Language Through Nature 



Lesson 20 



OBSERVATION OF TREES 



Tell of some trees that you have seen losing their leaves 

 this fall. Why are the leaves falling ? 



What do you remember about the trees last spring, and 

 how the leaves came ? 



How do you think these trees will get leaves next spring ? 



twigs besides 



cold weather ? 

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Tell of anything you have noticed on the 

 the leaves or marks where leaves 4 have been. 



What sometimes ' happens 



Describe the ways in which 

 from cold. 



We shall put some 

 twigs in' water and 

 watch to see what 

 happens. 



Make a picture of the W^ twig you 

 have looked at, showing all you can see. 



SUGGESTED WORK 



If the class would like to study insects and their ways, they can easily fit 

 up a place in which specimens can be kept alive and properly cared for. 



Get or make a box about three feet long, two and one-half feet wide, and 

 eight or ten inches deep. Nail in each corner an upright about three or four 

 feet long, and two inches wide by one inch thick. Strengthen by sticks 

 connecting the tops of the uprights. Fasten netting above and around the 

 sides of this frame. 



In the box place a pan of water, some soil and sods of grass, a few grow- 

 ing plants, and some twigs stuck in the sod. 



The class now have a cage in which they can put the insects they wish to 

 observe. Grasshoppers, butterflies, caterpillars, beetles, and other specimens 

 of insect life can be thus kept and studied. 



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