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MANUAL OF NATURE STUDY. 
How does the condition of blood affect our health ? 
Then would it be good for our health to remain in 
a privy or water closet too long? To sleep in a 
very close room? To breathe tobacco smoke? To 
lace the ribs and abdomen ? Why ? 
D .—Geography. 
Continue work of first year. Study of forms of 
solids, as cube, pyramids, sphere, etc. From the 
study of the sphere develop the shape of the earth. 
From conversations based upon readings from 
“Seven Little Sisters,” and similar books, develop 
as far as practicable at this stage, an idea of the 
earth as a whole. 
E . —Weather Study. 
Observations and morning notes, a. Dew, 
frost, or neither, b. Rain or snow, c . Direction 
of wind at 8 o’clock, a. m. d. Clear, cloudy, partly 
cloudy, raining or snowing at 8:00 a. m. See direc¬ 
tion for work in first grade. 
Literature .—See Wilson’s Nature Reader. 
1. Stories to be told to the children, a . “Clytie,” 
to be told in connection with the study of the sun¬ 
flower. b. “Story of the thistle,” to be told in con¬ 
nection with the study of the thistle, c. “Aurora.” 
d. “Aurora’s Tears.” e. “Aurora and Tithonus,” 
to be read in connection with the study of the 
