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SpilyayTymoo Warm Springs, Oregon September 18. 1992 PAGE 5 Warm Springs Elementary School news Principal's Message Thanks loall for a great start to the 92-93 school year! Warm Springs Elementary School is an exciting place to be with a most caring staff and community. We have many ideas that we'll be working towards this year to improve student learning. We hope that you become involved in our school through parent meetings, conferences, open houses, and special activities. You may also simply drop by to lend your support or call with suggestions, ideas, or way s to provide better programs for the children of Warm Springs. We are all in this together and your support is critical to the success of our students! New Student Handbook Recently, your child was given a new handbookschool calendar to take home and keep for the year. We encourage you to read this with your child and give us comments on what is helpful to you or what we left out that you need to know! Please call us at 533-1 128 if you have any questions or comments. On Time and Ready to Learn with Safe Supervision Teachers spend a lot of lime at the beginning of the year teaching stu dents to "BE SAFE". Please take time with your child to go over the information in this section. Students enter our buildings at 8:23 a.m. and the tardy bell rings at 8:33 a.m. Su pervision for students is available from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., except for students who come on early morning busses and arrive before 8:00 a.m. Other exceptions may be made if teachers and parents make special arrangements. Dismissal times: Morning Kindergarten 1 1 : 1 5 a.m. FirstSecond Grades 2:38 p.m. Afternoon Kindergarten, Third, Fourth, Fifth Grades 3:38 p.m. Please call 553-1128 or write a note if your child should ride a dif ferent bus or has other arrangements after school. Our busses are very full this year, so it's very helpful if your child rides their assigned bus. Thanks! Is Your Child III? If your child is sick or misses school for any reason, please call 553-1128 or send a note with your child when they return to school. If your child needs to take medicine (aspirin too) at school, make sure that it is in the original prescription bottle showing the dosage. Also, write Hard WOrk Continued from page 4 I want to work here and raise my children here. For the interested people who are reading this letter none of this that I have shared with you happened overnight!! I've been "working on it" for a long year now, (seems like a lifetime) and I'm just now getting the feeling of "getting somewhere"! We're each responsible for our own feelings and how we are doing in our lives. So, if you think you're on the wrong path, start "talking" to others you trust and who will help you get back on to the path and you'd feel is good and correct for you. Then, take positive steps toward attaining your goals. Make things happen by "doing". If you're not used to doing Roberts' budget-Continued But let me be blunt: My recom mended budget will require new tax revenues. It will require more money than we will have under Measure 5. It will require tax restructuring. I brought forward a tax plan, the Oregon Tax Plan, earlier this summer that would have provided a stable, fair and adequate revenue system for Oregon's future. Thousands of Or egonians worked with me as I devel oped that plan, which would have broadened the base that pays for government and brought a new fair ness to our tax system. The Oregon Tax Plan is the standard against which I will judge any tax proposal. Obviously, I was disappointed that the Legislature failed to allow Or egonians to vote on that plan. But there is more than one route to tax restructuring, more than one way to build a fair and stable tax system for Oregon. And if the Legislature de velops a solution that is better than Mosaic mural The tile mosaic mural project, being planned for the lobby wall in the new Early Childhood Education Center, has been given a tentative Elections scheduled The Head Start Parent Policy Council Elections will be held Tues day, September 29, 1992. Two rep resentatives will be elected from each Head Starrdassroom and one from the Home Base program. Parent Policy Council is one way for parentsguardians to become in volved in Head Start. Parent Policy Council helps make decisions about policies and procedures for the Warm Springs Head Start Program. Monday night parentguardian get together, Septem ber 21 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Parentsguardians will gather in their child's classroom so they can meet other parentsguardians. Nomination of candidates for Parent Policy Council M ill take place also. a note to give school personnel per mission to give the medicine to your child. All medications must be kept in the school office. Please make sure that emergency information for your child is updated. MEALS Have you filled out a free and reduced meal application this month? Since we have a new computer sys tem for lunch and breakfast, we ask that you pay for all meals ahead of lime. If possible, please pay for meals for the entire week or month. Thank you! Good Attendance Means Better Learning Your child will learn more when he or she is at school every day. It is especially important to help our stu dents set good attendance