The International Kindergarten Union---Annual Meeting, Chicage, Ju. 24-9 Chicago as a Convention City The silver anniversary of the International Kindergarten Union is to be celebrated in Chicago June 24-29, and not only kindergartners and teachers but all persons interested in education and in the welfare of little children are invited. Chicago is the ideal convention city of the continent. Because of geographical location and because the great railroads center there it is easy of access without prohibitive expense. It affords unlimited opportunities for recreation in a prolonged stay, and convention and vacation plans may be combined. There are many hotels and boarding places, new, modern and comfortable, with wide range in prices, in the city or suburbs, within the loop or on the lake shore. Visitors may combine all the delights of a summer resort with the advantages of a great metropolis. Chicago has the finest system of public parks and boulevards in the world. Motor bus trips may be made through Lake Shore Drive, Lincoln Park and Sheridan Road for a ten cent fare, and automobiles may be rented at reasonable rates. Lincoln Park, on the north side, is especially noted for its many statues, chief among which is St. Gauden's Lincoln; its yacht harbor, the "zoo" with 1700 animals and its beautiful gardens. Garfield Park, in the west division, is famous for its conservatories said to be the finest in the world. Washington Park is an excellent example of expert landscape gardening, with wide open meadows, wooded walks, winding lagoons, flowers and shrubs of every description. Jackson Park, the site of the World's Fair, contains the Field Museum with its priceless collections, United States Life Saving Station, the Columbus caravels and the Convent La Rabida. On its wooded island are found many varieties of rare plant life, the quaint Japanese cottages, and an historic building thought to be the oldest in the Mississippi Valley. Excursion boats ply the lake from its piers. The broad esplanade along the entire eastern edge of the park forms an ideal promenade, with miles of beautiful wooded greensward on one side and Lake Michigan in all its glory of color and action on the other. All the parks afford opportunities for boating, tennis, golf, archery, base ball and other games, and all have restaurants and refectories. Band concerts are held on summer evenings. Bathing beaches, both municipal and private, abound in Chicago. Jackson Park and Lincoln Park have large, well equipped beaches, while Clarendon Beach accommodates 10,000 bathers. Suits are either free or rented at a nominal cost. Chicago leads the world in its playgrounds. These are scattered all over the city and are provided with swings, athletic apparatus, wading and swimming pools and field houses. The convention guest especially interested in social service will be well repaid by visits to these oases in the congested districts of this great city. He will also wish to make an excursion through the Ghetto and the Fish Market which is conducted in strict accordance with the Jewish doctrine. The new Municipal Pier, erected by Chicago at a cost of almost $5,000,000, is the largest and most modern municipal pier in the world. It extends 3,000 feet into the lake. It has an auditorium seating 4,000 people, board walks, playgrounds, art galleries, observation towers and cafeterias. Community sings and other civic entertainments are held in the auditorium, companies of soldiers and sailors are quartered here, while freight and passenger boats constantly arrive and depart. The Art Institute, art galleries, libraries and museums afford opportunity for study and quiet enjoyment. Visits may be made to the University of Chicago which is in session during the summer, and which has courses of open lectures. Other summer schools are in progress, offering instruction in almost every line of study. Theatrical attractions of a high order are always to be found in Chicago, as well as the best offerings in moving pictures. All the churches are open, and services are held in which earnest, scholarly sermons and beautiful music combine for uplift and inspiration. The shopping district is one of the city's delights to visitors. The great stores with their rich interiors, wide aisles, helpful appointments and courteous attendants give splendid setting to the vast stocks of merchandise artistically assembled. The small shops offer distinctive creations in a more intimate manner. Goods of all descriptions, at prices to suit every purse, may be quickly and comfortably purchased. The side trips from Chicago are almost without number, and are of great variety. At the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, less than an hour's ride from the city, twenty-seven thousand jackies may be seen in all the activities of their training. Camp Grant, at Rockford, Illinois, is but two hours from Chicago. The sand dunes of Michigan, which lovers of nature seek to save for a national park, are