1 82 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES 



Pine, these are my little boys and girls who wish 

 to visit you often. 



On this first day the children learn to distin- 

 guish the Austrian pine from other evergreen 

 trees by its general appearance. They know it 

 by the shade of green of its dress ; by its straight, 

 pointed trunk ; by its arms or branches, which extend 

 out nearly straight from the trunk, then curve up- 

 ward ; by several branches starting out from 

 the same circle and reaching out in different di- 

 rections ; by gradual shortening of the branches 

 from below upward. After learning to recognize 

 the tree readily, the children make drawings, 

 showing its general shape. This is the picture of 

 the naked tree as it looked after it had lost its 

 leaves in the story of "The Unhappy Pine Tree." 1 

 Is it pretty? What gives beauty to the tree? Its 

 dress. And this is a wonderful dress. Let us 

 see of what it is made. [Each child has a small 

 twig.] (It is made of needles. And the needles 

 are put up in bundles, only two in a bundle. The 

 wrapper which holds them together is around one 

 end only.) 



1 " Classic Stories for the Little Ones," published by Public School 

 Publishing Company, Bloomington, Illinois. 



