Halloween as a Teacher | Teacher Evolution Ep 14

since tomorrow is Halloween I kind of know that it's gonna be a crazy day so I'm totally just gonna use candy corn like oh you're sitting quietly you get a candy corn oh you're listening to me you get a candy corn officially survived Halloween hallelujah is I seriously do have the best students in the entire world good morning YouTube first of all I need to figure out how to motivate myself to get out of bed in the morning because as you will see I have won here again and it's just because I'm being lazy like I set an alarm my personal R that was born he went off at 5:45 and I planned to get up at 6:00 sounded great in theory and then my alarm at 6:00 went off and I was like nope it's not happening because I didn't get up until 6:15 and I just don't know how to like get myself up in the morning I'm just I blame it on not being a morning person but in reality I think it's just cuz I'm lazy I'm like you know what why get up and do my hair if I can just get up and go to school with my hair wet but anyway I did have a pretty productive weekend or at least I felt like I did on Saturday I got my editing done early which almost never happens for me and then Billy and I we went to Monster Mash which was like a Halloween celebration at my school I would I say we I mean Billy dropped me off and came back home and then picked me up again but I volunteered to get rapped as a mummy that was really fun I love seeing my kids in their costumes and then we went to get food afterwards yesterday I literally woke up ate cereal stayed in bed all day and I was working on getting stuff ready for this week so I got a ton of grading done which is good but at the same time like it took hours and I saw more to do I got a lot of my plants done for this week not all of them but more than I usually do I had to update like my science PowerPoint that I use and all that good news is I'm feeling better I think the like stomach flu that I had it was just like a two day thing and it was gone so I feel really good about that but I need to go get coffee cuz I am feeling really tired and I guess just because it's a Monday I don't know it's cold and it's super windy and actually I like the temperature it's like in the low 40s or no it's in the high 40s and it feels good but I do not like the wind it's like super super so I'm gonna go give I think a hot latte and then I'll catch up with you guys at school good morning can I get a large hot vanilla latte please anything else nope that'll be it thank you so I've got into my classroom these were books said I think someone had borrowed from me and they returned them but just putting them under my door and then these are papers that I need to go make copies of unfortunately our TA is actually out today so I'm gonna make the copies myself but I totally don't mind copies are all made I just need to go through and sort them binder clip them and cut them and things like that set they're ready for the week and I just want to show you these are some things that I made over blood it make them I like printed them and laminated them and got them over the weekend these are part of like our curriculum so these are fractions like with decomposing fractions different ways these are like cards that they're gonna sort so since I have five groups I printed them on five different colors that way if any of them get separated they'll know exactly which group that belongs to and then same thing with these little sorting cards so we're going to use for science we're talking about like animal tails and what they use them for and all that so each group is on a different color that way if they lose any it'll be super easy to put them back open through the waves cut through time [Music] I just checked my students to art and I've got quite a few things that I need to do now during my planning time one I need to get these like smelly cups ready for science basically I just need like Red Solo cups and I'm gonna put different things inside of them like soap vinegar and then I'm gonna put foil over top and poke a few holes that way the students can smell and they're gonna try to use like what they know about cents to determine what the smell is I need to get that ready I need to fill out some papers and stuff hold on let me show you so we have a like play that students are auditioning for and the students who want to do stage crew have to like write a paper and then the teachers have to fill out a recommendation form so I need to go through and do that because they're due today and of course I had a bunch of students bring it to me like this Martine I did get another bead for my ring that I keep on my lanyard so this is for participating in PTA events this bead is from participating in Monster Mash and then I also got an almond joy and it says you're a joy to work with thank you for helping hit Monster Mash which all I did was get wrapped in toilet paper so that was the easiest bead and candy bar that I've ever earned smell cups are already they actually didn't take as long as I thought that they would I didn't film it just because my team teacher and I like did it together and we were trying to be really quick but basically it's just a Red Solo Cup and we covered it with foil and then just poked a couple holes on top so one of them has toothpaste one of them has a lemon one of them has vinegar one of them has chocolate one of them has a dryer sheet and one of them has coffee so they're just gonna smell them they're gonna rotate like between them all they're gonna write down if they think it's food or not and like how they know like why prior knowledge did they like pull from in order to make their prediction I feel like I can literally never get all of my grading done so I just didn't bring me this this morning that they had finished so I'm gonna quickly grate it so that I can again say that I'm up-to-date on grading but it's like every time I say that I just get more and more papers it feels like it's never-ending okay I totally forgot that I ordered these but I ordered Girl Scout cookies from one of my girls and they