Kirby, Sara Miller · New York : Butterick Pub. Co. · leaf 106
m them — while the eighth gift shows the boundaries of surfaces. The sphere was the first solid given to the child, and the circle the first surface ; therefore, the first boundary must be the curved line or ring. It is suggested by passing the finger around either the ball or the curved surface of… … While the eighth gift belongs to the abstract, we do not wait till the child has finished with the building set, but commence giving him the ring, it being a familiar form, even with the first gift. That is, we make each week a whole, and give lessons that follow Froebel's law of progress from the…
Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 · Kindergarten
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