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November 2016

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November 12 Lewis County Veterans Parade 12 p.m., downtown Toledo All are welcome to this event to celebrate and honor veterans of the United States Armed Forces. For more information please call (360) 827-5512 or (360) 266-7237.

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November 25 Tree Lighting Ceremony 6 p.m., George Washington Park, downtown Centralia The event will feature music, refreshments and lighting of the Christmas tree. Santa will be stopping by on his way to the Fox Theatre, where children will have a chance to visit with him after the ceremony. For more information, please call (360) 330-7688.

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Did You Know?

Turkeys are large game birds that are closely related to chickens, pheasants and quail.

A male turkey is called a “tom” or a “gobbler,” while female turkeys are referred to as “hens.” Baby turkeys are called “poults.”

Turkeys have excellent vision due to their eyes being located on the sides of their head. This gives the birds periscopic vision.

Benjamin Franklin did not support the bald eagle as the nation’s symbol, feeling the turkey would be a better choice. In a letter to his daughter, he wrote, “He [bald eagle] is a rank coward; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours.”

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By the early 1900s, the wild turkey neared extinction. Restoration projects have increased the number of turkeys from approximately 30,000 birds back then to nearly seven million now.

Both genders of turkey have snoods (the dangling appendage on the face) as well as red wattles under their chins.

Despite an abundance of turkeys being eaten between November and January, June is National Turkey Month.

Turkeys can fly in the wild. They often perch in trees to sleep to protect themselves from predators.

The Best Book of Big Cats Written by: Christiane Gunzi Published by: Kingfisher Intended for ages: 5 to 8

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The Secret Ingredient in Family Baking Traditions

by Nancy Keaton of Chehalis

Imagine walking into a room, and the smell of cookies hits you and washes over your whole body, transporting you back to many years ago, when you were little. Imagine seeing yourself standing in the kitchen, carefully helping frost the cookies shaped like bells, gingerbread men or candy canes. Such is the power of the traditions of baking.

Ask your friends and family what their favorite baking traditions are or the recipes they enjoyed the most.

Interestingly, most seem to involve baking that takes a lot of time and effort to create a mouth-watering masterpiece that is indelibly “baked” into their minds. Perhaps part of the joy is knowing that someone cared enough to take so much of their own precious time to make those sweet treats.

Baking traditions are often seen as “traditional” foods, but “traditional” can mean very different things for different people. For example, many families celebrate Christmas with turkey, dressing, green bean casserole, and cranberry sauce. “If I ever talked about not making turkey, my daughter would say, ‘Mom, we have to have turkey.’ That’s how important it was to her to maintain that tradition,” says one woman. But another family considers “traditional” to be the Norwegian cooking of their grandparents, and would never consider that special meal without specific Norwegian baked goodies.

Sometimes a dish is not one that you grew up with, but that you inherit through a friendship or in a marriage. One woman enjoyed her mother-in-law’s baking so much that she chose to continue one of the dishes she enjoyed best – Lefsa, a Danish pastry. She also continued her own family tradition of making Tea Cake for Thanksgiving, a process that took two days for the rolls to raise properly. “I even had my mom’s original bread bowl, one of those brown crocks. It wasn’t pretty, but I loved using it to make the rolls,” she fondly remembers.

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The holidays aren’t the only time that baking traditions can take place. One woman’s tradition for birthdays was to make cute shaped and decorated cakes. Our family had the tradition that each person got to choose the cake they wanted for their birthday. Mine was always chocolate, my brother’s was spice cake with peanut butter frosting. Mom likes gingerbread with whipped cream even though her birthday is in October. My little brother likes pumpkin pie – after all, he was born on Thanksgiving! These simple birthday traditions remind us of each other all year long, whenever we see, smell or taste this variety of treats.

Baking traditions doesn’t have to involve holidays. One friend recalls as a teenager, she and all her friends gathered every Friday night and they all made their own personal pizzas. Another family spent cold, wet Saturdays making cookies for that evening’s “Game and Cookie Night” to chase away the winter blahs. Some families look forward to baking zucchini bread together every summer, pies during fruit seasons, home-made breads or warm apple cakes on cool fall days.

Passing down that special recipe keeps the family connected. If you don’t have a recipe box or written copies, it’s never too late to start. Ask your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins for their recipes and write them down yourself if you need to. Create your own book of favorite baked goods.

If you don’t feel that your family ever had any baking traditions, take the opportunity to create your own. And never be afraid to “adopt” new ones that you love and want to incorporate into your traditions. Multiculturalism through food is always a wonderful thing!

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Nancy Keaton lives in Chehalis with her family. They look for every opportunity to get out and enjoy the outdoors such as camping, biking, hiking, kayaking, fishing, rockhounding, and simply exploring.

