A Day in the Life of a Teacher Mom

good morning everyone so today i decided to do something a little bit different usually i put up my weekly vlogs because i get asked so many questions on how is it that you manage like taking care of your kids and being able to get work stuff done and being able to do youtube things i want to do a day in the life today so i'm going to basically just kind of carry you guys around with me and explain everything that i just do all day long i do have like a rhyme and reason for doing things and now that the house is semi starting to get together we're starting to fall back into our routines so today i'm gonna be walking you guys through how i accomplish certain tasks how i managed to be able to spend time with my kids and also be a mom a wife a teacher a youtuber all the other things in between so you guys can kind of get a sneak peek into my life so i've been up since six o'clock this morning and not actually voluntarily but typically i try to wake up between 6 and 6 30. and this morning the alarm system was going off so we had to come downstairs and get that fixed so i've already gone in and i've taken a shower i would have totally said hi to you guys a little bit earlier in the morning but yeah i'm a complete zombie in the morning and i literally just kind of roll out of the bed and i literally just kind of like walk into the bathroom it's really bad so i am finally awake and my hair is still wet i did put on um just something to be around the house today today is going to be a home date because of the fact that it's going to be raining all day today um i try to look at the the weather and see what's happening for the week um typically we like to take the kids out and do some type of outside activity with them each day um but it's been so daggone buggy lately and then it's been it was raining today so that's not gonna happen today so i had to make some different plans for today um so i am going to make some coffee and then i need to go up and put a little bit of makeup on and then fix my hair and then get ready to start the day one kid is usually up which is the older one but he kind of just hangs out and starts working on whatever he wants to work on for the day right now he's doing a venus fly trap project so he's been really eager in working on that after i get ready i have a little bit of time before my younger one wakes up once my younger one wakes up everything just is off the table like i can't really get a lot of work done so i start doing like house things and such so what i do right now in this little bit of time that i have is i will either look on my phone i'll check my emails look through youtube comments look through blog comments go through and start kind of planning out my day but i planned yesterday what it was or actually last night what it was that i wanted to get done today so i'm going to show you guys exactly what i have in my planner okay so here is my planner and here are some things that i really wanted to be sure that i got done today so i broke it up into three different areas i have family i have work and then i have my home so for family the boys are gonna get to make slime today i told you guys that it's raining today so we're gonna do just a fun activity with them today so they're gonna get to make slime and then we have to clean up because my sister is coming to stay tonight and she's gonna be here all weekend um so we're cleaning cleaning cleaning and making sure that we're setting up the room for her to be able to stay in with her husband then over here for work i wanted to make sure that i finished up my checklist for my students that is something that i need to have at the beginning of the year i also wanted to get out my behavior wheel and start being able to provide that as a product for all of you and then my schedule i wanted to create my paper version and then also my card version so those are three things that i actually want to get done for just specifically for work and then for home i really want to hang up my clock so that's going to be something that i'm going to have my husband get done today um and then i want to see if i can make a little bit more progress on the basement do you guys notice that i get fixated on words my husband's making fun of me is this anomaly actually i do i go through episodes where i get excited on words apparently today's video is all is going to be all about the word actually let's count how many times i can say phenomenal and actually okay so that's kind of my game plan for today um breakfast cereal everybody's gonna have cereal today um i will be cooking breakfast for the next three days while my sister's here so i'll make sure that everybody has a really nice breakfast so everyone's just gonna have cereal breakfast or they can have yogurt and fruit um depending on what they want to have so it's kind of unhealthy else self type of day for breakfast hey buddy [Music] come here good morning we will but after a little bit of time today okay [Music] all right so the little one is officially up i was able to get my last couple of names in before he was already starting to ask to get breakfast so now i'm gonna go ahead and make him something to eat the other two can take care of themselves so my husband and ian went on ahead and they've already eaten for the day i have not eaten so i'm gonna sit down and eat with lane and he has requested you found it yeah that's what i wanted you to find so he went to go and get his cup yeah he's gonna eat yogurt with some strawberries do you like strawberries milk typically around 8 o'clock is when we start getting the kids dressed up for the day and they've