It s Show Time! Jefferson County Show News Inside you will find lots of tips to ensure you have a great show experience. Please make sure to dress appropriately. Your appearance combined with your judging experience and project completion determines your placement. The judge will evaluate you on the whole package. Parents are not allowed in the judging area. I am excited to see all your hard work, the projects are going to be awesome! Ramona Girtman Cloverbuds Cloverbuds exhibits are non-competitive. Summer 2017 The ribbon for Cloverbuds is based on participation; blue, red, white ribbons are not awarded. Ramona Girtman Program Coordinator, 4-H girtman@illinois.edu Pam Jacobs, Extension County Director Liz Miller, SAVE THE DATE! 4-H Day at the Aquatic Zoo Tuesday, August 8 from 1-4pm Cloverbuds will be asked questions relating to themselves, their club, and their project experience. Cloverbud projects are the stepping stone for conference judging when the member turns eight. Who Doesn t Love Bingo? Live Animal Members Weigh-In starts Saturday, July 15 at 5pm. See Show Schedule in back of newsletter for more details. Check-in at least 30 minutes prior to your show. Don t forget to play Chicken Poo Bingo at the Livestock Show on the Fairgrounds. Details will be shared during Fair. Livestock health records must be present. 1
MASTER SHOWMANSHIP CONTEST 9:00am July 18 Junior Division: ages 13 and under Senior Division: ages 14 and over Participants will show swine, beef, and sheep. One animal must be owned by the 4-H member; other species may be borrowed. All showmanship winners from each species are strongly encouraged to participate. Top 3 competitors in each division will be presented with awards. Thank you to Jefferson County Farm Bureau for sponsoring this contest! 4-H General Projects Show Check-In Schedule Woodlawn Christian Church **Show set up is Friday, July 21 at 9 a.m. Each club is asked to have at least two members there to help** Saturday, July 22 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Archery Club, Campground Clovers, Prairie Wranglers, Waltonville Bulldogs 10:00 a.m. Cloverbud Club, Farrington Horsecreekers, Hunting & Outdoors Skills, Muddy Boots IMPORTANT NOTE: There will be a Youth Fair, so please be prepared to leave projects for Youth Fair Judging. **Please arrive at registration at your scheduled time; this staggered schedule is designed to keep judging lines at a minimum based on club entries.** DON T FORGET TO READ THE MASTER SHOWMANSHIP INFO! 2
LAST MINUTE FAIR REMINDERS!!! 1.Be prepared with all necessary animal health papers: CVI for goats, sheep, breeding beef, swine, and dairy. Copies of rabies shots for cats and dogs. Horses need a negative Coggins test. 2. All cats and dogs must be on a collar and leash. Cats need to be in a carrier as well. No harnesses!!! The Cat/Dog Show is 6:30 pm Saturday, July 22 at the Extension Office. 3. Camper fee is $ 10. Call to reserve a site. Payments will be accepted at the fairgrounds and must be paid directly to Youth Fair (Steve Norris). No campers are allowed at the fairgrounds until Friday afternoon, July 21. We will also be spraying for mosquitoes and no one should be at the fairgrounds before this time. 5.General Projects Show: Exhibit tags are pre-printed for everyone this year. You will pick up your tags when you check-in for General Projects Show. Maps of the church with locations of judges labeled will be available as you enter the show. 6.Follow the 4-H member Code of Conduct at ALL times. Page 9 of the Show Book. 7.SEND INVITATIONS TO YOUR AUCTION BUYERS. A FLYER IS AVAILABLE IN THE NEWSLETTER, ON THE WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK FOR YOU TO COPY AND DISTRIBUTE. 8.A mandatory auction meeting for all youth and families selling an animal will be at 7:30 PM on Saturday, July 15 before swine weigh-in. Please gather on the bleachers on the east side of the arena near the sheep barn. 4-H FOUNDATION BBQ REMINDERS 4-H BBQ will be Saturday, August 5 (see flyer in back of newsletter) 1. All 4-H Members are asked to donate 2 dozen cookies (preferably 3 cookies packed in a zip-lock bag). Leaders are asked to donate a cake. 2. 4-H Members are encouraged to participate in the 4-H BBQ Poster Contest. Create an poster advertising the BBQ, post it at a business and then bring it to be judged. Posters must be out by July 22 and turned in to the Extension Office by August 8. 3. All Auction participants are encouraged to create a Buyer s Thank You poster to be posted at the Roland Lewis Building during the BBQ. 4. Families are asked to donate salad fixings: Cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, etc. 5. A 10% commission on all BBQ tickets sold is given to clubs ONLY if turned in before 11am on August 8, 2017. 6. Top 3 individual BBQ ticket sellers will receive an award from the 4-H Foundation 7. All club members are encouraged to sell at least 10 tickets. 8. BBQ tickets can be picked up at the Extension Office. Money collected can be turned in to Ken Hayse. 9. DON T FORGET TO COME TO THE BBQ and WEAR YOUR 4-H SHIRT! 3
