School Lessons

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 12

School Lessons

FOURTH SERIES Primary Division Work ANSWERS TO SUMS Following is a fuxther series of lessons for primary school pupils attending schools in Hastings and district. Will parents please note thai in sums 3 and 4 of Test 1, and in sums 1, 5, and 6 of Test 2, there are not decimal points but hyphens which denote fraetions. READJNG AND SPELLING FORM 2. Journal, page 22: "The Joys of the Road." Note the rhythm is just like the former poem— weak strong— 4 times in eaeh line or 4 feet, as it is called. Note: Sometimes two short words or syllables go to one beat, as "Now the" "of the," in line one. Underline others you can find. Line — "a lyric touch" of solitude "— means, to see those' white asters by the lonely wood, was enough to make a poet wish to write a verse about it. Notice how the poetess, in a few words, describes the sights along the road, and her idea of a hiking companion. Line — ' ' When the stealthy, sadheart, leaves go home," is a metaphor — picturesque way of deseription, for leaves could not really be stealthy or have a sad heart. Underline any similar lines. Exaggerate the rhythm in the first reading then use a suitable voice tone for the final reading but retaining a slight Thythm. Spelling: Revise last week's words and ask someone to dictate the whole li3t. Then learn to-day's words. Dictation: Last paragraph, page 26. vagrant, alluring, enticing, journeying, invisible, prairie, immunity, possessed, haunches, guttural. FORM I. Reading: Pages 28-29, "Louis Pasteur." Revise "The Six-Year-Old-Prin.-eess. ' ' Spelling: truant, tannery, exact, guessed, chemistry, university, remarkable, credit, performed, kitchen, professor, benefit, microbes, presenee, necessity. Dictation: Page 29. "In the year . . . . if he could help them." 9TANDARD 4. Reading: (time 20 minutes). Feh xuary Journal — "How Animals Use Oolour" — read the whole of this article, paying special attention to page 16. Use your dictionary as before. Spelling: (time 20 minutes). Rule a pencil line underneath these words on pages 15 and 16 of your Journal: fierce, frigbtening, foes, brightly-coloured, butterflies, bitter, noxious, really, cousins, cheating, morsel, white, rabbits and deer, danger signal, their friends, underside, attracts, uuwary, capture, flying. Learn these thoroughly. Take care to revise those words which you have previously had wrong.^ STANDARD 3. Reading: February Journal, P. 10-11. Time: 20 minutes. Spelling: beautiful, terrible, since, earth, painting, broken, quite, deceive, accident, closely, gently, gentleman. STANDARD 2. Reading: Pages 9, 10, 11 of Journals. Read through the whole piece again, and on pages 9, 10 *ind 11, note these long words, and repeat them slowly and carefully — raspberry, soldier, brought, clothes-line, lemonade, twinkle. Note also the silent letters in: knocked, wringer, climb, crumbs.Retell the story in your own words taking care to finish with the moral lesson on page 11. Spelling: knock, knocking, eaten, serub, scrubbed, jelly, jellies, doLly, dollies. STANDARD 1. Reading: Read silently first "A Sly Fox" on page 12, February Journal. Ask an adult the meaning of any pa3sage not understood and the correct pronuneiation and meaning of any words not known — later read the whole lesson aloud remembering clear enunciation. Spelling: Learn the following words to be tested later: think, thinking, looked, there, dress, pinned, much, better, quite clearly."

ARITHMETIC. STANDARD 6. 1. Divide £2829 9s 9d by 378. 2. Multiply answer of No. 1 by 378 to prove it. 3." Add 1 and 5 twelfths, 3 and 2 uinths, 28 and 5 sixths. 4. 4 and 5 ninths minus 2 and 6 sevenths. 5. 3.831 plus 16.9 plus 105.008 plus 36.803 plus 42. 6. 51,035 minus 27.38 minus " 23.655. 7. Find total weight of 47 sacks of wheat eaeh weigking 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 Ibs. fifths. 8. (a) 5 and 5 twelfths x 5 and 2 fifths. (b) 6 and 3 eighths divided by 4-1. Answers to Test 3: 12 tons 4 cwt 1 qr 6 lb. 2 (a) 164 ac. 5 sp. chs. (b) 2 miles 4 chs. 3 459 plus 12. 4 39945. 5 £170 14s 9d. 6 7£. 7 3-25. 8 6 miles 25 chs. 5 yds. STANDARD 5. 1. To the product of 364 and 89 add 457. 2. 4679 plus 3086 plus 2765 plus 4779 plus 8364 plus 864.' 3.' 784560 divided by 112. (Look for short method). 4. Find by practice the cost of 270 books at 12/6d eaeh. 5. How many tenths in .3 plus 6-10 plus .5. 6. To 6 times ££78 12s 9d add. £18 15s 4d.

