 May Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting
May Club House Points To earn your Club House team points towards winning the team prize in June be sure to do and bring the following to the May Club Meeting:
Parent Meeting During the youth members' Club House Meeting there will be a companion Parent Meeting. This is a great time to bring up any concerns or ask questions. We will also be covering:
4-H Record Books Tracking what you've done through your 4-H year is one of the Life Skills 4-H encourages and rewards. This year many members have worked at filling out their Spark Charts or Primary Reports and Annual Project Reports in Club House and Project Meetings. These will be returned to you at the May Club Meeting in a personalized 4-H Record Book cover. For those 8 and older, the Record Book will also contain a "My 4-H Story" worksheet. Take these home and complete the new form and add any forgotten items to the Spark Chart or Primary Report and bring them back to the June Club Picnic June 9th. Turning in your Record Book will get you your 4-H Year Pin and Stripe and also gain your Club House points. For those wishing to go an extra step and gain additional awards, there is a County Record Book competition in September. More information is available about County record Books if you are interested. Oak Town 4-H: Fair Submissions: Deadline May 15th! For a list and information on what can be entered as Youth Still Exhibits, be sure to read through the Alameda County FAIR YOUTH STILL EXHIBITS GUIDE.
Please NOTE: We WILL need 2-4 families willing to accept club members fair Still Exhibit entries right before deliveries are due and ferry them out to the Alameda County Fairgrounds either Friday, May 24, 12-8pm OR Saturday, May 25, 8am-4pm. Reminder, we get funding when you sign up for Farm Fresh To you! We have a great fundraiser we've been doing for a couple years now and I want to remind folks about it. As a reminder, your club's promo code is OAKTOWN4H, and you earn 10% back from every delivery when someone in your community adds your 4-H Club's promo code to their account. Sign up here: https://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/ Get ready for Santa Clara 4-H Camp! This year, sign up for Santa Clara County’s 4-H Camp June 23-27th! With a fun music theme, there is something for everyone at camp! Some examples of activities there are hiking, woodworking, arts & crafts, archery, and more! Sign up today! Register here for Camp! https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=42077 -Jackson, Camp Youth Director 2024 Cake Booth is 6/29/24! Mark your calendars! Oak Town has selected Saturday, 6/29/24 to be our Cake Booth day at the Alameda County Fair. Cake Booth is the one Countywide 4-H fundraiser we have each year. Each club selects and staffs an entire day and the kids really love to sell cake slices. Please sign up here! It's fun for the whole family. I've done this many times with my kids and the time flies by. The kids learn communication with each other and with the public, how to run the cash register, how to cut cakes, food safety/food prep. The adults have fun frosting and cutting cakes, and cleaning the knives and cake scorers. Please mark your calendars and sign up for shift! Oh, I forgot the best part, all the volunteers get free fair admission and a free parking pass for that day so you can attend the fair for free before or after your shift! WIN-WIN! Oak Town 4-H June Picnic Our last "Club Meeting" of the year is a June Picnic. This year it will take place on Sunday, June 9th, likely within the window of 2-6pm. We NEED help planning this party. If you would like to be involved in the planning process for food, games, activities and such, a paper signup will be at the May Club Meeting or contact the club by email at [email protected]. Although the Officer Team chose the date and general time, they would like you to be involved in making the choice of the location. There are two available options and you will be asked to vote for your choice at the May Club Meeting. Your vote counts so read the comparisons and decide which you would prefer. Option 1 Venue: Dimond Park BBQ Cost: $215 with $100 refunded if area is cleaned adequately Location: Dimond Park right below Dimond Recreation Center Amenities: BBQ (need to haul in supplies), picnic tables, grassy area, playground nearby. Ice chests would need to be hauled in, public bathrooms Possible Activities: Picnic, Lawn games (parachute, bubbles, hula hoops....) Cons: no AV set up Option 2 Venue: Butko's home Cost: $75 (Life Guard fee) Location: near Oakland Zoo Amenities: Pool, hot tub, BBQ w/ supplies on hand, refrigerator/freezer if needed, tables, indoor bathrooms, Projector and screen (for year-in-4-H slide show) Possible Activities: BBQ, Swimming, Slide show, limited team games or STEM activities Cons: limited space for "lawn games" April Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting
