School Lessons

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 14

School Lessons

SIXTH SERIES Primary School Work HASTINGS PUP1LS Following is a further series of lessons for pupils attending primary sehools in the Hastings district: — READING AND SPELUNG. F'OEM 2, Eeading: Journal, page 27, "Birds." Bead first with rhythm well marked then only slightly marked. The rhythm is again— weak, strong — repeated four times. Thus you learn how to build up a simpJe form of poem. Could any pupil manage to write an original short poem using this rhythm? If so, send it in to the Herald-Tribune offiee and niark it "School Lessons." Collect small pictures of the eight birds inentioned besides swans. The downyeiders are arctic dueks whose feathers are used for eiderdown quilts. , Spelling: Use dietionary for meanings and pronuneiation: guessed, chemistry, university, microbe, microscope, pasteurage, vaeeination, hydrophobia, anthrax, antiseptics. Dictation exercise, page 30, iirst paragraph, begin, "He saw tiny specks ..."

FOBM 1, Eeading: Page 32. "I Met at Eve." Find the meanings of the following words: garb, sandals, phantom, upwelling, visions, lurk, dales, haunt, solitary, graze. Write words and meanings in your exercise. Spelling: Learn the following words: daughter, district, skull, area, acre, turniture, addition, orchard, vegetable, surprise, bicycle, celery, lettuce, solitary, sandals. Dictation: Page '30, Oue day — -the disease. STANDABD 4/ t Beading (time, "20 minutes): Febrnary Journal, page 12, "Dutch." Bead the whole 6f this poem aloud. Spelling (time, 20 minutes): Eule a pencil line underneath these words on page 12 and learn them thoroughly: — • (Use your dietionary fbr pronuneiation and meanings where neeessary), fields, Holland, coioured flowers, quarterhours, nicely, silver-buttoned, quaysd sail the boats, woollen, enough, barges, cheese, jaekets, windmills, everywhere. STANDABD 3, Beading: February Journais, pages 14-15. Time, 20 minutes. Spelling: patterns, common, observe, seaweed, shingle, message, nerves, receive, exact, exactly, hiding, warning. STANDABD 2. Time, 15 minutes. Beading: Journais, pages 14 and 15. Bead the lesson, and note the questious that are asked. Bead them in the way that you would ask sueh questions. Note the question marks ?, and the inverted commas " ' '. Inverted commas are placed at the beginning and ending of the words used by the speakers. In the lesson there are several words which tell what the man or the fox did. The fox lay on the bench. He. curled up his tail. He put the turkey somewhere. He got up early. These doing words are called verbs. Can you underline some more on pages 14 and 15? Spelling: tight, tightly, fourth, sleep, sleeping, slept, forest, growl, growled. STANDABD 1. Beading (15 mins.): Bead through silently "The Way of It" (page 15, February Journal). Ask the meaning of any words or passages not clearly understood; then Tead aloud the whole poem, noting the words that rhyme and being careful to phrase correctly.

Spellihg: Learn the following words to be tested later: spill, spilled, cream, over, feast, bread, golden, knock, knocked, faces. . AR1THMETIC. STANDABD 5. Test 6. 1. 18/7id. multiply by 13. 2. 16/4|d plus 18/3Jd plus 9/6^d, plus 17/8|d plus 9/6d plus 4/lO^d plus 9/6£d plus 19/5Jd. 3. Write in words (a) 100001 ; (b) 690046. 4. £483 17s. 6d. multiply by 67. 5. How many days in February, March, April, May, June, and July of this year? 6. Find the product of 4806 and 674. 7. £835 18s. 5d. divided by 47. 8. £549 12s Od. minus £386 19s lld. Answers to test 5: 1. 479,374. 2 • 467,420. 3. £379 18s. 5d. 4. 50,166. 5. 62,097. 6 lOst. 21bs. 7 (a) 1,187,868; (b) 57,995. 8. 2507 74-346. STANDABD 4. 1. To the sum of 72986 and 89573 add their difference. 2. How many minutes in 2 days 6 hours 35 minutes? 3. Multiply £79 13s. 6d. by 9 and divide UUe answer by 74. Find the product of 785 and 690. 5. Bividc eighty-nine thousand and six by fifty-eight. 6. "What must be added to £35 12s 6d to make £72 Os. 5d? 7. How many stones, pounda, ounces in 56,280ozs? 8. From l-6th. of 2832 take l-12th of 2376. Time: 45 minutse. Answers to Test 5: 1. 500922. 2. 420915. 3. £26 3s. 6d. 4. 341376. 5. 12266 2-9. 6 £4 19s. ld. 7. 1827 th. p. 8. 12367 30-59.

