and perfect way of drawing ever invented.
Eleventh Gift: Pin pricking. This exercise was done on gridded paper, as in
the tenth gift, here the student would use a perforating needle to prick out
patterns and images.
Twelfth Gift: Embroidery. This exercise was done using colored silk
threads sewn onto worsted paper.
Thirteenth Gift: Paper cutting. Squares of paper were folded in different
ways and cut according to marks made by the pupil. The childs propensity
to use scissors, and to destroy by doing, is here guided in such an
ingenious manner, that the most astonishing results are produced thereby.
Fourteenth Gift: Paper weaving. Using a needle of special construction,
thin paper strips of various colors were woven through a finely cut sheet of
a different color.
Fifteenth Gift: Slats for interlacing.
Sixteenth Gift: A set of joined slats with four, six, eight and sixteen links.
Seventeenth Gift: Triangular and Quadrangular tablets of colored paper.
Eighteenth Gift: Paper folding. The variety is endless and the work
prepares the pupil for many a useful similar manual performance in
practical life. The paper must be cut exactly square.
Nineteenth Gift: Peas work. Peas are soaked for twelve hours in water
and pieces of wire of various lengths pointed at the ends are stuck into
them for the purposes of imitating objects of life and various geometrical
figures.
Twentieth Gift: Materials for modeling. Bees-wax, clay or other materials
were worked with a small wooden knife on a light smooth board.