CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1925, Page 1

CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD

SCHOOL HOME LESSONS. „ instructions to pupils. 1. Nnme, address and standard to lie written plainly oil all papers, and standard for l!i2d on front of envelope. 2. This week’s work in Arithmetic is set from Progressive Hooks, Standards 111., IV., V. and VI. Do not attempt all the work in English or Arithmetic in one day. ARITHMETIC. STANDARD VI. PROO R PISS IV E A RITM ETIIIC. Kxercisc 1 File A: Examples 2, -J, (i. H and 10. Exercise 2—File B: Examples 1,3, 7 and 0. NOTH. 1. Whatever is inside brackets must lie simplified first. 2. Terms connected by “of” are worked next. 3. Then terms connected by multiplication signs and division signs are worked in the order in which they occur. !. Addition and subtraction are then done. o. Take a fresh line for each step. Exercise 3—File A : Examples 1, 2, 3 and I. ENGLISH— I THIRD SET. I. Add a clause to the following, and in each case name the kind of clause you have added (a) The attack on the castle failed . . . (b) The searchers found the hidden treasure. (cl lie built a house near the sea. '2. Clive function or use and part of speech of each word in:—Each British sailor nuicklv obeyed the order.

;i. Turn into direct speech :—fa) John asked James where he was going, (b) The spider asked the fly if he would walk into the parlour, (c) .Marie Antoinette said to .Mozart, that he had beaten her. I. Analyse into clauses, and give their functions When the day-dawn-ed, men. who were watching on the hills, saw in the distance the outlines of tin* great ships. (See that each clause has a subject and predicate.) (Underline these.) By using prefixes form words opposite in meaning to the following and use the new words in . sentences to show their meaning: .Mortal, reliable: legible, courteous. READING—THIRD SET. Finish the February Journal, making good use ol your dictionary. WRITING. Select 10 words from your spelling list and write 10 sentences with one of the words in each. They must he original sentences. .SPEEDING. Select (i new, useful words daily (see directions given to Standard It.") ESSAY. (1) A visit to Waitomo Caves; or i •>) M v ambition; or (3) A Busy Street Corner. Imagine voursolf an onlooker and describe the scene. i Read essay very carefully before sending it in'.) POETRY. Write in your exorcise another poem and learn it. On your Transcription paper write the name of the poem, and of the poet. Also write your reasons for choosing this poem. DRAWING. (I An nrlieie of furniture: nr (•J) ~\ Rreud-bonrd with loaf. (I ~e |.i n. 1 1. crayon or l*nr-h.) GEOGRAPHY.

A map of Asia, marking in the British Possessions. (Do not omit the islands.)

STANDARD V.—ENG DISH. Third Set. 1— Name the phrases in capitals and say to what word each group is attached : (a) The earth slipped DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE, (b) WITH MUCH JOY lie received Amoliia. (c) The illustration ON THE NEXT PAGE shows the position of the mountain. 2 Place apostrophe correctly in billowing—Mans coat. A hidys hat. A sheeps foot. A babvs bottle. A trees roots. A ladies meeting. A linns mane. Saturdays newspapers. Uncles car. ;j—Combine into single sentences without using “and” or “hut”:— fa) He felt unhappy. ID* had neglected his work. His father had asked him to do the work, (b) The days grow longer. The sun grows stronger. (<■) The fog cleared away. Ihe sailors could see the rocks. They had escaped the rocks. I Analyse:—.'a) From the earth he tore the plants, (b) At one time this great, free grew over nearly the whole of the North Auckland province, (c) At nearly every stop wo tread on some great moss carpet. j .-Give use or function and part of speech of all words in.—The little candle throws its beams a long way. STANDARD ARITHMETIC.. Turn to page 311 in the Progressive Arithmetic. St. A. book at the first qiieslicni in Exercise 23. This is it:—6 cows cost Y 72, find the cost ol ■> cows. You are told that 0 cows cost £72. You have to find what A cows cost. It is clear that if (i cows cost L'72. one will cost one-sixth of L'72. that is £l2. ami if one costs £l2, then A will cost CI2 x A equals £6l). In doing the sum pul. down your statements as billows: Since (i cows cost ID2 therefore one cow costs one-sixth of L'72. equals Cl2 therefore five cows cost Cl2 xA, equals COO. Answer £OO. Study this carefully and then do File A Examples 1,2, 3,4, A, 0,7, 8, 0 and 10 in a similar manner. Then do File ID examples 1,2, 3, 4. A. and 0. REVISION WORK. 1 If a watch loses 3 seconds every hour how much will it lose in November ? .

