Rural School Leaflet 



1171 



ANIMAL STUDY 



NOTES ON THE HORSE 



The Editors 



An Arabian horse 



The horse is given for special study this year, and the work will present 

 difficulty to a large number of rural teachers. Many have frankly stated 

 that they cannot conduct a lesson with a horse because they have not 

 had enough experience to make them at ease with horses. Other teachers, 

 however, have given some very excellent lessons following the subject 

 matter given in previous leaflets, and have begun the work by having 

 a horse on the school grounds. In some cases a farmer has brought a 

 horse to the school; in other instances a boy has brought a horse from 

 his home for the lessons; and some teachers have gone to a farm where 

 there were good horses, and have secured the cooperation of the owner 

 in giving instruction. 



Although a teacher may feel that she cannot have a horse brought 

 to the school for a lesson, she will be able to direct a good deal of valuable 

 study that can be done at home. Observation and reasoning can be 

 developed from an intelligent study of animal life on the farm, and when 

 such study becomes a part of the school work, the efforts of the children 

 are at once dignified, and the interest is much more manifest. Each 

 teacher will have a different method of working out the lessons for the year. 

 However, a few suggestions are given here that may be helpful to young 

 teachers, and that may add live interest to the topics. 



