IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



With little children there must be a close 

 resemblance of form, for individual initiative is 

 not, as yet, developed. The child must have in 

 his home about the same tools and plans to work 

 with that he has in the school garden, or he will 

 fail to carry his knowledge from one to the other. 

 But in the second grade, work is confined to the 

 child's innate love of digging and to calling his 

 attention to the major differences in form, color 

 and growth of the simplest flowers of which he 

 may become the owner. These are selected by 

 color and the garden is planned for color masses. 

 A little later he is to grow his plants not for 

 himself alone but to share fruit or flower with 

 his home people, in the fourth grade he has 

 chiefly vegetables, and is taught to harvest 

 them and take them home in good condition to 

 his mother, in this year's work he is expected 

 to market enough of his crop to pay for his seeds. 

 In the eighth and ninth grades the children are 

 expected to pay all expenses from the returns. 

 In these grades also, they are expected to plan 

 their work, map out its details, arrange for plow- 

 ing and fertilizing, do the planting, market the 

 produce and carry on in the school all those neces- 

 sary operations of accounts and banking that the 

 up-to-date farmer would meet in converting his 

 seed into crops and these into his bank account. 

 The children have practical problems in arith- 

 metic and in surveying; practice work in cooking; 

 exercises in English based upon their garden; 



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