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...Kindergarten Teacher Irene Patterson asks her children about spring, gets murmured answers about birds and flowers, finds that the topic becomes vivid and exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
...well as for his pioneer role in the radio mapping of hydrogen clouds. "His work was superb," says Oort. Perhaps as important to Schmidt as the professor's good opinion was his hospitality. At a staff party at Oort's home, Schmidt met a strikingly attractive blonde kindergarten teacher named Cornelia Tom, whom he married...
...pioneering Evanston, Ill., programs, nine years in operation, begin sex education in kindergarten, where the tots are encouraged to talk about any new babies in their family. In early grades they learn about the growth processes in nature, see pictures of animals being nursed. Human reproduction is taught in the fifth grade partly by taking the kids to the nearby Hinsdale Health Museum to view pictures and models of human organs and the prenatal growth of a baby. At that age level, explains Superintendent Oscar M. Chute, "they're able to learn, but are still not emotionally and physically...
...milk-and-cookies time each morning, the kindergarten pupils of New York City's P.S. 184 recited a childish grace: "God is great, God is good, and we thank him for our food. Amen." Each afternoon they prayed...
British first-graders topped their American peers in all areas tested. This, the study suggests, is because most British children start learning to read and write at five in "infant schools," the British equivalent of kindergarten. The British keep their advantage in second and third grades. But by fourth grade the Americans have begun to catch...