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Every morning , millions of small children go to kindergarten . They play with blocks and sing songs . Kindergarten is a German word , but English uses it too . It means " a garden of children " . The word comes from a teacher , Friedrich Fröbel . In 1837 , he opened a school for very small children . It was in Bad Blankenburg , a small town in Germany . In 1840 , he named it Kindergarten . For Fröbel , children were like little plants . A good gardener gives a plant water , sun and time . A good teacher does the same with children . In his school , children played and learned . Fröbel made soft balls and wooden blocks for them . He called these toys " gifts " . With the blocks , children made houses , towers and shapes . In 1851 , Prussia did not like his ideas and closed its kindergartens . But his students took the idea to other countries . One of them was Margarethe Schurz . In 1856 , she opened a kindergarten in Watertown , in the United States . English kept the German word . Many other languages translated it , but they kept the garden . So every morning , children still go to a garden . It has no flowers , but the children grow .
