File:Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado (1918) (14759616796).jpg

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Title: Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Board of Education
Subjects: Public schools Public schools
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : Merchants Pub.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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a school com-munity, with power to create a fine school under the guidance of theteacher and to direct and control many activities. Like the model from which they copy, the Congress worksthrough committees. The patriotic committee directs the thrift andpatriotic work and sponsors the color guard; the schoolgrounds com-mittee looks after the condition of the playgrounds; the athleticcommittee plans the games and field days; and the entertainmentcommittee assists in making assembly in the auditorium an importantevent on every cocasion. The factor in our educational scheme which makes the strongestappeal to the people of the district is the kindergarten. At no timeduring the past year has the number belonging fallen below sixty-nine, the average being seventy-four. This department, with itsvariety of interests, including many educational and play materialsand much out-door equipment, makes for and stimulates a larger in-dividual growth. To further the health and development of the chil-
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Denver Public Schools 157 dren, an outdoor workroom was planned this year. A long sandboxwith an awning as protection from the sun, and equipped with sandtoys, was made outside adjoining the large kindergarten windows. In-dividual wooden boxes were provided for plants. The small circulartables with tree stumps serving as seats make a convenient place forhand work. A large tree with spreading branches affords opportu-nity for a childs climbing propensities, while the trapeze, the swing,and the slide give exercise and coordination for the longer musclesof the body. This playground apparatus is supplemented withmaterials designed to encourage creative play in its appeal to theimagination, so that new forms of use can be found by the childhimself. What the school means to the community was so ably statedby the president of the fathers council that I quote directly fromhis address at a recent meeting of the parent-teacher association: The Maria Mitchell School represents practically all th

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