SCHOOL COLUMN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 March 1925, Page 3

SCHOOL COLUMN.

CHILDREN’S HOME LESSONS. The whole of the primary school work for one week is here given. The questions are to be answered and posted to vonr teacher, except that Hawera pupils may leave their answers in the Uox inside the headmaster’s gate, and Tawliiti pupils may leave theirs at the Nolan town store. ‘When Lie wrrs has been corrected it will be posted hack to the pupil. Headmasters will post Journals to pupils who send tuor.i their names and addresses..

ENGLISH. Standard 11. Read as shown below from your March Journal. Read over the lessons first, and afterwards aloud to someone else. Then write the answers to the questions that are given. .. Pages 17, 18, 19. 1. What delightful things was the Prince buying for the party? 2. What- caused the 'bridge to break into a thousand pieces? Pages 20, 21. 3. Whose help did Cinderella want? 4. Why did the ugly sisters steal away before the party was over Pages 23, 24. 5. Which frog do you admire, the first or the second? Why? Page 2-5. 6. When does the fairy come ? 7. What does the good child dream about? Head these lines about “Little Things.’’ Then answer the questions below : - Little drops of water, little grains oi sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. Little deeds of kindness, little words of. love, Make our earth an Eden, like the heaven above. 8. Of what is the ocean made? 9'. Of what is all the land made? 10. If everybody did kind N things and spoke lovingly, what does the poet say the earth would be like? Add :

o. Multiply 3425 by 6. 6. Find 7 times 2865. 7 From 9418 take 4239. 8. 410,612 287,246. 9. Divide 9758 by 4. 10. Add 1723, 685, 9983, 47, 68511. Find the sum of 16, 19, 18, 36, 498, 684, 12. Divide 8684 by 5. 13. How many sevens in 6258? , 14. From 1681 take 1498. Learn these words for spelling. Then ask someone to read them out, while you write them down:- —Six hundred jellies, two scooters, they turned white, the bridge was empty, the drivers jumped out, a terrible state, burst into tears, a lovely coach, waved her wand, fairy balloons, dairy window, high and slippery, a great lump of butter, flutters down, a circle, dteams of pleasant things, dainty scents. Drawing:-—Put your teapot on the table, and draw it on a sheet', of paper. Standard 111. Reading: March ’Journal. Read the lesson “The Little Door.” a. Then shut your eyes and describe the room. b. Imagine what the garden was like. c. Find out what a telescope is, and how it shuts up. d. What did the liquid in the bottle taste like? e. What hapjsened to Alice when she drank it? f. Why did Alice cry? Read the lesson “Buttons.” Find out the things buttons are made front. ! Name other, ornaments people wear. Name some precious gents. Spelling: Jvneeling, loveliest, fountains certainly, label, beautifully poison, buttered toast, custard toffee, curious, nervous,* slippery, currants, message, ornament, uniforms, precious gents, carefully, fastener, machines, potatoes, soaked, smoothed, biscuits, vegetableivory, palm-tree. Writing:—Transcribe four lines from your journals each day.

English. 1 Enlarge the sentences given' by adding'the parts'in parentheses: a. The tree is covered (growing in our garden, with . blossoms, pretty, white, hose.) b. The dog barks (black, with the curly hair, very loudly, at strangers.) c. The pages were torn (lirst three, of the book, new, by the little girl.) d. The boy opened the gate (little, big, yesterday .morning, with a piece of wire.) e. The girls went skipping (little, four, after school, along the road.) f. The branches bend, (of the trees, to the ground, with loads of fruit.) '2. Place suitable adjectives before the following nouns to tell what kind. Journey, day, work, town, noise, words, soldier, 'buttons, people, room, sums, motor-car, paper, road. Do not use the same adjective twice. 3. Join together to make a. good sentence. The girl was little. The girl was pretty. She lost her doll. The doll was beautiful. It was a new doll. She lost it yesterday. Arithmetic.—Exercise 7. Letters A, C, G, H. Exercise 8. Letter' A, (omit number four.) Composition, as for Standard IV. Standard IV. Heading: School Journal, (March.) 1. Head over to yourself “The Little Door.” Then read it aloud. 2. a.'Write a short paragraph showing how the room was an unusual one. b. State the changes that took place in Alice’s body, and how the changes were effected. e. What, do you think, happened to Alice after she ate the cake? Spelling.—l. Curtain, passage, loveliest, telescope, label, poison, flavour, toffee, nervous, candle, slipper! 7 , currants.

