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teacher concerning Mother. Illustrate with Whistler's * * Mother. ' ' 

 Bird Motive. 



Sharp — Spring of the Year. 



Van Dyke — Bird Poems. (Select especially those which imitate 

 in words the song and rhythm of the bird's notes.) Use Victor 

 bird records in connection with this study. Encourage repetition 

 of bird calls on part of students. Hold guessing contests of calls 

 in which the teacher does the imitation. Give these contests 

 not alone for notes, but for quality of tone, and for rhythms. 

 That is, let the woodpecker's various drums and tatoos be used. 

 For spontaneity and rhythm and joy use with the songs such 

 sculptural illustrations as Troubetzkoy's Danseuse. Alexander 

 Wilson's bird poems can be used to good advantage here. 



Lanier — The Mockingbird. 



Abbott, C. C. — Blunders in Nest Building. 



— My Elm Tree Oriole. From Birdland Echoes. 

 — A Morning in May. 

 Plant Motive. 

 Arbor Day. 



Meaning and History. (Let the class actually share in the 

 meaning, and plant a tree.) 



Carry^ over the bird element throughout the spring, making 

 use of Grinnell's, Our Feathered Friends, and Birds of Song 

 and Story. Use Bryant's nature poems with great care. Look 

 out for the moral. There is plenty of time for that in future time. 



The Planting of the Apple Tree — Bryant and 



Robert of Lincoln — Bryant, seem to me to be good illustrations 

 of points which the students can understand and appreciate if 

 rightly taught, at this time. The Goodales, both Elaine and 

 Dora Reed, have written some delightful seasonal verses for 

 children about this age. The poem, "Apple Blossoms," which 

 is found in their collection of verses, is good as an example of the 

 sort of material which the teacher of this plan wants to be on 

 the watch for in building up the plant phase of this work. The 

 Carey Sisters have done much in the way of nature poetry. A 

 great deal can be got from them for all of the year's work. Helen 

 Hunt Jackson has also written many very splendid nature verses. 



Eugene Field, in "Lullaby Land," can be used here with such 

 poems as "Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not," and "Telling the 

 Bees." 



