WINTER EARTH STUDY. 501 



LESSON III. USES OF SNOW. WHAT THE SNOW DOES FOR US. 



Preparation. Sing at the morning exercises or before' 

 the lesson a coasting or sleighing song. 



Step I. How the snow makes the world beautiful for us. 

 Try to impress the thought that the beauty which the 

 snow gives to the world is so much added to our life. 



Step II. How the snow brings happiness to boys and 

 girls. 



Have children tell about their favorite winter sports. 

 Ask them why they like winter. Name and count the 

 sports and pleasures which the snow gives to children, 

 snow-balling, making snow men, coasting, sleighing, etc. 



Step III. How the snow helps grown people. 



How snow aids us in travelling about and in carrying 

 things. How much more easily we can travel, and how 

 much heavier loads we can carry, when there is ulenty of 

 snow. How much snow helps the lumbermen. 



Step IV. How the snow helps the Esquimos. 



Try to give the children some idea of the land where 

 there is snow all the year round, and of the usefulness of 

 snow to the people who live there. Picture the life of 

 Agoonac (see Jane Andrew's " Seven Little Sisters" and 

 " Each and All "), the way she dresses to keep warm, her 

 house often made of ice or snow and the sled in which 

 she is pulled by the dogs over miles of ice and snow. 



Step V. Expression. 



Have children draw Esquimo house or sled, or model 

 the Esquimo hut. If they can build outdoors, at recess or 

 noon, an Esquimo house of snow, so much the better. 



