I just wrapped it up. Several hours of work today. Now I just need my daughter to complete the revised plans so I can post it. I think overall I may have spent 8 hours on this thing. Over 1,700 words, and 74 pictures. I am debating adding a video as well.
She is a very pretty chicken!Need to get some pics up or go elsewhere......
Each of these is worth three pics of 'ordinary' chickens. They also get another free picture for controversy value and a free rainbow to go with it.
This is Lock. She's a transgender chicken. She doesn't lay eggs and behaves much like a junior rooster.
I think she's gorgeous and on top of this, she isn't the slightest bit wary of me. I was very naughty and picked her up today and put her on the steps in order to get a decent shot of her/him/it.
None of the pictures I've posted before were 'arranged' in any way so this is a first.
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Interesting.
She is truly special and beautiful.Need to get some pics up or go elsewhere......
Each of these is worth three pics of 'ordinary' chickens. They also get another free picture for controversy value and a free rainbow to go with it.
This is Lock. She's a transgender chicken. She doesn't lay eggs and behaves much like a junior rooster.
I think she's gorgeous and on top of this, she isn't the slightest bit wary of me. I was very naughty and picked her up today and put her on the steps in order to get a decent shot of her/him/it.
None of the pictures I've posted before were 'arranged' in any way so this is a first.
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Maleficent used to groom or hen peck, me.I am confident that you could persuade Tap to extend her services to you.
This is the religious book I've struggled with most. I've read it a few times and I understand less each time.
I am so glad I specified fine mesh for the new chicken run.
Oh myI never thought about this. How did this happen? I guess Bill Clinton solved this problem and the world moved on.
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that's not very nice.
Great picture Bob.I never thought about this. How did this happen? I guess Bill Clinton solved this problem and the world moved on.
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I hear you but you're a skilled educator with a degree in literature. How many Australian children have such a mother? The vast minority. I get that you made the best choice for your kids but other families do not have a Ribh. Do we have a responsibility to consider everyone's needs? In SA, i think the publuc sentiment is 'yes' and that means funding the schools to support the learning of kids from challenging families. I don't mind parents taking their kids out as long as they continue to support the public schools somehow, even if its simply talking them up instead of down.I'm a huge homeschooling fan, having taught remedial reading & writing to upper grade primary children & decided that a very poor job had been done by the educational establishment. For 11 & 12 yr olds not to be able to decode words like station, fashion caution is appalling ~ & it is rampant in the Qld system!
Homeschooling is not like regular school & does not have the same objectives. Firstly the idea is not to teach anything as such but to teach the child how to learn so that they can teach themselves what they need to know. I will give you 3 examples. YD asked to learn German when she was 6/7 so she could watch a German language show with me without me going nuts translating for her. I do not speak German but I found an American ex~ consulate German translator willing to take her on. Her German accent is still excellent though she is now only using her German for music but having learnt a 2nd language with confidence she takes on all the rest: Latin ,French, Italian, Hungarian... She knows how to go about it. Later we bought her her 1st computer & I worked hard to get it up & running for her. The 1st thing she did was crash it. Unwilling to admit what she'd done she wiped the whole thing & learnt how to reset it herself. Thirdly neither of us like math. Neither of us wanted to do upper math. I wanted the child to be able to budget & that sort of thing so we did no algebra or trig. Recently the child wanted to learn it for a job application & did so.
It's not how good the teacher is. Its not how much the teacher knows or the student learns. There are plenty of college grads who never read another book once they leave college. The trick is generate a love of learning in a student & the ability to learn how to learn. Sadly most schools only teach you how to pass an exam & kill both innovation & the love of learning.
And any homeschooler will tell you their kid socialises with a much wider variety & ages of people than any school child because they are constantly out & about in the community. I brought my older girl home [@ her request] in grade 9 & watched a reticent, unwilling to express an opinion child develop into a wonderful debater in a bible study class made up of a huge variety of ages & races who, unlike her peers, were willing to listen to an alternative viewpoint.
Given the nature of humans I'm sure some homeschooling parents do a lousy job but most I've known are very thorough & do a much better job than our school system ~ including the private system! I know because mine had heaps better general knowledge, particularly in history & Literature [ obviously my strengths] than their peers & when state tested outperformed them.
Descending from my soapbox now.
