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Show I Friday, Nowmbsr 10, 1S7 It Happened At Bottle Hollow INNERMOST What It Takes No event Is too large and none too small to be accommodated at Utah Bottle Hollow Resort, according to Manager, Jim 'Pel-tie- r. To Make It In Proof' of this is October's activities Elementary School By Dr. Lynn Ravsten Children learn how to quit school very easily. Some learn in kindergarten, some in the first and second grade. Others learn to quit learning later. Strangely, few if any children learn how to quit school during Head Start or Day Care experiencs. In fact those two programs turn children onto learning and school The only children who quit Head Start and Day Care here in the Basin have help to quit. Their parents, relatives or guardians quit for them. They take the children out of Head Start and Day Care. ol learning? The answer is simple: Because there are enough adults around to make learning fun and profitable. Adults are absolutely necessary to insure educational achievement among young children. A child cannot educate himself. A childs failure at school is a family and community failure. One adult cannot fully educate one child. It takes several adults. This is true in every society in every age. Women in most cultures teach eating, dressing and safety habits to children. Men teach ways to get food, how to travel, how to fight. Men also generally teach basic and important ideas about law and religion. (Perhaps we are having a law and order problem because men are not doing their obsj Today schools try to take the full burden of education of children. Educators want to teach law, values, dress standards moraity, mental health, 'hygiene, how to drive (travel) and a hundred other things. They want to educate the whole child. Unfortunately, many parents surrender to the schools. Parents let the school try to do it all School cannot and will not do it all Schools fail with many children. The reason is simple: Too big a job, too little time and too few people to help. (A child only 12 of his time per year in Ispends 4 class.) If you want your child, brother or sister, friend or cousin to succeed at school, help the child learn these things before he starts school: l.To sit still, to watch you and listen to .Jyou five to twenty minutes at a time. Do ggthis by reading to him, telling m him stories, doing games together or by learning to count to ten or to write his name. 2. Ask the child to follow directions. Praise or reward him for doing it. School teachers spent 60 80 of their time directions. If your child cant or giving wont follow directions he is in trouble. 3. Help your child learn to trace letters, numbers, circles, squares, faces and designs. Hand coordination is necessary for learning from the first day -- ftj M f Hi i of school. 4. Practice asking and answering questions with the child. 5. Show the child how to share toys, games, cleaning chores, eating and learning equipment. After your child starts school you can help by doing these things: 1. Listen to your child read. Help him with lessons at home 30 minutes at least three times per week. Enjoy his experiences at school and show.it. of 2. Get your child to school 90 the time. Dont fail your child. 3. Help your child accept the immaturities of teachers. If your child is on others' faults, he will waste his hung-u- p time. Youngsters cannot and will not change teachers by crying, worrying, or pouting. complaining Changing teachers' behavior is a job tor parents and principals. which included the first wedding ceremony performed at the Resort and the Tribal Business Committee meeting there for pie and ice cream. The wedding was that of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Rukavlna when the banquet rooms were transformed into a wedding setting with floral magic. The University of Utah Social Workers opened the October calendar at the Resort with a luncheon for 42 people. Highlight of the month was a visit from Governor Chef Galvin 'Rampton who Salads for the 32 people in his party. Other groups convening for a meal ahd meetings at the Resort banquet rooms included Contract Bridge Club, Postmasters Seminar, Insurance Seminar, Vernal and Roosevelt Lions Club, Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Committee, Uintah Medical Association, Uintah Basin Shrlner Club, another Postmasters' meeting and the National Head Start Advisory Board conference. Peltier reports excellent response to the Saturday night prime rib special. He also announced a Friday and Sunday smorgasbord to begin in the near future. The special steam tables have arrived and plans are in the final stages for a Friday and a Sunday evening "seafood-arampre-order- Why don't young children leave or why dont they quit pre-scho- Page 7 The Ute Bulletin DAYLIGHT GOBLINS-A- re pretty rare but the Tribal Office was filled with them last Tuesday as Day Care aad Head Start chfidrea trick or treated and serenaded employees with clever Halloween songs. Passing out treats to Unde Sammy and the visiting spooks is Joanne Groves, dniiwtoriifli secretary. Reservation Scout Program Seeking Leaders With only one small Scout group ting on the U It O Reservation, a push is underway to Involve more boys and young men in this worthwhile program, according to Barry