arrived today which is awesome so I got two boxes of Thin Mints and you better believe they're gonna stay here in my classroom I'm gonna put some in my freezer in my little fridge that I have I got some of these at peanut butter which these used to be called like Tagalongs they're one of my favorites and then the peanut butter sandwich cookies and I think these were like dozy toes maybe I don't know they've changed all the names but I got four boxes and then how sweet she also read a little card and it says mister a thank you very much for purchasing Girl Scout cookies and then down here she drew has is this here your cookies thank you at a pumpkin spice latte on point so we had some parent volunteers come in earlier today to bag candy corn candy there's like melamine pumpkins and toothpicks so tomorrow we're gonna do blocks in the morning but they're just gonna be for an hour each and then we're gonna have our homeroom classes for the afternoon so we're gonna do this candy corn tower challenge which I have actually done this with my second graders so I look forward to doing it with my fourth graders basically they have to draw the naturale they have to build the tallest tower that they can in 15 minutes and it has to be freestanding so they can't use like their hands to hold it up or anything like that so it should be a fun activity to do tomorrow before we have the parade in the afternoon so we have all of the kids go out they do a parade outside that starts at 2:45 will probably start changing around like 2:15 so it gives us about an hour to get the challenge done so about an hour and 15 minutes later I have graded this huge stack of papers actually I'm pretty proud of myself for just like sitting here and getting it done some of this is stuff from when I was out last week with a sub so my gray drawer is almost all empty these are just like papers that are like answer keys so as students bring me like unfinished work I can do those and then this sack right here are the writing assignments that my students did when we were in homeroom classes for FMP like two weeks ago the only thing preventing me from grading this is I need to make a roof break so I'm not going to worry about it for tonight but I'll make it my goal to get those graded and in the grade book by the end of the week so now that my grading is done and I think I have everything ready for tomorrow since we're just doing our blocks we're not going to get to a lot it's just gonna be real real quick so I'm gonna spend some time going through this box it has literally been sitting here since the first day of school and I've been meaning to go through it so I'm probably gonna take it out go through it and organize it all [Music] it is now 6:30 I'm getting ready to get out of here usually I stay until like 7 o'clock ish but Billy actually got home early tonight so he is already home we are gonna meet at Panera for dinner so I feel good because I got the box runner who I just cleaned out I got some stuff done for tomorrow my block one is ready to go my block 2 I forgot that we're doing an M cubed lesson which is like the advanced learner stuff so I do need to go through that tonight and get all that ready but that's okay I don't mind doing that I'm gonna run to Panera and then I'll catch up with you guys in the morning so I'm not the last one living which is really nice there's kind of a pretty sunset happening and it has that like burn smell outside that just smells like October I love it I'm gonna do a quick impromptu a target haul because I went to target tonight which I have to give myself credit I actually have not been going to target as much as a Hughes - it's a little bit farther away from me it's about a ten minute drive rather than being right across the street and I think that has helped first things first this came in the mail from Amazon so these are the little plastic pegs that hold up shelves so kind of embarrassing I actually need to order a third set of these this is the second set that I've ordered because I have an extra shelf but I realized tonight when I was putting stuff away I actually have a shelf right now that's just like resting on top of stuff it's not even like put into the sides with the pegs so I need to order yet another one of these tonight but that's okay I at least have this to put up the extra shelf tomorrow so this bag is pretty much all candy so I got this like monster sized bag of dum-dums I think there's yeah 300 of them in here so I'm gonna have this for trick-or-treating I do have a fair amount of candy to give out like chocolatey kind of stuff but I also wanted to give out dum-dums and I tried to plan ahead whatever is left over I will just take into my classroom because we give out dum-dums as our students fill up their cub kouto card which is like their incentive card and I also got two bags of a candy corn and I'll be completely honest I got these to bribe my students tomorrow so since tomorrow is Halloween I kind of know that it's gonna be a crazy day so I'm totally just gonna use candy corn like oh you're sitting quietly you get a candy corn oh you're listening to me you get a candy corn and then whatever is like leftover I will contribute to my kids to build their candy corn towers we already sorted them into bags but I kind of looked at the bags and it didn't seem like it was gonna be enough so I want to have extras just in case um this was totally an impulse buy I just saw it it was like do I have to have it cinnamon vanilla Lucky Charms those looked really really good these also happened so these are hamburger hotdog and french fry socks so I got these for Billy for whatever reason I just buy him like food themed socks like he has Pizza socks and anything food I just tend to gravitate towards and yeah I also got myself a pair because that's the only thing that makes sense I got this table runner from the target dollar spot I think it was yeah three dollars idea if it's even long enough to fit my table but we will figure it out and then I got some like Christmassy stickers because I don't think I have very many of those and then last but not