WARM SPRINGS, OREGON MAY 13, 1377 PAGE 7
Sports mini-class member Troy Smith found that walking a tight rope is harder than it looks. But
it is possible with another rope to hang onto. Mr. Dave Jordan also challenged the students with a
rope ladder that has a nasty habit of spinning and dumping kids, like Maury Rhoan (above) on the
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Mini-Classes
Deana Smith’s fingers ended up just as colorful as the
brightly decorated cookies she made in Ms. Sharon
'Cooke’s mini-class. Joyce Suppah and Penny Scott look
on as cookies await eating.
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Spring has always been a
rough time of year for teach
ers and students.
The Warm Springs school
is doing something about the
perennial problem. “Mini-class
es” are designed to introduce
kids to arts and crafts that
they normally wouldn’t be ex
posed to in the classroom.
The “hands-on” approach
is ideal for capturing students’
interest when spring fever hits.
Classes in spinning, sports,
chess, square dancing, bead
ing, leather tooling, candy
making, God’s eyes and nee
dlepoint are among those offer
ed. One group is even learning
to construct a fishing rod.
Teachers use their hidden
talents or pick up new ones
and work with kids in a re
freshingly informal manner.
Kids of all ages have a chance
to mingle and get to know
each other.
For six weeks at the end of
the school year Warm Springs
students have at least one
reason not to play hookey.
Ms. Donovan Burkert, 4th grade teacher and an experienced
weaver, shows Virgil Windy Boy how to spin sheep’s wool without
a spinning wheel. Members of this mini-class are making twisted
cord belts with the wool they spin.
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These girls won’t take candy for granted anymore now that they’ve seen all the
steps involved in making it. Dipping the raspberry-flavored cores into chocolate in
the candy-making mini-class, led by Ms. Earlene Anderson, are: Jolene Johnson,
Susie Boileau, Ellen Colwash and Tonya Mitchell. Donuts were the next project.
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