CURRENT CLASSROOM FAVORITES | Pencil Dispenser, Skin Tone Bandages, and an Electric Whistle?!

it has been approximately two and a half months since I filmed my last classroom favorites video which means I have made a lot of purchases that I'm ready to share with you all also you may be able to tell by my voice or my sniffling that I'm a little bit under the weather I've been sick for about the past five days and I kept postponing my filming hoping I would feel better but eventually I just had to say to myself Michelle the people need to know about your purchases they don't have forever so with my lovely sick voice I'm gonna share with you all ten of my current classroom favorites all of which can be found on Amazon I might add I will throw this disclaimer out there just so there is no confusion whatsoever this video is not sponsored in any way I've purchased all of these items with my own moolah tank that's money and I am sharing them with you because they genuinely make my heart happy also because I love watching other people's favorites videos so I can find things that I didn't know existed and go spend my money on them the first item I'm gonna share with you all is the one I am most excited for and also the one I think is most important let's talk about bandages for a second aside from the decorative ones that have beautiful Lowell cartoon characters and designs and things on them a majority of bandages are tan which is fine and dandy if you're you know white because it closely matches your skin tone but spoiler alert we're not all the same color so when I saw these bandages I got super excited because even though it seems like such a simple thing it is so important for your students to feel represented and nothing makes a student feel underrepresented than being handed a bandage that does not match their skin tone these are by the brand true color okay color with au and they come in a variety of different skin tones these bags come with ten medium bandages and ten large bandages they stick really well and they're also latex-free which is fantastic because there are a lot of students that have latex allergies now I picked mine up for my local target but you can find them on Amazon which of course I will link for you in the description box my next item is an electric whistle oh yeah you heard that correctly an electric whistle this puppy right here is a game changer if you were a teacher and you are outside for recess duty you have to have a whistle trust me now I had one of those standard metal whistles you know the kind you would see like a little league soccer coaching scene for about five years until just recently it fell off my lanyard and I lost it when I was looking on Amazon for a new whistle I came across this electric whistle and I was like what this is 2019 people ok the future is now here is why this whistle is so much better than a regular whistle first of all it is much louder than a regular whistle which if you are outside with your students you will appreciate all you have to do to make the whistle sound is press this button right here I'm not gonna do it right now because I got to school super early to film and I will probably give my custodian a heart attack but take my word for it second it is far more sanitary because there are no mouths involved regular whistles are gross okay let's just throw that out there you blow into it with all of your germs and they get stuck on the inside and they just they just grow in and as teachers we don't need to be surrounded by any more germs okay regular whistles can't be shared or brothers shouldn't be shared by this little beauty right here you can just pass this to anyone you want and all they have to do to make the whistle sound is just press the button and that definitely comes in handy it also has a smoke flashlight on the other end I know that's not a huge selling point but you know the next item I have is an acrylic Strahl dispenser but it's not dispensing straws it is dispensing the most highly coveted school supply item especially in the month of May pencils now this is not my original idea okay this is one of those things that I have seen all over social media for years now and I've wanted to try it so I finally went onto Amazon found myself a straw dispenser purchased it filled it with some pencils and let me just say one of the best decisions I've made in a very long time so when a student comes asking me for a pencil which you know happens about a thousand times a day all I have to do is turn the knob on the side and out pops a pencil obviously mine is not filled up all the way because again it's May and I have like zero pencils but from what I read online at people say that this can hold about a hundred and fifty pencils so that should get you through like at least the first hour of the day it does dispense regular number-two size pencils but I have not tried any other size pencils so if you've got those like fancy ones that are shaped like triangles or you've got the fat ones probably wouldn't work as my guess now I am the only one that touches this because it is all fun and games in fourth grade until a student jams my pencil dispenser now one of my summer projects will be coming up with a label for this that says off limits for students but until then I just you know blow my electric whistle anytime a student gets too close to it I'm just kidding I don't actually do that my next item is something near and dear to my heart or in this case my feet these are my school slippers oh yeah you heard that correctly school slippers I'm sorry but if you do not have a pair of slippers at home and have another pair of slippers at school you're living your life wrong I have this exact same pair of slippers at home Billy actually got them for me as a Christmas gift and I loved them so much that I bought myself another pair to bring into my classroom I really like that moccasin style slipper these are really comfortable but they're also not too hot and they have this like rubbery kind of sole on the bottom so I can wear