■) jj* c (-J wore to be shared between two men so that one received five twelfths of it. and the other received the rest, what would each receive ?

3 A man’s step is -It fiiu. How many steps will lie take in ij-niile. ,|_A bicycle wheel turned 1?0 times in travelling; a quarter of a mile, find the circumference of the wheel. 5 A wheel 12ft bin in circumference turns 2500 times in going from one place to another. How far are the places apart? (Answer in miles, etc.) STANDARD V. Third Set. READING. February Journal. Read with your dictionary:— (l) “The Wonders of Glass-making. (2) “Snap.” WRITING. Write not more than 10 lines of the most interesting paragraph in “ The Wonders of Glass-making.’ On the same paper tell in your own words what the picture on p. S is about. SPELLING.

Select (5 new usefin words daily (See directions given to S. 4-)

ESSAY. (1) A letter to a Japanese boy telling about your life in New Zealand, or (2) An Oak’s Story, or (3) A Visit to a Draper’s or a Afotor Garage. (Read over carefully before sending essay in.) DRAWING. Draw (with pencil, crayon or brush) a»picture to illustrate your essay. Forward it with the essay. GEOGRAPHY. .Map of Scotland, marking in the chief coast features, rivers and mountains. (Use your atlas.) ’ POETR Y. Choose ano'the? poem. Write it in your exercise and learn it. Write the names of the poet and of the poem on your transcription paper. STANDARD TV. Third Set. PR OG R ESS IVE ARITH MKT IC. Exercise I—File A, Examples 1,2, and 4. File B, Examples 1,2, and 4. Exercise 2—File A Examples 1,4, and 5. File B, Examples 1, S and 5. Learn avoirdupois weight, Page 120. ENGLISH. ]—Write the parts of speech of all the words you can in:—“l have seventy chests of treasure.” 2 Divide into subject and predicate : fa) Behind the lower are enchanted hills. (I)' You must have a call. (!•) The blooms oil the willow began to fade. 3 Change all the words you can into the. plural number:— fa) The leaf on the tree is fanned by the breeze. (b) The host, thing a man can do is to sow a seed. (e) The horse in the stable jumped over the door. Rut in stops and capitals in:— what would captain cooks men in the resolution have thought of the H.M.S. hood. 5 Join these pairs of sentences together, using “because,” “hut,” “where,” or “ although” : (a) lie found the hook. It had been covered with paper. (b) The clouds were living fast. The wind was high. (e) The sun shone brightly. '1 he day was cold. READING. Ask father or mother to buy you a Southern Cross Story Reader from tin list below, and read it very carefully The Plant Hunters (lid). Ihe Cot tag,, in the Forest (4(1). Iho Enchanted Packman (Del). Toilers of thu Reef (fid). Alasterman Ready (8d). ESSAY. Write about the lesson in the Febrnarv Journal that you think is the most interesting. Tell iho story in your own words. (Read essay very careful Iv before sending it to your teacher.) SPELLING. Select live new, useful words daily. Write them three times .each in your exercise, and once attain 'on your trail script ion papev. STANDARD IV. WRITING AND DRAWING. Write “ Words of Wisdom” (P. I) very neatly and decorate your paper with a I,order or some other design. POETRY. Choose a Mother poem you like. Write it in your exercise and learn it. GEOGRAPHY. Draw a map of Tasmania, marking in the chief coast features, rivers and mountains, products and the towns Hobart and Launceston. sT AN DA.lt I > 111 Third Set. PROG R MSS lA' E A RITIIMKTIC.

Exercise 1 —Kile A. 1,2. 3. 0 and 10. File ID 1.2. I. 7 and S Revise pence Inlile.