habits early even in kindergarten! We encour age 100 attendance and reward students regularly for their good at tendance. Welcome New Stall to Our School Nita Camagy Title V Coun selor Tcrri Comment 2nd Grade Teacher Pam Brandt 3rd Grade Teacher Elizabeth Mitchell 4th Grade Teacher Mary Hawcs 5th Grade Teacher Lavonnc Blakcly Educational Assistant Pat Chiddcx Educational As sistant Susan Mcssingcr Educational Assistant Chcle Payc Secretary Please Mark Your Calendar In the New Student Handbook Picture Day is Scptcmbcr29, 1992 Parent NightPot Luck is October 1 , 1 992. Please call if you can come. Early Dismissal October 8, 1992 for Teacher Inservice; Check Handbook for early dismissal times. NO School October 9, 1992 for Teacher WorkdayInscrvice. Insights lor Parents We want to be sure that our stu dents are safe while they are at school or on their way to and from school. While we take a number of precau tions to assure that safety, we need your help, too. Here's what you can do: Stop for the school bus when you see it has stopped to load or unload students. Don't try to go around the bus or pass it. Never pass a bus from behind if it has stopped to good things for yourself, I'd think mat you'd have to start building your self-esteem, but start somewhere. You can do it give yourself your all and do your best. I am. And I feel that I'm doing okay! Tamera Hoptowit American Indian Day is Thursday, September 24 from page 1 the Oregon Tax Plan, I will enthusi astically support it. In my first term in office, this is my challenge: to fight the shortsight edness, the defeatism, the anti-government pandering and to rise above the times and do what's right for Oregon. Sign language class offered CORIL (Central Oregon Re sources for Independent Living), a United Way agency, is offering sign language classes starting Wednesday, September 1 6th. The beginner's class runs from 7-8 p.m. The advanced sign class runs from 8-9 p.m. For more information please call Glenn at 388-8103. project to begin in October start date of October 1992. Prior to that time the Early Childhood Edu cation Parent Club needs to raise the $10,000needed to cover the material and artist's time for the project. Money is being raised using a section of the mural wall for fundraising tiles. That is, individuals and businesses will be able to pur chase a tile and have a name put on it. These tiles will only be one or two lines. The suggested donation for community members is $75, $125 for businesses. Please consider do nating a tile in memory of someone special or in honor of an elder, your children or someone significant in your life. Volunteers who signed up to help s load or unload students. Select and teach your children safe walking or riding routes to school. If your children ride bicycles to school, be sure they wear a certified bike helmet. Head injuries account for three-fourths of all bike related deaths. Take time to teach your children the rules of the road before allowing them to ride their bikes to school. Such things as yielding to traffic, making false assumptions about other vehicles at intersections, blindly riding out into the street, failing to signal, riding against the flow of traffic or failing to watch for ap proaching traffic can lead to serious injury or death. Don't allow your children to ride home from school after dark. If you drive your children to school, make sure they get out of the car on the sidewalk closest to the school so they can avoid crossing the street at the drop off area. Children should always enter and leave your car on the curb side. Teach your children not to enter the street from between parked cars or from behind trees and bushes, to always cross the street at a comer or crosswalk and to always look both ways before crossing the street. Help our bus drivers provide safe passage to your children by re viewing bus safety procedures with them. Remind your children how and why it's important that they remain seated, refrain from throwing objects or talking loudly, keep their heads and arms inside the bus at all limes and wait until the bus comes to a halt before exiling. Remember that you are a role model. Children imitate their parents' and model their behavior. They need Your child may breakfast and Contact Patty at Program Chemawa Chapter I Program As part of a School wide Chapter I Project Native American students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon have the opportunity to get extra help with their school work during and outside of the regular school day. , Chemawa Indian School's School wide Chapter I program is de signed to provide both traditional and non-traditional instructional settings and methods to better meet the various needs of all students that attend the school; says Gerald Gray, School Supervisor. The Chapter I project also takes advantage of the fact that Chemawa is an off-reservation boarding high school which presents additional times after school, in the evenings and on weekends when students have free time and are often available for instructional services. Program changes that are using a model that is designed on the moni toring of individual behavior (s) and or performance with intervention (s) by staff to provide needed service (s) related to predefined responses de pending upon the program, the needs demonstrated and resources available are also