FARM FOLLIES The Jefferson County 4-H Youth Representatives are planning the Farm Follies for Monday, July 17, 2017, at 8 PM. 4-H members age 14 and up are asked to organize into teams of 4 for the events. The top team will be awarded a $10 gift voucher per person to be used in the Cook Shack. BEST DECORATED STALL CONTEST The Youth Reps are sponsoring a Best Decorated/Cleanest Stall Award. The judging for cleanliness will take place every day Sunday-Tuesday. For those who do not have an animal, you can still participate! Call the office to reserve an area to decorate. Decorations need to be in place by 3:00 PM Tuesday, July 18. Judging will be based upon cleanliness, creativity, and eye-catching appeal. Four awards will be given: one for cattle barns, one for goat barn, one for sheep barn, and one for swine barn. The award will be a $25 ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. Winners will be announced before the auction. Families cannot win multiple times. The theme for this year s decorations is All American Fair SCAVENGER HUNT The Scavenger Hunt will not be a club event this year. Youth Reps will have a Junior Division Scavenger Hunt (age 11 and under) and a Senior Division Scavenger Hunt (age 12 and up). These will be available July 16. Pick yours up at the Cook Shack. The scavenger hunt should be turned in no later than August 5th. Awards will be given to the top 3 from each division. The winners will be announced at Achievement Night. 4-H CLUB SCHEDULE FOR BATHROOM DUTIES AT THE FAIR- GROUNDS If you will not be available during the time denoted below, please make sure someone from your club is or switch with another leader. Just make sure floors are clean, sinks and stools wiped off, plenty of toilet paper, soap and paper towels available and take out the trash. Supplies are in the fair office right as you walk in the door. Thank you Saturday: Texico Stars & Muddy Boots Sunday: Campground Clovers & Farrington Horsecreekers Monday: Marlow Cardinals, Waltonville Bulldogs & Prairie Wranglers Tuesday: Waltonville Lucky Leprechauns and County Line Club Robotics, Air Rifle, Outdoors Skills and Archery Clubs, along with the Youth Representatives, are asked to help take down tables and chairs after the General Projects Show at the Woodlawn Christian Church. 4
Show us what you know Since you ve joined 4-H, you ve been attending your 4-H club meetings each month and maybe attending some county workshops and events. It s been great fun, hasn t it! Now it s time to get busy concentrating on your 4-H project work. project work is not usually done at a club meeting. Project work is something you do at home with your family. Getting Started The first place to start is your PROJECT MANUAL. Your manual contains LOTS of information about the project. Read it. Study it. Do the activities in it. Then, go find out even more about your project by talking to people. You might get help from a neighbor, a grandparent, a business owner, a homemaker or your parents anyone who could give you some help. The 4-H Show A special time is set up for every 4-H member in the county to show what they ve learned from their 4-H projects. This event is called the 4-H Show. Jefferson County offers several opportunities to show your project. All shows are held within 10 days in July; they include Dogs/Cars, Crops, General Projects, Horse and Livestock. Practice, Practice,Practice Getting good takes practice. If you are enrolled in a food project, you need to practice making many of the recipes in your food manual. If you are enrolled in woodworking, you need to make several woodworking items to get used to working with the tools. If you are enrolled in sewing, you need to make more than one item to get the hang of using a sewing machine What you should bring It would be very confusing if every 4-H member brought something different to the 4-H show, so there is a VERY SPECIFIC list of the exhibits for each project. This list is found in the 4-H Showbook which is given to each family by their leader in the spring. Show books are still available at the Extension Office. 4-H members should find the EXACT exhibit requirements listed for the projects they enrolled in. These rules change every year, so it s very important to follow the guidebook when preparing your exhibit. 5
