102 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



The worms and bugs and things you see, 

 That spoil his vines and kill his tree, 

 Oh, Boy! How good they'd taste to me, 

 Were I a Robin. 



The Spring 



Springtime is here 



The weather is clear 



And the birds are singing their songs. 



Soon we shall see 



The wasp and the bee 



Busy the whole day long. 



The trees putting forth 



Their little green leaves 



Are glad for the sunshine and rain. 



The crocus that peeps 



From its dark winter's sleep 



Sings Hurrah! for the Springtime again. 



Jack Emerins. B Grade, Wilson Normal 



Nature-Study Projects in the Sierra Summer School 



Winifred Perry 

 San Diego, California. 



For some time I have felt that a very excellent approach to 

 much of otu* school work is thru nature-study. Thus when the 

 opportunity came to me last year to supervise the Project 

 School, the training school of the Fresno Teachers' college which 

 holds its summer sessions at Huntington Lake in the high Sierra, 

 I gladly accepted. 



The children were divided into four groups as follows; first and 

 second, third and fourth, fifth and sixth, seventh and eighth. 

 The first group worked out a mountain camp as a project. The 

 next group had a food project. The fifth and sixth groups en- 

 joyed their study of water and the oldest group was vitally in- 

 terested in a forestry project. 



The interpretation of the term ''project" is still an undecided is- 

 sue in many minds and many consider this method of presentation 

 of school subjects a fad. After six week's experience with project 

 teaching I can safely say that the twelve or more practice teach- 



