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Draw a dandelion head when it is round like a sphere. 7. Draw a dandelion head with the hair blown away.

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Cut from yellow paper circles the size of dandelions. Paste in a row on drawing paper. Add green stems cut also from paper, and you have a dandelion blossom border.

Draw and color a dandelion border or chain, with colored pencils, or paint one.

Cut out white circles the size of the dandelion head when the seed is ripe. Mount on gray paper. Add green stems, and you have a dandelion seed border.

Draw or paint the whole plant, showing root, stem, leaves, bud, and blossom.

"Dainty little dandelion,

Smiling in the lawn,

Sleeping thro' the dewy eve,

Waking with the dawn. "

LITERATURE.

The Dandelion," Adapted from Hiawatha. "The Norse Dandelion, " Primary Education. "The Dandelion's Birthday, " Sarah Wiltse.

"The Dandelion, " Parts of Lowell.

"The Dandelion," McMurry's Classic Stories.

"Legend of the Dandelion," All the Year Round, Part III.

SONGS.

"Dandelion Fashions," Eleanor Smith No. 2.

"The Dandelion, " Normal Music Reader No. 2.

THE DANDELION.

W. B. ALLEN IN ST. NICHOLAS, SEPT., 1892.

A dandelion in a meadow grew,

Among the waving grass and cowslips yellow,
Dining on sunshine, breakfasting on dew.

He was a most contented little fellow.
Each morn his head he lifted straight,

To catch the first sweet breath of coming day.
At even closed his sleepy eyes to wait

Until the long cool night had passed away.
One afternoon in sad, unquiet mood,

I paused beside this tiny bright faced flower.
And begged that he would tell me, if he could,
The secret of his joy thro' sun and shower.
He looked at me with open eyes and said:

"I know the sun is somewhere shining clear,

And when I cannot see him overhead,

I try to be a little sun right here."

Read to pupils.

DANDELION.

Dandelion, Dandelion,

Where's your cap of gold?

Where's your jacket, green and trim,

That you wore of old?

Then you nodded to the birds

In a jaunty way,

And you danced to every tune

That the breeze could play.

Dandelion, Dandelion,

Age comes creeping on,

Now your wig is snowy white, ---
Golden locks are gone.

But you've had a merry time

Since your days began;

And even now you are

A cherry, blithe old man.

-George Cooper.

The dandelion tells us when to look for the swallow.

Have you seen it yet?

The violet tells us when to look for the wood thrush.

The wake robin tells that spring is surely here.

MORNING TALK, THE GARDENER AND FARMER. Question pupils as to what they have recently seen people doing in yards, gardens and fields. (Yards are being raked, brush gathered and burned or removed, straw taken from bushes and trees, beds spaded up, seeds planted, fields ploughed and harrowed.) When does gardener or farmer begin to do these things? Why? What birds follow the farmer as he plows? Why do they do this? How does he prepare the ground? What tools are used? What animals help the farmer? What little worm helps the gardener and farmer? (Earthworm.) What does he do when the ground is prepared? What seeds will he plant? Then what must he do to help them grow? What will the seeds need? (Rain, sunshine, earth, time.) Do seeds have enemies? Name them.

What seeds would be planted on a farm that would not be planted in a small garden? Why? Why does the farmer plant so much grain? so many vegetables?

How does he pro

tect his seeds from the crows, blackbirds, etc?

picture of "The Sower."

Show pupils

Recite to pupils parable of "The Sower" and let them memorize.

SONGS.

"The Farmer," Walker & Jenks' Song Book.

"The Careful Gardener," Walker & Jenks' Song Book. "The Flower Bed," Walker & Jenks' Song Book.

"We Plow the Fields" or "Garden Song" from Eleanor Smith, No. 2.

"My Little Garden Bed" or "The Plant," Emily Poulsson's "Finger Plays."

"Old Black Crow," Hanson's Songs.

LITERATURE.

"The Sower and Seed," Bible.

"Peggy's Garden and What Grew in It," Celia Thaxter. "The Farmer and Miller," Child Garden, vol. 1. p. 123. "Quercus Alba," Stories Mother Nature Told, Jane An

drews.

"Spring and Her Helpers," in the Child's World, Emily Poulsson..

Lay flower beds with sticks or pegs.

Draw or cut tools used in gardening; in farming, (rake, hoe, spade, watering-pot, plough, harrow, planter, pitch fork).

Illustrate "The Farmer" showing him at work with horses on the farm.

Illustrate "The Gardener" or pupils at work in the garden using tools.

Draw birds that eat up the farmer's seeds? Draw scarecrow to frighten them away.

MORNING GLORY SEEDS.

Read or tell the "Morning Glory Story" to the children, and then give them each a few seeds of their own to plant and to watch.

Talk of the life hidden in the hard, brown shells, and of the way in which it may be awakened. The needs of the seed (heat, moisture, air) may be discussed, and growth of seeds planted in different ways may be compared. Plant some in sand, some in clay, some in a sponge and others in water.

Distribute hard seeds and some that have been soaked. Open the soaked seeds with a pin, and see what is inside. (White skin, two tiny, crumpled-up leaves, a little white point and some jelly.) Why have these packed so closely together?

How can a plant grow that has neither roots nor leaves to feed by? Which are larger, the dry seeds or soaked ones? What made them larger? Is there any food in the seed? What

does this dry food need in order to make it thin for the sleeping baby plant to eat? How does it live after eating up the jelly in its little house?

After the plants appear, talk of the parts-which way they grow. What part grows down? Why do the roots grow down? (To avoid the light and toward the source of its food, the earth.) What does it absorb from the earth? (Moisture, or water, and earth food.)

Of what use is the root? (To hold the plant fast and keep it from blowing away, and to absorb earth food.)

What part is just above the root? Of what use is the stem? (To hold the leaves up in the sunlight and carry to them food and moisture from the roots.)

What kind of a stem has the morning glory?

Which way do the stems grow?

Why do they grow up? (To get light and air. The leaves. need gas that is in the air.

Where do the leaves get their moisture? (From the stem.) Where do the stems get it? (From roots.)

Are the seed leaves and the second pair alike? Sketch both pairs on paper or board.

Draw also the plant-root, stem and leaves.

BLOSSOMS.

What does the blossom come from? (Buds.) What part of the plant does the bud come from? What shape is the open flower? (Trumpet shaped.) What color? When does the flower open? How long does it remain open? Does it sleep at night? Do bees like morning glory blossoms? Why? Where does it go for the honey?

Of what use are morning glory vines?

May is the best month for planting seeds and transplanting plants. Explain to the children the process of garden making, and let them watch the various phases from the first spading or plowing to the planting and transplanting. The seeds for

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