228 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [10:6— Sept., 1914 



In our Third Grade, the Spring Calendar was in sections, 

 grouped as to habitat. Each section was made on a separate sheet 

 of manila, at the top of each a water color sketch of roadside, hill- 

 side, field, or deep wood, the word printed beside it. In the Fall, 

 the question, "Does the Deep-wood shelter most of our Autumn 

 blossoms?" offers an interesting point of departure. The Spring 

 Wild Flower Calendar should always be kept for comparative 

 study. "Which of the flowers noted on your Spring Calendar are 

 still in bloom?" "What new flowers did you learn to know this 

 summer?" "One of the questions well adapted to a second or 

 third grade is the "Party Decoration" problem, "We are going to 

 have a party. Each room is to be in one color. If we have wild 

 flowers, what color can we use and what flowers can we have in each 

 room?" If anything rare appears in one class room, it must be 

 shown to all the children. The brown thrasher killed by the 

 telegraph wire and tenderly carried the rounds by the wee kinder- 

 garten lad will not soon be forgotten and the bouquet of fringed 

 gentians which little Irene brought down from the intermediate 

 department for the primary children wiU not soon slip from our 

 memories. Not all these exercises on Wild Flowers would foUow 

 in succession, other topics would demand attention, neither woiild 

 any one teacher and class follow all these suggestions. 



Last Spring we used as the basis for our Spring Festival, the 

 little play of "The Enchanted Garden" in "The House of the Heart 

 and other Plays for Children" by Constance Mackay. In this 

 little play, the central idea is the beauty of the wild flowers and the 

 relationship existing between them and the flowers of the garden. 

 The recall of this play and its story leads naturally to the study of 

 the garden flowers. A new series of lessons begins with the ques- 

 tion, "Have these wild flowers any relations in our garden?" Our 

 Demonstration Garden under the charge of the Science department 

 of the Normal school is a great help in the gaining of acquaintance 

 with the common garden plants. The children are led to feel that 

 every thing done there is to be carefully noted. The older children 

 in the period given to written composition kept a Spring Garden 

 Notebook. Of course the garden gains on us in the long summer 

 vacation and "What has happened during the summer in the 

 garden?" is a big question which will take several days in the 

 answering. Pictures from Flower Catalogues may be used in 

 making charts of "Our School Garden." Individual charts of 

 "My Garden" and "My Mother's Garden" may be made, names 



