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February 27, 1997 5
Warm Springs site council uses teepee as a model for excellence
C As part of the slate's plan for
school excellence in the 2 1 st century,
.'site councils were mandated to give
: parents, staff and community
J members active participation in the
operation and planning of their
:i school.
Warm Springs Elementary School
was no different from other schools
around the slate when they formed a
t site council for that facility. They
were given a charge and had to
develop goals and a plan to implement
. those goals.
However, parents from WSE
; conic from an ancient culture and
! members of that site council
: developed a metaphorical symbol as
: a way to guide the Warm Springs
students toward academic excellence.
That symbol was a teepee.
The site council realized that just
' as the lodge poles were needed to
; make a home stand, so, too, were
educational components needed to
, make an educational program stand.
As a result, the site council uses
: the symbol of the teepee to guide it in
making decisions with each
component of education-reading,
writing, math, science and social
studies, a separate lodge pole of the
educational teepee. The emphasis
recommended by the site council this
. year is on reading because the council
felt that was the most pressing need
at WSE.
The council is chaired by John
Nelson and Sue Matters. Nelson
Science fair set
During the third quarter of each
: year the 7th and 8th grade students
are required toconductanexperimcnt
on their own as a science project.
This year the due date for these
projects is March 1 1 . The project is
designed to give students first hand
experience in doing what scientists
do.. . . observe a problem, ask a
question about it, make an educated
guess about the solution, and then
conduct a test to see if that solution is
. correct. In other words. . .
1) Take something that docs
something. 2) Change one thing about
it. 3) See if that change affects what
it does.
On that same date will be the
annual Science Fair, and all students
are asked to put together an exhibit
and display it for some fun and
academic competition. The Science
Fair will be open to the public from
7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday,
March 11.
Early Childhood Education news
Nutritious breakfast perfect way to start the day Late pick-up policy reviewed-
Nutrition affects children's abil
ity to learn, develop and stay healthy.
Current dietary trends in the US in
dicate that children's current eating
habits may be placing them at nutri
tional risk. Children are eating too
much total fat, saturated fat and
cholesterol. In addition, children are
not eating enough fruits and veg
etables. Onlt nine-percent of six- to twelve-year-old
children eat five servings of
fruits and vegetables daily. A study
of second and fifth graders revealed
that 15-percent refused to eat veg
etables and 40-percent did not eat
vegetables other than potatoes and
tomato sauce. As much as 20-percent
did not consume any fruit and 58
percent did not consume any fruit
other than fruit juice. At least one
fourth of all children are over
weight this number has doubled in
the past decade. For six- to 17-year-olds,
there was an increase from five
to 11 percent. This prevalence in
overweight is more likely related to a
decrease in physical activity rather
than an increase in food intake.
The American Dietetic Associa
tion and the Kellogg Company
launched the Child Nutrition and
Health Campaign in October 1995 to
increase awareness of the need for
improving the nutritional status of
children ages six to 12, specifically
as it relates to their breakfast con
sumption, physical activity and edu
cation. We can help to improve the health
and nutritional status of children in
Oregon by promoting the three main
objectives and the key messages of
the campaign to parents, caregivers,
teachers and the children as follows:
1. Give children a healthy start
to their day with breakfast.
Ensure children start the day with
breakfast, whether at home or at
school.
Children who eat breakfast per
form better in school through in
creased problem-solving ability,
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along with Nancy Smith, Deanna
LuPage, Mary Beck, Dawn Smith
and Dean Johnson arc cither
administrators or teachers at WSE.
The other site council
members, besides Matters,
ure parents. They include
Julie Quaid, John Katchia,
Rick Kibeiro, Selena Boise
and Harry Phillips. Wanda
Buslach, overseeing the
SMART program for WSE,
is also a member of the site
council.
"Our site council
developed a school
improvement plan and is
working with the staff and
community to move that
plan forward," said Dawn
Smith. "This year we are
working on improvement
of reading achievement.
One of the ways wc arc
attempting to do this is by
working with the SMART
program and recruiting new
SMART readers for our
students. Wc arc working
with radio station KWSO
to get the work out."
Another effort in the
works is to change the WSE
annual geography quiz into
a reading quiz.
Smith believes the site
council gives the school a
way of being in contact with
the community, a
R. Carlos Nakai
Native American Flutist,
Educator, and Story Teller, R. Carlos
Nakai will appear in concert with
pianist Peter Kater on Saturday,
March 8 at Mazama Gym, Central
Oregon Community College. The
concert begins at 8PM and all are
welcome. This performance comes
on the heals of last year's smash sell
out event in March where more than
550 tickets were sold.
The preeminent Native American
Musician today, and A Canyon
Records Recording Artist, in 1994
R. Carlos Nakai's collaboration
effort, "Ancestral Voices" was
nominated for a Grammy Award for
best Traditional Folk Album. A
prolific artist, during one 12 month
period, Nakai recorded over 8 albums
and in all has 23 albums in
commercial distribution.
memory, verbal fluency and creativ
ity and are less likely to be absent.
