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May 2020
Dana Church, Extension Educator || 580‐832‐3356 office || [email protected]
District Table Setting Contest The District 4‐H Table Setting Contest will be held virtually on May 27 at 10:00am over Zoom. You need to register by calling the office or submitting your information through the following by 10:00am May 26. https://forms.gle/rNYg58ySBR7QcLzi9 This is a fun event for all ages. You can even use paper plates! Get creative and register today! Guidelines are included in the mailing. It’s a quick turnaround, so don’t delay!! County 4‐H Record Books‐ Due July 1st County 4‐H record books are due by July 1, 2020 no later than 4:30 PM at the Washita County Extension Office. The record book files can be downloaded from the Washita County OSU Extension website under 4‐H. https://extension.okstate.edu/county/washita/washita.html Look for this icon as you scroll down the home page for Washita County 4‐H.>>>>>>>>> The links for the record books are there. If you need help, call! For CLOVERBUDS: If you have a Cloverbud and would like us to mail you a paper copy of the Cloverbud Record Book, we would be happy to! Just give us a call at 580‐832‐3356 or email [email protected]. For JUNIOR AND SENIOR 4‐H MEMBERS: Download the 4‐H record book from the county website referenced above. You may write or type your 4‐H Record Book. If you are typing it, you may email the entire book in one file when complete to [email protected]. If you are filling out the book by hand, secure the completed book in an inexpensive paper binder to hand in at the Extension office. We can also provide paper copies to anyone as well. Official 4‐H binders (that you can add to each year) are only $1.
We sincerely want to help 4‐Hers get going with their record books. Dana is offering help sessions for families or Zoom sessions if you need help or advice. Call or email Dana as soon as possible to set up your time at 580‐832‐3356, [email protected].
May 2020
2020 State 4‐H Record Book Status Three Washita County 4‐Hers submitted an Oklahoma 4‐H State Report Form (aka state 4‐H record book), and all three have qualified for an interview! Here is how it goes…Once your book is submitted to state, it is scored by a panel of judges. The top 3 in each project area are then asked to interview with a different panel of judges. The ranking from the record book evaluation and the interview are combined to reveal the project winner – which includes a college scholarship and special recognition at the State 4‐H Roundup.
Washita County members that have made the top‐3 cut and will interview on June 9 are: Jordan Mason, Leadership; Brance Barnett, All Other Projects Agriculture and Natural Resources; and Madison Church, Goats. Best wishes to these hard working individuals!
Quad‐County 4‐H Camp Due to the pandemic of COVID‐19, our 2020 4‐H Camp at Quartz Mountain is canceled this summer.
Farmers Market Attention all 4‐H youth who are growing gardens or are helping with a garden: If you have extra produce to sell and want to participate in a 4‐H coordinated farmers market, please reach out to Washita Co. OSU Extension staff for planning details.
Oklahoma 4‐H Virtual Clovers At the end of March, a new Facebook Page was created to get education out to our members since we could not see you for face‐to‐face programming due to the pandemic. Several of you have participated, commented and shared. THAT IS GREAT! Please continue to interact with this excellent source of fun projects. 4‐H Educators, state 4‐H staff, Ag Innovators and other teens from across the state have participated with recording workshops on Expressive Arts, Healthy Living, STEM, Agriculture and much more. Jordan Mason was featured on one of the videos! If you are a teen with something special to share, contact Dana and let her know your idea. On June 4, Virtual Clovers will host a Painting Day Camp at 10:00am. LIKE and follow
OK4HVirtualClovers so you do not miss out on
the 4‐H activities offered. This is an effort our office is directly involved in. Your participation (with comments on the posts) can be included in your 4‐H record books.
May 2020
“Mini” Cupcake War We had to cancel our scheduled Washita Co. 4‐H Cupcake War at the end of March. However, we had three families jump on board with a last‐minute, small scale cupcake war. It wasn’t really a war. It was just cupcake decorating fun and we shared pictures and videos through a Facebook group chat.
Participants (L‐R): Abigail and Kathryn Sirmon, Ruth Moser, Zada and Jacob Baker.
Washita County 4‐H Virtual Speech Contest Results Fourteen Washita County 4‐H members participated in the annual speech contest in April. This year, they competed virtually through an online video meeting platform called Zoom. The following Burns Flat‐Dill City (BF‐DC) Cloverbuds presented demonstrations: Lucy Fite, Let's Paint; Payson & Paxon Tate, It's Snack Time! (How to make trail mix); Waverly Schneberger, Horse Care.
Junior Demonstration Division results are: Ruth Moser, Cordell, Wood Building Kits; Paislee Tate, BF‐DC, It's Slime Time!; Braxton Barnett, BF‐DC, Ranch Dip for the Ranch, 3rd place; Francesca Bloomer, Cordell, How To Make Salt Crystals, 2nd place; Delainee Moore, Cordell, How To Make A Fabric Surgical Mask, 1st. Kemper Woodis, Cordell, presented a Regular Junior Speech about Working Calves, and received 1st.
Intermediate Division speaker Zada Baker, Sentinel, presented an Illustrated Speech about The By‐Products of Wool and received 1st. Brance Barnett, BF‐DC, placed 1st with his Digital Presentation on Krakty.