already had their breakfast they are ready to start getting into their you know day mode so i'm gonna go ahead and get the little one dressed up blaine is gonna get dressed and i'm gonna make ian go ahead and brush his teeth and then get ready for the day too can you button it huh can you try to button it okay you need to brush your teeth and get dressed for the day please where mom we're not going anywhere today and then typically on friday mornings either myself or my husband depending on whoever is head home but we will start to do laundry so on fridays we have the kids strip their beds we do our sheets and everything first and then we start getting started with clothes and typically clothes don't get done until saturday evening so that's kind of what we are in progress of doing right now he wants to show you his toy so i've gotten his bed stripped down and now my um ian is actually doing his bed and i have to do mine so i really quick wanted to take a minute to be able to explain to you guys how it is that i kind of plan out my day um so typically in the mornings what will happen is i try to have a little bit of me time because if not i tend to go a little bit mad um and then i will spend my morning letting the kids have some play time typically we try to do it outside but again it's been so stinking buggy and then it's been really hot on top of that that i haven't been wanting the kids to go out very much so they're using this time to kind of play and then we will do some cleaning up together and it's time for me to just kind of get my house in order i always feel a little bit better once my house is kind of put together and i don't have a huge mess typically if i have a huge mess i can't focus on the things that i need to get done for the day so once that's done we will go about our morning i will always do like a lunch for the kids and then they're gonna have quiet time quiet time is key guys because quiet time is when i start to get some of my things done um and typically here comes one and usually they'll let me get a little bit of work done in the mornings as well all right say bye bye bye bye i can always squeeze in just a tiny bit of work while i'm making lunch i am going to catch up with you guys in a little bit yeah a few things cleaned up get some playing in right you die do you want to play yes yes what are you going to play with right girls lego star wars so morning update uh it is 9 30 and i have been working on getting the upstairs cleaned up as much as possible so i've been working with ian and getting his room a little bit more organized i remember putting things underneath my bed and i've just scolded him for putting things underneath his bed in the meantime the little one over here been entertaining himself really well this morning i've been very very proud of him so he's just been in his room kind of playing while we've been cleaning up he comes back and forth every once in a while but he's been doing really well with playing typically i don't like to let the kids do any type of games tv or anything in the morning i will leave that for the evening time when it gets a little bit darker they can't go outside that type of thing so right now it's kind of their separate time in a little bit they're going to have time together where they're downstairs playing as brothers which will always end up in arguments and fights and things that i have to break up but it is what it is like they have to get used to it the kids are downstairs and they're spending a little bit of time together and was able to finish up his room he got it vacuumed it looks really nice blaine on the other hand has a little bit of a messy room but that's okay because i let him be able to just kind of play with it pretty much for the day and then he has to have it cleaned up by the evening time so they're downstairs they're kind of hanging out they're playing together with no tv on no electronics i don't want them having anything um and then it's giving me a little bit of an opportunity to be able to get some of my work done so i have because of um the nature of my classes this year with it being a multi-age classroom and we have three of them that we're putting together um i wanted to make checklist so i like to create some type of a checklist in order for me to be able to keep track of you know whether it's assignments whether it's things that needs to get turned in if i need to keep track of just kids in general i like to just have some sort of a general checklist that i can use so what i'm doing is i've created one that has for each of our homerooms so for myself and my other two partners we each have our like original homeroom list i've created that on one sheet and then on the second sheet i'm breaking them down into their grade levels so they're gonna have fourth fifth and sixth grade and then once we get them placed into their houses at the beginning of the year then there's gonna be a third sheet that will be broken down by their houses so depending on what it is that we're using it for how we're gonna be using it we're gonna have some sort of a checklist there for us to be able to use our kids are all mixed up so we each have a group of fourth fifth and sixth graders um i had to first write down all the fourth graders a list of all of the fifth all of the six and now i'm putting them in alphabetical order so that on the list they're in alphabetical order and that's taking me just a little bit of time i got fourth grade done almost done with fifth grade and then i'm on to sixth grade and i can get it typed up and then that will be one thing that is off of my checklist which is really really really nice it's