COVID Changes! | WEEK IN MY TEACHER LIFE

[Music] good morning y'all welcome back to my channel if you're new here my name is brianna and i'm a third grade teacher in north carolina and today is monday the second week of school i need to get myself ready uh put up my morning slide copy my newsletters choose my read aloud for my reading lesson and then i should be pretty good i think oh i have a lot to do today it's our first like full day of content so fingers crossed it goes smoothly i'll catch up with y'all after school but let me show you my outfit so first i'm wearing this top from chic soul love me some chic so it's like an amazing length or school i love just i love everything about it and it has this super cute like ruffly neckline as well my lanyard is from of hearts hands and hearts of hearts and minds or something like that and then my dress pants i don't know if you can tell but they have a they're navy blue with a black strip going down the side they're from old navy i think i got them on clearance and then i'm wearing my jacks because they're my navy shoes they don't feel the best throughout the day but that is okay so my glasses are from zymph and my necklace is from target my earrings are from i don't know some random i probably sheen and it was super cheap and or boohoo super cheap and super fake all right i'll catch y'all after school hey y'all clearly my makeup did not stay very well today i wore my mask all day today we have a feeling at our board meeting tonight that they're going to make them mandatory again which i'm totally okay with because my anxiety has been through the roof with just the cases and everything that's happening it's it's real it's a thing but we're pushing through and luckily people that i know that are currently getting it are just having like sinus infection cold symptoms so nothing crazy so that's good that's a positive i'm nervous about getting it myself just being home alone and having to take care of myself but also i don't want to be away from the kids you know i don't want to feel like i can't do my job so even though i'm vaccinated i will be wearing my mask especially when i'm super close to the kids and i'm encouraging them to wear theirs as well for as long as it's optional the ones that bring them i obviously encourage them to wear them we had a training after school then we planned a little bit then i had therapy and i did it at school because why not you know thank thank goodness for google me therapy let me tell you um i made a plan with my therapist about just like a lot of balancing work and personal life so i think i'm going to head out for today i want to talk about fun activities that we're doing and i feel like i didn't get to last week i might make like a sit down video to touch on some things but it's crazy my room is not what i want it to look like like i want to pull out my drawers to organize this guided reading materials these are all binders that i cleared out and just extra supplies and stuff that i'm going to need to do something with but i'm also making binders oh i need to look for my parent contact log i need to update that because i made two phone calls don't know how my number three got over here but also i don't think i told you guys i made the desks if they're wet because i just sprayed them down i know it looks crazy anyway i made three groups instead of four since i only have 16 students but now i have these two random desks literally just shoved over here chaos i also have another desk back there but we don't have a storage room anymore so it's like i don't want them out of my classroom in case i need them but also like i don't need them right now and i have an extra desk there i actually have an extra desk in the hallway as well so like i have my phone desk and then i have one outside of my classroom in the hallway so i guess technically i could get rid of those what i really want to do though is take the time to look at which which desks are the best and kind of make sure i do it that way oh my goodness i have to put my task cards around the room but i'm going to do that tomorrow morning i got both fonts and pinell kits so that i can start progress monitoring my students and i did put my little paper on the board i love the way that looks we did do being frank activity don't know if i talked about that but loved that our chromebook contract i'll link this on teachers pay teachers we did that when we were discussing um chromebook etiquette and expectations i have like my plans here and stuff that i want to go through so i'm just gonna take that home luckily tomorrow we have enrichment in the morning however we have plc so i'm going to be doing that for like 45 minutes and then after that we're like planning because things are happening if you want to know more just make sure you're following me on instagram i'll share more there just a lot of a lot of adjustments are having to be made to make everything function my sprinkle borders falling down i need to get more double-sided tape after school don't know if i showed y'all but i put up i actually really enjoyed this activity this is one i'll talk about and then i'm gonna head out so since i moved to three table groups i have an extra tub i might switch back to four groups but we'll see the desks are just spread out i don't know i still have my clorox wipes and my paper towels that i need to store so handle that and my tissues my zip locks i want to put up there but now i've put all this anchor chart paper so i just have to like stand up there and make sure i could see what's going on but like see this is falling and then i guess it fell over here so i need to find that and fix that i need to throw away this tablecloth i'm not going to keep it because it has some holes in it and that's whatever it was cheap i need to decide if i should keep those little easels i need to make like an open house bucket because i have a lot of like extra erasers and stuff that's something i need to do i want to hang these sprinkles i think in my library but now i'm like setting up stuff over there so i don't know if i necessarily want them there i don't know where else i would hang them though i guess i could hang them like here maybe i'll do that i don't know they're cute this is what i wanted to talk about we did a fiction and non-fiction sort and i wrote these on these colorful sentence strips and so we kind of like categorized them together and this was just fun instead of just writing it in a t-chart it was more hands-on more interactive so i really enjoyed this activity i definitely want to do it in the future this is where i'm at when this is clear i will feel much better but like i also have like playground equipment stacking up i'll send it with my kids tomorrow because they have pe but our pe teacher said he would blow up the balls and restock and whatever so need to do that i still need to talk to the kids i'm random carpet falling i still need to talk to the kids about returning library books like we talked about picking book choosing books they're really good about the five finger rule love those posters by the way i will link that on teachers pay teachers but i see them putting up their fingers and it's so precious when they're choosing a book but i need to designate days for them to shop because they just don't understand that they can't just start reading a book and decide they don't want to anymore and put it back i also had them do the book survey today so i'm going to recommend two books to them tomorrow because i've been a little bit behind on that this stuff is still not completely organized we're overflowing with glue sticks but i mean that's never a bad thing i still have to organize this before we start full-blown centers so there's just still a lot of things to do even though i've done it with that being said i'm going to head out for today and i'll see y'all tomorrow good morning y'all it is tuesday and masks are back to being required in school and i can say i'm very happy about that i've experienced two completely different extremes we were in school last year since october with mandated masks and now we've been in school for a week and more has happened within this week than did at all last year or at least it feels like today's an enrichment day which is good because we need to plan my goodness i need to finish grading my spelling inventories from words their way so far a lot of my kids are in a similar range which is nice because then i don't need as many different lists i do definitely want to do some type of word study phonics spelling this year because i saw over the summer with phonics how much of a difference it made so i'm gonna go do that and get my day started and i'll talk to y'all after school i now remember why i never vlog anymore during the school year happy wednesday i don't have much to say just tune into my life on sunday i can say more there it's just it's been a lot i don't know where my voice is right now she's been a lot i'm okay mentally it's just exhaustion um [Music] beginning of the year exhaustion covered stress exhaustion taking on extra work exhaustion balancing kids online and in the classroom now we got this

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Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 01 2021