least I got three packs of these just plain pencils these will be part of my students Christmas gifts good morning YouTube so I'm gonna make this really really short because I'm already running late it's like 7:30 three I need to get out of here and that's because I decide to dry my hair this morning it is Halloween I am gonna put on my costume at lunch so at my school like each grade level dresses up with a theme so at lunch I will show you what our theme is for this morning I'm just wearing this shirt this is happy Halloween I got this from Jane comm so I'll try to link it for you if I can find it in the description but if I can't I'm sorry I have this like black and white pencil skirt I have these spider earrings I've no idea where these came from and then I have Halloween socks I can show you when I get to school I need to get going cuz I need to get coffee and then I do have a MIT meeting this morning remember the one I thought was last Tuesday yeah no it's actually today the morning can I get a medium hot vanilla latte please that'll be it thank you so I will show you this hot mess of stuff that I brought into school today when I get to my planning time right now I have to go to my MIT meeting so this morning during our morning meeting I showed my kiddos these pictures of me from Halloween's this was like my first Halloween and I think this was like my second one and then my third one I did post these on the Instagram so if you followed me on there you've probably already seen them but they got it they got a kick out of it all right I know I didn't get to show you guys my full like Halloween outfit not that it's anything fancy I always have plans to like go big for holidays and all of a sudden they sneak up on me and I'm like I am NOT ready whatsoever but I have the happy Halloween shirt which I do think I really like the font I threw think it's pretty cute and then this like pencil skirt so I know this is really tacky but I just have like Halloween socks that actually one of my girls got me for my birthday and then these are black shoes that I got from Sears and then for our costumes which we are going to change into during lunch and then we'll have them on for the parade in the afternoon so we are going as lacrosse players but specifically are like local lacrosse team for youth is Sidewinders lacrosse so we actually talked to one of like the parents that helps to coordinate it all and they were able to get us jerseys to wear which we will return afterwards and t-shirts and then I just have like my running shoes I have leggings and shorts and then just like some Nike socks and then I actually play the cross for several years so I have my lacrosse sticks in here and I'm gonna let one of my other team teachers use it you can tell this bag is like super super old it's all like faded and everything but I thought it was cute just to like you know wear the uniforms and everything that like our students wear so once I get changed into this in the afternoon I will make sure that I show you guys and if you were from like another country you may not even know what lacrosse is so especially in Marilyn lacrosse is really really big here so if you're not sure what it is just google it lacrosse and you can see what I'm talking about so I wanted to show you guys what I'm doing in my actual blocks we're only gonna have our black classes for 15 minutes today so we're not gonna get to science or social studies we're gonna stick just with math my block - which is my like above level group we're gonna work on M cubed so project M cubed mentoring mathematical minds you can actually get these books for not too expensive on like Amazon or even like thrift books I'll try to link it for you in the description but this is really really good for challenging higher-level learners and it has like actual lessons that are all written out so we are gonna do one called amazing multiplication and they're gonna work on these multiplication puzzles now in the book it had them with like the standard algorithm which we do not teach to our fourth graders they don't learn the standard algorithm for multiplication until fifth or sixth grade it's just the way our curriculum is set up so I had to kind of remake this with partial products so they're just puzzles they have to fill in like the boxes and use problem solving to figure out what would go in each of those if you guys want I guess I could like put this at my TPT store or something I don't know I literally just made up the one worksheet but I'm excited to see how they do at that my block to group really really loves a challenge so I love giving them like challenging material and then this I got off of TPT I can link it for you it's just partial quotients practice I'm starting partial quotients today in my block one but I really like how this had it all laid out with like the box and the subtraction and then it even has like an answer box down here and since it will be the first day that we are working on it I just want to have it very like structured for my students so I love Halloween but at the same time like I hate all the candy because I just eat it and I get huge like sugar rushes and I can't even lie like candy is a big weakness of mine and I already have kids bringing me in candy one of my girls in my homeroom brought me in these two Reese's and then a girl in my block too brought me these wild berry skittles which I'm not gonna lie I love skittles and the wild berry are my favorite and as you can see it's like 9:45 and I've already cut into the candy corn so this lovely t.j.maxx bag is literally just filled with a ton of stuff that I had sitting at home that I needed to bring into my classroom either stuff that I've gotten from my P o box or stuff that I got from my birthday so it's a lot of like snacks and stuff like I've died go guys got goldfish I've got a bunch of Reese's I've got a mug that a girl gave me which is so so cute she leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes I've got skittles I've got stuff that I bought at Target last night like stickers and pencils and all that so I'm just gonna work on