easily reached. Lake excursions may be made to Milwaukee, Benton Harbor, Michigan City and other near-by ports, while longer trips may be taken Summer Sessions in the Chicago Kindergarten Training Schools. By Mary Lincoln Morse. The need of highly skilled men and women in every professional field, has been growing apparent in the last few years. Summer Schools increasing in number and attendants are a direct recognition of such need. The war with its insistent demand that the capable be shared between war service and an equally sacred service in holding the home lines, emphasizes a doubly deep obligation for the personal development of every human being's greatest capacity for service. Summer Schools from their beginning have had a double purpose; Ist. A speedy but adequate preparation for the under-graduate. 2nd. For the graduateintensive training along more definite lines, or from a broader and more experienced viewpoint. Today many specialized Summer Schools are adding courses in various lines of war work. Growing with the tendencies of the time, every Kindergarten Training School in to points at the head of the lake. Trolley roads to suburbs pass through rich farming country, fine orchards and shady groves. Ravinia Park on the north shore is a high class amusement center, and there the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives concerts every afternoon and evening during the sum mer season. In the entire country no other city offers so many interesting summer diversions as does Chicago. It abounds in resources for entertainment and education and offers an ever-changing panorama of interest and recreation. Our country is at war because she could no longer live in safety when there is stalking throughout the earth this thunderous machine of murder. The United States authoritatively has declared that peace is desirable and should be brought about, but that peace is impossible so long as life and liberty are challenged and menaced.-Samuel Gompers. Chicago is now holding Summer Sessions with demonstration Kindergartens and allied credited courses. Two of them add special courses related to war work. The usual advantages offered by Chicago to its students are supplemented this year by the meetings of the International Kindergarten Union held June 24th-29th, a time usually free for devotion to study. Students may thus economically secure the inspiration of a great conference: again Kindergartners coming for the special professional incentive of the I. K. U. may remain for definite study. A few general suggestions as to the varying types of work offered by the Training Schools, follow: The Kindergarten and Primary Department of the Chicago University, under the direction of Alice Temple, is a professional department in the College of Education. It offers courses for undergraduates or class room teachers and supervisors. It has the unusual advantage of being a part of a great University, with all University privileges. Of special interest this year, are the public lectures open to University students. The Summer Session opens June 17th, and con tinues for eleven weeks; students may enter for either half or the whole qnarter. The National Kindergarten and Elementary College; Elizabeth Harrison, President, 2944 S. Michigan Blvd., holds an eight weeks session, opening June 17th. This is planned so that students may take advantage of the meetings of the I. K. U. The College offers courses designed to meet the needs of students in Kindergarten and Primary theory. It offers courses also for the graduate student who desires to specialize in supervision or teacher training, with additional courses on the relation of education to the present war conditions and the conservation of children at home and abroad. Caroline Crawford McLean of Columbia University, will give a course on the Dramatic Arts. The Pestalozzi-Froebel Summer School, Berha Hofer Hegner, Director, 616-20 S. Michigan Blvd., will be held for six weeks immediately following the I. K. U. Its Curriculum includes Home Making, (Domestic Activities,) and all the professional kindergarten subjects; Alma Binzell of Minneapolis, will conduct courses in Primary Methods and the Kindergarten Primary Curriculum, and Marie Claussenius, of Francis Parker School, Chicago, on Art in the Home. The Play Ground Courses, directed by Marie Ruef Hofer, will also include Folk Dancing, Pageantry. Psychology of Play and Story Telling, Gymnastics and Field Practice in Chicago Play Grounds. The Chicago Kindergarten Institute; Mary B. Page, Director, 701 Rush Street, has also arranged its four weeks session, to follow the I. K. U. Its two opening days are given over to lectures, centering about the common topic, "Looking Forward For Childhood Education." Among the lecturers are Patty Hill, Lucy Wheelock, Caroline Aborn, Catherine Watkins, Alice Temple, Euphroysne Langley, and others. Its regular Curriculum included, beside the usual professional subjects, a composite course on the daily