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NOVEMBER 2016

Did you remember to move your clock back by one hour?

Daylight Savings Time Ends

Have a family bonfire tonight.

Do something or say something kind to a friend or neighbor today.

The chrysanthemum is the November flower of the month. Draw one to decorate your classroom.

World Kindness Day On this day, Mexico celebrates the anniversary of the revolution.

To promote world peace, say “Hello” to at least ten people today.

Sit down with your favorite dog and read him or her a story.

Take up the National Young Readers Week challenge and read your heart out all day long.

Check on which items you are allowed to recycle and participate in your community.

America Recycles Day Make a list of all the things you are thankful for to share with family and friends on Thanksgiving.

Choose words from Make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the headlines of today for your entire today’s The family.

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The Library of Use this day to write At 11:11 a.m. pause for Collect toys that you Congress has a site to a friend or relative a moment of silence and your friends to honor those service have outgrown and dedicated to Native that you have not men and women who American Heritage donate them to a seen in a while. risked and some who Month with homeless shelter. lost their lives in the exhibits and links. service of their country.

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The Christmas season will soon be here. Visit toysfortots.org to see how you can help a child in need.

On this day in 1922, King Tut’s tomb was first opened. Write a short paragraph describing the scene as if you were there.

Clean out your backpack. Get rid of old pens that don’t work and make sure everything is organized and ready to go.

Ask if your family can donate some canned goods to a local shelter for their Thanksgiving meals.

Watch the parade on TV, feast on turkey and tell everyone in your family how much you appreciate them.

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World Hello Day Which design makes the best paper airplane.

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November 11th Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans – living or passed away – and is a way to thank those who have served their country honorably during war or peacetime.”

What is a veteran? People who served in the military.

What is an Armistice? An agreement to stop fighting that is made before signing a peace treaty.

How is it celebrated? Parades and speeches and a national ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

What is The Tomb of the Unknowns? A tomb where unidentified soldiers who died in combat are laid to rest just outside of Washington, D.C. in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” — officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. However, fighting had actually stopped seven months before, when an armistice between the allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

An Act approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as “Armistice Day.”

Happy Thanksgiving

In 1954 the name was changed from Armistice Day to Veterans Day when President Eisenhower signed a law to change the name to honor all veterans of all wars.

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The active lives that children have often lead to a few bumps and bruises along the way. While a few bandages and antiseptic creams are par for the course when caring for a child, parents worry about more significant injuries, including eye injuries.

According to the Boston Children’s Hospital, any injury to your child’s eye should be considered a medical emergency. Unlike the heart, lungs and brain, there is not much natural protection for the eye beyond a thin eyelid. This makes it easy to suffer an eye injury—especially for kids who play sports.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology says that eye injuries are a significant health problem in the United States, second only to cataracts as a cause of visual impairment. Each year, more than 2.5 million eye injuries occur, and 50,000 people permanently lose part or all of their vision. Nearly half (47.6 percent) of all reported eye injuries occur in people between the ages of 18 and 45. Children ages 0 to 18 experience roughly 25 percent of those injuries. Projectiles and flying debris account for the vast majority of eye injuries across all age groups. Toys, fingernails and even chemicals are also responsible for some eye injuries in children.

Common Eye Injuries Certain injuries to the eye are more common than others. Here is a look at the various types of injuries that can occur.

This is when a child gets any type of chemical into the eye. Chemicals may be household cleaning objects. These injuries require immediate medical attention because they can cause permanent vision loss.

Black eyes or ecchymosis occurs from some sort of trauma to the eye. The tissue around the eye becomes bruised, but usually the eye itself is spared. However, only a doctor can determine if the eye is unscathed.

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The cornea is the clear, dome-shaped covering at the front of the eye. A foreign item entering the eye, like sand or debris, may scratch the cornea. It also can become scratched by a fingernail or an insect that flies into the eye. A doctor can determine the severity of the abrasion and if any treatment is required.

: This is a condition of blood in the anterior chamber of the eye where fluid normally flows in and out to nourish eye tissues. Hyphema is caused by an injury, and blood can be seen in the eyeball. It requires prompt medical attention.

This is a cut on the eyelid. An eyelid laceration may be paired with bruising or even corneal abrasion, depending on what struck the eye.

The orbit is the bony area around the eyeball, and an orbital fracture is when the bones around the eye are broken. This may cause severe eye damage depending on where the eye was struck.

It definitely requires immediate medical assistance, and facial reconstruction may be necessary.

Sunburn not only occurs to the skin but can affect the eyes, too. It is important to wear UVprotective sunglasses outside.

Prevent Eye Injuries Eye injuries are largely preventable. Wearing eyewear during sports is essential. Frequent washing of hands and avoiding touching the eyes can prevent the transfer of debris from fingers to the eye. All chemical products should be kept out of reach.

