Record Book Roundup
Your leaders picked up Record Book Pages and Record Books for new members. The 4-H Project Record Sheets published by Kansas 4-H comes in 2 options for each age group: Animal Animal and General Projects. If you did not turn in a Record Book, you will have a packet with your name on it.
These forms do come in 3 age brackets. For County Champion Judging, the 3 age groups will be used. Junior is 7-9 year olds, Intermediate is 10-13 year olds and Senior is 14 and over.
These forms are available online at https://www.kansas4-h.org/resources/awards-and-recognition/LocalRecordKeeping.html
The ZBooks Online Record Keeping Software mentioned at the bottom of that page is available. This will allow you to type AND SAVE your record sheets and permanent records online. This means no more files not working on the new computer. Handwriting records remains perfectly acceptable.
Now, you should be writing goals for each project. This is Section 1 for each age group and each type. Good goals center around things you want to learn or to do. You can control if you learn how to make a pie or attend a class on showmanship. You can not control if you earn a purple ribbon at the fair. Setting goals to learn more about your projects often leads to those purple ribbons.
Section 3 is on project learning experiences. Make note of any of those you have already done. Have you selected your market steer? Did you try a new recipe for the holidays? Writing down these items now will make it easy to add to the record sheets.
Parents, it might sound confusing that each age group has different forms. But if you noticed above I mentioned section numbers, each section requires the same information. This is true for both the Animal and General Project Forms.
For example, the juniors have space for 5 goals; the intermediates have space for 10 goals; and seniors have space for 15. This does not mean that seniors must have 15 goals, but they should be thinking about doing more around citizenship and leadership than the youngest members.
The first 5 4-H members to send me a goal for their year at reubank@ksu.edu will get a small prize.