~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[Arielle]

Quote: You are the greatest influence . . . early on you decide who their friends are. A friend moved across town to get his son away from the neighborhood influence . . . . FOr the litle ones it issupporting them while they learn the alphabet and math tables and read-- don't depend on school to teach that. While you don't have the college education. . . yet . . . you can talk about the value of a skilled job. THe numbers on TV this morning were: college grads will earn $600,000 more than non college grads. This is average and I'm sure includes those that became doctors!! lol I would be happy if my kids were car mechanics or astrophysicist!! It is hard to put in the effort if you are no longer interested . . . . plenty of online stuff . . . .we have started an on line homeschool thread to share ideas and resources. I learned from my SIL to keep giving my kdis stuff to do beyond what school is doing to keep my kids intersted in learning.

Yeah peeping!!!

 

[Penny Hen]

my sons school actually does the exercise while you study approach. After breakfast and before class they all do stretches and light exercises while reviewing things like sight words, numbers and letters, math problems, spelling and vocab words. Depending on the grade of course. Its pretty neat and seems like it works a bit.

That is so cool. I could have used that. I am ADD and have some of the hyper thrown in too. I learned to vibrate in place though instead of bouncing around a room because I didn't want to have a "meeting" in the hall. I liked tapping my pencil when studying but it drove other folks nuts. I had to substitute bouncing my knee. Funny thing was that that is my response to being intensely interested in the subject at hand. Not bored or distracted. I want to get in and physically wrestle with the information. You see me behaving like a "normal" student and the subject is probably boring me to tears.

I found coping methods without drugs or professional counseling (they didn't even recognize the syndrome in the '70's). As an adult I used Ritalin for about 7 years. I abandoned it after menopause because it eats your bones. Ritalin is pharmaceutical Meth my friends. It works for a short period but it wreaks a heavy toll on the body system in the long term. It can destroy the teeth and weaken the bones. I am not saying that their is no place for it but not in children. It can jump start you from a low place where you don't see a way of coping to a place where you can but then it needs to be abandoned.

That can be psychologically more difficult than physiologically. I missed the energy and clarity of thought. It has taken me a year and a half of experimenting to change my diet and take vitamin supplements to get my energy and thought processes approaching what they were on the Ritalin. But I am not loosing teeth anymore. If you are dealing with a child with ADD or HADD please try diet and vitamin and herb supplements before jumping on the Ritalin bandwagon. Teaching a kid coping mechanisms that redirect those intense bursts of energy and give him CONTROL over his own life are EXTREMELY important and I believe vastly underused and underrated.

 

[Arielle]

Breakfast - Hormel chilli

Ya.....I know.......

But sooooo goood! HOw about hash with eggs??

Quote: YES!!! I used to do this in college, it created linksin the brain for recall especially during test taking. SO study eating a butterscotch candy and then suck on that candy during the test!! WORKS!!!

Need a different flavor for each subject . . . .

Here thisyear the kids were asked to chew gum during test taking to reduce the stress . . .very contradictiory as "no gum in school" is drummed into them from an early age. Besides the state tests should NOT be provoking anxiety.

A group of parent at a school , didn't cat location, have pulled their kids from the test taking all together.

My kids know --- it shows how well the teachers are teaching , or not. In our schools the teachers have days when they all work together sharing ideas by grade, and have an integrated connection up and down the grades. When principle mentioned they had just started this ( a couple years ago) I was so stunned you could pick me up off the floor. HOw can a 6th grade teacher teach if he/she doesn't know what the kids were taught in 5th??????

I'll stop. Gets me riled. States test are to rate teacher not students.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

I actually had one strutting at 4 weeks old last year!

Oooooooo.... I'm thinking that is gonna be SO cute!

 

[uphilljill]

My broody hen crushed/suffocated most of her poults overnight! She just seems to be sitting on them too tight. Is that common with hens brooding poults? I rescued the remaining poults from her and moved them to the basement brooder box. (The 2 chicks she has seem fine.)

 

[JennaLynn122]

You are the greatest influence . . . early on you decide who their friends are. A friend moved across town to get his son away from the neighborhood influence . . . . FOr the litle ones it issupporting them while they learn the alphabet and math tables and read-- don't depend on school to teach that.  While you don't have the college education. . . yet . . . you can talk about the value of a skilled job. THe numbers on TV this morning were: college grads will earn $600,000 more than non college grads.  This is average and I'm sure includes those that became doctors!! lol  I would be happy if my kids were car mechanics or astrophysicist!! It is hard to put in the effort if you are no longer interested . . . . plenty of online stuff . . . .we have started an on line homeschool thread to share ideas and resources.  I learned from my SIL to keep giving my kdis stuff to do beyond what school is doing to keep my kids intersted in learning. 

