Meeting Time will stay 1-3pm

Our meeting time will remain 1-3pm on Thursdays.

Public Presentation Training Day

There will be a public presentation training day on Nov 19, 2015 from 1-2:30. This is an optional meeting. 

Training day will include

1) actual demonstrations of types of presentations. 

Bradley/Chris/Kaitlyn- dramatic interpretation-- this skit is supper funny--they did it years ago for presentation but it still makes everyone laugh

Aileen--recitation

Grace--power point talk

Kaitlyn--poster illustrated talk

Miriam--cloverbud 

Bradley/Christ-- sharing experience about doing an impromptu

Liam--what you need to know for competition level

Harrison K-overall comments from a seasoned evaluator

2) Practice games

3) Tips for selecting and giving a presentation

Choose to talk about what you love

4) Making visuals

--posters or power points/preszi

--even cloverbuds can do simple power points-- especially good for those not interested in arts and crafts projects

5) Question and answer time

Announcements for OCT Meeting

All 4-Hers are asked to participate in one of two county fund-raisers. You must do one if you are planning to participate in fair. Your family can

a) Sell a minimum of one bar of cheese per child. You can sell either to jut your own family or to neighbors, friends, and relatives. Our group gets a tiny portion of the revenue. Cheese sale orders are due November 12th at the next meeting. The cheese will be ready for pick up will be on Thursday DECEMBER 3rd. I will pick it up, bring it to the church to sort and call families to pick it up. Cheese forms are in your family folder.

b) Second option is to sell paper clovers at Tractor Supply. Sign up with the 4-H office, for a 2 hour slot. You stand near the register and ask customers if they would like to buy a clover for $1 to support 4-H. Money raised goes to the county 4-H program.

There is a sign up sheet in the hallway-- please let me know which fund-raiser your family is participating in so that I can keep accurate records. You can participate in both if you choose.

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All 4-H youth need to participate in at least one service project. We offer many service projects during the year. We have 4 service projects for the fall:

a) Thursday Oct 29 from 10-11:30 am/or 1:00-3pm We will participate in operation Christmas child with the Champlain Valley Assisted Living Center in Willsboro (10 Gillilland Lane, Willsboro). Our group will bring supplies to pack15 boxes. Each family participating will be asked to bring 7 or 8 of the same item (there is a sign up sheet in the hallway), 1 special gift, one shoe box (either from shoes or a plastic shoebox) and money to help ship the box ($7 or less for each family the participates). We will set up a store where the youth will “shop” in teams to pack a box along with a resident. The small groups will make a card to go in the box. We will be packing boxes for the following groups: 5-9 girl (4 boxes), 5-9 boy (4 boxes), 10-14 girl (3 boxes) 10-14 boy (4 boxes). Following the box packing we will do crafts with the residents. The nursing home has asked if we could do crafts with the residents. They are only interested in doing them if they think they are helping others do them. The crafts are good for manual dexterity.

b) The Frances Project: This is a county wide 4-H project. It is named in honor of the the mother of Darlene Medeiros, the Clinton County 4-H assistant. Frances, a resident of the Clinton County Nursing home, has Alzheimer's. A gift of a baby doll has changed her life-- giving her purpose and focus. The project's aim is to provide with a doll or stuffed animal to all the Alzheimer's and dementia patients in area nursing homes. The dolls and animals can either be new or gently used. Youth will collect and clean the dolls, dress them and diaper them, and wrap them in a blanket. The outfitted dolls will be given to the nursing home residents. The doll/stuffed pet will wear a bracelet with the residents name. We hope to present them in December to the memory patients at the Champlain Valley Assisted Living Center.

c) Nursing Home Visit: Our annual nursing home holiday visit will be on Dec 17. We will visit 1 or 2 nursing homes depending on the group's interest. (Plattsburgh Senior Housing and Champlain Valley Assisted Living Center). The youth will present a holiday talent show (all talents accepted) and interested youth with act out the Christmas story and sing related carols with the members. We will have a small handbell choir that practices in Dec.

d) Cookies for the homeless: We will continue to bake cookies for the homeless in Montreal. Youth make cookies and bring them in disposable containers and leave them on the check in table. Mikayla Kyle brings the cookies to the couple who collects them and puts them int eh brown bag lunches that gets distributed in Montreal.

