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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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patience. Hints Helpful to Teachers The next picture and letter disclosewhat the Sisters of Notre Dame, at The Audubon Societies 229 Escanaba, Michigan, have accomplishedamong their little people. Although our Junior Audubon classeshave been so recently organized, we havenevertheless accomplished some work.We are sending you two pictures of ourclasses, in which several pupils arerepresented with bird-boxes of their ownconstruction (see page 227), others havethe Audubon bird-pictures, and stillothers, bird-pictures painted by them- these ways we advanced in bJrd-lorewithout omitting anything from the cur-riculum. The younger pupils were encour-aged to tell in class of birds they hadseen, and some even ventured to tellof birds they had shot. Then camethe teachers opportunity for emphasizingthe need of kindness and protection forthe birds, and for encouraging pupils toscatter crumbs for them in the cold win-ter days. Many of the pupils have bird-boxes already placed in trees and on poles
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EIGHTH PRIZE.—FOURTH-GRADE CLASS, MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, MASSACHUSETTS selves. We have utilized the EducationalLeaflets in the following ways: First of all,since all our pupils are interested in water-coloring, we encourage them to paint theoutline-copies, besides painting other birdsfrom the charts shown in the pictures.All pupils, whether members of the clubsor not, have written compositions onbirds; those who could, wrote somethingof their own experience. The ninth-grade pupils were permitted to study thebird-lessons, and to deliver them as oralreports during the English period. Theyalso used the same material to distinguishenumerative from suggestive descrip-tion, and for practice in condensing. In near their homes, and thus could notbring them for the picture. Very helpful to teachers who find someembarrassment in learning the methodof conducting their classes is the account,by Miss Rebecca L. Harding, of how themeetings of a Junior Class in Springfield,Massachusetts, are susta

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