SCHOOL LESSONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 10

SCHOOL LESSONS

Tenth Series for Primary Pupils HASTINGS DISTRICT Following is the tenth series of lessons for primary schools of the Hastings district. Pupils are requested to note that March Journals may be obtained at the schools. READING AND SPELLING. FORM 2. 'Reading. — The speeches at the arrival of the clipper airship tvere, unfortunately, reduced to one of Tvelcome and one reply. However, I found seven points and five points worthy of the special mark. I have not received any original poems, but still hope some attempts "will be posted. Eead your March Journal througJ. privately — it is very interesting. Later we can study it carefully. Spelling. — Page 34: Meanings from your dictionaries. Docility, unhallowed, relapsed, brutalize, innocent, incredible, conceivable, tedious, infmitesimally, syrnptom, Dictation esercise. — Page 35, last paragraph. FORM 1. Reading. — March Journal, page 34, "The Green Donkey-Driver. ' ' • - Find out all you can about Robert Louis Stevenson. Read through. the extract slowly and silently, and find the meanings of the following -words: — . gait, docile, relapsed, conscience, patiently, incredible, tedious, misgave, unhallowed, minuet, brutalize, desisted, browse, conceiye, arrayed. Spelling. — Sober, daintiness, descend, docile, relapse, effect, conscience, desist, innocent, describe. Dictation. — Page 35, "What that pace was .... muscles of the leg." STANDARD 4. Reading (time, 20 minutes). — "Little Sidsel Longskirt's Yisit." Re-read, silontly, pages 2 to 4 in your February Journal, and then continue the story on pages 37 and 38 in the March Journal. Practise reading this ncw pieee aloud. Spelling (timo, 20 minuLcs): Rule a pcncil line ncatly undor these words on pagos .17 and 38. Learn them thorolghly: — Curtsy, grown-up, prosper, handiwork, fashion, answered, woollen, spinnor,* cloak, almost, cottago," stable, managed, scramble, edge, across, gloves, untie, shawls, unwrapped. STANDARD 3. Reading (time, 20 minutes). — Pages 17 and 18. Give attention to phrasing and expression. Spelling. — Mornent, answered, spinner, managed, scramble, really, nearly, coffee, agreed, word, shawls, waist. STANDARD 2. Reading (time, 15" minutes). — March Journal. (1) Read the whole piece "Dicky-Birds." Note the way the poem is built; that is, the rhyming of the first two end words, and the last two eud words. The same plan is followed throughout. (2) Read each vevso carefully, and try to read with an idea of a swinging motion which tho birds would havo while sitting on a twig. • (3) Pronuuce the long words and thoir ondiugs carefully and say tho short words clearly as well. (4) Draw a little picture of your own to illustrate tho little poem. Spelling (all adjectives). — Plumf), plumper, plumpest, strange, stranger, strangest, warm, warmer, warmest, funny, funnier, funniest. STANDARD 1. Reading. — From the March Journal read " Dicky-Birds. ' ' Ask the meanxng and correct pronuciation of any word not clearly understood. Take notice of the words that Thyme and beat time to the strong sounding parts in the lines, as you would to a song or piece of music, beginning with a strong beat on "two." Also read aloud oue page of "Dickery, Dickcry, Dock." Spelling. — Learn the following words to be tosted: — Two, little, birds, twig, both, plump, first, brother, talk, ono. ARITHMETIG. STANDARD 6.

1. Divide £13,047 6/6 by 239. 2. Prove No. 1 answer. 3. 7 and 4-9ths times £53 7/3. 4. How many times is 6/7 J contained in £24 3/7 i? 5. I sell 65 sheep at 13/4 each and then buy 32 calves at 22/6 each. How much have I left? 6. What fraction of an acre is a ■ garden 55yds. long and 13yds. wide? (Lowest terms). j 7. How many tons, cwts., qrs., lbs. 1 iu 17 sacks of wheat cach containing 200 lbs.? 8. Multiply £3.762 by 38 and express answer in £ s. d. Answers to tcst 9. — 1, £13,252 3/74; 2, £96 14/7i. 3, 16 and l-48fch; 4, 37 tons, 8 ewt., 2 qrs., 16 lb. ; 5 14 miles 11 ch.» 12 fdB, 1 ft.; 6 £,530 16/8 j 7 (a) 78, (b) 5-14ths.j 8, 1,772,928 -cubic inches, ' STANDARD 5. 1. 16/8} plus 14/41 plus 12/7} plus 9/6J plus 4/101 plus 17/91 plus 13/91. 2. £648 12/3 minus £397 16/9. 3. £589 19/- divided by 92. 4. Write in figures: One hundred and seventeen thousand and thirty-four. 5. 3/111 i'or a day; b°w nauch for a year? 6. £7 19/11 multiplied by 16. (Short method). 7. (4484 divided by 19) multiplied by 17.. 8. Gst. 111b. minus 4st. 121b. Answers to test 9. — 1, £102 7/6; 2, £5 13/9; 3, 31,451; 4, £4 18/9; 5 476; 6, 3 tons 19cwt. 2qrs.; 7, £337 1.1/11; S, 271 lons 5cwt. STANDARD 4. L £GS 14/11 plus £29 10/9 plus £168 33/8 glua £75 16/10 plua £9 13/6. 0

