Ciphers For the Little Folks / A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon

THE DOROTHY CRAIN SERIES
Ciphers For the Little Folks
A Method of Teaching The Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban
Designed to Stimulate Interest in Reading, Writing and Number Work, by Cultivating the Use of an Observant Eye
With an Appendix on the Origin, History and Designing of the Alphabet By Helen Louise Ricketts
RIVERBANK LABORATORIES EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT Dorothy Crain, Director of Kindergarten GENEVA, ILLINOIS
Copyright, 1916 GEORGE FABYAN

These lessons are presented as suggestions with the idea that the teacher or parent will adapt, lengthen, shorten, or remake, as the needs of the little folk demand. Their value will depend on the way in which they are brought before the children.
The aim is not to impose on children adult knowledge and accomplishments, but to afford them experiences that on their own account appeal to them, and at the same time have educational value and significance.
Children should have a great deal of handwork; they do their best thinking when they are planning something to do with their hands. Their attention is much more easily focused upon something they are doing with their hands than upon something which they hear or read. Building with the blocks, paper folding and cutting, painting and drawing, and what is known as constructive work, are all means of self-expression.
An explanatory paragraph will accompany each lesson. In order that the workings of the Biliteral Cipher, from which these lessons were derived, may be more readily understood, a short explanation will follow for the guidance of the teacher or parent, to whom it is left to choose the best methods of explaining the Cipher to the children, step by step.