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242 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.Rhythm and Musical Training,Glaribel Spring.Blackboard Sketching, Design and Art Work,Phoebe H. Elliott.Executive Department,Jessie Anderson, assisted by Kate R. Burroughs.Kindergarten Librarian,Kate R. Burroughs.Special Course of Physical Training,Sara Charlton.Special Course of Literature,Annie J. Backus.The students of the Training School come fromSavannah, Griffin, Columbus, Valdosta, Athens,Pineora, Jacksonville, Fla., and Detroit, Mich.Each kindergarten has been located in a districtwhere it can do an especial work. Yamacraw kindergarten,No. 1, is on Indian and Ann streets, withHarriet B. Hardee as principal, and five assistantsfrom the Training School. This kindergarten gathersin the poorest children of the city and not onlyeducates them but gives them a wholesome lunchof bread and milk daily. Among these children areten or twelve of the Syrian colony here and most ofthem have learned to speak English in the kindergarten.Some of the children are so small that ahammock has been provided for them to sleep inwhile their older brothers and sisters do the kindergartenwork. The results of this, the oldest establishedkindergarten, may already be seen in thework done in the primary grades by children wliohave been trained in the kindergarten methods.