Show w sovyw 'TWWW-- 1 wMr i'i)iif t1"yllli yr — fV M Page 22rr The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday July 19 1998 ! teaches children skill with scissors By MarvTomczyk to be cut all while opening andI closing the scissors I’ve rchildthis skill is to break it into small steps so he or she can feel successful at each level Start by laying out a lump of playdough within easy Pnrpoee: Cutting Up! consist of a set of basic activities designed to help young learners with the development of fine motor skills Using this activity children develop dexterity in their fingers and hands helping muscle groups in the hands to work independently and smoothly Materials: Playdough safety scissors one-hol- e colored paper l£aming& punch ie Loving It Method: A friend of mine who teaches in a preschool was talking with me about dungs parents can do at home to prepare their children for school One thing she had noted over the yean was that many children enter her classroom without ever having learned how to use a scissors This skill in and of itself is not critical but since it does involve the same small muscle groups that children use in writing it is important that children develop the dexterity it takes to use scissors So if your four-- or has never picked up a pair of scissors here are some very easy and very fun ways to introduce die skill at home If you stop to dunk about it lemming to use scissors is not an easy task Coordinating all those little muscles is really quite a feat A child needs to train his or her muscles to hold the scissors correctly control and stay in place over the area reach of your child For a first lesson introduce your child to his or her own pair of safety scissors demonstrating how and which fingers to put in the holes Invite your child to use the scissors to play with the playdough What you'll probably see at first is your youngster using the scissors to jab and stab at the playdough and maybe the scissors will even become a part of five-year-- the scissors cutting the rope into small pieces Since play: dough is easy to manipulate encourage your child to create his or her own shapes to cut apart While your child days and cuts he or she is gradually learning die nece sary muscle control and dexterity to master the skiH' Another activity that can help with dexterity and give a child practice with die same muscle movements as scissors is a one-hopunch Ttam your child loose with die hide punch making confetti out of colored construction paper (Caution: Be sure to supervise your child very carefully so little fingers don’t get pinched) : Finally when you think that your child is ready to begin cutting paper start him or her out on strips of construction paper 8 12" long and 1" wide Have your child practice cutting across the 1” width until the paper is too small to iLtfnmina cut By cutting through a small piece of paper your youngster will with each cut experience success at completely cutting through the paper Using a scissors is a skill we take for granted yet it's one that we all had to work at to learn And as your child has fun with the above activities he a After one or more “free play" sessions with scissors and playdough (remember Rome wasn’t built in a day) you can help your child learn to cut Roll out a thin playdough e With your hand guiding your child’s open and dose James J Kilpatrick Some years ago humorist Art Buchwald began a column by saying “I am one of those people who believes that die tobacco companies should advertise in newspapers to get their message of brotherhood across" Notice that my old friend used the singular verb “believes” I will give you another from the book pages of the Los Angeles Times in 1994: “Random House is one of the few megafirms that still reads free-lan- manuscripts” ce Again note the singular verb “still reads'1 But ponder this passage from the LA Tunes Magazine: T am one of those people who find American rodeo clowns wildly more admirable than Spanish bullfighters But I am also one of those people who like Brother Wolf eats flesh” The conclusion is: In one-of-tho- se constructions plural is better but singular is OK There’s a nice knockdown structions plural is better but singular is OK There's a nice knockdown decisive opinion for you Now I can get some sleep If 1 had been editing As Milton might have observed here we havejpifusiqowMsc eonfoundedTn these should We think plural or think singular? Over die past 30 years — years in which I have pondered the matter every night usually between 2:30 and 4:10 am — I have come at last to the conclusion reached by the editors of Merriam-Webster- 's Dictionary of En glish Usage The conclusion is: In con- one-of-tho- se rationalization this effect that “best" is a kind erf statistical universe If 10 restaurants in San Antonio are significantly better than 100 others in the city die 10 constitute a class Each of them is “me of the best” If 10 guys have made holes-in-owith a sand wedge each of the 10 is one of the otdy ones ever to have dooe so Paid announcements Pond’s 90th Leontine “Lee" C Pond ccle- -' brated her 90th birthday Friday July 17 1998 at a dinner held in her honor at Maddox Ranch House in Brigham City Lee was bom July 17 1908 in Wilson Lane (Ogden) Utah the Navy Lt Cody L Hodges a eleventh child of May Caraan Chandler and Boyd S Chandler When she was 8 years old the family