4-H is the Best

I am in many activities. In school, I’m a Monti-Hender Captain, and I’m in Community Service Baking. I do after-school chess along with Drama Class, Math Bowl practice, Photo Club, and Science Olympiad practice. Those are just some activates that I do at school! Away from school, I’m even busier! I am in Girl Scouts, I help my dad with Cub Scouts, and many more things. Since I’m in Photo Club, I have to take many pictures and pick five to enter into the contest. I’m also in Faith Formation which is a school where I go to once a month to learn about my faith. I’m in 4-H, too! Throughout this post I will be explaining the history of 4-H, how you join 4-H, and some of the 4-H projects.

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4-H is a world-wide club. “Since 4‑H began more than 100 years ago, it has become the nation’s largest youth development organization. The 4‑H idea is simple: help young people and their families gain the skills needed to be proactive forces in their communities and develop ideas for a more innovative economy,” said 4‑H.org. Click here to go to the official site to read about the history of 4-H. People got the idea for 4‑H in the late 1800s. “Researchers discovered adults who were farmers did not accept new agricultural developments on college campuses. The researchers found that young people were open to new thinking and would experiment with new ideas. The researchers thought that the young people would share their experiences with the adults. In this way, youth programs would be very good for the young people and the adults. The idea of “hands-on” learning came from the want to connect public school education to country life. Having community clubs to help solve agricultural challenges was the first step toward youth learning about the industries in their community. I hope that you saw that I was saying young people instead of kids or children. 4‑H is not just for middle school and under. High school students can be in the clubs, too.

A.B. Graham started a youth program in Clack County, Ohio, in 1902. That was considered that birth of 4‑H in the United States. Of course, the first club wasn’t called 4‑H. The first club was called “The Tomato Club” which is also known as the “Corn Growing Club”. T.A. Erickson, who lived in Douglas County, Minnesota, started to have local agricultural afterschool clubs and have fairs for them the same year Graham started his club. Jessie Field Shambaugh developed the clover pin with the 4‑H H on each leaf in 1910, and by 1912 they were all called 4‑H clubs.4073177101

The passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 created the Cooperative Extension System at USDA and nationalized 4‑H. By 1924, 4‑H clubs were officially formed and the 4‑H clover emblem was adopted. The Cooperative System is a partnership of the national Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 100 land-grant universities and more than 3,00 county offices across the nation. Cooperative Extension combines the expertise and resources of federal, state, and local governments and is designed to meet the need for research, knowledge and educational programs.

Today, 4‑H is very different. 4‑H is now in rural, urban, and suburban communities in every state across the nation. 4‑H’ers are tacking the nation’s top issues. Whether it’s global food security, climate change, and sustainable energy to childhood obesity and food safety. 4‑H out-of-school programming, in-school enrichment programs, clubs and camps also offer a wide variety of STEM opportunities – from agricultural and animal sciences to rocketry, robotics, environmental protection and computer science – to improve the nation’s ability to compete in key scientific fields and take on the leading challenges of the 21st century.

It’s very easy to join a 4‑H club. You just need to get registered and join the club near you! Click here to join 4 H!

14684305282   There are so many projects in 4‑H! I can’t name all of them, but there is always something for everyone. I always enter Fine Arts and Lego. These are my two favorites in all of them. In Lego, you just build a structure, either form a kit or you think of it yourself. You don’t have to use Legos. You can use another type of building brick like that. My other favorite project is Fine Arts. This is a project where you enter a fine art. A fine art could be a nice painting, drawing, or maybe even a sculpture! The judges are tough though, so give it your best if you enter this project! Your projects get entered at the fair. You even win ribbons at the local fair, and if your project is good enough, you could go to your state fair (if you are in the USA)! A list of some of the projects from animal science.

Aquatic Science

Beef

Cat

Dairy

Dog

Goat

Horse

Llama and Alpaca

Pet

Pigeon

Poultry

Rabbit

Sheep

Swine

Vet Science

Well, that wraps up this week’s post! See you next week! Bye!

This entry was posted on December 2, 2016. 2 Comments

Poems

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is here

The leaves are falling

The air is getting colder

Whoosh!

I shiver as the cold wind hits me in the face

I run inside to see my family around the TV

The thanksgiving parade is on

I watch the floats on balloons dance through New York

“It’s time” I hear my mom call

We rush into the dining room and a delicious sent fills the air

Food

Food of all sorts

Turkey

Ham

Potatoes

Corn

Gravy

Pies

Those pies are ready to have sugar dusted on them

And ready to be eaten

Yum!

We settle around the table and say a prayer

Then we dig in

I love Thanksgiving!mashed-paters

Click here to see the history of Thanksgiving.

