HOME LESSONS.

Shannon News, 13 March 1925, Page 3

HOME LESSONS.

PREPARED BY THE EDUCATION BOAB4D. 'Tiie Wellington Education Board acknowledges witn tnanks the generous and valuable assistance of the proprietors of tins journal, wno have agreed to publish each week, wrtnout charge, the details of the proposed instruction or! pupils of primary schools. The folic wing is the first allotment of the work to oe undertaken by tiie pupils attending tne primary scnools q 1 tiie Wellingion Euucation District.—G. L. Stewart, Secretary. GENERAL, SUGGESTIONS. Parents are urged to co-uperate with the teacher in tins time of inaction by seeing that the following scheme is carried out daily. The finished work bearing the name and address of the child is to be posted to the headmaster of the school not later than the 18th inst. The work is to be undertaken by the children in their own homes, loose paper, not books, being used, and all exercises must be

eareiully written. When corrected, tne work will be returned, to the pupil by the teacher. Any change di address must be notifieu to the headmaster. Teachers will observe that in returning the corrected lessons by post, each envelope must be marked with the name of the Education District and the words "School Lessons." if the envelopes are handed personally to theofficer of the post office by the teacher, the postage will be changed to the Education Board. Tiie work here suggested covers the week March 16th—20th, and furtner allotments Avill be published each Thursday. Groups A and B are intended to cover next week, but Group C has been prepared as a suggestive course for country schools in the subjects, Geography, History, Nature Study and Drawing. This latter group is intended to occupy the whole period of closing and io be alternative to Group B above.

. Group A. READING. Parents are asked to see that the children are provided with good reading matter, such as Whitcom.be and Tombs' 'Supplementary Readers, as these are graded according to age. Read at least one book this week. Standard 4 to 6 will make good use of dictionary and underline difficult lines and passages. ENGLISH. Essay. ' Standard 2.—Write a short story or describe your pet. Standard 3.—Write a story you have read. Standard 4.—©■escribe something you have made during the holidays J or give an account ol any trip you ( have taken. Standards 5 and 6.—(Describe a character or a scene from the book you have read this week. Text Book.—" Lessons in English. !; Standard 4.—Exercises 2 and d. Standard s.—Exercises 4 and 6. Standard 6.—Pages 58 and 59, first ten examples in synthesis. Recitation. Standards 1 to 6.—Choose a poem and learn one verse every day. Drawing. Standards 1 to 6.'—lllustrate a story you have read or draw some group ol objects in your kitchen. ARITHMETIC. (Note.—Parents can assist children by revising tables.) Stajndard I.—Make for yourselves sums of numbers not exceeding 25, for example—7 plus 6 plus 4 plus 3. 21 minus 13. 6 multiplied -by 4. 24 minus 3.

Standard. 2.—Progressive Arithmetic, work first three sums of Exercises 2a, 3a, and 4a. Standard 3.—Progressive Arithmetic, exercise 4a. Standard 4.—Progressive Arithmetic, exercises 3a and b. Standard s.—Progressive Arithmetic, exercises 54a. Stajndard '6— Progressive AlrHlnnelic, exercises 3a, b, and c. Group B. GEOGRAPHY. (Note.—Pacific Geographies and Atlases may be used). Standard 3.—Trace the map of the North Island of New Zealand, putting in four chief railways and showing eight principal towns. Standard 4.—Trace the map oi Australia, showing the chief railways and marking in six ports. Standard 5 Trace the map of England, marking in and naming the chief iron and coal fields. Standard 6.—Trace the map of ■North American, marking in the regions where tlhe following are produced: Gold, furs, tobacco, wheat, cotton, coal, salmon. HISTORY. (Standards 3 to 6 to make an) effort). 1. Make a list of place names in or around Wellington associated with early settlers. 2. Name places in Wellington associated with the career o fthe Duke ot Wellington. 3. Why were the following so named: Plimmerton, Ngaio, Brooklyn, Island Bay, Petone, Mt. Victoria. NATURE STUDY. (For all Standards). Keep a daily record of the weather, as regards sunshine, clouds, rain anil atmosphere, or— Make a collection of different kinds of grasses and weeds growing in your district, trying to find the name of each.

The collections are to be browgtit to the school when it re-opens. Group C. Covering the whole period of instruction in Geography, History, Drawing and Nature Study for Country Schools. (This is alternative to. Group B above). Gather all the information you can about the topics indicated below. Write down your information, illustrate wiflh drawings in colour, if you like, maps and plans, and preserve specimens where possible. Send your notes to your school at the end of each week. GEOGRAPHY. J. Sunrise and Sunset—lime and place. 2. Winds—rainy or not. 2. Clouds—shapes, height.

4. Hills, valleys, plains, swamps in your district.' 5. Rivers, creeks, drains, embankments, etc., near your place. 6. Draw a map of your district, mark all natural features, houses, farms, woods, etc. 7. Crops grown in your district, where produce is marketed, and how it reaches the market.

8. industries carried on in your district— dairyfarm ing, , sheepfarmingseed growing, flaxmilling, sawmilling, goldmining, of/her mining, etc. Draw buildings, works, implements, 9.' Wild and domesticated animals in your district. Fish, wild birds.— Draw, colour and describe where you can. 10. What imported goods are used in your home. Name towns and countries from which they come. 11. Describe important public works in your district, bridges, dams, waterworks, wharves, etc., and draw. HISTORY. I'. Maoris in your district. 2. Early settlers. 3. Draw from .actual specimens Maori axes, clubs, etc. h. Lives of celebrated men who came from your district. 5. Brave deeds done by residents in your district. 6. Memorials.—Monuments erected in your neighbourhood, and persons or events connected therewith. 7. Government officials in your district—their dutiae, etc. 8. Public foodies in your districts and how they work. NATURE STUDY. 1. Collect ami preserve by pressing or otherwise grasses, weeds, seedpods, seeds, shells, fish, eggs, etc. Draw (and colour) or model in clayname specimens. 2. Draw" land forms—mountains, capos, hills, islands, etc. 3. Draw and colour trees.—Poplar, Ngaio, Willow. Firs, Pines, etc

"You seem ra filler 1 to pity thes-3 »rys who are farm labourers Mr Cc;kayne," said Sir James Wilson at tf-e Board of Agriculture. "B|iit I "'ant Jo remind yon t that one of the grea est men in the world was a farm lab-^u I '- er, namely, Robbie Burns." 'o' > ,e so," said Mr A. H. Cockayne, but thank God, he was a u»3 knew a daisy when he saw one."

The Federation of Master Painters, now sitting in Auckland, lias resolved to aDproach (lie Employers' Federation with a view of evolving a registration scheme to embrace both master painters and journeymen. A committee was set up to formulate proposals for the compilation of a universal official price list. It was recommended that the use of scrim on ceilings should be abolished.