going through this and getting all of that put away so I was sitting here and I just remembered that I had these Halloween necklaces that were in my boo basket so perfect because I did not have any Halloween necklaces this morning to put on so my candy has started to take over my drawer and when I say my candy I mean my personal stash of candy not the candy I give to my kids so I'm actually going to take it all and store it in one of these black baskets and I had these turned this way so I could only fit two of them but I'm gonna turn them like this so that I could actually fit three across so kind of random I have this extra store like three drawer little unit that I used when I had six groups instead of five so now that I'm down to five groups I had this over by my like small group table back there but I honestly wasn't using it for anything so I decided to bring it under my desk and I'm just gonna have it pushed back here like in the corner so it's out of the way but I wasn't really sure what I wanted to use it for so since I have so many snacks and things this top drawer now has snacks so I have like Oreos and chips and I have goldfish and things and then the second drawer will be used to hold extra drinks that don't fit in my fridge and then this bottom one is holding things that I have for students for upcoming holiday so like when I buy pencils and things in advance I can put them in this container and then this one back here just has little like trinkets and things that I sometimes give out to students as prizes oh my goodness so I get to the bottom of the bag and it's literally just Reese's it's all Reese's oh yeah give me a twirl it is a lunchtime and I've changed into my halloween costume so I'm going to show you guys first of all we have the eye black and it has like the Sidewinders logo I have my old like eye guards that I used to wear I have my Jersey and I just kept the same like long sleep well three-quarter sleeve black shirt that I had on underneath I've got my really really old like lacrosse gloves that I used to wear and my stick and I just have leggings with shorts over top and my athletic shoes so I have to be honest I'm so comfortable right now like this was the best idea ever for it costume so I took my block to class to lunch and then when we come back from recess we're gonna switch back to home rooms I have these pencils and these erasers that actually one of my subscribers sent to me which was so so sweet so I will give those out after lunch originally I was gonna put them like at their desks but because my block to class still has all their stuff in here I'm not gonna worry about it I'm just gonna wait until we switch back and then I'll just pass them out while they're working on their candy corn it towers it is now after school which means I have a fish chillie survived Halloween hallelujah honestly you guys I had a lot of fun like I enjoyed it and I know teachers always talked about Halloween being super crazy but you know what embrace it crazy go into the day knowing that it's gonna be hectic go into the day knowing your kids are gonna be talkative they're probably gonna be a little bit off the wall but like it's okay when you think back on your childhood you remember the days like this you remember dressing up at school or you remember doing fun Halloween activities and at the end of the day like just have fun with them like remember why you went into teaching you went in to build relationships with kids and go in build those relationships have fun enjoy it and I promise your day will be that much better I loved getting to see my kids costumes because of my old school like they did not dress up they were not allowed to dress up the teachers didn't really dress up and honestly I had a lot of fun like I loved getting to dress up as like their local lacrosse team like the lacrosse team that my kids play on and I feel like sometimes teachers try to come up with these like elaborative super creative costumes but like I enjoyed this because my kids are like oh I play on that team and it was just really really fun it was easy and I was super comfortable all day long and I loved it and I loved seeing my kids in their costumes and we had a big parade like outside with the parents all got to come see and it was just fine like I honestly enjoyed it am I tired heck yes I'm very very tired but overall I'm in a super great mood now tomorrow will be a different story tomorrow my kids will either be one of two things they'll be super tired and like worn down from all the sugar or they're gonna be super hyper and energetic but either way like it's okay you know I will get through it tomorrow I'm gonna try to keep them on as much of like a regular schedule as I can I'm gonna get out of here because it's already like 4:30 I don't really have any reason to stay tonight I don't have any papers to grade I don't really have anything to do I do need to do a little bit of lesson planning but I can always do that at home so I'm gonna leave gonna get out of here and go home relax a little bit maybe get some work done before Billy and I need to go grab a bite to eat and then we will hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters which I'm really excited for that too because the past couple years I've been in an apartment building and we didn't really have trick-or-treaters so I'm excited for that so I know this is probably really nerdy but I don't care since it is our first year in our neighborhood we didn't really know how many trick-or-treaters to expect so I actually kept a tally we had 161 trick-or-treaters and actually when we came in there probably were still a few stragglers out there so we'll just round up and say like 165 and we got pizza one of my favorite things about Halloween is eating pizza and we got sausage and mushroom pizza and cheesy garlic nuts so I wanted to show you guys the pretty sunrise this morning how nice is that welcome to November good morning YouTube it is officially November I love all like the Bur months September October November December through my favorite months so I'm happy that sound November