practices of the Kindergarten, growing out of a common plan, and conducted by specialists. The Institute also offers courses in personal and social efficiency, as an outgrowth of war needs. The Chicago Normal School; Alice O'Grady Moulten, Principal of the Kindergarten Department, proposes to hold a Summer Session five weeks in length, beginning in July. It hopes to offer special courses"Comparative Studies in Froebellion Literature" and "Work for the First Two Grades," with Outlines for the Kindergarten and First Grade, with Special Reference to their Relation. The Normal School is open without fee to all teachers in Chicago and Cook County. In addition to the Session of the regular Training Schoo!, Mary Ely conducts a unique one week's session, opening July 1st., centering about the Armour Practice School, Armour Institute, and dealing with "Play and the Arts for Graduate Kindergarten Teachers. Using the demonstration Kindergarten as its basis, with the co-operation of Caroline Crawford McLean of Teachers' College, Miss Ely offers an intensive course of studies, based on the Kindergarten Curriculum. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DAILY We offer a few simple illustrations on "spontaneous dramatizing" to our fellow workers and will be pleased to hear from them of their efforts in similar work. 1. The Good Shepherd, Luke 15:3-6. Scene 1. (A tall boy dressed as a shepherd, wearing simply a long, circular cape or loose ulster, carries a crook. The curved end made of pasteboard fastened to a cane.) The shepherd walks around the room followed by a dozen or more little ones. The shepherd finally leads them to the platform upon which a very crude sheepfold of chairs may be constructed while the sheep are following the shepherd. Upon reaching the platform the shepherd counts the sheep by tens, as 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 99-where is the 100th? Lost? The sheep go into the crude sheepfold, the shepherd closes the door with a chair, and anxiously starts to search for the lost sheep. He walks alone again around the room, looking in corners, under seats, etc., and at last finds the "lost sheep." He uses the crook to help the little one out | of a ditch, as it were, lifts it up and carries it to the fold. Before the scene begins, a child may recite or sing a Shepherd hymn, and afterwards the whole school may sing one. (See Manual of Hymns.) The teacher or possibly one of the older children should read Luke 15:3-6 either before or after the representation. A number of older children might gather on the platform in a group to represent the friends and neighbors who come to rejoice over the sheep that was lost. It is very important to tell children, especially city children, stories about sheep and lambs, and also to show them pictures of flocks because there are so many references in the Bible to our "Good Shepherd." In the kindergarten, even nursery rhymes, as "Boy Blue," "Bopeep," and "Mary had a little lamb," will help. Teachers should read if possible "The Tale of the Syrian Guest," a little book which makes very real the life of an Oriental Shepherd who really did know his sheep by name, and they knew his voice. There is no such close relation in our country between shepherd and sheep, so the full symbolic meaning is not so easily realized as in the days of David and Christ. THE AMERICAN'S CREED I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States, a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. Can we afford to shake hands with the unholy thing-dripping with blood of innocents-known as Germany? Can we afford to make a pact with a deliberate violator of law, human and divine? What semblance of reality would attach to sitting at the council table with a creature false to its express and solemn promise-its promise not to violate Belgium? What value would lie in an agreement with such a State? In the intercourse of men, certain things are taken for granted: that they will keep their word, that they will respect the law, that they will observe the common dictates of humanity, that they will act as gentlemen. When they fail us in any of these fundamentals, the situation becomes impossible. What of a Nation that fails in all of them? The worship most acceptable to God, comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.-Plutarch. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL KINDERGARTEN UNION AT CHIGAGO JUNE 24-29-FINEST PROGRAM EVER OFFERED INTERNATIONAL KINDERGARTEN UNION The Union holds its annual convention in Chicago by invitation of the Mayor of Chicago, the Association of Commerce, the Superintendent of Schools, the University of Chicago, the Woman's City Club, Miss Jane Addams and Hull House, the five Training Schools of Chicago: Chicago Normal College Kg. Dept., College of Education, U. of C. Kg. Dept., Pestalozzi-Froebel Training School, Nat'l Kdg. and Elem. College, Chicago Kindergarten Institute; The Alumnae Branches of I. K. U. and the Student Women's Christian Fellowship. