University Daily Kansan
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By Linda Ellis
KU Students Learn With Preschoolers
The KU Nursery School, maintained by the university and run by the Child Development division of the Home Economics Department, is a laboratory for students to observe three and four-year old children and to learn basic teaching techniques from them.
MESSY, BUT FUN—Young chef Curt Stockhammer, one of the children who attends the KU Nursery School, prepares vanilla pudding for his fellow classmates as part of the morning activities. The children help make their morning snack later each day.
Believe it or not, there are KU students who go to Nursery School and get credit for it.
Mrs. Lucille Paden, instructor of home economics and director of the Nursery School, said there are two groups of children every day. One group comes in the morning from 9:00 to 11:30; the other from 1:00 to 3:30.
THE CHILDREN come to the school to learn how to get along with other children before attending grade school. They play games, observe animals and plants and do some elementary cooking.
The children who attend the school are from Lawrence and many of them have parents who are either students or instructors at KU. They are selected from applications submitted to the home economics department in Fraser Hall
Mrs. Paden said they recently purchased some turtles for the children to watch.
Attending a typical morning session of the school at 9:00 am. one would find the children helping the
teacher prepare a simple recipe for pudding. Later, the pudding is a treat for the children with their mid-morning snack. They also have such things as finger painting, sand painting, play dough and the usual blocks and toys.
Not only do KU students learn from the children, but also the children learn from each other. A boy of three is now attending the school and is slowly being taught to speak by the other children. He is deaf and has never learned to talk.
THE CHILDREN are supervised by members of the advanced Child Development classes and the head teacher Mrs. Krebs. They keep the children occupied without interfering with their own ideas of play. While the children play, members of introductory Child Development courses observe them through screened-in windows in the play room.
THE ATMOSPHERE of the group is helping him to get along with the other children and may eventually help him to talk, Mrs. Paden said.
The observation room is designed to let the students see and hear the children as they play. They observe behavior and social relationships of the children in a group situation
Another child, a little girl, who came from a foreign country last year has learned to speak English by her playmates.
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