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NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2016

4-H Family Newsletter

Hancock County

Hancock County Extension and Outreach

327 West 8th Street

Garner, IA 50438

(641) 923-2856

Just a Note:

Victoria Schmidt

County Youth Coordinator

vschmidt@iastate.edu

641-923-2856

Nikki Renner

Youth Enrichment Coordinator

nrenner@iastate.edu

641-923-2856

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

4-H Calendar

Shooting Sports

4-H Re-Enrollment

4-H Award Program

Theme basket silent auction

4-H family meal

Theatre Arts Workshop

Afterschool Kids Club

Cookie & Candy Workshop

LEGO Competitions

Taylor Kluver

County Youth/Adult Coordinator

trkluver@iastate.edu

641-923-2856

4-H friends and families,

As 2016 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect back and look at accomplishments made throughout

the year. We had an amazing Hancock County Fair and Iowa State Fair. Our 4-H family grew with the start

of the Flaming Eagles, a new FIRST Lego League club in Britt. We also added a 4th Jr FIRST Lego League club

in Garner called LEGO Storm. We offered 26 different camps/workshops for ages 5 to 18 reaching 436

youth from Hancock County. If you have ideas for workshops please let us know, we are always looking for

new ideas!

Don’t forget to be on the look out for workshops that will be offered this winter! We will be bringing a The-

atre/Arts Workshop to Britt, and a 2nd Theatre/Arts workshop in Garner. On November 14th bake holiday

cookies and candies with us and bring a parent if you’d like. Be sure to watch emails, social media, and our

website to keep up to date with all our exciting programs!

Calling all 3rd and 4th graders! We are having a new session of ASK about crime scene investigation. Crime

& Spy Adventures will be starting after Christmas break. Be on the lookout for a brochure in your back pack

and check our website for more information.

Reminders:

* Don’t forget to re-enroll in 4-H online by DECEMBER 31st

* Awards ceremony will be November 13, at 4:00 p.m. - anyone can bring a theme basket for auction

* Watch email updates for beef weigh in information

We are looking forward to making new memories and friends in our new 4-H year.

All the best,

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4-H CALENDAR Nov. 6 Northwest Chargers Woden Comm. Center 2:00 pm

Nov. 7 Garner ASK GHV Commons 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Nov. 1 Britt ASK WH Art room 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Nov. 13 Hancock County 4-H Awards Program GHV Auditorium 4:00 pm

Nov. 13 Orthel Jolly Workers Club mtg. GHV School following awards

Nov. 14 Britt Creative Clovers (K-1st grade) WH Elementary 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Nov. 14 Garner ASK semester end party GHV Commons 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Nov. 15 Britt ASK semester end party WH Art room 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Nov. 19 Garner Lucky Clovers (Clover Kids) Extension Office 9:00 - 10:30 am

Nov. 19 Cookies & Candies workshop GHV High school Home Ec 8:30-11:30 am

Nov. 21 Britt Creative Clovers (2nd-3rd grade) WH Elementary 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Dec. 3 Orthel Jolly Workers Club TBD 9:00 am

Dec. 3 FLL competition - ICE Cedar Falls All day

Dec. 17 FLL competition - Flip The Switch, Mason City, NIACC All day

Flaming Eagles, Extreme Chaos,

FIRE

Dec. 29th Britt Broncos Club mtg. Local Movie Theater (TBD) TBD

July 25– 31, 2017 Hancock County District Fair

August 10-20, 2017 Iowa State Fair

SHOOTING SPORTS

Member of the Bullseye Shooting Sports Club qualifies for the National 4-H Shooting Sports Invitation Match

Congratulations to Ian Gobeli of the Bullseye Bunch Shooting Sports Club on his 1st place

and qualifying for Nationals at the Senior Match and National Qualifier, on Saturday,

October 22nd, at Brownell’s Big Springs Range near Montezuma.

Ian will participate in the National 4-H Shooting Sports Invitational Match in the Archery

Compound discipline, on June 25-30th, 2017, at Grand Island, Nebraska. Iowa will be send-

ing a team of young people in the following disciplines: air rifle, archery– compound and

recurve, muzzleloader, shotgun, and smallbore rifle.

Good Luck Ian!

If you are interested in joining or learning more about shooting sports opportunities in

Hancock County contact the Extension Office.

MISSION STATEMENT 4-H EMPOWERS YOUTH TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL WORKING

AND LEARNING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CARING ADULTS

GET RECOGNIZED FOR YOUR EFFORTS

4-H Award Program Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016

4:00-5:30 pm GHV Auditorium

4-H Awards Program

Re-enroll in 4-H by December 31st

4-H ONLINE RE-ENROLLMENTS, PAY $20 FEE

Most 4-Hers Contest

Clubs are in a competition!

Which Hancock County 4-H

club can have the highest

percentage of club members

present? Winning club will get $25 towards a pizza party!

Silent Auction—Individuals, friends, clubs, fami-

lies, or businesses are invited to bring an item/

items to be auctioned off in a silent auction.

There will be three categories:

Kid Adult Food

Proceeds will go to Hancock 4-H programs to help offset the

cost of workshops, events, and programs.

4-H Meal—Immediately following the awards program we

will have a 4-H family meal. All 4-H families are invited as

well as extended family, businesses, city and county

officials.

After September 1st everyone who wishes to continue in 4-H

must re-enroll for the new 4-H year. Re-enrollments must be

finished before January 1st, 2017. Please remember to pay the

$20 enrollment fee to the Hancock County Extension Office.

