36 Lessons in Nature Study. 



Willie, 34. 



Hannah, 35, etc., etc. 



This will disclose the fact that these flowers differ in the 

 number of their rays. Now, if the teacher wishes to sus- 

 pend the nature-work and take up number-work, he may 

 proceed. Mary had a daisy with 31 rays ; how many rays 

 would there be in 5 daisies ? etc., etc. Willie's daisy had 

 34 rays ; how many were there on J his daisy ? Children 

 of higher classes may be required to add the numbers and 

 divide by the number of flowers, thus finding the average 

 number of rays to a flower. Expedients will readily sug- 

 gest themselves to any wide-awake teacher. This flower 

 will furnish material for number-work, language-work, busy- 

 work, and almost every kind of work done by children 

 during the first four years of school. 



Read to the children Burns' Poem to a Daisy; sketch a 

 cluster of them on the board. Cultivate the eye, the heart, 

 with those humble instruments thrown with such lavish 

 profusion around your school-house. 



At another time make a comparison between the white 

 daisy and the yellow one (Rudbeckia) as to form, size, 

 soil, color, number of rays, etc. Have conventional de- 

 signs for wall-paper, tiles, oilcloths, dress goods, etc., etc., 

 made from this flower or any other handy one. 



Although number lessons and language lessons may be 

 built upon the nature lessons, yet the nature lesson should 

 be given as such, not as an introduction to any other line 



