What some chapters are doing for FFA Week!
Oakes/Sargent
Central
Tuesday - DodgeBall Tournament
Wednesday - Ag Olympics in the Classroom
Thursday - Game Night
Friday - JH Dance
Saturday -
Lisbon
Crops and Livestock Judging Contest
Article / Press Release in the local paper
Carrington
FFA Day
At The Wizards this Sunday
-Full-page ad in the local newspaper
-Numerous radio spots recorded by the Carrington FFA Chapter Officers
-”Cookies For The Community” project
-Faculty/School Staff Breakfast
-Daily activities for FFA members and Carrington High School students
-Livestock/Crops/Ag. Sales Career Development Event in
Minot
on Saturday
Center
Friday, Feb. 22 –
Ag Day with K-6 graders
This activity will include a petting zoo and information for students on animals
and where food comes from
McClusky
Teachers’
appreciation breakfast
Ice Cream Social and lessons on how to make ice cream
Read to the Headstart kids
Ag Olympics contest
Belfield
Tuesday- Weird/Wacky T-shirt Day (
Seed Counter Contest & Grade School Coloring Contest)
Wednesday- PJ Day
- PALS Day- Each class is matched up with 1 or more grade school
student and they will do an activity that is agriculturally related.
Thursday- Superhero/Costume Day
- Guess the Belfield FFA Officer Baby picture contest
Friday- FFA Official Dress/Blue & Gold Day
- Ice Cream Social at Lunchtime
- 7th Period
o
Are You Smarter than an FFA Officer? Skit (7th Period
with Kissing of the Animal)
Kiss the animal- 5 Volunteer teachers- Students and staff can donate money
towards the one teacher they think that they want to see kiss the baby animal.
Updates will be given during the announcements to which teacher is in the lead
except on Friday.
-
Mr. Pool, Mr. Klym, Mrs. Lorge, Mrs. D, Mr. McDowell
Grenora FFA Chapter
power point presentation off of www.ambassador.maca.org
to show the significance of agriculture to our grade school.
We are also doing individual displays of North Dakota grown products that we are
#1 in producing and Ag Olympics
We are also doing a presentation for cattle, and how that affects our life as
well -- information for the cattle presentation from the N.D. Beef Commission.
Des Lacs/Burlington
Monday-Friday
Dress up days (farmer day, Blue and gold Day/Official Dress day, Into the future
Day and so on)
Every day we will also be doing a riddle that describes an ag tool where that
tool will be hidden around the school and the first one to find that tool and
bring the tool to me will recieve a prize on Friday when we have our assembly
Tuesday we are having a banana split socialization for all Burlington Staff
Grades
k-4 will be doing coloring contests of some type of Ag Picture Grades 5-6 will
be doing a general knowledge quiz dealing with FFA and Agriculture
We are also hoping to have an assembly in both schools where we will be having
like an ag olympics with games such as wheelbarrow race, three legged race,
potato sack race...etc.
Maddock:
Appreciation Pie social for the Maddock Staff, School Board, & Advisory
Council
Barnyard Day for students and area schools
Ag contests by Breaking Ranks (Home Room) 7-12 grade
radio presentation--newspaper ad
I forgot to mention that FFA members are going to do
the afterschool tutoring program for the week from 3:45 - 6:00.
This involves helping students with home work and fun activities in the shop. We
are also planning to do our farm safety for 2nd & 5th grade students (ABC's
of Safety) from Farm Bureau.
Hettinger
The
Hettinger FFA chapter is having Ag trivia all week. Students can answer
questions and the student with the most correct answers will get a personal pan
pizza. We are also having Agriculture facts over the announcements along with a
hat and sucker day on Friday. We are also having a breakfast on Monday and a
lunch on Friday for FFA members
Kindred
-Full-page ad in the local newspaper
-Numerous
radio spots recorded by the Kindred FFA Chapter Officers with Lyle Romine of the
Ag America network
-”Serve cake and Ice Cream to School children at noon on Friday
-Faculty/School Staff Breakfast
-Food for
America
with 4th graders on Thursday.
-Livestock/Crops/Ag. Sales CDE in
Lisbon
on Saturday
Bismarck
Tuesday: "These
boots were made for walking." Show off your favorite pair of boots.
Wednesday: Western Wednesday. Wear your best Western attire.
Thursday: Official Dress for FFA Members
Rest of the school wear blue & gold
-Cherry Pie Social 2:30- 5:00
Friday: Farmer
Friday. Dress like a farmer.
Towner
Monday: Cherry Pie
Social at the cattle expo
Tues. & Wed.: Dress up days
Tues-Fri: John Deere
Tractor Scavenger Hunt
A coloring contest and
Daily door prizes will also take place.
Towner is going to have our pie social in conjunction with the beef production
show on Monday. Tuesday and Wed we
will be having dress up days. Tues
is hillbilly/redneck day, Wed
is pajama day. We are also doing a
coloring contest for grades kindergarten thru senior and we are hiding a small
toy John Deere tractor and having students find it.
Prizes will be given out to the winners.
