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Show THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1979 PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW PLEASANT GROVE UTAH THURSDAY, DFCEMBER 13, 1979 Warm Up for Spelling Bee by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Students in schools across Utah are warming up for the coming State Spelling Bee, and they might do well to heed the words of a North Carolina Teacher, Audrey R. Allred. She likes to give a lit-tle test to show students how they com-mit spelling errors. These are some of the words she gives students to spell: Kindergarten, gram-mar, valuable, develop, arctic, February, Wednesday, receive, puzzle, argument, sentence, athletic, pro-nunciation, prepara-tion, maintenance, translate, and bulletin. The teacher then shows students the dif-ferent kinds of misspell-ings that turn up in their tests. One kind is omission. This occurs when some students forget the first R in February, the first C in arctic, and the second E in homogeneous. The next kind of spel-in-error is insertion. That happens when the students misspells the word athletic, writing it athaletic. Another spelling pro-blem comes from transposing letters in a word. Some students spell it recieve instead of the correct way, receive. That's also the problem when the word puzzle is spelled puzzel. The fourth kind of spelling difficulty is with substitution of let-ters. This occurs when students write prepera-tion- , when they mean preparation, and when they spell it sentance instead of sentence. Understanding these four kinds of errors sug-gests several ways of dealing with them. Audrey Allred says many errors of omis-sion and insertion are related to mispronu-nciation. Pronounce February, arctic and athletic correctly, and the student who hears you may spell it correct- - ly. Transposition and substitution errors show a need for close, not casual, study of the misspelled words. That way the correct spelling of sentence and receive will register with the student. When parents help their children with spelling, sometimes Mom or Dad learn more than the child. BUSY AT WORK Children in Mr. Freeman's third class are busy at work. INISHED PRODUCT Some of the kids in Mr. Freeman's class show product. Lindon Students Study About Pioneers in 3rd Grade Class Children in Mr. Freemans 3rd Grade class at Central School have had a unique ex-perience this past few weeks. They have been studying about the pioneers in their social studies unit. To help them ex-perience first hand some of the ways of the pioneers they were re-quired to make quilts from scratch. This in-cluded cutting the material, adding bat-ting and tieing, and finishing the edges. The experience was enjoyed by all. in your toaster oven-a- na save power Ifyou have only two potatoes to bake, use your toaster oven and save power! Baking two potatoes in the electric range oven will take about an hour and use 1 kilowatt hour (kwh) of electricity. 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How You Use Time obtaining control over your time. Planning time takes time, but the benefits are worth the effort. Dr. McBride can be seen every Wednesday on Channel ll's Newsroom at 6 p.m. If you have a ques-tion or topic you would like Dr. McBride to discuss in his column write: Dr. M. Ford McBride, 1161 East 300 North, Provo, Utah 84601. Dr. M. Ford McBride In a seven day week there are 168 hours. How effectively do you use your time? One of the great equalizers of man is that we all have the same amount of time. However, the percen-tage of time spent in productive activities is vastly different bet-ween people. A research study found that only 10 to 20 percent of our time is spent in produc-tive activities. I hope my wife will forgive me for using her as an example, but I am always amazed at how much she is able to get done in a day. An im-portant part of her suc-cess is that she allocates her time to specific acitvities and then makes out a schedule. She budgets her time like she budgets money for the family groceries. Daily living provides opportunities for many experiences. However, we're often frustrated because we're not able to take advantage of those experiences. Usually one area is over emphasized such as a job at the expense of time spent with family. Effective time utiliza-tion permits us to have worthwhile experiences and still satisfy prior-ities. Counseling psy-chologist. Dr. Rav Al- - voard, makes the fol-lowing suggestions in controlling time. 1 . Construct a weekly time schedule or time budget chart. Just list the hours of each day of the week. My wife clear-ly marked. 2. Mark down times that must be commit-ted for fixed activities. These may include housework, job, church work, etc. 3. Mark down times that will be committed to flexible activities. Time with family, sleep-ing and recreation. Be realistic, planning to spend four hours with the kids five days a week will only drive you crazy. 4. Allocate your time at the beginning of each week. Changes in your schedule should be made only if necessary to meet your priorities. 5. Reward your daily successes. With a col-ored pencil mark off each time you meet the hourly commitment you set for yourself. This method enables you to evaluate at a glance how well you are Last Two Clean Speech Essays ching how they talk, they would try and do something about it. Children watch them and they start swear-ing. Then their friends pick it up until pretty soon everyone is doing it. Hopefully, women will realize what they are doing and some day maybe they can help clean up the speech in our community. Two more essays in the Clean Speech Essay contest are hereby printed by the Review, by Teresa Mills Teresa is the daughter of Mac and DeAnn Mills of Plea-sant Grove. She is a junior at the Pleasant Grove High School. She enjoys baking and sew-ing and likes to work with children. She en-joys camping with her familv. Teenagers watch women because to teenagers mothers are their idols. For exam-ple, young girls in their teens pattern their lives around their mothers. If their mothers swear and their daughters have their lives pattern-ed after them, then swearing is put into the girl's lives. So, hopeful-ly, mothers will realize how they are being wat-ched and stop swearing. Women have friends who are watching them. When ladies get around friends they try to make themselves look better than everyone else. Some women feel that swearing makes them look better, but it really makes them look stupid. Ladies should try to make themselves look as good as they can so they should start talking clean. Jasaon Anderson Jason is the son of Eric and Patricia Anderson of Pleasant Grove, He is in the third grade and attends the American Heritage School here. Jason likes to build things and work with his hands. He really likes people and has a good imagina-tion. He does very well in school. His essay: "Using Clean Thoughts" Using clean thoughts are very important. Because you will be ac-cepted in the Kingdom of God. Using clean thoughts and thinking clean words are very impor-tant in another way . . . because you will learn to think good thoughts and use good words. Being a good thinker is a very good job. "Why Clean Speech in Our Community" Women should clean up their speech because they are always being watched by their children, teenagers, other women and men. Some women don't realize they are being watched constantly. From experience, I know they are. When I was a small child, I wat-jihe- d everything my mom and other ladies did. Even today, I real-ly watch what women do and say. So, they have to be careful about what they say. Women are always being watched by children. When small children swear or say bad things, their excuse is usually, "My mom said it, why can't I?" So whether women know it or not, they are being watched in all they say. Children sometimes think their parents are perfect so if they say something they think it's alright to say it. Women are being watched by teenagers. Women will get more respect if they speak properly. Men don't like to hear a lady speak poorly because it makes them seem like just one of the boys. They ususl-l- y aren't treated like ladies if they don't act or speak like ladies. When a woman uses bad language, in my opinion, she isn't con-sidered a lady. If women want to be treated like ladies, then they better start acting like ladies. Women can find bet-ter things to say. There are so many different words in our language these days that would sound a lot better for a lady to say. Maybe she thinks it makes her look good to say those kind of things, but really she is making herself unpleasant to others. So, women should look for better words to ex-press themselves. If women would clean up their speech, it would slowly help the community become a lot better place. 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