In the Life of a Teacher | When the Printer Breaks

yeah today was kind of chaotic and all over the place but it was like fun chaotic now like stressful chaotic but fun chaotic I already took an Appaloosa second I almost fell then we have some Crayola pants I didn't know Caroline made pens [Music] good morning had some Monday and I just got to school I wanted to figure earlier than I did but um I couldn't buy my shoes this morning and there were my crafts so I'm gonna make a few coffees for centers and morning work and stuff like that and okay so I said I was into make copies and I can't our printer is all out of black toner I believe so it should be getting here today sometime today well that's gonna throw my whole morning off and I just mind but just like a lot of other teachers morning off because I wanted most make copies in the morning and thankfully I do have my phonics copies done for the week as well as make I do reading I think that's what I have right yeah that's what I have um so I could do centers first and then phonics and then morning work I don't know and you know and that's assuming that we get our toner some in the morning because if we don't then I don't have my math copies ready or me holder copies either you'll be okay but my Monday has definitely been off to a weird start not pointing my keys the printer being out of toner [Applause] okay so this after-school I've made tons of copies we so apparently have you take out the toner from the printer and you put it back in sometimes it lets you print a little bit more so we did that and I was able to make my morning copies so the day wasn't too different I didn't switch my centers for my phonics time and I actually liked it a lot better so I might do that tomorrow too that gave me enough time for my phonic the time for centers was perfect so I think I'm gonna try that tomorrow like I said I made copies right now I am getting ready for parent-teacher conferences they are coming up I'm starting them on Freddie last year I didn't do parent-teacher conferences until we came back from fall breaks so I had all ferry to finish report cards and from what I understand I don't have to member for cards ready for parent-teacher conferences but I can if I want to no that means I have to finish my grading and input my grades by Wednesday because our secretary will be out Thursday Friday so she's the one that prints out the report cards so I have to have them ready last year the way I prep for conferences is by having like a conference folder uh-huh in that folder I include it let me see if I have a blank one i included student self-evaluation surveys so I have this one and then it just includes I follow teachers directions I listen when others are speaking again my work done when I'm supposed to I try my best on all my work I am always having friend to other students I am responsible and my teacher and classmates can count on me so that's the first one the next one looks like this and this is how I feel about blank so though how I feel about morning meeting hi feel about centers hi I feel about phonics storytime writing math and domain 1 which is our social studies / science thing that goes with C Kelly and peeve I'm not the one that's helping students fill these out it's my age so I'll just go through them later also last year I did outfits of the week what do you still want to see those let me know in the comments hello if you still want to see outfits of the week I know someone over the summer at the amnion Instagram I'm asking if I could do like a back-to-school clothing haul but honestly I didn't buy a lot of clothes over the summer and I'm not that kind of person to buy a ton of clothes just for work I'll just buy things here and there whenever I see something that I like and something that is a reasonable price I will not be doing like teacher clothing hauls but I can definitely do outfits of the week if you are interested in that I mean I clean a few things up and then I'm going to really head home because I'm tired and I'm hungry oh yeah I'll talk to you guys too tomorrow ok so I'm home now Muslims are pretty boring things like manila folders I use for my parent-teacher conferences I like to have a folder for each student and just a bunch of like papers in there and that just keeps me organized about finder rings binder clips like stickers cuz it's someone's birthday tomorrow so I'm gonna put that in their little goodie bag but I also bought these so I bought two of these because I'm gonna use these for my right there room Center these were in the party section there were 97 cents each and last year of your remember for my right through room Center I had like little nerd glasses that I got from Target and I can't find them anyway then I'm pretty sure they're somewhere in the garage or if not they're probably somewhere in my classroom but I couldn't find them but couldn't I couldn't find them and they wanted to buy new ones but I couldn't find them at Target either so I just bought these which are really fun and hopefully that incentivizes students to work in that Center because that is probably like my least popular Center what a day it is 5:30 6:00 p.m. Tuesday afternoon and I'm just getting home I did get to school like 7:20 ish I was just working the entire ten I was in school since dismissal I'm at where the special ed teacher just cuz they wanted some guidance on something and then I also met with the reading specialist because I also wanted some guidance and something better so last night I had this like epiphany laying in bed exhausted I don't know why I was so tired yesterday but I realize like I don't know what the heck I'm doing for guiding reading I thought I did until it hit me like what I'm doing I feel like it's not the most I could be doing and it's not the most beneficial for my students in that time so I figured I would go to the reading specialist and ask for some guidance on that and I got so many great ideas from her and I'm gonna try to implement there's something this week or the following week I did go ahead and prep most of the materials I printed Dolch site went lists I printed sound boxes enology boxes