410 NATURE STUDY. 



Step III. What We Should Do. 

 Appreciate better how much the apple means. 

 Enjoy better these simple, common gifts. 

 Share with others what has been made by all, nature, 

 man, and God working together. 



Thank the Author of the garnered fruits. 



" O painter of the fruits and flowers, 



We own Thy wise design, 

 Whereby these human hands of ours 

 May share the work of Thine. 



Apart from Thee we plant in vain 



The root, and sow the seed ; 

 Thy early and Thy later rain, 



Thy sun and dew, we need. 



And still with reverent hands we cull 



Thy gifts each year renewed ; 

 The good is always beautiful, 



The beautiful is good." 



WHITTIER. 



DECEMBER WORK. THE EVERGREENS. 

 THE PINE. 



Step L The Pine at Home. Field Lesson. 



Preparation. Eecall fall work about coloring and fall- 

 ing of leaves, and have children tell how bare are the 

 trees which were so beautiful last summer and fall. " We 

 have some trees which do not drop all their leaf -helpers. 

 Because they ever have green leaves we call them ever- 

 greens. To-day we shall see how beautiful they are, and 

 how they are made so that they can keep their leaves all 

 winter." 



Take children out-doors to see pine tree. If this is im- 



