Community Improvement Service Project

This is the service  program where we all do the EXACT same project in the same month in our own communities.

For the months of Oct and Nov we will be..........

OCT: Yard work or winter maintenance for a family in need
NOV: Make cookies for the homeless mission in Montreal--BRING TO 4H and the KYLES facilitate delivery

Costume Class- Battle of Plattsburgh

A costume workshop will take place at the Kent Delord House Museum on Saturday, October 27 at 11 AM. If you want something new to wear for the Bicentennial or just want to learn more about what people wore during the 1812 time period, you can find the answer here. The workshop is conducted by Sharon Bell, long-time re-enactor and member of the Costume Society of America. There is a $3 charge for handouts.

New Office Team- We Need YOU

We need a new officer team to run our group. The positions we need to fill are attached. Please come prepared next week with the positions you might like to be.

*President— determines the purpose of the meeting; sets the meeting agendas; makes and writes the meeting outline/script; leads the meetings; calls the weekly meetings to order; introduces new business; casts the deciding vote in tie decisions.

Skills needed: plan a meeting; read minutes/script, get attention of fellow members, ability to get others to listen to your directions; willingness to make mistakes; organized person; team work

Outside meeting time commitment: YES— plan meetings

Vice-President- fills in when the president is absent; supervises the photographers, the reporter and the correspondence secretary- ensuring that each has competed their job.

Skills needed: help plan a meeting; read minutes/script, get attention of fellow members, ability to get others to listen to your directions; willingness to make mistakes; organized person

Outside meeting time commitment: YES

*Secretary- records minutes of business meeting; reads the minutes from the last meeting.

Skills needed: attend regularly; recognize all Chattering Chipmunks and know their names; ability to take notes (taking note involves filling meeting information in pre-made template); read well

Outside meeting time commitment: MAYBE but very limited

Correspondence Secretary - writes thank you notes for all the field trips; writes thank you notes to all the guest speakers; gets group members to sign if recommended; decorates card or assigns card decoration.

Skills needed: organized, willing to write in timely manner;

Outside meeting time commitment: YES- minimal

Assistant Correspondence Secretary- helps the correspondence secretary write thank you notes for all the field trips and guest speakers; gets group members to sign if recommended; decorates card or assigns card decoration.

Skills needed: organized, willing to write in timely manner;

Outside meeting time commitment: YES- minimal

*Treasurer- keeps track of the funds for the group; completes the annual financial report for the 4H office.

Skills needed: be detailed, math skills

Outside meeting time commitment: NO

Assistant Treasurer (Animal Subgroup)keeps track of the funds for the animal group; reports to the treasurer.

Skills needed: be detailed, math skills

Outside meeting time commitment: NO

Auditor-fills in for the treasure when absent; completes the financial audit at the end of the year.

Skills needed: be detailed, math skills, working independently

Outside meeting time commitment: NO

Service Project Coordinator- assists the 4H leader in overseeing the service projects; coordinates with organizations to set up times and location; completes service project forms.

Skills needed: phone skills, older member

Outside meeting time commitment: YES— phone time

Assistant Service Project Coordinator-helps the service project coordinator by filling out the service project paperwork.

Skills needed: be detailed, math skills, working independently

                        Outside meeting time commitment: Yes- minimal to fill out form and return to 4H leader

Reporter/Blogger--Theater -Writes a few sentences about what the group did in 4H each week. Posts the info on the blog before the next meeting.

Skills needed: be able to type or dictate what happened at each meeting;

Outside meeting time commitment: YES-small

Reporter/Blogger--Robotics -Writes a few sentences about what the group did in 4H each week. Posts the info on the blog before the next meeting.

Skills needed: be able to type or dictate what happened at each meeting;

                        Outside meeting time commitment: YES-small

Reporter/Blogger—Exploring our World Writes a few sentences about what the group did in 4H each week. Posts the info on the blog before the next meeting.