and I also want to track my students progress with sight words so I made graphs for those I'm gonna put in folders I put four of them in folders and I'm gonna have my aide to the rest tomorrow I just wanted to have for ready for tomorrow so that I could try them out I think I feel a lot better now I'm very tired um tomorrow we have meetings but I am gonna stay until like 5:30 tomorrow or at least I'm gonna try to maybe not it's just hard of balancing it all but I have to get ready for parent-teacher conferences maybe I'll just get ready those five four conferences that I have and then prep the rest of the weekend maybe that works one of you asked me on my scheduling parent-teacher conferences video what I talk about in conferences last year in kindergarten how the report card to show parents and we go over it standard by standard because we were a standard based report card and then I also had some more examples that had writing samples and stuff like that I also included but I will have a link down below it's a freebie on TPT that I loved using last year and I will be using this year as well so that was kindergarten kindergarten I think I also sent out a parent survey I don't remember what it said and I can't find it anywhere it basically asked some questions like what do you think yours your students strengths are what they can grow in any concerns or anything like that and that helped me guide my discussion in my conference but I can't find up this year to feel like it's too late now to send it out since since conferences are on Friday good morning it is Wednesday I have about five to ten more minutes until my kids come and I am just getting ready for the day I bought a clicker so I can get through like slides fast faster since I don't have a smart board but it needs like a weird battery that I don't have so I'm gonna see what I can do I mean they're made me do it at the battery um it does have a pointer I was just making these like ugly little notebooks that I'm gonna use for my better reading I'll talk a little bit more about it after school but this is an idea that I got from the reading specialist so they don't have to be pretty we're just riding on them so yeah that's what I was doing I'm getting my morning message ready and then as of yesterday we change our morning song we used to do the doctor jeans uh I don't even want it's called like welcome to school today or I don't even know what it's called we did that one just because it was easy and and I thought it was a good song to do at the being of the school year now I want to do teaching and so forth morning song so I taught it yesterday and we're gonna start it today so we'll see how that goes good morning it is Thursday and second I almost you wanted my boss I mentioned that I keep going back and forth between covering my windows and uncovering them I have them covered for about two weeks but paper just drives me crazy and it looks kind of ugly so I took them down and then we can't really see the board so yeah I don't know I think I'm gonna buy those like little mini tension rods from moment they're like three bucks each and because we can't have fabric on our walls I'm gonna go ahead and oh I already did I went ahead and cut up like plastic tablecloths that I used in my bulletin boards and I'm gonna try but those has curtains and see how that works I can want to get the tension rods yesterday but I had a really busy day yesterday we had we had a meeting after school and then after that I went into town to go get Alex a birthday present a cake and stuff like that because today is spring and they didn't end up getting home until like 748 ish and I sought to make dinner and do other things for work so I didn't really blog because of that I don't know how much Brian I'll be doing today because it is his birthday so we are going out to eat so as soon as he gets up from work I'll leave here to tomorrow I start parent-teacher conferences so I wish that I can stay a little bit longer but I will not because alex is where those important but I did realize that I don't have my first conference scheduled until 3 o'clock tomorrow and we don't and we get out of school at 1:30 so I can I have a little bit of time to just kind of prep a little bit more F&E to I'm also playing with the idea like how arrange my room I rearranged it a few weeks ago yeah I like it alot better this way than I had it before but I feel I still feel like I need more space to properly function the kids are fine they were in this classroom like this same classroom last year this was a kindergarten classroom last year and then they built another classroom um so the kids are used to being in this room but I am NOT and it has definitely been tough trying to adjust to this size room I feel like I'm always tripping over things or bumping into things or running out of space and I need a fare something out thing taking all that stuff out would definitely help I have a tonne have one two three four five six six extra desks in my classroom that I probably I don't need so that would free up a lot of space so I'm gonna try see if I can get those out yeah I'm gonna go ahead and get me morning message ready and take out my morning work and hey guys it is after school I'm getting ready to leave I changed my seating chart once again I know that in the morning I mentioned that things didn't seem to be working changed it I used to have five groups of four and now I have verbs of five and I think it works let me show you one that way two three four here and they're all kind of facing the same way I'm gonna straighten that one out that wanted I don't know maybe I'll shake but it seems more open now I think hopefully I was really good some conference things ready but I have to go now because alex is getting out of work so we're gonna go get dinner maybe I can get some work done at home for hopefully I probably should hello so it is Friday after school I can't remember have logged this morning I probably didn't it was a crazy crazy day I've mentioned this already I had three birthdays in a row started big started on Tuesday today there was no birthday but we did have library we had computers