Tackled a couple of projects today. Well, continued one project that should be done tomorrow and then took on something that was just for fun.
Amy emerged from the basement and gave me grief for not starting Natty's poster for the science project. Well, no better time then the present to get it started. I was actually working on pictures for it at the time and so paused that and we started on the heading. I know this is supposed to be Natty's project and it is, we are simply helping with a few things. Funny enough the rules for the project state that this is completely legal so long as the student gives credit to those that assisted. We assisted in the title and Amy came up with a way of doing it to make it pop. This being appropriate for the project based on popping popcorn. I reviewed some of the thoughts for the rest of the board with Amy and i think she approves. Natty is pretty gung ho about it and ready to get it done. I helped her with the pics as mentioned and typed out her stats, hypothesis and conclusion for her. That was more for my personal sanity and as I write this I can't help but think of a certain character in a certain book about a wimp that I am reading to the kids right now. This may be bad, very bad. Well, I am pretty much just typing and helping but she has had to do the science research on it. I think it will turn out nice. Everything is ready to print, cut and paste on to the board. Looking forward to getting that completed with Natalie tomorrow after school.
Special thanks to Amy the bedazzler, the queen of all bedazzling. She is off to Salt Lake to take her test tomorrow for her hair stylist license or whatever it is called. She took some time out of her own studying and practicing to help Natty Sue and I appreciate it. Hope she nails the test. I'm going to let her color my hair but only if she can pass this thing.
I was excited to get a message on Facebook from a certain someone today. In the message there was a reference to camels, specifically an offer of 12 camels if she were to stay in a foreign country she was visiting. Though she was only kidding (well, I assume she is kidding but who knows what happens in foreign countries) I was looking to provide a humorous response and decided it needed to involve a comparison to Johnny Lingo. He is after all, the shrewdest trader in all of the Islands. I was able to find out the current market value of a Camel, $973. I then worked up a price on cows in today's market. Jay and Sara just bought a half a cow so I was able to determine the full price of a cow. Dang, I deleted my notes in excel where I calculated everything. I think the cow is $1,694, some 58% more and just now I see an error in my calcs that just blew up my entire presentation that I already sent. Oh well, it isn't 58% more but 42%. Well, it was all in fun anyway. Perhaps I will go back through the entire exercise and revamp all my numbers. I will have to humbly resubmit my report. Actually, the calcs may all be fine - really too bad I deleted that. I won't redo it all now. For the purpose of this post it is sufficient to say that I ran some calcs and though they may be flawed it is okay, it was all about a creative writing project that I hope brings a smile.
The Fontano Department of Animal Trading provided a report that simply stated that 12 camels was not enough for this woman especially when these were compared to the 8 cows that Johnny Lingo paid for Mahana. I am thinking my calcs were correct because I used formulas in excel that were linked to the correct numbers. I simply stated things incorrectly in my report. That is what I think right now but alas, I will go though my message and run the numbers again. Fun.
Herein is the problem once again. I was bottle fed. The only bottle fed of the 8 Fontano children and the only Fontano that stinks at math. My hypothesis - boob fed babies have a much higher success rate in mathematics than bottle fed babies. There surely must be a relation between being boob fed and having confidence in math. I don't think I will ever see that through the entire scientific process but you never know, someday Jack will have a 5th grade science project to do...
Well, it was a fun day. I got keys from Padre for the new building and took the kids over for a peak. They were excited to see it. I will get started on a dump run tomorrow to clear out some of the old crap that just needs to get out of the way. Wow, lots of work to do but looking forward to it. Also ran the kids across the street to the LBH. Andy needed to go to the bathroom. While there Jack picked up a yard stick and said in a raspy voice "I'm a ratty old teacher" then he whacked me with it and started laughing. I started laughing too. The boy cracks me up as do Natty and Andy as well. Grateful for these wonderful kids.
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