7. Reduce to links 6i chs. plus 71 chs. plus 4i chs. 8. How many pints are thers ia 32 gals 3 qts. (Time: 45 mina). Answers to test 3: 1 £920 3s 8 d. 2 518 yds. 3 £457 16s 104d. 4 11501. 5 627 qrs. 6 27 mls. 0 fur. 3 chns. 7 9 chs. 14 yds. 8 750^250, STANDARD 4, 1. 72968 pluS 57364 plus 97526 plus S7396 plus 86872 plus 98796. 2. From half a million take seventy nine thousand and eighty five. 3. What must be added to £73 16s 6d to make £100 0s Od? 4. Find the product of 672 and 508. 5. Multiply 572 by 193 and divide the answer by 9. 6. 12 hlf. crs. plus 18 florins plus 35 sixpences plus 43 threepences plus ( 59 peuce. Ans. in £ ,s. d. 7. How cnany threepences in £22 16s Od? S. 729683 divided by 59. (Tifnb: 45 mins.) \ Answers to Test 3: 1 27017. 2 636417. 3 £2217 16s 8d. 4 998 64-73. 5 £751 19s 6d. 6 570Q sts. 7 327 tons 7 cwt. 8 7882 pence. STANDARD 3. Tables: Learn thoroughly 8 times table, also revising 6 times and 7 times. Ask parents to test thus: (a)3 x 8 — , 9x8 — , 6x8 — ■, 4x7 > 7x7 — , 3x6 — > etc. (b) How many 8 's in 32, 48, etc. 7's in 56, 28, etc. "Written Work: (1) 926 plus 37 plus 479 plus 85 plus 8 equals (2) 475 plus 88 plus 689 plus 6ff plus 244 equals (3) 4679 multiplied by 8. (4) 3587 multiplied by 7. (5) 3479 divided by 8. ()6 1168 divided by 6. (7) 8007 — 1369. (8) 1235 — 478. STANDARD 2. Tables:- Revise 4 and 5 times tables and learn 6 times thoroughly. Ask parents to test thus: (a) 7 x 6 — , 9 x 6, —,3x6 — > etc. (b) How many sixes in 54, 48, 36, etc. Written Work: 37 plus 19 plus 25 plus 34 equals. 19 plus 46 plus 15 plus 28 equals. 83 plus 29 equals. 70 plus 13 equals. 39 multiplied by 6. 76 mulwtiplied by 6. 84 divided by 6 114 dividde by 6. STANDARD 1. Tables: Learn 3 times table thoroughly. Ask parents to test thus: 3x3—, 5 x 3 — , 7 x 3 etc. Addition: Learn combinations to make 12: — 12 11 10 9 8 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 12 12 12 12 12 12 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Written Work; 7 plus 5 plus 4 equals 2 plus 6 plus 4 plus 2 equals 8 plus 2 plus 2 lus 4 equals 5 plus 4 plus 3 plus 5 equals 3 multipiled by 3 plus 5 equals 5 multiplied by 3 plus 2 equals Answers to aeries 2: Standard 1. 14, 15, 14, 15, 14. Standard 2. 115, 156, 44, 33, 316, 430, 19, 18. Standard 3. 1392, 1703, 60,613, 44,436. 280 5-7, 367 5-6, 3058, 2749. GEOGRAPHY, Standards 5 and 6. Foras I. and II. (a) Draw a map of Australia. (b) Mark in the following: Australian Alps, Murray River and tributories. Sydney, Newcastle, Bathurst, Broken Hill, Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton, Townsville, Oairns, Cooktown. (c) By means of light shading indicate whare most rainfall occurs. STANDARDS 3 AND 4. (a) Draw a map of the South Island. (b) Mark in the following: Buller, Hurunui, Wairau, Clarence Rivers. Seaward and Inland Kaikoura Mountains. Tasman Bay, Golden Bay, Capes Campbell and Farewell. Towns: Blenheim, Picton, Nelson, Motueka, Reefton, Westport.