The Audubon Societies 



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Escanaba, Michigan, have accomplished 

 among their little people. 



"Although our Junior Audubon classes 

 have been so recently organized, we have 

 nevertheless accomplished some work. 

 We are sending you two pictures of our 

 classes, in which several pupils are 

 represented with bird-boxes of their own 

 construction (see page 227), others have 

 the Audubon bird-pictures, and still 

 others, bird-pictures painted by them- 



these ways we advanced in bird-lore 

 without omitting anything from the cur- 

 riculum. The younger pupils were encour- 

 aged to tell in class of birds they had 

 seen, and some even ventured to tell 

 of birds they had shot. Then came 

 the teachers' opportunity for emphasizing 

 the need of kindness and protection for 

 the birds, and for encouraging pupils to 

 scatter crumbs for them in the cold win- 

 ter days. Many of the pupils have bird- 

 boxes alread}^ placed in trees and on poles 



EIGHTH PRIZE.— FOURTH-GRADE CLASS, MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, MASSACHUSETTS 



selves. We have utilized the Educational 

 Leaflets in the following ways: First of all, 

 since all our pupils are interested in water- 

 coloring, we encourage them to paint the 

 outline-copies, besides painting other birds 

 from the charts shown in the pictures. 

 All pupils, whether members of the clubs 

 or not, have written compositions on 

 birds; those who could, wrote something 

 of their own experience. The ninth- 

 grade pupils were permitted to study the 

 bird-lessons, and to deliver them as oral 

 reports during the English period. They 

 also used the same material to distinguish 

 enumerative from suggestive descrip- 

 tion, and for practice in condensing. In 



near their homes, and thus could not 

 bring them for the picture." 



Very helpful to teachers who find some 

 embarrassment in learning the method 

 of conducting their classes is the account, 

 by Miss Rebecca L. Harding, of how the 

 meetings of a Junior Class in Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, are sustained in interest. 

 This class was organized in Grade VII of 

 the Central Street School, and is wide- 

 awake, as the photograph on page 228 

 attests. 



"Games, such as 'Bird-Catcher,' and 



