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may be decided for example that it is a bam swallow. So far at 

 least the lesson may be carried on by the school as a whole. 



Reference to the outline at the end of this article suggests that 

 the work with cut-out pictures will give profitable work for the 

 children of the first two grades. These children and others if they 

 wish, may cut out the swallow and place it on the landscape where it 

 belongs, in accordance with the directions accompanying the 

 landscape. 



The children in the third and fourth years can do what the 

 children in the first two grades have done and in addition select 

 some one page in their nature-study note book. On that page they 

 will keep a record through the year of birds seen feeding in the air 

 and in particular some one bird like the already mentioned bam 

 swallow which they themselves have selected. This note book will 

 contain the date when the birds were first seen, when and where 

 they nested, when the first young were seen and when the birds 

 were last seen. It is not necessary that every school in the state 

 select the barn swallow for this study. Any bird of the bam 

 swallow type will do. The Leaflet. has given help in the study of 

 the bam swallow and chimney swift and it may be easier for the 

 teacher to use these examples but any other bird of this type will be 

 satisfactory. This gives greater opportunity for the instructor to 

 teach from the material at hand and is bound to make the work 

 more interesting. The "Fifty Interesting Things" section may 

 prove of assistance in guiding the observations of these children. 

 In a bird lesson like the one under discussion the questions dealing 

 with birds of the desired type may be considered. 



The children of the fifth and sixth grades should keep a note book 

 as did their younger fellow students. After they have made all the 

 observations they can independently they may refer to the Life 

 History Chart section of the Leaflet and fill in the gaps in their own 

 record. They may incorporate their final conclusions in a story 

 about the bam swallow in which they emphasize the things which 

 they themselves have seen. They should be able to appreciate the 

 work that these birds do in keeping the open air free from insects 

 and should have some idea of how the birds are particularly fitted 

 for the work they do. The use of the birds to nature and their 

 relation to other living things might well be understood. 



In case, the children of the seventh and eighth grade have had 

 the work, just outlined for the lower grades or complete it more 

 quickly than their younger school mates they may go further than 



