School Lessons

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 12

School Lessons

FIFTH SERIES

i^rimary Division Work

HASTINGS PUPILS

Eollowing is a further series of lessons for primary school pupils attending schools in Hastings and district: — KJBADING AND SPELLING, FOBM 2. Eeading: Journal, pages 23-26, "Trapped." Eead it out aloud even if by yourself. Spelling (meanings from dictionary): Eesponsible, terrified, draggled, wrench, pillar, circulation, careering, poised, cormorattts, preposterous. Dictation exercise: Last paragraph page 26. FOEM 1. Eeading; Pages 30 and 31, "Louis Pasteur." With the aid of your dictionary find the meanings of the following words: — Microscope, germ, industry, anthrax, antiseptics, disease, plague, vaccination, hydrophobia, resist. Write words and meanings in your exercwe book, Spelling: Learn the above words. Dictation: Page 31: "There is a large . « « . could be studied." STANDAED 4. Eeading (time, 20 minutes) : February Journal, page 13: "How Animals Use Colour ' ' — reviaion. Eead aloud the whole of this lesson. Eemember to let your eye travel ahead along the line so as to make sure of the words before you speak them. Spelling (time, 20 minutes): Eule a pencil line underneath these word3 which you will find below the picture on page 16. Learn these as before: Beautifully, pheasant, spreading, drooping, expanding, towards, peacocks, paradise, beauty, appear, notice, parade, doubt, handsome, appearance, male bird, fiesired, effect. STANDAED 3. Eeading: February Journal, pages 12 and 13. Time, 20 minutes. Spelling: Fields, coloured, woollen, cfieese, fancy, gaudy, whether, ploughed, animals, desert, scarlet, scarcely. STANDAED 2. Time, 15 minutes.

Eeading: Journals, pages 12 and 13. Child to take part of Master Fox, and someone else to be "Mr. Man". 1. Eemember to read your part as a «ly or cunning fox which lives by stealing fowls and other f armyard birds. 2. Could you change all that the one fox said, where it began at "Oh," and ended at "stove," to read as if two foxes were speaking about two or more things? That would be changing from singular to plural, Begin with ' ' Oh, we donf need much room." 3. Spelling: Please, village, bench, benches, goose, geese, turkey turkeys, lady, ladies. STANDAED 1, . Eeading (15 minutes); Eead aloud "A Sly Fox" (page 12 February Journal) carefully articulating finai consonants, especially "d," "t" and "s," and the vowel sounds "ou" and "o" — emphasise good phrasing. Spelling: Learn tho following words to be tested later: Took, stick, reach, open, opened, such, ehair, pantry, skelf, shelves. AEXTHMETIC. STANDAED 6, Tesfc 5. 1. Multiply £739 13/8J by ^ 2, Divide answer to No. 1 by 46 to prove. 3^ Eeduce 39674 inches to ehains, yards, feet, inches. 4. (a) 3 and 5 twelfths plus 4 and 8 ninths. (b) 4 and 5 twelfths xninus 3 and 4 ninths. 5. How many seconds in March? 6. Multiply 14/7 by 8 and 4 fifths. 7. 2 tons 8cwt. 241b. of wheat is put into 27 sacks. Ho.w many cwt. qrs. lbs. in avery sackf 8. £29 6/7 minus £3 17/5J minus £4 12/9. Answers to test 4:— 1. £7 9/8$. 2, £2829 9/9. 3, 39 and 17 thirty-sixths. 4, 1 and 44 sixty-thirds. 5, 204.542. 6, 0. 7, 4tons 3cwt. 3qrs. 51bs. 8, (a) 29i, (b) 1$. STANDAED 5. 1. 679 x 706. 2. 487 x 960. 3. £19 19/11 x 19 (use short method). 4. 92,647 minus 46,347 plus 296 minus 476 plus 4046. 5. From the product of 3769 and 17 take 1976. 6. Find the average of 13st. 121bs, 9st. lOlbs., 7st. 61bs., 12st. 131bs., and 6st. lllbs. 7 (a) 98,989 x 12; (b) 695940 divide by 12. 8. 867496 divide by 346. Answers to test 4: — 1, 32853. 2, 24,537. 3, 7,005. 4, £168 15/-. 5, 14 tenths. 6, £490 9/10. 7, 1850 links. 8, 262 pints, STANDAED 4. •L £29 16/8 plus £68 14/8 plus £36 15/11 plus £79 10/8 plus £39 15/9 plus £68 12/7. 2. What must be added to £69 15/11 to make £186 17/10? 3. Find product of 698 and 745. 4. Divide 86049 by 76. 5. Multiply £86 15/10 by 11. 6. Eeduce 8 tons 12 cwt. 7sts. to sts. 7. How many chs. yds. ft. in 6394ft? 8. To one-sixth of 978 add one-third of 492. Time: 45 minutes. Answers to test 4: — 1, 500922. 2, 420915. 3, £26 3/6. 4, 341376. 5, 12266 2-9. 6, £4 19/1. 7, 1827 th. p. 8, 12367 30-59. ANSWEES TO SEEIES 3. Std. 1: 16, 14, 16, 17, 14, 17. Std. 2: 115, 107, 54, 57, *234, 456, 14, 19.

Std. 3:1535, 1563, 37432, 25109, 434$ 7-8, 194 4-6, 6638, .757. STANDAED 1. Tablea: Learn 3 times table and ask parents to test thus: How many 3's in 15, 21, 27, etc. Addition: Learn combinations to make 13: 012345678 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 9 10 11 12 13 4 3 2 1 0 13 13 13 13 13 Written work: — 5 plus 3 plus 5 equals 7 plus 2 plus 4 plus 6 equhls 4 plus 2 plus 7 plus 5 equals 13 minus 5 equals 13 minuB 9 equals 13 minus 3 equals STANDAED 2, Tables: Bevise all tables to 6 times and ask parents to test as befora. Written work:-— 1. 76 plus 88 plus 29 plus 54 equals 2. 83 plus 29 plus 17 plus 38 equals 3. 89 x 6. 4. 76 x 4. 5. 76 minus 39. 8. Divide 146 by 3. , 7. Divide 273 by 5. STANDAED 3, Tables: Kevise all tables to 8 times and ask parents to test as before. Written work: — 1. 403 2. 280 3. 3587 4. 4962 796 969 x8 x7 589 747 333 398 767 875 5. Divide 31906 by 5. 6. Divide 23807 by 6. 7. Subtract 24718 from 53607. 8. Subtract 38794 from 46342. GEOGRAPHY, STANDAEDS 3 and 4. On the map of the South Island you have drawn, mark in the following: — Southern Alps, Mt. Cook; Waimakariri, Bakfda, Ashburton, Eangitata and Waitaki Eivers; Canterbury Plain, wheat; towns, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Ashburton, Timaru, Kaiapoi, Eangiora, Temuka, Waimate. STANDAEDS 5 & 6, FOEMS 1 & 2. (a) On the map of Australia (already drawn) mark in the following: — Melbourne, SaTe, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Mildura. (b) Show by shading (coloured if poesible) where fruit is produced, also which region in Victoria is suitable for dairy-farming and timber-milling. (cj In New South Wales indicate the locality where wheat is produced.