60 Lessons in Nature Study. 



Language Lesson. The following sentences are select- 

 ed from language lessons and number lessons on the beetle. 



The beetle is black. His wings are shining. This beetle 

 is smooth. This little beetle eats potato-leaves. That large 

 beetle eats rotten wood. The beetle has rough legs. His 

 legs have seven joints. His toes are like little hooks. His 

 fore legs are shorter. Do you see the little black eyes ? 

 There are knobs on his feelers. The feelers are like a little 

 string of beads. The wings are hard like a shell. The out- 

 side wings are stiff, but the inside wings are thin. There 

 are fine wings under the shell. Three legs are on each side. 

 The legs grow to the middle part. Beetles have a head, and 

 a chest, and a big body. A baby beetle is called a grub. I 

 saw a big white grub. The grub was in the dirt. The boy 

 dug up a fat grub. This red beetle has black spots. That 

 brown beetle is a " June bug." I saw a yellow and black 

 beetle with long feelers. Beetles do not sting. Does this 

 beetle eat dirt ? Do beetles bite boys and girls ? Beetles 

 do not sting or bite us. We should not hurt these beetles. 

 John found three beetles under a big flat stone. I saw a big 

 brown beetle on the vine. 



The list of sentences to be made upon the beetle might 

 be increased almost indefinitely. These are samples taken 

 at random from the children's work. 

 ^ Number Lesson. i. There are 6 legs on my beetle. 



2. 3 legs + 3 ^gs = 6 legs. 



3. 2 wings + 2 wings = 4 wings. 



4. One beetle has 6 legs; how many legs have 3 beetles ? 



5 beetles ? 6 beetles? 



5. 4 wings i wing = 3 wings. 



6. A beetle lost i leg ; how many had he left ? 



7. There are 7 joints in i leg ; how many joints in all 



6 legs ? 



8. 9 beetles H- 5 beetles 2 beetles = ? 



9. A mother beetle had 12 little beetles, 3 flew away ; 

 how many were left ? 



10. A man told a boy that he would give him a cent for 



