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.