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year? Name the permanent residents, the summer residents, the 

 winter residents, and the transients. 



Review the lesson with the goat. What animals has the class 

 studied this year ? Which proved the most interesting ? Which does 

 the class consider the most useful? Where there are differences of 

 opinion have the pupils give the reasons. 



Assigned work. — Require the pupils of this class to make a collection 

 of snails, earthworms, crajrfish, daddy longlegs or grandfather gray- 

 beards and spiders. Place these in bottles and tin cans. Have the 

 pupils study these closely to be able to answer questions with reference 

 to the parts of their bodies, their methods of moving about, how they 

 defend themselves and what they eat and how they secure it. Many 

 interesting facts may be learned from a study of these little animals. 



Practical work. — Securing bottles and cans and searching for the 

 small animals mentioned in the forego ing lesson provide abundant 

 outdoor work. 



Correlations. — Language: Have the pupils describe briefly each of 

 the small animals studied. 



Drawing: Make sketches of the snails, spiders, and other small 

 animals. 



FOURTH GRADE. 



Continued work. — Look after the growing garden plants, continue 

 the work of planting (see planting table, p. 62), and gather vegetables 

 now ready for the table. Have the pupils of this grade prepare their 

 exhibits for the early spring vegetable show. 



Seeds of plants providing temporary screens and backgrounds and 

 of climbing plants should be sown. Four o'clocks and hollyhocks 

 belong to the first group mentioned, and morning glories, ornamental 

 gourds, and climbing nasturtiums to the second. The pupils of this 

 grade should be encouraged to grow these plants both at home and at 

 school. 



Assigned vxjrk. — What field crops are being planted during April 

 and the first part of May — corn, cotton, sorghum, sugar cane ? What 

 other crops ? 



Answer the following questions as to each crop that is being 

 planted: 



(1) How is the seed bod prepared? 



(2) Are tlie seed planted in furrows or in. beds? 



('.',) What quantity of seed in each case is planted per acre? 



(4) How are seeds planted — by hand, with planters? 



('>) What distance apart are the rows? How far apart are the seed planted? 



(6) I i fertilizer applied? How? In what quantity La the case of each crop? 



For whal is the crop gro\i a? 

 (H) When will each crop be ready to harvest? 



