4H question
Have a Nice Day!
When your kids sign up for 4H, how is the sign up handled?
Our experience with 4H has been awful. The signups are basically a starting line with 'ready set go', and the kids run to what they want to sign up for.
Its first come first serve and we never get what we want.
UGH.
Kristen
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Our experience with 4H has been awful. The signups are basically a starting line with 'ready set go', and the kids run to what they want to sign up for.
Its first come first serve and we never get what we want.
UGH.
Kristen
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J. Stauffer
This has been something we have experienced as well....so we are trying
something new this next year.
We will have a list of the group projects and the leader may or may not
explain a bit....but to sign up, you have to contact the leader outside of
the meeting.
Also remember, you can always plan your own project, either just your kids
or open to others, if you aren't getting what you want.
The problem we have is having a bunch of kids and only a certain number of
people interested in leading a project. Some can have any number of kids,
but some have to be limited due to the nature of the project.
Julie S.
something new this next year.
We will have a list of the group projects and the leader may or may not
explain a bit....but to sign up, you have to contact the leader outside of
the meeting.
Also remember, you can always plan your own project, either just your kids
or open to others, if you aren't getting what you want.
The problem we have is having a bunch of kids and only a certain number of
people interested in leading a project. Some can have any number of kids,
but some have to be limited due to the nature of the project.
Julie S.
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From: "Have a Nice Day!" <litlrooh@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:40 AM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] 4H question
> When your kids sign up for 4H, how is the sign up handled?
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> Our experience with 4H has been awful. The signups are basically a
starting line with 'ready set go', and the kids run to what they want to
sign up for.
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> Its first come first serve and we never get what we want.
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> UGH.
> Kristen
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Have a Nice Day!
Also remember, you can always plan your own project, either just your kids
or open to others, if you aren't getting what you want.
I have a question about leading your own project.
I would do that and open it up to others, but I don't know how to lead a project, and some of the things my daughter is interested in are not things I'm good at, so I'm not sure I *could* lead a project.
How do you go about making your own club, opening it to others, and leading a project? Does the extension office give you all that information? I'd like to know from someone here before I contact the office, since my experience with them has been so bad so far.
Thanks!
Kristen
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or open to others, if you aren't getting what you want.
I have a question about leading your own project.
I would do that and open it up to others, but I don't know how to lead a project, and some of the things my daughter is interested in are not things I'm good at, so I'm not sure I *could* lead a project.
How do you go about making your own club, opening it to others, and leading a project? Does the extension office give you all that information? I'd like to know from someone here before I contact the office, since my experience with them has been so bad so far.
Thanks!
Kristen
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pam sorooshian
On May 4, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Have a Nice Day! wrote:
of any cases where a project was "full." I started out with about 26
kids signed up for my theater arts project - ended up with about 11 who
really participated. Sounds like you need many more project leaders -
why don't you lead one yourself? Even when you're in one club, you can
sign up for projects in other clubs, too, by the way.
I can understand that some projects fill up - there are only so many
kids that a leader can supervise, in some projects. But, maybe you
could make a suggestion that everybody sign up for only one project
before anybody signs up for a second one? Would that help?
-pam
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> When your kids sign up for 4H, how is the sign up handled?Everybody signs up for projects they want to sign up for, I don't know
>
> Our experience with 4H has been awful. The signups are basically a
> starting line with 'ready set go', and the kids run to what they want
> to sign up for.
>
> Its first come first serve and we never get what we want.
of any cases where a project was "full." I started out with about 26
kids signed up for my theater arts project - ended up with about 11 who
really participated. Sounds like you need many more project leaders -
why don't you lead one yourself? Even when you're in one club, you can
sign up for projects in other clubs, too, by the way.
I can understand that some projects fill up - there are only so many
kids that a leader can supervise, in some projects. But, maybe you
could make a suggestion that everybody sign up for only one project
before anybody signs up for a second one? Would that help?
-pam
>National Home Education Network
<www.NHEN.org>
Serving the entire homeschooling community since 1999
through information, networking and public relations.
J. Stauffer
All you have to do is tell the extention office you want to form your own
club and they will help you, provide information and training, etc..
I have led several projects....none of which I was good at prior to the
project. But it was stuff my kids were interested in and I either jumped in
and learned or asked people who did know to come show the kids.
We did a ballistics project this year based on the book "Backyard
Ballistics". The kids built catapults and tennis ball mortars, some physics
was peppered in, we had a ball.
We did it because the skeet shooting team was in off season and my 10yo
really, really needed to blow something up. He thought it would be fun to
build this stuff with other people so we turned it into a 4-H project.
It is that easy to do.
Julie S.
club and they will help you, provide information and training, etc..
I have led several projects....none of which I was good at prior to the
project. But it was stuff my kids were interested in and I either jumped in
and learned or asked people who did know to come show the kids.
We did a ballistics project this year based on the book "Backyard
Ballistics". The kids built catapults and tennis ball mortars, some physics
was peppered in, we had a ball.
We did it because the skeet shooting team was in off season and my 10yo
really, really needed to blow something up. He thought it would be fun to
build this stuff with other people so we turned it into a 4-H project.
It is that easy to do.
Julie S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Have a Nice Day!" <litlrooh@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] 4H question
> Also remember, you can always plan your own project, either just your kids
> or open to others, if you aren't getting what you want.
>
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>
> I have a question about leading your own project.
>
> I would do that and open it up to others, but I don't know how to lead a
project, and some of the things my daughter is interested in are not things
I'm good at, so I'm not sure I *could* lead a project.
>
> How do you go about making your own club, opening it to others, and
leading a project? Does the extension office give you all that information?
I'd like to know from someone here before I contact the office, since my
experience with them has been so bad so far.
>
> Thanks!
> Kristen
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