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Show "Head Starr" Now-Operating Now-Operating in Lindon Elementary The federal government educational edu-cational program titled "Head Start," is currently in operation opera-tion at Lindon School, according accord-ing to information sent in by a committee of student reporters recently assigned at the school. Head Start is for children who come from lower income families and who have become underprivileged on that account The purpose of the program is to assist these pre-kindergarten children to progress, educationally, education-ally, until they are on a par with other children of their age group. At present there are 15 children child-ren enrolled at Lindon in the Head Start program. All are below be-low five years of age. They come from the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove and Orem areas and are brought to school by two car pools, arriving at 9 a.m. each school day. Upon arrival, they are given a snack of juice, crackers or cookies, since it is assumed that too many of them haven't had an adequate breakfast. Their educational program consists of play activities, finger fing-er painting, games and listening listen-ing to stories told by their teachers. tea-chers. There are also field trips to such places as pet shops, turkey farms and egg hatcheries. hatch-eries. One day a policeman talked to the group about safety. Also included in their "day" children do whatever they choose and an outside or gymnasium gym-nasium supervised play period. Lunch is served buffet style from a counter, where they are allowed to choose whatever they prefer of what is available. The children leave for home by car pool at 12 noon. Their teacher is Janice Mickelson, with Norma Farley assisting. |