"OakTown 4-H Welcome"

Bring a Buddy to 4-H This Year!

9/11/2023

So we’d like to talk about bringing a buddy to 4-H. We are trying to let more kids know what 4-H is about this year. You can bring your friends, your buddies, your school mates, your cousins, your siblings, anyone in your family or outside your family.

Our goal is just have more people learn about and maybe join our 4-H Club. When you bring your buddy, you will show them what 4-H means to you and they can do the same activities as you, but you will guide them. You can bring them anytime to the monthly meeting.

Nyla , Recreation Leader

September Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting

9/5/2023

Join us for our FIRST Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting of the 2023-2024 4-H Program Year!

Monday, September 11, 2023, 6pm
Outdoors, Dimond Park, Dimond Picnic Grove (tables near middle “tot lot” playground
6:00 pm Start time
Dinner- Pizza, fruit and cookies: BYO Water Bottle
Projects- Meet Project leaders, hear a short description of the projects and visit project displays
Fair Exhibits- Returning members will share a 4-H generated item exhibited at our County Fair.
Club Yard Signs available for those wishing to promote our club
Games and activities for youth
Enrollment information for parents
Upcoming Events

Oak Town 4-H Open House/informational Picnic

8/13/2023

Learn about 4-H in your community. Meet our teen leaders and adult volunteers. Find out what project areas we will be offering this year.
Youth-led games and activities for current and potential youth members and more detailed information on the what's, why's. how's and where's of 4-H in general and Oak Town 4-H specifically.

Sunday, August 27th, 4-5:30 in the picnic area of Dimond Park near the tot-lot.
Light refreshments provided for all.
Activities for youth
Project and Enrollment information available
Youth and parental units are invited.
Meet and Greet our 2023-2024 Oak Town 4-H Officer Team and Adult Project Leaders

Our first Oak Town 4-h Community Club Meeting for the 2023-2024 4-H year will be September 11, 2023 in the same location.

More information on the 2023-2024 Oak Town 4-H Program Year coming soon.

Oak Town 4-H May Club Meeting

5/6/2023

MAY Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting

Monday, May 8, 2023 6:15 pm
Dimond Recreation Center
Officer Nominations and Election
Tie-Dying NEW Oak Town 4-H Club T-Shirts
Club House Meetings*
Snacks
Birthdays with Max
Door Prizes*

*Gain points for YOUR Club House by JUST showing UP! Also by bringing your water bottle, bringing a non-4-H member friend, tie-dying a NEW Club T-Shirt, completing the Healthy Living Challenge and giving a Project report! Some of these same things will get you extra Door Prize tickets as well!

Parents Corner
Parents are invited to join in a parent meeting while the members are meeting in their club houses at our May 4-H Club Meeting. How has the year been going for YOUR family? Are there things our club can do to improve your 4-H experience? Do you have enough information about the coming County Fair participation and alternate-county 4-H Camp invites? Come and share your thought so we can continue to strive "To Make the Best Better".

Oak Town 4-H Officer Nominations for 2023-2024 4-H Program Year

4/30/2023

Oak Town 4-H will be nominating and electing officers for the coming 2023-2024 4-H year. If you are interested in helping Oak Town 4-H Club out by being part of the club's leadership team, consider running for an office for the coming year.
Below are the expectations and job descriptions of our Officer Team:
GENERAL EXPECTATIONS OF ALL OFFICERS:

Attend all Oak Town 4-H Community Club Meetings or arrange with fellow officers for coverage when absences are necessary and notify club President and Adult Advisors
Attend an additional monthly Officers’ Meeting to plan and prepare for meetings, usually late Sunday afternoon 8 days preceding the club meetings
Actively participate in planning & running meetings. The ability to stay on-task is a big plus.
Practice good communication skills
Dependability is required
Involvement in club committees and community service is strongly encouraged
Officers are expected to adhere to the rules for all members, to perform the duties of the office and serve as role models for the Oak Town 4-H membership
Officers are expected to participate in Presentation Day and at least one other county event and one outside club event.
If you are not a member in good standing you may not run for an office.