READING. Read to the end of February Journal. ENGLISH. 1— Choose five words from your Spelling lisl. and write very neatly live sentences with one of the words in each. Make up your own sentences. 2_()n the same paper tell your teacher three things ahold the uncle of (In* young princess. (Read I'(‘bi liary Journal.) SEEDLING. Pick out .from the lessons set in the Journal five new words daily, and write them three Limes each in you' exercise and once again on your transcription paper. transcription. "Write neatly not more than eight lines of a 'paragraph in “Whitewashing the Fence.” POETRY. Dearn “The l.itLle Brown Pup” by readme it, through several times. drawing. (With pencil, crayon or brush.) j Alake a short daisy chain and draw it ; or 2 A Snail <p Mb) ESSAY. )—lmagine yourself a snail and write the story of your life; or 2 Fishing. ARITHMETIC’. STANDARD ID 1 Find tin* sum of 23 !’ llls 10 l 1 '"'" S ill us 1A plus 27. 2 From DO take 27 as olten as pos'‘l~A man had SI apples. Ho gave each of !) hoys f! each. How many apples had lie b-( t r I 1,, |, class there were 37 children. Each child got (i sums right. How many sums did they got right altogeth-

er? , g |n a room there were si people. If 27 of these were men and 21 were women, how many children were m the

room ? , t o (; —] low ninny is 1-0 of (~ « V lls of 96 plus 1-0 of DA? 7 How many lollies must I have to give 11 lollies to each of ID girls and to IS hoys? 8— V hook had S pages; each page had 9 lines, and there worn 7 words in each line. How many words were m the hook? p 17-8 ulus 14-9 plus Li plus o. 10 Write out 9 times table and learn it.

STANDARD IT. Third Set. READING. February School Journal. Read to the end of page 8. WRITING. Write very neatly a paragraph from ••The Tor-Baby” and try to draw the rabbit on page 3. DRAWING. Find 5 different kinds of leaves and draw them. Use pencil or crayon. COMPOSITION. Write a lettev to your teacher about receiving your School Journal. arithmetic. STANDARD T. 1— Add 6. plus 7, phis 5. plus 3. 2 Add 4. plus 5. plus 7. plus 0, ph'S

3 From 24 count back by fours, and then by sixes. . 4 How many legs have a dozen horses?

A —How many legs have two fowls, two sheep and two horses? C —Add together, } of 16, and .) of

7—How much is J of 36 and 1-3 of 21?

8— A boy lias 19 marbles. He gives 8 to his sister, and 7 to his brother. How many lias ho left ? 9 Learn 4 times tables, and 5 times as far as 5x9 equals 45. 10— Write out all the numbers which added together make 12, 13, and 14. Ill; (4) £1 !)s Od; (A) 43563.4375; (6) (4) 89 runs; (5) £5 14s (Sj|d; (6) £lB9 STANDARD I. Third Set. 1— Write 5 sentences about a game you have played lately, or a present you have received. 2 Ask father to show you how to plait a whip. 3 Draw a house and name the parts in it. AR ITII.M FT 1C" ANSWERS. Second Set. STANDARD VI. (1) 5 A-8; (2) 1} hours; (3) 3;,' per lb; (4) £1 9s Od; (5) 43503.4375; (6) £4l 5s Od; (7) l.Ooin ; (8) 42.238 bus.; (D) I'. secs; (10) 4.17 galls; < 13) 21 x 21. STANDARD V. (1) £32 10s; (2) 17s (id; (31 COft-sec; (-1) 89 runs; (5) £5 14s Oijd ; (0) £189; (7) £2 7s Od; (8) £SO ss; (9) £522; (10) £843 15s Od; (11) 19 cows at £5, equals £95; 1 sheep at £l, £1; 80 liens at Is, £4 : total, 100 lor £IOO. STANDARD IV. (1) £sll 0s 4 *|d; (2) 8, 298,933; (3) 1571halfp.; (4) £2 0s 10Jd ; (5) £9 10s 7Jd; (0) £3232 4s 11 id; (7) 882,739; (8) 930022 plus 30; (9) £23 2s Id; (10) £8 13s 3d. STANDARD TIL (!) £7 lls OJd; (2) 15717; (3) 9994; (4) 143 sums; (5) 7023; (0) 82063; (7) 07003; (8) 810. STANDARD IT. (1) 100; (2) 4; (3) 48; (4) 85; (5) 07; (G) 33; (7) 18. STANDARD I. (1) 29; (2) 30 ; (3) 22, 19, 10, 13. 10, 7, 4. 22, 17, 12, 7,2; (4) 24 logs; (5) 14 feet; (0) 10; (7) 11; (8) 0. FOR SECONDARY CLASSES. Third Set. SENIOR.

