4H in May

For 4H in May, things will be a little different. One group of kids will be meeting at the North Country Cultural Arts Center while the rest of us will be at the church. We will have announcements at both locations. This will be the schedule for May 10 and 17. (May 24 is the Field Trip to Essex County Field Days.)

Pottery Class: Cailin, Alex, Esther, Vienna, Cali, Reece, Ben, Liam, Philip K., Matthew L., Bradley, Christopher, Andre, Trent
North Country Cultural Arts Center: Plattsburgh-- please go straight there. You will meet just inside the front door. The cost of the class is $5-this is for the clay and firing. Jackie Sabourn will be donating her time. Please bring the money with you. You will be making either something functional (plate, mug) or a figurine (Nativity type piece.)
23 Brinkerhoff Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
info@plattsburgharts.org

Robotics Cont Class: Pascal, Vaughn, Matthew C., Harrison, Sullivan, Philip Y., Justin, Joshua
Please bring your laptops and robots.
Team 1: Pascal, Justin, Sullivan --Pascal laptop, Justin robot
Team 2: Vaughn, Matthew, Philip, Joshua-- 4H robot, laptop?????
Harrison- planning for Grade3-6 class-- laptop

Dresses for Haiti Service Project: Stella, Naomi, Madeline L., Emma, Mikayla, Neil, Grace S., Grace P.
We will be using Simplicity pattern 2007 from Walmart (Size A). Please bring: 2 yards of fabric, thread to match fabric, 3/8th of yard 20" wide fusible interface,  one 16" zipper, hook and eye, sewing machine* (let me know if you can't bring one), sewing scissors, pins.

Cloverbuds:
Cloverbuds will meet as regular at church.
They (along with the "new 3rd graders") will get a chance for pottery in the fall--the potter asked me to break up the group as she loves the kids. But it is easier for her to work in small groups.

Poultry Group May 3, 2012

At 4H poultry this week we heard all the announcements. Then we played a fun game that Grace made up. Then Jack did a talk about Chicken Tractors. Mrs. Sayward talked about chicken parasites--the northern fowl mite, other mites, ticks, and lice. Then we paired up and build panels for a moveable light chicken pen.

April 2012 Poultry sub-group meeting

Triple "G" meeting! In the April 2012 poultry meeting, Gideon and Stella talked to us about geese. Madeline showed her website about gamebirds and talked to us about gamebirds; and Liam talked to us about guinea fowl. We watched a video about raising pheasants. Then we did a lot of egg dyeing using different natural substances such as orange peels, onion peels, strawberry juice, cabbage, coffee, and others. Then we all went home.

Family April Service Project

The Service project for the month of April is "trash cleanup." You can choose a park, playground, or public area. Please remember to log your hours on the sign-up sheets in the hallway or email them to Mrs. Sayward

Need volunteers for Cloverbud Only Animal Clinic

The Clinton County 4H program is sponsoring a Cloverbud (grades K-2) only Animal Clinic on Sat 24 March 10-11:30am (location yet to be determined). It will be an animal birthday party theme. Each Cloverbud who attends will earn a point for one species. We are looking for kids to run the games. We would like to have at least 8 stations that kids would get to choose to rotate through. Each station would have a game that would teach something about a specific animal. Our animal stations are

1) cattle (beef and dairy)
2) horses 
3) pets (cats, tarantulas, lizards, fish etc)
4) dogs,
5) sheep and goats
6) pigs
7) poultry
8) rabbits/cavies

We need youth volunteers (age 11 and over) who would like to make up games and volunteers who would like to run the games. (You can do both.) This counts as a leadership opportunity.  For those who create games, you can earn a small animal/livestock point (follow the guidance on the pointed project sheet attached.)

Please let me know by Sunday 19 Feb if you are interested.

Time to Prepare for Public Presentations

It's PUBLIC PRESENTATION season. If you have not participated in presentations before, please check out our group guide to public presentations: http://chatteringchipmunks.blogspot.com/p/presentation-guidance.htmlAs you think about a topic: CHOOSE A TOPIC THAT INTERESTS YOU!!! If you are part of an animal project and NEED to earn a point or WANT to earn a point to show or compete for animal high point, consider a presentation topics on your species. 4H encourages you to do a presentation on a topic you doing a 4H project in BUT you are not limited to that. So if you are passionate about dromedary camels, go ahead do your presentation on them. If you love to memorize, consider doing a recitation. If you like theater, grab a fellow 4H member and perform a scene. If you like talking and are good under pressure and you have done some 4H presentations before, try impromtu. If you are 13 or OVER and you have given several previous AT the COUNTY LEVEL presentations, you can earn credit by signing-up to be a teen evaluator. You will earn credit for presentations for being an evaluator. You are welcome to do both---be an evaluator and present OR just be an evaluator.  If you are a JR or SR, you can earn presentation credit for a college interview.
Public presentations are a key part of the 4H experience. There are 6 options for public presentations
1) For your FIRST year only, you can opt to give a presentation at the club level
or choose from
2) Level 1: in a room with just you, your family, and the friendly evaluator who will tell you great things
3) Level 2: Nervous presenters room- everyone in the room is nervous and the evaluators are encouraging
4) Level 3: General presentations- you are ready to hear a few suggestions for improvement with mostly positive encouragement
5) Level 4: Competition room: You want the challenge of competing for a spot at the District Presentation Day held in June (general topics)
6) Level 4 Horse: Horse Competition Room: You want the challenge of competing for a spot on the Regional/State Horse Presentations Competition 
--In level 4, members are ready for a higher level of critique and can handle more suggestions for improvement.

Nursing Home Caroling: Service Project

We will be singing for the nursing home associated with the CVPH hospital on Thursday 22 Dec. We will be singing twice-- once on the 6th floor and once at the 4th floor.

Please meet in the lobby of CVPH at 12:45. The choir will sing the two songs they have prepared and then everyone will sing traditional Christmas Carols as a group.

This is a club service project. Participation is optional but encouraged.

If possible, please bring two homemade Christmas cards per child so we can share them with the residents. No worries if you can't bring any--we want YOU more than cards. Grace will be happy to make lots of cards.