Nov. 17, 2008 Teaching a little boy to read
I am using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, to teach a little boy to read. I had used the book to teach my four-year-old son to read in the early 1990s and now am using it with the six-year-old son of my husband's secretary. He already knows how to read quite well, but we both enjoy doing this together.
My husband and I moved a month ago. We were living near Sheridan, WY, and now live near Buffalo, WY. We like living here. My husband's office is five minutes away, which is a lot closer than the 100 mile round trip he was making since early January. |
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Jun. 4, 2007 My mother's homestead cabin birth place
The Buffalo, WY, museum is having Living History Days on June 22 and 23. The homestead cabin that will be dedicated on the 23rd, on the museum/court house lawn, is the one in which my mother, Pauline Jenkins Oltion, and her older sister, Louise Jenkins Ridley, were born.
Mother's dad, Marshall DeWitt Jenkins, built it sometime around 1916 to 1918, about twelve miles north of Kaycee. He had sold the homestead when Mom was little, before 1925. Kaycee is about 46 miles south of Buffalo.
About 25 years ago, Mother bought the cabin from the owner, James Ullery. My dad, George Oltion, with help from some of the family, took it apart, marking the logs so he would be able to properly reconstruct it, and moved it to their (my parents') yard in Story, about 20 miles north of Buffalo.
Then Mother put old items in it, including the old treadle sewing machine her mother, Sylvia Jenkins, had used. Another item that Mother put in it was the big trunk that her mother had brought out from Illinois to Wyoming in August, 1914, about 2 or 3 months after she and Grandpa were married.
About two years ago, Mother donated the homestead cabin to the museum and they moved it from her yard to the museum/court house lawn, all in one piece, last fall.
Grandma used to call the home a house instead of a cabin. To her, a cabin was smaller, but this is a two-room "house" rather than a cabin. Grandpa had made it using logs from trees he had cut on the southern tip, called The Horn, of the Big Horn Mountains, a few miles west of the homestead.
If you are ever in our area, stop at the Jim Gatchell Museum in Buffalo to see the homestead house exhibit.
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Jun. 3, 2007 Tom is the class valedictorian!
Here's the article from the Sheridan Press:
District 1 marks graduation of the class of 2007
Tongue River valedictorian: 'create our own destinies'
By Sean Thompson
Staff Reporter
Forty students clad in green, gray and black gowns ascended the stage Sunday on the Tongue River High School football field before receiving their diplomas as the class of 2007.
The graduation ceremonies in Dayton took place under clear skies, with the Big Horn Mountains providing a scenic backdrop for family and friends in attendance.
In addressing his fellow students, Valedictorian Tom Pearce said the future was just as frightening as it had been when he was a freshman struggling to make it through his first year at a bigger school.
"To get this far, we've had to toss aside our idea of fate and create our own destinies," said Pearce, who will study computer science and electrical engineering in the fall at the University of Wyoming.
He added: "That's not going to end here. Our lives have only just begun."
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I am skipping the rest of the newspaper article, since it didn't mention Tom again, but it does include a photo of him with these words beneath it:
Tom Pearce
2007 Class
Valedictorian
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That was the article in the paper. Of course, we're all really proud of him. He is one of those students who never had to be urged to get his schoolwork finished. In fact, he would do his research papers in advance of the deadline and didn't have to stay up until the wee hours to finish in time. This is unlike me. In school, and even now, I would always put things off until the last minute.
Tom was this way when I home schooled him, which was kindergarten through third grade while we lived west of the Big Horn Mountains, near Basin, WY. When we moved to Manderson, he started attending public school.
When we moved to the east side of the mountains in 2000, he had finished fifth grade. He then attended a small school called Arvada/Clearmont Elementary, for sixth grade. He did really well in public school, but felt it was difficult to move to a larger high school in the middle of his freshman year, when we moved to a ranch near Dayton, where we rent a house.
No, we aren't ranchers. My mom grew up on a ranch, but I never lived on one, unless you think of the eleven years from 1987 through 1998 as living on a ranch. Those years were spent living in a large house beside the Big Horn River, where all our home schooling was done. The owner of the house and property where we house-sat, had cattle, but I didn't consider it a working ranch, just a place that the owner kept his cattle!  The owner was overseas most of the time.
I'll write about my mom's homestead cabin some day.
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