Knowing the risks to the eye and how to prevent injury can help ward off serious injuries.

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Do you want to turn on the lights at the City of Centralia’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, November 25, 2016, at 6 p.m.?

Tis the Season to Be Creative!

Childs Name: _____________________ Parents Name: _____________________ Email: ___________________________

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To enter, color the picture. In the space provided, tell us what gift you would give to who, and why. Submit, along with the entry form still attached, by November 8, 2016. A panel of judges from SWW Family will choose one winner in each category: 5 & under, 6-8 and 9-12. The category winners will be invited guests at the Centralia Tree Lighting Ceremony to turn on the lights! Winners will be contacted by phone prior to event, and announced in the December edition of SWW Family.

The Tree Lighting Ceremony begins at 6 p.m. on November 25, at George Washington Park in downtown Centralia. See you there!

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Snack Line-Up

by Jackie Viall, Southwest Washington Family magazine

School is in full swing, and that means crazy mornings and busy nights. For a lot of parents, one must-do task involves packing lunch for their children.

If your child is getting old enough for the responsibility of creating their own lunch and you would like to pass the chore to them, there are a few tips to make the process smoother for you — and more enjoyable for them.

Offer Specific Choices

Hang a chart in the pantry or on the fridge with options they are allowed for the main course and snacks. The chart can be colorcoded by group (main item, fruit, veggie, treat) to match a corresponding basket.

Explain to your child that they need to include one item from each color group.

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Organize

Pre-portion snacks into individual Ziplock bags. This eliminates a half-pound of Cheez-its or a full bag of grapes being part of the lunch. (Yes, this was attempted in our house.) Then put each lunch item option into one of the baskets in an easy to reach area. This makes it easier for your child to find allowed items in the cupboard, pantry or fridge.

Cleaning

Crumbs, peanut butter smears and jelly stickies are going to happen. Show your child how to clean up and talk about what expectations you have when they do it on their own.

If your child is still too young, but wants to be a part of the process, create a menu sectioned into four groups (grains and meats, fruits, veggies and snacks/treats.) Let them pick one from each section.

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Teacher�Feature Rebekah Nakano Rochester Primary, Kindergarten

How long have you been teaching?

Do you have a mantra or quote you are always telling your students?

This is my 7th year teaching kindergarten! All seven years have been at Rochester Primary School! I try to teach my kids that there is no black and white in learning. If you don’t know something Before that, I coached gymnastics in Tumwater! now, it doesn’t mean that you can’t learn it. It just What inspires you the most in regards means you don’t know how to do it yet. You can to teaching? learn anything you put your mind to.

Kindergarten is a pivotal year for kids! It is the beginning of a long trek through the public school “Mrs. Nakano is a really nice kindergarten teacher and I loved system to graduation. Kindergarten teachers having her as my teacher. She was possess the unique opportunity to develop a love of so fun to have as a teacher and I learning in students and a bond with the families wish she could be my teacher every in our school system that, when done well, will year. Mrs. Nakano always made me feel happy and excited to learn.” resonate throughout their student career! I get to spend each day making a difference in the ~ Aiden V., nominator lives of families in this community. Kids may not remember what we did each day in kindergarten as they get older, but they will remember how they felt about going to my class. That’s what inspires me and motivates me to be a better teacher than the day before.

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What is one fun thing you did this past summer?

This past summer, I took a road trip with my 10-year-old, 6-year-old, 3-year-old and husband to Santa Barbara for my brother’s wedding! We stayed in a cabin, went swimming and participated in a talent show! It was non-stop fun and family for six days!

Is there anything else you would like to add?

I don’t teach alone! I am incredibly lucky to have wonderful fellow Kindergarten teachers to collaborate with, exceptional special services support and amazing educational assistants who have dedicated their careers to helping kids to succeed along with me! I also am fortunate to have a class of supportive parents and volunteers! It takes a village to teach a child!

“I get to spend each day making a difference in the lives of families in this community.”

Can you share one or two funny stories you have had one of your students tell you?

-Mrs. Nakano

When we were talking about upcoming events while doing calendar, I told children that the weekend was getting closer and asked what kids were doing. One eager kid could hardly contain herself! I called on her and she said, ‘Mrs. Nakano, we get to go to the carnivore this weekend!’ It took me a second to realize the school carnival was what getting her excited!

One year, I had a new kid join my class in the spring. During a lesson, I had to get something from a container off a high shelf. Without thinking, I climbed on the counter to grab it. The new kid gasped and yelled out to be careful. His neighbor, unphased, leaned over to him and whispered, “Don’t worry, she went to teacher school for this.”

