SCHOOL LESSONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 73, 13 April 1937, Page 13

SCHOOL LESSONS

' i v w - — — ■ Work for Primary Divisions SEVEENTH SERIE * Following is the. 17th series of lessons for priruary «chool* in the Hastings district. - ' ° RRAIHNG {AND SPBTiT.TNG PORM 2, ! 1 I Eeading,-— March Journal. Gall and get it, if you have not yefc done so. Pages 54 to 59, TJnderline as you read every word oi* phrase conneeted with a car. How many hinds of cars are meniioned? Spelling, — Sentinel, patrolled, pelrolled, perambulator, excitemeut,

uceeleratioUj govemor, imseliievous, intelligent, a'ssured. Dictation exercise. — Last paragraph on page 55, FOEM 1, Eeading,— Page 47, "Tlio Hunted t |ox." Read alond, Eind ont all you can about John Maseheld, the present | Poet Laureate, The wotd ''brush" j nieans his ' ' tail, * * | Spelling,'— Tongne, crouehed, fllthed, 1 hulloa, stagger, mangle, mouth, dying, hooves, meadows. Dictation,— Pago 46: ' ' Quite un. wounded .... just in. time, * ' STANDARD 4. Eeading (time 20 minutes). — March Journal, page 26, 1 1 Tony the PackMule. ' ' Read aloud the whole of pages • 25 and 26, using your dictionary where necetssary for pronuneiation and tneanings of new words, Spelling (time 20 minutes),— Rule a peneil line neatly nndemeath these words on page 26, Leartt them thor* oughly before ybnr patents test you on them: — Garried, instead, therefore, whether, smooth, slightest, blankets, Wondered, heavy .burdens, expeeted, claimed, almost, bttried, certainly, elimbing, steepest^traile. STANDARD H, Reading,— Mareh Journal, Pages 17, 18. Have iomeone take the part of Kirsteen Hoel while you yourself take the part of Sidsel Longshirt, Act the story as woll as read it, Give attention to expression. Time: 20 minutes, Spelling. — Ourtsy, fashion, woollen yarn, agreed, managed, aithough, unwrapped, a grown-up spinner, scramble, coffee, edge, pleasant. STANDARD 2. Reading (timo, 15 minutes),— Page 25. Read the page and observe that the people }s names, and the days of the week have eapital letters, Read the sentences carefully, pausing at tke commas, and stopping at the fnll-stops. Read the talking parts, which have the inverted commas to begin and end with, as though fot were the person talking, Remember that a birthday party is an bxeiting event for children, Spelling.- — Nouns. Eriday, Satnrday, Aunt, Gousin, summer, flowers, birthday, Burprise, brdakfast, jelly, jellies. STANDARD 1. Reading. — Read alond " Jane's Birthday." with carefnl attention to clear pronuneiation of words, correet phrasing and punctuation. After this read through "Peacock Pie" again for revision. Spelling. — Learn the following words, to bo tested later: Please, shout, •shouted, sitting, close, strange, louder, nearly, deft, only. Write !a sentence about each word, arithmetio STANDARD 6. 1. 17 men earn £36 19/6. What would 29 men earn? 2. Eind cost of f encing 24 ml, 3 fur. 2 ch. at £3 18/9 a mile. 3. Express 3-llths of £6 15/8 as the decimal (3 places) of £14 15/-. 4. 1785 tbns of coal at £2.2175 per ton. (Answer in £ s, d.)» 5. £495 33/32 dividod by 83. 6. How manv acres and squares in 495,637 sq. yds.? 7. 18.75 of £3 plus 2-3rds of 16/9 plus 20 per cent. of £3 15/5. 8. 12 and 7-12ths minus 3 and 19-24ths plus 9 and 3-8ths, Answers to Test 16,— 1: 1344. 2: £343 13/9. 3: .25. 4: £562 1/3. 5: £151 11/-. 6: lhK 7j 49104. 8: 4 and 4-35ths. STANDARD 5 1. £155 9/2 divided by 364, 2. To the sttm of 36,978 and 47,649 add their difference. 3. Take 1 cwt, 3 qr. 17 lbs, from 4J ewt. 4. Eind by practice method the cost of 63 coats at £2 14/' each, 5. How, many coiis of wire each 66 yards long would stretch 1 milef 6. An oblong Md is 370 yds. by 148 yds. How many chs. yds. round it? 7. 19/11 plu'3 9/11 plus 19/11 plUS 9/11 plus 19/11 plus 9/11. 8. 10 cwt. 3 qrs. of potatoes at ld a lb. Answers to Test 16. — l: 3570612. 2: 295484. 3: 336. 4: £21 5/8. 5: 1033 and l99-623rds. 6: £537 10/-. 7: £5 6/5. 8: 539 chs. STANDARD L 1. -98687 plus 79834 plus 69709 plus 8608 plus 74. 2. Eind the clifferenc* between 8 times 734 and half of S648. 3. Eind the product of 806 and 709. 4. The dividend is 86,948, the divi» Sor is 98 lind the quotient. 5. Reduce 6 mls. 24 chs. 18 yds. to yds. 6. Multiply 8 tons 6 ewts 3 qrs. by 8. 7. How many foufpenny boolcs f»r £6 19/4? 8. Divide £69 13/8 among 8 bOys. Write out and learn Mensuro of Weight. Time: 45 mins. Answers to Test 18. — 1- tim'1 '• 2: £210 18/6. 3: £507 15"' 1: £771 16/7 and 2-Stlis. 5; £v 6: 13,33 j»enny half-ponoe. 7: 2'iO florins. 8; £30 S/2,

