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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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sted 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 sustained in interest.This class was organized in Grade VII ofthe Central Street School, and is wide-awake, as the photograph on page 228attests. Games, such as Bird-Catcher, and 230 Bird - Lore
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THE THIRD-GRADE JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASS AT RUSTON, LOUISIANA International Birds, are frequently-played for a few minutes, that interestmay not lag. The latter is a game similarto Authors, naming the birds by usingthe final letters of each bird named for theinitial letter of the next to be named.Poems about birds are committed toanemory; and many of the members have•written letters representing themselvesas birds who have completed their migra- tion, and are sending messages fromtheirsummer homes to the friends who stillremain at the winter resort. The accompanying picture shows someof the work of the past winter. Two boysare tying suet to the tree, a third lad isproviding a home for some featheredsongster, and others are scattering crumbs,or have built houses which they hope willsoon be rented at a reasonable price.

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