moved to Amalga Utah where she attended elementary 1989 graduate of Preston high School recently helped the guided missile frigate USS Vander-grift win die Pacific Fleet’s 1997 fellness Award for the second consecutive year schooL oe biogra-Branc- ’" es o -- f S Fluckiger Shauni Fluckiger 1998 gradu- ate of Mountain Crest High School has recently signed a letter of intent with head Volleyball Coach Les Calles at Snow College in Ephraim Utah She will pursue a degree in education The high flying outside hitter led her team in kills and digs Mountain Crest was two yean undefeated region champion and a 3rd and 2nd place finish at state tournament the last two years Shauni was and with Katie Fryer for the in co-M- Mustangs Shauni is the daughter of Brent and Ruth Fluckiger of Providence and of George and Verla Pehrson of grand-daught- er All of the students were selected because they have demonstrated leadership potential The B Jacobsen Brent Jacobsen recently returned from an Economics for Leaden program held at The College of William and Mary Brent was one of 30 students from around the country who was week-lon- g coune com- bines leadership training and economics During die week students learn an economic way of thinking about human behavior and experience the interaction of different leadership styles within a group Brent is the son of Jeff and honored by being accepted into the Williamsburg I Economics for Leaders program which is sponsored by the Foundation for Teaching Economics a Davis EE California nonprofit foundation PRESSURE COOKER TEST CLINIC and will be a senior next year Brent is also one of 220 high schools students from Utah selected to attend Utah Business Week next month on the USU campus HOW I July A August SPECIAL Get FREE dutch oven potatoes with every catered or take out Tuesday July 21 -3 Michelle Jacobsen and is a member of the National Honor Society at Logan High School He is an officer of Key Club EC ATE R Under the Direction of the Cache County Extension Service am C Pond Hodges’ ship received the Later the family moved to award for leading the way in Lewiston Utah Buchwald in 1994 1 where she lived health wellness in the Pacific would have suggested five months until ago when she Fleet The award is given to recthat he is “one at those moved to Logan Utah command the has that ognize people who believe' Lee married Stillman “Tim” made the most significant contrirather than “believes" because it seems logisomething else: In The New York bution to in 1931 Tim passed away Pond the life daily cal to me that the plural noun “people" Times last year a reporter identified improving h and health of each crew member in 1966 After Tim’s death Lee demands the plural verb “believe" as “an old friend of Mr Based in Yokosuka Japan spent her summers in YellowI would have preferred “one of die few megaIn Newsweek we learn about Eveis a combatant ship stone Park firms that stiU read” instead of “still reads helping her brother lyn Lieberman “a close friend of Hillary Hodges’ ship to designed the from protect amphibious Kenneth Chandler in his “Smith the Times LA Ointon’s" b example Magazine I would have edited for consistency and The possessive forms are known to gram- expeditionary forces underway A Chandler” store stayed plural all the way If I am “one of marians as double genitives They go back to replenishment groups and merLee has been active in the LDS chant from undersea those people who find" I ought also to be Chaucer’s time In the 1700s they ran into attack convoys church She has had an active and “one of those ncoole who rat" criticism from critics versed in Some Hodges joined the Navy in happy life RW Burchfield editor of The New commentators continue to grumble today We She has given much service to Fowler’s Modern English Usage recomask an old friend of Mr Omtou’s WHAT? Is June 1993 and is a graduate of mends plural verbs “unless particular attenher family friends and neighbors Ms Lieberman a close friend of Mrs Clin- Loyola Marymount University tion is being drawn to the uniqueness ton’s hairdresser? Of her old law partners? The double genitive often leaves such ques-individuality the ’one’ in the opening clause” He cites with approval “Hawaii is thins hanging but thyxoblem is not one of those daces that was always better in sive The New York generally gets it the past" right: Actor Robert Bedford was “a friend of In sum you pays your money and you takes Wallace Stegner" not a friend of Wallace and you say your choice I say Stegner’s The Seattle Times smoothly avoidIsaypo-tay-tand Dan Quayle says ed ambiguity by speaking of “Susan Webber potatoe The English language hone not Wright a fonn student of Clinton's” A stn 1 dent of Clinton would be a graduate ly brought to bit and bridle ' writing A related matter has to do with “ooe of the master’s thesis best" and "one of the only” Here we are gov-The best advice I can offer is to ask if the eroed by the Rule of the Inapt Superlative If apostrophe-- s is really needed (and to ignore English idioms made sense which they don't the AP Stylebook) If it isn't strike it out it would be ludicrous to write that “Mrs There’s a difference between a picture of Sue Brown” was one of the “best” movies of and a picture of Sue’s Let us be clear be 1997 or that Greg Norman was one of the dear be clear! 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