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given me each year joyful companionship. If 

 I am late in putting out the food in the fall or 

 neglectful in replacing it later, my chickadees 

 follow me around the garden and cheerfully but 

 firmly remonstrate with me, "Don't you see, 

 see, see, we are hungree, gree, gree?" 



For lessons on the chickadee, use obs. 1-7, p. 

 68. Obs. 8 and 9 should form the basis for a 

 story about the chickadee. The Chickadee 

 Song in Nature Songs and Stories by Katherine 

 Creighton will be a very delightful addition in 

 this lesson. 



The nuthatch lesson is covered by obs. 1-8, 

 p. 64, 65. Obs. 9 and 10 are for material for 

 a story. In both these lessons, the questions should be given a 

 few at a time and answered by the children through actual 

 observation. 



Garden Seeds. — A collection, mounted on cards, or contained in 

 small vials of all the seeds found in the garden in November will 

 prove very instructive. This collection 

 should consist, first, of the seeds of the garden 

 plants, and second, of the weeds that have 

 grown and produced seeds in the garden. 

 The questions to ask about these seeds are: 

 How are the seeds protected ? How are they 

 scattered, and what kind of plants produce 

 them? This is an excellent preparation for 

 gardening. 



. Sunrise and Sunset. — A beginning of accurate observations upon 

 the sun should be made in the third grade. The children are old 

 enough to tell the time by the clock and make the records. A chart 

 may be placed on the wall having blank spaces for one or two obser- 

 vations a week on the time of sunrise and of sunset. This will 

 show the rate of the shortening days. There should be a correla- 

 tion of these periods with daily life. The first week in November 

 the sun rises something later than 6 130 just the time we are getting 

 out of bed, and it sets not far from 5 :oo o'clock, before we have 

 supper; but during the last week, it rises just before 7 :oo and sets 

 about 4 130, long before we wish to stop playing. 



