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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1960)
Klamath County Schools In Activities Observing National Education Week What School Teachers Know About Your Child Practical Pointers For Puzzled Parents FOR PARENTS OF 2 TO 5 YEAR-OLDS Fact: Pre-schoolers who play with other children adjust more quickly to school lite. Tip: If your child ' has few chances to play with others, try to make such opportunities. Invite other children to your home, take him to parks and play grounds. Fact: Pre-schoolers who are read to at home are more likely to be ready for learning to read. Tip: Surround your child with books and read to him often. In troduce him to your local library at an early age. Fact: Pre-schoolers who are ac customed to being away from home and mother find it easier to adjust to school life. Tip: Leave him with friends or relatives occasionally for several hours, a whole day or overnight. Leaving home to go to school will come as a pleasant experience rather than a psychological shock. Fact: Pre-schoolers who do things for themselves at home when using the belongings of oth ers. He will adjust more easily to the group life of school, if you help him become more consid erate of others. FOR PARENTS OF 6 TO 10 YEAR-OLDS Fact: Children from 6-10 are full of curiosity and eagerness to learn. Tip: You can take advantage of this by helping your child to develop hobbies, to read widely, and to make simple science ex periments. Fact: One of a child's biggest fears mav reflect the attitudes of ei""er 10 B o'ng aithe adults in his family. Tip: You can help your child take tests successfully by being calm and relaxed about them yourself. Don't tell yarns about how tests always scared you. Fact: It is possible to raise your child's mental alertness dur ing the early elementary school years. Tip: Expose your child to a rich variety of family activities . , , take him on trips, to chil dren's plays. Expose him to good art and music . . . surround him with many books and magazines. Fact: Children develop at dif ferent rates of speed; each has his own rate of growth and maturity. Tip: Do not compare your child's behavior or school work with that of his classmates or his brothers and sisters. He may be find school. Tip: Encourage your child to wash and dress himself , , . turn lights on and off . . . put away his toys. The more independent he is, the more readily he will adjust to being on his own in school. Fact: Pre-schoolers should have experience in respecting the prop erty and rights of others. Tip: Encourage your child to take turns and to get permission G" TIP: Visit your teen - ager's teachers and counselors, and find out how you can help him make important decisions. Don t feel left out and resentful because he has turned to outsiders for ad vice and counsel. Be thankful for their help. FACT: When teen-agers own cars, their grades are likely to suffer. TIP: Let your teen ager drive the family car, when qualified by age and training, but discourage him from having a car of his own until he completes high school. Straight-A students rarely own cars; many failing students do. FACT: Teen-agers like to help make their own rules of conduct. TIP: Let your teen-ager help make the family regulations about household chores,- dating, etc., for he is more likely to observe the rules he helped to make. FACT: It is an age of read ing . . . two out of three teen agers are currently reading ' a book not related to school work. TIP: Keep your teen-ager well provided with a variety of inter esting books, magazines and newspapers. Good reading habits he establishes may last through out his lifetime. FACT: They're half adult, half child, and veer from one to the a slow developer. Try to discoveri0' how to help and encourage him Fact: At these ages, children TIP: Try not to point out this fact to your teen-ager. Being told DEMOCRATIC government is portrayed in this picture of Fremont students partici pating in the student body ' election. Casting her ballot is Susan Whytal. " J-. 'Vf. Ta-JL fri IA X "6ir if.- "' are still interested in the world!10 a your age sometimes, and of fantasy. ou re ,0 ounE ,or ulal at Tip: Encouraee creative activi-l" ""P" Hpq nf nil luniknrl J;nn WUIH US1UI1. music and play-acting. They'll throw themselves wholeheartedly into such projects, and may de velop long-lasting interests. FOR PARENTS OF 11 to 14 YEAR-OLDS FACT: Children differ greatly in size and maturity during their early teens. Some are taller, some shorter than the average, TIP: Do not expect your child to be the same as all the others or exactly the height you were at his age. He'll be more suc cessful . in all his activities if you accept him as he is. FACT: In junior high school, children look strongly to their own age-group for approval. TIP: Don t worry if your young ster takes up odd clothing fads because he wonts to "look like everybody else." He'll outerow mis urge lor contormity. . inai uisiruciion: teacning FACT: Students in junior high " maKCS use " materials school want to know the WHY of ana equipment that facilitate what they are learning. learning through both hearing and TIP: Encourage family discus-rremB- ana mereDy give added sions on a variety of topics, and'"ld"ln6 woros. j&xamples: TEACHER TALK . . . (TRANSLATED FOR PARENTS) Phonic method: a procedure for leaching reading and speaking by emphasis on the analysis of words into their speech sounds. Exten sive drill is given on word recog nition and pronouncing by pro longed study of letter combinations which represent sounds. Modern instruction uses phonic elements as a part of other methods de signed to help, children not only to pronounce, but to understand the meaning of words in phrases and sentences. KURT LEMAY. JON HANSON. Stanley Rawson, Gilbert Net son and Pete Stantvy are aiscuumg conjiruction procedures in their planning ot a utility shelt. The boys in in dustrial arts at Fremont will plan this project on the drawing board then actually build it using their own plans. Junior High industrial arts is designed to explore several areas of work. Their School vear bealnt in th .drjiwinn rA with rnntfriii-tlu- JrAu. make a point of tracking down the lads behind general state ments. Your youngster will enjoy airing his opinions, and he will be learning to think, and to check I he facts. FACT: Girls often -are one or two years more advanced physi cally and socially than boys dur ing childhood and early youth. J it': i)o not be too concerned if your daughter says she likes) older boys ; perhaps the boys ;in ner class are shorter than he is and "act so juvenile." FACT: Young adolescents want to argue, talk, make themselves heard. TIP: Don't worry if your young- sicr can l restrain his urge to spook up loud and clear. Re member he has just discovered mat ne has ideas and opinions. Help him to practice courtesy and to listen to others. ings, illustrative drawings, and some architectual drawing as each boy puts his own ideas into the designing of a floor plan. Half of the schoof year is spent in woodwork ing with experiences in furniture building and lathe work. Here is where their learnings in drawing and planning are put to practical use. The final quarter of the school year it devoted to crafts with emphasis on leather carving. FOR PARENTS OF 15 TO 17 YEAR-OLDS FACT: Teen-aners often wnrrv about their life plans and occu pations, and discuss these more easily with teachers and friends uian witli parent. motion pictures, TV, radio, tape recordings, charts, and slides. Enrichment: the efforts and programs used to extend the in terests and experiences of students beyond the prescribed program. usually enrichment involves more independent reading, more re search and creative pursuits, and more difficult individual projects. Enrichment is sometimes used in place of acceleration of challenging the abilities of gifted students. Gifted child: one of exceptional intellectual ability (sometimes called academically talented). Characteristics usually found in the gifted child are: ahilitv In think logically, originality, initia tive, power to generalize, deep and varied interests, curiosity, and in telligence. (Persons with excep tional ability in drawing, music. etc. are referred to as "talented.") The United States has more than 565 indenendent scientific laboratories working on research and development of industry.
