Native American Heritage
Festival
Lincoln City Cultural Center
Nov. 9, 2013
This third annual event included the
chance to bead, make matishes (above).
purchase books by Native authors
(below), sample smoked salmon from
Chinook Winds, observe art from the
Crow's Shadow Institute and hear a
presentation on Native art in Oregon.
Native American Day
Ninth Annual Chowder Cook-off
Tanger Outlet Center, Lincoln City
Nov. 10, 2013
Photos by Diane Rodriquez
Jack Strong (above) adds some herbs to
a quinoa dish during a cooking
demonstration. Mark Pullam (right) tells
stories to the delight of onlookers of all
ages. Siletz Tribal dancers also
participated in the event, as did the
Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society.
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Head Start offers holiday stress tips, invites volunteers to help our kids
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Involvement Coordinator
December can be a very busy and
stressful month for families. Whatever
your special holiday, the holiday season
can cause stress in our young children.
Children respond to stress in their
own way - crying, tantrums, clinging,
excessive energy, temporary regression
(such as thumb sucking) and other ways.
Here are some tips you might find helpful
for your young children:
Establish predictable routines. Eat
regular meals. Make sure children
get enough sleep. Plan for rest time.
Children need to know what is going
to happen. Take time to explain the
day’s activities.
Prepare ahead for a hectic day. Put
your children’s clothes out the night
before. Plan for snacks. Quick take-
along snacks such as crackers, veg
gies and fruit require no refrigeration
and can be shared when shopping
lines are long or hunger makes tem
pers flare.
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frequent activity breaks. Find fun
things you can do together.
Check your child's weekly Head Start
packet for more holiday stress tips.
Head Start families are invited to attend
the Christmas craft activity day planned for
their classroom. Check with your class
room teacher for the time and day. This is a
fun activity for all and families will cherish
the crafted items for years to come.
Before the end of the year, our Head
Start programs will have completed all
45- and 90-day requirements for physicals,
dental exams, developmental testing, vision
screening, hearing screening, dental screens,
heights, weights and blood pressure.
Teachers also will have completed
their first parent/teacher home visits to
share school readiness data, develop an
individual child learning plan and start
the parent, family and community engage
ment process.
All classrooms held their first parent
meetings and volunteer training. Each
Parent Committee selected its Policy
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community representatives and Parent
Committee positions. Thank you to all
parents who self-nominated at the parent
orientation and first home visits.
Our first Policy Council meeting was
held in November and our next one is
scheduled for January 2014. Our Policy
Council has openings for community
representatives. If you have an interest in
serving on our Policy Council as a com
munity representative, please call 541-
444-8376 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1376,
and ask how you can become a member.
In January, the Parent Committees
will start to get ready for the annual
program-wide Head Start raffle. If you
would like to participate or have anything
you would like to donate, please call the
number above to find out the name(s) of
the Parent Committee members to contact
for further information.
Our classrooms can always use
donated items, including Kleenex, Band
aids, Ziplock bags, scotch tape, packing
tape and glue sticks. Portland would like
new rubber balls. Salem would like Sunny
the little ones who may have an accident).
Lincoln City would like pencil grippers
and seasonal stencils.
If you would like to donate any of these
items, call the number above to find out
how to get the donations to the classrooms.
Important dates to keep in mind: Win
ter break for all Siletz Tribal Head Start
centers starts Dec. 23, 2013. Classes
resume Monday, Jan. 6, 2014.
The Siletz Tribal Head Start program
would like to thank the United Methodist
Women at Salem First United Methodist
Church for their monetary donation to our
program. We thank them for thinking of
our children and supporting our program.
If you know of any child who turned
3 or 4 before Sept. 1 who hasn’t applied
for our Siletz Tribal Head Start program,
please let them know we always accept
applications for our waiting list. Our
waiting lists for Siletz and Lincoln City
are especially low. We have classrooms in
Siletz, Portland, Salem and Lincoln City.
Please call the number above and we
will gladly send you an application.