The Nursery Lesson Book: A Guide for Mothers in Teaching Young Children (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Hubert, Philip Gengembre

 
9781332821099: The Nursery Lesson Book: A Guide for Mothers in Teaching Young Children (Classic Reprint)
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ISBN 10: 133282109X ISBN 13: 9781332821099
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Dolphus trollope in his Memoirs, speaks Of the manner in which he learned to read. Before being taught that the letters of the alphabet were placed in an artificial order, he began with small words; his mother had a number of cards, each one having printed on it a letter Of the alphabet. She would shake the cards up, and throw them on the floor, telling the children that the first one who brought her C A T would receive a penny or some other little prize. The children tumbled over each other in their eagerness to find the letters which made up Cat. In this way Adolphus and his brothers and Sisters learned to make out more than a hundred words of one or two syllables in common use among children before they could recite half the alphabet. That bugbear Of most children, the memorizing of the alphabet, was eliminated from their education. In the same way the Trollope children were taught numbers, and a species of simple object lessons was adopted with them long before F roebel's theories became known even in Germany.

N o Text-book can supply the place Of intelligence in teaching small children; but it may prove a material help, and save the mother much routine labor in suggesting the different material for lessons, step by step. This is what this book aims to do. It is not a school-book in the ordinary sense. It has been prepared to fill the admitted want, among mothers, of a single volume, which shall serve as a guide and helper in teaching children too young to go to school. The play idea illustrated so admirably in the Trollope nursery has been adopted wherever possible. Its methods are those which have been approved by modern experience and intelligence as the simplest and the best in the instruction Of the very young. The aim has been to enlist the attention Of the child by awaking interest in what is taught. The brevity Of the lessons, as well as the variety embraced in each one, should prevent weariness on the part of the child. The material needed in nursery teaching is to be found in almost every nursery or in any house. There is scarcely a home which has not picture-books, and the manufacture of much of the material suggested in Kindergarten courses is simple. For instance, any one can prepare a set of alphabet cards by cutting out of a newspaper the large letters used in the advertisements and pasting them upon cards; beans, marbles, pebbles, bits of wood, burned matches, waste blocks from a carpenter's shop.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Nursery Lesson Book: A Guide for Mothers in Teaching Young Children

Dolphus trollope in his Memoirs, speaks Of the manner in which he learned to read. Before being taught that the letters of the alphabet were placed in an artificial order, he began with small words; his mother had a number of cards, each one having printed on it a letter Of the alphabet. She would shake the cards up, and throw them on the floor, telling the children that the first one who brought her C A T would receive a penny or some other little prize. The children tumbled over each other in their eagerness to find the letters which made up Cat. In this way Adolphus and his brothers and Sisters learned to make out more than a hundred words of one or two syllables in common use among children before they could recite half the alphabet. That bugbear Of most children, the memorizing of the alphabet, was eliminated from their education. In the same way the Trollope children were taught numbers, and a species of simple object lessons was adopted with them long before F roebel's theories became known even in Germany.

N o Text-book can supply the place Of intelligence in teaching small children; but it may prove a material help, and save the mother much routine labor in suggesting the different material for lessons, step by step. This is what this book aims to do. It is not a school-book in the ordinary sense. It has been prepared to fill the admitted want, among mothers, of a single volume, which shall serve as a guide and helper in teaching children too young to go to school. The play idea illustrated so admirably in the Trollope nursery has been adopted wherever possible. Its methods are those which have been approved by modern experience and intelligence as the simplest and the best in the instruction Of the very young. The aim has been to enlist the attention Of the child by awaking interest in what is taught. The brevity Of the lessons, as well as the variety embraced in each one, should prevent weariness on the part of the child. The material needed in nursery teaching is to be found in almost every nursery or in any house. There is scarcely a home which has not picture-books, and the manufacture of much of the material suggested in Kindergarten courses is simple. For instance, any one can prepare a set of alphabet cards by cutting out of a newspaper the large letters used in the advertisements and pasting them upon cards; beans, marbles, pebbles, bits of wood, burned matches, waste blocks from a carpenter's shop.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Nursery Lesson Book: A Guide for Mothers in Teaching Young Children

In making a young child begin to write words as soon as he reads them, my experience has been that it is not wise to allow printing, which at best is but a makeshift, and is liable to form habits which the child must get rid of later on. In writing, the slate, or the sand-table, as suggested by Richter, will be found invaluable the latter is simply a board with ridges at each side, holding a few quarts of sand spread out in a thin layer. With a splint of wood a child can make endless letters and figures. In writing, as in reading, words and not letters are to be aimed at; and while the child may have an alphabet for reference, it is not necessary to memorize the special order in which letters are placed in the alphabet. With drawing, attempts, even of the crudest kind, are required, and there is nothing that a child Of three or four years of age will work at more persistently than the drawing of simple figures. The object lesson must be left largely to the intelligence of the mother, as it is not within the Scope of this book to do more than suggest an outline in this direction.

As an illustration of what an object lesson can be made to teach, I cannot do better than give the following sketch of a lesson upon cotton which it was my privilege to hear recently. The children were Older than those in the nursery, but the principle will apply even in nursery teaching. The pupils were asked to take out their handkerchiefs and examine them. A few questions by the teacher made it clear that while some Of the children knew that their handkerchiefs were made of cotton, Very few had any notion as to what cotton was, where it came from, and how it had become a handkerchief. Then the teacher described the cotton fields, and pointed out the Cotton States on the map; there was a picture of a cotton field in bloom, with the negroes gathering the cotton; 3 dried cotton plant, with the boll about to burst, the cotton sticking out, was passed around the class. Then a miniature gin was put upon the teacher's table, and each child worked it so as to understand exactly how the cotton was separated from the seed; a spinning-machine, very crude, but showing the principle, was next brought into use, and some thread was manufactured by the class; finally, this thread was woven by a little loom, and a bit of very rough cotton cloth was turned out, each child having had an Opportunity to do part of the work and. To see how it was done. It was then Shown that this bit Of stw manufactured by the class was really Of the same kind as the handkerchiefs Of the children. It is safe to say that every one of those children knew more about cotton cloth at the end of that lesson than half the graduates Of our high schools. The time and labor required to Obtain the material for this lesson - the dried cotton plant, the toy gin, spinning machine, and loom, were insignificant as compared with the results achieved. Every mother would find it the easiest thing in the world to make a collection for nursery teaching, which would be a source Of constant delight and instruction to the children; every walk might produce something for the collection.

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Forgotten Books
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
133282109X
ISBN 13 
9781332821099
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