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kindergarten
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kindergarten \Kin"der*gar`ten\, n. [G., lit., children's garden; kinder (pl. of kind child, akin to E. kin kindred) + garten garden.] 1. A class within a primary school or a separate school for young children, usually between the ages of four and six years, designed to adapt children to the classroom environment before beginning academic training, on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from German, literally "children's garden," from Kinder "children" (plural of Kind "child;" see kin (n.)) + Garten "garden" (see yard (n.1)). Coined 1840 by German educator Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) in reference to his method of developing intelligence in young children.\n\nKindergarten means a garden of children, and Froebel, the inventor of it, or rather, as he would prefer to express it, the discoverer of the method of Nature, meant to symbolize by the name the spirit and plan of treatment. How does the gardener treat his plants? He studies their individual natures, and puts them into such circumstances of soil and atmosphere as enable them to grow, flower, and bring forth fruit,-- also to renew their manifestation year after year.
[Mann, Horace, and Elizabeth P. Peabody, "Moral Culture of Infancy and Kindergarten Guide," Boston, 1863]
\nThe first one in England was established 1850 by Johannes Ronge, German Catholic priest; in America, 1868, by Elizabeth Peabody of Boston, Mass. Taken into English untranslated, whereas other nations that borrowed the institution nativized the name (Danish börnehave, Modern Hebrew gan yeladim, literally "garden of children"). Sometimes partially anglicized as kindergarden (attested by 1879).Wiktionary
n. 1 An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school. 2 (context US English) The elementary school grade before first grade.
WordNet
n. a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school
Wikipedia
Kindergarten (foaled 1937) was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse that raced during the early 1940s. He won many of the premier events in New Zealand including the Wellington Cup and Auckland Cup for more than £16,000 in stake money, which was a large amount during the War.
Kindergarten is a 1989 Argentine drama film co-written and directed by Jorge Polaco, based on Asher Benatar's homonymous novel. It stars Graciela Borges, Arturo Puig and Luisa Vehil. It was banned from theaters one day short of its release, and remained unreleased in Argentina until 2010, when a restored copy premiered in Mar del Plata Film Festival.
Kindergarten is an American documentary miniseries that debuted in 2001 on HBO Family's Jam morning block in 2001. The unscripted show followed kids in a kindergarten class learning about various subjects and trying new things.
A kindergarten (; from German , which means literally "garden for the children") is a preschool educational approach traditionally based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. The first such institutions were created in the late 18th Century in Bavaria and Strasbourg to serve children both of whose parents worked out of the home. The term was coined by the German Friedrich Fröbel whose approach globally influenced early-years education. Today, the term is used in many countries to describe a variety of educational institutions and learning spaces for children ranging from two to seven years of age, based on a variety of teaching methods.
Kindergarten is a form of education for young children.
Kindergarten may also refer to:
- Kindergarten (horse)
- Milner's Kindergarten, a group of Britons who served in the South African Civil Service
- "Kindergarten", a song by Faith No More on the album Angel Dust
- Kindergarten (film), a 1989 Argentinian film
- Kindergarten, a novel by Peter Rushforth
- Kindergarten Cop, a 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film
- Kindergarten (TV series), American TV series
See also:
- Kindergarden (demo party)
Usage examples of "kindergarten".
A letter from Caroline Derby, who had joined with Helen the previous May in organizing the tea for the kindergarten, conveyed an affectionate message to Helen from Mrs.
Miss Smith had already gone to retrieve her young duelers and take them to the kindergarten class.
If a great number of children, all 10 years old, were tested for intelligence, it would reveal a few absolute idiots whose intelligence was no more than that of the ordinary infant, a few more who were as bright as the ordinary kindergarten child, and so up to the great bulk of normal 10-year-olds, and farther to a few prize eugenic specimens who had as much intelligence as the average college freshman.
Some day we shall put Nature in its proper place as kindergarten teacher, and drop it from godship and erect enlightened human understanding instead.
Dylan one day designed a star-shaped skully board, where players would be expected to shoot their caps from triangular corners into center stage, as in Chinese checkers, a game which Dylan had been taught in his kindergarten class.
Have you forgotten the basic synergy lessons you learned in kindergarten?
There was Verrie Myers who was our friend, girl like the rest of us since kindergarten at the Academy Street School but up on stage she was transformed, a girl we hardly recognized.
There were a couple of joints on the state line down by Louisiana that made those along the Biloxi strip seem like kindergarten.
Followed by the kindergarten attendants, Cheryl Anne clutched the arm of her darling Thud, who clumsily put a plastic tiara on her head and handed her a bouquet of roses.
In the library kindergarten Deneb had devised, her ghost played at being a wandering breeze.
After kindergarten each day, Domovoi Butler would escort his little sister to the Fowl Estate dojo, where he instructed her in the various forms of martial arts.
M: Those who are natural empaths often start initializing experiences at about this age because they are confronted with a new group, kindergarten, and have to deal with a flood of perceptions that are often foreign to them.
Not just the esoteric subjects necessary to operate successfully across the hundreds of timelines then open to the Confederation, but also the kindergarten things every Taladoran learned before he could walk.
The public has even become the nurse, for in most of the large cities the kindergarten has become transformed into a public institution which takes the child from the home, sometimes almost from the cradle, but more often from the street, at the age of four, five, or six years, and keeps it until it is ready for the tuitions of the elementary grades.
Nevertheless, it had to accommodate not only Vladimir and Natalia, but their two daughters and their babushka, who managed the household while Natalia taught at the local kindergarten.