Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) by Francis W. Parker;Nellie Lathrop Helm
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Children look upon animals as their particular friends and acquaintances. They talk to them and believe that the animals understand them. A desire to know the habits and habitats of animals is among their strongest interests. By a little wise direction, this interest may be so enhanced as to form a substantial beginning of the study of zoology. CHAPTER V.--IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. Children worship flowers. Probably there are no objects on earth so universally loved by little folks as buds and flowers. Children seek eagerly for flowers by the roadside, in the pastures, fields, and woods. This love, like all instincts, should be carefully cultivated. Children may easily be led to study the forms, colors, and habits of plants. They will always take the keenest interest in the mystery of seeds and shoots, of roots and growing leaves, _if there is a teacher to direct them_. CHAPTER VI.--SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW. We have heat again, and now as an elementary lesson in the distribution of sunshine. Children love to observe continual changes. The shadow is an object of interest. It has an element of mystery about it which borders upon the supernatural. Children observe spontaneously the long shadows of morning and the lengthening shadows of the descending sun. Most farm boys can tell the moment of noon by their shadows. These are all steps in the more difficult problems of lengthening and shortening shadows that mark the changing seasons, and that lead to the |
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