very quiet here my husband had to go and do some work um for a little bit outside of the house um i'm hoping that he can do a couple of errands for me as well i texted him but he wasn't able to answer he must be busy so i'm hoping he can do some of those errands so that means that i don't have to run out it would just be really really really nice and i'm just gonna just use this quiet time upstairs to be able to work [Music] i got my checklist done and it's 10 30 in the morning right now so i'm like on a roll y'all i'm actually doing pretty good so the only other two things that i need to get done for work is going to be my behavior wheel that i want to get up as a product and then i also want to get my schedule done so i think what i'm going to do is because i have my schedule like almost finished i was doing it one one night pretty late when we were watching tv upstairs so i have it almost done so i think i'm gonna get that done first before i actually get started on the behavior wheel so the kids are still really really entertained at the moment i'm gonna let them keep playing because they're being really really good so i really quick wanted to show you guys the checklist so i can't show you the one with the names on it but i did print one off that does not have any names here's what the checklist look like i told you guys it is nothing nothing fancy but i have three different areas so this is an example of what the fourth grade the fifth grade and then the sixth grade looks like uh names go on one side this is like a check and then this is to be able to put any type of notes that you need to place in there but i love these they are i've been using them since my first year of kindergarten and they saved my life every single time um in kindergarten whether they ended up looking they were a little bit bigger and i would cut them in half so i would have i would be able to get two checklists out of one page and i would just kind of paper clip them to anything that i was either grating or i was collecting or whatever it was that i needed to get done but this is nice i'm just gonna use it as a full piece of paper because that's what i'm going to end up needing it most for sent it already to my partner teachers they're going to check it off to make sure that i have one put it in abc order correctly and then also we had some switches at the last minute right before move the pride day which was like a two days before the last day of school where a couple of kids moved out a couple of kids moved in so i needed to make sure that we have the correct kids that were moved out and the kid correct kids that were moved in if that makes sense so i i sent it off to them they're gonna check me off so then once they check me off that can officially have that finished and done on my list and i think i'm just gonna go ahead and get started on that i have just a little bit of time before i need to get um get lunch going and yeah that's really pretty much about it i'm very proud of how like how much i'm able to get done today i finally finished my schedule and the cards that i wanted to be able to put inside of the pocket chart that's inside of my classroom so i'm going to show you what they look like all right so here is what i made um so i did a schedule just to be able to put inside of my planner and also to be able to have inside of my um sub binder that i'm gonna be getting together so that's gonna go inside of here uh very happy with it i like the color scheme it just looks very i don't know enchanted foresty fantasy feeling is what i'm going for y'all and then i have these which are the cards so i like to divide my cards up and have a time version and then also the actual what's happening during that time version because there are times where i feel like sometimes i have to switch things and change things up and i never want to have it where it says maker spaces and then it has the time right there on it because then that means i can't change it like i can't change things around um so i always make my time separate i also make a few cards where i can just use a dry erase marker and be able to put times in especially when we have like those act 80 days and things that are just a little bit different where we have to change up our schedule but then i can always move these around so i just did a list of all of the different things that we're going to be doing so maker spaces reading block that type of thing special lunch recess arrival activity period so all that's going to be in there these need to be get these need to get laminated and then cut and i think i'm going to do that a little bit later on once i'm working on um when the kids are getting their quiet time in their rooms today i'm going to go ahead and spend some time with my voice downstairs being able to play with them and just kind of hang out with them for a little bit and get ready to make lunch in the next like 30 minutes or so and i will show you guys what i end up making i never do anything fancy for lunch it just doesn't happen in my life i don't like to be in the kitchen all day long and i tell my kids that and i say do you want to be cooking and cleaning in the kitchen all day i don't think so it is almost 12 o'clock and i am gonna make everyone some lunch i'm thinking that my husband was gonna be able to make it for lunch i'm not quite sure but what i'm gonna do is i'm just gonna make some turkey sandwiches i'm also gonna be making a hispanic soup so it is a soup that my grandmother made for me every single day when i was little it was the soup that my mother made for us when we were little and then it was a soup that i made for my kids when