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EXERCISES FOR SOUTHERN RURAL SCHOOLS. 3 
Correlations.—Correlate the work with language lessons by having 
the pupils tell orally short stories of their experiences in the garden 
planting seed, collecting specimens, and observing germinating seed. 
These short stories should be reduced to writing by pupils of the 
second gerade and the work given a piace in the class notebook. (See 
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Outlines of leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, and fruits of plants studied 
should constitute the work in drawing. 
ANIMALS. 
Review.—Ascertain what the pupils of these grades know about 
birds and animals. Continue learning the names of animals and 
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Assigned work.—Specialize in bird studies. List the names of 
birds that may be seen this month. 
Study a few particular birds, such as the blue jay, the humming 
bird, the mocking bird, the bluebird, and the swallow. Do they 
reside permanently in your State? Do they migrate south? What 
do they eat? Where do they build their nests? Is there a reason 
for the nest being located as it is? What is the color of the head, 
the breast, the wings, the back, the tail? Do they hop or run, or 
-both? Do they sing—character of note? Inmnitate. 
Practical exercises.—Yncourage birds to frequent school and home 
yards by putting at particular places lunch remnants, meat scraps, 
and broken grain. Make them ‘‘gentle” by feeding and kind treat- 
ment. Make trips to the school grounds, fields, and woods to observe 
the habits of the birds being studied. Make records of observations 
im the class notebook. The following is an example record: 
The Biuebird. 
1. Most bluebirds go south in winter. Some remain. 
. They collect most of their food from the ground—insects and weed seeds. 
3. They build their nests in holiow stumps, posts, and rails, in gardens, fields, 
and orchards. : 
4. There are two special reasons for the location of their nests—to protect their 
young, and to be convenient to source of food. 
5. Color: Head, blue; breast, brown; wings, blue; back, blue; tail, blue. 
6. Bluebirds both hop and run. - 
7. Bluebirds sing. 
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Correlations —Ample material abounds for correlation work. 
listing birds seen this month, making records of observations, 
relating stories, oral and written, of experiences on observation 
trips furnish language lesson exercises. The best written work 
should have a place in the class notebook. 
_ Make drawings of particular feathers and tracks of each kind of 
bird studied. The best drawings should be mounted in the ciass 
notebook. 
