A Foretaste. 



Photo by Verne Morton. 



A Graded Course in Tree Study 



Reprinted by request from the October, 1917, copy of Nature Study Review 



The autumn is the best time of the school year for beginning 

 tree study; although in some grades the subject should be given 

 attention every month, yet the greater interest in trees centers 

 at the time of year when their foliage attracts the eye and wins 

 admiration from even the most unimaginative. 



Kindergarten and First Grade. — The objects to be achieved in the 

 kindergarten and the first grade are to make the pupils acquainted 

 with the leaves of our more common trees and to make them 

 interested in one or two individual trees and what happens to these 

 trees each season, of the year. 



To accomplish these objects we use various devices and methods 

 and the following suggestions will be found useful. 



Let the children bring to school leaves of all sorts, which have 

 autumn tints. They will be especially interested in picking up the 

 bright colored leaves that fall from the roadside trees. 



Let them classify the leaves according to color so as to train the 

 eye to discriminate the tints and color values. 



Let them classify leaves according to form, selecting those 

 which resemble each other. 



Have them tell in what respects they resemble each other, in 

 this way incidentally calling attention to the margins, the veins 

 and the petiole. 



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