THE TREES 35 



Dwell upon the need of sunlight and the tree's active 

 search for it, and lead the children to feel that we, too, 

 must endeavor to lead a life that is full of God's sunlight. 



Bring to the class the end of a branch from an oak, a 

 horse-chestnut, a pine, an elm, or a birch, and show the 

 children how one leaf differs from another on the same 

 branch, and how differently they are carried on the ends 

 of the branches and fitted in together to receive all of the 

 sunlight. 



Show the under side of the leaves when that point is 

 reached in the story, so all the class can see how different 

 it is from the upper surface. 



Think of some well-known place which covers about 

 one-half an acre and refer to it when telling of the maple 

 leaves. 



Hand Work 



Ask each child to choose some great tree that is ac- 

 cessible and visit it often, thinking of it as his tree and 

 learning from it all the tree has to tell him. 



Upon the top of the sheet which accompanies the leaflet 

 have the pupil write the name of his tree, and paste below 

 one or more pressed leaves from it. 



OPENING TALK 



Are all the seeds that come up in the spring sown by 

 man? Can you tell some of the means nature uses to 

 scatter seeds? What seeds did you find? Tell me how 

 they are sown. Does the parent plant always wish to 

 scatter the seeds far away? What has been helping the 

 flowers for a very much longer time than man has? 



Even the great trees come from seeds, and bear seeds 

 which may be sown by the wind, by animals or by man. 

 Let us think to-day how a tree grows. 