Senior Division contestant Jacob Baker, Sentinel placed 1st with a Regular Speech titled Agriculture & Fairy Tales. Senior Jordan Mason, BF‐DC, placed 1st on her Famous Person Talk titled Bright Not Broken.
Champion Overall Junior: Delainee Moore. Champion Overall Intermediate: Zada Baker. Champion Overall Senior: Jordan Mason. (Photos of Champions below.)
May 2020
State 4‐H Roundup Although we will not be able to go to OSU campus for Roundup this year, the state 4‐H office staff, state 4‐H youth council members and 4‐H educators from across the state are planning a virtual Roundup experience that will be great! If our guidelines remain as we enter
Phase 3 of COVID‐19 emergence with no hiccups, we’d love to be together for some workshops and contests at the OSU Extension office or another location. Of course we’ll have to follow the suggested COVID‐19 guidelines. State 4‐H Roundup will offer workshops, contests, the honors night, social time(s), 2 main speakers (not boring), senior recognition and officer elections. They are also planning an in‐person Honors Night in November. The workshops and contests may happen on various days in July, but the main speakers, honor night and election results will happen on July 22 and 23. If you have completed 7th grade, you may register for Roundup. There is NO cost. You will get a t‐shirt! The state office has not set a deadline for registration, but I would like to know who from our county wants to participate, because I know it’ll be a quick turn‐around for state registration!! Let me know that you are interested by submitting your info through the Roundup Google Form link below. (Even if you are a “maybe”…Fill out the form! It’s free and it’ll be fun!!) https://forms.gle/M3xYNkCTZtqcrQxK8 **TEENS** We will be holding county 4‐H officer elections (2020‐2021) this summer. Also, we will move forward with planning our County 4‐H Awards Program with hopes we can hold it. More details to come. 4‐H VOLUNTEERS Washita County 4‐H Volunteers will meet in June over the computer (Zoom). Please be watching your emails and texts for day and time. Listed below are resources and training opportunities for you. Please let me know if you have questions.
STATE VOLUNTEER FACEBOOK PAGE: Oklahoma 4‐H Volunteers and Parents https://www.facebook.com/ok4hvolunteersandparents
4‐H TUESDAY TOOL TIME for Volunteers, Parents and Extension Professionals http://4h.okstate.edu/parents‐volunteers/volunteer‐continuing‐education I (Dana) listened to the live presentations of Tool Time and felt like they were fun and very informative. The recordings of the training are found in the link above. Please let me know if you watch one, it can count toward your required training. Some of you are lacking some training this year!! ;)
Oklahoma State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, State and Local Governments Cooperating. The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs
to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, or status as a veteran, and is an equal opportunity employer.
Table Setting will be held virtually for 2020. Sign up with your county educator to get the link to the contest. The contest will be held through Zoom on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 10am. The day of the contest when you arrive in the zoom meeting, you will check-in. Please have your items for the 1 place setting stacked to the side or boxed, not pre-arranged. You will need to have a table area for 1 place setting. Exhibitors will need to have someone video you from a distance so that you and the table can be viewed. Parents and Volunteers may help the 4-Her carry items to area but will not be allowed to help 4-Her set up, or be in the area during the judging. During the judging, the 4-Her will set up and present the table setting to the judge by telling about their ideas and why they chose this particular theme. The 4-Hers should view themselves as a host and the judge as their guest. Exhibitors will have approximately 5 minutes to setup, 3 minutes to present their table, and 5 minutes for questions.
4-H members should plan their table setting using the following criteria: Choose a theme for the dinner/table setting (accessories may be used). Plan a menu which is suitable for the table setting. Type the menu and have it available for the judge. Set table correctly by using 1 place settings including: dinnerware, glassware, flatware must be used. Tablecloth, centerpiece and place mats are to be used.
Paper plates, plasticware, and paper napkins may be used.
Flatware and Dinnerware must be safe to eat from such as no glitter, glue etc. on eating surfaces.
Creativity is encouraged.
Judges will be looking for practical table settings using accepted rules of etiquette.
Judge will observe 4-H member during part or all of the time he/she is setting the table. Judge may visit with 4-H members and ask them questions about their table setting.
We will provided 2 practice zoom sessions for youth to make sure the videoing and sound works correctly.
The following rules for setting a table correspond to the numbers seen in the table setting illustration.
1. The flatware, plate, and napkin should be one inch from the edge of the table.
2. The plate is always in the center of the place setting.
3. The dinner fork is placed at the left of the plate.
4. If a salad fork is used, it is placed to the left of the dinner fork.
5. The napkin is placed to the left of the fork, with the fold on the left. It can also go under a fork, or on top of theplate.
6. The knife is placed to the right of the plate with the sharp blade facing in towards the plate.
7. The teaspoon is placed to the right of the knife.
8. If a soup spoon is needed, it is placed to the right of the teaspoon.
9. The soup bowl may be placed on the dinner plate.
10. The drinking glass is placed at the tip of the knife.
11. If a salad plate is used, place it just above the tip of the fork.
12.The cup or mug is placed to the top right of the spoons.
Division: Age as of 9/1/2019:
Beginning (3rd –5th grade) Intermediate (6th—8th grade) Senior (9th - 12th grade)
