I Love Fishes 'cause they're so Delicious!

Jaime! I love your fish! Every time I read your blog, I get sucked into watching your fish swimming for about 5 minutes. So, I decided to add them to my page. I did have to change my background so they would fit, which was a little sad, but I think I will get over it. Now I need to find out how to feed them! Yea!

What I really want to do is figure out how to make fun backgrounds like Laura's. I think playing with the extras on this page will make me blog more... but it will probably just be another way for the Internet to waste my time without informing anyone about my life. (much to Jason's chagrin - he told me to write that) :-)

Well, that's all I have to say about that.

Happy Birthday Laura!!!!

Are your Diapers Green?

To all my "mommies" out there, please don't answer that question literally!

I heard something very interesting information on the radio this morning. They were talking about diapers. A U.K. study found that disposable diapers are more earth friendly and that the cloth ones are more damaging to the environment.

However, there are ways to make cloth diapers more green (again, not literally) such as washing them in water that is 60 degrees or below and hanging drying them. There was more, but I'm not in any rush to make diaper decisions so I didn't get it all. Just know that some of my girls out there are contemplating diaper products.

Here's a link to the article on FOX News:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,441201,00.html

Or Eco Child's Play:

http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/20/shocking-buried-uk-government-report-disposable-diapers-are-better-for-the-environment-than-cloth-nappies/

Or just Google Disposable Diapers, U.K.

GCTM

I got to go to the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference this week! It was a 2 day conference in Rock Eagle (about 3 hours north of where I live). My principal had to let me to since I was presenting.

The presentation went really well! I am very happy with the turnout for my presentation. We were told to plan on 50 participants (which I did, but honestly only thought I would get 3) and ended up getting well over 70 people! It was crazy! I had people sitting on the floors and standing in the back just to listen to me talk about Student Math Portolios! It was really cool and I got a lot of awesome feedback. I spent about an hour last night e-mailing people back who came to the presentation and wanted more information. It was really really cool.

The rest of the conference rocked! I am feeling so re-energized for Monday and can't wait to implement some new ideas in my class. I just can't believe how awesome every presentation was. I even won 2 door prizes Friday!

They also had a pi mile race Thursday after all the sessions ended and I WON!! It was really exciting and I got a free shirt out of it.

What shocked me the most was the amount of crazy math people that showed up! It was nice to know that I'm not alone in my love of teaching math (I knew I wasn't, just haven't met many people who share the same affinity for numbers and adolescents as I do). Anyway, I'm already looking forward to next year and trying to think of a new topic to present.

Yea! Go Math! :-) This comic kinda sums up my presentation. Tee Hee...

Blogging

I usually only post unusual things that happen, not my daily events. Mainly because I don't have time, but I'm off today so I figured I'd give it a try.

Went to the oral surgeon today. He only wants to take out the wisdom tooth that is hurting me. Not sure when. He needs to talk to my orthodontist to see if he wants all 4 taken out or if we can just take out one since the others aren't causing pain. I have to call back and schedule an appointment for the procedure.

JAIME! Did you have your baby yet?!?!?!?! Where have you been?

OK don't have much more to say. Continuing to sell buttons! Now I made enough to purchase a button for myself (fun). Off to lunch with Lee and Annie soon. Laura, I'll call later. :-) Have a good Monday.

I go back to school tomorrow and I'm starting a unit on irrational numbers. Here's a fun comic:

There are more of us!

OK so I posted some fun (and by fun, I mean nerdy) math related paraphernalia on a couple websites and... SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT THEM! OK so only one button was purchased and I made $1.12! Almost enough to purchase a button for myself. I just think it is too funny.

What is even more exciting is that I am not the only nerd out there. Others are coming over to the "Dork" Side. After all, we do have pi. (tee hee... another math funny.)

OK, I'll stop for now... NO I WON'T! Here's a fun geek comic for all to enjoy:









I need a LIFE!!

And the Geeky Continues...

Here are some more geeky products! :-)


http://www.cafepress.com/mathfashion

You can still visit Zazzle for the first ones... I've added to it! :-)


buy unique gifts at Zazzle

You've Got Mail

I've changed my e-mail address. You can now reach me at sopko.amanda@gmail.com.

My Kent account still works (it's been mine for so long and I'm a little partial to it, besides, I don't feel like sending out a mass e-mail to everyone I know) and will be forwarded to my new account so use whichever. I have not gotten around to setting up my outlook on my new laptop so my Kent mail was always overflowing. With gmail, I don't have to set outlook up because it has a program that will work the same on my desktop with less crap to deal with when setting it up.

So give it a try, shoot me and e-mail. :-)