A 4H Weekend

We had another 4H weekend here! Maddie and Bonnie started their first class for the Citizen Science project. Maddie was thrilled to be doing this project and they ended up with 8 kids! It was fun to watch her and see the kids so excited. They went for a nature walk and wrote "I wonder...." questions on post it notes to bring back to the classroom. Then they made nature journals to keep track of their observations and make notes. Maddie led them in a discussion about experiments with turkey vultures that were started by John James Audubon and were continued by other scientists into the 1960s! It was a lot of fun and a good group of kids. We have several more meetings to develop a project and complete it then Maddie will be presenting the project at the State Fair.

Today we started practicing for Forestry Camp. Maddie and Brian worked on topographic map reading. Maddie remembered a lot of the information so perhaps we are ahead of the game!

Next weekend if spaghetti dinner time!! March is a busy month!!