This, a properly prepared Kindergartner knows, and by her sympathetic influence and power over the childish imagination, she will bring gradually all the laws of the child's being to the conscious understanding, beginning with this rhythmical one at the center.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
Do not say I am making too solemn a matter of these movement plays, to the Kindergartner.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
The Kindergartner, in conversation before hand, should make them see that they may get too noisy, and tire each other, and she will easily induce them to agree to stop short when she shall ring the bell, and be willing to stand still while she counts twenty-five, or watches the second hand of her watch go around a quarter, a half, or a whole minute, as may be agreed upon.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody