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FERA Nursery Schools
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School of Horn** Economics. Geor
gia Slate Coller* for Women.
When it is the usual talk about
town. anJ person sifter person stops
you on the street to tell you that the
Nursery Schools are the best pro
jects which have been done through
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad
ministration in the county, there
must be something to it. Even though
this may not be entirely true in the
opinion of everyone, there is enough
of truth in it that we want every
one to know what these schools are
doing and what we hope to accomp
lish in them.
In December 1933. when* the State
Supervisor of Home Economics wrote
planning with the College officials
and with the local CWA officials the
j project was finally approved. It is
mu resting, and characteristic cf the
local leaders that they immediately
suggested that we have one for the
i colored children as well as for the
j white and that the project for the
colored nursery school was sent in
! rioht alone with the ono foi the
with the
white.
A very important thing to consider
in the establishment of a Nursery'
School is the place where it is to be
located, for locality and environ
ment have much to do with its suc
cess. At the Georgia State College
for Women we were very fortun
ate in securing the active interest
of President and Mrs. J. L. Beeson
trimmings, and atttractive apricot-
colcred curtains arc there and in the
kitchen. Attractive nursery dishes
for serving were bought, as well as
seme new toys, books, etc., but
many of the pieces of equipment are
made of simple homely things such
as large home-made wooden blocks,
a home-made hobby horse, tom-
walkers of tin cans tied with rope,
and fruit jar rubbers to throw
peg board.
Small new mattresses were made
for tired little bodies te sleep o
and each mattress is covered with
clean muslin fitted cover, each child
having his own brightly ‘colored
blanket The sleeping rooms h
simple ecru-colored curtains, and
of which comet the very important
lesson of cleaning up and putting
things away in an orderly fashion in
their proper places.
Nature study is not neglected and
the cultivation of an appreciation of
the beauties of nature is encourag
ed.
Potatoes, onions, and carrots are
kept rowing in water in the play
room ;md the children watch their
sprouung and growth with great
interest. They also do some garden
ing ir. the yard. They have a bowl
of gold fish which they care for and
have also made several fieid trips
to sec pet animals, to watch and
listen for birds, and see flowers
grow. After a day of much activity
and a square meal the children are
ready for an hour’s nap or rest, and
many of them have to be awakened
at two o’clock to go home. No
wonder such children grow and are
healthy and happy.
In all the activities of the Nursery
School comes the all-important les
son of developing right social atti
tudes. Playing with toys which must
be shared, taking turns at variou:
activities, and being honest and
thoughtful of each other in work ar.d
play all tend to develop these right
social attitudes.
Meetings for parents are held once
in alternate weeks, sometimes with a
special speaker, and sometimes recre
ational in their nature. The meetings
alwav have a social feature. Pa
rents ;.re encouraged to take part in
these and have eypresed their ap
preciation of the help which the
Nurseiy Schools have been to them
and t their children.
“What have you done to my child?
He h; improved so much and is so
much better at school than at home."
What are we doing to your child.
dear parent?” We are trying to let
him live happily and to hdp him
become an honest, busy, useful, de
pendable and fair minded citizen dt
his world. If he starts out in life h
that way, he will probably keep on
being such a citizen as he goes
through life. Surely the Nursery
Schools are making a worth-while
contribution to the present
order!
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grounds well suited to their pur
pose just across the street from the
College, where the G. S .C. W. Nur
sery School was opened in March
1934. This nursery schol of about
twenty-six children has Miss Ethel
Montgomery and Mrs. Ella Thomp-
Lord as teachers, Miss . Thelma
Stembridge as dietitian, and two very
capable and interested colored maids.
Another white Nursery School hav
ing about twenty-Six children was
established in the Sunday School
Budding at Hardwick in November
1934 with Misses Annie Harper and
Minnie Will Bone as teachers.
The colored citizens of Milledgo-
ville were most generous and un
tiring in offering and renovating
a church building for the colored
Nursery School where the children
are allowed to play ^nd sleep in the
main auditorium, and eat in the
basement. It has a large yard for
out-door play. Excellent colored
teachers and helpers were
and this school also opened in
March 1934. with about twenty-seven
in attendance. Each location gav
rise to certain detailed need- for
arrangement and equipment, but
the whole these arc much the sai
There had to be an office where
the children first arrive nnH
spectcd, individual lockers (which
do not lock) for coats, etc., and
which each child identifies' by the
picture of some interesting object,
and where he hangs his own cloth
ing for himself. These individual
lockers are faverite perches for the
children themselves, looking like so
many little birds peeping out of
their nests. There must be both in
door ar.d out-door play spare, room
for sleeping, toileting, eating, and
food preparation, and also for stor-
| age o.* supplies and equipment of
various kinds. The G. S C W.
