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Nature lessons are difficult to take because they lack—or should lack—the formality demanded by other lessons. We are not imparting information all the time, but are trying to help the children to discover certain facts for themselves, either from specimens in front of them, or from observations they have made out-of-doors. We must let them talk to us, ask questions, watch, observe, dissect. It is one of the lessons in which teacher and child come close together, and wonder, admire, or applaud in unison—a delightful lesson ... but difficult!

The lessons in this book have been written in the hope that they will help to solve that difficulty. They aim to give, not only the necessary information, but also the fresh, happy attitude essential to the enthusiastic study of Nature. The teacher will find that she can use these lessons to suit her own requirements. She can take the information from them, and present the facts in her own way—or she can present the lessons exactly as they stand, with pauses for discussion, examination of objects, or answering of questions.

She can equally well give the book to the children themselves, either as a silent-reader, a nature-reading book, or a class nature-book. There is nothing in it that a child cannot understand and follow for himself. Those teachers who can give but little time to Nature lessons will possibly prefer to use the book in the last-mentioned manner. They will be quite safe in doing so, for the results will justify themselves.

In whatever way the book is used, the teacher will find the “Questions” and “Things to do” at the end of each lesson of great help to herself and the children.