CORNELL 



R.ural ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



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 Published monthly by the New York State Gallege of Agi-iculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and enterod as sccind-class matter September 30, 1907, 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. .s 



ITHACA, X. Y.. DECEMBER, 1909 



No. 4 



I have heard — I don't know whether 



Wide awake or fast asleep — 

 That the stars once sang together 



To some shepherds tending sheep." 



— Alary jV. Prescott 



NOTES 



Christmas Time. — We have suggested that the children have a little 

 Christmas tree on which they place presents of out-of-door things that 

 they find. This will give interest in many out-of-door things that the 

 children will be able to find on their way to school. There will be a 

 definite interest in learning the history of some of these things. Such exer- 

 cises will give life to the Nature Study lessons. Anything that will 

 encourage the spirit of inquiry along outdoor lines will be effort in the 

 right direction. 



New York State Syllabus. — In the Cornell Rural School Leaflet this 

 year we are publishing subject matter for the lessons required by the New 



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