KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL

(Class Rooms Overlook Lake Michigan.)

21st Year Opened September 18th

OF INDIANAPOLIS

Three Depts. - I Kindergarten. II Primary Accredited by State Board of EducaIII Playground. Credits towards Diploma tion. Professional Training for all grades Strong Faculty, Fine Equipment, Accredited. of teaching. Two, Three and Four Year Includes opportunity to become familiar with Chicago Social Settlement Movements.

Box 50, 616-22 South Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.

PLAYGROUND TRAINING Fall Term Opened September 18th

Folk Dancing, Pageantry, Games, Story Telling, gymnastics, etc. Address Pestalozzi-Froebel T. School Box 60 616 South Michigan Boulevard Chicago, Ill.

MISS HART'S Training School For

Kindergartners.

3600 Walnut St., Philadelphia. Junior, Senior, Graduate and Normal

Courses.

This College specializes in Kinder. garten, Primary and Intermediate Grade Teaching.

Special classes in Public School Draw-
ing and Music, Domestic Science and
Art, and Manual Work.
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ELIZA A. BLAKER, President

The William N. Jackson Memorial
Building.

23rd and Alabama Street,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

COLUMBIA KINDERGARTEN
TRAINING SCHOOL

Trainers' Courses. Practice Kinder- TWO YEARS' COURSE

gartens. Students' Residence.

For particulars address

Miss ADELAIDE T. ILLMAN

3600 Walnut St., Phila.

MODERN FIRST GRADE

METHODS

Instruction in Primary Methods.
STUDENTS' RESIDENCE.
SARA K. LIPPINCOTT
SUSAN C. BAKER

2108 Conn. Ave

Principals

Washington, D. C.

MISS HARRIET NIEL

By correspondence. A close study of Successor to Miss LAURA FISHER practical methods in reading, lang

uage, literature, numbers, handwrit Training School for Kindergartners

ing, hand work and nature study. Address, Nelle K. P. Cooper, 110 W. King Johnson City, Tennessee.

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Kindergarten Training School

Of the Buffalo Kindergarten Association. Two Years' Course. For particulars address

MISS ELLA C. ELDER 86 Delaware Avenue

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Buffalo, N. Y

All different, all late issues.

Normal Course two years. Graduate and Special Courses.

200 Commonwealth Avenue BACK BAY -:- BOSTON, MASS.

CLEVELAND.

Kindergarten Training School

2050 East 96th Street, Cleveland, Ohio Founded in 1894.

Yours for only Regular course of three years prepares 25c prepaid. for Kindergarten and Primary posiGreat help in teaching. Satisfaction tions. Lectures in Montessori methods guaranteed. with observation in Montessori School. Address,

Training School for Kindergartners

Miss Laura Fisher, Director Miss Julia L. Frame, Asso. Director Normal Course. Special Courses Accredited by New York State and City Boards of Education. Observation and practice teaching. Students' kesidence.

524 W. 42nd Street, NEW YORK CITY

SUMMER SCHOOL

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York City

July 2 to August 10, 1917.
Dr. James E. Lough, Director

Kindergarten Primary Dept.

Miss Harriette Melissa Mills, Principal

Courses may be taken for University and Kindergarten Training School credit. For special circular, address, Miss Harriette M. Mills. New York University, Washington Square, New York City.

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OCTOBER, 1917.

WHY WE ARE AT WAR

Germany has forced America, as it has forced practically the entire world, to defend itself by arms. We are fighting this war because Germany made war upon us. America is a peaceful Nation; we have no lust for conquest, no desire for annexation of territory; we are defending ourselves against Germany because the Imperial German Government entered upon a program which meant the destruction of all American institutions.

When we finally recognized that Germany was waging war upon us we had seen more than 225 Americans, among them many women and children, killed by German submarines; hospital ships had been sunk and unfortified towns had been bombed and bombarded. Medals had been struck in honor of the sinking of the Lusitania, the murderous act by which so many of our men, women, and children I lost their lives. German officials had treated the United States, a neutral nation, as an enemy. Strikes were organized in this country, plants were blown up, pro-German publications were founded and subsidized, and hatred of America was systematically sought to be inculcated among our foreign-born inhabitants. Every effort was made to involve us in trouble with Japan and Mexico. Our repeated protests were met with promises and explanations which were little better than insults.

The Imperial German Government finally proclaimed the unrestricted destruction of neutral ships upon the high seas. It was the notification to the United States that our people were no longer sovereign, and that if they would sail the seas in safety we must conform to conditions laid down by a GovEernment that defied international law, humanity and elemental morality.

