13 Facts About Lucy Wheelock

Lucy Wheelock was an American early childhood education pioneer within the American kindergarten movement.

Lucy Wheelock began her career by teaching the kindergarten program at Chauncy-Hall School.

Lucy Wheelock wrote, lectured, and translated on subjects related to education.

Lucy Wheelock was born in Cambridge, Vermont, February 1,1857.

Lucy Wheelock's parents included Edwin and Laura Wheelock, and five siblings.

Lucy Wheelock was a student at the Underhill Academy in Vermont, and the public high school in Reading, Massachusetts, from which she graduated in 1874.

Lucy Wheelock continued her studies in Europe under Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Maria Montessori.

Lucy Wheelock began to teach in the recently established kindergarten of the Chauncy-Hall School, remaining in that role for about 10 years.

Lucy Wheelock's work made her a successful exponent and advocate of the system of Friedrich Frobel, which she was often called upon to expound before educational institutes and conventions.

Lucy Wheelock devoted a great part of her summer vacation to work of that sort.

Lucy Wheelock taught a large class of adults in the Summer School of Methods in Martha's Vineyard, and gave a model lesson weekly, for eight months in the year, to a class of about 200 primary Sunday school teachers.

Lucy Wheelock translated and published several of Johanna Spyri's popular stories for children, under the title of Red Letter Tales.

Lucy Wheelock published weekly in The Congregationalist Magazine a department called "Hints to Primary Teachers", in the same line of work.