Creating Posters/Display Boards Make sure your display board is attention-getting. Include information that is brief and easy to read. Make it neat! Include pictures or charts if they help explain your project work. Check your spelling and then check it again. Use intense colors. Try dark lettering against a light background. Recommended size is 36x48. What will the judge ask? A judge will not try to trick or scare you. The judge will probably ask how you made the exhibit what steps you used, what materials you used. They may ask you what you learned. They may ask what areas you had trouble with. They may ask what other things you made in the project. They may ask if you had fun! The most important thing is to be honest with the judge. If you don t know an answer, simply say I don t know. If you got help from your family, tell the judge that too (for safety reasons, some parts of projects should be done with adults.) Getting a Grade and Ribbon You will be spending a lot of time learning about your project, so 4-H rewards you for all you ve learned by giving you a grade, ribbon and premium money based on how well you complete your project. Your grade at the 4-H show is determined by the score you receive from the judge. The judge uses a score sheet designed just for your project. A copy of those score sheets are available from the Extension Office. If your project MEETS ALL THE STANDARDS score sheet, it will receive a BLUE RIBBON. If your project NEEDS SOME IMPROVE- MENT, it will receive a RED RIBBON. If your project NEEDS MUCH IMPROVEMENT, it will receive a WHITE RIBBON. It is important to know that if your exhibit doesn t follow all the rules in the show book, IT CANNOT RECEIVE A BLUE RIBBON. That s why it is so important to read the show book. Remember It s important to remember that no matter what ribbon your project receives, YOU ARE A BLUE-RIBBON KID! As long as you did your best, that s all that matters. Be polite to all of the adults working and helping with the 4-H Show. Volunteer to help your leader during the 4 -H show. Read all the information sent to you, ask questions, and you ll have a GREAT 4-H SHOW EXPERIENCE! Extra Prizes In addition to your blue, red or white ribbon, the judge can award extra ribbons and prizes. BEST OF SHOW One top exhibit in each project area grouping will be picked as the best that day and will receive a Best of Show ribbon. STATE FAIR Judges will select state fair and alternate delegate s base on project completion and conference judging experience. Many times, 4-H members get selected to go to the State Fair in many projects but you may only pick one. The State Fair is held in August in Springfield. YOUTH FAIR - Jefferson County Youth Fair will also award ribbons this year. 6
Ways for parents to help youth prepare for conference judging One of the best places to start is by asking your children if they understand why they did the steps and procedures they followed in their projects. Answer any questions they may have about their projects. Then practice a conference judging experience with your child by playing the role of judge. On the day of conference judging, parents can help their children feel comfortable with the judge by encouraging them prior to judging. Answering the judges questions for the children will not help your children feel more comfortable or help them learn more about the project. This is the 4-H ers chance to shine and be proud of their achievements. After judging, tell your children how proud you are of them. Focus on What did you learn? rather than what ribbon did you get? Question to ask your child in preparation for conference judging Get Acquainted Questions and Sharing: What is your name? How many years have you been in the project and 4-H? Tell me about your project. Why did you choose this idea/item as your exhibit? How did you make this exhibit? Processing Questions: What choices did you make when putting this exhibit together? What did you learn from mistakes you made? Or what would you do differently next time? What equipment or tools/materials or money did you use to prepare this exhibit? How much time, efforts, and skill did you use to prepare this exhibit? Where did you find the information to help you with project? Or where did you get the idea? Did anyone help you? What do you hope people notice about your project? Why is this a good birdhouse, garden box, etc.? How does it show originality? Generalize and Apply Questions: What was your favorite part of this project? What did you learn by preparing this exhibit? Have you ever done anything like this before? What have you made in this project before? What jobs/careers are possible in this project area? What do you plan to do next in this project area? Is there anything else about your project that you d like to tell me? Wrap Up from the Judge: Critiques and Comments From the Judge Positive Encouragement Thank You for Exhibiting Today it was very interesting and I learned something new! 7
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