SCHOOL COLUMN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 March 1925, Page 2

SCHOOL COLUMN.

CHILDREN’S HOME LESSONS. j ENGLISH. .Answers to Monday’s questions, Standards' V and VI. 1. a. Because the heat required to fuse the sand and soda is so great that , the lire the sailors made would not he likely to do it. b. Direct benefits: —-Letting, in sunshine and light to houses while keep- ■- ing out the weather; bringing health through sunlight; making dishes, drink-ing-vessels, vases and ornaments ; making spectacles. Indirect benefits: —Aiding science, especially the study of the stars and the planets through telescopes, and the study of the very small forms of life through the microscope. e. Boon. d. Bohemia in .making crystal glass for engraving. England in inventing flint glass. 2. (Standard VI only.) No stones were to be found (principal clause). On which to rest their pots (adjective clause used with noun stones). The men found (principal clause). 'When the fire was cold (adverbial clause of time, telling when the men found it). . That the lumps of soda had melted (noun clause, object, after verb found). It is known, however,- (principal clause). That the sand at the mouth of the (River Belus is very suitable for glassmaking (noun clause, subject to verb is known). * 3. (Standard V only). Verb —did undertake Object—many adventurous voyages. Subject—Their , ships Verb —went Adjunct- —-far from their own Coasts (phrase of place). (Subject—They Verb—broughtObject—some great lumps of soda Adjuncts—out (adverb of place) from the cargo (phrase, of place).. Standards TII and IV.

1 a. The history of the land, its former owners, in‘what wars it had been taken, who held the rights of fishing, trapping and snaring, how far it stretched, the names of all the rivers, hills, rocks, and trees marking its boundary line. - b They were taught to thrust- and strike with toy spears; they had sham fights; later they learned to use real weapons. 1 c. To cook, to plait basket dishes, to weave and dve cloaks and mats.. d. Making and flying kites, whipping or spinning tops, walking on stilts, hide and seek, swinging, skipping, swimming, paddling in canoes, knucklebones, riddles, guessing games, breathholding tests, story-telling. 2. (Standard 111 only.) Sham fights, (sharp) stones, dangerous game, older hoys, real 'weapons, correct charms, (clever) girls, basket dishes, beautiful cloaks and mats. (The adjectives in brackets may be different). 3. (Standard IV only.) Quiter tells wliat kind of games were also played, adjective. . . . Helped, tells what these games all did, verb. ' . . . Those, tells which little brownskinned children, adjective. They, stands instead of the nouns boys and girls, pronoun.

NEW WORK. Standards VI and V. 1. In last Saturday’s Star, _on page 16 you will find a poem, “The Anchor.”* Read this carefully through. Then answer these questions : • a. Where was the anchor first found? . b. Who found it? ; c. Where is the anchor now ? d. Find in your atlas and write down; the position of these places ; Capri,.the Caribbees. . . 2. Analyse this sentence into suoject, predicate, object ahd .’adverbial adjuncts: —Yonder hill-bred lad can; with the vision of youth, the sea’s vast plain behold. 3 Join these sentences into one wellarranged sentence The multitudes were below. The saw the flab desert. They had wandered over the desert. TheV h'ad wandered for a long time. The*desert was barren. The leader was gazing from a far higher stand. He was gazing on a far lovelier country. Standards TV aiid-111. ' f ' 1. Read again from the Hawera. Star of Saturady, on, page 10, the story of “The Closing Door.’’ Then write; answers to these questions a. How was one door in the room different- from the others ? b. What strange . thing, happened after the goblin came, into, the room ?‘ e Why clid the- little girl try to shut the’ door? . -■ - ... 2. ‘Ledi'll to. spell these words:— Pansies bloomed, a beautiful string of pearls, enjovingthe treasures together, dingy curtains, dirty ceiling, the door creaked. . • ' ARITHMETIC. Answers to Monday’s work. Standard VI—(1) 26 2-5. (2) Is 6d. (3) £4001) (4) 2-3. (5) 31-38. Standard V. —(1) £l2 Os 7.8 d. (2) £ll lSs 9.5 d. . t ■■ . , : Standard 1 V.-r-(l) £2,742 7s 6d. (2) £2240. (3) £2,574 Os 10id. (4) £2132 17s 6d. (-5) £10,525 2s 2}d. . Standard 111. —(1) 33,687. (2) 38,130. (3) -360,544. (4) 468,427. (5) 612;312. NEW WORK. Standard VI. Exercise 3, :C, also long tot D of exercise 52. (add vertically). Standard V. Exercise 55, B, Nos. 1,2, and 3. Also long tot No. 4 of exercise 72. t Standard IV. Exercise 4, B, Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5. Standard 111. Exercise 4, B, Nos. 6,7, 8,9, 10. All classes should make themselves thoroughly familiar with the tables at the end of .the b00k........ .