A GRADED COURSE IN BIRD STUDY 



Kindergarten and First Grade 



The birds. Adaptations. Begin with domestic fowls and 

 make comparisons. 



Feathers and their uses : Wing and tail feathers and how 

 used in flight. Feathers as protection from cold and storm. 

 Protective coloring. Ornament. 



Beaks. Adapted in form to use in hen, duck, woodpecker, 

 sparrow, hawk, heron, etc. 



Eyes, ears and olfactory organs. 



Feet and legs. Adaptations in hen, duck, woodpecker, 

 heron, etc. 



Songs of birds and language of domestic fowls. 



Second Grade 



Interest the pupils in birds. Burgess bird stories and 

 other literature. 



Correlate with these stories outlines colored with crayons. 



Learn to know twenty birds. Observe them and talk 

 about them. 



Impromptu bird plays. 



Third Grade 



Let the interest be the feeding of birds in the winter. 

 The bird's Christmas tree. Feeding tables. 

 Color outlines and learn 1 5 birds. 



Fourth Grade 



Learn to know 30 common birds. Each pupil make a 

 monthly calendar on which colored outlines of three or four 

 birds to be seen that month are mounted. 



Spring — keep in schoolroom a calendar of a robin's nesting 

 habits. 



Collect nests of known species and mount on cardboard 

 with pictures of birds and short accounts of them. 



