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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER t, UN PAGE I
Teaching Traffic Safety—
The Easy Way
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY—The Roma cross-country program expanded this year
to include a girls' team. The Gladiatorettes have taken to heart the new challenge
and are strongly and steadily improving. They placed third at the Laredo Meet last
week with Edith Saenz and Edith Guerra placing in the top ten. The Gladiatoretts are
looking forward to their District meet on November 1 to be held at Falfurrias, where-
they could place a strong threat to defending district champion and state runner-up
Brownsville Pace. The cross-country team include, 1-r, Gracie Gonzalez, Amelia
Chapa, Cynthia Vela, Gina de la Garza, Edith Guerra, Edith Saenz, and Dora Garcia.
Roma Tracksters
Are Success
In Falfurrias
Luis Hinojosa placed fifth at the District
Cross-Country Meet in Falfurrias Saturday
and the Gladiatorettes took the district
crown.
Hinojosa's fifth place finish qualified him
for the Regional Meet this coming Saturday
in San Antonio. The Gladiators placed third
as a team. Falfurrias won the meet.
Others on the Roma squad were George
Ramirez, 13th; Juan Gomez, 17th; Ramiro
Garza, 19th, Anselmo Escobar, 22nd, Rosvel
Pruneda, 23rd; and Javier Munoz.
The boys Junior Varsity won the meet as
Clyde Guerra placed second; Carlos Guz-
man placed fourth; Jaime Guzman,
fifth; George Gonzalez, seventh; Johnny
Ramirez, fourteenth; Erick Perez and Raul
Vidal.
The Gladiatorettes took the district
crown. This is the first year the girls
compete. Edith Saenz placed second; Edith
Guerra, third; Gina de la Garza, sixth;
Grat iela Gonzalez, tenth; Cynthia Vela and
Dora Garcia.
The Girls travel to San Antonio to Regional
this coming weekend.
Organization
Coupon
Secret
Organize to get the most from food
coupons, says Linda McCormack, a family
resource management specialist.
Develop a simple, concise storage system
in order to locate coupons quickly, she
suggests. For example, arrange an ex-
pandable accordian file alphabetically by
product categories - bakery goods, break-
fast foods, frozen foods - or use a series of
envelopes kept in a shoe box or drawer.
Mrs. McCormack is with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service, the Texas
A&M University System.
Once a week, sort coupons, circling ex-
piration date with red ink, and arrange
coupons ir. each compartment so the ones
due to expire earlier in the month are in
front.
Transfer this week's coupons to a coupon
holder or put them with the shopping list,
the specialist recommends.
Keep refund forms and qualifiers in an
organized system, also, she continues.
Every year school teachers in the Rio
Grande City school district face a long list of
teaching requirements set by the state.
Teaching traffic safety is no exception.
To easily meet this demand, Rio Grande
City elementary teachers will be using the
five traffic safety educational programs
available from the Traffic Safety Office in
San Benito.
The kits, for kindergarten through sixth
grades, are provided free to all elementary
schools by the State Department of High-
ways and Public Transportation through the
Traffic Safety Office.
In an entertaining manner, the programs
teach children about practical behavior in
traffic. "Children are having so much fun,
they don't realize they're learning about
traffic safety," Liz Negron, Public In-
formation Director of the Traffic Safety
Office remarked.
Rio Grande City kindergarteners and first
graders will be introduced to Careful
Buddy, the talking car puppet of "Careful
Buddy's Garage Theatre." In this kit
children listen to cassettes, watch filmstrips
and then enact their own traffic safety
drama with Careful Buddy and his Safety
Buddy finger puppet friends on an actual
theater setup. Background scenes and a
cardboard schoolbus complete the set.
"Puppets have been shown to be effective
teaching tools. Witness the success of Se-
same Street," Ms. Negron pointed out.
In "Safe-n-Sound", second and third
graders will uncover the meaning of a sign's
shape, color, symbol and function with the
kit's miniature replicas of authentic signs
and signals. As the children listen to a
cassette, each child, holding a sign, stands
and displays it to the rest of the class when
told to do so.
Many have used this kit as props for
Careful Buddy's Garage Theater, Ms.
Negron says.
Fourth graders will put their traffic safety
artwork on parade with the "Safest Show on
Earth." They do this by completing the 33
storyboard art panels included in the ki(.
The drawings are sent to Austin for
processing into a filmstrip which is later
returned to the class for presentations.
Already in its sixth year this kit has im-
proved children's safety attitudes by 21%
according to a recent study.
"Wheels" takes the filmstrip concept one
step further with fifth and sixth graders.
Students will poll their own attitudes and
actions on traffic safety and record the
results on the kit's storyboard panels. The
artwork is submitted to Austin and returns
as a filmstrip. A "newsteam" then reports
on the latest traffic safety survey.
"Math, research, news gathering and
reporting skills are all incorporated in this
kit," Ms. Negron noted.
Each kit contains a teacher's handbook
with lesson plans fully explained.
"Their simple setup and easy-to--
understand instructions are designed to
make the teaching process easier. The
programs as a whole provide the school
district with a continuous traffic safety
curriculum from kindergarten through
sixth grade," Ms Negron concluded.
For more information on free traffic
safety programs available, contact Liz
Negron at 399-5344, San Benito City Hall.
RGC Schools Policy
Handbook Available
Dr. A. E. Garcia, Superintendent of
Schools, wishes to notify the public on the
availability of the School Board Policy
Handbook. It is the intent to have these
manuals readily accessible to all segments
of the school community as well as the
district personnel.
These documents were disseminated
among Central Office Staff, School Prin-
cipals, Program Coordinators and the
School Librarians. The Handbook was
compiled by the Curriculum Office with
assistance from Region I Service Center.
This comprehensive manual was developed
as a means-of communicating official in-
formation about the management and
operations of the school system.
The Principles and Standards and
Procedures for school accreditation also
requires the development of a com-
prehensive set of policies. These policies
have been studied and approved by the Rio
Grande City CISD Board of Trustees with
the sole purpose of clarifying guidelines,
duties, and responsibilities.
From time to time the Board of Trustees
adds, deletes, or modifies these policies.
TEACHING MATERIAI.S—Teachers examine the vast array of free teaching
materials available from the Traffic Safety Office in San Benito. Rio Grande City
schools will be using these programs to teach traffic safety to elementary students
this fall.
There will be a meeting of Monday Nov. 10 at the Fire volunteer some time are
the Rio Grande City Station. welcome to come to the
Volunteer Fire Department All ladies wishing to meeting, announced Lupita
Ladies Auxiliary at 7:30 p.m. become members and Guzman, president.
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Silva, Marcelo. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 60, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1980, newspaper, November 6, 1980; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194792/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.