Leaves

Let them fall off the trees

Into the cold fall breeze

Either they fall or they stay

All we want for the holiday

Is the leaves to simply fall in a pile

Then we wouldn’t have to stay outside for a while

To rake all the leaves into the street

Where the neighbors are sure for a treat

For I will rake all the leaves

To make everyone at ease

The leaves will still come even though I am done

So I better be ready for more funlaefs-on-da-ground

Click here to see why leaves change color.

This entry was posted on November 26, 2016. 2 Comments

Pixar Perfect

The Pixar Theory is a theory that states that all the Disney/Pixar movies exist on the same timeline in the same universe. I didn’t come up with this theory, though. Throughout the movies we will see the struggles of three different groups. They are animals, humans, and machines. An amazing man named Jon Negroni came up with the Pixar Theory. He posted a post on his own blog that is more specific. After you read this, I think you should go read what Jon has to say. Click here to go to his blog. I’m going to use ideas from his posts and from many YouTube videos to write this post. Click here to go to my favorite YouTuber.

Throughout the post, I will be talking how all the movies fit in this theory, and why. The movies I will be using are

  • A Bug’s Life
  • Toy Story
  • Toy Story 2
  • Toy Story 3
  • Monsters Inc.
  • Finding Nemo
  • Finding Dory
  • The Incredibles
  • Cars
  • Planes
  • Cars 2
  • Ratatouille
  • Wall-E
  • Up
  • Brave
  • Monster’s University
  • Inside Out
  • The Good Dinosaur

The movie that starts the theory is Brave. Brave takes place in medieval times in Scotland. In this movie, we see animals act like humans for the first time. I know that they are humans turned into animals, but what if the witch turned many more humans into animals? I also will talk more about the witch later in the post and who she really is. She could have started the time when animals turned more and more like humans. Animals started getting more intelligent. This was a story that started out all the Pixar magic.

 

The story that come after that are Ratatoullie, Up, and Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory. Notice how I left out Bug’s Life. I will talk about that later in the post. In these three movies, we see that animals are getting smarter and are starting to up their ways of living.

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For instance, in Finding Dory and Finding Nemo, we see that fish have houses, communities, and even schools of fish! (No pun intended! 😉). Any way, we see that animals are starting to become more and more like humans. Also in the movie, we see that humans are destroying the world. In finding Dory, we see a car in the ocean, bottles on the ocean floor, trash floating in the ocean, and Dory gets stuck in the classic six pack bottle rings. In finding Nemo, we even hear the sharks say “Probably American” after they hear about the human that took Nemo. This is proof that humans (Americans) are destroying the world.

 

In Ratatoullie we see rats that want to do human customs, like cooking. The rats also are surpassing or trying to surpass people in intelligence and working. The rats are also are collecting food, living in groups (because they know it is safer), and they are stealing from humans. This is a time when animals are starting or trying to surpass humans.

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In the movie Up, we see dogs that can communicate with humans because we know of their intelligence. In the movie there is a whole character devoted to discovering the intelligence of animals and unleashing them. After this character dies, we don’t really know what happens to the dogs, but we can guess that they went off by themselves. These dogs and other animals obviously have intelligence, but what about artificial intelligence?

 

Artificial intelligence first appears in the Incredibles. In the Incredibles, the character (Buddy) is the villain. Or is he? He isn’t the one doing the killing, it’s the machines. The machines have artificial intelligence and then are using that to their advantage. The machines are trying to take over and kill all the humans. We know this because the technology used is trying to kill humans. Why? We know that animals don’t like humans because the humans are polluting the Earth, but what do the machines have against them? Let’s go to the Toy Stories.

 

In Toy Story, we see the toys raising up against Sid. In Toy Story 2, Jesse resents her owner for abandoning her. In Toy Story 3 Latso straight up hates humans. These toys want more and with the super humans gone (they are all gone by the 2000) there is really nothing stopping them from trying to dominate the world. These machines and the toys sort of combine to create Cars.

 

Cars is by far the Pixar movie that almost destroyed the whole Pixar Theory! It really messed us up! Although with more information we can clearly fit it in to the theory now, it was really hard. Now we know that after the humans left Earth (as in WALL-E) they left the machines in their dust. These machines missed the humans, but they still followed the human customs. We also know that they are experiencing an energy crisis because the humans are gone.

 

Well, I have to wrap up the post, but I will leave you with two questions. What is your favorite Pixar movie, and do you think the cars in Cars grow up? Think about the last one a little deeper because we see baby, child, and adult cars in the films, but do they grow up? Please try to answer the questions in the comment section and tell me what you think about my post. See you next time! Bye!

 

 

P.S. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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This entry was posted on November 17, 2016. 26 Comments