Skills needed: be able to type or dictate what happened at each meeting;

                        Outside meeting time commitment: YES-small

Reporter/Blogger—Animal (Poultry/Horse/Vet) -Writes a few sentences about what the group did in 4H each week. Posts the info on the blog before the next meeting.

Skills needed: be able to type or dictate what happened at each meeting;

                        Outside meeting time commitment: YES-small

Photographer 1- takes pictures of meetings and activities of Robotics activities.

Skills needed: like taking pictures, have a camera to use (can be parents), regularly attends, can put digital pictures on USB key or CD

Outside meeting time commitment: none

Photographer 2- takes pictures of meetings and activities of Theater activities.

Skills needed: like taking pictures, have a camera to use (can be parents), regularly attends, can put digital pictures on USB key or CD

Outside meeting time commitment: none

Photographer 3- takes pictures of meetings and activities of Exploring Our World activities.

Skills needed: like taking pictures, have a camera to use (can be parents), regularly attends, can put digital pictures on USB key or CD

Outside meeting time commitment: none

Scrapbook Specialist- maintains the group scrapbook, adding information as provided;

Skills needed: like scrapbooking, organized, creative, working independently, collaborating

Outside meeting time commitment: YES—sporadic entries

*Choose Health Officer – provides 2-5 minutes of info each meeting on how the members can improve their health; can lead the group in warm up calisthenics

Skills needed: able to talk in front of large group; be interested in health and fitness; uses the National Choose Health Curriculum

Outside meeting time commitment: YES -minimal— planning activity/spotlight

Assistant Choose Health Officer – fills in for Choose Health Officer.

Skills needed: able to talk in front of large group; be interested in health and fitness;

Outside meeting time commitment: YES -minimal— planning activity/spotlight

Group MC- reads the weekly announcements in a loud, clear voice.

Skills needed: able to talk in front of large group; clear voice with good projection
Outside meeting time commitment: None

Assistant Group MC- reads the weekly announcements in a loud, clear voice when the MC is absent.

Facilities Manager: Helps set up tables and chairs for the business meeting

Skills needed: able to move tables and chairs

Outside meeting time commitment: None

Cloverbud Representative: speaks for the Cloverbuds during business meetings- rotating position.

Skills needed: organized, willing to write in timely manner;

Outside meeting time commitment: None

Project record books are due on November 1

Project record books are due on November 1 with the award application paperwork filled out. There is info on the blog to help remind you what you need in your books. There is a tab for filling out project record books AND a tab for all the meetings we had last year. Please contact me if you need more info.

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Updates

Project Record Books are due November 1 to the 4H Office. More info can be found about the books under the project record tab. 

The activities log for last year is updated.  This information is provided to help you fill out your project record book. If you see something missing, please let me know. If you need project record books, please email Melissa and I will send them to you. 

The calendar for this year is posted.

Fair Prep Meeting 5 July 2012

The 14 July 4H fair prep meeting is canceled. Many (more than 50%) of the kids in our group will either be on vacation or at history camp.

I will be at the North Country Alliance Church on 5 July with the girls who will be having another sewing day. :-) We are hoping to be done around 2:30pm. I would love to have any Chipmunks come join us at 1:30 to help make the pieces for the bulletin board. We will need to cut out colorful letters. Mount pictures and statements.

As a reminder, we need every member for the group to answer this question. I can show responsibility. I can..... (these words will be in large letters on our bulletin board. We just need you to write the words that finish the sentence.....

We also need a front face picture of each of the kids and lots of shots of members doing things that make a difference in the community. We will intersperse these pictures with the members photos and statements.

If you can email me by Wednesday night, I can print out the answers for the kids to help mount. Otherwise, if you are coming on 5 July, please print your statement with you. We are going do use a mixture of fonts to represent the many personalities of our group.....

For those who aren't around next week, feel free to bring it to me the following week or at project drop off day.

Dairy Bar 2012

The Dairy Bar schedule is posted HERE: http://chatteringchipmunks.blogspot.com/p/dairy-bar-sign-up-fair-2012.html(or simply go to the Dairy Bar Sign up tab)

As schedules change, please let me know if you have changes.