they're little typically when i am in the kitchen y'all like this is my time to be able to watch youtube so i have my ipad back here i have my youtube channels on and i'm just gonna like play my youtube so that this is kind of my time to be able to just kind of chillax inside of the kitchen 12 30 and it is time for them to eat lunch and time for me to eat lunch uh i haven't quite made my food yet but i need to i do need to make myself sandwich so here is what the kids are eating like i said they have sorry about my mess but they have soup um they're getting a turkey and cheese sandwich with some blueberries and this is what they're gonna be eating for lunch today and yeah so i'm gonna go ahead and give them their food i'm gonna sit down with them and we're all gonna eat together yay no oh okay you ready to go eat yeah yeah do you like it is it delicious and what about you like it it's good awesome are we gonna have quiet time no then you know what we can't do later can't have slime look at me are we gonna have quiet time now yeah yep are you ready for quiet time yes yeah it is now one o'clock in the afternoon and both of the boys are in their room having their quiet time and typically they can do whatever it is that they like to do i try to put blaine down for a nap he's starting to kind of phase out of the nap time and he doesn't really want to have a nap time i can tell like he's like an in-between there are some days where he will do it and then there are some that he just refuses to nap but we're getting used to the fact that he does need to have quiet time so he knows that he can play he can re look at the books that are in his room and same thing with ian like he can do the exact same thing they just kind of stay in their rooms um so i have about an hour and a half to be able to just like focus solely on getting some of my like school work done um or business work however whichever i choose to do at the moment right now i'm going to do business work um so i figured i was going to work on um putting out a product for my wheel of choice i get asked so many times about my wheel of choice and whether or not it's offered as a product uh and i just haven't had the time to be able to make it into a product until today so today i'm focusing on that it got dark on the other side okay so i am working right now on getting the behavior my wheel of choice um up as a product and for those of you who don't know a lot about my wheel of choice so i've used this in kindergarten i've had it for four years now i absolutely loved loved loved using it in kindergarten didn't use it as much as i did last year but i think it was mainly because i was trying to get used to fourth grade i am gonna bring it back out this coming year and we will be hitting this hardcore for making choices because even fourth graders need to know how to make choices in life so here's what i do so there are 12 different strategies that kids can choose from to be able to help them make a choice whenever they are having a hard time making choices so for example if they're fighting with friends or they're getting really frustrated with some of their work if they don't know what to do they can go to an area in the room which is what i called like the quiet area or the you know quiet corner something to that extent and they could spin the wheel and then the wheel will tell them what strategy to use now i don't just put this out there and then without teaching it so the very beginning of the year each of these little areas will be covered up with some type of paper typically i do like colorful paper just because i think it's cuter so it'll be covered up with some type of paper and then every day we will pull one in morning meeting we will pull one out we will discuss it we will act it out we will talk about it we'll create anchor charts about it and then the kids will have the opportunities to be able to use it so then and the afternoon when we're having our closing circle then we'll come back and say you know who used this strategy today walk away that was the strategy that we talked about this morning can would somebody like to tell me um how you use that strategy today so we will talk about each one of each one of the strategies once it's all done then it is out in that little area in the room that i want to have it in and the kids are welcome to use it all the time and then when kids come up to me and say mrs spacman so-and-so is doing this to me i say you know what that is that is something that i think a willow choice could help you with so why don't you go and spin the will of choice to help you make a decision on what you should do so then it gets them to do that so that i'm not the only one that's constantly telling them what to do because if i'm the only person that's selling one telling them what to do guess what they're going to come to me for everything and that's not what i'm trying to do i'm trying to teach them to be independent i'm trying to teach them to make their own choices so then they could use this which is not using me they can go to this and actually help them learn how to make some of those decisions themselves so i'm going to spend the next hour and a half trying to create this as a product and i will catch up with you guys after i have gotten some progress done on this it's now 2 30 in the afternoon they have been in quiet time for an hour and a half and i have yet to finish all of my work for uh the wheel of choice product but i am gonna get it done today because i'm gonna have other opportunities throughout the day to be able to do it so the kids are gonna be getting up actually the little one just came downstairs saying