supported by the Chapter I Project design; according to Gray. Use of the intervention model along with consistent and fair treat ment for all students is leading to improved student performance and behavior. The improvement of pro cedures so that rule violations, at tendance information and grades are monitored on a more frequent basis allows interventions and needed ac tions to make adjustments and to solve problems to occur sooner. Additional computer hard and software needed to provide a school wide network will enhance the han dling, analysis and availability of student data this Coming school year. Both Chapter I and the regular school program are working together on the continued development of a curriculum better designed to meet with the project will be notified when a work schedule has been established. If you are interested in helping to create the mural, please contact the ECE Center. The artists will super vise an all volunteer effort in the creation of this project. You can stop by the ECE Center lobby to see the proposed design and pick up a tile donation order form. For more information on the ECE Center Tile Mosaic Mural Project, contact Early Childhood Education at 553-3241. Early Childhood Fun Run Friday, September 25, 10:32 a.m. on the ECE Center grounds. This will be the first run of the year. you to demonstrate how they can get to school and home again safely. September Menu September 2 1 , Breakfast Apple or berry turnover, milk. Lunch Wcincr Wraps, French fries, peas, pineapple chunks, milk. September 22, Breakfast Apple juice, power bar, chocolate milk. Lunch Beef Enchiladas, green beans, carrotcelery sticks, Septem ber Birthday Cake, milk. September 23, Breakfast Grape juice, French toast, milk Lunch Chicken & noodles, tossed garden salad, raisinoatmeal rolls, pears, chocolate milk. September 24, Breakfast Or ange juice, cinnamon stick, cheese wedge, milk. Lunch Turkey Hoagic (lettuce, pickle), potato salad, picnic beans, peach slices, milk. September 25, Breakfast Fruit leather, hard boiled egg, graham crackers, milk. Lunch Cheeseburgers, French fries, corn, jcllo squares, milk. September 28, Breakfast Apple juice, jumbo donut, milk. Lunch Picnic baskets, milk. September 29, Breakfast Or ange juicc.chccsc wedge, buttermilk biscuit, honey, milk. Lunch Comdogs, hashbrowns, fresh vegetable medley, jcllotop ping, milk. September 30, Breakfast Ba nana, cereal, cinnamon stick, milk. Lunch Cooks Choice, milk. Open houses Madras Jr. High Sept. 17 Mctolius Elem Sept. 22 BuffElcm Sept. 24 Warm Springs Elem. ...Oct. 1 qualify for FREE lunch at school. the Commodities - 553 - 3422 the individual needs of students. The use of a multilevel teaching model that will allow more focus on the individual student's needs and his her skill level. Further development of a model for a vocational program . that teaches special education stu- dents the hasic work skills thev need to be successful on the job; said Gray . The Chapter I programs also make use of a 24 station Writer's WorkBench Computer Instruction Lab that is being used by all English teachers at all grade levels to help students improve a wide range of writing skills. As many staff as possible are be ing encouraged to use the Writer's WorkBench Lab and programs to foster the development and im provement of student writing skills and establish writing as a school wide curriculum component. Use of Writer's WorkBench within the GTC program this next school year is also planned. Students have an eight period daily schedule that includes a 35 minute period at the start of each day that includes daily announcements, a 12 minute Channel 1 news report and 15 minute period for a Silent Sustained Reading Program. Students are en rolled for seven classes a day. Academic counseling services in clude a Chapter I counselor who helps provide students with information on grades, classes, school graduation requirements, testing, test results, career and vocational information, college and university programs and courses of study. For next year Chapter I has added a Transition Room, designed to provide temporary placement for those students that are behaving in a way that is disruptive in a regular classroom setting says Mr. Gray. The Transition Room provides a highly controlledisolated environ ment, including "time-out" rooms, and a small group or one to one setting. The program is designed to resolve the student's behavior Toys offer comfort The Warm Springs Victim Assis tance Program is still accepting your "Toy Donations." It is important that everyone can pull together to help the children feel comfortable during their important court appearances. There are children in the program who have to wait from two (2) to eight (8) hours in the Victim Assis tance office until they are called upon Montee named employee of September Eva Montee has been named the Mountain View Hospital and Nurs ing Home "Employee of the Month" for September. A certified fitness specialist, Montee is the Hospital District's Wellness Coordinator. "Eva has had a very positive effect on our efforts to improve employee and community health" stated Ad ministrator Ron Barnes in announc ing the award. "Over half of the District employees voluntarily par ticipate in wellness programs orga .. r . . 