THIRD GRADE FALL WORK 125 



THIRD GRADE FALL WORK 

 LESSON I 



A VISIT TO A FARM 



AT the first favorable opportunity after school begins in 

 the fall, a visit to some near-by farm should be made, unless 

 the pupils live in a rural district and are already familiar 

 with fall activities on a farm. A day spent on such a trip 

 will give the children data for much nature work through- 

 out the year, and can be appealed to constantly by the 

 teacher for illustrations. 



If the children have actually seen the great crops of hay, 

 grains, fruit, and vegetables growing, and witnessed how each 

 kind is gathered and cared for, and observed the machinery, 

 animals, and buildings employed in connection therewith, 

 they will have a most useful fund of knowledge with which 

 they can interpret much of the nature work throughout the 

 year. 



Other things being equal, visit the farm which affords the 

 greatest number of activities and kinds of crops. On many 

 farms in the arid west there will be found acres of hay, grain, 

 and root-crops, a good garden, fruits of many kinds, and a 

 variety of domestic animals. In the east and south larger 

 areas are planted to a single crop, as, corn, cotton, sugar 

 cane, etc., offering fewer activities for observations. 



The different varieties or breeds of horses, cows, pigs, 

 sheep, and poultry, and the care given them and their use- 

 fulness to man are all interesting things to study by means 

 of actual contact. The methods of irrigating, cultivating, 

 and harvesting the various crops, the fall plowing and 



