SCHOOL WORK.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4827, 30 March 1925, Page 2

SCHOOL WORK.

HOME STUDIES FOR CHILDREN, SET 9. The next section of the series of home lessons for the Paeroa District High School pupils is as follows:— HIGH SCHOOL. AU marked work must be corrected and returned to thq school. Seniors — Geometry.—Third year : Theorems 37,' 38, 39, page 17, exercise 4, 7. Second year: Parallels, pages 62-65, exercise 5. Algebra.—Third year : Exercise Sb, numbers 3,6, 13, 16, 19, 20. Second year: Exercise 7d, numbers 9, 14, 24, 25, 35, 42, 52. Arithmetic.—Multiplication of fractions, pages 112-118 ; exercise 53. No. 42. 43 ; exercise 55, No. 39-46. French. —Third year : Weekley's "The Numeral's,” lesson 7. Much time to be spent in gaining a thorough knowledge of the numbers, Second year: Revise pages 230-232 thoroughly. ' Lesson 10. Geography.—AU. Name .’n order of importance the chief exports of New Zealand, with their approximate values, and give New Zealand’s most formidable! competitors for each. Essay.—All (to be handed in no later than April 1): Camp Life, Castles in the. Air, or a thrilling stbry illustrative of endurance. Finst Year — Essay and Geography as .above. English.—-Page 30, No. 5. Arithmetic. —Practice (work must be very neat). Exercise 48, Numbers 19, 20, 27, 30; exercise 49, numbers 1,6, .10, 15, 19, 25, 38. Science, one week’s work— Agriculture.—All boys : Make a list of all the (1) insect and (2) fungus pests you can find with the crops o v plants they are attacking. Make drawings where . possible. (Among, othens: cabbage fly, codlin, rust, woolly aphis, scale insects.) Second year: Make labelled drawing (diagrammatic) from specimens of as many different types of roots .7? you can And (include grass, carrot, turnip, dahlia, ivy, bean). Third year: How would you make and use a compost heap ? What m-.i-. terials would you (1) use, (2) avoid. Home Science. —All girls: Make,a list of all the metals used in your hcnie, giving tile special use and suitability for the purpose of each. What methods do you notice for preventing rust on ironware in your home ? Chemistry.—Second and third year; Give examples in everyday life of (a) physical change, (b) chemical change (c) change of state ; Explain what is meant by “relative density.” A body of relative density 5 weighs 20 giu.-ns in air; what would, it weigh immersed in water? STANDARD VI. English.—Page 120 (old book, page 135), punctuation. Revise exercise 1. Arithmetic.—Exercise 15, B (first 5) and C. Geography.—Learn towns of Canada, pages 172-171. How would you go from Auckland to Halifax? (Page 225. Name chief places through which you would pass. History.—Pages 176-179. What were (a) causes of the Revolution ; (b) result. Spelling.—Finish words in list. STANDARD V. Aritmetic. —Page 19, lowest terms. Note particularly last four lines. Exercise 11., A and B. Exercise 72, exampk 1. English.—Page 95: Subject and Verb. Exercise 43, 1 to 10. Geography.—Pages 82-83: Great Biitain— area, position, and climate. Do not try to memorise the regions at bottom of page 83. Pages; 90-91 in old edition. History.—The Reformation, p 91-95. STANDARD IV. Arihmetic. —Exercise 38. English.—Exercise 12, No. 11-15. Geography.—Read carefully “The Commonwealth 'of Australia,” new book, pages 108-115, old book pages 114-117. STANDARD 11l Arithmetic.—Read bottom page 8 and do exgrcisc 6, 9. English.—Read story “The Ox and the Heifer” on page 12 and rewrite in your oivn words. Revise all spelling words learnt. , STANDAR 11. Arithmetic.—Revise* tables 2 .to 6 again. Exercise 4, F, G, H. English.—Exercise 7. Spelling.—Revise all the spelling wordis.