38 EXPERIMENTAL LESSONS. 



EXPERIMENTAL LESSONS. 



[Note. Teachers sending articles to be printed under this head, will 

 greatly oblig? if they will let us have them exactly as they are written 

 by the pupils in their final copy, without change of language of any de- 

 scription. 



We have three reasons for asking this ; - — first, in order that other 

 teachers can judge of the quality of work done by their pupils, in com- 

 parison with the work of others, in the experimental lessons. 



Second, that the pupils themselves may be benefited by seeing their 

 articles printed verbatim, for errors in language become much more appar- 

 ent when put into type than when written. 



Third, because we think that much of the charm of the work done by 

 children, lies in their method of expression, and this method should, we 

 think, be encouraged, for it leads to an originality in writing which is 

 certainly desirable. " 



We intended that this introduction to experimental lessons should have 

 appeared in our first issue, accompanied by the statement that all of the 

 children's work in that issue was printed verbatim, but it was overlooked 

 until it was too late. ] 



LESSON ON A GRAY SQUIRREL IN A KINDERGARTEN 



GRADE. 



BEACHMONT, MASS. 



BY 



Lillian A. Young. 



The children of the kindergarten were intensely inter- 

 ested in the lesson on the squirrel which I gave to them. 



Stories about squirrels were told, songs were sung, and 

 our talk continued for one hour, showing unusual interest 

 for such young children. 



The general impression, among the children, was that 

 the squirrel lives in a hollow tree. One song, " Little Squir- 

 rel living there in the hollow tree," was quoted, and much 

 surprise was manifested when they learned that our com- 

 mon gray squirrel generally builds a nest of twigs. His 



