If there is a brook or lake near your home, how can you make an island?
Opposite is a picture of a river and a lake. Make a map of the same river and lake on your slate. Notice how the coast or shore of the lake bends in and out.
Write the following:
A lake is water surrounded by land.
The land near the water of a lake is called its shore.
An island is a little piece of land surrounded by water.
LESSON XXVI.
MORE ABOUT FORMS OF LAND AND WATER.
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