SCHOOL LESSONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 8

SCHOOL LESSONS

Primary Division Work l 2VENTH SERIES Following is a further eeries of lessons for primary school pUpils attending schoola in Hastings and district: — READENG AND SPELT.ING. FORM 2. Reading; Journal pages 28-31, "Louis Pasteur. ' ' Thig is about one of the world 's most famous men, and should be xead several times by each pupil. Then test your memory by writing answers to these questions: — What nationality was Pasteur? "Give the two dates mentioned. What was his favourite subject of study? Where did he study it? What was his first great discovery which led to all the others? Criticise "tiny microbas." Give a list, in. order, of the various diseases he foun.d the cause of. What case led to the applieation of vaccine from aimals to human beings? If we use this idea now, give instanees. What do ignorant folks always do at the suggestions of the advanced ecientist? Quote the exact words used. Spelling: Test all lists for last week — eorrect, then learn — examined, disease, decease, gradually, do«e injected, jeered, studied, studded, institute. Dictation exercise, page 30, paragraph 2, "Pasteur . . . - to experiment. " . FORM 1, Reading: Page 9, "The New Goatherd. ' ' Read aloud slowly, enunciating elearly. Look up meanings of these wofdiS: — Rythmic, loth, morass, yodel, bashful, demean, infinite, desperate, compass, brawny. Write out words and meanings in your book. Spelling; Neighbour, music, glimpse, loneliness, echoed, solemn, dairymaid, desperate, jealonis, compass. Dictation: Page 14. "It was a long, long time .... every sido," STANDARD 4, Reading (time, 20 minutes) : February Journal, page 8, "The Black Tulip." Read the whole of this play silently. Use your .dictionary where necessary for pronunciation and meanings. Spelling (time, 20 minutes): Rule a pencil line underneath the following words on pages 8 and 9. Learn these thoroughly: — Tulip, kitchen, Holland, building, wooden, baby's game, horrid, scrape, replant, damaged, money, natural, prettier, knittin'g, guilty, business, afternoon, expectations, fortunes. STANDARD 3.

Reading: February Journal, pages 2, 3. Give special attention to phrasing and expression. Time, 20 minutes. Spelling: Coming, vi§w, tiny, world, glanced, glistening, sunbeams, eorner, ffiischief, scorn, group, curled. STANDARD 2. Time, 15 minutes. • Reading: Pages 2 and 3. 1. In your last lesson you wero to note the inverted- commas. Ask some* one to nead what. Mr. Mouse said, while you read what "Percy Pig said, taking : pare to.read only* the words enclosed by ; the inverted commas.- ' • 2. You : remember that nouns are . name's'of persoUs,:places or things, like John, Londo'n, and tin.' "In this lesson • there are several words which are used instead of nouns. What eould Mr. Mouse have said instead of saying "I don't like Percy Pig"? Could you underline any words which are used instead of nouns? They are called pronouns. The first pronoun is "He." Spelling: Whiskers, pointed, voice, voices, polite, surprise, surprised, crying„ shaking, seven. STANDARD 1.

Reading: Revise "A Sly Fox" and "The Way Of It" from February Journal, being very careful .to emmciate and phrase elearly and correctly .dramatisa "A Sly Fox" with other members of the family — choose a reader for non-conversational parts, the pupil taking the part of the fox, and others for the other charaeters — act the whole piece throughoui. Spelling: Learn the following to be tested: Able, climb, again, , never, before, when, eaten, heard, front, click. ARITHMETIO. STANDARD 4A, 1. Find the sum of 729, 87,623, 95,864, 8,237, 69,786. 2. Fin.d the difEerence between 29,768 and 95,487. 3. Find the product of 792 and 549. 4. Multiply £23 16s 5d by 11. 5. Divida> 724,198 by 63. 6. Divide £427 13s 6d by 9. 7. Third of 729 pl'us quarter of 1628 plus fifth of 750 minus sixth of 726. 8. If the dividend is 72,897 and the divisor is 82, find the quotient. Time: 45 minutes. Answers with test 8. Answers to test 6: 1. 179,146. 2, 3275. 3. £102 8s 9 3-7d. 4, 541,651. 5, 1534 34-58. 6, £6 7s lld. 7, 251 sts. 3 lbs. 8 ozs. 8, 274. STANDARD 5. 1. Divide £1478 11s ld by 73. 2. Multiply £4 17s 9d by 26. 3. What is seven-eights of £11 11s? 4. How many tons in 38,080 lbs.? 5. How many yards in 14 miles? 6. 8775 plus 6887 plus 8696 plus 5746 plus 7579 plus 6768 plus 8756. 7. £57 9s 7^d plus £89 18s lld plus £68 14s 8-ld plus £57 9s 9d plus £88 18s 6Jd plus £74 13s 4id. 8. How many pounds in 7 tons 5 cwt. 19 lbs. 2 Answers to test 6: 1, £12 2s ljd. 2, £5 5s 3£d. 3, (a) One hundred thousand and one; (b) six million nine hundred thousand and forty-six. 4, £32.620 12s 6d. 5, 181 days. 6, 3,239,244. 7. £17 15s 8Jd and 3-47. 8. £162 12s ld. STANDARD fi. 1. How many sacks, each containing 1 cwt. 3 qr. Z lbs., can be filled from

