S. The eggs are usually five in numbe

Ot become disheartened at work that, so far as they can discover, has little more relation to their interests than to the mountains of the

moon? We look to nature study

to supply the missing links between the child's life and his school work; to afford opportunities for the interested observation of things, and to furnish a strong impulse toward expression. It has been well said that the best result of

the primary schools is the power to use correctly one's own language.
The chief obstacle in the development of this power is the want of an impulse to express. What can afford a stronger tendency to describe than the attempt to report observations that have been made with interest, even with delight? IV PLAN OF STUDY Begin as soon
after the first of January as possible.
Assign two periods a week of from ten to
twenty minutes each for bird study in the school. Continue the work during these periods until after the celebration of Bird Day in May. If no other bird is to be found,
the English
sparrow will answer. Place the following questions upon
the blackboard:-- THE ENGLISH SPARROW How long is this bird from the tip of
its beak