OCR Text |
Show 2D Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1983 'chools WlaWoei Several elementary schools in the lakeside aTea are planning Halloween carnivals this weekend. Doxey Elementary School in Sunset will hold .a Halloween carnival sponsored by the PTA on Friday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. with a la carte dinner served between 5 and 7 p.m. : Featured attractions will in- -' elude games, face painting, apple dunk, and a football raffle. In addition, parents, students and o be offered prior to the carnival The Vae View Elementary between 3 and 4 p.m. with $S School PTA will sponsor a famig project by worth of tickets available for $4. ly Halloween- carnival Saturday, donating or purchasing bake,d Oct. 29, from a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunset Elementary School will goods, saleable white elephants will present Otto Clown the hold a Halloween carnival Fri- two and arts and crafts, o' one shows, magic beginning, All donations should be day, Oct. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. at noon the second at 1:30 and brought to the school, 944 N. with games, fortune teller, jelly p.m. There will also be water bean guess fort black and white 25Q W., prior to the carnival-Furthcontest, booths, information may be ob- television, candy com guess for melpn aeating sale and free carbake games, tained by contacting publicity a plush Smurfette. toon movies. There, will also be a dinner manager, Debbie DeBoer, 776 Those looking for an alterna3416. featuring chili, sloppy joes, hot tive to trick or treating may find Early bird ticket discount will dogs, fries and drinks. Lakeview Elementary School's Halloween carnival just the community members may port a puter teacher-sponsore- d supcom- fund-raisin- 1 1 er , thing.-- , ' . It will be held on Oct. 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the school, 2023 W, .5000 S. Activities will include a cake walk, bake sale and carnival booths. A. featured attraction is done by Sue Okroys fifth grade class. For hungry Halloween cele-- . brants, there will be cotton candy, popcorn and candy.; Morgan Elementary School in ; Kaysville will hold its annual Halloween festival on Monday, Oct. 3l, from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets will be sold at a rate of five for $1. Each PTA, membership will' be good for one free dinner. Proceeds will be used by the PTA to buy school equipment. There will be a bake sale, spook alley, shop and general store and other games and activfact-painti- snow-cone- ! s, . KINDERGARTEN students at' Samuel Elemeiitary School (from left), Emily Angell, Joshua Furgusen, Molly Huntzinger and Farrah Crookston, pare their classroom for carnival. an pre-Morg- , Chalk Line ities. The PTA board said the evening is planned as a safe tive for Halloween celebrating. !du c&Eional Clarify Schools My daughter is in the sixth grade. Her teacher is making her do fractions, ect. and shes flunking all of it. A while back, the lowed to move through the book more slowly and children who ; school gave her some kind of special tests and said she was quite far behind in everything and probably would be for a tong time. She learns, but at a slower rate. , try to help her with her Ynath at home, but it turns into raging battles. In her resource class shes doing fractions, too -Supposedly to keep her up with her class - but she still cant even start the problems, never mind work them!! I am really frustrated, but I,, dont know whether to yell at the teacher,-- ' the principal, the resource teacher or my daughter! Help! Ready To Scream 1 -- . pear Ready, see a child here who could easily hate school and have ulcers! I also see ah inconsistency in her program which I would hope the resource teacher can clarify for you. You said that she' is doing regular, classroom work while in resource. This is acceptable if, in her basic skills, she is ready and just needs a great deal of help to maintain class I ; ns level. f However, when a child is extremely far behind and is likely to remain so, resource programs usually put the child on an appropriate level and begin remedial work which will gradually bring the child up and allow him or her to have some positive school experiences. Your letter, your feelings and the test results would seem to indicate that the latter situation might be more appropriate. I strongly suggest a trip to the resource teacher to understand andor straighten out what is happening here. ' In my opinion there are basic skills in math that should be taught in a given order: adding, carrying, substracting, borrowing, borrowing with zeros (some of these things are labeled differently now), times tables, multiplying with one, two and three digits, then dividing by one, two and three digits. With these mastered, fractions and eventually decimals can be taught. Ideally, a child would be given