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"The Postman."-A Baker's Doden for City Children.-Valentine-Claxton.

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Let several children represent lamps with mail boxes attached. Have them stand either in corners or in rows at proper distances. Have as many postmen boxes. Have a postmaster who remains in the postoffice and stamps the letters. Let the remaining children write letters. All go at a given time to mail letters in the nearest box. Postmen collect mail and take it to Postmaster. Then as teacher sings the Postmen distribute mail. Letters are read. During the whole game the piano plays the music softly. Occasionally some costuming might be indulged in but ordinarily whistles are sufficient.

Ball Game "Wandering game"-Kindergarten Chimes.-Kate Douglas Wiggin. Sense Game-"Feeling"-Tie things in paper and have children feel and name.

Folk Game.-"Hansel and Graetel."Singing Games for Little Children.-Hofer.

Dramatization

"The Postman."-A Baker's Dozen for City Children.-Valentine-Claxton.

Walks or Visits

The mail box to mail a letter.

The Postoffice to buy stamps and postal card.

The school mail box.

Have the postman deliver a letter written

Fourth Gift-Co-operative.
Mail wagon.
Fifth Gift-

Postoffice.

Folding and Pasting

Writing paper and envelopes. Paste an old stamp on envelope or use a parquetry square for a stamp and a circle for a seal. Let children write letters on the writing paper.

Cutting and Pasting and Drawing—

Postman's uniform cut. Mount on a paper. Draw head, hands, feet, mail bag, street lamp, and mail box. Cutting, Pasting

Mail Bag

Mail bag.

Drawing, Cutting, Pasting

Postman.

Child with letter

A GAME FOR WORD DRILL After the class has learned several words, write them in large letters on cards. Hide these about the room. Choose a place as

Paste supports on back of these pictures a goal. Write the word you wish the chilwhen cut out. Sand

City street with post boxes and postoffice. People passing on the street. Postman standing by office. Child mailing letter. A mail wagon in street built in gift work.

dren to find upon the board and let the children hunt for it. When one finds it he for ball" or whatever the word may have runs to the goal and taps "one, two, three been. They keep this up until all the words have been found. Each child keeps account of the number of words he finds.-Cora A. Stevens.

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THE PATCHWORK QUILT

Place words on board and for each child who names it correctly place a colored square on the board, joining them quilt fashion. The words may be written in the squares if desired. All words not named correctly are left on the board for the next lesson and a few new ones are added. Little girls enjoy this plan very much and are anxious to have the largest quilt. If the words are not written in the blocks let them decorate them with colored chalk, taking calico pieces as models. This scheme is excellent for reviewing the multiplication tables.-May Bennett in Oregon Teachers' Monthly.

DEVICE FOR A LANGUAGE LESSON

An excellent device for giving variety in written language is to read part of a story to the class, breaking off at some interesting point and directing the pupils to draw on their imagination to complete the tale. Each finishes the story according to his fancy, then the teacher reads the rest of the story. Sometimes a chapter or two may be read from an interesting book, the pupils to write the conclusion. This plan seldom fails to create a desire to read the book to see how it really does end.-West crn Teacher.

NEWS NOTES

NOTE-All Kindergartners are cordially invited to send us items of interest for this column...

Alexandria, Egypt-A new kindergarten and training school is being opened here by Miss Katherine Graham, formerly of the PittsburgAlleghany Free Kindergarten Association Training School of Pittsburg, in charge. This school is in onnection with the American Mission.

East Orange, N. J.-The Normal students together with the children connected with Miss Cora Webb Peet's Kindergarten Training School proided the Christmas tree and gifts for the children of the Day Nursery.

The New York University, Summer Kindergarten Training School at University Height will be in charge of Miss Harriette Melissa Mills, Principal of the Training School affiliated with New York University, assisted by Dr. Jenny B. Merrill, Director of Public School Kindergartens of the Boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Richmond, Miss Elsie A. Merriman, Head of Department of Music in The Harriette Melissa Mills Training School, and other instructors and lecturers to be announced.

Louisville "A Story Tellers' League" has been organized by Miss A. Tachert, librarian of children's department of public library of Louisville, and launched with success in three monthly meetings. It is hoped to interest teachers of upper and lower grades, primary teachers, Sunday School teachers, playground and settlement workers and trained nurses. A council meeting of the Federation of Mothers' Clubs was held in November when plans were made for general and special lectures through the year. An Eastern branch of the Mothers Federation is holding large and successful monthly meetings.