2. Find the difference between £163 9/11 and £1000. 3. Find 6 times £18 19/6. 4. Divide £168 12/10 among 7 persons. 5. Reduce £12 16/9 to threepences. 6. How many tons cwts. sts. in 1729 sts. 7. The dividend is-69,483, the disisor is 79. Find the quotient. 8. Find 3-8ths of 17,952. Time, 45 minutes. Answers to test 9. — 1, 524,503; 2, 795,422; 3, 1770 34-73rds.; 4 £111 4/8 2-8ths; 5, 1868 16-39ths; 6, 16,692 yds.; 7, 1454yds. 2ft. 8ins.; 8, 41,195. ANSWERS TO SERIES 8. Sfcd. 1.— 14, 19, 18, 9, 5, 7, 14. 14. Std. 2.— 109, 111, 176, 163, 194, 179, 266, 58 4-5 ths. Std. 3—2553, 2180, 71456, 33831, 5323 5-8ths, 2522 4-7ths, 6589, 5929. STANDARD 1. Learn 5 times table. Write out in books and test. Written work: — 1. 6 plus 4 plus 3 plus 5. 2. 9 plus 2 plus 3 plus 5. 3. 4 plus 8 jdus 3 plus 44. 35 minus 6. 5. 14 minus 8. 6. 13 minus 7. 7. 4 multiplied by 5 plus 6. 8. 7 multiplied by 7 plus 2. STANDARD 2. Learu 8 times table. Revise other tables and test. Written work: — 1.- 64 . plus 28 plus 45. 2. 37 plus 19 plus 48. 3. 263 minus 98. • .4. 173 minus 67. . 5. .89 multiplied by 7. ■ 6. 67 multiplied by 6. 7. .Divide 272 by & 8..Diyide 393 by 5. STANDARD 3. Leafn 12 times table and test as bei'ore. ' ^ Written work: — 1. 260 plus 194 plus 179 plus 238 plus 173. 2. 174 plus 396 plus 207 plus 183 plus 187. • 3. 5837 multiplied by 12. 4. 1987 multiplied by 7. 5. 69035 divided by 8. 6. 278594 divided by 9. 7. 10795 minus 3947. 8. 26903 minus 9468. GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS V AND VJ FOKMS I AND II (a) Draw a map of Englaud. (b) Mark in the great ports : — London, JLiverpool, Bristol, Southamptou, liull, Newcastle, Penine Range, Mersey, Severn, Thames, Huniber Rivers. Note "that the prevailing wmd is south-west, and that the heavier rainfall is on the west, where the cotton towns — Manchester, Wigan, St Helens, Salford — are found. The raw cotton comes from the United States of America. On the eastern side we find a drier climate which is suitable for sheep farming and the woollen industry. Bradford, Leeds, Halifax and Huddersfield are well-known wool centres Produce from New Zealand — frozenmeat, dairy produce and fruit are sent to London (chiefly), Liverpool, Bristol, and Glasgow in Scotland-, for distribution. Use your geography text book and atlas and extend theso notes. 1 STANDARDS 3 and 4. r (a) Find the following' on your atlas and write down in your note-book the following : — Woollen Towns: Onehunga, Petone, Wanganui (called National), Napier, Kaiapoi, Timaru, Oamaru, ' Roslyn (Dunedin), Mosgiel, Milton (gocds marked Bruce). See if you can find some old clothes with any of theso names. (b) Coal Mining Towns: Hikurangi (near Whangarei), Huntly, Taupiri. Pukemiro (all near Hamilton), Westport, Granity, Denniston (West Coast), Nightcaps, Ohai (Southland). You may not be able to find Ohai, but it is about forty miles from Invercargill (westerly direetion). (c) Find the following on your atlas : Capes Kidnappers, Turnagain, Runaway, Farewell, East Cape, Egmont, Maria Van Diemen. Poverty and Plenty Bays, Cook Strait, Foveaux Strait, Tasman Bay. These placea are useful in connection with the history of New Zealand. t