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Shannon News, 27 March 1925, Page 3

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FOR PRIMARY PUPILS. THIRD ASSIGNMENT OF WORK. The following is the third allotment of work issued by the "Wellington Education Board for pupils attending the Primary Schools in the Board’s district, and covers tlie week 26th March, to- 2nd April. To assist correction, pupils must fasten their work together in the order of ihe subjects as set out in tne newspaper, must also be careful to give their names and addresses, and write on the envelope tbe standard in which they are working. Failure t° observe these conditions may cause delay in file return of the corrected work. All packets posted to schools must be stamped. Head teachers have been requested to arrange foi some suitable receptacle for scholars work packets to be conveniently placed near the main entrance of the school,' so that the cost of postage may be saved. GROUP A. Reading. Read the second half of the February Journal, underlining difficult words and groups of words and trying to find out their meanings. Parents are asked to assist children by discussing with them the meaning of passages not clearly understood by the children. Keep up the use of a dictionary. ENGLISH. Essay. Standard 2; Describe a frog; or tell how to play any game y-ou Uke. Standard 3; Write a story about a runaway horse (real or imaginary). Standard 4; Tell how you would teach your mate to. swim; or, tell the story of the Princes in the Tower. Standards 5 and 6: Describe a railway station at excursion time; or, a conversation between a bulldog and a collie as to .which one does tlie most useful work. Lessons in English. Standard 3: Write out Exercises 6 a ll 4 7 - * ... Standard 4; Read pages 15 and 16, and doi Exercise 12, tide first 10. Standard 5: Do Exercises 16 and L, examples 11 to 20 in each Standard 6: Read pages 76 and n, and write the first 10 examples ol Exercise 21. Recitation. Standards 1 to 6: Select a poem from your Journal, try to understand the meaning of-it, and them commit it to memory. Drawing. Standards 4 to 6; Draw and colour With crayon or Drush some of me (lowers now in bloom. Arithmetic. Standard 1; Work out examples ou page 5. , .. Standard 2; Pages 14 and la, woik exercise SD, and exercise 6 to end ot. B. Standard 2: Exercise 7A. Standard 4: Exercise SA. Standard 5: Pages 5 and 6 should be studied thoroughly, the practical work being done with paper, colours being used. Work out exercises 1, A, B, C. D. Standard 6: Exercise 3, G, H, I. GROUP B. Geography. Standard 3: On a map of the North Island, mark in the chief mountains, and six of the largest rivers. See 1 page 95, Pacific Geography. Standard 5; Study the climate and

rainfall of Australia (pages M 3 to 1.15), and then, without using your book, write an account of the climate and rainfall. , , .Standard 5; Study pages 93 and J 4, and without the aid of your book, give the chief towns connected with the cotton, m; ihinery, woollen, shipbuilding, and earthenware industries of England. ' ' „ „ . Standard 6: Study the surface and climate of" Canada (pages 164 to If 17 and state the < liief facts on which the climate depends.

History. Standards 3 and 4; Find out all you can about the life of. Alfred the Great. Standard 5: Bead up all you can about the grout Elizabethan sail rs. Drake, Frobisher, Grenville, and Hawkins. „ nf Standard 6: Read about the War of American Independence, paying particular attention to tne, causes of the Nature Study and Drawing. Standards 1,2, and 3; Find out all you can abom a frog. Draw a tadpole and afi ’g- (See page-6, February Journal, Part 1.) , Standards 4,5, and 6: This is seed time. How me different seeds scattered abroad? Try to And. an exa. - pie of each method. Make a drawing of one of the examples you name. For all Standards: Continue to keep a daily record of the weather. horticultural societies. Secretaries r ncr members who rs p and recomme 1 1 Q-tol should write Box 1018, Wei ngton, for an artistic Pictorial Caler 'ar which is sb" 1- ! I '' tfl be on view m Florists."