School Lessons

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 12

School Lessons

THE SECOND SERIES Teachers Ready To Be of Assistance CORRECTION OF SUMS Below Is the socond s&t of lessons for the children of the primary school? in Hastings and the surrounding districts, and the headjnasters hope that parents willfind it of some help to their children and not too much of a task for themselves. The headmasters are appreciative of the efforts already manifested by the parents in the welfare of their children. . Parents are asked to note that members of the teaching staff will be at all times ready to heip anyone and will be in attendance at the sehools during normal school hours. Any child not having the Journal, or other books required may call at the school and. obtain them. It should be noted that when the sums are njarked, those which are wrong should be correeted first before proceeding with the next lesson. ARITHMETIC. STANDAED 1, Multiplication; Learn thoroughly 2times table and test by parents, thus: — 6x2 equals, 4x2 equals, 7x2 equals, etc. Addition: Learn combinations to make 10: 64537820 10 4657328 10 10 10 10 10 . 10 10 10 10 10 10 Written work: 2. 5 plus 5 plus 3 plus 7 equals 1. 3 plus 7 plus 4 plus 6 equals 3. 2 plus 8 plus 0 plus 10 equals STANDAED 2. Multiplication: Learn 4 times table •and test by parents, thus: — (a) 9x4 equals, 7 ac 4 equals, 4x4 equals, etc. (b) How many 4's in 32, 24, 36, 16, 20, 12, etc. Written work; 45 56 78 88 78 45 78 96 89 95 98 77 x4 x4 74 91 57 46 64 — — 69 23 x4 x4 ^ STANDAED 3. Multiplication: Learn thoroughly 6amep table and test by parents thus:-v Ca) 7 x 6 equals., 5x6 equals, 9 x b equals, etc. (b) How many 6's in 42, 30, 48, 24, , 54, etc. Written work; 7809 5786 7895 x6 x6 x6 869 plus 45 plus 107 plus 9' equals 1 48 plus 9 plus 687 plus 58 equals 487 896 965 483 396 STANDAED 4. 1. 9,684 plus 769 plus 3,492 plus 16,892 plus 36,875. 2. From sixty-four thousand, eight hundred and four take thirty-nine thousand, eight hundred and nine, 3. Multiply 896 by 904. 4. Divide 86,948 by 78. 5. £89 17/6 plus ' £749 18/6 plus £38 14/8 plus £72 16/0 plus £74 18/7 plus £85 19/11. 6. Divide £849 9/9 by 9. 7. Multiply £68 11/8 by 8. 8. From £874 18/9 take £396 15/11. Timo, £ hr. Answers to teefc 2 with test 3. Answers to test 1: — 1, 139,528} 2, 3, 160, 821} 3, 468, 456} 4, 239," 723} 5, 2609- 6, 6494 30*55} 7, £326 8/6} 8, £36 5/7. ' STANDAED 5. 1. 876 x 98. 2. £62 10/11 x 34. 3. From £50 spead £16 10/11, 18/7*, £9 3/8, and 13/6. 4. Add 16 aovefeigns, 19 half* crowns, 17 florins, and 27 sixpences. 5. 1 Btone 3 lbs. 3 ozs. x 12. 6. Add 3 tons 16 cwt. 3 qrs., 2 tons 9 cwt. 2 qrs., 8 tons 14 cwt. 1 qr., and 5 tons 11 cwt. 2 qrs. 7. What is sevea-twelfths of £39 16/6? 8. 486 plus 295 plus 1076 plus 348 plus 2146 plus 849 plus 4693 plus 389. Time: £ hr. Answers to test 1: 1, £155 13/9. 2, 10989. 3, £8 Ii/9*d. 4, £102 0/9*. 5, £321 1/2*. 6, Iqr. 24 lbs. 15 OZs. 7, 1 ton 6 «Wfc. 3 qrs. 21 lbs., STANDAED 6. 1. Multiply £29 17/6 by 6 3-5. 2. Divide 637481 by 83. 3. Prove No. 2 (multiply answef by 83 and add remainder). 4. Eeduce 2 tons 15 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. to lbs. 5. 7| plus {> 5-6 plus 3 2-3. 6. (a) 3 5-8 x 9 3-5. (b) divide 4 3-8 by 7-16. 7. (a) Divide .53262 by 9. (b) Subtract 27.634 from 53.07. 8. Find eost of 34 bales of wool each containing 3501bs. at 1/8 per 1b. Answers to test 1: — 1, £14181 0/9. 2, £79 13/4*. 3, 12 37-48. 4, 7 31-60. 5, 56.176. 6, £755 9/6£. 7, 717 tons 5 ewt, 0 qrs. 13 lbs. 8, 17 iniles 62 ehs. I !***« »