New
Salem
Saturday Feb 16
School wide FFA Dance from 8-midnite
Tuesday Feb 19 Blizzards
with the 3rd Graders
Wednesday Feb 20 FFA Pie
Social 2-4, Official Dress Day
Thursday Feb 21
Farm Safety Demonstrations at PVE Grades 1-3, Head Start Day
Friday Feb 22
Farm Safety Demonstrations at PVE Grades 4-6
Other
Full Page Ad in New
Salem
Journal, Chapter Photo in
Bismarck
Tribune
Turtle Lake/Mercer
- Sunday – FFA Day at the Wizards
- Tuesday – FFA Tie Day
- Wednesday – Western Wednesday
o
Faculty and Staff Breakfast
- Thursday – Blue and Gold Day
o
6th Grade class room visit/party
- Friday – Farmer Friday
- FFA
Member/Faculty Dodgeball Tournment
- Saturday – Crops/Livestock/Ag Sales CDE in
Minot
- Sunday – FFA Fishing Derby (maybe)??????
Daily
fun activities for FFA members and high school students
Coloring Contest for K-3 Grade and Poster Contest for 4-6 grades
Radio spots with the officers and news adds in the paper
Powers
Lake
Tuesday- Opposite Cowboy Day (girls dress like cowboys and vice versa)
Wednesday-
Official Dress/Blue and Gold
Thursday-
Ag Career (dress like a person with
a career in Ag)
Friday-
Rancher Day (first day of District
BB for the boys)
Also, on Wednesday we are hosting a community-wide pie social at the senior
center. FFA members are asked to sign up to bring a pie and/or work at the pie
social. On Tuesday afternoon our officers are going over to the grade school to
teach each of the grades. We will either be making butter or ice cream.
Last hour on Thursday everyone in the school participates in the Ag Olympics in
the gym. We have games like barrel racing, board sawing and nail pounding,
tractor tricycle driving, and relay races.
KEYZ
radio in Williston is running spots recognizing area chapters.
We are working on going to the radio station for a live interview but do
not have that finalized yet.
Wyndmere
Tuesday: Official Dress Day, 5th
Grade Farm Safety, Cheese ID in High School, Seed ID for the Elementary, Cake
and Pie Social for staff followed by a demonstrational monthly meeting.
Wednesday:
Dress like a "hick" day, Ice Cream Demonstration for 4th
graders, FFA presentation for 6th grade, Dog Breed ID for the High School, and
Tool ID for the Elementary.
Thursday:
Mimic an officer day, Cow Breed ID for High School, and Farm Equipment ID
for Elementary.
Friday:
Blue and Gold Day, Wear a hat to school by donating a dollar, Farm Safety
for 2nd grade, Meat cut ID for High School, Real/Artificial testing for
elementary, and an all-school assembly during the last hour of the day to hand
out awards and conduct a boutonnière making contest.
Our superintendent and principal will be wearing animal costumers for the
duration of the assembly.
All
throughout the week there will be an on-going scavenger hunt for the FFA emblem
and guessing the number of seeds in a jar ranging from corn to flax.
There will also be a coloring contest for the elementary and a general
Ag/FFA Quiz for the upper elementary.
Bottineau
Tuesday-Elementary
School
Coloring Contest
Wednesday- Cherry Pie
Social
Thursday- Class Competitions
Friday- Blue and Gold Day
Beulah
Radio
spots, trivia contest in the school with daily prizes sponsored by local
businesses, picture in Bismarck Tribune,
Minot
crops/livestock contest
Enderlin
This year for
National FFA Week, the Enderlin Chapter is doing several activities. We are
having dress up days Tuesday through Friday. Tuesday is "Case" or Red
Day. Wednesday is "John Deere" or Green and Yellow Day. Thursday is
Farmer/Rancher Day. And, Friday is Official Dress or Blue and Gold Day. We are
also having an ice cream social on Saturday during the boys basketball game. We
have several contests throughout the week as well.
We are also trying something new this year. We are going to have a member
of the chapter read some FFA facts during the morning announcements.
Williston
FFA
We are doing PSA's for the radio that will be aired during the week
A Cherry pie social for
businesses and school staff
A live radio interview with
officers and members one morning during the week
A FFA/agriculture quiz given to
all high school students
Other daily activities during
the week.
Mandan
Monday - Parents appreciation pizza party and degree
ceremony
Tuesday - Red, White, and Blue day, (For dress-up)
Wednesday - Cowboy/Western Day
Thursday - Outdoorsman day, 3rd Annual FFA Talent Show (7:00pm)
Friday - Teacher appreciation Pie and Ice cream social (2:40 - 4:00)
Minot
Tuesday
- PALS at the 5 CLC programs; teaching about recycling
Wednesday - Rootbeer floats - 50 cents or free with a can food item
Thursday - Annual pie and ice cream social
Friday - Alumni grill for FFA Students
Berthold
Celebrating FFA Week in April
Garrison
Wednesday: Official Dress day with a pie and ice cream social for area
businesses, alumni, and faculty with a short quiz to see if they know their FFA
trivia
Thursday: Sports jersey day with our Mini-Chapter meetings during Ag. Class
Friday: FFA Apparel day with our 3rd annual Ag Olympics
Washburn
K-3rd
grade - We are having a coloring contest.
4-6th grade - We are doing an Ag. Trivia competition.
7-12th grade - We are having a seed guessing contest.
Teachers and Business People - Ice Cream and Pie Social on Thursday.
Senior officers also did a radio interview with KHRT Radio out of Minot.
Wishek
Monday-
Painting the GreenHands, hands green
Tuesday- Rootbeer float sales at noon with proceeds going to food pantry
wednesday- Pie and ice cream social
thursday- Chili cook off
Friday- FFA and AG. ED presentations by officer team to grades 5,6 and 7
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