66o Junior Naturalist Monthly. 



Encourage the Junior Naturalist to write letters to Uncle John. 

 Give them an interest in the personality of the man to whom they write. 

 He is always glad to get these letters, which are filed carefully. When- 

 ever the children have letter writing for their language work, why not 

 let them write to a real person about real things? 



The editor of this leaflet has been a teacher and has taught a number 

 of years in many grades. She knows the difficulties that come up daily 

 in the schoolroom. She knows that all teachers who have made an effort 

 to give their children an opportunity to know the out-of-doors have 

 made sacrifices to do this. Write to her freely of your difficulties. As 

 far as she is able, she will gladly act as counselor and friend in the 

 matter of the education of little children. 



Address your letter to Alice G. McCloskey, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



THE NATURE-STUDY CORNER. 



We have told you about the little work room in our rural school on 

 the Campus. We hope in time that every rural schoolhouse will have a 

 place in which children can study out-of-door things and perform simple 

 experiments that will teach them to know more about their natural 

 surroundings. This work room cannot be provided yet in all schools but 

 we have suggested that in every building there should be one corner 

 set off for Nature-Study materials and for experimental work. In many 

 rural schools this has been done and we have been very much surprised 

 indeed at the progress the young folks have made. Following are letters 

 that we have received telling about the efforts that have been made to 

 have this work successful : 



Elizabethtown^ N. Y. 

 Dear Uncle John: 



We have a Junior Naturalist corner where we have twenty-eight 

 kinds of wood and some birds' nests. One is a chimney swallow's nest. 

 It looks so funny. It is all glued together with juices from the bird's 

 mouth and another nest is lined with birch bark. 



We have two or three kinds of fungus. We have Uncle John's 

 picture framed in birch bark and we have some birds' pictures. 



We have a good many in the club this year. I have been in the club 

 for three years. This year I am the president of the club. 



From the president 

 Dorothy Woodruff 

 My teacher's name is Miss Shepson. 