counting down to Thanksgiving one of my favorite holidays because I get to eat all day but last night was really really fun trick-or-treating so it was the first time Billy and I had really had trick-or-treaters we sat out on the steps and we enjoyed it I actually ended up having one of my students come to my house it was totally like a coincidence they did not know that I lived here but it was really funny because I had seen their costumes earlier in the day so like I knew what they were wearing but like I had seen 10 Harry Potter's come to my house but he walked up his sister came up first and I gave her candy and then he walked up and is one of those moments where we both kind of looked at each other and we're like wait a second he's like Miss Prague it was like yeah but it's really nice because I got to meet his dad and I had only met his mom and it's just cool I don't know I liked having them like come to my house so I'm on my way to school it is pretty cold this morning it's in the 40s and compared to how it's been that's cold so I'm gonna get a hot latte that's the only bad thing I do love iced coffee and I will get it in the wintertime but there are some mornings where if I am really cold like I want something hot but I only drink hot lattes or macchiatos I do not like just like regular hot coffee whatsoever so I'm gonna go get that get to school I have a step meeting this morning and then I have a team planning so I probably won't really get to catch up with you guys until lunchtime alright I started driving to school and I had to pull back into my neighborhood because I realized I forgot a birthday Cup and it's one of my kiddos birthdays today good morning can I get a large hot vanilla latte please that'll be it thank you it is now at lunchtime so let me go back to it this morning I actually really enjoyed our meeting and it's not very often that I say that something I love about the school is they make everything very like interactive and fun and I just I love that first of all they start the meeting by saying like who has something good to share or who wants to call someone else out for like doing something really awesome and I think that's a great way to start the meeting and then we ended up doing another scavenger hunt kind of like we did at the beginning of the school year it was really cool how they did it so they gave us each a little slip of paper and I had a name on it and it was just a first name and we had to get into groups based on like the families so a group of people all had like the Addams family names and a group all had like the Kardashian family names unfortunately I got Donald and our group was like the Trump family but I thought that was a really cool way to like put us into groups and then we had to go on a scavenger hunt so we were talking about our school improvement plan and parts of like our classroom that reflect that so we had to go around the school and we had a list of things we had to find and we had to take a picture of it in the rooms and we could only take one picture in each classroom and we could not go into any of our own classroom so we had to find like objectives posted with ican statements we had to find examples of like writing and math like shown as examples and all this other stuff and I just thought that was it was fun like I really enjoyed it so then I had my team planning good news is next week I don't really have any planning to do because it's basically review take a bath test review it take a science test so that's sad but unfortunately in today's world there is a lot of testing which I don't necessarily agree with but I don't really have a choice so it is now lunchtime my morning has gone okay I feel bad because we're working on partial quotients and math and it's a hard strategy and you know I tell my kids like it's going to take practice you're not gonna get it right away like don't get frustrated if it's hard for you but you know it's easy to say that it is still frustrating for them when they don't get it and I just feel bad because yesterday a lot of it was done like together and then today a lot of it was done on their own and like it was really really hard for them and I hate like watching them struggle and you know I basically just have to say like look we just need more practice like we will get there we just can't do it yet like it's okay we just need more practice but it's frustrating like watching them be frustrated but we had social studies today and we were learning about like the first Americans and how they came over on like the ice bridge and I actually really enjoyed teaching about this I do not like social studies I do not like history I'll be completely honest it's not my forte I never found it interesting when I was in school but this is one topic that I actually find really interesting but again it's frustrating because my kids are excited and they want to talk about it but we're literally on such a time crunch that like we can't have those conversations and that frustrates me like I really wish teaching was more I guess paced by the teacher and not paste by assessments and I don't know it's just frustrating but I'm gonna go enjoy my lunch and then I'll catch up with you guys after school so one of my kiddos had their birthday today and I actually thought this was a really good idea so they brought in Krispy Kreme donuts and chips and I thought that that was a really good way like that way if the kids don't want something sweet like a donut they could have chips or vice versa and she gave the extras to all of the fourth-grade teachers so I'm gonna put them down here since I cleaned out this area and I will just become the new snack room it is now five o'clock and I'm just now getting a chance to blog after school I had a conference and after that I had to like put all this stuff in my data binder and all that good stuff so now just sitting at my desk trying to reflect and figure out what the heck I need to do next I am so finishing my lunch because when lunch is only 25 minutes and by the time I take my class to lunch and come back it's really only 20 minutes and I