2. Some long words are built up from shorter ones; e.g., slippery from slip. Write down the shorter word from which these are built up: Golden, nervous, loveliest, passage, beautifully, brightened. Write down all the longer words you can think of that are built up from these shorter ones. Grammar.—l. Analyse the sentences on page 18 of Journal a. Kneeling down .... ever seen. b. This time .... on the table. c. Tied round .... large letters. 2. A pronoun that joins statements is called a relative pronoun : (who, whom, whose, which, that are the best known). Join these pairs of statements bv using such words: a. On the table she. found a box. The box was made of glass. b. Here comes the man. We were to meet the man. c. That is an old story. 1 heard the story years ago. Essay:—“A School Pony tells the Story of it’s Life.”

Geography. —1. Draw a map of the North Island of New Zealand. Ou your Atlas map; find the chief mountains and rivers; place them on your map and name them. 2. You will note that the rivers vary in length. How do you account for this?

Drawing.—a. Place a saucepan in front of you, a little below the level of the eyes. Draw it as it appears to you, and. if von can, put in the shadows.

b. Flat ruler and set-square exercise. Draw a square of 34inch side; find the centre point of each side; join these points. What is the shape of the inner figure and of the cut-off corners. Shade or colour the latter. Arithmetic. —1. Revise all tables on pages 126, 127. 2. Ex 5 A. Nos. 1. 3, 5. 7, 9. Ex. 6 A.B. Standard V. Composition: A paragraph from a great writer:—All the inhabitants ot the little village are busy. One is clearing a spot on the verge of the forest for his homestead; another is hewing the trunk of a fallen pine-tree, in order to build himself a dwelling; a third is hoeing in his field of Indian corn. Here comes a huntsman out of the woods, dragging a bear which he has shot, and shouting to the neigh-, hours to lend him a hand. There goes a man to the seashore with a spade and a bucket to dig a mess of clams, which formed a principal article of food with the first settlers. Scattered here and there are two or three dusky figures, clad in mantles of fur with ornaments of bone hanging from their ears. These are Indians, who have come to: gazxi at the labours of the white men.—Hawthorne.

1. What is the sentence which tells the whole story? 2. Note the statements referring to everybody, followed bv statements referring to different people. 3. Why is the. description of the, Indians given ? Does it make the “labours of the white men” keener? 4. Note how the sentences are connected. By what words? Answer as many of these questions as you can in writing. Also give a description of the arrival of the New Plymouth express at Hawera, imitating Hawthorne’s paragraph. Grammar.—l. Give-the subject and predicate of the sentences beginning, all, here, there, scattered. , 2. How many sentences begin with the subject? 3. Give the parts of speech of the first sentence and the work that it does. Note how they vary.

