Okies in the BYC The Original

[osukrazykate]

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I think I might have to get some of them from you too.

There is a guy that brings americana hatching eggs to our sale nearly every sale... His Americanas are blue... I had gotten some thru the auction and they are beautiful little chicks... Some of them are a light buff and have a blue stripe that goes from the top of their heads and all the way down to their tails... and way puffy in their faces... muffs and beards

I have a few Ameraucana's, but I haven't had any blue ones. But I am not sure if I can make it down to the Fletcher auction any time soon. I live up past Tulsa and that looks to be a far way for me to drive. Maybe in the summer I will have more time for that sort of a drive.

 

[poultryand bees]

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When our youngest son was in about the 5th grade, he told me "Mom, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I want Dad to help me with my math. He is a carpenter and he understands math." My feelings were hurt for a short while since I felt confident that I could handle 5th grade math, and then I realized "I don't have to do math anymore! Yeah!"

Carl usually helps him with his math, I was always really good in math, but through the years so much of this stuff I cant remember. I always have to reteach myself before I can help the kids, I always tell them show me where you are and what you are doing then give me your book for an hour then i can help you... Anyhow, Carl and i do math very differently but here lately everytime he help Brandon with his work the poor child get the same grade as if he had done it himself, and then he still doesnt understand it.. So the other night Carl was too tired to think straight and Brandon was working on multiplying and dividing fractions, so I got voted to help. My poor child didnt have a clue( and I firmly believe some people are not meant to teach math... It can be an easy or difficult subject depending if you understand it....This is my third child to have this teacher and everyone of them have struggled to understand what she is teaching them)..... Any way, I started working with him and within the first few he started to understand it enough to do it in his head without having the long process of writing all the steps out. His first paper didnt have the steps on it and he made a 98 on it(we forgot to put dogs at the end of a word problem answer).... His 2nd paper I helped him with was a 90something, and then his teacher marked of until it was a 49 for not showing his work... Now I dont care if she wants him to show his work or not, we can do it either way, but why 1 paper was fine and the next wrong is beyond me!


I will probably be the one helping him most of the time from now on since he is understanding it with me.... Like I told him it is not up to you to understand my way, it is up to me to teach it so that you understand it.

Our son "speaks math" so he often just "knows" the answer without going through all the steps on paper. It was very frustrating to him to have to show his work, because it meant that his homework took longer to do. He had the right answer, but his teachers insisted that he write out the steps so that they could see whether he was using the process they liked, in arriving at his answer.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Carl usually helps him with his math, I was always really good in math, but through the years so much of this stuff I cant remember. I always have to reteach myself before I can help the kids, I always tell them show me where you are and what you are doing then give me your book for an hour then i can help you... Anyhow, Carl and i do math very differently but here lately everytime he help Brandon with his work the poor child get the same grade as if he had done it himself, and then he still doesnt understand it.. So the other night Carl was too tired to think straight and Brandon was working on multiplying and dividing fractions, so I got voted to help. My poor child didnt have a clue( and I firmly believe some people are not meant to teach math... It can be an easy or difficult subject depending if you understand it....This is my third child to have this teacher and everyone of them have struggled to understand what she is teaching them)..... Any way, I started working with him and within the first few he started to understand it enough to do it in his head without having the long process of writing all the steps out. His first paper didnt have the steps on it and he made a 98 on it(we forgot to put dogs at the end of a word problem answer).... His 2nd paper I helped him with was a 90something, and then his teacher marked of until it was a 49 for not showing his work... Now I dont care if she wants him to show his work or not, we can do it either way, but why 1 paper was fine and the next wrong is beyond me!


I will probably be the one helping him most of the time from now on since he is understanding it with me.... Like I told him it is not up to you to understand my way, it is up to me to teach it so that you understand it.

Our son "speaks math" so he often just "knows" the answer without going through all the steps on paper. It was very frustrating to him to have to show his work, because it meant that his homework took longer to do. He had the right answer, but his teachers insisted that he write out the steps so that they could see whether he was using the process they liked, in arriving at his answer.

And see I think they should be able to use whatever steps they want, I had a teacher that would show 2 or 3 differnt ways, to arrive at their answer. It is the child that needs to understand it, not the teacher. And I dont mean that rudely but I know so many children that struggle with math... I use to love my teachers, if they seen that one way of doing it wasnt working and that you couldnt undersstand they would try another way until you understood.... This teacher doesnt do anything close to that.... She just gripes that you arent doing it right.... I remember showing one of my other children how to do some work for her class, they didnt understand her way.... It was one of those I remember my teacher showing me 2 different ways to work thesse problems.. So I worked with them the way the teacher had should them and they just couldnt understand it, so I showed them the other way I knew, and they caught on.... The teacher was mad, didnt matter that the child now understood what they were doing, she yelled and yelled, I went up there to talk to her, just to see what was wrong, and her answer was simple. " I didnt show them how to do it that way and I dont want them doing it that way, only the way they were taught in my class"....... I personally think teachers are great and that they have one of the hardest jobs around, but some of them just shouldnt be teachers.

 

[osukrazykate]

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I am still here, just looking on Ebay for hatching eggs. Now that these are hatched I am ready for the next batch, LOL.

 

[Jer-man]

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welcome to the gang, Larry!

Keep a variety of breeds and you'll have a variety of egg color. The chickens will be great for the kids.

 

[poultryand bees]

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My mother was a teacher and when we were growing up, she would show us the "easy" way to do math and then try and help us understand the "new math" that was supposed to be easier but really wasn't. I totally agree that children need to be taught in a way that makes sense to them, not by some arbitrary method because the book says that is the way to do it. I was fortunate to have teachers who would work with us until we understood something, even if it meant explaining it different ways. I still recall a Physics teacher in High School who tried to explain electricity to me - several different ways and I just couldn't quite grasp it. He finally told me that since he had taught me for several other classes, he knew that I was smart enough to understand it, so the failure was apparently his, since he had been unable to explain it in a way that made sense to me.

I agree, most teachers are wonderful and there isn't any way I would have the patience to be a teacher. My personal frustration with math teachers through our sons' education has been with teachers who only taught one way to solve a problem and didn't recognize different learning styles, or who didn't teach the subject in a way that at least the majority of the students could understand it.

 

[sjarvis00]

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There you go.... Every child struggles with this math teacher, you think she would get that.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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I am awake too but just wanted to get the coffee going and check on a few emails before I popped on to the Okies Thread to say hello and good morning

Jeannie

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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I agree these are funny and would apply to Teach


I must have killed the thread, darn it I seem to be doing that quite a bit lately

 

[BetsyOK]

Two other Silkie babes hatched yesterday to join the first! Only the first appears to be porcelain ; the other two look like light, silvery grays. Haven't checked outside yet; she is still working on two. I do SO love their soft communications with each other. These seem to be making some unusually melodic sounds for tinies. They have a lot to say to each other.