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Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Gazette
May 28, 2004Volume 2, Issue 10
Image of the Month: Prints from Elementarwerke fur die Jugend und ihre Freunde (Berlin, Germany, 1774)

CONTENTS
Mr. Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book

Primary Source

Teaching Strategy

Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources

Teaching News

Quote of the Month


The Next
Electronic Field Trip is
"Taxes, Tea and Tyranny" EFT
Taxes, Tea and Tyranny
October 7, 2004



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2004–2005 Teaching
Resources Catalog
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2004–2005 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships

 TOP STORIES
Mr. Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book

John Newbery was the first printer to see a market for children's books that both instructed and amused children, so he invented the genre. His first book of this kind, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book: Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly was published in 1744, and is considered a landmark in children's literature.

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John Locke on Education and Play

John Locke (1632-1704) is perhaps best known for his political theories and his influence on early-American political thinking. But Locke also held strong beliefs regarding education. Part of Locke's philosophy involved play as a necessary and important part of the educational process.

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Teaching Strategy: African-American Games

Even though enslaved children were expected to work as soon as they were physically mature enough to do so, they certainly had time to play as well. Some African-American games taught children to work together—often to a cadence—as a well-coordinated team. Working to a rhythm relieved boredom and helped field workers establish a measured pace for their work.

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Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials dealing with 18th-century life, including:

— Aesop's Fables Playing Cards
— Bilbo Catcher
— Clay Marbles
— Game of Goose
— Game of Life
— I. Hardy Playing Cards
— Jaw Harp
— Slate and Pencil
— Wooden Top

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Teaching News

A recent study titled "Academic Atrophy," conducted by the Council for Basic Education, examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on liberal arts education. Schools are devoting more time to reading, math, and science, but are neglecting social studies, civics, geography, languages, and the arts. Get the full report as a
PDF file.

Quote of the Month

“Play for young children is not recreation activity...It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity...Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met."

--James L. Hymes, Jr., American child development specialist and author
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