tanning. 7. Tree trunks for ship masts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, etc.

LANGUAGE AND BLACKBOARD READING.—TREES.

Let pupils read the statements given as the result of questioning in regard to the needs of trees. Erase sentences and let them pass to board and tell with crayon what the tree needs and gives. In the same or following lesson let pupils combine these statements using but one and, and reproduce on the board. Call attention to the use of commas and give a little practice in making these carefully.

Trees need soil.

Trees need water. Trees need light. Trees need heat. Trees need soil, water, light and heat.

TREES. WHAT THEY GIVE.

Trees give soil. Trees give shade. Trees give light. Trees give heat. Trees give food. Trees give wood. Trees give shelter. Trees give soil, shade, light, heat, food, wood and shelter.

How do they give soil? Lead pupils to follow the process of decay of leaves and trunks of trees, and the action of the rains, winds, air, insects, animals, etc., in assisting.

How does the tree give light? How many pupils have fire-places? What did Lincoln and many other people in olden times use instead of lamps? How do trees give heat? In what other form does the tree come to us as fuel? Wood, coal. How does the tree give coal? Let pupils tell of the transformation of wood into coal as given in last month's lessons, or let teacher explain.

What trees are selected and planted in our yards and streets for shade trees?

How many could picture these trees for us on the board in such a way that we would know the names (oak, elm, willow, maple, poplar and pine). See trees in Plan Book.

What trees are planted in our orchards for the fruit they will give? What trees give us nuts?

What are the trees used for fuel? for building ships? boats? furniture ?

Trees give homes to birds.
Trees give homes to insects.
Trees give homes to animals.
Trees give homes to people.

Trees give homes to people, insects, birds, and other animals.

What birds build nests in trees and find food there?

What birds use holes in trees for homes? What animals live in or among trees? (Squirrels, bear, tree toad, monkeys.) What insects live in trees and find their food there?

What people find homes in trees? Did you ever hear of the tree man?

What would we do for homes were it not for trees?

How many live in houses built of wood given by the tree? For what else do we use wood?

We use wood for cars.

We use wood for ships.

We use wood for houses.
We use wood for fuel.

We use wood for furniture.

We use wood for cars, ships, houses, fuel and furniture.

DRAWING.

Draw the trees in the school yard.

Study the pictures of trees, outline and draw them.

Let pupils draw them with colored crayon on Arbor Day, or with chalk on brown paper. Select some tree in the yard at home or school, and draw from memory.

Cut trees.

Cut pictures of trees from papers, and paste on cardboard. See how many trees can be secured and correctly named by pupils.

Draw all articles of furniture in room made of wood. Draw from memory articles of wood used in the kitchen at home.

LITERATURE.-TREES.

"A Story of the Forest," Story Hour by K. D. Wiggin. "Trees," Whittier's Child Life.

"Hiawatha's Ship Building," Longfellow.

"The Tree that Tried to Grow."
"Philemon and Baucis," Cooke.
"Daphne" (Origin of Laurel).
"Story of a Poplar Tree," Cooke.
"Lilac Buds," Cat Tails, Howlitson.
"Vine and Oak," Eugene Field.
"Willow and the Bee."

"Rhoecus."

"The Tree," Bjornson.

"The Cary Tree."

Historic Trees, "Charter Oak," "Washington Elm."

"Stories of the Trees," Mrs. Dyson.

THE GRASS AND THE FROGS.

"The gay, green grass comes creeping,
So soft beneath our feet,

The frogs begin to ripple

A music clear and sweet."

-From Primary Education.

JAPANESE DAY.

A JAPANESE GOOD MORNING,

A fall to the knees,

A turn to the toes,

A spread of the hands

And a dip of the nose;

It takes all these just to say "Good day,"

In Chrysanthemum-land so far away.

-From January St. Nicholas.

Choose a warm day for your "Japanese Day," when the regular work begins to lag, and pupils show a tendency to let their interests stray outside.

Tell the pupils stories of the home and school life of China and Japan, and of their happy April festivals in the plum orchards. To them this is the happiest season of the whole year, for now they have their holidays and "May walks."

Let pupils tell you what they know of these people, and of the things in their own homes that came from this far away Kingdom of the Sunrise.

Question pupils as to what they send us to eat? (Rice, candy, nuts.) To drink? (Tea.) To To use as medicine? (Opium.) To wear? (Silk.) To protect us from the sun or heat? (Sun shades, fans, fire screens.) To light our houses? (Lanterns.) To call us to dinner? (Dinner gong.) Το bloom in our garden? (Japanese lily.) To ornament our homes? (Vases, pictures, figures, curtains, bamboo furniture.) To play with? (Kites, dolls, fire-crackers.)

Let pupils bring as many of these articles as can be borrowed and kept in the room the remainder of the week. Show pupils pictures of Chinese and Japanese people and scenes, and ask them to find others and bring to school.

If there is a child in the neighborhood who has a "Jap" costume, bring it and dress up one of the pupils in it. Pose the pupil and let others draw or paint her. If it is not possible to get a costume, get a Japanese doll. Let pupils model Chinese babies, and select the best to be dressed by the girls. Let them bring peices of China and Japanese silk and dress stuffs, and dress them like the Chinese dolls or pictures. Put tiny paper fans and sun umbrellas in clay doll's hands.

Let pupils write their Chinese or Japanese stories in a little book with a cover shaped like a fán. Hang these articles about the room and let pupils draw and paint them. The Japanese lantern, fan and sunshade, all make good pencil and water color studies.

Pose a child with sunshade over head and fan in hand. Another may carry a lantern. Let pupils cut and fold fans and make kites.

GAMES.

Practice the Japanese salute. Let the pupils touch, or find and bring to you, any article which contains silk, or any person who wears anything made of silk (hair ribbon, ruffle, hat, hood, cloak lining, braid, silk stitching, satin or velvet trimming).

JAPAN.

How many of you live where you can see the sun set? Where does the sun go when it disappears to us? It goes to light strange countries on the other side of the world. One of those countries is Japan, and we should see many strange sights if we could follow the sun to the islands of Japan.

The houses there are low, and look like little square barns from the outside. The floors and roofs, and sometimes two of the walls, are made of wood, but the other two walls are made of a kind of thick paper. The Japanese use paper for many things. For windows they make a kind of lattice work covered with thin paper. A large screen covered with paper