English.—(l) Having studied the history set, imagine yourself to lie George 111 and write a page or two of your thoughts about the people and aflairs of the time. (2) In Nesfield learn pages 11 to 20, 93 to 95, 135 to 111. Prepare examples oil pages In, 95, 90, and write page 15, No. 2,4, 7, 12; page 95, No. 3, I, 10, 14, 10, 17, 18, 20. Arithmetic :—Ex. 1(5 v, 23a, 23b. Algebra.—Ex. Bb. Geometry.—Revise theorems 13 to 16 cor. Write page 47, No. 4,8, 10. Geography: (1) Study Switeiland and the Alps. (2) Answer questions IT, 1 to I thereon. History.—Study Chapter 111 making concise notes 011 the important persons and items. Practise the map of the American colonies.

French.—Weekly lesson I ; learn the grammar and write Ex 1, A and B, and also Ex I on page 251, Modem French Authors, prepare the Ist passage. Obtain.—Wockley’s “ Matriculation French Course,” “ 11 all-hours M ith Modern French Authors,” “Julius Ctosar.”

INTKRMEIM VTF. DIVISION, French: Siepman. I’art 2. Besson 1Write into a note-hook the new words as given on page 187. I.earn all of these words. Translate the lesson into English first orally, and then write it out. Practise reading orally in French. Dearn oages Id, 48, 00, 53, and 79. Write p. 118, ox. 2 (first I) ; ox. I , ex. 11, 1-8; ox. IV 1-6. English.-—Nosliohl’s Manual; study eh. I. write exercises 1-6, p. 6. Dearn p. 118-120. Write out first ten sentences of exercise. “ Mount Helicon” ~ ;j Read Spenser's poem “The Seasons.” Look up words you do not know. Write out in your own words Spenser's description of each ol Hie

" Borna Dunne"--Rend first 10 eh. Essay on “The Contents of a Postman’s Bag.”

Latin.—Longman. Dearn Grammar 190-190, translate ex. ILM-P-A, Seals? JModicte—Cli. 65 and 66.

Geometry.—Dearn theorems D-12, ex. p. 2D. 3; |). 31. 4,7, LI, ID Arithmetic.—Study p.p. ID-53; ex I 1-10; 33-36. 41-IA; 58-61. Algebra.—Ex. X a, 17-20; X b. 1. 2, 3; NI a, 10-20, 35-10; XI b 23-20. Geography. —Map of France, mark m towns, seaports, railways, learn whole of France from Longman, hook 3. List of new books for 1925.-Public School Arithmetic.—Baker ami Bourne. Siepman’s French ('nurse. —Part. ID “ |,a Tour ties Mnures.” Nesfield’s Manual of English Grammar. Blackmore’s "Borna Donne,” “Mount Helicon.” Bongmnn’s Geography, hook 3.

Ist YEAR SECONDARY. Geography.—Map of Westland and Canterbury, mark in as fully as you

can the railway system. Arithmetic.—S. 6. Progressive Arithmetic book— Ex 49, C and D. English.—St. 6 “ Lessons 111 English” -Ex. 3D. Essay.— “ The Duke of Wellington, or “ Admiral Nelson,” or " Florence Nightingale.”

Text hooks required for Ist year.— Concise English Grammar and (‘(imposition (Urquhart). Composition Through Reading, Part I (Pickles).- “Ivanhoe” Southern Cross Series, Junior Geography of New Zealand (Slirimpton), Brief Survey of British History 1 Warner), Elementary Algebra, Part 1. (Baker ami Bourne), School Geometry,. Parts X-TV (Hall and Stevens), Siepman’s Primary French Course, Part I.