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There is no more yearly submission of project record books. Project Record Books can be completed and entered into fair as a fair project. They are a great way to organize what you learn. However, the 4-H office has decided they are way to cumbersome to evaluate at the end of each year. Starting OCT 1 of this year, all youth MUST submit a project summary at the end of the year. This summary is a simple 2 page form. Project Summary sheets can be found in each family folder as well as each youths folder. They are to be a living document that you update when you participate in 4-H activities. It combines the portfolio and record book all in one. Youth who do NOT submit the form do NOT get credit for being in 4-H.

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For youth who have been in 4-H for more than 2 years and you would like to earn a project medal, you must have completed a minimum of 6 hours in the project area. Please sign up on the sheet in the hallway or email me. I will submit the awards at the end of the month.

Reminder: You can do 4-H projects independently of the group. You can take advantage of various learning opportunities to meet your learning objectives.

OCTOBER EVENTS:

--The animal sub group will be visiting JEM Appaloosa horse farm in Champlain on Thursday Oct 22 at 10am. Bring a helmet if you have one. Otherwise, the farm will provide one. We will be touring the barns and riding arena area and then learning about the styles of riding. Following, the youth with divide into two sections: Grade 7-12 to learn about advanced horse topics and Grade K-6 to learn about grooming and equipment.

--Time to start thinking about your public presentation topic. More information will follow throughout the month.

NOVEMBER EVENTS:

--November 2nd teams can sign up to compete in the Jr Iron Chef. The competition will be held March 12th at the Potsdam Middle School. Teams consist of 3-5 middle OR high school youth. Please sign up in the hall if you would like to be on a team. Teams develop healthy recipes using a combination of Local & USDA commodity foods and prepare their creations at the competition. Sign up in the hall if you are interested.

--There is an Adirondack Stampede Charity Rodeo being held on November 6 & 7th in Glens Falls. Linda & Sam from Essex county are trying to find interest in attending this event, the tickets are $17 for adults and $8 for youth. If there is enough interest for a group then group tickets can be purchased. Contact the 4-H office if you are interested.

--Registration for Youth Equi Day at Miner Farm is now open on-line! Registration for this event ends on midnight on Nov 2nd. This is a pointed event & will be held on Saturday, November 7th, 2015 at Miner Farm Institute. It starts at 9:30 and is done at 11:30-12:00. Please dress accordingly as the event is held outdoors in the horse barn. All youth who expressed interest in horse have been registered. You will have gotten email confirmation of your registration. If you have not received the confirmation, you are not registered. In our country, you register if there is a remote change you might go so you can earn your point. If you can not make it, you don't go. But if you go and you have not registered you will not earn your point. Points are needed for showing animals at fair. Youth interested in riding or showing horses at fair need to earn one point. You do not need to be interested in showing to attend this event. Youth Equiday is an annual event at Miner Institute and has been a wonderful learning opportunity year after year. The staff at Miner makes the day very enjoyable, informative, and hands on. Please bring a helmet if you have one.

--If you are more interested in music than horses, the first meeting of the two-county bluegrass club on Sat Nov 7 from 10-12. The location will be announced. A professor from SUNY Plattsburgh will be speaking about bluegrass and about the opportunities this year. The club is open to any one who wants to learn an instrument, learn about bluegrass music or just enjoy the music. There are potential opportunities for lessons and loaned instruments. SUNY has a grant to work with youth. None of the local schools are able to work with the program, so SUNY is working with 4-H. Meetings will be held once a month with additional meetings for lessons and activities.

--4-H is offering an exciting new opportunity to youth & adults! Jordy & Chelsea will be hosting a two hour long workshop called "Veggies 101" on Saturday, November 21st, 2015 from 10am-12pm at our office. This event is free of charge & open to any and all skill levels. We will be showing you some simple tricks and techniques on how to use and cook your favorite (and maybe not so favorite) vegetables! Register on-line: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/Veggies101workshop_209

Operation Shoebox list for 2015 has been posted. Check out the Tab.