Follow the instructions below:

Go to http://iowa.4honline.com.

Enter your family email that you use frequently. (if you

don’t know, the Extension Office can help.)

Select “I forgot my password” (unless you remember)

Copy your new temporary password that was emailed to

your inbox.

Click login and scroll down to the family members listed at

the bottom of the screen

Click edit on the right side of each family member you want

to re-activate

Scroll to the bottom of each family member’s page and

click “Enroll for 2016-2017”

Follow instructions making sure you fill out as many fields as

you can or that apply to you.

The club you were in last year is already identified.

Don’t forget to select your projects.

Click submit and the enrollment will be sent to the office for

verification that everything is included.

Submit $20 payment to Hancock County Extension with

your childs name on the memo line (unless you were con-

tacted previously about working 3 of the 4 fair clean-up

days), by dropping it off at the office or to your club lead-

ers if your club is offering that as an option. This fee is NOT

for Clover Kids and is NOT in addition to ASK registration

fees.

Scholarships are available upon request.

4-H PLEDGE

I PLEDGE MY HEAD TO CLEARER THINKING, MY HEART TO GREATER LOYALTY, MY HANDS TO LARGER SERVICE,

AND MY HEALTH TO BETTER LIVING, FOR MY CLUB, MY COMMUNITY, MY COUNTRY, AND MY WORLD.

Theatre Arts Workshop - Imagination in Action

NEW THEATRE ARTS CLUB

The Hancock County Extension and Outreach hosted a Theatre Arts

workshop on September 21st. Have you ever looked through a magazine,

glancing at the many pictures of people, when one grabs your attention?

You are drawn in, and find yourself taking on that character. You imagine

what your life would be like if you were that person. Board the Bus to

Imagination in Action, was the workshop we held for our new Theatre/Arts

program. 10, 3rd—6th graders attended and created a character based from

different magazines. They got to dress up as their character and create a

story about their character. They also made a puppet or avatar to represent

their character. The kids found out that the “tone” of your voice can change their character to many

different people.

Be looking for this same workshop in Britt after Christmas break, as well as a 2nd session of Theatre/Arts

in Garner.

Afterschool Kids Club - Farm Animals

DISCOVERING PETS IN 4-H

Pigs, calves, chickens, sheep, horses,

dairy cows, and wild animal furs.

What do all of these have in common?

These are the animals that have

attended and been talked about in our

After School Kids Club meetings for 3rd

and 4th graders at the GHV & WH

schools. We have learned about what

these animals eat, where they live, and how to take care of

them.

One of the things the kids most en-

joyed was getting to meet some of

these animals up close and personal!

We had 5 special visitors this semester.

Otis the pig, Ali and Abby the cow and

calf, Patches the sheep, and Princess

the horse.

We will be ending our session with learning about pizza from

the farm to the table and animal feeds and how they are

mixed. We enjoyed sharing stories of animals that we have

seen where we live.

New Session of ASK—Crime &

Spy Adventures

Watch for spring Afterschool

Kids Club registration after

Christmas break. Nikki Renner

will be teaching the spring 8

week session and we will learn about crime scene investiga-

tion! Registration materials will be sent home from school

and available on our website.

4-H IS BASED ON RESEARCH

HOLLIDAY TREAT BAKING

Cookies & Candies Workshop - November 19

Want to make some Christmas goodies with 4-H friends? Be sure to attend our Cookies & Candy Workshop on Saturday, November 19 from 8:30 - 11:30 am at the GHV high school Home Ec room. Cost is $15 for supplies. Parents are welcome to join your 4-Her to make fun memories.

We will learning about kitchen safety, mixing ingredients for exciting holiday treats, and take home the recipes and the treats from our evening of baking.

We are limited to the first 20 participants so be sure to sign up right away. Some recipes that we plan to try are pictured below.

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE & FIRST TECH CHALLENGE Our Jr FLL teams the Busy Bees, Master Builders, LEGO Master

Builders and our LEGO Storm are also working on ways to learn

more about Creature Craze. They need to look at Bee’s in a

whole new way, they will find out what making honey really

means. The Jr FLL team’s goals are to:

Study what are the jobs of a bee;

What they produce; and who lives in their habitat

Then show what you have learned through your LEGO®

model and Show Me poster

They will show off what they have learned at an EXPO at NIACC

for the Regional FLL Tournament in December. Be on the look

out for our Mock Tournament to check out what FIRST LEGO

League is all about.

Tis the season for Jr. FLL, and FLL

competitions. This year’s topic for

Jr FLL and FLL is Animal Allies and

Creature Craze. Our FLL teams

need to solve a problem concern-

ing animals and present it to the

judges on tournament day, along

with programing their robots to

help LEGO animals. Some animal

solutions the teams are working on

are; dog parks, a website for new

dog owners, how to keep pigs com-

fortable, and different ways to protect our sheep. Our teams

are traveling to compete against other FLL teams across

Iowa. What FIRST LEGO League teams accomplish is nothing

short of amazing. It’s fun. It’s exciting. The skills they learn

will last a lifetime.

LEGO Competitions

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Hancock County November - December 2016

4-H Family Newsletter

Theme basket contest and silent auction.

Anyone and everyone is invited to make a

theme basket. Do you accept the

challenge? Theme basket categories: kid,

adult, food.

4-H Award & Recognition Program Sunday, November 13, 4-5:30 pm GHV High School Auditorium 4-H family meal immediately following ceremony