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Ten minutes reading each night could be the difference Mums the word Tilt lit RALD May Flute Reading Is the backbone of all learning stated Tom chairman of the Holy Cross Parents Association in his opening remarks to the people In at tendance at the recent Holy parents meeting held to discuss children a problems Many children coping with other subjects because they have not adequately mastered language skills There are various schools of thought to explain why some children are slower readers than others pointed out Irene Chalupka Primary Consultant with he Separate School Board Physical which occurs at different difference children is the main prerequisite A eyes must be developed well for him to dearly see small print his hearing must be developed enable him distinguish sounds This lays the ground work or skills Some neurologists claim thai it Is possible that a child a brain mav not be ready to handle the reading process until the age of eight nine or even ten It is for the corpus the ana of the brain which allows tin left Herbal and right limn hemispheres of the brain to be fully developed before a child is of rinding explained adding that a child It irn to read slep with his hen prior to point in matuntj Itu child in a major part in his attitude towards reading To what can happen psychologically to a forced to learn to read before he is ready Chdlupkn quoted Bond and Tinker Inability to tope assignments products frustration which to ftilmgs of inadequacy inferiority insecurity and perhaps even rebilLon Such a child is likely to develop an attitude of indifference to He may come to and all persons eon ltd reading There are ways parents can gradually prepare a child for the task of reading as outlined by Holy Cross prinicpal Barry Cowan who showed a film strip intitled Learning to Head To exemplify proper speech habits parents should talk o their preschoolers normally avoiding baby talk It is also important that children are given a chance to express themselves which them to become familiar with thi vocabulary Word games arc educational In a fun way Books should be introduced at an early age stories give a toddler a positive impression of books and a child interest is aroused if he sees a family member reading Take a trip to the library and choose well Illustrated books for your youngster School aged children should be encouraged read to their parent and to take care of books A child eels less in by tht printed page if they ore assured that mom or dad will help them difficult words One parent at the meeting suggested that spending 10 minutes evening listening to a child read from hla school reader would give his parents an indication of his progress while preparing him or the following class Of tourse the more a child of any age the easier It is for him to conjure up images In hi mind which give meanings to In the group fell the moat effective method of preparing a child for reading is by Deposing him to words printed and verbal Perhaps it won be easy to interest your child in books in view the tele TV THERE NT in reading as ihcst four students at Holy Cross Separate School Robert Sales Pat Jissie may a how to but only books can teach him how to read bud Tom llamautarslngh is dominating the llts of our children so that the for language the rispecl for things the mind the need for oni and dialogue ire sadly lacking hence ire treating illiterate human i type of local farmer a more delicate than eggs and more changeable in wholesale value than pork chops that the owner Frank Van is one of the many private businessmen in make their living growing plants Some produce a variety Van Of wegen specializes His four 100 foot long greenhouses at the rear of his home exclusively house chrysanthemums A native of Holland who has been working in greenhouses all his life Van had a good background knowledge of horticulture which enabled to sensibly choose the chrysanthemum family to rear he established his own business 11 years ago the mums are both and versatile Up to three weeks after the day they are cut a vase full of mums will continue to brighten up a room Compare that to he maximum life span of a bouquet of roses Van Of wegen estimated one week and mums are a very practical there are so many different varieties of mums they can be used for a number of purposes for wedding eorsagea funeral arrangements decorations or Van Ofwegen grows about types of mums from pom poms to daisies to full flowers In a rainbow of colours The Job of raising flowers seems to be is demanding as raising babies both require hour can little plants rooted in from im ported from Honda Van 10 cents Beore hi plants them necessary rototilllng the soil he places airtight plastic over he ground and Inflates spate between with 180 degree for three hours to the soil This makes everything fresh explained Van Of It kills the bugs and senses Again the soil is rototllled with manure this time A c Osmocote consisting of potash nitrogen and Is used also After the tiny sprouts ore planted In the constant GO heated by a furnnce Van tries to the some natural conditions that would have outside during different seasons To simulate sunshine light bulbs arc turned on above the plants to encourage growth When they attain a certain size thev arc shaded by fleets of plantic to induce budding flowering unnecessary are removed from the lower stems resulting in the development of a perfect round cluster of blossoms Hoses with tiny holes six Inches apart arc used for watering Because mums grow quite tall the graph like wire rack which is divided Into separate sections for each plants is moved higher as they grow to the stems straight Insecticides are sprayed to destroy the bugs which damage the blossoms At one time each of the stages in the development process of a plant can be seen In cause Van mils or rows of the mums arc planned so that a certain volume of flowers arc me in bloom at times This prevents a wasteful ex cess of stock Van Ofwegen plants extra trams three months ahead of occasions such Mather Day to prepare for the increase in demand Most of his three and a half crops annually produced are sold to wholesaler although the public are welcome to come and choose bunches to buy and he supplies some of the lorn florists Area greenhouse farmers gather with wholesale buyers bright and early at a m and Thursdays and Wednesday and Fridays at the Ontario Flower Growers Co Op at Dixie Road and Highway to do business Samples of the flowers are displayed on a lock the buyers to compare and a highly competitive process follows Prices change a lot said Van Ofwegen adding that an bunch of raid last week for was worth Just before s Day If you want top price you hove to grow top quality said VanOfwigcn who seems to be holding hs won despite the competition long sorklng hours and the rising cost of production y the fuel used for the greenhouse fur nances which increased in price from IS cents a gallon to lo cent a gallon in 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