Yurerv School is v.; ry fortunate in
having nl! under the house for play
tcico ar.d .storage of wheeled toys,
lumber, etc., and what child doesn’t
love to olay und-r the house? There
is also a large yard none too smooth
and improved, where rare*? can be
run lip and down hill, nnd where the
large sand-box and outdoor ccmip-
ing. It was more fun to search
through old attics and cella-s of the
college buildings and collect .old
wash-stands, cup-boards. shelve;
stands, bed springs, black boards,
rte.. which mad ' a most unsightly
collection of junk, but from which
n most charming array of useful and
desirable eouiprr.ent hr.s been evolv
ed through considerable’ ingenuity.
(the carpenters skill and the painters
art. Discarded wash-stands have
made ideal cupboards for toys, etc.,
in the play room and the stout iron
bars of worn-out bed springs have
made enticing acting bars set at a
height suitable for little* arms. A
large pecan tree was just the place
for a platform with steps to climb,
and oh. the joy of building an aero
plane from empty egg crates, cigar
boxes and bits of timber, and of
flying it by means of a rope su
spended around the limb of a cedar
tree!
The furniture in the play room is
painted apple green with apricot
shades, which were made from old
discarded ones.
Our general plan was to use what
e could find, make the best of it
and above all have it suited to the
needs of children 2-6 years old.
All the equipment, daily program,
and practices are built around the
idea of the purposes of a nursery
school, which are to develop healthy,
happy children adjusted to their
home environment to work and play
with each other, and developing in
fair minded, law-abiding citizens
of their world. Learning is a slow
gradual process, for so many things
are to be learned. The little child
soon learns that he doesn’t get what
he want, by having a temp_er tant
rum. and that it really doesn't even
cause excitement and attention, so
why engage in one? Another soon
learns no‘ to cry when Mother leaves
him for she will return for him at
two o’clock, and besides there are
so many interesting things to <
before that time.
The day's activities and practices
are many, none the least important
of which are the various health
habits which are established. Be
fore he is admitted to Nursery
School every cK * is examined by a
physician to be . .re he has no com
municable disease, and each mom-
: ng he is inspected for a posible cold,
‘•ore-throat, or fever. If any of these
arc in evidence the parent is asked
to take him home: in fact the pa
rent.? usually keep children at home
who have any such symptoms. The
children all come looking neat and
j attractive, but after play need to go
j to the toilet wash hands and face
and comb their hair. These things
j they soon learn to do entirely for
' '.hcmselves, for the toilet scat is made
I low to accommodate the child, nnd
each has his own wash-cloth, towel,
tooth-brush, and comb hanging in
I its own place, and near a low-liang-
ing mirror.
Feeding the children is a very im-
portant part of the day’s work, for;
one of the greatest needs is to im- |
prove their nutritive condition. Each
child is weighed and measured once
a month, and all show satisfactory
gains in weight and height. Small,
wonder it is. when we remember
that ‘each child receives orange or
tomato juice with one teaspoon cod-
1'ver oil at ten o’clock, a well-bal
anced dinner suited to his age at [
eleven-thirty, and milk again before l
he leaves at two o’clock. F.u-h child j
learns to serve himself and others
ar.d cats ! n a business-1 iV.’ mnr
Table manners are not • :looted
rithcr. in fact, some of the parents
tell us their children are teaching
them manners at home.
Before the dinner ctjmes a period
of active play outdoors when it isn’t
rainy, or indoors if necessary. Wheel
ed toys, slides, horizontal bars, and
sand pile, swings, all are mo<t allur
ing, and calculated to give good appe
tite and healthy color to little bodies
in the open air and sunshine. Just
brifore dinner comes the story hour
or period for music and rhythm
which nuiet excited nerves nnd teach
an appreciation of literature and
music and are also forms of self ex
pression. Other forms of self-expres
sion are drawing, painting, clay
modeling, cutting, pasting, after all