148 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES 



gather it for them from the ground.) Where are 

 the roots of this little plant? (It has none, yet.) 

 What will feed it until its roots grow ? (This jelly 

 which is all around it.) Why did not the little plant 

 begin to grow in the winter, in the paper in which 

 we found it? (It cannot take hard food. Its food 

 must be dissolved for it before it can take it.) Then 

 what must happen to the seed before the tiny plant 

 can begin growing ? (It must be wet.) You may 

 make a picture in the left-hand corner of your draw- 

 ing paper of this little plant as it looks when it first 

 comes from the seed, then we shall remember how 

 the morning-glory began life. 



At the same time that the children planted their 

 seeds, the teacher planted a quantity in a box by 

 themselves. As soon as the plants in her box begin 

 to break through the ground, a few are taken up and 

 changes noticed by the children. Where is the 

 jelly? (The seeds have used it up. The plant has 

 little roots now and they have gone to work.) 

 [Drawings are made at each stage of the plant's 

 development] 



As soon as the leaves are above ground they are 

 compared in color, size, and shape with the same 

 when in the seed. Look closely between the two 



