THE CANARY (1A and 1B). Two LESSONS-TWENTY MINUTES EACH. LESSON I.

Have a canary brought to school a day or two before that on which you intend giving your lesson, so that the children may have opportunity to watch him and become interested.

The lesson may be introduced with such questions as the following: How many little girls have canary birds at home? Why do people like to have canaries in their homes? In this way the facts that the canary sings sweetly, can be tamed, is pretty, etc., may be elicited, for the children love to talk. about their pets and will be delighted to tell about them.

Now let us look at our little visitor. What color is he? Do you know anything else of the same color? What is his coat made of? What other animals have feather coats? What can you tell about his eyes? His tail? Who can describe Dickie for me?

How does he keep so bright and clean? How often do you give him a bath? What does he use for a comb to smooth his feathers after his bath? Does he enjoy his bath? What makes

you think so? Mary may tell us all she knows about Dickie's bath.

The first lesson may be closed by a recapitulation of all that has been learned, the teacher guiding with such questions as: Why do we like canaries? Who can tell us about Dickie's coat? etc.

LESSON II.

This should begin with a brief review of the first lessons, the children answering questions upon it put by the teacher.

What do we give Dickie to eat? How does he eat it? What does he drink? How? Could you eat and drink that way? Why not? Who can tell me about his bill? How does he sleep? Why doesn't he fall off his perch? How many claws has he? Jane, what can you tell us about Dickie's sleeping? Mary, let us see how much you remember about his eating and drinking?

Does Dickie move as you do? With what does he fly? Show me with your arms how he moves his wings? How many wings has he? How many feet? Does he walk or hop?

Now let me see how much we know about a canary? And the children, with an occasional question or suggestion from the teacher, should be led to reproduce all they have learned in both lessons.

A little talk on the helplessness of the bird and the consequent necessity of keeping his house clean, and of giv