Fishing

The boys found a nice little spot to fish in and caught their limit.

                                          Now it's time for the cleaning of them. Zack used this time to look for the heart and bladder for his school lab.

                                          Madison putting on her own worm

                                           And out it goes.  She too caught her limit.

                                          As did Arron.

4-h Voyager's

Some of the kids in the group wanted to do an Easter Egg hunt but we weren't able to get it in before Easter so we decided to do it after Easter. The kids still had fun.

                                          Madison running for a few eggs

                                          I was trying to get most of the group but it wasn't easy.

                                          Madison , Zack and Joey gathering eggs

Yard Work

After stacking 2 cords of wood by himself it was then time to help the rest of us that were raking the lawn.

                                          Zack's way of helping is driving the tractor to be unloaded

                                          Boy can he back that thing up

                                          Trying not to laugh. It didn't work.

A Day At Purity Springs

The kids went to Purity Springs for a few hours to test their robots they built.

 

                                         This is a much smaller course that they got to test on. It gave them an idea of what the real one would look like at UNH.

                                          Madison and Erika working on getting theirs ready. 

                                          Zack and Joey( in the back you can't see him) getting ready

                                          One of the robots going there the hoop

                                          And one of the Sea Perch's in the water.

Water Class

After sewing and history class came water class

                                            Madison writing her results

                                          Zack and Joey watching and waiting

                                            Red ice cubes.  Waiting for the red color to float to the bottom. You can see it a little bit in the picture.  It was to show warm water and cold sinking and rising.

Co-Op class

Our last co-op session for this school year.

                                          Madison and Kailey working on their sewing project.

                                          Madison working hard

                                          Zack decided he'd had enough with sewing this year and was in Karen's NH History class.

A.J's new chicks

This year A.J wanted to clean out most of his chickens and replace them with new chicks.  He bought some back at the end of January that should start laying in June.  Then he bought some fertile eggs off Craigs list. 

 

                                          He bought 24 eggs thinking only 12 would hatch. But all 24 hatched.  One died when it was half way out of egg.  And he lost 2 others over the first day or two. But other than that they are doing great.

                                          He's so proud of them.

4-H County Activities Day

This year we didn't go all out for activities day. But the kids did make posters.  Most of the posters were either from our 4-H Voyagers (our school group) or the 4-H rabbiteers. 

                                          Our school group just finished up a unit on birds so most of the kids did posters on birds. But my kids did posters with the rabbiteers.

                                          This is a picture of Madison's gaint sunflower she grew last summer

                                          This year there was a new catorgory. Electronic posters. So the kids each did a power point. This is Madison's which was on Caring for Doe's and their babies

                                         Zackary did his on how he made maple syrup this year.

                                           Here are some of the kids lined up for the award ribbons handed out at the end.

A.J's New Car

After saving and looking forever A.J finally found a truck. We'll it's an Explorer not a truck but close enough.

                                          He got it for a good price and put a little work into it. And he's very happy with it. It will be a good first car for him. 

                                         Ginger is waiting for him to finish cleaning it so she could go for a car ride. He wouldn't stand beside the Explorer so I could get a good picture. 

Co-op water classes

 

So one of the final co-op classes this year was a water class that lead into some other water topics for next year. In this class Mrs. Day would talk to the kids about some water topics and then lead them in a lab or two that went with what she talked about.

                                            You can see how excited Zack was about this class.

                                          Madison with the girls listening

                                          One of the lab for this day was for the kids to create their own land form and then predict the flow of water.

                                          Everyone liked the part of crumbling the foil

                                          Zack waiting for the water bottle

                                          Madison waiting for the next set of directions

                                          The other lab that day was some water testing

                                          Here are the results of Zack and Joey's water tests

                                         And now Mrs. Day is going over their results with them.