Sign up to bring snacks to the April meeting! Please check out the signup genius and sign up to bring snacks! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044CAEAC23A0FF2-48812968-snacks#/ Rising Stars 4-H International Field Day The Alameda County 4-H Rising Stars Team has planned a fun event they hope you will come to, participate in and learn from! Eight booths will be available to learn about other countries, and Community Service opportunities around the world, sample food and playing games from that country and watching a performance related to that country. Attendees will get to vote for their favorite food samples and games, and earn candies or small prizes filling out their event passport as they visit the booths on France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan (Oak Town's submission!), Poland, Puerto Rico as well as 4-H Programs around the world. The County Ambassadors will be giving information about the County 4-H Ambassador Program. 4-H International Field Day will be held Saturday, April 13th from 2-4:15pm at Hill & Valley Club, 1808 B Street, Hayward. Parking is available on-site. Members and their families and friends are invited and encouraged to attend. Additionally, if you would like to earn leadership credits for helping with our Oak Town 4-H "Japan" booth, there will be an in-person work session Sunday, April 7th at 5pm at the Butko's. Help finalize our poster, design the arrangement of our booth, sample our proposed food samples and try our activity. Help is also needed staff our booth for short time periods so all attendees can visit other club booths as well. 4-H Record Keeping, Documentation and Record Books One of the Life Skills 4-H promotes and patterns for youth is the ability to document what they have achieved. One of the ways 4-H offers its members the opportunity to practice this skill is by documenting what they've learned and done in their 4-H Projects which our Club Project Leaders should be working on with their members over the course of project work during the year. Another form we are using to help new and younger members track what they've done and earn achievement for it is the Spark Chart the Club House Leads have been working with their House members over the year. These two pieces of documentation go together with the member's "My 4-H Story" to create their 4-H year's Record Book. The annual Record Book forms are kept and added to each year to show the growth and achievements of the members. As members age, the thrust of the forms they are to complete change from trying new things for newer and younger members to setting goals for themselves on what they would like to accomplish to getting out and making a difference in their communities. But, for now, for our newer and younger members we are attempting to have them just accomplish small steps. Putting together the basics of a simple Record Book in the easiest, most painless, process possible. At our May Club meeting we will be giving back the Project reports and Spark Charts kids have been working on over the year in their Projects and Club Houses in a 4-H folder along with a form that they can fill out that mirrors what is usually written in a "My 4-H Story". Completing this form and adding it to their Spark Chart and Project reports and turning this in at the June Club Party will get them off to a good start, getting them acknowledgement for what they've done and the possibility for those that want to go a step beyond to clean it all up to make it look nice and compete at the County 4-H Record Book Competition. More information about the steps in this process will be out in May. Oak Town 4-H: Fair Submissions The Alameda County Fair is just around the corner. Our Club Members are encouraged to submit Still Exhibit items to the Alameda County Fair. How can our Oak Town 4-H members do this? Below are three sample routes for Youth Still Exhibit Alameda County Fair entries.
Please NOTE: We WILL need 2-4 families willing to accept club members fair Still Exhibit entries right before deliveries are due and ferry them out to the Alameda County Fairgrounds either Friday, May 24, 12-8pm OR Saturday, May 25, 8am-4pm. Get ready for Santa Clara 4-H Camp! Santa Clara County 4-H camp is June 23-27th. Jackson and I are both camp staff there this year and we hope to see more kids from Oak Town and Alameda county. There are fun activities like shooting sports, archery, various arts and crafts, and you also improve your computer science skills. -Leo, Camp Staff Register here for Camp! https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=42077 -Jackson, Camp Youth Director 2024 Cake Booth is 6/29/24! Mark your calendars! Oak Town has selected Saturday, 6/29/24 to be our Cake Booth day at the Alameda County Fair. Cake Booth is the one Countywide 4-H fundraiser we have each year. Each club selects and staffs an entire day and the kids really love to sell cake slices. Look for a Signup Genius coming soon with 3 hour shifts. It's fun for the whole family. I've done this many times with my kids and the time flies by. The kids learn communication with each other and with the public, how to run the cash register, how to cut cakes, food safety/food prep. The adults have fun frosting and cutting cakes, and cleaning the knives and cake scorers. Please mark your calendars and sign up for shift! Oh, I forgot the best part, all the volunteers get free fair admission and a free parking pass for that day so you can attend the fair for free before or after your shift! WIN-WIN! The Alameda County Fair is just around the corner. Our Club Members are encouraged to submit Still Exhibit items to the Alameda County Fair. How can our Oak Town 4-H members do this? Below are three sample routes for Youth Still Exhibit Alameda County Fair entries.
