AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



who come from the fifth, sixth and seventh grades 

 to work in the garden after school from three- 

 thirty to five o'clock. These last are children who 

 ask to be farmers. At the end of the school year 

 they surrender their plots to a new set of children 

 who possess them during the summer, during 

 which time the class plots become sample plots. 

 The correlation of the garden work is left to the 

 grade teachers. The summer lessons are distinct 

 from those of term time and are also progressive. 

 A summer's day is divided as follows: 



8.00-8.20 A. M. Nature study lesson. 



8.20-9.30 A. M. Individual plot work. 



9.30-10.00 A. M. Work on borders and sample 

 plots. 



The vacation classes are large and come three 

 times each week, being subdivided into two sec- 

 tions, A and B. The B section follows A and 

 repeats the program from 10 to 12 a. m. The 

 last half hour of the session is reserved for the 

 teachers for the inspection and clerical work that 

 ends the day. 



In Cleveland, the bond between garden and 

 school is looser, while in Washington the garden 

 work is minutely defined in every grade and each 

 child has as regular work allotted to him in the 

 garden, as in arithmetic or other studies. 



At the Whittier School of Hampton Institute 

 (see footnote, page 21) the garden is closely asso- 

 ciated with the work in nature study and draw- 

 ing. Here, as in some other schools, exercises 



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