A policy of terrorism has been systematically applied by the Imperial German Government since the outbreak of the European war. Treaties that stood in the way of German militaristic plans have

VOL. XXX-No. 2 been disregarded, women and children have been treated with indescribable brutality, the noblest works of art have been destroyed, and prisoners have been abused and maltreated and civilian populations massacred and deported.

This is why America has gone into this war in defense of American honor and American rights. To have done anything else would have been to surrender our sovereignty, and we would have been forced in the end to fight a conscienceless and rapacious military autocracy-an autocracy which is in this war avowedly for indemnities, aggrandizement, and the control of the world. Our success means that our children and our children's children will be able to enjoy peace.

I pray God, I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people.-Woodrow Wilson.

Buy a Liberty Bond, get behind your Government, and shorten this war. This is your fight. Our men are giving their lives; you are only asked to lend your money. There should be at least one Liberty Bond in every home. There is no better test of your Americanism.

The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world, to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired but not at the expense of the sovereignty of any people rather a vindication of the sovereignty both of those that are weak and those that are strong. *** Peace must be based upon justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind.-President Wilson.

GENERAL SUGGESTIONS FOR

OCTOBER

By Dr.Jenny B. V rrill New York City

1. Relate the new month to the old, but also look forward to November, the the Thanksgiving festival is our goal. The harvest is our general theme and helps us in unifying our work although if the children are very young we need not mention it to them. They will feel more than they consciously know by simply living a happy, social life, day by day.

2. Keep in the "open" if possible and enjoy nature this month of months with the little ones.

Gather beans, feed squirrels, find nuts, watch the birds. Blow seeds of the milk weed, listen for the crickets. Find cocoons to keep in the kindergarten.

3. Remember the advice given in Miss Luella A. Palmer's N. E. A. address. She says, "Instead of talk or study about things, children should live among the things themselves. Many vital exper

iences are required for a child between four and eight years of age, that the world may seem a fertile field in which to gather knowledge."

By early taking the child to Nature, we are building up both his physical and spiritual health. 4.

Nature's preparation for winter may be too big and abstract a topic for our little ones, but they know they want warmer dresses, they know possibly that mother is making preserves to keep.

Possibly we can have one experience in preserving together, even in kindergarten. It will make a happy social time. Shall we make grape jelly? That is simple. Shall we send our jelly to a sick child or shall we keep it for our Thanksgiving party? Perhaps we can do both. A second experience in preserving will be better than the first. This time let the children see what they can do by themselves. Some day they can do it all like mother.

Several kindergartners have reported success in such efforts or I would scarcely dare to propose the problem.

You may yourself be surprised to find how much the children have already learned by watching mother in the kitchen. Perhaps some mother will come and help if you are inexperienced. Many little ones are losing these invaluable home experiences. Talk of their value in a Mothers' meeting. Beg mothers not to exclude children from the kitchen.

DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS

BY JENNY B. MERRILL, PD. D. Reports are coming in to the International Headquarters in the "Bible House," New York City, of about four hundred summer schools known as "Daily

Vacation Bible Schools." These schools were open in July and August for two hours daily. The chil dren learned ten or twelve sweet songs, recited daily a beautiful psalm, played a few pleasant games, and then sewed, knit, caned chairs, made hammocks, pretty bags or boxes, dressed dolls, made aprons and even simple dresses in a few schools, and many other odds and ends.

It is a simple tale, but it means much in the lives of ten thousand children. Our children in America. Every day they salute our flag in closing.

One or two touching stories have already reached us of this and that dear boy and girl, seemingly helped to better lives. All were happier, surely. Many gave some of their candy pennies to the mite boxes, so that already five hundred dollars have come to headquarters from these boys and girls to help other children next year in similar ways. Some of their work is given too, for sales to be held later. Many of our best helpers in these schools were kindergartners.

I visited one kindergarten held on a roof, sheltered by an awning. Let me tell our readers how the little ones in this kindergarten enjoyed "playing" a Bible story they had heard. Very simply they had been told the story of Noah, for "Noah's Ark" is a toy children love, and while one doesn't like the drowning part, the children's attenton need not be centered on that, but rather upon those who were safe in the big boat house. The whole story can be reserved for later use. The animals, their motions and the sounds they make are the children's delight in this and in other stories, and the colors of the rainbow make a happy ending.

The Story

Children, I am going to tell you a story about a very big boat. It was called "Noah's Ark." Noah was the man who built this big boat, a long time ago.