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Two Sides to Every Story

by Dallas Smith of Lewis County Head Start Hitting! Recently a good friend shared how he heard a major ruckus coming from the living room and when he walked into the room his two children, were hitting each other as a way to demonstrate their feelings concerning each other. In a loud voice he asked, “What is going on here?” His daughter yelled back, “he hit me first!” He promptly took the son to the woodshed or in layman’s words, gave him a spanking. When the rest of the story was told, his daughter had been antagonizing her brother by licking his arm and poking him while watching a movie.

He told her to stop and tried walking away and she pinched him, so he hit her and the gloves were off.

was a physical altercation. The question needs asked: who threw the first stone?

I was also a first-hand witness to a young girl who was being needled by her brother in their backyard, he was telling her their parents didn’t love her. This interaction went on for a few minutes. She was crying, stomping her feet, calling him a liar and asking him to stop. Finally at her breaking point she hit her brother who ran into the house telling his dad she hit him.

Two swats later she is crying harder and I am sure I saw a small smile creep across her brother’s face!

Neither one of these tales are rare. I have often watched the tussle go down between children and the child who finally reaches their point of no return I do not advocate hitting, but the reader can clear- responds physically and is held responsible for the ly see he had done all the “right” things, used the whole incident and the perpetrator, more often seen strategies adults had given him to use and yet there as the victim, gets off without any consequences.

To effectively work with children to stop hitting it is important to ask the needed questions to get a clear picture of what is really going on.

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When working with teachers I often talk with them about getting “behind the behavior.” In other words, what’s the whole story or what is going on behind the scenes? Once you have all the information you can adjust the consequences fairly for everyone and support children with the needed problem solving strategies.

Readers, there are two sides to every story. As adults we have arguments with our loved-ones, and disagreements with friends and co-workers.

Each person could tell their side or share their perspective and it would seem plausible to the listener they are totally justified in their feelings or actions. Be a detective, take a breath and get all the facts before reacting!

SWWF Dallas Smith is the director at Lewis County Head Start and has worked in early childhood education for over 20 years. She holds an associate of applied science degree in early childhood education from Lower Columbia College and a Bachelor of Arts with a split emphasis in psychology and organizational development from Evergreen State College. She enjoys music, walking, reading and outdoor activities. She currently resides in Kelso.

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Oh, no!

This poor tree is sick!

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No it isn’t.

Trees drop their leaves in fall to get ready for winter.

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To get a jacket for the tree! It’s going to get cold out here in winter!

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Plants make their own food using these ingredients:

SUNLIGHT

CARBON DIOXIDE

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Funny You Should Ask!

When the rain comes down, what goes up?

Find the answer in the fall leaf border! Start with the letter in the triangle. Then read every other letter as you move along the border.

Trees take water from the ground through their roots.

They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air.

They use the sunlight and something called chlorophyll (clor-oh-fill) to turn water and carbon dioxide into food.

Chlorophyll is green. It gives leaves their green color.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Red leaves are another story. This color is made in the fall, from food trapped in the leaves.

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When winter days get short and there is less sunlight, the leaf makes less chlorophyll. Then we can see orange and yellow colors. These colors were in the leaves all summer, but the green covered them up.

Standards Link: Life Science: Plants have structures that serve different functions in survival; plants use carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight to build sugar and release oxygen.

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Complete the similes in the leaves below to create “simi-leaves” to decorate your classroom walls.

The children were as happy as _____________.

The wind howled like _____________.

Squirrels ran quickly, like _______________.

Fall is as exciting as

The dry leaves were as crunchy as

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A simile compares two things using the words “like” or “as,” such as “The leaves were as colorful as a box of crayons.”

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The store was founded by Corey Anderson who enjoyed making root beer as a kid with his family, utilizing the yeast method of carbonating. Using the yeast method causes bottles to expand and break if not cared for properly, and there are great stories going back generations of Anderson family root beer bottles exploding during the carbonating process.

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by Native Americans, the first commercially-produced root beer is credited to Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires who presented it at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.

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Frank. J. Wisner created the first root beer float (he called it the Black Cow) on August 19, 1893. The idea was born when Wisner noticed that the snowy peaks on Colorado’s Cow Mountain looked like ice cream floating in soda.

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Thanksgiving is thought to have started as a special way to give thanks for the blessings of the previous year as well as the harvest.

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 and was believed to be centered around help the local Indians had given the settlers during the first hard year.

Thanksgiving was generally proclaimed a national holiday in 1789 and set to the date of November 26th by President George Washington. It wasn’t until 1830, when New York had an official state Thanksgiving Day, that other states followed.

Past magazine editor Sarah Hale wrote many editorials petitioning for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.

Because of her, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863 and set it to the last Thursday in November.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the date to a week earlier. This did not go well with the people and it was changed back to the last Thursday of the month two years later.

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