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STARTING-TO-SCHOOL CHILDREN love to play. You dave found this out in your living room and kitchen and yard and in the grocery store.

This age loves to make believe and bullding and running and jumping and touching and seeing and trying. They are building roads or airports or stores or hospitals or filling stations. They are “driving” boats or are plots or cowboys’ or ‘mothers or doctors, “mailmer —drivers-or cops. aT A good school doesn’t say: “Let's A good school doesn’t say: “No more play for you now. You are old enough—or you ought to be—to get down to serious work.”

“Three to Six,” just by Public Affairs New York.

Of Children to Play Make-Believe

really children to play. It wants to your child again and you will capitalize on play. Its idea is: see what kind fits him.

aid perm fifth of a series = L Rot aH 16° Tations even “#limiple ohes." THES schoo Dr. Hymes is professor of education at George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. These = want to make up their own.

Good Schools Will Capitalize on Tendency

By JAMES L, HYMES JR.

planes or horses or cars. They

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m Play for this age is not the o! “organized game.” These chilcan’t take rules FEBU:., von

age is toc individual and too seif-assertive to fit comfortably into anyone else’s game. They TORY gy BAH enjoy u dieie BI of Rs published “ring - around - the - rosie” and Committee, “London Bridge is Falling

steeple” Down.” But think for a second

“Give them the space and the materials and the experiences s0 they can play more and bet-

ter.

Play is in the young child's This—is——what Young ~ children find it natural to. do. Good schools try to make the most of it.

Brands of Play

PLAY IS the nursery school business, It is the center of a good ° kindergarten, 6-year-olds children—we tend

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They all love play, but play , of a special brand. Look at

and you will know: Children never organize these games themselves. And they don’t wart a steady diet of them. It is something else they are after,

PLAY FOR this age is not simple amusement either: Windup toys and expensive gadgets that do all kinds of tricks. Young children can get some fun out of these but the thrill soon wears off. This age has

materials: paints, boxes .

too. And too many ideas of its own to also are play- be content with being amused. to forget Nor is play sitting down planes

quiet. Some people think: These are little children so they need little games. They drill young-

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is the church and here is the and “The spider went up the water spout.” Young children are amused for a while but remember: This is an active age, brimming with its own notions.

Good Play

~ THESE children Sand, water, blocks, clay, boards, ,« unshaped materials that they give they own form to.

These children want supplies that go along with these raw materials: Boats and cars and (all simple), and wagons, tools of all kinds, dolls, costumes . that they can use in their own

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. they want to be left alone.

ce children want new

itsy=bitsy stories, music they hear, new events and ideas, pictures . . . a framework for their play. And these children want to be let alone. They want to work out their ideas in their - way: They want to be on their own. Remember your kitchen eup"board or your back yard, the attic or the garage, the old trunk or the bottom drawer that your child always gets into. You will know what the stuff of good play is.

Patience Needed

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Kids Want to Be ‘On Their Own’

up quickly. We wonder if life, |

should be all play and no work, Good schools let children play but they capitalize on play. Play is play but play is learning. Schools don’t say: “Children only want to play bad we have to let them, They take a positive approach: These __children like to play. ful! There are lots of good-

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By MARGUERITE SMITH

old house where there is a lot of iris. But it has poison ivy| growing all through it. Do you

think it would be safe to spray|

the ivy with weed-killer? Or| would it be better to take up| the. iris and reset it? It's pretty crowded. 8. High School Rd. |

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Play Teaches

PLAY teaches you to talk. Language grows and stretches, all the while you make-believe. Play teaches you to plan. | ou. earn to think ahead and ORgANIZE, To Ht things 1

while you are pretending. Play teaches you to work with others.

You are busy and active and | bustling, all through your building. and making and your spur-of-the-moment games. Play makes you more curious, And play gives you facts, There is nothing soft and easy here. Children love it, sure. — This is- their nature,

you' want them to go, all the -

You wait and you | AH Bencin Play makes the body strong. |

play, in a good school, is” work.

It is very different from “No Learning.” Schools are saying: Let us nail down the learnings we can get now. Let us make the most of these years and not let them slip away. :

But

TOMORROW: Children love |

to learn to read but you can’t speed up their desire untjl they have “grown enough.”

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