Wednesday, March 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CHILDCARE: Check into
providers background
and qualifications
SCIENCE FAIR: Activities
went from greenhouse
to flight simulator
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Some providers are dili-
gently working to upgrade
their skills by attending
classes and working to move
into a higher level of care-
giving. Many are working
with The Oregon Registry:
Pathway for Professional
Recognition in Childcare
and Education, which is
a statewide program that
records and recognizes the
professional development
growth and achievement of
people who work with and
for children and families. It
is always a good idea to ask
a provider what training and
education they have.
To upgrade their skills
providers attend classes in
evenings after having cared
for children all day. Or, they
commit to Saturday trainings
or online trainings to assure
they know all they can about
how to be the best childcare
provider possible. Through
Child Care Resource they
stay abreast of the newest
health and safety require-
ments, providing parents
with assurance that their chil-
dren are getting the very best
of care.
Never forget, it is your
job to be sure your children
are always safe and well
cared for, even when you are
away.
Edie Jones is the retired
executive director of Together
For Children and the author
of “Raising Kids With Love,
Honor, and Respect: Recipes
for Success.”
from ENERGYneering
Solutions to test their airborne
abilities.
“We’re teaching younger
kids how to work our flight
simulator from the flight sci-
ence program,” said ninth-
grader Charmayne Owens.
“I’m in Sheryl Yeager’s flight
science class and it’s an amaz-
ing opportunity right now
because it’s a free class and
free for a student to get their
pilot’s license.”
We’re teaching younger
kids how to work our
flight simulator from the
flight science program.
— Charmayne Owens
A new highlight at the fair
this year with healthy liv-
ing displays was the 30- by
50-foot greenhouse recently
built right next to the high
school.
Seed to Table Farm
founder Audrey Tehan is the
greenhouse manager and also
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PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
SHS freshman Dan Schmidt operates/demonstrates a drone as his friends look on.
serves as agriculture teacher
in the high school. The Seed
to Table Farm was initiated
by Tehan with the help of the
Sisters Science Club during
the fall of 2013, and Seed to
Table is the only farm-based
education program serving
Central Oregon.
“This greenhouse is going
to be a living laboratory,”
Tehan said. “We will be able
to have various growing tech-
niques going on and learning
about hydroponic growing
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and aquaponics. I’ve been
teaching the class for almost
a month with 20 high school
students attending, and we are
going to have a big opening
ceremony in April.”
The Science Fair was a
chance for young scientists
to investigate questions and
to show off their own experi-
ments and demonstrations. It
was an opportunity for stu-
dents to learn science hands-
on, and to teach others what
they learned.
This greenhouse is
going to be a living
laboratory. We will be able
to have various growing
techniques going on and
learning about hydroponic
growing and aquaponics.
— Audrey Tehan
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