Breakfast, such as cereal, fruit and
milk, may be the most important and
easiest early step to ensure kids are
getting the nutrients they need to do
their best at school and at play.
A nutritious breakfast with cereal,
milk and fruit, ensures that children
get the nutrition to grow, learn, play
and stay active and healthy.
Include a variety of foods that are
rich in carbohydrates, and low in fat,
like fruit, milk and your child's fa
vorite presweetened or regular ce
real. Kids need fiber, too. A child's age
plus five as an easy-to-use formula
for determining daily fiber needs in
grams.
Snacks are an important part of a
child's diet. Snacks should provide
energy, vitamins and minerals for
your high-energy child. Choose foods
from the Food Guide Pyramid, in
cluding cereals and grains, fruits and
vegetables.
2. Get children moving for the
fun of it.
Physical activity ana good nutri
. tion together help develop healthy
habits that last a lifetime.
Get the whole family involved in
games, bicycling or other active play.
If you're involved, your child is more
likely to get involved.
one step at a time is key. Encour
age your child to walk, bike or jog
with friends, or take a 10-minute
activity break while doing home
work, watching TV or playing com
puter or video games.
3. Grown-ups be a role model.
Parents, grandparents, teachers
and other caregivers can help chil
dren learn about the importance of
healthy eating and physical activity
habits.
Make family-centered changes
toward healthful eating. Eat meals
together, plan and prepare meals to
gether and try to make mealtime
pleasant.
community voice, if you will.
"Wc arc publishing student
writing and gelling that out to the
community, such as the Iribal
Academic
Writing
Math
Timeline
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to perform at COCC March 8
Nakai's music is heavily
influenced by his personal tribal
stories and the history of his culture.
Over the past two decades, Nakai has
melded his classical training with his
expertise on the cedar flute to form
complex, sophisticated sound that
covers the spectrum of musical genres
including, jazz, piano and guitar
collaborations, and classical music.
He also is a pioneer in integrating
Native American Flute with
electronic technology such as
synthesizers and digital delay. Nakai
crafts his own flutes and views each
of them as "A sound sculpture, a
piece of art that also creates sound."
While Nakai may not have been
"born to the flute" it was curiosity
about his heritage that led him to it.
Along the way he relied more on
research and innovation and less on
his Navajo-Ute heritage. The Dine'
Provide your child with fun ways
to explore and discover new foods
that taste good and are good for
them.
Restricting favorite foods can
cause anxiety and may lead to
overeating.
Bugs make life lousy for familie
When a seven-year-old came
home with head lice for the fifth time
in three months, frustration gave way
to disbelief.
"It's an overwhelming, sinking
feeling, like this is just never going to
stop," said the Hamilton family, of
Southeast Portland, who battled the
most recent infestation last week and
lives in fear of infestation number
six.
School nurses and stressed-out
parents from Vancouver, Washing
ton, to Eugene are seeing multiple
reinfestations of lice. The National
Pediculosis Association is reporting
a worst-case scenario of lice be
coming resistant to chemical treat
ment. But health authorities do not track
head lice cases. Because the tiny bugs
occupy a low rung on the infectious
disease ladder, few studies have been
done, so validating trends or resis
tance to treatment is difficult.
Pediatricians and state health of
ficials have heard concerns about
repeated reinfestations for the past
several years. They focus on weak
spots in lice treatment rather than the
possibility that the lice have devel
oped treatment armor.
"I get the same kinds of calls ev
ery year. I hear about the supposed
resistance to treatment and
reinfestation," said Tammy
Alexander, adolescent health coor
dinator for the Oregon Health Divi
sion. "The diligence involved in
treating the kids' environment is in
Council wailing room and the Indian
Health Center.
I he council has a number of other
activities under way as well. 1 nines
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had a strong flute playing tradition,
although it was lost when they
migrated from the Northwest Plains
of Canada to the Southwest.
As a part of an on-goi ng campaign
to promote and explore cultural
diversity, This P.A.L.S. (Performing
Arts and Lectures Scries) event is
jointly sponsored by the Associated
Students At Central Oregon
Community College, COCC's office
of the President, Musicians Outlet of
Bend, CLEAR 107.5 FM, First
Security Banks of Central Oregon,
Deschutes Painting, and Suntrak
Sound.
Tickets are $11 for the general
public, and $9 for COCC students.
Tickets will be available in Bend at
the Curiosity Shoppe, Boomtown
Records, Musicians Outlet of Bend,
and the student life office at COCC.
Definition
It is the parent's or guardian's
responsibility to see that hisher child
is picked up from the Warm Springs
Early Childhood Education programs
on time. The consequences of chil
dren left late include: their feelings
credible to break the cycle of the
lice.."
Lice are gray in color and about
the size of a ballpoint pen tip. Their
whitish eggs, called nits, are even
smaller. Lice don't discriminate ac
cording to family income. All head
lice need are humans, rich or poor,
from whom to suck blood. Head lice
do not infest pets or other animals.
Lice also do not fly, hop or swim.
They are passed along by falling from
one head to another or by riding to
another scalp on a hat or comb,
making them the perfect bug to infest
schools.
