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Lessons in Nature Study. 



Heat, cold, moisture. Is not nature kind to wrap up this 

 little baby branch so warmly, just as mamma wraps up her 

 little baby, to keep it warm in the cold and wet weather ? 



Now you may take your slates and write all you can tell 

 about this pretty hickory-bud. 



TWIGS AND BUDS. 



The above is offered as a suggestive schedule for record- 

 ing observations on buds. Let each pupil secure a good 

 twig having one or more buds upon it. Let these twigs be 

 cut of* uniform length and mounted neatly on a card, with 

 the name of each bud under it. Pupils of older grade may 

 draw these also and thus get added stores of knowledge. 



If the teacher supply herself with plenty of twigs, she can 

 use them with advantage in number-work and busy-work, 

 thus : 



Distribute twigs of different sorts to the pupils and give 

 them such directions as the following on the board : 



1. Place your beech twigs on the right side of your desk. 



2. Put the horse-chestnut twigs in the middle. 



3. Put the hickory twigs on the left side. 



4. If you have a twig with 5 buds upon it and pick off 2, 

 how many have you left ? If i twig has 3 buds and another 

 has 5 buds, how many buds have both ? etc., etc. 



The teacher can vary such work indefinitely, and the 

 pupil will become more and more expert in noticing buds, 



