The gardening in the spring may be limited to the making of attractive beds of flowers 

 especially modified for insect visitation; nasturtiums, hollyhocks, snap dragons, butter-and- 

 eggs, salvia, fox glove, sweet peas, iris, cobaea, datura, orchids, clovers, buckwheat, etc. 

 The meteorological work of the fourth grade may be continued and after the winter work is 

 completed the study of clouds as to their formation, types, and importance. Daily reading of 

 the barometer and the construction of pressure curves upon the same sheet as the temperature 

 curves in order to discover the relation of air pressure, temperature and precipitation. Notice 

 the winds which precede and follow the passage of the areas of low and high pressure. Train 

 the children so that they can begin to anticipate the arrival of storms by means of the weath- 

 er-vane, thermometer and barometer. For instance they will discover that a south wind, high 

 thermometer and descending barometer generally mean a storm is approaching; while a north 

 wind, dropping thermometer and rising barometer mean bright skies and fair weather. Keep 

 a record of predictions and result. 



HELPFUL LITERATURE. 



1. Insect Life Comstock. Appleton & Co., 1897. 



2. Ways of the Six-Footed Comstock. Ginn & Co., 1903. 



3. Elementary Lessons in Zoology Needham. American Book Co., 1895. 



4. The Honey Bee Langstroth. Dadant & Son, 1896. 



5! The Life of the Bee Maeteclinck and Sutro. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. 



6. The Bee People Morley. McClurg & Co. 



7. The Honey Makers Morley. McClurg & Co. 



8. Bee Keeping and the Honey Bee. Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 59 and i. 

 o Ants, Wasps and Bees Lubbock. Appleton & Co., 1884. 



10. Locusts and Wild Honey Burroughs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885. 



11. Birds and Bees Burroughs. Houghton, MifHin & Co. 

 12. Flowers and their Friends Morley. Ginn & Co., 1901. 



13' All the Year Round, Pt. i, Autumn Strong. Ginn & Co., 1897. 



14! Little Wanderers Morley. Ginn & Co., 1902. 



j,/ Seed Dispersal Beal. Ginn & Co. 



16 Seed-Travellers Weed. Ginn & Co. 



17. Flowers, Fruits and Leaves Lubbock . Macmillan & Co., 1894, 



18 Fertilization of Plants Lubbock. Macmillan & Co. 



19 Cross and Self- Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom Darwin. Appleton & Co., 1882. 



20. The Corn Plants, their Uses and Ways of Life Sargent. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. 



21. School Savings Banks Fall. Office Supt. Public Instruction. Lansing, Mich., 1903. 

 22 The Story of a Piece of Coal Martin. Appleton & Co., 1901. 



23. The Story of Coal McKane. World's Events Pub. Co. 



24 Great American Industries Rocheleau, Vol. I. Flanagan, 1896. 



25 Coal and Coal Mines Green. Houghton, Mifflin &Co., 1889. 



26 All the Year Round. Winter, Pt. II., Strong, 1897. 



27 Longman's Object Lessons Salmon and Woodhull. Longmans, Green & Co. , 1894. 



28 Geological Story Briefly Told Dana. Amer. Book Co., 1875. 



29 Sketches of Creation Winchell. Harper & Bros., 1870. 



10 How a Candle Burns Cavanaugh. Cornell Leaflet No. 2, 1898. 



*i" Chemical History of a Candle Faraday. Harper & Bros. 



32 chemistry in Daily Life Lassar-Cohn. Lippincott & Co., 1896. 



a-i' Elementary Lessons in Physics Gifford. Thompson, Brown & Co. 



ti' First Science Book Higgins. Ginn & Co., 1905. 



' First Course in Physics Millikan and Gale. Ginn & Co., 1906. 



16 First Lessons in Physical Science A very and Sinuott. Butler, Sheldon & Co. 



17 Nature Study Jackman. Holt & Co., 1894. 



*8 Systematic Science Teaching Howe. Appleton & Co., 1894. 



V The Child's Book of Nature Hooker. Harper & Bros., 1883. 



40. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge Bert. Lippincott & Co., 1888. 



41 Cat Tails and Other Tales Howliston. Flanagan & Co., 1895. 



42 Nature's Miracles Gray. Baker & Taylor Co., 1899. 



4* Elementary Meteorology Waldo. Amer. Book Co., 1896. 



44 The Ocean of Air Giberne. Amer. Tract Society. 



45 About the Weather- Harrington. Appleton & Co., 1899. 



46 School Sanitation and Decoration Burrage and Bailey. Heath & Co , 1900. 



47 Handbook of Household Science Youmans. Appleton & Co. 



48 Among the Moths and Butterflies Ballard. Putnam's Sons, 1895. 



49 Moths and Butterflies Dickerson. Ginn & Co., 1901. 



50 Nature Study and Life Hodge. Ginn & Co., 1902. Budding and grafting. 



51 The Nursery Book Bailey. Macmillan & Co. 



52! Practical Garden Book Bailey. Macmillan & Co. 



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