Name of school for little children and its importance,
Nature work, experiences of the natural world,
  activities in a suburban garden,
  aim of,
  animals,
  excursions,
  movement c. 1890,
  nature calendar,
  object lesson and nature lesson,
  pictures, use of,
  plants and flowers,
  religion and nature work,
Necessities of the Nursery School,
  See also Equipment and Principles
Nesbit, Mrs., Magic Cities,
Net beds,
Number work. See Mathematics
Nursery rhymes and nonsense verses,
Nursery School—­
  name question,
  requirements of,

Obedience v. self-control,
Oberlin schools,
Object lessons,
Observation of children,
Odds and ends, use of,
Open-air question,
Owen, Robert, “Rational Infant School”,

Paper-folding,
Parents’ evenings,
Payne, Miss Janet,
Peabody, Miss,
Periods of a young child’s life,
Pestalozzi,
Pestalozzi-Froebel House,
Phillips, Miss K.,
Phonic method of teaching reading,
Physical requirements,
Picture books,
Pictures,
Play—­
  biologist educator’s view,
  constructive,
  co-operation in,
  courage in the teacher,
  definitions,
  distinction from work,
  Froebel’s theory of,
      practice at Keilhau,
  imitative,
  material,
      Froebel’s “Gifts,” etc.,
  self-expression in,
  theories of,
  transition class,
Play Way, The,
Playground, equipment, etc.,
  garden essential,
  transition class,
Poetry,
Poor and well-to-do children, different requirements,
Possession, child’s need of,
  meum and tuum training,
Preparation theory of play,
Priestman, Miss,
Principles, vital principles,
Pugh, Edwin,
Punnett, Miss,

Reading and writing,
  age for,
  matter and methods, phonic method, etc.,
Recapitulation theory of play,
Recreation theory of play,
Reed, Miss,
Religion,
  age for first teaching, See also Stories
Reproducing, See Imitative Play
Results, payment by,
Rhythm and rhythmic training,
Robinson Crusoe stage of history teaching,
Ronge, Madame,
Rossetti, Christina, verses for children,
Rousseau,
Rowland, Miss,
Royee, Prof.,

St. Cuthbert, story of,
Salt, Miss Marie,
Sayings of the Children,
Schepel, Miss,
Schiller, Letters on Aesthetic Education,
Schiller-Spencer theory of play,
School and Life,
Schools of To-morrow,
Schrader, Henrietta,
Seguin,
Self-consciousness,
Self-control and external control,
Sense-training,
  herb garden,
Service for the community, training to—­
  Froebel and Montessori system,
  games, social side,
  idea of unity,
  religion, part of,
Sesame House for Home-Life Training,