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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 12

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PRIMARY SCHOOL WORK

- iii FORM S AN I) STAN DA Ri )S To-morrow's assignment of work for primary school children in the Gisborne district is given below:— Form n Mental.— Write answers in two columns; — . (1) 4 1-3 (2j 4.584 -J- 39.7. {;',) 40503 (4) £0.37") to shillings and pence. (5) Square of IJ, (ti) How many 1-llb. bags of potatoes from Ucwt.' (7) flow many half-crowns in £2.5 1 (8) 243 things a( lid each. (9) Average of (I, l ; 8, 12, 10. (10) What rate per second is (id miles per hour/ (11) .1 X -1 X .01. (12) L.O.M, of 8, 12, 1(i. (13) £3O 15s 5d 4- 7. (14) 7-125ths as a decimal. (15) How many florins are equal to 40 half-crowns 1 / (Hi) 1.35 ~ 0.05. (17) .00 ~- 1000. (18) 70.845 X 100. (19) To how many customers can a milkman distribute' half-pints from 5 gallons of cream? (20) Five bags of potatoes cost me 12s (id. What will 10 bags COStr State the time taken to do the 20 sums. Recitation. — Bead through your new poem two or three times more and then see if you can recite it from memory. Note the pauses. Drawing (Pencil). —Choose a spray from some suitable shrub or tree ami make a careful drawing of ii. Formal English.—Write in direct speech the following' sentences (the first one is done for you): (1) A sharp voice inquired who was there. " Who is there >." inquired a sharp voice. (2) The guide said that the gales would be closed at noon. (3) Jack asked if he might go to the picnic. (4) Mother asked Harry what he was doing in the pantry. (5) Harry replied that he was only reading the labels on the jam jars. ((!) The ranger asked the farmer if he had seen any wandering stock that day. Spelling. Learn the followingwords; use each in a sentence: Granary, agriculture, apparently, appearance, benevolent, procession. Form I Arithmetic. —

Practice: (I )- 83 articles at £2.". 12s lid each. (2) 4 l-Bth -f 2 3-.101h5.-l-n I l-l-'tbs (S) :!() 37-72nds (4) £9105 4s 4d 4- 304. (5) A man who earns £6 lis Sd a

week spends £4 17s lid. How much does he save in I year.' (Work in weeks.J -Mental: (!) .".20 articles at Lid each. (2) 1950 4- 25. (•'!) 135 articles at 5 for 3d. (4 i Cost of 1 article at 5 dozen for 17s (id. (5) Cost of 1 article at 4 score for £9.' Spelling.—Salary, familiar, boundary, bicycle, buoyant, audience, lary, interrupted, exquisite, propeller: Write these three times each in your homework and write the last live in good sentences. Letter.—Your next-door neighbour's wireless set; is veijy noisy. Write a polite letter of complaint to him. Geography.— In your map of England and Scotland, mark with a dot the important towns and print their I names.

Standard -1 Arithmetic.—Speed; -I tons 12 ewt! X 9, 12, 8, 7. Xote: Work in the same way as for £ and s. Copy and. learn: 10 oz. = 1 lb. 11 lb. = 1 si. 28 lb. = 1 qr. ■I qr. = 1 ewt. 20 ewt. = 1 ton. Spelling.—List 10 words ending in -able, like "serviceable" and use i any live in sentences. [{eliding.—Bead silently "His First Day." Close book and write two paragraphs about it. Grammar.—-Make phrases beginning with: Under, above, with, upon, inside and put these phrases in sentences, e.g., under the sea .... Geography.—■'Write what you know' of the desert lands of Australia. Say, where they are and write something about communication. (See how interesting yon can make it.) Poetry.— Kevise "From a Railway

Carriage." | Standard 3 I Beading.—Practise reading silently, and then aloud pages 44, 45, -10. Pedagogue, a school master; tyre, a typo of harp. I Spelling.—List 10 verbs ending in " ed " on pages 44, 45. Arithmetic.— I Total £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. ; 5 17 9 -|- 314 0 -j- 2 7 10 = (i 12 8 -|- 4 15 5 -f- 0 18 i) 8 9 7 -f 7 0 1 -f- 513 5 = i + + =Zj I * Grand total

History. — Draw and label: (u) Things which the Maoris supplied to the early while traders. (h) Things which the Maoris obtained from the while traders. Dictation.—Ask someone .to read out for you paragraph on page 40

commencing: "They reached . . . . games-teacher was waiting." Standard 2 Reading.— Read "Looking-Glass Walls," silently. Tell the story to father, or to a small brother or sister. . .Spelling.—Write out and learn words ending in -CE. If you can find more, add them to these: i'rince, since; quince, mince, fence, silence, dunce, once, glance, dance. Write sentences using five of them. Writing.—Right and left oval, line of each. Line each of: n, in, u, w, and words: No, Mr., Mrs., We, Use.

Arithmetic.—Addition' and subtraction tables to 50, 8 + 8 and 9 -f- 7. Division table 8 (90 -r- 8, SS -r- 8, etc.) Write these out. Set out neatly and work these subtraction sums, proving them by adding: (1) 015 (2) 826 (.'!) 457 JOS (0) 1000

Geography. —Do you know the different kinds of clouds? Sketch and write names of clouds each day this week. Do not send in till next Monday. See what you can find out during this week about the children of Japan. Standard 1 Arithmetic—-Count by sevens to 5(5. Continue learning table 7 to 8 X 7. Addition table !) -{- 8; ]'.) -|- 8; 29 -f- 8, etc. Substraction table, 17 —9; 27 -9; 37 —9, etc. Written: 5X7 —4; 7X7 —8; 4X 7 —9; 8X 7 —9; 6X 7 —5; 3X 7 6. Reading.— Read this little story silently and then write the answers to the questions: '.'You may boast as much as you please about your strength and size," said the sparrow to the ostrich, "but you will never be as good a bird as I. am. 1 don't fly far, it is true, and that only by starts; yet I do fly and you can't." (1) Who was speaking in the story? (2) Which was the bigger bird? (.'!) Why does the sparrow think it is the better bird? (I) Which of the two birds is the stronger? (5) What does the sparrow say about the way it flies? Spelling.—Write and learn S words ending in ong. Use three of them in written sentences. Writing.—Practise lines of it with rounded tops. Written Composition.— Write six sentences about" any animal you choose.