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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
As an example, the schoolchildren's rhyme commonly noting the end of a school year, "no more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks," seems to be found in literature no earlier than the 1930s—though the first reference to it in that decade, in a 1932 magazine article, deems it, "the old glad song that we hear every spring."
The boy in this poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than he is with anything his teacher is trying to teach. In lines 16–20, a child in school is compared to a bird in a cage. [ 3 ] Meaning something that was born to be free and in nature, is instead trapped inside and made to be obedient.
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More Poems About School; 1999:Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll; 2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets) 2002:The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems; 2004:Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (with Alice Desmarteau) 2006:Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems
The teacher used a relatable mental exercise to help her students understand what segregation was like for Black people. "If you could be the line leader for the whole day, how would you feel ...
Romper Room is an American children's television series that was franchised and syndicated from 1953 to 1994. The program targeted preschoolers (children five years of age or younger), and was created and produced by Bert Claster and his presenter wife, Nancy Claster, of Claster Television.
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