IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



In order to have the children's work of the 

 best, the conductors of the tramping excursions 

 are picked and especially trained teachers. That 

 the garden work may come up to the same 

 standard of quality, winter courses in nature study, 

 psychology and pedagogy for the normal students 

 and for teachers have been arranged by an 

 exchange of services between the director of 

 nature study and school gardening of the Pitts- 

 burgh Playground Association and the professors 

 of the University of Pittsburgh. The work in- 

 augurated this year promises to send Pittsburgh 

 to the front in school garden work along with 

 Washington, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Yonkers. 

 These four cities, in the individual character of 

 their work, arc doing on a large scale what many 

 small communities are accomplishing elsewhere by 

 faithful efforts along the same line. 



Coming now to gardens carried on in connec- 

 tion with the regular school tuition, we find marked 

 latitude in method and range, varying from 

 voluntary work of children at recess and before 

 and after school, under the guidance of their grade 

 teachers, to regular teaching as a part of the 

 curriculum and definite garden work in the classes 

 through the year. Some illustrations may sug- 

 gest an intelligent choice of method. 



One city gives this example of school gardening 

 and civic improvement. The children of several 

 schools situated in a colored quarter volunteered 

 for garden work, each room or grade making 



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