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an on-line newsletter for 4-H volunteers and teachers
We welcome your story ideas and announcements. Let us know what is happening in your school or community or share a new resource you discovered. We would love to hear from you. Please e-mail them to the 4-H Wildlife Stewards office. IN THIS ISSUE Program Update
School Updates
Trainings and Workshops
Grant and Award Alerts
Resources
New 4-H Wildlife Stewards T-Shirts for Sale!Order your new 4-H Wildlife Stewards T-shirts today or stop by the 4-H Wildlife Stewards office to purchase your new shirt. The shirts are royal blue and the long sleeved t-shirts made of 100% preshrunk cotton and sell for only $15.00. The short-sleeve t-shirts are $10.00. These make great gifts for your sponsors, partners or parent volunteers. Click here to see the t-shirt design New 4-H Wildlife Stewards Student Journal for Sale!Our new 4-H Junior Wildlife Stewards Student Journals are ideal to use in any Habitat Education Site. The journal encourages students to keep a record of their project, map their area, observe wildlife, water sources, and investigate their site using science inquiry. There is space to draw pictures of wildlife, plants, and even of themselves in their habitat. The journal is bound, beautifully illustrated and includes 32 sheets for data and record keeping that is kid friendly. For 4-H Members: $3.50 each 30 or more (10% discount) for $2.70 each Click here to see sample pages of our new Journal Office MoveWe are still at Sunnyside Environmental School! Our address and phone numbers are still the same. However, we have moved out of the "maze" and into Room 204. It is a large classroom with FIVE windows! And, the windows open! A big THANK YOU to 4-H Wildlife Steward, Pat Butt and Laura Brown AND Susan's son, Kyle, for helping us paint our new office. Everyone who stops by loves the color! Please stop by and check it out! Speaking of "check it out", we have put a lot of time into organizing our materials and making our resources more easily available to you. You can easily look at the contents of our education kits and our library is well organized. We look forward to seeing you! School Garden Tour 2007Back by popular demand, the second annual 4-H Wildlife Stewards School tour will take place this Spring. The tour will feature schools in Clackamas County. Each school is unique and has a variety of habitat features including art murals, school ponds, composting, inner courtyards, bird gardens, butterfly gardens and much more. Each school is at different stages of their development. Deep Creek School is one of our original charter member school (10 years) and Carus Elememtary School is our newest school. The tour will include Deep Creek, North Clackamas Christian, Carus Elementary, and Eccles Elementary. Special highlights of the tour include:
Hold this dates now! Date: May 16th 2007 Time: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm More details to come.... 4-H Wildlife Stewards SummitDate: April 12, 2007 Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Place: Sunnyside Environmental School 3421 SE Salmon St. The 4th annual 4-H Wildlife Stewards Student Summit will be held at Sunnyside Environmental School this year. The Student Summit is a day long event filled with excitement and fun for all the students. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to work in teams to prepare and present a poster display and oral presentation about their school habitat project. 4-H Judges provide feedback and awards to the teams. This year a new component of the program is student journal judging. Students will have the opportunity to submit their student journal to a panel of judges who will evaluate the journals for awards. Local 4-H Extension offices can provide information on how to work with students to prepare an oral presentation or poster display. Or contact the 4-H Wildlife Stewards office for more information. This is a great opportunity for students. The past enthusiasm of the students and the pride that they take in sharing their habitat projects has certainly been a statement about the impact of the program on students. Don't miss it! Click on for: Summit Flyer Ferndale Elementary SchoolContributed by Bob Chicken, 4-H Wildlife Steward Students worked this past spring in placing two pieces of large woody debris in the creek and one in the pond. One of the sixth grade science club members located the spots and directed other students in moving the birch logs donated by the city. Two pieces will be placed this fall. Additional stream bank was prepared for grass seeding and was successfully germinated. Other highlights of the spring included working on a site to install a stream flow measuring station, building the flow box, vegetation management, a visit from Lynn Tompkins and her raptor friends, spirited four square games and a HORSE basketball contest won by a third grader. Congratulations Bob – You are doing an outstanding job! Atkinson ElementaryThe Outdoor Learning Gardens (OLG) project at Atkinson Elementary School in Portland, Oregon was founded in Spring 2001 by two Atkinson parents. From our initial garden, a native plant wildlife habitat, we have expanded to include a multicultural garden, an outdoor classroom, butterfly garden, playground tree plantings, a bioswale, and a planned Lewis & Clark garden. Atkinson Elementary School Habitat website Corroboree TrainingWhen: At Your Convenience Where: Your School An Oregon 4-H project called "Corroboree" is helping Oregon elementary school students from Salem and Portland reach around the world to share results of natural resource science projects with school children in Australia. If you are interested in bringing this to your school and would like training, please contact Sally Yackley at 503-916-6074. |
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