Inscore, CAP Youth ed a" family smorgasbord. As with any organization involving childand are children waiting ready many ren, to participate but adult leaders are need to guide the meetings. Inscore and Rex LaRose, Tribal Recrea-- 1 tion Director, are seeking a Den Leader and a Scout Leader in each community. Utah Senator Frank E. Moss and The volunteers will operate under the Senator Gale McGee, sent a supervision of a central Cub Master and letter to the President protesting the Scout Leader. planned budget cuts of nearly $100 million Scouting has been revised somewhat duin programs which would benefit the main change American Indians. ring the past few years being "Boy" has been dropped from the The letter reads in parts, The purpose title. The Scouting program begins with of our letter is to protest these planned Cubs, ages 8 to 11. Scouts includes cuts. In light of your past commitment to boys 11 to 15 and the Explorers are 15 on the part of the year olds on up. One may continue in Indian people, we urge that you Scouting for a lifetime', thus the "Boy" recommend to Congress substantial was eliminated. increases in funding in Fiscal 1974 for t Women may also participate in the proIndian programs. If you do not The planned cuts in Indian programs gram as Den Mothers, feel you want to work with children but for Fiscal 1974 come at a critical moment would like to be involved, you may serve in the development of new and innovative on an advisory board, Inscore said. Under programs which hold the key to the future the new program, advancement is imof the Indian community in this nation. mediate with more paths to follow but We urge that you reconsider your ' requirements are a little more difficult. planned budget cuts for Indian programs Anyone Interested in the program may in Fiscal 1974. contact Inscore at the Tribal Office, 3, Ext. 33 or 59; or at his home, 1, or call Rex LaRose at the Tribal Building, Ext. 63. Utah Senator Protests BIA Budget Reduction Coordinator. a, Ute Member Goes Te Aging Conference hi Washington D. C. the end of this month for the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Aging will be Mrs. Irene Cuch. The two-dmeeting is slated for Nov. 28 and 29. The NCOA Conference of National Voluntary Organizations is scheduled prior to the Board meeting. The Board members are also Invited to a reception honoring Dr. Arthur Flemming. Mrs. Cuch has worked with the problems of the aging during her three years as council woman. She is a member of the Standing Committee for Programs and also the Program Advisory Committee for Regional Operations in NCOA. In addition to her involvement with the ay national Board she has testified before the cm Long Term Care of the tee U. S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. She is also a member of the U. S. Senate Advisory Council on the Elderly American Indian, member of the Utah State Legislative Committee cm Aging, and was an official delegate last fall to the White House Conference on Aging. 4. If the child falls behind, make summer a catch-u-p time. 5. Hold and comfort the child when school upsets him. Learning is hard at times. Classes are complex systems and confusing. Children hurt each other often. Dont hurt him more. Don't blame others for his feelings. Pain is part of life. He must accept it 6. Teach your child to take risks. Schools are competitive. Children who will not risk failure by trying, learn less than those who da 7. Visit school at least three hours per month. Sit in classes. Ask teacher to give you things for your child to do at home. Your young child cannot fail school But you can fail to help your child get ready for school to stay in school and to learn at school. The way to fail is easy. All you have to do is believe that the school can do it all, then wait and criticize its failures. .... .... 722-226- 247-319- Miss Jenks Captures Title at University After week-lon- g competition judges named a Ute coed or the title of Miss Indian BYU. Glenna Jenks, a freshman at Brigham Young University, was selected from a field of 11 contestants. She will represent the University for the 1972-7- 3 school year and will represent the school in the National Miss Indian America Pageant this summer. She was crowned by Vickie Bird, last years Miss Indian BYU. Claralynn West, Apache, was named first attendant. Others who placed in the contest were '' Ruth Ann Brown, Navajo, second attendant; Larraine Bileen, Navajo, Miss Congeniality; and Paulette D. Arviso, Navajo, honorable mention. Nora Begay past Miss Indian America, was the chairman for the BYU queen PRIZE WINNERS-- At the Whiteracks pageant. The contest was sponsored by' Halloween party Included Leslie Wopsock, the Tribe of Many Feathers, a student organization representing more than 550 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wopsock American Indian students on the Provo who won the jump rope contest; aad Alex Cornpeach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert campus. The new Miss BYU is the daughter of Corapeach. Alex won the basketball toss Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jenks, Fort contest. Both received finger painting sets and a freshman at the Provo Duchesne, whOe smaller prizes were given to each campus. child who participated in the games. |
