A Busy Busy Teacher Week | Teacher Vlog | Week 12

this morning is a bit of a busy morning for me I have a lot of items that I want to get checked off of my list this morning and I also have a few things that I need to prepare for the week so one of the items that I need to get prepared this morning is to be able to set up my dash for this morning so the kids are gonna be doing an activity for the first time this week I made it relatively simple I didn't put a lot of skills as far as what they're specifically working on I kept it just his multiplication so that it was an easy way for me to be able to get the kids kind of used to it and understanding the routine and the procedures of using - in the classroom and a great weight for me to be able to accommodate for my some of my students who are not on that multiplication is to simply have them to addition so that is something that I'm going to be setting up this morning I also have to make a few copies just for their learner targets I have a mentor sentence test that my kids are gonna be taking today and then I have just a few odds and ends for groups that I need to get together I also made some labels that I need to print out laminate and get those put onto my bins and then also on to my little shelves that are back here and then I also want to get some of my books that have not gotten put away put away those desperately need to get off of the shelf so quite a lot to get done this morning but I am confident that I'm able to get it done it's gonna be a very very very busy week for me but that is okay because I always know that this happens in November so I'm just gonna take it with a grain of salt and I'm just gonna enjoy it um so let's get going so that I can get this stuff done before that bell rings [Music] my - station is ready to go I just simply wrote numbers on cards nothing fancy and then I adhered them to the floor using just some packing packing tape which was pretty easy so that is what it's going to look like one Kingdom is on one side and the other Kingdom is on the other side so the objective is that the students are trying to get - to the other side finding multiples and then adding all of those together so here's what the sheet looks like so I give a basic - and dot race to the kingdom directions and then down here at the bottom is what they're using to be able to fill it in so the first number they land on the second and what's the product they're gonna write that here again again the product they write the product there again again the product they'll write the product there at the end once they've gotten to decide to the other kingdoms side they will then add up all of the products down here at the bottom to come up with a large Sun they have just one game but if they end up having more time they can play a second game as well so each each player is going to have one of these games or one of these papers I don't know how well this is going to end up staying up here but all I did was I just stuck it to the door with some packing tape we'll see but it's just a little sleeve that the kids can just be able to pull out the papers that they need for this station very excited about it I did decide to spruce up my little learning targets just a little bit some things that were just kind of bothering me personally I may turn my lamp on here so one thing I did was I added the unit up here put some lines in because the kids are not doing well with adding lines and then for each of the days of the week I went on ahead and I wrote down reflex which everyone is doing reflex to get to green-light and then I also wrote goal worked and I gave them some lines to be able to write the goal work that they do and I also left some space for them to be able to write any additional activities that they need to complete on their independent time based upon like the skills that they're working on so I that that's one side and then this is the second side as well so I thought it looked nice I don't know my bangs are just not cooperating today I've also taken the opportunity to be able to regroup some of my math groups so some of my kids are shifting and changing I have kids now that are on the addition and subtraction unit which I need to finish getting that goal work together I haven't laminated and put I just need to put it inside of a file container and have it ready to go for math so that I needed to switch around some of my math group so I did get that switched sorry like rapid head jerk to get my bangs to get out of my face I need to trim them so I did get that switched around and then some of my kids are going to be going to a different group because another teacher is teaching that exact same thing so it makes sense to just kind of mesh them all together but yes that's kind of what's happening this morning I do have a meeting at 8 o'clock that I have to go to which is in relative like roughly about 10 minutes so I'm gonna finish getting my stuff kind of cleared away and get ready for this morning so I completely failed at doing any video footage for yesterday afternoon and I am so sorry about that but the day ended up getting kind of crazy one of my partners ended up needing to leave in the middle of the day and then it all just went downhill after that it wasn't that bad it was just crazy because the kids were very talkative yesterday they were really Restless yesterday and so and I was kind of feeling Restless it just wasn't one of those days where you kind of had a really good vibe with it and those days are gonna happen and it's going to be okay it's just you know we take it and then we leave it and then we start a new day the next day so I am here to start a new day and to actually have a pretty good day I am dressed in casual attire because today is swim day so the kids are starting swimming today which means that in the morning instead of doing math we are going directly to the high school to have our swimming lessons now I am dressed casual because I am going prepared to try to get into the pool in case my kids don't seem to do well when they're there I know I had those questions in my vlog from last week is whether or not I was going to go swimming it just depends like I would prefer not to go swimming because I don't want to have the chlorine smell with me all day long and then I also have conferences tomorrow and then Thursday night as well and then it's just I don't know like I feel like something just makes you tired just being in the water um but in case that my kids just don't do well and I