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SECOND GRADE. 



SEPTEMBER. 



PLANTS. 



Compare growth, of twigs of different trees, of different 

 years. Oak, elm, pine. 



Relation of insects to leaves as food, as nests, as deposi- 

 tories for eggs. Prevailing color in same leaves. Plants 

 storing food. 



ANIMALS. 



Migration of birds. Compare coats of squirrel and rabbit 

 as to texture, color, distribution, warmtb, protection. Hab- 

 its of grasshoppers. Observe caterpillars spin cocoons. 

 Prepare an ants' nest. 



MINEEALS. 



Visit a stream; forces acting upon pebbles; formation 

 of marbles. 



ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY. 



Daily record of day, date, frost or dew, direction of wind, 

 clouds or fogs, rainfall, temperature. Moon's phases, rising 

 and setting sun. 



Locate places in the horizon where the sun rises and 

 sets. 



NOTE.— Weather Record should be kept from year to year and 

 differences in growth of different years should be referred to 

 variations in atmospheric conditions. 



Observations of life infesting trees continued. 



Record of migration of birds same as Grade I. 