one skill at a time (in the proper order) and given repetitive practice until heshe can perform that skill fairly accurately most of the time. Herein lies one of the major problems in schools throughout the nation:.norms are established by the powers that be for each grade level; then all children are given the math book for that level, whether or hot they have learned previous material. .and are graded accordi; ngly. Grouping helps a little students' who are behind are al are gifted get to move through the same book more quickly! There are exceptions - rare and wonderful teachers who make sure the base of the childs math pyramid is sound before insisting that fractions be done. There are also many programs in operation across the United States which are highly successful and, in my opinion, infinitely better. So much for my opinion! As the child moves through the various skills, practice is es- sential and regular reviews of past material should be given to aid retention. Hefe,n again, I must share one of my secret wishes. I wish teachers had more time to correct math papers differently than (hey .do. All too often, math problems are marked x either right or wrong. Instead, correction could be a means to identify kinds of errors up instead of down, i Paul Ericksen. Column to Center. The seminars, which are also held and originated in the Layton area, received funding from the Utah Arts Council. The Lakeside Review will be publishing, beginning this week, a column designed to help parents help their children who may be having problems in school. She believes that schools provide many things, e Bonnie Smith, former educator and with the huge numbers of students, the rebut, private tutor in the lakeside area, will author the for monitoring each childs progress sponsibility column, called Chalk Line. Mrs. Smith grew up in rests with the parents. individually bachelor with a Connecticut and graduated degree in education from Brigham Young University. The column is designed to provide a springShe has taught in schools in California and board, some new ideas, a third opinion for caring,, Utah and has tutored privately for 13 years, workconcerned parents who just need to put puzzle ing with children from kindergarten through colpieces together to know where to start. lege age as well as adults. Letters from parents, educators and administraShe has worked with students referred to her by tors may be sent to Mrs. Smith in care of the doctors and hospitals. Mrs. Smith is director of a Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Layton, 84041. it The first column appears on this page and will educational summer program called Seminars for Kids which last summer expanded to regularly be carried in the papers Campus Review offer classes through through the Bountiful Art section. Y long-tim- Dear Bonnie, READY for Halloween carnival at Lakeview Elementary are (back, from left) Bob Simpson, Karyn Ericksen,' Rick Ericksen, (front, from left) Andy Ericksen and , . non-prof- BONNIE SMITH made-(subtractin- ect.). ' : Teaching can bid; so much more effective when the teacher in division,-foexample, knows that Johnny could divide if he knew his times tables and Mary could divide if she knew how to borrow: Instead, ; rather than "having time to individualize and do what each one needs, Johnny and Mary simply get Ds and Fs in division and. move right along into fractions where, of course, to no ones surprise, they continue to do poorly. Please, as you correct your childs math, watch to see why she is missing the problem rather than just mark it r KangaROOS and American Girl will keep you one step ahead of winter weather. Nylon keeps the cold out, the warmth in. Boots branded for quality and value. , Choose from our, excellent selection of styles and colors. The American Girl Shoe and KangaROOS are just two of the many new, exciting brand names how being shown at the new and different Gallenkamp. wrong! 1. Do meet with the resource teacher to see if your under- standing of your daughter's needs and the schools program for her can be. more closely matched. 2. ' Have the resource teacher tell you ideas. to avoid the raging battles and still help your daughter with her homework. Let me know if you need more ideas when she runs out! if there is any way your daughter can get more positive feedback from her efforts on schoolwork. Those delicate are so important! I'm always impressed when I see parents willing to work with their children. Everything possible ought to be done to assist the parent so the time spent with the child is constructive and beneficial. Thanks for writing. v 3. See self-imag- es , . . , - - Livestock LOCUS for your production needs -stock, feed, equipment. - Lets LAYTOrJ HILLS r.lALL talk! UTAH FARM P.C.A. CALL 773-5SS- 0 540-025- FASHION PLACE MALL V MALL UNIVERSITY V Justtty Chsrgtir 393-680- 7 COTTONWOOD KEY GATE MALL ... 8 MALL I V |