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REPO RI OH heli CU RA OkeO)E i VirON gene 
INSTRUCTION FOR 1933 
Dr. C. Stuart GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I hereby present my annual report for the Department of 
Elementary Instruction for 1933. 
I would like to call your attention to a few outstanding facts in 
relation to different phases of the work of this Department. 
In our work with children, including all its branches of service, 
we have contacted approximately a million young people. 
In Brooklyn alone we have reached 204 elementary schools, 
about 90 per cent. of the entire number in the Borough; 7 junior 
high schools, 23 high schools, 1 university, 15 private schools, and 
23 parochial schools. 
On January 7, a class was started called “ The Child and His 
Garden.” This was for both mothers and children and had a 
registration of 22 children and 13 mothers. It was conducted on 
Saturday mornings before the regular Saturday morning work 
began. 
During January and February special courses were given for 
3erkeley Institute and Brooklyn [Ethical Culture School. This 
is the first year we have carried on special group studies during the 
early months of the year. The work for the Ethical Culture 
School continued throughout the entire spring term and ended with 
a remarkably fine exhibit set up in our rotunda. This exhibit 
1us had been the 
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demonstrated how the nature work they took wit 
keynote of all their work for the term. The work with Berkeley 
continued through most of the spring. From this special series 
an outgrowth of the course, 
partly through our own work, 
planned for private schools, partl 
“The Child and His Garden,” anc 
courses were planned in the fall for Berkeley, Packer, [Ethical 
Culture School, Miss WKirk’s School, and the Prospect School. 
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“hese courses varied in length form two to eight weeks and were 
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highly satisfactory. 
In early lebruary a class was started for new children who 
wished to join the Boys and Girls Club. These children were on 
probation, becoming acquainted and preparing themselves for the 
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regular spring classes. 
