Walla Walla 4-H Super Saturday
Learning Opportunity for Home School Youth
Hello,
I am the new 4-H Program Coordinator for Walla Walla County and I wanted to let you know about one of our programs that may be of interest to your Home School Families.
We have our annual 4-H Super Saturday on March 10 at St. Patrick’s Community Building from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Super Saturday is a day of fun educational classes that are designed for youth in grades 1st-12th. We have over 30 classes offered including filmmaking, drawing & painting, card making, care of cats, photography, a veterinarian class, public speaking, leadership, self-defense, and line dancing. Most classes are free or have a very nominal fee to cover supplies.
Please see the attached brochure and registration packet for more information. Brochure and registration information is also available on our 4-H website at http://county.wsu.edu/wallawalla/youth/Pages/default.aspx.
If you would like more information, please contact me, Brenda Bryce, at 509-524-2685 or by email bbryce@wsu.edu. I would appreciate your help sharing this information with home school families.
Thank you,
Brenda Bryce
4-H Program Coordinator
WSU Extension Walla Walla County
328 W. Poplar Walla Walla,
WA 99362
509-524-2685
The Losing Battle
Did you have a nice Thanksgiving? What about Christmas? Wasn’t the food simply fabulous? I’m still drooling over the filet mignon we had for Christmas. Grandma sure can cook.
We had fun, too. My son spent untold hours playing video games on his new PS3, and I lost count of all the new games he got for Christmas. Gotta love gift cards. I mean, what else do you buy for a teen?
I told my son that after the new year things were going to be different. We were going to get down to business and crack the books. Then he got on the scale and…hold phone. Houston, we have a problem! Really, the problem wasn’t all that bad. My son had only gained 10 pounds, but it all adds up.
So, after taking almost all of November and all of December off we’ve decided to do “Boot Camp”. Our son is going to do everything my husband did when he was in boot camp (well…what he can remember of it).
This is how it works:
Our son has to be up by 6 am, spend an hour exercising, then shower and all that entails. He’ll eat breakfast, exercise some more, do his chores. You get the idea.
In exchange we agree to pay him. $1 for 7-days, $5 for days 8-14, $10 for days 15-21 and $20 for 22-30. The reason for the graduated pay scale? He has started many times and always peters out after about the second week. We wanted him to have a real incentive…and there is that Nintendo 3DS that he’s been dying to get.
He’s okay with an IOU until we have the cash. I have a good feeling about this.
We sat down as a family, we discussed it, and he seems really excited. Today was our first day and while the day didn’t exactly go as planned, it was a good day. His attitude was good, he was cheerful and upbeat. We were able to talk about food a little, and the importance of water.
We are off to a good start. I’ll keep you posted.
This email posted with the permission of my son.
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The Gift of Boredom
I just read “The Gift of Boredom” article on page 34 of the January issue of TOS Magazine. *I* was the bored child. It didn’t matter what stimuli I had at my disposal – I just got bored easily. While it often bothered me, my mother inspired me to do something with it.
So I read the dictionary, encyclopedia and thousands of other books. Taught myself Greek. And Latin. And bored with them, I created… my own language based on the decimal system. (“10″ is just a cool number, isn’t it?)
I rearranged my room almost every Thursday. I wrote songs, and poetry, and some of the absolutely weirdest stories (I wish I still had copies). I created a number of cryptographic cyphers – the most memorable of them using a Tom Petty album for inspiration (passed thru an audio to spectral light filter, of course).
I got bored, and I still loved every minute of it.
I wonder if I could have even been the same person today if my parents didn’t let me get bored?
Boredom has turned me into someone who can consume vast amounts of information and apply it in ways, well, ways that are probably not how it was intended. All the same, I’m better off for it.
Thanks, Mom and Dad. 
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