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8. As a rule there are a principal and two teachers in each 

 garden, while one gardener is attached to every two gardens. The 

 principal and one teacher are always in the school garden proper. 

 The second assistant teaches the children how to make their home 

 gardens, and she systematically visits them. 



9. Each school garden contains from 85 to 200 individual plots 

 eight by ten feet. In addition, it usually has sixteen class plots, 

 sixteen sample plots, and borders running along the four sides and 

 through the middle. 



10. During the school months, April, May, June and Septem- 

 ber (except Saturdays) , the daily program is as follows : 



Kindergarten and primary classes visit a neighbor- 

 ing garden, the visits lasting from one-half to one 

 hour. Ten or twenty minutes are devoted to 

 Nature Study; these lessons follow a systema- 

 tized plan, a regular course being developed 

 grade by grade. Twenty to forty minutes are 

 then given for practical garden work on class 

 plots. 



Work on individual garden plots. 



11. On account of the large number of children holding individ- 

 ual plots in each garden, they are divided into four classes, two 

 classes coming on alternate days. The ''First and Third classes" 

 consist of children who have been in the garden at least one season. 

 The "Second and Fourth classes" consist of children who are in the 

 garden for the first season. 



9.00 to 12.00 

 2.00 to 3.30 



3.30 to 5.30 



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General Program 



The daily program during vacation, July and August, and also on 

 Saturdays, is as follows : 



First and Third Classes : 8.00 to 8.20. — Reading or telling 



stories. 

 8.20 to 8.40. — Nature study lesson 

 8 . 40 to 9.35 . — Individual plot 



work. 

 9.35 to 10.00. — ^Work on borders 

 and sample plots. 



