4-H Memories & Start of 2nd Week

We got Tyler’s 4-H project dropped off yesterday.  It was a mad house there with everyone else dropping off various projects.  I also got signed up for my volunteering time.  I get to hang out in the Exhibits Building on Monday for a little over an hour to make sure people aren’t touching the projects.  All this fair talk led Trent to tell us stories about when he was in 4-H and went to the fair.  Some of Trent’s memories: their fair was 4 days long, Thurs to Sun; the projects were turned in the first day of the fair, mostly in the morning at assigned times because they were judged during that time; the animals (cows and pigs in Trent’s case) weren’t due at the fair until the afternoon on the first day; Trent lived at the fair every year (which means starting around age 8), yes, they had dorms and everything for the kids; he got locked out of the dorms at night a lot, his story is that they locked the doors on the dorm before the grandstand events were over so that was just stupid of them, so he slept in the stock trailers a lot; and he ran around the fair constantly without adult supervision, he was supposed to check in every few hours or so.  He wishes that Tyler could have some of those experiences, but since we don’t live on a farm, I don’t see him showing cows or pigs.  Maybe we could look into something small like rabbits.  We’ve also figured out that going forward 4-H for Tyler is going to be way different than it was for Trent, in structure of the clubs, how things are presented, etc.  So it will be a learning experience for all of us.  Last night we sat down with the fair schedule and looked at the events we would like to attend.  So far, we’ll probably be there on Sat morning to see the balloon chase and look at the livestock, Sun afternoon Tyler is in the parade; Mon morning I volunteer and this is the day that Grandpa Randy wanted to take the grandkids to the fair and Kellie Pickler is in concert in the evening, Tues evening Little Big Town is in concert, and Wed evening Hootie & the Blowfish are in concert.  Trent would really like to see some cow judging, and he might get to on Sat morning when they have the 35th Annual Northern Classic Beef Open Show (Heifer Classes/Steer Classes).  Don’t know what all that means, but I’m sure it means something to Trent.

As for school work, Tyler is off to a great start to this week.  His spelling words this week are: care, because, cover, record, brake, Kansas, track, pocket, snack, attack, photo, alphabet, dolphin, elephant, stiff, muffin, giraffe, enough, laughed, and rough.  Challenge words are: cuckoo clock, freckles, sheriff, autograph, and headphones.  He did some work with possessive nouns yesterday in the singular and plural forms.  His cursive letter yesterday was I and today it is U.  Today in Spanish we are going to learn about action verbs.  He’s also had some free reading, science and math thrown in to round things out.