almost never end up finishing so I still have veggie strollers for my lunch that I am trying to snack on before I end up going to the gym I think I have a couple of papers that I need to grade although I'm pretty caught up on grading neither of my blocks did assignments that I'm gonna grade today so I don't really have any like new papers just random papers that kids have brought to me so I'm gonna sit here grade just those couple of things and I'm probably gonna get out of here pretty early I don't know why but lately I've just known for a few that I have just been preferring to do my lesson planning at home I don't really like to do it at school and I don't really know why but I think I'm just more comfortable like at home on my couch in my pajamas so I'm gonna do my lesson planning for tomorrow when I get home and maybe I'll try to play on Friday too I don't know I always try to be ambitious and then it just doesn't happen so these are all reese's and other candy of the kids brought me today they all know my favorite candy is Reese's and I can't even lie I totally enjoy them all just bring me the Reese's every chance I get it just makes me so appreciative of my kiddos I seriously do have the best students in the entire world I am in my car but I am leaving it's like 6:45 so I did not blog before I left my classroom because my team teacher was leaving so I just like hurried up and grabbed my stuff and left with her but I stopped to do lesson planning when I get home I was trying to sit there and do it but I was just like I can't I feel like after the day I need like a chunk of time to be able to like decompress before I start lesson planning for the next day does that make sense I don't know I just feel like I can't just continuously like I do need downtime as much as it looks like I'm always working and like I do need time time so I will let some time when I get home I need to figure out something for my block long class to help them with partial quotients because they're struggling and I hate seeing them struggle and like I need to come up with something to like help them so I'm gonna just spend some time brainstorming like when I'm at the gym that's what I'm gonna be thinking about it's like how can I help them get partial quotients because I'm still waiting for it to like click with them and I know it's only a second day we've been working on it so it's completely understandable that they would still be struggling but at the same time like we're gonna work on it tomorrow and then a little bit on Monday and that's going to be it and that's what I hate about how fast pace is cream is like I don't have a lot of time and that just stresses me out and I know it stresses my kids out I literally had a kid in tears today because like they didn't get it and that breaks my heart like more than anything it just it hurts me so I'm gonna try to hopefully come up with some kind of master plan today I don't know it'll be but we will see I'm gonna go meet Billy at the gym workout I know you guys have kind of commented on how I haven't been vlogging as much at home and I'll be honest with you guys I will try to do it more than I have been lately but probably not as much as I used to because honestly when I get home that's kind of like my downtime and it's my time away from vlogging and it's my time to just spend like with Billy we don't get a lot of time to spend together so when I get home I honestly don't like to vlog a whole lot I like to kind of turn that part of my life off and be able to focus just on like Billy and myself and all that so hopefully that makes the heads honestly I when I get home I say on the couch I eat I watched jeopardy I work I go to bed like it's really not that exciting I'll try to film like maybe some more clips here and there I'll be honest it's just not gonna be as much as I used to okay I need to get going to the gym I will catch up the guys in the morning I just got home from the gym it's about 8:20 and why don't you know it I had an Amazon package at my door it's not a normal day without an Amazon delivery so these are these single colored binder clips so you guys saw me order these earlier in the school year to organize my copy so I use orange for my homeroom I use pink for black one and I use blue for block two just to help keep my copies organized that way I don't forget which papers are for which like group of kids and I have them in like a larger size but I decided to order these smaller ones because sometimes I don't need the super big binder clip so I only got the small ones in the blue and the pink and Billy's home hi belly so I don't need the smaller ones in the orange ones because I don't use those quite as often as the blue and the pink ones I use these almost every day so I will link these for you in the description box they're just jam binder clips and they have them in all kinds of different colors has me shade of blue cuz I didn't morning YouTube as you can tell I put it in minimal effort didn't do my parents this morning cuz I'm just tired and I'll be completely honest last night was one of those nights where every little thing just annoyed me and hopefully you know what I'm talking about like the littlest things that shouldn't matter just were working me and I was in such a grumpy mood every little thing just bothered me and I hate it I don't like being like that whatsoever but like I couldn't snap myself out of it and then that's hard like stressing me out and I started checking emails and I was just getting like annoyed at the number of emails that I had and like so many like product requests of like things I've already uploaded and they're like oh well can you change this can you change that and it's like I literally do not have the time to make like 50 different changes to all of these products and it was just I don't know I honestly I think it started before I even got home I think it started like at the end of the day at school because my kids kept calling out to me or just like walking up to me when I was in the middle of something and like asking me questions I'm like no guys like raise your hand it