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Show Page Six - The Springville Herald - January 13, 1983 family By Becky Boyer Seven teachers with a combined total of 118 years of teaching experience ex-perience are still interested enough in upgrading their abilities to meet in reading workshops after school hours. The staff of reading teachers at the Springville Middle School met Monday with Kay Dean, educational consultant for the Scott Fores man Publishing Company whose regional office is in Palo Alto, Calif, in the second se-cond of three, two-hour workshops. These workshops are designed to give teachers ideas of how to extend the concepts they are teaching in their reading classes. Monday's meeting included a great variety of Senior citizens to discuss "The Past is Never Dead There are new ideas and inventions in-ventions becoming part of our living experiences every year. However, there may be some truth in the following statement by Andy Rooney, "New developments in science usually don't improve our lives much, the most we can hope is that they'll help us stay even." The senior citizen discussion will take place Friday, Jan. 14, following lunch. During this discussion several old proverbs will be introduced in-troduced which some would say are outdated. Boyd Nelson, who will lead the discussion, will disagree that the wisdom of the past is ever outdated. The past is never dead. Even the old proverb "What goes up must come down," still contains much truth even in this time of space travel. Members are asked to contribute "wisdom of the ages which might possibly have double meanings such as: "Every child is different" and "All children are alike." Whale watching tour for Senior Citizens The Springville-Mapleton Senior Citizens are leaving Wednesday, Feb. 2, for a seven-day tour of Southern California. One of- the purposes of this trip is to give senior citizens a respite from cold weather and an opportunity to romp in the sunshine. Highlights of this tour include: traveling through St. George and the Virgin River Gorge to Las Vegas for the first night's rest, and then on through Riverside, San Bernardino and Escondido to Mission Bay which will be home for three nights. While in San Diego the seniors will tour LaJolla, Old Town, State Historical Park, Ports-of-Call and Sea World. The final day in the San Diego area, the tour includes a trip to Tijuana, Mexico, and then the Whale Watching Cruise in the bay. The evening dinner will be at Anthony's An-thony's Grotto. On Feb. 6, the group will travel to Palm Springs including a tour of movie stars homes and golf courses. The evening stop and possible a swim will be on Palm Canyon Drive. The next day the seniors travel toward home through Indio with a stop at Shield's Date Gardens, and then along the banks of the Colorado River to Havasu City and London Bridge. Before coming to rest for the night in Las Vegas, the group will stop at Hoover Dam. The next day the tour will continue on to Springville by way of Bloomington and Cedar City. There are a few seats on the bus remaining to be filled. If interested in this tour please contact Odessa and Boyd Nelson - 489-7677 Pre-scbool seminar slated here The monthly "Teaching Children Joy" pre-school seminar will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 19, in the American Savings Building, Main and 400 North, Springville. TCJ is a parents co-op pre-school based on the book. Teaching Children Joy, by Richard and Linda Eyre. There is a lifetime membership mem-bership fee of $25 per family, payable at the time the family joins, plus small monthly dues for materials. TCJ enables a child to be involved in a pre-school program without the large monthly expense and enables the parents to be involved in-volved with the child's learning experiences. The purpose of the monthly meetings is to discuss parenting techniques, orient new members and distribute monthly lesson materials. The topic for this month's meeting is the joy of order, priorities, and goal striving. All members are encouraged to attend, but each group must send one representative to the meeting. The meeting is open to the public and anyone who is interested is invited. For further information, call Karen Sommer 489-8447. Piano needed Oakridge School for Retarded Citizens is in need of some pianos. Anyone who might be willing to donate a used piano to the school is asked to please contact Sue Geary, principal, at 375-3636. It is hoped that all can find beauty and wisdom in proverbs of our youth and see the value of "the past is never dead." Last week the discussion centered on New Year's resolutions -especially those appropriate for senior citizens. It was agreed that such resolutions should be subject to change, restructuring and renovation as the year progresses. They should assure success and demonstrate a positive attitude such as: "I'm pretty good for the shape I'm in." The question arose as to what resolution might apply to senior citizens who have reached perfection. per-fection. With older citizens a good resolution might be to try to keep some of the good we enjoy. samples of games, activities, folders and task cards, all with the express purpose of emphasizing one reading skill or idea. There were games which helped teach the students how to put ideas in their proper sequence, se-quence, for example. These looked like a lot of fun and several of the teachers were excited about building their own personal files of ideas. All the materials were there available for tracing, drawing, glueing glue-ing etc. so the teachers could finish the workshop with actual samples of the ideas presented. When asked how they expected to use this material, one of the teachers said she would use it as a change of pace for students. Teachers tend to get into teaching ruts, she explained, and this is boring for students. To alter the routine and add variety to the class, students could individually individual-ly take a folder, card, or envelope and follow the directions for a fun learning experience. One of the more intriguing activities ac-tivities involved reading a public relations pamphlet from a city or state somewhere in the U.S. and then answering questions about the information contained in the pamphlet. pam-phlet. Not only would this teach "reading for meaning," but it would also broaden a student's knowledge of history and social studies. The teachers were enthusiastic about the uses of materials that taught synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms; outlining; word order; sentence structure; and sequence of ideas. ::::.;::5:y:-A:-v : i J lllplIIF ;yJ 1 , liliiiillii mmm&'Zmm--- It's a review of your insurance coverages and needs. Home, car, life and health. And it doesn't cost anything. Call me for a Family Fami-ly Insurance Checkup today. DUN OMAN 92 WOT 200 SO. John Youd, Glade Schramm, and Gene Johnson examine some of the materials available at a reading workshop this week at Springville Mid dle School. I Thank you, Alice Carpenter, Lee J Ryan, Craig Evans, Donna j Sorensen, John Youd, Glade I Schramm, and Gene Johnson for I caring enough about the quality of I your teaching to go the extra mile in I your preparations. Thanks, too, to Kay Dean and the Scott Foresman Co. for preparing materials which i could help improve the reading skills of all our students. ! STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES Horn Office Bloomington, III. 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