have a very large forth big group something that the swim coaches are not used to having such a big group I felt like you know what it might be a good idea that I just take my stuff and just be prepared to get in today if something goes wrong so I am prepared for it today we'll see how kind of today goes and then there are other probably few days here and there where they may need some type of assistance just because of the nature of the lessons they're going they're going to be doing I know that there are some that are swim that are diving there are some that are they'd get on a canoe I think on one of them if I'm remembering right I don't know I don't remember right anywho I am going prepared for it today so I brought all my stuff inside of my bag I am NOT going to wear a bathing suit in front of my kids this is just not gonna happen so I did bring shorts and a t-shirt to put over my swimsuit so that they don't need to be seeing that like it's not gonna happen I have a few other things that I'm really excited about sharing with you guys um Katie and I started kind of talking at yesterday afternoon we came up with a really cool idea that I'm really excited to share with you but I don't want to show it to you yet until I get it printed so I need to get it printed get it laminated ready to go and then post it up in my classroom so a couple of things that I'm trying to get done luckily I don't have a meeting this morning and I know that's awful because it's like one of my other teachers who's like out for like a doctor I'm really sorry um I hope she's okay but I'm really happy because I don't end up having to have a meeting this morning and I was about to have a meeting every single morning this week it really just kind of dreams you after a while the first day of swimming actually turned out to be pretty good we only had one kid loose his pants that's that little baby's heart but I think everything ended up working out in the in the end the kids really enjoyed it we all came back like right before lunch think everybody was outside in line in the hallway going to lunch and we were walking in the door so we got it right in time for lunch which is what we were hoping was going to happen anyways so it ended up working out perfectly for us all we had for today was just math and reading so that's all I'm gonna be having inside of my class my partners will be having writing math and reading because they still have kind of the majority of their kids since I have a lot of the fourth graders in my class so it all ended up working out in the very end of it so I spent quite a bit of time this morning and this afternoon just kind of putting this area kind of neatly together I finally have gotten it the way that I want it I know was not using any of the materials that were up here said I just got rid of them this little area that's down here is looking really nice I have my laptop there the read aloud book the dash is sitting there getting charged and a few other items that I used throughout the day so that's kind of in there everything else looks pretty good for the most part up here I really like how it's starting to turn out my little pages that I use for my groups to show the targets that we're working on are all housed right here which again I really like so I really am liking the way this area looks and then I also spend a little bit of time trying to get these together I am almost done except I forgot about these two right here so I need to print those out so we have independent reading resources we have some practice games that are in here that the kids can be able to get to but that's kind of what that little area is starting to look like and it looks much better the books I was getting a little cleaned up and then I still have a couple of things here to get cleaned up but this little area is starting to look much better so it was a lot of going around and trying to pick up a few things and putting things neatly away and getting it looking nice again because it just was starting to look like it was a little bit trashed so I've had a lot of people on the blog ask me what is a - I figured I'd give you guys a little tutorial on - show you exactly how I'm using him in the classroom and walk you through what the kids are doing so this is - we call him Albert we named him Albert this is where he has plugged in on the little side over here he has a little plug in so I just leave it here the kids will come and gently unplug him and then I have these binder clips back here so that I don't lose them they don't fall down but I will tell my kids to hold them with two hands but since I don't have two hands one of them is holding a camera I can't and what they'll do is they will walk him with two hands all the way back to the - area but once - is back here - stays back here for the day so the kids don't take them back and forth somebody will unplug him in the morning and somebody will plug him back in in the afternoon so - is a robot that allows kids to be able to start coding it's a coding robot and I really really like some of the things that people are doing outside in the classroom using - I highly recommend using - for stem projects I think those are like fantastic ways to incorporate - inside of the classroom I'm trying to incorporating them into a math so at the same time we're doing some type of math trivia or something to that extent I'm gonna continue brainstorming ideas but putting - inside of my math block time so that groups can start to use them in math so this week what I have them doing is they're playing a - and dot race to the kingdom which is a strategy and a multiplication and addition game actually what they're trying to do is they start on their side of the kingdom so they're going to take turns with it and one - is on one side and what they'll do is they will code the robot to be able to land on certain numbers and then they will put their numbers together so that they can multiply two numbers and then put the sum off to the side so here's what the little page looks like so let's say they land on a three first and then they land on a four next they will multiply three times four equals 12 and then that twelve will go here so all of the products that they have in the end we'll all go here they need to have a total of 12 numbers that - lands on that's all that they're expected to do they're only allotted 20 codes and they have to make sure that they land on 12 numbers within those 20 codes and at the same time and get there - all the way to the very end of