'I.,: M ;.l t x .V s i H' i'-fan 'i ' Vr I i r- ' I- ' I 1 1, ' I 1 7 - -in i ' r-tkm i i iwiMliinMli i - ' 11 First grade student Maurica Cortez looks for her card at Warm Springs Elementary cafeteria. Card is used in newaccountingsystemfor breakfast and lunch programs. All students may purchase breakfast andor lunch. provides traditional setting "problem" and return the student to a regular class as soon as possible. The student continues to do his regular class assignments in the tran sition room in addition to resolving anv behavior problems. Placement jn the transition, room is made after al oossib c efforts to resolve the immediate problcmcontiict nave been made and arc not successful. The teacher provides a written description of the problem; assign ments for the student while he is in the transition room; indicates the expectations necessary for the student to return to class; and is involved in the "mediation" or "intervention" processes to resolve problems or conflicts that exist. To develop a contract that indicates what a student has to do to return to class. Transition room staff provide a quiet, highly structured environment, where students can do assignments and get help when they have ques tions. Make sure that completed as signments are returned to teachers for grading. The transition room is a neutral zone for both teacher and student. It provides a chance for problem reso lution, positive directions, a chance to get back on task with class work and a way to repair teacher-student relationships. Chapter I also provides a Whole Language Classes (readinglanguage arts) that stressing reading vocabulary and comprehensions skills along wi th language mechanics and expressing skills. Content vocabulary from typical secondary core subject matter areas (i.e. English, Social Studies, Science, Health and etc.) is included. Stu dents with low reading or language scores are targeted for the class. Exercisesactivities to improve comprehension skills, especially: fact and opinion, inference, classification, drawing conclusions, sequencing, prediction, summarizing, and ana lytical thinking are taught. Analysis for children appearing in court in Court. Victim Assistance is requesting any type of books, toys, blocks, stuffed animals, anything that would beof interest tochildrcn from two (2) through fifteen (15) years of age. Items requested will make it easier" forchildrcn and their families to cope witn wnat victims may dc expcri encing. Please bring the toys by the Vic nized by Eva" said Barnes. An employee of the District since May 1991, Montee is a certified fit ness specialist and aerobics instruc tor. Donna Laughlin.CNA was named the Mountain View Nursing Home Caregiver of the Month. Laughlin was selected by the nursing home residents and her fellow employees because of her exceptional job per formance and willingness to give of herself on her free lime. of literature including the concepts of plot, character, setting, author's purpose, and etc. are included. Writing skills including outlin ing, simplecomplex sentences, paragraph structures, letters and short . .written reports will be covered. Stu dents make Use ot the writer s WorkBench Lab when possible. Another Chapter I program, says Gray is the PEP (Personal Education Program) Lab (extended day pro gram), services includes tutoring in basic and advanced skills in reading, math and language arts; help with home work or class assignments; help to make-up homework, assignments or classes missed because of school approved activities or substance abuse treatment programs; and the instruction for credit for students in classes assigned and approved by the school. Services are provided Monday through Friday during the day, after school and evenings. The PEP Lab is also open on weekends for student use. Transitional services are arranged for students that are entering or leaving off-campus residential treatment programs for substance abuse. PEP Lab allows students to work on making up classes that they have missed. A variety of instructional methods that stress each student's individual basic and advanced skill(s) needs in reading, math and language arts will be used to provide services in both traditional and non-traditional set tings. Methods used will include one to one, small group and cooperative instruction, individual tutoring, computer instruction, drill and prac tice, applied reading, vocabulary and writing skills. If you are an Indian student that needs extra help with your school work you might want to find out about attending Chemawa. To get more information about Chemawa call 503-399-5721 extension 138. tim Assistance office in the Tribal Courthouse on the right side of the building up the stairs. Your partici pation during this Toy Donation pe riod will be appreciated by the pro gram and the children. Thank you. -i-j UrSWIllCJS pOblUU Construction drawings for the proposed Mountain View Hospital DistrictFamily Care Clinic have been completed and are available for public review and comment. "The Board would like to welcome and encourages District patrons to review the plans and make com ments," said Administrator Ron Bames. The construction drawings which were prepared by PlazaFootc Archi tects of Portland will be available in the office of the Administrator the week of September 14. The Board of Directors of Moun tain View Hospital District will take action on the plans at the regular Board meeting, September 17. 1