PRESIDENT (13 and over)

Presides at all club meetings using parliamentary procedure to conduct business meetings.
Understands responsibilities of other club officers.
Holds monthly officer’s meetings collaborating to develop club meeting agenda with other officers & advisors.
Plans ways to get every member to participate in meetings and delegates responsibility.
Appoints committees as needed.
Maintains communication with Officer Team and Club as a whole
Calls the Vice-President(s) to lead the meeting if unable to attend.

VICE PRESIDENT (13 and over)

Leads meetings if the President is absent.
Serves as chairperson of the program planning committee.
Introduces educational program and guest speakers at club meetings.
Thank educational/guest speakers, presenters, member demonstrators, etc.
Assists committees as needed.
Possibly 2 positions. VP of Programs and VP of Membership

SECRETARY (11 and over)

Keeps an accurate written record of the business meetings.
Reads club’s minutes at each meeting.
Records club’s attendance at each meeting.
Writes thank you letters to speakers, sponsors, etc.
Writes all club correspondence as directed by the President, Executive Committee and/or organizational club advisor.
post Minutes on Club website.
Can be two positions. Recording and Corresponding Secretaries

TREASURER (12 and over)

Keeps an accurate account of all 4-H club’s money received and spent by the club.
Receives monthly bank statements and retains them for recording purposes
Gives a financial report at each 4-H club meeting.
Prepares and completes, with the assistance of the Treasurer’s Advisor, an annual financial report at the end of the year and arranges a Peer Review.
Prepares a 4-H club budget with Executive Committee, Finance/Fund Raising Committee and/or 4-H organizational club advisor and presents to the 4-H club membership for approval.
Balances the bank statement each month
Pays bills when approved by the club.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (11 and over)

Help get information about future and past club happenings to the membership
Help keep information flowing is whatever methods are in use and effective
Have a roll in posting to the club web site
Pursue additional methods if communication that might be useful in assisting in the dispersal of information to the membership
Works with Communication Advisor or Club leadership in posting club information
Can be two positions, one to focus on website, one to focus on news blasts

COMMUNITY SERVICE/CITIZENSHIP OFFICER (10 and over)

Plans a community service activity or drive for each Club Meeting
Gathers ideas for community service for the club to pursue
Coordinates community service or outreach events at Dimond Recreation Center or Off-Site with the assistance of the Community Service Advisor or Club leadership team and works with Communications Officer to calendar and promote them
Researches additional Citizenship programs that would benefit the club’s membership and consults with President/Vise-President about scheduling and promoting
Coordinates one Service-Learning activity each year.
Can be shared by two members

HISTORIAN (10 and over)

Takes photographs at all 4-H club meetings and activities.
Collects pictures, articles, etc. from other officers and club members to include in the 4-H club’s Facebook and website.
Puts together the 4-H club’s end-of-year historical record electronically or as a scrap book as decided by club officers.

SERGEANT AT ARMS (10 and over)

Makes sure that everyone is paying attention at the meetings
Confirms that the rest of the officers have what they need for the meetings
Assist with set-up and take-down of club meetings
Maintains order

HEALTHY LIVING OFFICER/RECREATION LEADER (9 and over)

Help members to set a goal every month - to meet the Health-H Challenge.
Provides a "Let's Move!" activity at every meeting.
Coordinate healthy snacks for each appropriate meeting
Fill out the Choose Health Report and give it to my 4-H leader at the end of the year.
Helps with community service activities at meetings.
Can be team of four members

HOSPITALITY OFFICER (9 and over)

Greets and welcomes people to Club meetings
Helps new members feel welcome
Assists members and families in finding provided flyers and information
Before meetings including community service drives, directs families to supplies deposit location
Assists with filling in for officers not present
Work with Healthy Living Officer to assign and notify members who will provide snack at Club meetings
9 and over
Can me two members sharing the duties

Oak Town 4-H April Club Meeting

4/3/2023

Monday, April 10 6:15 pm
Dimond Recreation Center
VOTE for your favorite OT4H T-Shirt design!
Craft Fair: 1 Community Service Craft and 3 County Fair Entry Crafts
- Decorated Egg for Operation Dignity's Spring Egg Hunt
- Painted Rocks
- Egg Carton Craft
- Pipe Cleaner Craft
Snacks!
Door Prizes!
April Birthday Celebration
Extra Door Prize Tickets for:
- bringing your water bottle
- wearing a 4-H Club T-Shirt
- bringing a friend NOT already enrolled in OT4H
Extra Points for YOUR Club House for
- Attendance
- Creating and donating decorated eggs for Operation Dignity's Spring Egg Hunt
- Giving a Project report to your Club House
- Completing the Healthy Living Challenge (30 minutes outdoor activity OR non-school reading daily)

PARENT CORNER!