3 tons and how many lbs are over? 2. Divide 168,347 by 138. 8. Multiply answer to No. 2 by 138 and add remainer to prove. 4. 34 plus 4 and a seventh minus 6 and four-fifths. 5. How many seconds in April? 6. (a) 7 and seven-eighths multiplied by 6 and two-uinths; (b) 5 and fiveeighths divided by 3 and three-eighths. 7. Reduce 98379 inches to miles, ch., yds.a ft., in. 8. From three-quarter million take 637,852. Answers to test 6: 1, 1059 plus 58. 2, 67834. 3, 150 gal. 3 qt. li pt. 4, 169,451 cub. in 5, £710 2s 6d 6, 14s 5d 7, £1255 8s 9d. 8, 145.023. Answers to series 5: — / Std. 1: 21, 17, 16, 14, 15, 18. Std. 2: 177, 117, 335, 456, 731, 49 1-6, 62, 5. Std. 3: .1556, 995, 26,802, 46,936, 2944 7-9, 7258. .3049, 21,365. STANDARD L Write out in exercise books 2 and 3 times tabies. Learn 4 times and test as before. Written work: — lf 5 plus 9 plus 3 plus 2 equals 2. 6 plus 3 plus 2 plus 4 equahy 3. 8 plus 3 plus 3 plus 2 equals 4. 5 plus 8 plus 5 equals 5. 14 minus 8 equals 6. 13 minus 5 equals 7. 12 minus 7 equals 8. 11 minus 3 equals

STANDARD 2. Learn 7 times table and test as before. ' Written work: — 1. 93'plus 19 plus 27 plus 45 equals 2. ' 67 plus 18 plus 35* plus 26 equals ■ 3. Multiply 39 by 7. 4. Multiply 76 by 7. ' 5. ' Divide 387 by 6. ' 6 Divide 291 by 7. 7. Subtract 97 from 186. ' ' 8: Subtract 89 from 135, STANDARD 3. Continue revision of tabies to 9 times. Test as before. Written work: — 1. 268 plus 37 plus 495 plus 89 plus 163. 2. 58 plus 179 plus 6 plus 438 plus 585. 3. Multiply 4658 by 9. 4. Multiply 7063 by 8. 5. Divide 17,634 by 9. 6 Divide 31,684 by 8. 7. Subtraet 29,648 from 46,137. 8. Subtract 21,362 from 30,000. GEOGRAPHY. STDS. 6 AND 5, FORMS 1 AND 2. Draw a sketch map of Tasmania. (a) Mark in the following: Robart — capital, Launceston, Mt. Lyell — copper, Mt. Bischoff — tin. (b) Write down in your book and learn thoroughly the following: This island has a mild temperate climate with rain well distributed through the year. The rainfall in the west being some 200 inches per anrmm^ while parts of the^east may be less than 20 inehes. The rugged west eide is mostly covered with foreart growth. Sheep-grazing is important in the drier east, while the most fertile soils are found in the valleys of the northwest and north-east where dairy-farm ing and potato growing are eSpecially important. The island is also noted for such fnuits as apples, peai® and apricots produced especially in the valleys of the Derwent, Avon and Tarnar rivers. There are also found valuable metals — copper, tin, silver lead, and zinc. STANDARDS 3 AND 4. Mark in the following on your map of the South Island: — Westland district: Buller, Grey Rivers; Greymouth, Hokitika, Ross, Kumara. Note that Westland has a heavy rainfall and contains large areas of forest. The principal industries are timber miliing, eoalmining, gold-mining dairy farming. Some of the finest cattle in the Dominion are produced in South Westland. Thousands of tourists visit Franz Josef Glaeier each year. — — — i ii — — fc