Pittsburg-Pittsburg-Alleghany Free Kindergarten Association-The training school here has 105 students enrolled with a post-graduate class of 29. A farewell tea was given by the Pittsburg and and Alleghany Free Kindergarten Association College Alumnae to Miss Azzie Mullen on the occasion of her leaving for Mexico to take the position of kindergartner in Girls' Normal Institute under auspices of Methodist Episcopal church.

Louisville-Louisville Free Kindergarten Association-A new member of faculty, is Mr. James in Speed, known a well student of nature Kentucky, who besides conducting the nature work with our classes is doing like work with The classes teachers institutes through the state.

of the Normal School were entertained in October, 1909, by Mrs. S. S. Bush at her country home, also a Hollowe'en party was given by Senior class to Junior class at kindergarten headquarters.

The Grand Rapids Kindergarten Training School had a very narrow escape from total destruction on the occasion of the recent disastrous fire in that city, but escaped with water damage only which did not prevent the school from continuing without serious interruption. Savannah-Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten from the Asociation-We clip the following Savannah Morning News relative to Christmas exercises:

The children of the kindergarten with Miss Edith West, the director, stood in a ring around the tree while the songs were being sung and contributed one Christmas song to the programme. They had previously had their own tree in their pretty room upstairs. The morning hymn was sung and the morning greetings given, and they had then sung some merry little Christmas carols

before the tree was lighted. Instead of candles, it was hung with Japanese fireworks, and when these were lighted they sparkled and shone like bright stars, calling forth shouts of joy from the children. They had made for their fathers calendars, decorated with a photographic impression of a fern leaf, and for their mothers each child had planted a bulb. These they distributed when they were taken off the tree by Miss West, with the greatest pride and joy. Their own gifts came later, buckets and shovels for the boys, and tubs and wash boards for the girls. Their songs were sung very sweetly, and their spontaniety and simple pleasure in the tree and the Christmas exercises were delightful to see.

DEPARTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENCE-N. E. A. Annual Convention at Indianapolis, Ind., March 1-2-3-4.

RAILROAD RATES.

One and one half fare on the certificate plan for round trip from any point fifty miles or more from Indianapolis in all territory East of the Mississippi River, St. Louis, Peoria and Chicago and possibly a like rate will be secured later applying to all territory in U. S.

How to secure these rates. These instructions must be followed carefully: Tickets can be purchased after February 25th, up to any date that will enable holder to reach the meeting before March 2nd.

These certificates must be signed by the Secretary of the Convention, and validated by the Special Railway Agent, who will be in attendance at the Secretary's office in the parlor of the Claypool Hotel, during March 2, 3, 4, and until six 'o'clock p. m. of the last date. A validation fee of 25 cents will be charged by the railway agent. These certificates must be presented for the purchase of return tickets on or before Monday, March 8.

Certificates and tickets not transferable, and limited to continuous passage by first train leaving after purchase. Certificates not good:for passage but must be exchanged for tickets. If certificates cannot be obtained of local ticket agent at point of starting on going trip, purchase local ticket to station where certificates and thru tickets to Chicago may be obtained. Aplication for certificates and tickets should be made thirty minutes before departure of trains.

IMPORTANT-If you live 50 miles or more from Indianapolis do not fail to use the certificate plan, even if you have other means of transportation, and present your certificate immediately upon arrival at the Claypool Hotel, as no tickets can be validated until 1,000 have been deposited there.

Kindly urge everyone going to Indianapolis to use the certificate plan, for should there be less than 1,000 certificates, none can secure the reduced rate for the return trip.

Ives' Illustrated Phonics (Longmans) provides a method, based on scientific principles, which will teach children the proper use of the organs of speech by forming in early life habits of correct enunciation, articulation, and pronunciation. School authorities are agreed as to the vital and growing importance of work of this kind. The Ives system is simple. Five minutes a day is as much time as is needed to show remarkable results. A special feature of the method-the value of which has been proved by long and successful experience is the use of appropriate motion exercises to accompany the utterance of various sounds. The text-book is for grades III to VI inclusive. Any teacher can conduct these exercises without special training and those teachers who find their school work to be exhausting are promised a saving of much of their strength by joining in these exercises, sympathetically, with their pupils,

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