the kingdom so let me show you how this little guy turns on so on one side you're going to see that there's a little button back here and you push that button it will light up - will start to wake right on up he's so cute yeah so I'm gonna turn him around so you can see him he's super cute okay and then using an app called blackly which is here you can pull up - so I'm gonna hit play and then right here you're gonna see that he's trying to connect so it's searching for my robot once my Albert is connected it'll give me a check I'm going to exit out of it and then this is what the board will actually look like and get rid of these so I can show you guys what he does okay so I have a fresh start right here and there are different things that you can do with him you can start Tim you can drive him he can go forward backwards turns turn to a voice stop wheels so he will look he can do lights sounds animations and then I don't have my kids going into controls variables and accessories just yet we're starting basic so if I was to tell him to drive well right now he's okay so right now he is looking at me so what I need him to do is I'm going to go to drive and then I am going to tell him to turn left 90 degrees then I'm gonna have him drive forward I'm gonna have him go what 60 centimetres and then let's see him go there he goes turns and then he drives forward so he landed on three at this point my kids would write down the number three on their paper and then they would go again so now I think what I'm gonna have him do is I'm gonna have him try to get to a seven that's right over here so I'm gonna go to drive I want him to turn left and then I want him to drive forward and it looks like sixty we'll move him two spaces let's see if this works and here we go oh I did get the majority on seven so I tell my kids that if the it's actually nope its majority on four so I didn't get it so I would write down three times four and that would give me twelve and now what I'm gonna have to do is try to get him onto a different number so I'm going to have him move that off to the side so he doesn't do all of the things that I've already made him to I'm gonna have him go right actually no I'm going to make him drive forward just a little bit so I need to back him up I think ten might do it and then I'm gonna have him turn right and then I'm gonna have him go forward and then move him forward by thirteen let's see what happens I'm a hit play ah he did land a little bit he did lien a little bit on the ain't we're actually the majority on the eight so I will give myself an eight so you can kind of see what he does and you just continue going until you have your entire coding all set up and ready to go but it's fun because the kids are having to use a strategy and they're having to learn coding and figure out with length and how far they can go and how fast they need to go it's just a really great way to be able to incorporate some type of a technology incorporating coding which is where our world is really going and at the same time practice some math skills as well he's an incredibly cute little robot I absolutely enjoy having this inside of the classroom once you start it's really difficult in the very beginning to kind of plan for him and introduce him and really make sure that the kids know how to do it but because my district has these in every single school and they started it last year a lot of the kids already kind of had experience with it so that makes it a little bit easier but at the same time I'm also trying to make sure that I am challenging them and I don't want to make it too easy for this week it was pretty easy they're still trying to learn how how long it takes to get to certain squares which I think they're really really enjoying and they're some of them were getting really excited because they're I like I think it's about sixty or thirty centimeters to get in you know they're each 30 centimeters wide or something to like sent it was really really cute so you can even there are other apps out there that you can even he disconnected there are definitely some other apps out there that you can use with him I know that my boys really liked using go and they use like using path I think though was the one where they are able to just kind of maneuver him and like make him move around inside of the room you can even the two buttons and he will just kind of wander around the room which is really really fun and he will know when it something hits him and they'll wander and the kids think that's really fun and cute and so they kind of build a little connection with them with things I mean they're all about it so that's - it's now you guys kind of who he is aka Albert by Albert okay I'm gonna go home I need to do a little bit of planing this evening I was not as planned out for my math groups as I would have liked so I need to make sure that I sit down tonight and spend some time trying to get those planned out and then I have a couple of other things that I really would like to finish so that is going to be my goal for this evening tomorrow is another day of swimming so I think I'm going to still go with them in the pool okay I am going to go ahead and head you let you guys go I will catch up with you guys in the morning yeah look at these bow making abilities like I'm not trying to toot my own little horn here but that is a cute looking bow today is gonna be a pretty long day I am I have conferences this evening so I'll be staying after school until probably about 7:30 I think 7:30 is when our last conference should in and I should be able to just kind of clean up and go I also have to make sure that I get in my writing scores today so that is something else that I'm trying to get done all while trying to teach let's hope it goes well so it's a bit a bit of a busy day and it'll be a long day for me I'm not gonna lie I woke up this morning and thinking that it was the freakin weekend it's not this morning I am doing something very not productive for myself and I am putting on my little labels for my bins because this just makes me happy just saying sometimes I got to put a little bit of joy in my life and this is what's making me happy right now so that's what I'm doing at the moment I could be doing my writing scores but I'm not no I will do my writing scores after this I probably actually take them to the meeting I have a meeting at 8 o'clock this morning to work on our key boss puss which is saying you know how many minutes or hours have you worked with this child