Show Standard-Examine- r Dear Abby Kneebone ©IPD 3D 6D 10D Field Trips Ogden Utah Wednesday June 4 1980 'Summer Time and the Living is Easy' But What Do You Do to Occupy the Young'ens? With school out many parents of young children may be And the children are probably bugging mom with to "uncle" cry ready their whiny pleas of "what's there to do?" Susan Tanner Holmes has put together a number of suggestions including gardening 4-- projects field trips reading lists and a study series The ideas gleaned from mother school teachers 4-workers and others begin on this page and conintue 1 on pages 0 and 11D EDITOR'S NOTE: H H By SUSAN TANNER HOLMES Special to the Standard-Examine- r Mothers with several children and a number of summers behind them advise parents to be creative in planning summer activities Jeanna Nielson mother of four begins planning summer activities for her children in April “The kids and I sit down and do the planning together” she said Ellen Gillespie mother of five also lets her children decide on summer projects “We plan one Club major activity usually a a We do as whole it family project and then enter the County Fair” she ssid Reading is important in our family said Mrs Nielson “We have reading hour every night from 7 to 8 pm I like to encourage reading We like to try fun games to keep the children interested We offer a prize for reading so many books” said Mrs Nielson She said she also encourages the children to practice their music by giving a prize “We schedule our kids pretty said Barbara Frodsham tight” mother of seven “We begin our day at 5:30 am with chores practicing of music and reading We work until noon and then the family has the rest of the day for fun We like to work hard and to play hard” Nadine Shelton mother of six says painting ceramics is a summer project for the Shelton family “Each morning as we eat our breakfast I tell our children one flannel board story I bought a new 4--H flannel board kit that has over a hundred pictures and characters You can tell all kinds of stories” said Mrs Nielson Field trips should go hand in hand with the study program according to Mrs Gillespie “One thing that is fun” she said “is to have the children write a letter to themselves then to go to the post office to mail it Sometimes the postmaster will let the children watch the letter being cancelled Then when the letter comes in the mail the children learn how the mail works” “My husband is a nature oriented person and knows all about birds and vegetation He enjoys taking the children on hikes into the mountains to discover interesting plants Then they discuss all about what they see” said Mrs Nielson Mrs Gillespie said she plans a creative time “For example we draw a popcorn tree and then glue the blossoms on the paper out of popcorn This is fun for even the older children” said Mrs Gillespie Mrs Nielson and other mothers suggest taking the children to see a famous person’s grave at the cemetery learning about flowers and theh taking a trip to a garden center to see the varieties of cut flowers and plants or writing a story and making it into a book and then going to the library to learn about other books One mother said she got her children interested in crocheting and they use the scraps around the house to make yarn dolls flowers and cute little mice Even routine jobs can create fun said Mrs Frodsham “We have to do a lot of canning so we try to make it fun Last year we did apples out in the yard on an assembly line table while we listened to a football game on the radio” Mrs Gillespie says she works on teaching her girls to cook “Two or three Christmases ago I gave each one a recipe file We have a rule that you can’t put a recipe in the file until you have made it Through the summer we make treats and dishes and then I let them copy the recipe and put it in their file Club projects are Family popular Many families take rock collecting gardening swimming pet care foods forestry and other 4-- H Y "& projects t' Manuals to help with the projects READING is a good summer time activity for children And the backyard sandpile is as are readily available at each Coun- ty Extension Office for a small fee of 15 to 50 cents There is also a outline avspecial ailable “We like to ride our bikes as a family” said Mrs Nielson Families like the Frodshams mix community planned programs with their own “We jog and run everyday One fun thing I’d like to do this summer is to get everyone a jogging jacket with a family emblem on it We also have one major outdoor project for the home during the summer Last year we worked on our rock wTall this year we might work on the house” Other families like the Sheltons take frequent trips to parks for family games and picnics Mrs Nielson teaches her children to swim Mrs Frodsham lets her children ride their bikes to the local swimming pool frequently so that they too can swim self-determin- & $ 4& !