4. In what time are the sentences written ? In what time is your own composition written ? Drawing. —Objects appear differently according to one’s view of them. This is very noticeable in circular objects.' Try this for yourself. Note lipw the circles become narrower and narrower. Then draw a cup lying on its side in a saucer to illustrate this. Arithmetic. —I. Simple proportion. Exercise 26; A, B, G, D. Find the amount for and then multiply by the numbej;. Work mentally as many as you are able. There is no need whatever to use- fractions. Do what yon can. 2. Long tots. Ex. 72, Nos. 5, 6. First 12 lines from toj). Reading.—Read the first two lessons of March Journal. 1. Draw a map of the North Island, marking in where Hongi’s expedition went, and their probable route. 2. Who were Hongi, Samuel Marsden, Ngapuhi, Ruatara, and Ngatiwhatua? 3. Why did the Maoris consider iron much more wonderful than greenstone ? 4. Describe Hongi’s appearance, and tell what you know about his character, what great Euronean did he want to be like? 5. Find the meaning of continuous intertribal, acquainted, infinitely more valuable, wars were conducted, such matters appealed strongly. 6. Give three words beginning with inter, and use them in sentences. Spelling.—Learn to spell the words of questions 5 and 6, also verge of the forest; ornaments of bone, superior superiority, disturber of the peace, military strength puny by comparison, quantities, , daring canoe journeys, panic-stricken, staunch protector of the missionary.

Standard VI. Arithmetic. —Ex. 3. J, K, L, M, N. (Omit M 4.) Set out carefully each step in working of Jl, .12, K 3, L2. Decimals: Multiplication, Read very carefully the explanation on page 11 and top half of page 12. Work for yourself Examples 1,2 and 3 on page 12. Compare your work with that in book, and then apply what you have learned to Ex. 4. Work only Nos. 5 and 6 of A, R and C; 4, 5 and 6 of D, E and F; and 8, 9 and 10 of G and H. 'For E 5, ancl similar examples, multiply together the first two members, and then multiply the result by the third number.

Be careful to write, in margin opposite each sum the Exercise, Letter and Number. AU work must be done neatj.y in ink. English-—Read Journal, pages 26 to 32. Then answer the following questions. Number each answer, and make free use of any books that will help you. /

1. Where are the Wajtomo Caves? 2. Draw a. sketch of the route to jtjhese caves from lTawera. Mark in important places on the way. 3. What do you understand by (a.) a haunt, of glow-worms, and (b) the larva of a winged insect? 4. What is the . difference between larva, and larvae? 5. Have you seen the Milky Way? Where would 'you look for it, and what is it like? What do you think it really is ? 6. What is' a naturalist? 7. Why was silence necessary while passing through the Glow-worm Cave? Why were lights extinguished? 8. Explain “a radiance became manifest which absorbed the- whole faculty of observation.” 9. What is the function and kind of Lhe clause “which absorbed . . . observation?” Is it correctly placed in the'sentence ? Why? 10. What are the stalactites and how are they formed? 11. Read carefully first three lines on page 27, and then this sentence: “As I glanced down I expected nothing but darkness, but I was* surprised and delighted to see some of the fern-fringed caves which glowed- with a soft green light.” Which do you think is t he better sentence, and why? 12. From the following, construct a sentence similar in structure to that referred to on page 27. “The man thought that- his watch was wrong, and that the coach had not gone by, so he waited by the roadside in the rain for some time before he decided that he would go home.” Underline all part's alterel

13. Learn to spell and write sentences using: phosphorescence, incalculable, fascinating, innumerable, explanatory, culprits. 14. Learn to spelt. Starry, cavity, aerial hue. glutinous, emitted, dotted, studded, gliding, gallery, galleries, enthusiastic* faculty of observation, similar in structure, a truer parallel, wondrous stalactites.

15. Make a list of 12 of the hardest words in the lesson. Learn to spell them. Do not include words in 13 and 14

16. Write sentences vising (1) the possessive plural of lady; ass, calf ; (2) the past tense of write, come, drink; (3) the plural of ploughman, -tlnef, donkey.

17. Give tile function and part of speech of each word in the first sentence of the lesson (page 26). Drawing.—Place in front of you any object with a circular base, such as clip and saucer, flower-pot standing in saucer, or candlestick and draw it.

If the light from a window falls on one side of the object, you will notice that the opposite side appears darker. Shade your drawing accordingly. Do not shade it all over. Always draw very lightly at first and use the rubber as little as possible. The shading should he done last.

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