Chapter IV: To the Teacher

If you have at hand “The Fall of the Year,” read again the
suggestions on page 112 for the chapter on “Things to See this
Fall,” making use of this chapter as you did of that (1) as the
object of a field excursion--or of several excursions until all
the things suggested here have been seen; (2) as a test of the
pupil’s actual study of nature; for there is scarcely a city
child who cannot get far enough into nature (though he get no
farther than the city park), and often enough to see most of the
things pointed out in this chapter; (3) as suggestions for
further study and observation by the pupils--things that they
have seen which might be added to these ten here, and written
about for composition work in English.

FOR THE PUPIL

Here are ten different things for you to see this winter, and
most of them, whether you live in the city or country, you can
see, provided you live where the snow falls. But you will have
some kind of a winter no matter where you live. Don’t miss
it--its storms, its birds, its animals, its coasting, skating,
snowshoeing, its invitations to tramp the frozen marshes and
deep swamps where you cannot go in the summer, and where, on the
snow you will catch many a glimpse of wild life that the rank
summer sedges will never reveal. Don’t stop with these ten
suggestions; there are a hundred other interesting things to
see. And as you see them, write about them.