&& yA&s good a place as any for a youngster to take a book Photo by Susan Tanner Holmes Books Help Creativity Keep Children Busy ed Good reading habits benefit chil- dren says a second grade teacher Barbara Batchelor says “by establishing a reading environment in your home being a model for your child sharing interesting items you have read parents can increase not only the reading ability of the child but the creative ability as well” She suggests the following list of books for some reading fun during the summer SECOND GRADE “Story of Johnny Appleseed” Aliki “Five Chinese Brothers” Bishop “Jim and the Beanstalk” Briggs “Little House” Burton “Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead” “Story of Paul Bunyan” Dubois Emberley “Big Yellow Balloon” Fenton “How to Read a Rabbit” Fritz “Horton Hatches the Egg” Giesel “Be Nice to Spiders” Graham “Traveling Musicians and the Seven Ravens” Grimm “Little Boy Brown” Harris “Herman the Loser” Hoban “Free as a Frog” Hodges Horvath Kirn “Be Nice to Josephine” “Tale of a Crocodile” “Benjie” Lexau “One Morning in Maine” McCloskey “Theodore Turtle” MacGreagor “Sam Bangs and Moonshine” Nwaa “Amelia Bedelia” Parish “Sam” Scott “The Fooling of King Alexander” Skipper “Sly Old Wardrobe” Southall “Stevie” Steptoe ‘‘Ugly Duckling” Anderson ”500 Hats of Bartholomew” Geisel FICTION “The Hundred Dresses” Estes “Henry Huggins Series” Cleary “Charley and the Chocolate Fa- Deahl ctory” Brown “Encyclopedia Series” Sobel FAVORITE YOUNG READERS “Wizard of Oz” Baum the Clubhouse Rib-sy- ” Henry Cleary “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” Fleming Forbes “Johnny George “Mrs MacDonald said Mrs regular Piggle-Wiggle- ” Big Wood” Wilder “The W’ier puree lean beef tender veal onions garlic and spices f Now in your grocer's freezer section In trays for regular or microwave cooking oven-proo- life there “Children love to make collections Leaves and plants are popular Another one could be wild flowers Learn to identify the wild flowers and mount them to make a collection “Writing your own songs can be another way to influence creativity and enjoy the summer” said Mrs Kammerle She suggests a “Rainy Day Grab Box” Take a piece of paper and write down each idea On the rainy day you can choose from the box Some projects might include cutting out pictures from magazines and making a collage Taking the children’s favorite games and putting them in a special place reserved for rainy day activities is another idea Another project might include planting indoor plants such as sweet potates avocados or carrots Mrs Batchelor adds to the rainy day activities with puppet making or a fish pond The “fish” would be pictures and the child can identify the picture and then write it down For traveling games Mrs Batchelor suggests beginning with “A” and finding the alphabet on different signs along the road Counting from license plates or playing a game designed to improve phonics like “I went to the store and bought some butter beans and (The child adds another word beginning with the same letter)” r - m She also suggested having a child take one square foot of your yard and examine all the ” -- full-crea- merle morning “It is important to have the child read to you Be enthusiastic say things like ‘I like the way your voice sounds or I like the way you read’ It is important to get fluency first and then they will get the speed” said Mrs Batchelor “Reading aloud is important Many children do it silently but they need it on a one to one basis They need to know that someone is listening and really cares It lets the child know that they are important and will inshe said crease their “After they have read the material quiz them to make sure they are getting the comprehension Often children work so hard to get the sound of the word that they don’t get the comprehension” said Mrs Batchelor Mrs Kammerle said a regular story time is important “It might be a good idea to have an older child read to the younger ones Not only will it occupy him but the little ones will enjoy it Libraries also have story times There are so many ways to make children want to read you just have to try several” she said Part of the enjoyment of reading Mrs Batchelor says is bringing the stories to life by having a lot of paper around “Let the child draw his favorite part of the story or what the little girl or boy looked like Creativity should be loose and unrestricted Draw ‘how you feel right now’ or 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