SAMARA EDUCATION SERIES
Spring 2001
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Use of
Building Materials
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Original Materials
Wally Rogers
Interpreter
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Materials and Occupations
First through Tenth Gifts
Mother Nature is the primary teacher of knowledge and art forms. The demonstration class led by Ruth Burritt in Philadelphia that piqued the interest of Anna Lloyd Wright was as close to Froebel's original teaching in America as it could have possibly been.
Manufactured in 1873-74 by the Milton Bradley Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, Mrs. Wright purchased full sets of the twenty Gifts on her return home from the Exposition.
A descriptive list of Kinder-Garten Gifts manufactured by Milton Bradley Company illustrates in detail the expectations the Toy Company had for Froebel's comprehensive sets of occupation materials.
First Gift
Six soft balls to teach colors
Second Gift
Cube, sphere and cylinder made of wood to teach form, to notice similarity of objects, sides, corners, and edges of cube
Third Gift
Large cube consisting of eight small cubes
Fourth Gift
Large cube consisting of eight oblong blocks
Fifth Gift
Large cube consisting of twenty-one whole, six half and twelve quarter cubes
Sixth Gift
Large cube consisting of eighteen whole, and three lengthwise and six breadth wise, divided oblong blocks, along with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Gifts to create endless combinations of nature, knowledge and beauty forms
Seventh Gift
Quadrangular and triangular tablets of colored paper board - five different kinds for laying figures
Eighth Gift
Wooden staffs or wands for laying figures to teach numerical proportions, multiplication tables, phonetics, alphabet, Roman and Arabic numerals in preparation for writing
Ninth Gift
Whole and half wire rings, also for laying figures in preparation for drawing occupations
Tenth Gift
Ruled paper and ruled in squares on one side for drawing in the most systematic and perfect method ever to be invented
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