SCHOOL LESSONS.

Wairarapa Age, 3 May 1937, Page 2

SCHOOL LESSONS.

TO-DAY’S WORK FOR ALL STANDARDS. PARTICULARS FOE PUPILS. By arrangement with the headmasters of the Masterton schools, daily lessons for primary school pupils will be published in “The Age” while the schools remain closed. To-day’s lessons appear below. STANDARDS 1. & 2. Use crayon or pastel. 1. Draw a picture illustrating your favourite nursery rhyme, or your favourite story. 2. Draw a picture illustrating “Breakfast Time at Our House.” 3. Draw a picture of a boat or of a tramcar or of a motor bus. STANDARDS 3 & 4. Use pencil or pastel or water-colour. 1. Draw a picture illustrating a humorous incident. 2. Draw a picture of a sailing ship. 3. Memory drawing of a railway train or a motor car o-r some object in which you feel interested. Let it be your own drawing entirely. 4. Arrange a single flower or a small spray in a vase to make an artistic picture. Sketch it and 1 then suitably col-

our it. 5. Make a drawing illustrating an interesting nature study topic. 6. Draw a map of Australia, show the States, and important physical features. FORMS I. & IL Use pencil or pen aaid ink or pastel or water-colour. 1. Draw a poster to advertise a New Zealand product, or a poster design in colour, “Come to Wellington, 1940.” 2. Draw a picture illustrating a street scene. 3. Illustrate a verse of poetry. 4., Printing—size i of letter about inches—CENTENARY. 5. Draw a picture of (a) the porch of your house, or (b) the gateway. 6. A map of India, showing important rivers and mountains, and indicate locality of important products. The map should be done by all. STANDARD 1. Read once more the story of Raggedy Ann, and answer the questions on pages 36 and 37. (a) What did the dolls beg Raggedy Ann to do? (b) What new thing was put in Raggedy Ann? (c) What colour was Raggedy Ann's heart and what was written on it? (d) What did Raggedy Ann call her heart? (e) What did the tin soldier say? (f) Write a sentence telling how Raggedy Ann finished her story. Spelling: Dinner, supper, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea. STANDARD 2. SPELLING: Knew, laid, lose, dose, many. Make sure you can spell and write easily the 25 you have done this week. READING: Answer these questions from pages 36 and 37: — (1) What was Raggedy Ann's secret? (2) What were the words printed on Ann’s new heart? (3) Draw Raggedy Ann’s new heart. ENGLISH; Write these sentences aagin, using the right word from these: Did, done, saw, seen, to, too, two. (1) Jack his work better than Fred had his.

(2) I some rabbits, but my brother said that he had a hare. (3) The boys said that it was —— cold go. for a swim. STANDARDS 3 & 4. Your classroom is empty; it misses the pupils and longs to see again the bright faces and hear the pleasant voices; especially does it miss the singing. The room is now .being thoroughly cleaned ready for your return. Write the story of “The Lonely Classroom” (as told; by itself). Suggested words which may be used in the story: Deserted, quiet, peaceful, noisy, chatter, bustle, rattling of windows, mouse, cupboard, library books, inkwells, dried-up, bare walls, scrubbing, danip, sun’s rays, clean surfaces, shining panes, murmur of voices, blended.

FORMS I AND H. Essay Subject: Autobiography of an old (Model T) Ford; or A dispute between an old model Ford and a recent model Austin. RADIO: Every Day at 1.45 p.m. You noticed that the King, when he opened the Maritime Museum at Greenwich the other day, presented two of Captain Cook’s journals to the museum. These journals are now priceless. Mr Coddingt-on will give three talks about Captain Cook and his ship, the Endeavour, commencing on Monday, 3rd May. On the same day, Mr. Smith will commence a series of talks on white butterflies, magpie moths and ants. During the week you will hear Mr Kennedy continue his trip around the world. Mr Armstrong will speak on New Zealand mining; Mr Boys (the Maori); Mr Welch (Treaty of Waitangi), Miss Taylor (Industrial Revolution), Miss E. Coleman (Gloria Bolleston); Miss L. Coleman (Domestic Science), and Miss Wallis will continue her series of stories. FRENCH. | Write out and learn: — j J’ai—l have. Tu as—thou hast. Il (elle) a: He (she) has. Nous avons: We have. Vous avez: You have. Ils avaient: They have. Write out this story, filling in the missing words. Read it to mother. Draw two little pictures about it: — Once there was a little baby rabbit who lived a hole with mother. One day he went out to play the paddock. He had such jumping over the stones and logs and eating the nice grass. Then all of a sudden ho heard a loud bang. Home he as fast as he could go. “Oh, mother,”’ he said, “ a cruel man nearly shot me with