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4-H Friday Newsletter - Friday, January 10, 2025
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Members of Rosendale 4-H Club watch as a member demonstrates how to decorate cookies with frosting.
Eve C. leading our members in how to decorate cookies.

Rosendale 4-H Club

The Rosendale 4-H club met on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at Peace Lutheran Church. After pledges, in the Secretary’s report, we talked about how well Toys For Tots went. It went great!!! In the Treasurer's report, we talked about our $24.50 Bluemke’s check for the cookies and decorations for our meeting today. 
Then, we talked about having members sign up for the winter fundraiser at Culver’s, which is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. Ten percent of the sales from the night will go to our club for use in further supporting the community.

For new business, we talked about the 4-H Meats Judging Contest, February 8 at UW Madison, the  4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl on January 25 at 11:00 a.m. at UW Green Bay, and we discussed the Small Animal Meeting on January 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the FDL Fairgrounds Recreation Building Meeting Room. The next Teen Leaders Meeting is scheduled for January 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the Rolling Meadows Meeting Room. 

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at Peace Lutheran Church. We will be making cards for the Tower View residents and going to TVAL to play bingo after making cards around 2:00 p.m. After the meeting, Eve led us in frosting cookies. 
- Submitted by Reporter, Eli C.
Members of Taft 23 4-H Club show the cakes they decorated with blue, pink, and purple frosting.

Taft 23 Foods Meeting

Taft 23 4-H Club held a cake decorating class open to those enrolled in the Foods Project. The kids decorated small cakes, Christmas-themed cupcakes, and Oreo Christmas tree cookies.
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Market Livestock Update
Come join us for the 2025 orientation meeting on March 3 at 7:00 pm in the Rec Building at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds. Don’t forget to continue to send in those educational points. You can find the link on the Fond du Lac County Fair website under the exhibitors tab: https://www.fonddulaccountyfair.com/.
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Teen Leaders Association

The teen leaders will be going to Siberian Outpost, N9103 County Rd W, Malone, from 9:00 - 11:00 am on January 11. The next meeting will be Monday, January 27 at 7:00 pm at the Rolling Meadows Meeting Room. Please bring any craft supplies you would like for making Valentines for a local nursing home.
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2025 Family Learning Day flyer with some sessions listed. There are green outlines of a microscope, dumbbells, a plant, a cup with bubbles inside with a straw, a sewing machine, and paw prints.
Family Learning Day Registration Opened Dec. 30
We will be doing a collection for the Broken Bread Food Pantry. They need toiletry items, canned fruit, pop-top canned goods, pop-top canned goods with meat, hats/mittens/socks, feminine hygiene products, and diapers.
Distance Learning Opportunity: The Science of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Want to figure out how to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie? Register for this awesome distance learning opportunity!

Youth in grades 3-12 are encouraged to register starting Dec. 20. Learn more about this opportunity as well as the other distance learning activities that are coming up here: https://4h.extension.wisc.edu/wi-distance-learning/.

Dinosaurs & Unicorns!

Another great distance learning opportunity is coming up! This time youth in grades K-2 can learn about the study of dinosaurs & unicorns and how science and creativity work together. 
Registration opens today, December 20. Check out our website to learn more about all of the distance learning opportunities that are coming up:
https://4h.extension.wisc.edu/wi-distance-learning/.
Paper Circuits
Registration for another distance learning opportunity is coming up! In this activity, youth will learn about electrical circuits and be challenged to think outside the box.

Register will be open January 2 (8:00 AM) - January 24 (4:30 PM). Youth in grades 4-9 are encouraged to register. Please find more information about this opportunity on our website: https://4h.extension.wisc.edu/wi-distance-learning/.
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4-H Meats 

Judging Contest

4-H Meats Judging – Saturday, February 8, 2025
Location: Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery Building, UW Madison Campus
What is the 4-H Meats Judging Contest? Have you been to your local meat market or grocery store lately and think you could choose the best cut of meat out of the case? Have you ever watched a live animal contest and thought you could choose what animals would provide the best meat products? This is your opportunity to put those skills to work. This contest tests the knowledge of youth in the placement of carcass and retail cut classes, carcass grading, and retail cut identification. Top senior teams earn the opportunity to compete at national competitions.
Looking for more information, where to register, or resources? Check out the links below:
Deadlines: (more information located in the registration materials): 
-Estimated number of participants (needed to order PPE): January 20, 2025 - through Google form https://forms.gle/332pC8GP34L18BEV6
-Contest final registration: January 20, 2025 - https://254hmeatscontest.4honline.com (Directions for registration are in the packet.)
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January:

Distance Learning: Paper Circuits Registration Opened January 2 

4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl

  • Registration Deadline: January 10
  • Contest: January 25, 11:00 am, UW-Green Bay STEM Innovation Building

Small Animal Meeting

  • January 21, 6:30 pm, FDL Fairgrounds Recreation Building Meeting Room

Teen Leaders Association Meeting

  • Jan 27, 7:00 pm, Rolling Meadows Meeting Room

Family Learning Day - Registration Closes Monday, January 27
LEGO Club Meeting

  • Jan 28, 6:30 pm, Fond du Lac County Campus (FCC)
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