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DECEMBER 1, 1978 PAGE 7 and Roger Stwyer First Flakes Fun For Kids School kids in many parts of Central Oregon had a day’s reprieve from the classroom Monday, November 20 as the season’s first snowstorm hit the area over the weekend. Warm Springs kids had 7” of slippery, slidy white stuff to frolic in and no doubt returned to school the next day with cases of sniffles as well as coats that refused to dry out. Morris “Flood” Johnson and his friends tried to pursue their favorite summer sport on the slick roads in West Hills but met with less than smooth results (upper left). Ada Billey and Jewel Wini- shut opted for a more traditional form of winter enjoyment on another West Hills street (above), while an unidentified free spirit rode her bucking saucer down a more treacherous slope. The Calica kids were content to stay inside and have a staring contest with the snowlady that their older sister had fashioned for them. Teaching Your Preschool Child, Part Two prepared by Betsy sumvair, Reading Specialist for the Red mond School District. It contains many practical ideas for work ing with your preschooler tc prepare him for school.) The Bathtub Scientist Stir, pour, splash, smack, sprin full, it floats partly submerged. kle, suck, and blow are words for Full up, it sinks. r Water is a part of every how children can move water. child’s play — in the kitchen Measure, full, empty, half, float, An eggbeater can become a sink, in a backyard pool or sink, submerge, bubble, propel, boat propeller. Show your child garden hose, and especially in speed, force are some of the how to churn the water up behind the bathtub. With-the bathtub as science and math words of water the boat to make it go. Let him her laboratory and househo’l Play. try the eggbeater with a soap things as her equipment, every There are many magic dis solution; it isn’t blowing, but it’s child can become a bathtub coveries to be made when your making bubbles. scientist. young scientist takes to the tub. Thin wire bent into a loop I Besides the tub and toys, Make a bathtub barge using makes a bubble blower to dip in a your child needs time. Time to have a good time, time to find out the top of a plastic egg carton. soap solution. Get some things that are light what happens. A plastic straw can make I Water play provides lots of and some things that are heavy. bubbles, too. A soapy solution in valuable learning in language as How many things can your child well as science. Talk about the load in the barge without sinking a cup can be used to make bubbles in the air. White he’s water. It is wet, it whooshes and it? A plastic bottle with a cap experimenting, he can learn the whirls, splashes and sprinkles, ripples and bubbles, rushes and can be a submarine. Empty, it difference between blowing out gurgles, streams and trickles. floats on top of the water. Half and sucking in. For a spray maker, provide a plastic eye dropper or an ear syringe. They can squirt some lovely snrav« — ¿each your child something about suction. A tin pan held under the bathtub faucet (don’t turn the water on too hard!) makes an interesting noisemaker. Show your child that the farther away from the faucet he I holds it, the louder the noise gets. Let him feel the difference in the pressure with his hand, too. As things fall farther — they go faster and faster, and hit harder and harder. A plastic container and a set of plastic measuring cups or small plastic pitcher provide, practice in pouring accurately. Talk about how many big cupfuls it takes to fill the container; How many more small cupfuls it takes. Let him feel the weight of the water, too. Why not weigh different amounts of water on the bathroom scales? From The Jr. High With the first nine-weeks just over Madras Jr. High School would like to congratulate those students on the honor roll. Sev enth graders on the honor roll are Anita Bryant, Marcus Mos eley and Darcy Whipple. Eighth graders on the list are William Bagley, Jerome Davis, Joseph Winishut and Roman Suppah. Also, the following students are to be commended on perfect attendance for the first nine weeks of school. The seventh graders are Jolene Johnson, Lonita Leno, Alexandria Smith, Jamesina Smith, Dina Smith, Janell Smith, Darcy Whipple and Lisa Zhmora. Those eighth graders with perfect attendance are Raynele Palmer, Clinton Smith, Troy Smith, Robert Strong and Cyril Wolfe.