that he needed something so i ordered a couple of professional development books that i really wanted to get and i ended up getting two different ones i got the growth mindset book and then i also got a book called inside information so if you're in my patreon chat you guys would have already seen this and i actually did purchase it but i'm thinking about doing a uh book club using one of these books it's exciting what do you guys think and i got my vines it looks good huh yeah it does that's nice [Music] y'all i am straight up looking for like i went to the elmer website to look up for their glitter slime and i am using their recipe so i have all of the materials out i'm gonna go grab my contact solution grab the kids and then we're gonna get started on their little activity we're doing slime yeah you're doing slime you do i got purple ones all right so we are gonna follow the directions on hill pour it all out what's up i hate this stupid present it came out very long how am i supposed to clean this up so hubby came to the rescue to help me clean out the not glitter slime it's a lot of glue after the slime was a complete bust the kids decided that they wanted to play with some play-doh and while i had mad out i figured you know what that's the perfect time for us to play with play-doh [Applause] i feel like i'm in desperate need of a little bit of a break [Music] i feel like i've just been going going going today and it's just been a very busy day especially with my sister that's coming out i feel like i just need to get a ton of stuff done because i know i'm not gonna get a lot done this weekend so a lot of the cleaning stuff that i would normally get done on a weekend i'm getting it done today it's four o'clock and the kids are still very much entertained with their play-doh that they're doing right now i'm gonna let them continue playing for a little bit um typically around this time four or five o'clock or so i will let them go downstairs they can watch one movie and then that'll be right around the time that dinner is ready so then we'll have dinner i'm gonna help my husband figure out where to put up my clock get another thing checked off of my list for today right there yeah it is now five o'clock in the evening and it is time for me to make dinner the kids have been downstairs playing and getting to watch one of their movies that they wanted to watch i have been working on my behavior will product um so the wheel of choice product that i wanted to get up for you guys and my hand is starting to cramp so it's a great time for me to go ahead and stop and be able to get some work done i'm gonna do just like i did during lunch and i'm gonna watch some youtube so that's kind of what i do i just put youtube on and then that entertains me while i am able to um get dinner together and then i will show you guys what i make so i am going to make a chicken stir frying it is an extremely easy meal for me to be able to make and i had some leftover vegetables so i'm gonna just throw some of these in and then i use because i'm incredibly lazy i use a rotisserie chicken [Music] [Applause] stop eating the food to their stories so we are good i have been editing just a little bit so i've been going in between getting this done and then working on editing the video which is over here too so i go back and forth between the two uh and i will talk to you guys a little bit after dinner on how i just pretty much plan everything out to get things done because i think the biggest part about getting everything done that you have is the planning piece of it it is so so important and the reason why i feel like i was so successful today is because of the how well i planned last night what was was today a good day yes maybe a little time it was a storm wow yeah gum sweats yeah is it good yes thank you ann are you so happy about it i'm just really tired it's been a long day it always surprises me at how long it takes for me to cook dinner and how fast it takes for everybody to eat it and be done it is now six o'clock which is a pretty good time and we are um going to clean up the kitchen i need to put everything in the dishwasher get that ready to go ian takes a shower at 6 30 every night so i'm gonna go ahead clean this up really fast so that i can go and give lean a bath and get them ready for bed they'll have some nice quiet play time so then by about 7 30 ish it is story time and bedtime okay hey blaine honey it's time to clean up okay because we gotta go take a bath no i'm fine huh i know you are fine but we got to take a bath okay we get to play with our shark and stuff inside the bathtub yes but let's pick up legos first that's your job pick up legos let's go all of them in the bucket all right and more time it's time to clean up get ready for the night time put everything away lenny go put that cup in the in the sink as well please no that does that banana peel does not go there go throw the banana in the in the trash and go take the cup to the sink they did a good job cleaning i've been very proud of them and how well they've kept this little downstairs clean look at that shopkins looking portrait good i'm impressed high five kiddo you did a good job a little bit more all right a little bit to the left i think it's perfect though yep come on right is that right it looks right it looks cute you ready to go take a bath yup ready or not here we go i've given blaine a bath ian's taken his shower both been changed for bed both are laid down i usually give them not usually i always give them about 15 minutes of ipad at the very end of the night and then once that's up i will go in um and i will read them their bedtime