how many minutes have you worked with this child so we're setting up our spreadsheet today and a with the entire school so we're all coming together to do that which is kind of nice because then at the end of the year you not really stressing about it but we also have a very different situation that we're gonna have to figure out which is good it'll be fine we'll work it all out so I'm gonna finish putting these that nice little labels on and he's still need to get myself unpack and then I will take out my writing and start looking at my writing samples and start getting those scored and I also need to make sure that I am looking at my my lesson plans for today and making sure that I have everything ready for my lesson plans so my room has starting to is being used as the Mac Scott talent to rehearsals during my lunch time so I'm not able to be in my room during lunch was a little bit of a sneaker but I'm really excited that the kids are excited about thee like I'm happy that the kids are excited about the Macs Got Talent that is going to be going on Tuesday next week so that's the week of where we get out for Thanksgiving so on Tuesday because our going to be doing their Big Show and I'm excited we need to get like some lights and some backdrops and some fun stuff so I might start hitting up some of the like party city places and things like that to see if I could start collecting some things that the kids can use and I don't know make it fun for them I like it they need to have some fun too right so I'm gonna do this take out my raining get ourself impact and then I'll catch up with you guys in a second [Music] humans minister girls were fighting for days stuck in a face I think we're losing the reason [Music] so today was the day that I had to get into the pool we just got back just a little bit ago the kids did a really good job it was a struggle they had to do the backstroke and they had to it was a lot with them being on their backs this time so it was a little bit of a struggle but they did a really good job and I decided to kind of jump in and help the other instructor that was inside of the pool today so it worked out I blow-dry my hair it doesn't look too bad because I do have conferences this afternoon I don't want to look at hot mess but it is what it is at this point at least I get to be cozy like they let me where they let us wear cozy material especially if we get into like cozy clothes whenever we get into the pool so it's like a win-win situation here so I just got back I did have a little bit for lunch already I need to get some materials together because I have math and then I have reading after this so I need to set up my boards for math so that the kids can write down their targets for when they come in and then also do the same thing for reading so that those are prepared math is pretty laid-back today I don't have much because the kids were doing Discovery lessons so it's gonna be us kind of discussing some of those discovery lessons and then doing some basic practice that some of them have to do so nothing too like crazy and adventurous it's just basic practice today to make sure that everybody is kind of progressing the way that we want them to progress so I'm gonna go ahead and get my boards together and I am probably gonna have something sweet because I want one that's what's something sweet so that's about it that's all I got for you guys I'm a little bit disappointed today because my kids left my room an absolute mess I don't understand why we chose like they were hiding things like they hid this stuff over here so if you're just kind of like looking around and you don't come back here you're not gonna see it like they just left it a mess so I have a question for you are you that teacher that would one clean it up and talk to them about it tomorrow or two are you the teacher that would leave it and make them clean it up in the morning just curiously but down below if you're because I'm wondering which one you are I'll let you guess as to which one I you think I am so we have about eight minutes before conferences are going to start we already set up our table we have our coffee hot chocolate the cookies are out the board is out check like our sign-in sheet is out ready to go so I'm just gonna gather a couple of things go sit down with my partners to get started on that we should be done around about 7:15 s or so so I guess I'm gonna end up just talking to you guys a little bit later on this evening I'm sorry that this seems like such a pit of a blog or vlog I get doc I'm sorry if this seems like such a terrible vlog but this is just kind of how my week is going especially with so many conferences so alright I'll catch up with you guys later on I'm gonna get my stuff call my husband really quick say hi to my voice and yeah that's it let's do this going into this program we always knew that we were going to have a lot a lot of conferences that we were going to be holding so we knew that we were going to end up putting in more days to be able to meet with all of our families because it was important for us that when we sat down and we did our conferences it wasn't just that one of us was going to be reading off a report that the other teachers had written they were just going to go through the report card we wanted to make it we wanted to make those connections with families we felt like that was really important to be able to have a conversation with families let them voice their concerns give explanations that be able to offer some advice everything that we as parents and I know that as like myself as a parent I would want whenever I went to my son's conference because they're my babies I really want them you know I want to know what's going on with them in school and it's important to me so we wanted to be able to we wanted to make sure that we offer that exact same experience to all of our families and yes we have 72 families so we knew that we're gonna have a lot of conferences coming this time it's just what it is so we ended up adding on two more days three more days three more nights normally we would have two days of it we have three extra nights of it so we gave a total of five to be able to mean with all of our families so we have two nights already done this week we also had one that was done last week that was during the day like it was from 12 to 4 o'clock our two nights are officially done I had conferences all night last night didn't get home until probably about 8:15 or so just in time to get the boys ready for