STANDARD 3, Copy half-crown table ittto exercisos and learn thorqughly. 1. £8 14/3 plus £7 6/9 plus £5 11/4 plus £9 3/4 equals 2. £11 15/4 pluto £16 8/3 plus £17 .16/9 plus £14 5/8 equals 3. £12 11/6 multiplied ,by 7 equals 4. £13 12/7 multiplied by 9 equals 5. £36 17/4 minus £17 18/6 equals 6. £38 12/8 minus £19 14/9 equals 7. £42 18/8 divided by 8 equals S. £37 19/6 divided by 6 equals Antowers to series 15. — - £60 12/3, £93 11/11, £89 5/-, £95 1/4, £3 9/7. £3 6/4, £8 18/6, £5 14/7. STANDARD 2. Revise tables to 6 times. 1. 57 plus 48 plus 89 plus 66 equals 2. 63 plus 75 plus 48 plus 37 equals S. 3647 multiplied by 6 equals 4. 4786 multiplied by 9 equals 5. 2468 minuto 1794 equals 6. 3243 minus 2867 equals 7. 4362 divided by 5 equals S. 1576 divided by 7 equals Answers to series 15. — 273, 19b,

17703, 29535, 4074, 1422, 954, 990 and 8-5ths. STANDARD 1, Gontinue with 6 times table and addidon of numbers to make 15. 1, 6 plus 7 plus 4 plus 8 equals 2. 4 pitls 8 pltis 3 plus 6 equals 3. 6 plus 6 plus 5 plus 8 equals 4, 7 plus 4 plus 3 plus 7 equala 6, 3 multiplied by 6 plus 5 equals 6. 5 multiplied by 6 plus 4 equals 7. 36 divided by 6 equals 8. 42 divided by 6 equals Answers to series 15.— 20, 23, 16, 17, 37, 27, 4, 5. geography STANDARD 5 and 6. FORM 1 and 2. © Japan (continued). — Place the following on your map, — Town: Tokio ia the eapital, It is an important railway contre. The town has large match factories, engineering works and artistic manufactures in metal work. Yokohama is the port of Tokio, and the chiof port of Japan. Osaka is the centre of the cotton manufacture and the leading manufacturing town. Kioto is an inland town, and' aoted for its silk manufactures. Kobe is the second seaport of Japan, and manufactures cotton. Nagasaki has up-to-date shipbuilding and engineering works. Write the above in your exercise book and learn the important points, e.g, silk, cotton, shipbuilding centres. STANDARDS 3 and 4, Bistricts where building stone is fcund. Eind these in your atlas, Hikurangi— aear Whangarei, far north of New Zealand, Coromandel — Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland district. Putaruru — near Rotorua. Nelson district— Golden Bay. Oamaru— most of the buildings in the town of Oamaru are builfc oi stone found in that district. This town iis sometimes called ''The White Robed Lady that sits by the sea. 5 ' Bluff — A good building stone is found in this district. The stone is somewhat dark in colour. Many of our New Zealand Government buildings are built of New Zealand stone, or at leatot a portion of them Two recent examples are the new Post Office in Dunedin and the new Railway Station in Wellington.