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of the International Kindergarten Union, Chicago, Illinois, June 24 to 29, 1918 Opening Session 3:30 p.m.-Blackstone Theatre. Music "America." Addresses of Welcome: Mrs. Mary Boomer Response: Miss Stella Louise Wood, President Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, Denver, Colo., Pres- 6:00 p.m. Informal Supper to Visiting Delegates, Chicago Woman's Club, Fine Arts Building. Admittance by Badge. 8:00 p.m. Congress Hotel. Conference of Training Teachers and Super- "Experiments in Measuring the Progress of a. "The General Character and Work of Measurements in the Grades, and the Need of these in the Kindergarten Field." Miss Alma L. Binzel, Minneapolis. b. "The Application of Scientific Method in Kindergarten Education.' Miss Bessie M. Park, Des Moines. (The same papers will be presented at both conferences.) General Discussion. Wednesday, June 26. Delegates' Day Delegates and all other Members of I. K. U. Branches meet in Elizabethan Room, Congress Hotel, at 9 a. m. 9:30 a. m. Gold Room, Congress Hotel. Delegates' Procession under direction of Miss Report of Recording Secretary, Miss Bessie M. Report of Corresponding Secretary and Treas- Report of Auditor, Miss Lucy E. Gage. Report of Committee on Foreign Relations, Roll Call of Branch Societies. Appointment of Committees on Time and Place and Resolutions. Mass Meeting for Kindergartners, Primary Teachers and All Interested in Education 10:00 a. m. Thursday, June 27. University Day Mandel Hall, University of Chicago. "Fair and free discussion is the firmest friend of truth." Topic: "The Relation of Initiative and Organ- Prof. Patty S. Hill, Teachers College, New York Miss Grace E. Mix, Farmville, Va. Miss Catharine R. Watkins, Washington, D. C. Miss Lillian H. Stone, Cincinnati. Full and Free Discussion from the Floor. Ida Noyes Hall open to Visitors. 3:00 p. m. Mandel Hall. Culture Society, Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: (Subject to be announced.) Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago. Friday, June 28. Gold Room, Congress Hotel. Polls open for election of officers from 8:30 to 11 a. m. Business Session 9:30 a. m. Brief Reports of Chairmen of Standing Committees. Committee of Nineteen, Miss Annie Laws. Bureau of Education, Miss Nina C. Vandewalk er. Child Study, Miss Julia E. Pepper. Health, Sanitation and Hygiene, Miss Grace L. Literature, Miss Grace Hemingway. Amendments, Miss Annie Laws. Froebel Monument, Miss Mary C. McCulloch. Co-operation with National Education Association, Miss Lucy Wheelock. Minimum Essentials, Miss Annie E. Moore. I. K. U. in co-operation with Bureau of Educa- New Business. Award of I. K. U. Banner. 12:30 m. Self-Pay Luncheon, La Salle Hotel. Discussion of Primary Work, Ella Victoria 3:30 p. m. Blackstone Theatre. Address: "The Kindergarten Unit in France." Miss Fanniebelle Curtis, Director of Kindergartens, New York City, and Director of Unit in France. Silver Anniversary Celebration Guests of Distinction, including charter mem- Report of Committee on Time and Place. Presentation of New Officers. Supper-Symposium. Y. W. C. A. and Eleanor Clubs, $1.00 and up. Chicago Kindergarten Institute, 701 Rush street, $1.25 a day for room and breakfast. National Kindergarten and Elementary College, 2944 Michigan Boulevard, $1.25 a day for room and breakfast. Reservations at hotels should be made early (as near June 1st as possible) and by direct application. Kindly mention the I. K. U. The Committee on Accommodations is prepared to take care of anybody at any price (minimum $1.00 a day) provided time is allowed for making arrangements. Correspond early, as near June 1st as possible. For further information address Miss Mary E. Ely, Chairman Chicago General Announcements Arrangements for visiting kindergartens Monday and Tuesday mornings are in charge of Miss Helen D. Dwyer. Those wishing to visit must be at Headquarters, Congress Hotel, at 8:15 a. m. A small but significant and most attractive exhibit of children's books, toys, etc., will be shown in the Elizabethan Room, Congress Hotel. A delightful group of excursions is being planned for Monday afternoon, June 24, and Saturday, Jun? 29. These will include tours to Great Lakes Naval Station, to City Recreation Centers, and to Hull House. Rest rooms will be open in several places centrally located. Plans are under consideration for a joint meeting of Kindergartners and Primary Grade Teachers at a luncheon on Friday noon, June 28th. Delegates are urged to make arrangements for Alumnae groups to sit together at symposium-supper. Anyone wishing assistance will please correspond with Miss Katherine Martin, 1360 East 58th Street, or Miss Mary Benson, 5222 University Avenue, Chicago. It will greatly add to the social spirit if friends and graduates are reunited. Affiliations of the I. K. U. National Education Association, National Congress of Mothers, General Federation of Women's Clubs. |