20 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA—EXPERIMENT STATION 
"Watch work and movements and report. Make a special study of the 
English sparrow if there be one in the vicinity; where it stays, feeds, 
disposition, etc. Try to identify different birds by their manner of 
flight. What is the food of birds during the winter time? Observa¬ 
tions on nest building and care of the young. Make a bird calendar. 
Domestic animals. —Review work and worth of the common 
domestic animals on the farm as outlined in second year. The Cat, 
why have one about the house? What is its food? What does it do? 
Describe eyes, ears, claws, etc. What are its whiskers ? What are the 
wild relatives of the cat? Who has a Dog at home? Of what use is 
he ? Tell about his care, habits, wild relatives, etc. General study of 
Hen. Where do they make their nests? Eggs, sizes and colors. 
Setting a hen. Chickens, their food, care and enemies. Simple re¬ 
quirements of a good poultry house. Its care. Shelter for farm 
animals. 
Wild animals. —Name all found in the vicinity. What ones are 
injuries to cultivated crops? In what way? How exterminated? 
Make a special study of the squirrel or rabbit, food, manner of life, 
appearance, value, etc. 
4. Physical Phenomena and the Inorganic World 
Weather and temperature. —Study of the thermometer, its uses, 
and how it works. Use of mercury and alcohol. Place thermometer 
in various parts of the room and note the readings. Put a weather 
calendar on the board and on it record daily temperature of outside 
air from readings of thermometer hung on the outside of the school- 
house for a few minutes. What is temperature ? What makes weather ? 
The Moon. —Appearance when it is full. Difference in appear¬ 
ance between the new moon and the full moon and w T hv. Where does 
the new moon rise and where does it set? Does moon rise earlier or 
later on succeeding nights? How does the moon give light? Discuss 
various phases of the moon. 
Seasons and rainfall. —Review all previous work with reference to 
change of seasons; causes of rain, value of rain. What are snow and 
ice and how caused? 
Physical phenomena. —Burning of wood and coal; kerosene lamp; 
evaporation of water; wind as a drying agency on mud, etc.; cloudy 
days and nights contrasted with clear days and nights. Frost and 
its effects upon plant life; insect life. Effect of cold weather upon 
children. 
Brook and soil. —Review all previous instruction regarding the 
work of the brook and how soil is made. 