Yeah  peeping!!! 

Yep. I try to be the best influence I can be.

That is so cool. I could have used that. I am ADD and have some of the hyper thrown in too. I learned to vibrate in place though instead of bouncing around a room because I didn't want to have a "meeting" in the hall. I liked tapping my pencil when studying but it drove other folks nuts. I had to substitute bouncing my knee. Funny thing was that that is my response to being intensely interested in the subject at hand. Not bored or distracted. I want to get in and physically wrestle with the information.  You see me behaving like a "normal" student and the subject is probably boring me to tears.

I found coping methods without drugs or professional counseling (they didn't even recognize the syndrome in the '70's). As an adult I used Ritalin for about 7 years. I abandoned it after menopause because it eats your bones. Ritalin is pharmaceutical Meth my friends.  It works for a short period but it wreaks a heavy toll on the body system in the long term. It can destroy the teeth and weaken the bones. I am not saying that their is no place for it but not in children. It can jump start you from a low place where you don't see a way of coping to a place where you can but then it needs to be abandoned.

That can be psychologically more difficult than physiologically. I missed the energy and clarity of thought. It has taken me a year and a half of experimenting to change my diet and take vitamin supplements to get my energy and thought processes approaching what they were on the Ritalin. But I am not loosing teeth anymore. If you are dealing with a child with ADD or HADD please try diet and vitamin and herb supplements before jumping on the Ritalin bandwagon. Teaching a kid coping mechanisms that redirect those intense bursts of energy and give him CONTROL over his own life are EXTREMELY important and I believe vastly underused and underrated.

I have bipolar and chose to be unmedicated and work through it myself. So I understand completely.

But sooooo goood! HOw about hash with eggs??

YES!!! I used to do this in college, it created linksin the brain for recall especially during test taking. SO study eating a butterscotch candy and then suck on that candy during the test!! WORKS!!!

Need a different flavor for each subject . . . .

Here thisyear the kids were asked to chew gum during test taking to reduce the stress . . .very contradictiory as "no gum in school" is drummed into them from an early age. Besides the state tests should NOT be provoking anxiety. 

A group of parent at a school , didn't cat location, have pulled their kids from the test taking all together. 

My kids know --- it shows how well the teachers are teaching , or not.  In our schools the teachers have days when they all work together sharing ideas by grade, and have an integrated connection up and down the grades. When principle mentioned they had just started this ( a couple years ago) I was so stunned you could pick me up off the floor. HOw can a 6th grade teacher teach if he/she doesn't know what the kids were taught in 5th??????

I'll stop. Gets me riled. States test are to rate teacher not students.

luckily we are in a great school and teachers are actually thorough. But its a small student to teacher ratio

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Got two more out in the bator. Just passing through, so not posting pics until early evening; currently @10 chicks out and some zipping.

Wisher's chili post reminded me of something re: egg breakfast forms. Long, long ago, this place I worked had this 'lunch wagon' that came by every morning. The guy's 'specialty sandwich', he called huevos rancheros - which is close to what it was, but not exactly. From the bottom up - BIG bun, couple of well-scrambled eggs fried & folded into a patty, cheese (think it was Asadero) thick chili sauce, finely shredded lettuce & finely sliced tomatoes. They. were. wonderful. So wonderful, I put on nearly forty pounds before I left that job, and they were the only dietary change....

. Better news was - next job had no lunch wagon and I recovered, LOL

 

[lsmith]

YUM!!!!!!


We are having the state testing this week too-- son says" MOm, it's a breeze" or something to that effect. Doesn't he know that his laid back manner freaks me out MORE?!?!?!  I kept a smile on my face and wished him well. 

Personally the tests should be to rank the teachers not the students . . . but alass that is not how it is used here. Eventually the scores will be used to determine which schools he can get into . . . 

The scores do rank the teachers. They use them in our evaluations.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I have crazy rocking in my bator and possible peeping but the duckling that hatched Monday is too loud for me to know for sure.

 

[HappyAcresKY]

Our final numbers:
28 poults out of 56 eggs set
36 made it to lockdown... 2 looked like they pipped too early and bled out, the other 6 were fully developed but didn't pip, not even internally, when I opened them I didn't see a beak, does that mean they were upside down?

6 clears and 14 quitters along the way

I also noticed this time the humidity increased significantly once they all started hatching, so maybe I don't need to add as much water at lockdown? We are using a hovabator with a fan and I had both vents open. Any ideas?