Parent Help Needed!
Our April Club Meeting will involve creating quick and simple crafts for both Fair Entry and Community Service. Our teen leaders will be leading their Club House members in these activities as they rotate through them. However we need 2 adults at each of the tables to help with 2 things. First, all of the crafts for fair entry need to be photographed so they can be entered online. We need a parent at each table to take a photo of the completed craft both with the member's info card (for ID purposes) and alone for the actual entry. These images need to be able to be sent or shared with oaktown4h@gmail.com. The second parent is needed to sort of reorganize the table supplies between the club house rotations and pick it up when the craft fair is over. The tables are scheduled to be active between about 6:20 and 7:10. If you are available and can help with this, please let us know and come a little before the meeting start time so we can go over the needs in more detail.

Oak Town 4-H February Club Meeting

2/6/2023

Monday, February 13, 2023
Officer Set-Up: 6pm
Meeting: 6:15-7:45pm
Dimond Recreation Center, 3860 Hanly Rd, Oakland

BROWN BAG SKITS!

Club House Meetings
Get more points for YOUR Club House by
Bringing an unenrolled friend to the meeting
Bringing your water bottle
Wearing a 4-H T-Shirt
Participating in your Club House Brown Bag Skit
Talking about something you did in a project meeting during your Club House meeting.
Having completed the Healthy Living Challenge
EXTRA POINTS if you talk about a project meeting at the whole-club Wrap-Up meeting

Snacks

Healthy Living Challenge- read or exercise 30 minutes each day

Door Prizes! Extra Door Prize TICKETS at the door for wearing a 4-H T-Shirt and bringing your water bottle.

February Birthdays with Max!

Upcoming Events

Oak Town 4-H Holiday Party- HELP STILL NEEDED!!!!!

12/9/2022

Oak Town 4-H Families, our December CLub Holiday Party is just DAYS AWAY! Are you ready? We have several community service activities, at and beyond the party as well as a club fund-raising silent auction and a buffet of food to share. YOUR participation in some of these things will count as points towards YOUR Club House. These include:

Sign up to help Saturday, December 10th at 9 am at Davis Street Community Center (3081 Teagarden St, San Leandro, CA 94577) packing food boxes and sorting holiday toys. Counts as a club Community Service also
Sign up for the Adopt-a-Family. Each Club House has been assigned one of the four kids. Sign up, then buy and bring the item to the Party 12/12 to wrap and donate. If there are no slots left for your Club Houses sponsored child, sign up for something for the grandmother or the dad. Donating as well as wrapping the gifts also count as club Community Service. Note: if you belong to the "Head" Club House (Carmen, Anabel, Josie, Naia, Julianna, Rylee, Nyla, Marcus, Katalina, Chloe), your team desperately needs help filling 10 year old Lauren's wish list. Not in Head Club House and your house's sponsored child has a full list? Donate an item to one of the parental units (Grandmother Barbara or Dad Steve) wish lists.
Sign up to donate some of the toiletry items for the Holiday Compassion Stockings. Then bring the supplies to the Club Party 12/12/22 and help stuff a stocking with the supplies ad a few holiday treats. Take the stocking hole to give away on your own to a person in need or leave with the Community Service team to give away.
Attend the Club Holiday Party!~
Participate in the Ugly Sweater contest. (including those judging if they wear an appropriate sweater)- Wear a festive holiday sweater to the Club Party 12/12/22, check off that you are participating when you check in and see if you are one of the 5 Ugly Sweater Contest winners!
Participate in the Club Bingo and get a point for your club while you meet and greet new and returning club members. Prizes will also be given out for those that complete 5 in a row!