God told Noah to build this Ark. The Ark had a window and a door, and it was one, two, three stories high. How high is your house. This boat was made so that the rain could not get in. It was covered all over with pitch. Pitch is black and sticky like tar and it keeps water out. When the boat was all finished Noah and his family went in. Did you

ever hear what else went in? Yes, a great many animals. They went in two by two. Shall we play we are all in the ark? We can play our chairs make the boat. Now let us all go outside of the chairs and march in, two by two. Who shall we have for Noah and his wife and children? Now all the rest may choose which animal they want to be. I will guess what you are if I can. Why here is an elephant, I can tell because he is swinging his trunk. We must have father elephant and mother elephant, too. You must not all be elephants, just two. Accept any animals, suggesting ravens and doves yourself. The children choose until all are ready.

There were many more animals, too. Now let us all march into the ark and Noah must be sure to shut the door.

It is going to rain very hard. Now, although it is a little inconvenient, let the children imitate falling rain, saying "more and more and more for forty days and nights until all the trees were covered up. When Noah and his sons looked out of the window, what did they see? Nothing but water everywhere. After a long time God sent a great wind. Let the children imitate the wind. The wind blew the rain away, but it was not time to go out of the ark. One day Noah opened the window and sent out a raven, a big, black bird. Let a child fly out, and explain that he must fly outside of the chairs and not return.

Noah waited seven days and then sent a dove. The dove came back. Let the dove fly out and return. Then a second time, and when the dove returns, let it bring a green leaf or piece of paper. ((Read Gen. 8: 11-13.) Then the dove flies away.

Soon afterwards Noah took off the saw that it was dry enough to go out. all go out, two by two, quietly.

covering and Now we can

As we were on the roof, we suggested looking up at the blue sky. We sang one of our hymns of praise, as Noah and his sons built an altar and thanked God for keeping them safe in the Ark. That day God put a beautiful rainbow up in the sky. Have you ever seen a rainbow? What colors are in it? Let us see if we can find those beautiful colors in your dresses and ribbons. Here they are. Let us stand the children in a row, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. Here are our pretty balls, too, like the rainbow. Here is a glass prism that you may play with. It will show you the rainbow colors best of all.

NOTE. We will present other simple Bible stories from month to month that may be used in private kindergartens, if not in public ones. Such stories will also be suggestive for Sunday School kindergartens. A number of simple dramatizations can be improvised to lead to Bible stories and to impress them.

Often the whole story and its lesson are beyond the child's grasp, but appropriate parts can be selected which will prepare for fuller lessons in higher grades. The best Sunday School workers grade their lessons, although they may not be able to vary them for every year. The Daily Vacation Bible Schools planned three grades and found them sufficient.

One of the head officials of the great United States steel corporation says: "We have established schools and kindergartens where our plants are away from the cities, and we find that this has been of value along the line of cost efficiency. We are not doing it as welfare work. It is a matter of business. It pays."

SUGGESTIVE OUTLINE PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER

By Jenny B. Merrill New York City

First Week.

STORIES AND CONVERSATIONS

Oct. 1. The new month. Who knows its name? What month flew away with the birds? Did you ask mother? Many kindergartners and primary teachers use a large calendar freely, day after day. Often they prefer to draw the calendar on a large sheet of paper or cardboard for each month, decorating it appropriately. These sheets are saved from month to month and used in reviews. These sheets thus serve as connecting links throughout the year, and aid in securing continuity. Personally, I have found with very young children, it is better to make more of the "days of the week" during the first term at least.

The calendar is very helpful in the advanced kindergarten and in all primary grades.

What will October bring to us? Shall we go out today to the woods to see? Is it getting warmer or colder? Does the sun rise as early as it did? We must watch the sun every day. Is it dark or light now when you have supper? How was it last summer?

Oct. 2. What did we talk about in our morning ring yesterday? Today we will try to sing about the Here is a story about the sun:

sun.

Every day the sun gets up

And travels over head.

When it goes down in the west

"Tis most time to go to bed.

When the sun comes back in the morning what do little children love to sing?

"Good morning, merry sunshine." (Note.-Consult song books at hand and select any good song about the sun. Have children choose a bright color for the sun, as yellow, and let a child mount a small yellow circle each sunshine day on the calendar. O cloudy days, choose another color. Yellow and gray are generally used, and if the day is partly sunny and partly cloudy, a semi circle of cach color may be suggested. Some kindergartners cut out little umbrellas for rainy days which please the children very much.)

Oct. 3. Review the sunshine song. Find the ball that looks most like the sun. Review or teach ball games with it. Perhaps you can get some child to think of holding the yellow ball high overhead like the real sun, then carry it across the room from east to west.

We should not wait until a map is used, for then