HOME LESSONS FOR TO-MORROW

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 29 April 1937, Page 13

HOME LESSONS FOR TO-MORROW

PRIMARY SCHQOLS

FORMS AND STAND.ARDS Home lessons for primary school pupils for Friday arc detailed hereunder: — Form n Arithmetic.— (1) From the sum of 4.7(52 ami 3.059 subtract their difference. (2) Gas for a household costs 12s M a mouth; electricity 19s 3d and coal. lUs. What- decimal is the cost of gas of the total cost?

(3) A milk can holds 10.405 gallons; how many pints would nine such cans hold? (-1) A baker finds that the average weigh of a loaf'of bread is 2.0125 lb.; how many cwt. are there in 5468 loaves (3) A miner has 4.05 ounces of gold. He finds a nugget weighing 2.045 ounces. How much short of 10 ounces has he then ?

.Spelling.—Seized, revelation, comradeship, prostrate, unnerved .rhythm. Recitation. — Read through your new poem to a parent. Note the pauses, and say with expression. Geography.—Trace or draw a blank map of India. Put in the principal rivers and insert the following lownv: Calcutta. Patna, Benaros, Allahabad, Cawnporo, Lucknow, Agra. Delhi, Simla, Karachi, Bombay, Madras, Utacamund, Parjoeling. What is a hill station? Which of the above towns are hill stations? For,m I Arithmetic—-Practice: (1) 17 tons 13cwt. 3qrs. at £ls 10s a ton. (2) Measure the length and breadth of your table in inches; find the area in square inches and bring it to square feet. (3) How many minutes in the last six months of litis year? (4) .12 7-oths + 3 5-7ths -f 11 19-2lsts. (5) Reduce to mixed numbers: 173-19ths; 80-Gths; 225-25ths. Mental: (1) 30 loaves at GJd a loaf. (2) 3-sths -f 7-lOths. (3) 1 l-.'ird 5-oths. (4) How many inches in 1 chain? (5) Change out of £1 afler buying six articles at J 1 Ad each. Spelling. Cauliflower, colander, similar, dissimilar, furniture, Caesar, channel, lieutenant, colonel, pavilion.

English.—Write pavilion, dissimilar and colander in good sentences, .loin these two sentences live limes using: (a) either .. . or; (h) neither . . . nor; (c) and not; (d) but not; (0) and: John litis seen an aeroplane. Mary has seen, an aeroplane. Xote: fu all cases except the last the verb will be singular. Geography. —Trace a map id' England and Scotland, putting in tin: chief mountain ranges, rivers, capes, etc. .Note: Put the names on the features you mark. Standard i Arithmetic. —Speed: Csos X M, ">, 6, H, 12. Written: £SO £.'! Ms Sid :, times; £23~10s SJd X 37; £IOO -~ 4.';; 03SO X SO7-J 37.029 -:- 78. Spelling.— Strengiii, steadily, disc, bronze, smooth, scratched, alphabet, knuckles, ached, athletic Use live , in jtontences. Reading.—Journals, page 44. Read aloud five minutes. Composition.—The snow fell. Write this sentence live times ,each time adding something new to the previous cue. Grammar.—(l) "Write live nouns with apostrophes in both singular and

plural. (2) Punctuate: can you sing he asked yes said Theras what can you sing questioned their master. Geography.—-What is used besides conl in New Zealand for power? Why is this so suitable.' Where are the chief power plants? Wheredoes Gisborne get its power? Standard 3 Reading. —Read two poems, pages •12, 43. Write good sentences using these words: Magnificent, impossible, nimble, modest, vastly, distinguished. Spelling.— C o tin Ir y, sprc ad, answered, remarked, sure, reply, replied, changed, arranged, impossible.

Arithmetic. £OO 19s 7d -5- 5; £ll2 17s 9d -f- 11; £O2 10s -J- 12; £57 10s -r- 8; £147 4s ~ 12; £73 19s -f- 9.

History.—(l) Wri.te a paragraph saying how Maoris and Britons differed. (2) Write a paragraph saying how .Maoris and Unions were alike. In your answers consider: Houses, clothing, tools, weapons.

English. —Write six sentences begin nig with: White, whenever, as, if, be fore, si nee.

Standard 2 Reading.—Read "Willie Waggle," pages 3S and ;!:>, aloud to someone. Recitation.—Recite the poem you chose on Monday. Tell your teacher its name. Spelling and Writing.—Write out carefully on paper all the words you had this week. Arithmetic. —Revise and gel someone to hear yon tin' tables you have had in addition and substruction. Test: (1) 403 (2) 594 (3) 857 (4) 721 95 387 —283, —OB4

289 278 (5) 507X0 (0) 458X7

(9) A train leaves Wellington with 240 passengers; 00 get off at Pabnerstou North and 148 get on board. How many are then on the train? (10) Flitting 7 trees in a row, how many rows can you make from one 'thousands and one trees? Composition.—Write Jive or six sentences about any story your teacher has told this year,

Spelling.—Ask someone to give, you a test of any 10 words you have learned this week. Reading.— "The Room with the Lookiiig-Glass Walls": Give parts to members of the family and act Ibo story as a play. Recitation. — Finish learning the piece yon have chosen from your story book, Speech Training.—Pionounce these lines aloud several Times slowly, watching-the "i," "1." and "*" sounds: Liza Leo lios in lied, Till half-past two or three. I.i/.a lies and lies and lies — Lazy Liza Lee.

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