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activities. This should be a tree either in the school garden, 

 nearby park or neighborhood. 



Each class should have its pets to care for. All these various 

 lines of work and many more beside, are the outgrowth of the one 

 big school project — that of making and keeping up the school 

 garden. This one big problem will socialize the work of the entire 

 school, foster a splendid spirit of co-operation, and will supply 

 a motive for nearly all the nature-study, both practical and 

 aesthetic, anyone might wish to have. 



Courses of study containing interesting projects for applied 

 nature-study are the Baltimore County Course of Study, and that 

 of the University Elementary School, Chicago. In the Special 

 Course of Study Number of the Nature-Study Review, March 

 1915, there are many good problems suggested for the children, 

 but there is no big project including many problems necessary 

 for the working out of the whole. 



The project in a course of study should be the most prominent 

 item and should dominate the entire organization of material 

 and be so represented that he who runs may read. 



Science in the modern school has really made more advances 

 than nature-study. To make either a success, much enthusiasm 

 and hard work are needed; but they pay abundantly for all the 

 energy expended. 



Child's Song 



Thomas Moore 



I have a garden of my own, 



Shining with flowers of every hue; 

 I love it dearly while alone, 



But I shall love it more with you. 

 And there the golden bees shall crone, 



In summer time at break of morn, 

 And wake us with their busy hum 



Around the Sika's fragrant thorn. 



I have a fawn from Aden's land, 



On leafy buds and berries nurst, 

 And you shall feed him from your hand, 



Though he may start with fear at first, 

 And I will lead you where he lies 



For shelter in the noontide heat; 

 And you may touch his sleepy eyes 



And feel his little silvery feet. 



