SEPTEMBER 15 



Eleanor Smith's Songs for Little Children. 



North Wind, 



Wind Song, 



Rain Coach, 



Rain Song, 



A ^Million Little Diamonds, St. Nicholas' Songs. 



Northerly, Mrs. Dodge's When Life is Young. 



How the Winds Blow, ] 



:Merry Rain, [ Lovejoy's Nature in Verse. 



Little Raindrops, I 



Who Likes the Rain, J 



Most excellent language lessons might be given on the 

 people and countries to the north, south, east, and west of us. 



Tliinl and Fourth Years: 



The first wind lesson in September should be given 

 after lessons in general direction, when it is quite certain 

 that all of the children know which way is north, south, 

 east, west, northeast, southeast, northwest, and south- 

 west. The children should be taken out of doors to 

 notice the direction from Avhich the wind comes, after 

 they have been properly prepared for the work by dis- 

 cussing various ways by which this may be determined, 

 such as holding up the handkerchief, pieces of paper, 

 watching the leaves, clouds, smoke, flags, etc. It must 

 be made perfectly clear that all of these things will be 

 blown in a direction exactly opposed to that from which 

 the wind comes. If, for example, the smoke is going 

 toward the southeast, the wind is from the north Avest. 



Three excursions to observe the direction of the wind 

 will not be too many. Prepare for these and all other 

 excursions by going over the ground first yourself. Do 

 not fail to make most prominent the point at issue, but, 

 at the same time, do not fail to help them to observe and 

 admire such obvious and wonderful things as the clouds. 