story and then put them back for the night while blaine was actually taking a bath i was able to at least clean the toilet and then clean the uh sink and then after both of the boys were done i finished up the bathroom by cleaning off the bathtub i just need to put up some fresh towels over there that i've had washed that are still in the basement and that's really about it i think ian is waiting for his blanket which is in the dryer at the moment so it only has a few more minutes to finish up and then this is my time to be able to get all the work done that i needed to get done [Music] a little bit okay right now it's time for you to go to sleep okay [Music] milk so good night look at mommy nancy nana [Music] all right it is now eight o'clock in the evening both of the boys are in bed and it is now my time to be able to get things done and typically i will try to work until maybe about 9 9 30 at the most um sometimes i do it in bed sometimes i do it in the couch next to my bed it all depends on just the situation and what i what it is that i need to accomplish so really quick before i close this off i wanted to talk to you guys about how i just kind of overall the process for how i do things for the day typically i try my hardest to try to plan out the next day like the night before so if i was to try to get certain things done for tomorrow i would start planning for it now and i would never do anything more than threes i try to break it up in the different areas of my life so i break it up with family i break it up with home and then i break it up with work so those are like my three main things and with work i kind of include both business and teaching work um so i mix it up here and there with what it is that i'm doing i can hear my kid talking to himself i want to show you one more time what my planner ended up looking like by the end of the day so here is for today for friday so i have my family my work and my home and some of the things that i wanted to accomplish like i said i try not to put more than three things under each of those categories because there's just not enough time and if i was like working i wouldn't put this much stuff on my plate for all three categories in a day what i'm doing now my like summer edition of what my day looks like now is very different from what it would look like when i am actually teaching and i can do one if you guys want me to a day in the life of how i try to get some of my things done once school starts be sure to give the video a thumbs up that lets me know whether or not you guys want me want to see it and i will definitely try to plan that out so try not to do three more than three things in each of the categories and even then i try to think of okay is this thing going to really take over everything that i'm trying to get done so if you guys remember when i was talking about my work items and when i talked about my checklist and i talked about my schedule i told you guys that i had the majority of it actually done and i just needed to like do some finishing touches so me knowing that i only needed to do finishing touches told me that i didn't have to start from scratch if i had to start from scratch i would not have put all three of these things onto my plate because i know for a fact that i would not have gotten them done so once i have that planned out and this is the night before so once i have that planned out then i can really look at my schedule and y'all i try my very hardest to keep my kids on their schedule and with how we do things in the day and this is a very very typical here i am i'm at home type of day um usually if we have things where we have to go out somewhere if we go grocery shopping or if we do if we go to the school so i can go and work it will typically be like in the morning in that chunk of time when the kids are like playing and they have their play time or it'll be in the afternoon during like that craft time when i got some of that stuff done so i try to put it into those two chunks chunk of times i try not to disturb the other times of the day just because it's a nice routine for my kids so i this is literally pretty much how my day would go if i stay planned and i make sure i really plan out everything that i want to get accomplished for the day i didn't get everything accomplished because i didn't get to the basement today but that's mainly because i had a ton of cleaning that i was trying to do for my sister who was coming so i wanted to make sure that the house was looking pretty nice even though it's like still under construction what else anyway so that's kind of the idea of how i try to get things done this is gonna be the another bulk of that time where i'm gonna work work work work work to be able to accomplish all of the tasks that i need to get done so i hope that you guys enjoyed this video please make sure to give it a thumbs up especially if you want to see a version of this for when i actually start working and being able to kind of compare and see what i do and how i change things but give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it leave some comments down below let me know what you guys thought of the day let me know what you were thinking about just having three things and being able to really focus in on some of those things and keeping like a nice little schedule for yourself um yeah let me know i hope that you guys enjoyed it subscribe if you haven't already guys and i will talk to you all really really soon bye

Channel: The Lettered Classroom

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Length: 36min 59sec (2219 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 29 2017