is November like you guys know this and I had to sit there and like stop them and tell them I'm like look guys you can't like there's 60 of you and there's only one of me you cannot just come up to me like you've gotta raise your hand and they're like well sometimes we raise your hand you don't call me I'm like guess because I'm in the middle of other things like there's a reason for that I don't know I just I was in a grumpy mood and then I was having issues with my bank because I have had to be in pain for everything for Billy and I since the summer and the hard thing is when I send the money to our landlord it puts like a limit on the amount I can send each day so I have to send it in like four different payments and now my bank has put a hold on my account because they say I can't they can't verify like my identity and I'm like what the heck and I'm just frustrated I don't know I'm trying to like put myself in a good mood and just shake it off but I don't know it's a new day so hopefully like I'm in a better mood I do not have cultural arts today which kind of stinks but it's okay I do have computer time with both my blocks so that's gonna take up a big chunk of time I have to show my students the test not the test but like a similar test so they know how to use the tools because their math test is all online and honestly that's completely new for them and it's going to probably be difficult because some of the tool are really confusing enough like how they have to use them but I'm gonna get to school I'm gonna go get coffee because apparently I need it although I did sleep in as late as possible this morning like I didn't get up until after 7 o'clock I know it's just like I really don't care how I look today like I would rather lay here and sleep but I will catch with you guys sometime this morning good morning can I get a medium iced coffee with the French vanilla swirl and cream please and one of the bacon egg and cheese on a bagel that'll be it thank you so the showering of Reese's and skittles cuz I also really like skittles it's still happening and I can't even lie like it makes me really happy it just shows how like caring and giving my kids are like the fact that you know they get all this candy and the first thing they do is like oh let me get Reese's from it's gray I just think that's super sweet I also got a super belated birthday card this morning you know from one of the kiddos in my block too so that was super unexpected and definitely helped to turn my day around so it is lunchtime and I'm trying to like be in a positive mood cuz after last night like I feel like I need that but I'm trying and it's just not quite happening like I've just had a couple things happen and a couple conversations with people that it's just making it very difficult to be positive right now but I actually just ranted to my team teacher and that made me feel better so I'm gonna just sit here and like eat some Reese's and some skittles and maybe part of my lunch and just know the like it's all gonna turn out ok I'm stressed right now I'm overwhelmed right now but like that won't last forever I can get through it and all I can do right now is eat my feelings it is now after school it's about five o'clock so right after school at 4 I had a meeting with my two room parents because they just want to kind of check base on like things that I needed from them this year and honestly I felt bad cuz I was standing there like I don't even know because I've never had a room parent before like I'm not used to this much parent involvement I'm used to doing everything by myself and it's honestly been really hard for me to adjust to having so much help and like actually giving things to people like here do this for me I'm not used to that like I'm used to if I want something done I do it myself so I'm gonna have to like get used to that honestly I think one thing I am gonna have them do I have a lot of books for my library that are not labeled right now so I probably will get all of those together and have like label them for me that's something I think would really help me because that's one of those little things on my to-do list but other than that like it's just hard for me to I guess like relinquish control of stuff I'm just so used to doing it by myself but that ended at about 4:30 since then I was just getting bass forms for FM P ready for the last kids that I have to do I have 13 more kids that I have to get done today I had to get through 3:00 which I thought was pretty good but I still have 13 which is a lot so I have all of their papers like ready with their names at the top and the date and the school and the grade and all that so I'm as ready as I can be I just need the time to actually pull them to be able to test them next Thursday during study hall I'll get to do some more and then on Friday next week will be a homeroom day for FMP but it's also Veterans Day so there's gonna be a lot going on that day so hopefully I can get through quite a few we will see but I'm gonna get out of here Billy actually does not work today or tomorrow yesterday was his last day at his old job and then Monday is his first day at his new job so he was off today I think we're gonna meet at home go to the gym I need to go get my watch then he got me for my birthday like fitted so I can start wearing it and we need to get food we need to go the grocery store I have a lot of emails to answer I need to work on plans for tomorrow so that's gonna be a pretty busy night I'm trying to say as positive as possible but for whatever reason I just feel very overwhelmed lately very stressed very irritable which I'm not usually irritable and like I don't like feeling like that so I'm trying to snap out of it I feel better today than I did yesterday so like slowly but surely I'm getting there but I will catch up with you guys at tomorrow [Music] literature 4:8 did the the the Christmas the Polar Express what Charles Herbert good morning YouTube as you can see it slept in really late again but honestly I feel like I needed it I did not finish working last night until after midnight and I have not