1 82 NATURE STUDY LESSONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES 



Pine, these are my little boys and girls who wish 

 to visit you often. 



On this first day the children learn to distin- 

 guish the Austrian pine from other evergreen 

 trees by its general appearance. They know it 

 by the shade of green of its dress ; by its straight, 

 pointed trunk ; by its arms or branches, which extend 

 out nearly straight from the trunk, then curve up- 

 ward ; by several branches starting out from 

 the same circle and reaching out in different di- 

 rections ; by gradual shortening of the branches 

 from below upward. After learning to recognize 

 the tree readily, the children make drawings, 

 showing its general- shape. This is the picture of 

 the naked tree as it looked after it had lost its 

 leaves in the story of " The Unhappy Pine Tree." 1 

 Is it pretty?, What gives beauty to the tree? Its 

 dress. And this is a wonderful dress. Let us 

 see of what it is made. [Each child has a small 

 twig.] (It is made of needles. And the needles 

 are put up in bundles, only two in a bundle. The 

 wrapper which holds them together is around one 

 end only.) 



1 " Classic Stories for the Little Ones," published by Public School 

 Publishing Company, Bloomington, Illinois. 



