| "Exploring 4-H Thursdays"
Yes, you can attend Exploring 4-H on a weekday for homeschoolers!
October 2009- May 2010
10:00 a.m. to noon
October 2009 to May 2010 Extension Office Join us as we Explore 4-H on the Second Thursday of every month from October 2009 through May 2010.
This offering is aimed particularly at homeschoolers in Milwaukee County and will be held from 10am to noon at the UW-Ext, 9501 W. Watertown Plank Road.
Join us for Explore 4-H Thursdays. Here’s the upcoming agenda!
October 8, 2009--Folk Dancing Jim and Janet Sullivan will be here to show us the dance steps of the world. No dancing experience is necessary. After a few examples, you’ll be joining in the dance right at the end of the line. Or maybe the middle of the line as others join the dance! Lots of exercise and enjoyment for all.
November 12, 2009--Birdhouse Building with Ed Benoit
Ed Benoit, our famous outdoors project leader, will be showing us how to create a functional birdhouse from plain old cardboard. We’ll get to design it from specs and transfer the design to cardboard. A little cutting, a little hot glue and voila! A masterpiece!
December 10, 2009--Taking It Apart. How did it work? Why doesn’t it work anymore? We’ll be taking apart familiar household appliances like radios or printers to see what’s inside. We get to break it like it’s never been broken before with no regrets. No need to worry about putting it back together, either! Got tools? Bring ‘em along!
January 14, 2010 --Make a geodesic dome.
Have you been in the Mitchell Park Domes? How about we make one or two right here in the UW-Ext? Okay, we’ll have to pass up the climate control and the plants, but we’ll see just how a geodesic dome is assembled and why they can be a functional building. You’ll be able to make one at home for an excellent playhouse!
February 11, 2010--TBD. To be announced. There are so many possibilities and only one open spot. We’ll do a regrouping, maybe take a vote and decide what to explore on this date.
March 11, 2010--Making skits. Bring your imagination as we brainstorm our reasons for loving 4-H. Once we know, we’ll break into groups and turn those reasons into a script to create a mini play! Our characters will be based on the bag full of undisclosed costumes, so we won’t have a clue until we explore the bag. Each 2-3 minute play will be taped for our future enjoyment.
April 8, 2010-- Scrapbooking We’ve had so much fun at Explore 4-H Thursdays and collected a bunch of pictures. Now we’ll turn those into a scrapbook page or two! We’ll be brave enough to cut up the photos and arrange them with cute backgrounds and sayings so we can remember the things we did and friends we’ve made. Of course, all our pages will be prizewinners at the next county fair!
May 13, 2010 --Juggling with Tim Talen.
The famous Tim Talen will be coming on this day to teach us how to juggle! He’ll even show us how to make our own juggling balls. Don’t think you can do it? Well, neither did I, but after one weekend, well, I am better at juggling than I ever was! We most likely can get Tim to do the towel chicken for our enjoyment, too, something everyone should experience at least once.
We’ve got something different in store for each month including textile arts, juggling, baking, dancing, science and much more. Projects made at these meetings are eligible to be entered into the county fair.
This session is in addition to the Explore 4-H on the first Saturday of every month.
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“EXPLORING 4-H SATURDAY” We are working on the schedule for 2009. Here's what we have scheduled so far:
January 3rd - Ceramics with Laura Brushaber - Laura returns for a fun Saturday teaching
about ceramics.
February 7th - Partner-less Folk Dancing from Around the World - Jim and Janet Sullivan
are active in the Holiday Folk Fair. They are willing to teach us some dances from around the
world. No partners are needed.
March 7th - Choreography and Barbershop Quartet Style Singing Demonstration -
A barbershop quartet from Crosstown Harmony Choir, an all female Barbershop Choir, will be
leading a workshop on choreography, showmanship, and barbershop style music.
April 4th - Rocketry with Flash Gordon.
May 2nd -Mini Fair and Carnival - A miniature carnival will be held with games and fun. 4-Hers will also learn how to complete a fair form and be involved in a mock judging.
practice with a certified judge before the fair in July 2009.
June 6th - Juggling Workshop with Tim Talen
August 1st - Canceled
September 12th - Letterboxing with Pa tRoberts
Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. H. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and may contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook .
October 3rd - Canceled
November 7th - Service Opportunity: Environmental Stewardship
Keep the environment clean.
Pick up garbage around the Extension Office and surrounding grounds. Supplies will be provided.
December 5th - To be announced
“EXPLORING 4-H SATURDAY” is the first Saturday of each month from 10:00 – noon. We meet at our UW-Extension office. Please call Mark Watkins Sr. at 281-2492 no later than the Wednesday before the meeting to register. We need a head count so that project leaders of the month can plan ahead and have supplies for everyone.
Any Leader or Jr. Leader willing to lead the project of the month, please schedule with Mark.
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