CORNELL 



R^ural ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACEtER] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, igo7, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN. CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 3 ITHACA. N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1909 No. 3 



" When the glowing autumn days are past, 



And the woods stand brown against the sky, 

 When the north wind breathes a chilling blast, 



Southward the birds of autumn fly! 

 As they sing a parting strain 

 To the music of the rain. 

 Spring and Summer can not bring 

 What the birds of Autumn sing! 



— Dora Read Goodale. 



NOTES 



Thanksgiving Time. — The month of November 

 ought to be a particularly interesting one in 

 rural schools. There is so much material for 

 lessons in agriculture that have deep interest for 

 boye and girls. Lessons given this month on the 

 many subjects that suggest themselves would 

 have all-around educational value. Let the 

 children bring into the schoolroom as many 

 different kinds of vegetables as they can find. 

 These might be arranged on a table and give material for a study in 

 form and color as well as an interest in the crops of the community. 

 Fruits would give opportunity for some lessons. The native nuts would 

 have much interest and give material for language and drawing lessons 

 later in the year. Still other lessons might be given on the weeds of 

 the community: the number, the most common, the kinds and num- 

 bers of seeds. 



English Sparrow. — Throughout the year observations should be made 



on the English Sparrow since this is one of the lessons for this year 



required in the New York State syllabus. A special lesson was given 



in the Leaflet last month that teachers might have subject matter 



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