GEOGRAPHY* STANDABDS 3 AND' 4. Draw a map of the North Islaad and mark in the towns of the Wairarapa, Manawatu and Taranaki regions; also find a bay, eape, strait and mountain peak in these areas. STANDAEDS 5 AND 6, Forms I. and LE. Draw a map of the South Iplaud; mark in plains, chief rivers and mountains as for the North laland. Show chief ports and chief inland towns; also show the following tourist resorts: Queenstown, Stewart Island, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Mt. Cook, Queen Charlotte Spund. When a steamer leaves Wellington for London, name four important products she would carry as exports. BEADING AND SPELL3NG. STANDAED I. Eeading (15 minutes): Eevise "Eaggedy Ann Leads the Way" with special attention to any diffieult passages, and explaining meaning of any, words or phrases not clearly understood— -emphasise general enunciation. Spelling: Learn the -following words to be tested by dictatiou from parent or guardian: — Past, door, look, head, said, smell, amelled, very, across, after. ' STANDAED 2. (Time: 15 minutes.) Jouxnals, pagea 11 and 12. Fiye Little Maids. Eead the four verses, Note the words which rhyme in the first and third, and then in the second and foujrth Jines of each verse. Underline the words which rhyme. Prononnce these words carefully: Candle-lit, little, shadowful, quaking, efiaking, frightened, hardly, feeling, dreadfully, which, worst. Learn 'for spelling, from page 11: Minutes, thinking, lesson, anytfcing, merry, unhappy, twinkle, shoe-button, thoughts, other. ^TANDABD 3. Eeading: February Journal, pagcs 5*6. Spelling: Thistle, orchard, blazing, nobody, wonderful, lonely, boughs, shining, trimming, bottom, different, petroL STANDAED 4, Eeading (time 20 minutes) : February Journal, "How Animals Use Colour.;' Again read aloud the passage on page 13, and continue to the end of page 14. Use your dictionary to ensure correet pronunciation of words. Spelling (time, 20 minutes): Eule a pencil line underneath these words on page 14, and learn them .thoroughly;— Pattern, invisible, background, giraffes, disguises, surroundings, common, ob* . serve, excellent, stoat, m(oist, dusty, lemon, re.ddish, sea-lettuce. FOEM L Eeading. — ' ' Trapped, ' ' page 23. Spelling, page 23: — Unfrequentea, fortunate, buried, concealecL, prairie, handful, immunity, eettlement, Tegular, bait, invisible, proceeded, heedlessness, prisoner, knuckles. Dictation: Page 24, commencing "My first effort . , , , cover the key." FOEM 2. Eeading: Journal, pages 16 and 17, "David and the Eleetric Wire." First note the rhyme of the poem. Weak: strong: weak: strong: weak: strong: weak: strong. Young: Da-vid: was: for-got-ten: quita Second, read the verse through, giving emphasis to the rhyme. Proceed verse by verse in this fashion: — Watch line four verse three — his hand, his arm. Note the alliteration (words beginning with the same letter), used to emhasise ideas, e.g., dodge this dreadful doom, stabbed and stung. Underlina the other itistances in the poem. Finally read. right through the. selection. Spelling, p. 14: Disgraceful, evidently, tongue-tied, annoying, imprudent shrieked, leapt, mercilessly, fiendish, mourn. Eevise Std. 4 and 5 words. pictation Exercise (to be written as before), page 17. Eor the next few days .... for e,ach offence.