them outside if need be I also love that there is stitching across the bow because I've had some pairs of moccasin slippers in the past and the bow would just come untied every two seconds and it drove me crazy so this one because it is sewn over always is tied the reason I keep a pair of slippers at school is because sometimes you wear a pair of shoes to school that you haven't worn in a while and you forget how uncomfortable they are until you're applying bandages to the blisters on your feet I love to have these as backup but comfortable backup I also like to wear my slippers after school and by that I mean 3:59 I'm wearing regular shoes 4:01 I'm wearing my slippers I did purposely buy the black color because I feel like they can you know kind of passes regular shoes all right maybe not but you know that's what I tell myself my next item is a flare pen but wait there's more look papermate Flair pens are basically like the equivalent of gold within the teacher community okay that is no new information but did you know that you can buy boxes of single color flare pens because you can I love flare pens as much as the next teacher okay but let's all be honest for a second there is a certain level of disappointment when you buy a pack of assorted colors of flare pens yellow flare okay who uses these not me but if you really like the black player pens you can buy a 12-pack on Amazon you like pink flower pens they have those two blue flower pens yep you deserve to be surrounded by your favorite color pen so start buying them in single color packs and thank me later my next item is an umbrella but hear me out on this one first of all you don't realize how desperately you need an umbrella until you are standing in the pouring rain during bus duty zero out of ten don't recommend so I would searching on Amazon and it turns out umbrellas have come a pretty far away recently they now make umbrellas that open down instead of up hold on okay there's a button see red button okay now I know there's probably be comments saying that it's bad luck but you know I just believe you make your own luck in this world now this is important because when the umbrella opens down that means when you close the umbrella all of the water will go on the inside instead of dribbling all over your floor now they do have tons of different prints and colors but I went with basic black because that's my favorite color my next item is a donation box and as much as I would love to use it to get tips for my amazing teaching skills that's not what I use it for I like to do ticket incentive systems where my students earn tickets for good behavior and then they enter those tickets into drawings for different prizes this donation box works perfectly for that because not only do their tickets fit perfectly in the slot but there also is this plastic sign up here that I can put a paper into to display the current prize students are working towards there also is a lock so you can keep them nice and secure because that's important again these do come in different colors but I went with black my next item is another fidget for my calm down bin and it's called a tangle actually I think my detangle junior but you get the point I purchased a three pack of tangles on Amazon and this was inspired after seeing some my students with these in class and I was intrigued I really like it because it is quiet it doesn't make any noise but you can easily move it around and manipulate it to relieve anxiety students can also take them apart and they can the pieces move them around a little bit I know it's super simple but I do think it is something that can be very beneficial for students my next item is actually for math instruction this is called a base ten decimal frame I discovered this after doing some online searching during our decimal unit understanding decimal place value can be a really difficult skill for fourth graders to learn so I really like to use base 10 blocks to model this this decimal frame helps to hold the base 10 blocks up top and then there are these squares at the bottom where you can actually put in the decimal values the frame and the number squares are both foam which means they are nice and quiet which is an added bonus I only have two frames for now definitely not enough for a whole class but I would like to get some more in the future at least a supplement small group instruction during math my last item is probably the least exciting out of all of them but that's okay it is a cell phone stand I usually leave my phone out on my desk throughout the day and it gets moved around approximately 50 times and then when I actually need it I can't find it I love this stand because it gives my phone a designated place to be sitting so I know exactly where to find it I also film a lot of Instagram stories at school so this is a perfect way to prop up my phone while I am filming them my phone can sit on it vertically or horizontally it also has this little slit down here so you can plug in your phone and charge it while it is sitting on the stand those are my 10 current classroom favorites of course than links to all of the products I mentioned in this video will be down in the description box for you if you enjoyed this video please go ahead and give it a thumbs up also share it out with your teacher friends if you have not already go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you do not miss any future videos as always thank you for watching I love you all so much don't forget to put your Ponte pants on and I will catch you in the next one thank you so much for watching all the way to the end of this video and for supporting my youtube channel if you want to check out any of my older videos you can use the two links right down here if you want to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any future videos you can use like or right up here the links to all of my social media sites my teachers pay 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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2019