SPRING NATURE STUDY. 581 



OUR SEED BABIES. 



41 We put some baby seeds to bed. They were bean babies and 

 pea babies. Some sweet peas of ours came up too. We took off the 

 seed's coat of a bean. We saw the head and foot coming out of the 

 bean. We put some into a glass and they came up. The bean came 

 up. I am going to make a picture of a bean and here it is. (Picture 

 of seed.) I am going to make one more bean. (Picture of bean be- 

 ginning to sprout.) The knees came up first." 



DARLENE STONE, 



SECOND GRADE. 

 PLANTING BEANS. 



"We planted beans yesterday in a box with some soil in. We 

 planted them a half inch deep and then covered them with soil. 



44 We then took some jars (and a piece of blotting paper, C. B. S.) 

 and wet it and put it in the jars and then put beans in the jars. In 

 the morning they were cracked. 



4 4 The beans grew in the garden last year. The pod looked like a 

 cone. At first (when, C. B. S.) the bean grew the pods were green 

 but when the sun came they turned white and when it rained it made 

 them soft and then the men picked them. If the men did not pick 

 them they would fall down to the ground and grow next year. 



44 We had some beans in the room in a bottle. We looked at 

 them. They had grown a great deal. There was a little sprout on 

 them. The sprout was green. It would be an inch long but it wasn't 

 straight. It grew downward. Its cap is black. ' ' 



EGBERT BRENNAN, % 

 THIRD GRADE. 

 THE BEAN. 



(Part of a diary kept by members of the class.) 



44 April 27, 1897. My bean is hard and the color is black and 

 white. It is shaped like a boat and it has little dints in it. Yesterday 

 we planted some beans and we put them in the ground an inch deep. 

 After we planted them Miss Fuller got some little flags and stuck 

 them in the ground for the row who planted them. 



44 April 29, 1897. Yesterday we put a sponge in a bottle and we put 

 some water in it too (and some beans, C. B. S.). Then we looked at 

 it (the bean, C. B. S.) this morning and it was soft. It was soft be- 

 cause there was water in it. The skin was coming off and it was all 