bed and put them down to bed and have spend a little bit of time with them I will say that I am absolutely exhausted today it was a struggle getting myself out of the bed next week students will have school money on Monday and Tuesday conferences will be held Tuesday night and then we will have some Wednesday morning because we do have a half day that we have to come to school so lots more conferences to get done but the conversations are going really well we're getting to know some of our families which i think is important especially especially since we're spending so much time with them we get them for three years which is really exciting so we want to make sure that we're making those connections with our families it's really important to us so leaning into that I just wanted to give a little bit of apology because I know that this vlog is not the juiciest of logs it doesn't have as much content as I normally would like to have in this blog and it's probably going to be end up being a little bit shorter than normal but you know it is what it is this is a teachers life I wanted to show you guys what it's like to have a teacher's life and there are just some of those days where you are going going going going going going doing and you don't stop until you hit that bed and there is no time to pick up a camera and talk to somebody you barely have enough time to go to the bathroom let alone like eat I didn't get to eat until like the very end of the day so it it is what it is you take it there are some days that are gonna be busier than others there are some days that are so much more low-key others and you just get to like relax and enjoy your kids and I try to enjoy every single one of those days because you never I don't know I never want to take a day for granted I always want to be thankful for that day and I always want to even though it may be hectic and busy and you know no I may not want to be here that night and I want to be with my family I want to make sure that I'm enjoying those days to the fullest because it's a part of my life and I want to enjoy my life for what it is I saw a movie a while like whew I can't remember if like a few weeks ago or something to that extent y'all I'm awful with movie names if you know the movie that I'm talking about leave it down below because I cannot remember names for the love of me I can explain it all out of the wazoo but cannot remember the name so it's it is this family who all of the men in this family had the ability to time travel so this young man like learns that he can go back in time and that he can like time travel so in the end of it like he has you know he ends up getting married and you know he has kids and there was issues with his sister like she was being abused by her boyfriend so he like they were going back in time and things like that and then the end of it that his dad said I want you to go back and relive every single day so he made him he said the first time that you go back and relive that day I want you to live it just as the way that you would live it and then he goes and the second time that you go back so the first day like he would normally live it like you would normally live it and he was very like disconnected and just like he looked down like he just hated his life like he just was miserable that's kind of the facial expressions that you got from him and then the second time like when he went back in time to be able to relive that day he enjoyed every single moment to its fullest and so he was goofy and he was fun and he enjoyed it and yes it was hectic and yes was crazy but he tried to live every moment to its fullest and I just loved that because I was like that is so true like you can't you have to take the good with the bad and you have to take the busy with the quiet and so I don't know this is something a message to all of you enjoy every single day to its fullest I know there are days gonna you're gonna be crazy you're gonna be frustrated you're gonna be cranky I definitely had those days I'm not gonna say I never I never do I'm never gonna say that I'm just like frustrated at the end of the day but by golly jours I'm gonna try to enjoy and enjoy it to its fullest and I'm going to enjoy being with my kids to its fullest because this is what I do this is what I was meant to do so it is what it is I never stop rambling because I'm rambling I am going to get my items ready for this morning I do have swimming again this morning so I'm taking the kids out to the pool we get back and you have lunch directly after it like as soon as we get back in it's time for their first recess and then the kids are using my room for Mac's got talent that we are hosting on Tuesday next week so the kids have been kind of rehearsing and practicing their part in the max cat talent show I'm really excited about it I think the kids are really going to enjoy it so that's something that we're gonna do on Tuesday for them when we get back from swimming so during that really big chunk of time which will be exciting so I'm gonna get a couple of papers cleaned up because I have a few things that I just was not able to put away and I wanted to do some planning for Monday because I realized I'm like wait a second I was like sitting in my meeting last night for one of the ones that I just didn't really have anything to say cuz I don't have that child in any of my classes so I'm sitting there and like as I'm like listening pot things will pop in my head and I have a tendency to just write those things down because if not I forget I'm old I just forget so one of the things that I really wanted to do was on Monday I wanted to do some like fun like rotations for kids and math something that incorporated a little bit more of like time not like multiplication but time like telling time something with money things that they just need a practice like skills that they have to practice because they're not getting enough of it and I don't want to so I feel like during these times when we have these like holidays in these festivities I feel like I can incorporate some of those so that's I think that's what I'm gonna end up doing so that I can get the kids a little bit more with that practice I think that'll be beneficial for them so I am going to stop talking I already said that I was gonna stop talking and I have it I'm gonna stop talking now and I'm gonna go get some work done

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Length: 34min 2sec (2042 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 18 2017