This is Marilee Tussing from Sooner Pony Club and I am the new RIC for 2007.   We are also trying to start up a List serve for the Region.  We would like to have everyone join the list serve so we can communicate. Sue Hernandez has got it all set up we just need to have everyone join. This is my first article:

 

Welcome to the RIC's Corner! This is Marilee Tussing from Sooner Pony Club here, I am the new Regional Instruction Coordinator for the Cimarron Region.  The RIC's Corner will provide you with information to help you with teaching  Pony Clubbers. I am not here to spy on you or to tell you what you HAVE to do, but to HELP you with your educational program.  If you are in need of help with instructors, unmounted instruction, standards (D and C standards were updated on Jan 1, 2007), ratings, or just what to do, email me and I will be here to help you. If you have a wonderful educational program in place, please share what you are doing with the rest of us!

 

Tamara, Lynn,  Kristi and I just got back from the Annual Meeting in Portland Oregon and we have lots of news to tell you. As you probably know by now, there are BIG changes in the upper level ratings. I hope everyone will come to the Standards and Ratings Clinic in February in Fayetteville.  Kevin Bowie is a very outstanding clinician, and SHE will be able to give us insight into these new ratings.

 

We are setting up a Regional Yahoo group to improve our communications. To sign up go to .

  http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CimarronRegionPonyClubs/join

If you choose to receive messages in the Digest From, you will only receive ONE email per day in your box with all of the messages on it, rather than many separate emails. I am hoping that this list will bring us all closer together since we all live so far apart.  The list will be there for you to ask questions, share ideas and we will be posting information from the Region there, so you will be notified instantly of what is going in the Region.

Each month I would like to have an instructional subject of the month.  Since Bandaging is an ongoing skill that needs to be practiced, we are going to start with BANDAGING as our subject for February.

D1- "Not Applicable"  So work on The Foot and Shoeing- "Give one reason to pick out the feet."  Have the D1's and D2's  watch the others do the bandaging.             

D2- "Give two reasons why you would bandage a mount's leg"

D3- "Describe Critical Areas protected by shipping bandages or boots, and give reason for their Apply protective boots (with supervision) on own mount. Apply stable wrap with assistance."

C1- "Be able to apply a shipping bandage with assistance"

C2- "Apply a shipping and stable bandage, under supervision of examiner and give reasons for use"

C3- "Independently apply a shipping and a stable bandage.  Discuss purposes and  dangers involved with shipping and stable bandages."

B - "Demonstrate shipping, stable and tail bandages; discuss materials used, reasons for wrapping, potential dangers."

A- "Discuss and Demonstrate proper application of shipping and stable bandages.(Sheet cottons and flannels are recommended,candidates may be asked to demonstrate with these as well as other materials brought) Demonstrate application and know how to maintain any of the following bandages:sweat, poultice, pressure, spider, figure eight, knee, hock, cold water and ice.  Discuss values and potential dangers when any of them are prescribed."

Once you teach something, you must follow up in the next lesson to review and be sure that the skill is remember, practiced and improved each. So even though Bandaging is our subject for the month of February, it must be reviewed in March, April and each month after that.

Some ideas for making Bandaging fun:

1)  First lesson: what is the bandage or boot, what is it for, what do you need and why, how do you apply it, then try it. Practice at home is the key.

2)  Second lesson: Everybody bandage, then use peer tutoring to assess each persons' bandage and have the Pony Clubbers make suggestions for each one's improvement.  Practice at home. (At first bandaging will take a long time. The more you practice the faster you will get at it)

3)  Third Lesson:  Have a bandaging race.  See who is done first and who has the best bandage and why. 

4)  Make up your own games for bandaging and share them on the Cimarron Region list!

More later!

Keep checking the RIC's Corner!

Don't forget to join the List!

Marilee