DECEMBER 109 



Weather Eecord, No. III. (p. 107), may be given 

 to the children for December. The general plan outlines, 

 in Chaps. II. and III. for using these, should be pursued. 



LITERATURE 



Stories : 



Snow Queen, -| 



Snow Man, |- Andersen. 



Ice Maiden, J 



Snow Image, Hawthorne. 



Circle of Blessing, Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature. 



Snow Flakes, Emilie Poulsson's In the Child's ^yorld. 



Easy Poems : 



The Tree in Winter, i 



Snow Clouds, i Eleanor Smith's Songs for Little 



Little White Feather, [ Children. 



Old Jack Frost, J 



Tiny Little Snow Flakes, Walker's Songs and Games. 



Snow Flakes, Mrs. Dodge's When Life is Young. 



Snow Flakes (First Verse), Longfellow. 



Hide and Seek, F. D. Sherman in Lovejoy's Nature in Verse. 



Jack Frost, H. F. Gould, in Whittier's Child Life. 



Snow Song, Lucy Larcom. 



More Difficult Poems : 



Winter, Tennyson. 



Extract from Song of the Sower, Bryant. 



P2xtract from Frost Spirit, Whittier. 



Snow Storm, Emerson. 



First Snow-fall, Lowell. 



Snow Shower, Bryant. 



PLANTS 

 The Holly, the Mistletoe, and the Christmas Tree, which 

 is ahvays either a Spruce or a Balsam Fir, should be 

 saved for the lessons just before Christmas. The Christ- 

 mas Tree might be studied by the pupils of the first and 



