Baymule
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I love it!
2024-2025 Sheep Showing
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I love it!
farmerjan
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X10.... It is a great compilation of her beginnings, and progress...
I love it!
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Margali
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Ugh, I get to go back thru receipts since September 2023 to separate out grain, hay, and minerals. First year growing pains... Sigh
Ridgetop
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Excellent pictures. Add an explanatory captions for each picture. That is a great picture story. Love it. With the addition of the financial pages it should be perfect.
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Margali
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So I messaged back and forth with show coordinator. She said to focus it down to Oreo and add more about cost stuff.
Here is work in progress, due by 24th. The last several slides have the judging criteria.
Here is work in progress, due by 24th. The last several slides have the judging criteria.
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Margali
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The production book is definitely narrated by a 2nd grader. *twitch* That's the point right? A 2nd grader obsessed with pink. *double twitch*
Baymule
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Shavings are expensive. LOL
This book is already absolutely amazing. Plus it is a pictorial journal that she will have all her life. I love it!
This book is already absolutely amazing. Plus it is a pictorial journal that she will have all her life. I love it!
Ridgetop
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Great on the photos. I am going to make my remarks like I would if judging Record Books or doing a class for kids (and parents) on how to put them together so please don't think I am being too harsh. I want Cassandra to win!
Excellent captions. The colored page are fun but that hot pink color makes the captions hard to read. Tone down the color or just use white. If you can use a larger font size it would also help the captions. The judges will be given a limited amount of time to look over her Record Book submission. You want them to focus on the pictures, captions, and experiences they show. Since the judges will only be looking at her Oreo and Socks record, in annual percentage on their food, minerals, pellets, for Oreo's share. You have grazing which should be noted in the feed chart to offset the lower cost of hay and pellets.
I am so excited for Cassandra to be doing her first Record Book. They are a wonderful way for kids to learn to keep business records, assemble and write out their experiences, etc. DD1 refused to do a project story on her first full book even though her leader told her she should. Then she found out that she would have won a gold medal for the book if she had put one in. That was the last time she did not put in everything she was supposed to. LOL My children went from whining "It's too much work" to wanting to compete and win medals with them as they got older. They won County medals for their Record Books that they wore on their hats. I don't know if Texas 4-H does this, but those hats, loaded with their experience stripes and medals are prized keepsakes today for each of them. They helped my boys with Aphasia learn to express themselves in writing. Eventually, they would tell their friends that they would be unavailable to even talk on the phone for the week before Record Books were due because they were writing their stories, assembling financial paperwork, choosing photos and making captions, then putting it all together and taking it around for their Project Leaders' signatures on the Project reports.
Those Record Books will be prized possessions of your family since they will show all the growth of your kids up to graduation. The rule in our house was in case of evacuation or fire to save the Record Books. LOL They contained a picture and written record of our kids throughout their childhood.
And written in their own words.
Priceless.
Excellent captions. The colored page are fun but that hot pink color makes the captions hard to read. Tone down the color or just use white. If you can use a larger font size it would also help the captions. The judges will be given a limited amount of time to look over her Record Book submission. You want them to focus on the pictures, captions, and experiences they show. Since the judges will only be looking at her Oreo and Socks record, in annual percentage on their food, minerals, pellets, for Oreo's share. You have grazing which should be noted in the feed chart to offset the lower cost of hay and pellets.
I am so excited for Cassandra to be doing her first Record Book. They are a wonderful way for kids to learn to keep business records, assemble and write out their experiences, etc. DD1 refused to do a project story on her first full book even though her leader told her she should. Then she found out that she would have won a gold medal for the book if she had put one in. That was the last time she did not put in everything she was supposed to. LOL My children went from whining "It's too much work" to wanting to compete and win medals with them as they got older. They won County medals for their Record Books that they wore on their hats. I don't know if Texas 4-H does this, but those hats, loaded with their experience stripes and medals are prized keepsakes today for each of them. They helped my boys with Aphasia learn to express themselves in writing. Eventually, they would tell their friends that they would be unavailable to even talk on the phone for the week before Record Books were due because they were writing their stories, assembling financial paperwork, choosing photos and making captions, then putting it all together and taking it around for their Project Leaders' signatures on the Project reports.
Those Record Books will be prized possessions of your family since they will show all the growth of your kids up to graduation. The rule in our house was in case of evacuation or fire to save the Record Books. LOL They contained a picture and written record of our kids throughout their childhood.
And written in their own words.
Priceless.
Baymule
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You don’t get a better critique and encouragement than that!
Ridgetop
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Where and when is her next show?
