02/09/2014
First Grade has a Mystery Reader every +Thursday. Parents, grandparents, teachers are asked if
they wish to participate at the beginning of the year. They are assigned a week
to come. They send clues for the class. The teacher gives the clues during the
day and the students try to guess who is coming. At the assigned time, the
mystery reader comes in to read to the students. The students enjoy hearing a
variety of people read to them during the year.
In the Exeter-Milligan
Junior High Basketball tournament held in Exeter on Saturday, Feb. 8 the Friend
boys and girls both brought home the first place trophies. In the championship
game the Friend boys beat the Central City boys and the Friend girls beat the
Bruning-Davenport-Shickley girls. Exeter-Milligan girls took fourth
losing to Meridian and the Exeter-Milligan boys beat Meridian taking third
place.
Title Happenings by
Anita Mueller, E-M Title I Coordinator
A strategy that I have
started using with some of the Title I reading students is using polyester
colored overlays. They come in 10 colors: blue, light blue, green,
blue-green, non-glare, red (pink), orange-red, smoke(gray), yellow, and
reddish-yellow(amber). The overlays are used to help those with reading
difficulties which might include slow reading rate, losing their place, poor
comprehension, eye strain or fatigue, headaches and vision dyslexia. The
colored overlays change the wavelength of the light hitting the retina in the eye.
The student is to try them all and see which one has the sharpest,
clearest, or most stable images. Sometimes it is helpful to use a colored
overlay and then put the non-glare one over that to take the shimmer off of the
overlay. Students think that using a colored overlay is fun as well.
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