Additionally your family can help by signing up to

bring side dishes, salads and DESSERTS to the party!
donate an item to our Club's fund-raising Silent Auction

Oak Town 4-H 2022 Holiday Party Help Opportunities

11/29/2022

December Holiday Compassion Stocking Community Service

11/20/2022

Oak Town 4H Families, Our December Oak Town 4-H Club Holiday Party will include a couple of hands-on community service activities. One of these will be packing holiday stockings with individual toiletry and hygiene supplies for people in need. In order to do this we need your help collecting the supplies and bringing them to our December 12th club party. The club is supplying the holiday stockings to pack them in. We need personal/travel size items collected or obtained by YOU to make this happen. Please ask around to see if any of your friends or neighbor have any sample or travel-sizes of the items on this list that you can bring. Please review this Signup Genius to sign up.
At the Holiday party you can stuff a stocking of your choice, make a small card to include in it and then take it home to give to a shelter or someone on the street. If you are uncomfortable with that you can leave it at the club meeting and the Community Service team will make sure it finds a good home.
Thank you!
Date: 12/12/2022 (Mon.)
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm PST
Location: Dimond Recreation Center

Oak Town 4-H Holiday Community Service and Club Party

11/17/2022

Oak Town 4-H Families, as we move into December shortly we will be entering our biggest season for community service and wanted to let you know that several signups for club-related holiday activities will be coming out soon. Most of these are community service activities that we have chosen to help within our community and a few are for strictly club-related fun and funds.

To open up our community service efforts we are doing an Adopt a Family through Operation Dignity in Oakland to help two small families with children. Each of the four OT4H Club Houses is "Adopting" one of the children and we are asking leaders and other adults to help with the two parental units, a grandmother and a dad. Each section of the sign-up is labeled with the Club House responsible for that child and the names of the Club House members.

Coming soon will also be signups for our Holiday Stocking community service supplies, our club fundraising Silent Auction and a hands-on service day helping pack food and/or toys for Davis Street Family Resource Center. As the information on these gets finalized I will be sharing more signups.

Thanks to all who are able to help!

FALL for 4-H

11/12/2022

November Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting

11/12/2022

November 14, 2022, 6:15pm start time
Dimond Recreation Center*
Business Meeting
NEW: Club House Meeting
Short Parent Meeting
Refreshments
Club Awards
New Member Welcome
November Birthdays
Door Prizes

New Families: Oak Town 4-H Welcomes You!!!
Oak Town 4-H is so excited to have so many new families this year. To show our appreciation for our new families we will have a short New Member Welcome Celebration at our November Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting. To help new families get comfortable in our club and 4-H in general we also have an Introduction to 4-H Project just for new members (12 and under). This project helps members and their parents learn about various 4-H projects and traditions and hopefully will help new members settle in.

October 2022 Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting Trunk-or-Treat

10/12/2022

Our October Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting on October 17th will begin with a Trunk-or-Treat in the upper parking lot at Dimond Recreation Center.
We are asking families to participate by decorating their trunk or hatchback in some Halloween/Fall/Dias De los Muertos manner, provide a very simple activity or game kids can do to win treats or small prizes. Member families are providing their vehicle, decked out with decorations, game/activity and individual wrapped candy or inexpensive prizes. Participate and be a part of the fun!
General Guidelines

Set up for participating vehicles: 6pm
Trunk-or-Treat open 6:15-6:50
all candy/treats must be individually wrapped and handed out by one teen/adult per vehicle.
Trunk-or-Treat concludes at 6:50 with a costume parade down into Dimond Recreation Center for a Costume Contest
Prizes will be awarded for the costumes that are the

Funniest
Farm Themed
Best Group
Scariest
Most Artistic
Cutest
Best Homemade
Most Realistic

Date: 10/17/2022 (Mon.)

Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT

Location: Dimond Recreation Center Upper Parking Lot

Oak Town 4-H Community Service

9/9/2022

Hello All! So happy to see you in this new year, and can't wait to meet the newcomers! Some order of business for the upcoming Community service year is; A NEW PARK CLEAN UP TIME!! Now, instead of the Sunday before... It's only 45 minutes before the meeting starts! Now you can come a little early and help your club out. We would love to see you there!

