SCHOOL LESSONS Queenstown District High School

Lake County Mail, Issue 36, 11 February 1948, Page 5

SCHOOL LESSONS Queenstown District High School

The following assignments are for use pending the arrival of the Department’s Correspondence Booklets, which will be distributed to individual pupils as soon as they come to hand. Parents are asked to allocate a definite time daily for school work. All work is to be neatly written on pad paper, and posted to the school with the additional inscription on the top left-hand column, “ School Lessons,” together with the name and standard of the pupil. A stamp is not needed. Pupils in Standards V and VI« should, if practicable, do all work in ink. Written Expression: Forms I andi II General Hints.—Always try to be clear. Construct the sentence in your mind before you write it. Then try to choose the words which will best convey your meaning, clearly and brightly. Change the words until you have the exact idea .you want. Even great authors do this; Often they write the same thing in a dozen different ways. What they do, we Should do. Re-read your composition before posting it to your teacher; reading Aloud is the best test of all, because your «ar will tell you when you have made mistakes. Make full use of your diction-. These assignments are issued by the Otago Education Board. This ' week’s have appeared in separate sections in a daily newspaper circulating in the district. For convenience of pupils we publish the complete assignment. .ary, and pay careful attention to spelling, ■punctuation and paragraphing. Letter Hints.—Often we are judged by ■the letters we write. If they are filled with errors in spelling, punctuation and paragraphing, we are judged by the people who read them as being Ignorant persons. Supposing you were applying for a position, would not the manager of the firm to which you sent the application look more to the writing and so on in order to decide whether you were fit? Hence, put forward your best effort in this practice we are giving you. Assignments: Form I and II (a) Letter to a friend asking him (oilier) to lend you a good book on modelmaking, knitting or needle work. (b) Composition: " The Best Part of my ■Holiday.” (c) Enlarge these sentences by adding where you can, words to tell HOW, WHEN, WHERE, WHICH, WHAT, KIND OF. (1) The tree grew. (2) The postman walked. (3) The aeroplane roared. (4) The yacht .■skimmed. (5) The batsman hit. (6) The girl dived. Assignment: Std. 11l and IV (a) Composition: "A Narrow Escape.” Hint:—A suggestion—imagine you are the .cat, or a mouse, and tell the story. (b) (Std. 4 only): A letter inviting a friend to a birthday party. Assignment: Std. I and II Remember these rules: — (1) Sentences must begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. (2) Think of what you are going to write before you put it in words on the paper. (a) Write a few sentences about Christmas morning. (b) Finish this sentence. Then add a few more sentences of your own. •• Our -dog, Rover, was walking quietly along when suddenly he saw a . Infants No infant assignments can be made until the departmental pamphlets are in the hands of parents. These should be available in a few days. The Otago Education Board has issued the following assignments of work in arithmetic for pupils of Standards I to IV. These have been prepared by the committee of teachers appointed by the board:— Standard I 1. Write down the numbers from 1 to 80 like this:—l, 2, 3, 4—30. 2. Start with 2 and count by 2’s to 30:— 2, 4, 6, —30 (learn these “ evens ”). 3. Put in the missing numbers:—(a) 4, 5 —, 7; (b) 12, 13, —, 15; (c) 19* 20, —, 22; (d) 15, —. 17. —; (e) 6, 7, 8. —; (f) 11, -. -, 14; (g) 18. 19. —. 21. 4. Write from (a) 10 downwards to 1; Kb) 19 downwards to 13; (c) 23 downwards to 8.

H you do not know the answers, use •counters. Buttons, small cones, pebbles, etc., may be used as counters.

S. 5 + 2 = 2 + 7 = 7 + 3 = 3 + 6 = 3 + 4 = . 2 + 6 = 6 + 4 = 5 + 3 = 5+4 = 4 + 5 = 6 + 3 = 2 + 8 = 2 + 3 = 4 + 6 = 3 + 7 = ■«. 2+ = 6 5+ =8 7+ =10 5+ = 8 3+ =7 4+ = 9 4+ = 7 ■ 3+ =9 3+ = 8 2+ = 9 5+ =5 4+ = 6 5+ = 10 2+ =7 4+ =10