worked that long in a really long time lately I've been finishing like getting everything done by 10:00 and then I get into bed and I can I have some time to like relax I literally was working until 12:15 last night and part of what took so long as I had to make a review packet for our upcoming quarterly science assessment and even though the assessment is just like six questions it still took me forever just trying to like come up with questions because I don't want to make ones on our too similar to the test because that's wrong and part of the problem is our science curriculum it's like all activities that the kids do which is fun the kids enjoy it but then they don't really have a lot of like notes they don't really have a lot of like practice questions or anything like that so it was just difficult to come up with questions I also had two lesson plan for today which we are working on decomposing fractions which is just like completely shifting gears so that last thing kind of took me some time to like get through and plan because it's like I'm trying to squeeze four lessons into one day and just trying to prioritize like what do they need to know and all that good stuff then I had to answer like seven different parent emails and of course they were all asking like tons of questions so my emails were like paragraphs back and that took a bunch of time and I don't know I'm just really tired it's a little very long week like having Halloween and I feel like I had a bunch of meetings and all that and we're like trying to cram last minute before our test next week so I deserve a doughnut this morning that's what I just decided I'm gonna go to Dunkin Donuts I'm gonna get a large coffee and I'm gonna get a doughnut or two good morning can I get a large vanilla latte iced and one of the chocolate glazed donuts and one of the chocolate frosted donuts with sprinkles Debbie Oh that'll be it thank you I'd love to know why my camera just chose to not focus whatsoever for that last clip so head bud RTA she's finally back she's still in pain but she is back with us so I was able to have her make some copies so this is the review packet for science that our students will complete over a weekend and next week and we do on Wednesday and I also had her make some copies of some of the assessment forms for level V and level Y I did not have any of the fiction assessment forms and some of my students are going to need them so I had to make those copies so now I'm just going to organize these and put them away okay so the candy is to help copy in for my students and this entire bag was from one of the super sweet girls and my black one love her to death and she had this note with it look what it says on the inside dear Miss Frey I give you these treats to thank you for all you have taught me and for your dedication to at CES you make it fun and easy to learn like I want to laminate this and like keep it forever that was just so incredibly sweet all right so a long time no vlog during lunch I had a lunch bunch with my students who had completed their cup kudo cards and they wanted to cash in for lunch bunch so I had like 12 kids in my room and it was a little bit hectic but I actually really enjoyed getting to sit and eat with them and just like enjoy that time it is now after school it's like four or five and I am leaving I do have stuff to do but it's okay I've had a really stressful week I've been very overwhelmed the past couple days so my little treat for myself for making it through Halloween week is I am going to do an escape real but which I've never done before so I'm really excited I will try to vlog like going in I can't vlog the actual room but I'll vlog like where I'm doing this gate room and all that for you guys but my friend's birthday was on Monday so I'm gonna take her her boyfriend and me and Billy and we're gonna go do an escape room in Annapolis I'm really excited for that we are doing one called it's sinking submarine so you got 50 minutes to try to figure out why this submarine is sinking and fix it and I'm really excited cuz I've never done one but I've heard they're a lot of fun so all right I'm gonna leave I need to go to the post office I need to go pick up Billie and I need to go pick up my friends and we need to get to Annapolis by like 525 so I'm gonna get out of here and I'll catch up with you guys later on [Music] all right billion I just got home it's a little bit after 8 o'clock we ended up having to push our scape room back we were supposed to go at 5:45 and traffic trying to get to Annapolis was horrible so we called we actually switched to a different room we ended up doing museum heist and that was at 7 o'clock so we just got home honestly it was so much fun like I'm so happy that I had this at the end of the week like after having a stressful week this was the perfect way to end it I loved just like getting challenged and trying to like figure out puzzles and figure out solutions to things and having to use logic it was so much fun we did make it out we had 12 seconds left so it was definitely challenging I think the room had like an 18% escape rate so it was a more difficult room but it was so much fun Billie and I want to go back and do one like just the two of us together I think we would do really well because we work well together but if you've never done one and there is one near you I know they are kind of expensive but it was definitely worth it like probably the best hour that I've spent like lately in terms of just having fun so I'm gonna end my vlog here Billy and I are just gonna relax tonight and enjoy our time together so if you enjoyed this video and you were proud of me for making it through Halloween week please give it a thumbs up that helps this video be able to reach more teachers share it out to your teacher friends if you have 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Channel: Pocketful of Primary

Views: 224,225

Rating: 4.8943195 out of 5

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Id: IqAoX9MXjf8

Length: 44min 20sec (2660 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 05 2017