Oregon schools exclude children
who have lice, a particular hardship
for students who struggle in school
and parents who work.
Parents must treat the lice and
send the child back nit-free. But this
is no easy process and is especially
taxing for single parents or those
who don't have a washing machine
or the money to buy treatments.
The Hamilton family figures they
spent $35 for each lice infestation,
including laundromat costs to wash
their blankets. Their daughter has
missed 6 12 days of school.
"I felt really awful, missing all my
friends," Kara Hamilton said.
Healthexperts emphasize the need
toclosely follow package instructions
for lice treatment. But they say many
reinfestations happen because the
child's environment has not been
adequately cleaned or children are
reintroduced to lice in places parents
may not have foreseen.
such as
a storyteller family night.
teacher
training survey of
compete)
ncc in reading instruction
and the"
Wcfl-of-Wellncss project.
The weft is the
material which blankets
the teepee portion of the
plan; those schoolwide
activities which
promote the good
health and wellness of
the students.
In the first year the
council created a
mission statement, by
laws and school
improvement plan. In
the second year various
action plans were
developed and
implemented. Year
number three saw
priorities developed
and action plans tracing
began.
Smith, for one,
believes things are
beginning to pay off.
"Wc arc seeing
positive changes in (he
students and site
council is a tool to affect
the change."
Article
reprinted from
the January
1997, 509-J
newsletter
March 1997 Computer Center Classes
Topic Times Dates Cost
Intro to Windows 8:30-12 March 3,5,10,12 $75
This is required before Microsoft Word
Intro to Computers 1-4:30 March 4,6,11,13 $75
Intro to Microsoft Word 8:30-12 March 17,19,24,26 $75
Intro to Microsoft Excel 1-4:30 March 18,20,25,27 $75
(This is the spreadsheet to Microsoft)
The first two classes above are required for all employees that
have the Microsoft Program. What classes have you completed?
Remember to call at least two days before class if you are
unable to attend otherwise you will be charged.
Call 553-1428 and get your name on the waiting list.
of being forgotten and the teachers
inability to leave on time, and the
program's inability to pay overtime
for staff.
The hours for ECE are:
Full-day programs:
7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Parents need to consider such
places as movie theaters, the homes
of extended family members and
church gatherings as possible points
of contact, said Dee Bauer, registered
nurse and director of the Department
of School Health Services for the
Multnomah Education Service Dis
trict, which includes 87,000 students.
Other culprits could be head
phones or sports helmets, which
should be routinely cleaned, said
Barbara Arnold, a registered nurse
and co-manager of Eugene Health
Services forthecity's school district.
In some schools, parents have
pitched in to help inspect children's
head for lice.
In Felida, outside Vancouver,
Nancy Andrews and several other
moms gathered through their PTA in
the fall to form the Lice Busters
Support Hot Line, to pass along tips
and to support their parents.
Hamilton hopes getting the word
out on how to battle lice will help.
"We're not going to see the end of
this unless more people are informed
and more parents are making a con
certed effort to be checking their
own children on a regular basis and
taking the proper steps to make it go
away," she said. "We felt like we'd
done what they told us to do. It's not
working."
Storytelling Night
Presenting:
Susan Strauss
March 5, 1997 at 6:30
p.m. at the Warm
Springs Elementary
Everyone welcome!
Author and storyteller Susan
Strauss is well known across the
United States for her
performances with organizations
such as the US Department of
Natural Resources, the
Smithsonian Museum and the
Roger Tory Peterson Institute.
She tells stories she has heard
from Native American storytellers
which have been handed down
through generations of legends.
Susan recently did a
presentation at Early Childhood
Education. Please join the WSE
Site Council in welcoming Susan
Strauss to an evening of
storytelling.
Part-day programs:
7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
When a child is still in the class
room at 1 p.m. or 5:30 p.m., de
pending on the program, heshe will
be brought up to the ECE front desk.
A teacher will let the front desk
person on duty know the child's name
to be entered on the late child log,
and any relevant information related
to the late pick-up.
Documentation of a late child is
the responsibility of the front desk
staff on duty.
Using the emergency contact
form:
Every attempt will be made to
contact the parent or guardian.
If the parent or guardian cannot be
contacted, each emergency contact
will be called.
If emergency contacts are not lo
cated or cannot come get the child,
every attempt will be made to contact
persons who are on the child's au
thorized pick-up sheet.
If authorized pick-up people are
unavailable or cannot come pick up
the child, every effort will be made to
contact any family member.
By 5:45 p.m., if above efforts fail,
the Warm Springs Police Department
will be notified that an abandoned
minor is at ECE and physical custody
is given to WSPD.
When a full-day program child is
picked up past 5:30 p.m., the parent
or guardian receives a suspension
warning regardless of telephone
contact. If the child is picked up after
5:30 p.m., a second time, regardless
of telephone contact, within 12
months of the first incident, the parent
orguardian will receive a suspension
form indicating their child will be
suspended from ECE for five con
secutive child care days at the parents'
expense. (See contract.)
If a child is picked up late three
times or more in a 30-day period,
parents or guardians will be reported
to WSPD for neglect.
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