FOR PRIMARY PUPILS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 11

FOR PRIMARY PUPILS

SECOND SCHEDULE OF WORK.

Following is the second allotment of work issued by the Wellington Education Board for pupils attending 'the primary schools in the board's' dfstrict, and covers the week 19th to 26th March. (Answers are to reach head teachers by 25th March, and parents are requested to see that packages are fully stamped.; GROUP, A. READING. Name the book'or bop W.you read last week. Which character did you like best? Transcribe in your best writing a paragraph that you think a good one. If children have received their "School Journals;" they should read one-half, at the same time continuing to underline difficult words and passages, making in Standards 4, 5, and 6 a free use of a dictionary. Should there have been no issue of the "Journals," parents are asked to provide suitable reading matter—a' supplementary reader, or any interesting boys' or girls' book. ENGLISH. Essay.' ' v Standard 2.—Write about a bird and its nest; or relate a fairy tale. Standard 3.—Tell a story of how a boy tried to steal the apples from an orchard, and what happened to him; or describe a day at the seaside or in the bush. ! Standard 4.—Describe a good place ftr spending a holiday, and say why you recommend it, or write a letter to a friend describing what you are doing while the schools are closed.

Standards 5 and 6. —Write a letter to a friend describing the chief attraction of the pi.ice in which you live; or your experiences on a windy day. Lessons in English.

Standard 3.—Read pages 7 to 10/ and write out Exercise 5. . Standard 4.—Read pages 12 to 14, and write out Exercise 6, and the first six sentences of' Exercise 10, Standard s.—'Read page 33 and write out Exercises 15 and 17, the first ten of each; ' ! Standard 6.—Read pages 64 and 65, and write out Exercise 18, the first 6. ■ , ,': RECITATION. . Standards ,1-6.—Continue ..to:,.,leajjnjA- , verse, <>f poetry: per- day, .and-^ame-wSwt: poem you are learning. '"•'■"'->-"-<^'S"Cl - -.'.; ; ■ drawing:: ' -/—-k.; : Standards 4-6.—Draw and colour with crayon or brush aome of the fruits now being sold in the shops. ' ARITHMETIC. Text, Book, Progressive Arithmetic. Standard I.—Work,-.page 4.' Standard 2.—Exercise 5, a, b, and c. Standard 3.—Exercise 4b, and first 6 of Exercises V 6a. Standard 4. —Exercise 4a. Standard s.—Exercise 54b. Standard 6.—Exercise 3, d, c, and f. ,