16. Kindergarten

For the kindergarten children the use of pictures illustrating the various health
chores, with no reference to recording personal performance of the chores, is recom-
mended. All children enjoy cutting out and mounting pictures. In the Story Hour
the teacher may tell a story illustrating one or part of one of the health principles of
the Crusaders' Code, and ask the children to look for pictures in the advertising sec-
tions of the magazines, or elsewhere, to illustrate the particular "health chore'* about
which she has been telling them. The pictures may be brought to school and in the
"seat work" periods they can be pasted and mounted in the cover paper books which
the children themselves can make. These are the "health books," and each child should
be encouraged to make his book as attractive as possible. See § 36.
There is a wide variety of health chores contained in the Crusaders' Code. For
example, under principle 1, four separate "chores" can be developed:

1 — Be outdoors much of your time.
2 — Have good fresh-air ventilation when you are indoors.
3 — Breathe through your nose.
4 — Breathe deeply when playing.
Similarly, under principle 4, the following cleanliness chores can be developed.
1 — ^Wash your hands before eating.
2 — Wash your hands before handling food.
3 — Wash ears, neck and face.
A — Clean fingernails.
5 — Take two baths a week.
6 — Wash hair often.
7 — Attend to toilet at a regular time each day.
8 — Clean teeth in the morning and evening.
In like manner a set of health chores can be developed from each of the nine
health principles of the Crusaders' Code.
