. Bird-lore . hose picture is shown in the classroom is also a good thing. Thewriter passed a mounted Flicker through a class of fifty children ofkindergarten age, let them look and carefully handle, and then askedfor stories about it. One child said: I know — Oh—I knowseven stories — no, eight — ui)ic stories about Mr. Yellow Hammer,and she really did know her nine stories. When they have gone as far as this, most bird stories willinterest them, especially if the birds are humanized for them by theteller of the tale. To sum up, it may be said that the best way to begin is to teach afew birds
. Bird-lore . hose picture is shown in the classroom is also a good thing. Thewriter passed a mounted Flicker through a class of fifty children ofkindergarten age, let them look and carefully handle, and then askedfor stories about it. One child said: I know — Oh—I knowseven stories — no, eight — ui)ic stories about Mr. Yellow Hammer,and she really did know her nine stories. When they have gone as far as this, most bird stories willinterest them, especially if the birds are humanized for them by theteller of the tale. To sum up, it may be said that the best way to begin is to teach afew birds well,—a dozen or so,—by connecting with the childs expe-rience, in some way, the information to be given, and then employingthe play instinct by having bird games of various kinds, both kinder-garten bird games and others; observation, description and drawingof birds may follow, and first and last, and all the time, all descriptionsand stories given to children should be in terms of human nature. A. Winter Bird Studies LTHOUGH we have fewer birds during the winterthan at any other season, at no other time dur-e^ ing the year do the comparative advantages ofornithology as a field study seem so botanist and entomologist now find little out of doorsto attract them, and. if we except a stray squirrel or rabbit,birds are the only living things we may see from December to , therefore, is a good time to begin the study of birds, notonly because flowers and insects do not then claim our attention,but also because the small number of birds then present is a mostencouraging circumstance to the opera-glass student, who. in identi-fying birds, is at the mercy of a -key. Indeed, the difficulty now lies not in identification, but in dis-covery ; unless one is thoroughly familiar with a given locality andits bird-life, one may walk for miles and not see a feather — a par-ticularly unfortunate state of affairs if one has a bird-class in dilemma
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