CORRELATIONS
Draw a pine tree, a bunch of pine needles, a pine cone, and a pine seed.
Write a description of a pine tree seen in the woods; also of one found in the open.
Write a list of things for which the white pine is useful.
To the teacher.—The winter months, besides affording an opportunity for seeing trees and plants in their dormant or quiescent condition, also afford an opportunity for reading and reflection, for recalling observations and experiences of the past season, and for making plans for work and study in the school garden, woods, and fields when spring returns. The knowledge gained by the pupils through first-hand observation of trees, flowers, and gardens can be greatly extended by pictures and stories descriptive of these, which the teacher may from time to time bring to the school-room. Their personal experiences will be the basis for interpretation of many new things which will come up in the reading lessons, in selections which the teacher reads from week to week, and in books and papers which they themselves read in their homes. Thus the interest that is aroused by the first-hand studies of plants in garden, orchard, or woodland will be carried over from autumn to spring, and the pupils, with the awakening of spring, will take up anew the study of plant life with a keener interest because of the time given to reading and reflection during the winter. Illustrated magazines dealing with gardening and with the study of trees and plants, and such magazines as have a children's department, will prove of great assistance to the teacher who makes any serious attempt to interest pupils in plant studies. Stories of life in the woods and of plant studies suitable to young pupils should be used.
REFERENCES
Margaret Morley: Flowers and their Friends. Ginn & Co. 50 cents.
Margaret Morley: Seed Babies. Ginn & Co. 25 cents.
Margaret Morley: Little Wanderers. Ginn & Co. 30 cents.
Alice Lounsberry: The Garden Book for Young People. Stokes. $1.50.