Hope you have had a great break!
- Mira. Community Service Officer

Oak Town 4-H OPEN to Enrollment for 2022-2023 Program Year!

9/1/2022

Oak Town 4-H is now accepting membership registrations. The registration includes two pieces. A registration for youth members and adult volunteers at https://v2.4honline.com/ and a club-specific supplemental google form. Complete instructions are on the "Enrollment" page. of this website.

The Oak Town 4-H Supplemental Form includes links to the necessary fee payment site, project sign up and more. Registration will continue through October for continuing members and new families may register through April. However, no matter new or continuing member, the sooner you complete your registration, the sooner you can begin participating in Oak Town 4-H Project meetings. Please direct any questions not answered about enrollment on the this website to oaktown4h@gmail.com.

Oak Town 4-H FIRST 2022-2023 Club Meeting

8/31/2022

·   Where: Dimond Park "Dimond Grove" picnic area, near "tot lot"
· When: Monday, September 12, 2022 6:00-7:30 pm Dimond Picnic Grove*
What:
General Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting for YOUTH
Meeting organized and led by Youth Officers
Games & Activities
Dinner (sandwich OR dinner salad, fruit, chips and cookie) will be provided. PLEASE bring your water bottle
Business Meeting led my youth Club Officers
Meet Project Leaders and learn about the Projects they are offering, what it involves and if any dates for meetings have been set up
Parent Q&A opportunity
*Slight time adjustment in September to allow for outdoor meeting

OCTOBER MEETING:
o   Monday, October 17, 2022, 6:15-7:45 PM Dimond Recreation Center
o   Continuing every 2nd Monday through May*

My First Trip to the Alameda County Fair

8/29/2022

This year, I went to the Alameda County Fair for the first time. When I got there, I had some nachos. Somehow, they were made in seconds. I had signed up for 4-H Cake Booth, so I went over to the C Building to start my shift. The cake booth was really fun, and I had a really good time. After my shift was over, I got a crepe and visited the exhibits. Then I went home. I think that the fair was really fun, and I would definitely do it again. It felt good to do the cake booth. You could cut the cake, serve it, or manage the register. The cake booth also raised money for 4-H so I was supporting my club. During cake booth I met some new people who I thought were nice.
Desmond, 11

Oak Town 4-H Informational Party in the Park

8/4/2022

When: Sunday, August 28, 2022 4:00-6:00 pm 
Where: Dimond Park, Picnic Tables and Grassy Area
Who: NEW & Returning FAMILIES. Parents AND KIDS invited
What:

o   Oak Town 4-H Information Q&A
o   Project Displays
o  Project-related Games and Activities for youth led by Youth Officers
o  Information table for duration. More formal “Parent Meeting” info at 4:30pm
o   Share Snacks & Dessert on us

Contact us at oaktown4h@gmail.com

Oak Town 4-H June Party & Picnic

5/28/2022

Oak Town 4-H will have a party instead of a meeting in June. The date and location are both changed with information below. We will also be sharing a BBQ picnic and ice cream bar. Oak Town 4-H is supplying burgers and ice cream but we are asking you to bring a side, salad or ice cream topping. There is a SignupGenius so you can sign up to bring something to share.

When: June 5, 3-6pm
Where: Butko's Residence
What:
Record Book Drop Off
Pool party with games
Picnic (early) dinner
Group Photo
Ice Cream Dessert Bar
Awards
What to Bring:
Draft copy of Record Book
Shared side, salad or ice cream toppings
Bathing attire and towel if swimming
Water Bottle
Camp Chair if possible

Oak Town 4-H End-Of-Year Party and COVID-19 Protocol
Just a note to address COVID-19 concerns and our end-of-year party. As always this year, we are required to keep an attendance list and contact info of ALL attendees....this includes not only members but leaders, parents and even life guards. This party will be almost exclusively outdoors but with the abundance of eating and drinking opportunities as well as access to the pool, it will not be possible in most cases to use face masks and they will not be required. I'm sure everyone is well aware of this drill but will reiterate....if you are not feeling well, have signs of COVID-19 infections or were recently directly exposed to anyone with active COVID-19, please stay home. Thanks for helping us try to keep our families as safe as we can.

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