STANDABD 61. 67834 djvided by 64. 2. Prove ;No. 1. 3. Lcw many gallons? quarts, p'rts in 345 tins, each containing 33 pints. 4. Beduce 3 cubic yards 17 cubic feet 107 cubio inches to cubio inches. 5* Find the value of 26 bales of wool each containing ' 3451bs. at 1/7 per lb. 6. 3 and 5-sixths florins plus 2 and 7-tenths half-crowns. 7. Find cost of 47 and S-8ths. acres at £26 10s. per acre. 8. 64.9 plus 7.34 plus 66 plus 6.403 plus .38. Answers to Test 5:1. £34025 9s. 7-£d. % £739 12s. 8Jd. 3 50chs. 2yds. 2inches. 4 (a) 8 11-36. (b) 35-36. 5 2678400. 6 £6 8s. 4d. 7 lcwt. 3qr. 41b. 8. £20 16s ^idAnswers to Series 4. ANSWEES TO SEBIES 4. Std. 1 : 13, 19, 18, 8, 4, 10. Standard 2: 197, 167, 534, 304, 37, 47, 54 2-5, 48 2-3. Standard 3 : 2888, 3269, 28696, 34734, 6381 1-5, 3967 5-6, 28889, 7548. STANDABD 1. Revise 2 and 3 times tables and learn 4 times. Ask parents to test as before. Learn combinations to make 14 : 01234567 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 5 4 3 2 1 14 14 14 14 14 14 Written work: 8 plus 6 plus 3 plus 4 equals. 2 plus 5 plus 7 plus 3 eauals. 1 plus 8 plus 5 plus 2 equals. 3 multipLy by 3 plus 5 equals, 6 multiply by 2 plus 3 equals. 5 multiply by 3 plus 3 equals. STANDABD 2. Tables to 6 times revised and tested as before. Written work: 1. 86 plus 25 plus 17 plus 49 equals. 2. 38 plus 29 plus 34 plus 16 equals.

3. 67 multiply by 5- 4. 76 multiply by 6. 5 293 divided by 4. 6. 295 divided by 6. 7. 81 minus 19. 8. 72 giinus 67. STANDABD 3. Revise all tables to 8 times and learn thoroughly 9 times table. Test as before. Written work: 1. 367 plus 49 plus 284 plus 469 plus 387 equals. 2. 293 plus 149 plus 56 plus 9 plus 488 equals. 3. Multiply 2978 by 94. Multiply 5867 by 8. 5. Divide 26503 by 9. 6. Divide 50806 by 7. 7. 42734 minus 39685. 8. 50062 minus 28697. GEOGRAPHY. STANDARDS 3 and 4. On the map of the South Island mark in the following: — Clutha, Taieri, Mataura rivers; Wakatipu, Te Anau, Hawea, Manapouri lakes ; Remarkables, Dunstan mountains ; Oamaru, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Mosgiel, Gore, Invercargill Note that Roxburgh, Ranfurly and Cromwell are eentres of fruit-growing areas and that the Clutha Basin is noted for gold-mining.

STANDARDS 5 & 6, FORMS I & II. On your map of -Australia mark the following: Darwin (air port), Adelaide, Port Pirie, Perth, Fremantle, Albany, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie. Write the following in your exercise book and learn thoroughly. — By far the most; important export of Australia is wool ; indeed, the Continent containg about one-sixth of the world's sheep, and these yield about one-quarter of the world's supply of wool. Wheat comes next in order of importance, but in addition to these very valuable products Australia exports meat, dairy produce, fruits, wines, gold, silver, ■, zinc, hardwood, timbers, iron and steel goods. Great Britain is the chief market for the wool, wheat, meat and dairy produce. '