we had a fire drill we had so you're the hero we had fun Friday prize box token sword token stores basically price box yeah today was kind of chaotic and all over the place but it was like fun chaotic now like stressful chaotic but fun chaotic today is also when I'm starting my conferences I already had two conferences mines conferences we're not supposed to start until three but because there's an event going on after school there's a lot of parents here and grandparents and so like that so I just bump them up about an hour so I just have one more conference in about 20 minutes and I'm done and I can go home I'm gonna go home this weekend I'm definitely prepping a ton for conferences next week and I also have to have my cell phones ready for Friday because I will not be here on Friday so I want to make sure I do that since I won't be able to do them after school I have to do them this week hey guys so I'm home now I didn't stick around school much longer after my last conference my last conference I'm pretty well I was going to try and stay a little bit longer but I'm not I've been so tired lately that it's kind of hard to stay I literally get home and I just can't do anything else I proud of my work sup with me so I could do things over the weekend but honestly I think I might have to go into school over the weekend so I can get work done because lately whenever I am going to work at home I don't it's just so hard for me to like do work stuff at home now I feel like once I get home I turn to my teacher brain off and then I cannot get and I can not turn it back on until I'm at school so does anyone else like that I did come home to a package can never great let me go ahead and unbox he right now just because I have it why not this is the tilt where one and I did get a message from kindergarten crates saying that it's selling out pretty fast and because it is a t-shirt box they are gonna stop taking orders after certain dates I'll put it right here because I can't remember what date that is just because you are interested um but yeah let's go ahead and see huh it's all like a fall themed kindergarten crate is a monthly subscription services for a teacher is that her - preschool teacher Skinner and teachers and fresh great teachers Asif now past when I talk in a grade and I used to get the kindergarten box and now I get the fresh grade box so they're all different just say you know all right so the first thing in the Box is this cup cozy this it's like a little I don't know it's for you a cup right like if you drink something hot like coffee I personally do not drink coffee I feel like this day I'm gonna have to start drinking coffee just because that's how tired I am but it is really really cute who else is gonna love this it is another bath bomb and this one is pumpkin spice now that I know it's pumpkin spice we do before me because he doesn't like pumpkin flavored things which I'm assuming he doesn't like pumpkin senton things but I don't know good smells like fall but outside it's still summer it was like 98 degrees today if thing in the box are some Canada racks and it's eight of them and they're like foam ones too then we have some Crayola pens I don't know Kerala made pens they are the take note pens and they are quick dry washable gel pens next thing is something in this box it's kind of heavy it's a ton of many erasers but these are so sweet I'm excited to add these to go to my little eraser collection and it's love and it's a lot of them they're from Oriental Trading then we have some weak Wicky sticks single color are these so says wiki stakes stick to most smooth surfaces with just finger tip pressure can be easily peeled up and reposition to make changes there are made of non-toxic wax and yarn and they can put these in one of my free exploration boxes it's play with it I have never seen this before in the book for this month is what the cat in the pumpkin picking plan how do you have this book but I have this thing in my classroom where if you fill out your reading log the way you're supposed to so you have the required amount of entries per week you get to put your name into a jar every single week if you have it filled out I hope that makes sense and at the end of the month if you turn on your entire reading log you are in for drawing for some books so right now I actually have you placed on one of the books and it's the legend of paper-rock-scissors and I can put this one there too last month I put the first bad guy's book on there because they love my kids love the bad guys books and then I also put an elf in a Piggy book this month I'm also gonna put an elf in a piggy book this one and the paper-rock-scissors one and that just adds a little bit more excitement to the classroom so I enjoyed doing that and usually I just got the books with my Scholastic point and then the last thing in the Box are some tangram little templates okay so I'm gonna end the video right there I'm gonna go ahead out and go to one of my old students soccer games and then after that I'm just gonna come here and just chill because like I said I'm pretty tired I already took a nap I'm really enjoying getting back into blogging I just kind of have to get used to people walking in on me when I'm I haven't announced it to the whole school that I've loved only like a handful of people now but because my classroom is being used all the time sometimes people walk in on me and it's kind of embarrassing but like today I had my door closed and I was trying to vlog and then someone came in I was like oh sorry oh my god it's just I don't know it's kind of embarrassing when you're like talking to a camera and someone walks but anyway that is it for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it and if you did please give this video a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you guys in my next video bye

Channel: That One Happy Classroom

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Keywords: Teacher, Teacher Vlog, A Day in the Life of a Teacher

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Length: 18min 9sec (1089 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 03 2018