SCHOOL COLUMN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 March 1925, Page 2

SCHOOL COLUMN.

CHILDREN’S HOME LESSONS. ENGLISH. Commencing from to-morrow, n change in the system of work will, be made. Instead of daily lessons, a weekly assignment of work will appear each Wednesday. This should be done as soon as possible and then sent to your own school in an envelope addressed as follows : The Teacher Standard School. Fill, in the number of your standard and the name of your school. This envelope may then be posted (properly, stamped) or, in case of liawera. School pupils, it may be dropped in . a box placed inside the Headmaster’s front gate, in case of Taivhiti School pupils in a box at the Nolan town store. When the work has been marked, it will be posted back to you. In order that this may bo done, you must write on tbe iirst sheet of your answers, your name, standard, and your full address. Your work is now to be done on both sides of sheets of pad paper. Put your name on each sheet and number all vour answers..

Parents or the pupils from other schools should arrange with the teachers of those schools for receiving the work. Children (by order of the Health Department) must not call at the school.

The. March Journals are now to hand. Hawera Schoo] pupils may obtain theirs at Mr. Lester’s shop. High Street; Tawhiti School pupils at the NoLantown store; or Headmasters will post Journals to those pupils who send them their names and addresses. Will parents please see that children write the addresses correctly •on the first sheet of their work? and also that they do some of the weekly assignment each day, not leaving the bulk of it to be finished just before the next assignment is due? ENGLISH. Answers to Monday's work. Standard VI. 1. In sentencesWives’, monkeys’, children’s, chiefs'. Each of these words should be followed in the sentence by another noun. „2. “Is that you, Mark?” a,sked a faint voice from another berth. “It’s as much of me as is left, sir, after a fortnight of this work,” Mr. Tap ley replied. “How do you find yourself this morning, sir?” “Very miserable,” said Martin, with a peevish groan. “Ugh! This is wretched indeed.” Standard V. 1. Two Quaker girls were ironing on the same table. One asked tbe other, “Will you take the left side or the right ?’’ The other replied, “It will be right for me to take the left, and then it will be left to thee to take the right.” 2. His, stands .instead of the name of the one (a dog) whose master was buried, pronoun. Buried, tells which master he never forgot, adjective. Master, is the name of the man who was buried, noun. He. stands instead of the name of the 9ii e who never forgot, pronoun. Never, tells when he forgot his master, adverb. Forgot, tells what he never did to Iris master, verb. Standard IV. 1. The. men’s native countries; the negroes’ wives; the princesses’ pianos) the fairies’ wands. 2. Strength, patients or patience, softness, length, freedom, royalist or royalty, goodness, warmth, death. Standard 111. 1. a. In the summer by the river side, the farmer’s men mow the sweetscented grass. (You may put “by the river side” at the end). b. After school the merry children play hide and seek in the meadow. . c. All the long evening a fluffy white kitten lay cosily on the hearthrug by the warm .fireside. * Standard 11. 1. His gills become smaller, and his lungs larger. 2. His hind legs. 3. He rolls it up and swallows it. ARITHMETIC. Answers to Monday’s work. Standard VI.—(I) 1-300 (2) 1-8. (3) 200 times. (4) 1-160. (5) 15. Standard V.—(l) £7 14s Bid, less discount, 15s sd, equals £6 19s 3id (2) £3 13s 7d, less discount, 3s Bd, equals £3 9s lid. (3) £l3 8s 3d, less discount £1 13s 6d, equals £l2 4s 9d. (4) £54 ss, less discount, 4s let, equals £54 0s lid. (5) £56 5s lick Standard IV.—(1) £SB7 15s. (2) £3,341 10s. (3) £1,112 14s, 5Jd. (4) £1,583 12s 6cl, (5) £7,810' l s 3d. Standard III.—(11 7,095. (2) 51,395 (3) 93,748. (4) 336,168. (6) 217,600. ' Standard XL—(l) 5553. (2) 2808. (3) 7824. (4) .8900. (o) 10,011.'