Please NOTE: We WILL need 2-4 families willing to accept club members fair Still Exhibit entries right before deliveries are due and ferry them out to the Alameda County Fairgrounds either Friday, May 24, 12-8pm OR Saturday, May 25, 8am-4pm. February OT4H Club Meeting
January 2024 Oak Town 4-H Club meeting
Where: Dimond Recreation Center, 3860 Hanly Rd, Oakland, CA When: January 8, 2024, 6:15 pm
Oak Town 4-H Parent Meeting At the same time as the youth members' Club House Meeting we will hold a parent meeting, likely in the kitchen at Dimond Rec, to answer any questions and talk a bit more about our efforts to promote public speaking, record keeping and community service. If you have questions and/or what to learn more about making the 4-H program work best for you and your youth pear plan to attend. Club House Competition Credits Our Oak Town 4-H Club Houses first met at our November Club Meeting. These sub-groups, Head, Heart, Hands and Health, meet monthly at club meetings and accumulate points for their member teams by participating and just showing up. In January points will be awarded to Club Houses for members that
New Projects Commencing Shortly While some Projects have ended or are winding down, Mini-Gardens and Photography will begin in January. If you haven't already signed up for either of these Projects but want to participate, please contact Barbara at [email protected]  Join other Oak Town 4-H Families helping out in our community. Davis Street Community Center is inviting us again to help with Toy Sorting and Food Bag Packing for the holidays.
● WHEN: Saturday, December 16th, 9-11 am ● WHERE: Davis Street Community Center, 3081 Teagarden Street, San Leandro ● WHAT: o Sort toys into individual bags for kids by age AND/OR o Pack food items from a list for individual families MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY: ● Sign up for one or more sessions to help out ● A parental unit or custodial adult must be present to sign in with Davis Street Where: Dimond Recreation Center, 3860 Hanly Rd, Oakland, CA
When: December 11th, 6:00-8:30pm
Holiday Party General Schedule Event Schedule
Dessert Auction at our December Club Meeting - Volunteer Opportunity! Who loves the Great British Baking show? Would you like an opportunity to make your own Signature Dessert? At our December meeting we are hoping to auction off some beautiful homemade desserts to raise some money for our club! If you'd like to participate, please look out for the Sign Up Genius for our club meeting and sign up for the "Auction Desserts". Bring your beautiful creation to our club meeting along with a label that lists any pertinent allergen information (nuts, eggs, etc). Thank you for your contributions! -Melina Moser
Hello Oaktown 4-Hers, we will be kicking off Fall Hiking this year with 3 different trails. I will be the junior leader and our 2 co-leaders are Allie and Erich. Just like last year, the hikes will be informative, have nice views, and a breath of fresh air.
Hike 1 - Saturday, November 11 - Cameron Loop Trail at Chabot Regional Park (10:00 AM start) The first hike is at Lake Chabot Regional Park on the Cameron Loop Trail. That will be next Saturday on November 11th. It has abundant views of the lake for taking great pictures and experiencing unique biomes. Map Link Here Hike 2 - Saturday, December 2 - Wildcat Gorge, Meadows Bay and Canyon and Curran Trail at Tilden Regional Park (10:00 AM start) Our second hike will be at Tilden Regional Park at the Wildcat Gorge, Meadows Bay and Canyon and Curran Trail. Tilden is known for having some of the most beautiful birds in the East Bay! Map Link Here Hike 3 - TBD, January 2024 - Alhambra Creek Trail at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County (10:00 AM start) Our final hike will then be at Briones Regional Park on the Alhambra Creek Trail. It has incredible grasslands and untouched oak lands. Map Link Here RSVP and Questions? If you have any questions then please email [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. October Oak Town 4-H Meeting Info
The Officer Team has many fun Halloween-related games, activities and contests planned for the October Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting. The agenda includes:
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 Join us for our FIRST Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting of the 2023-2024 4-H Program Year!
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.
More information on the 2023-2024 Oak Town 4-H Program Year coming soon. MAY Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting
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 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:
PRESIDENT (13 and over)
VICE PRESIDENT (13 and over)
SECRETARY (11 and over)
TREASURER (12 and over)
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (11 and over)
COMMUNITY SERVICE/CITIZENSHIP OFFICER (10 and over)
HISTORIAN (10 and over)
SERGEANT AT ARMS (10 and over)
HEALTHY LIVING OFFICER/RECREATION LEADER (9 and over)
HOSPITALITY OFFICER (9 and over)
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 [email protected]. 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. Monday, February 13, 2023
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