is WAKING UP at 5 AM worth it?! | Weekly Teacher Vlog

well i was just about to say good morning and then my heat turned on good morning y'all welcome back to my channel if you're new here my name is brianna and i'm a fifth year third grade teacher in north carolina i apologize for the noise in the background my heat just turned on it is a bit chilly outside today is thursday january 27th 28th today is the 28th and if you missed my thursday vlog this week make sure you click here and go back and watch that first because i am starting something new this year so i'm trying out something new each week and this week i tried waking up at 5am it has made all the difference in everything i feel so much better now today is awesome because we got a little dusting of snow last night and in north carolina that means one of two things either a delay or a snow day unfortunately we didn't get enough to have a snow day but i'm very happy with the delay it is 7 30 now i definitely took my time this morning because i'm allowed to be here two hours later than normal because of road conditions i want to take advantage of this time in my room so i need an anchor chart for math today which i made last year and i want to see if i saved it so i'm going to look for that and i'll catch up with y'all in a little bit all right so i guess i threw away my anchor chart which is crazy because it was so nice last year but i just quickly cut out the pieces and now i'm just going to use double-sided tape to get them onto a big anchor chart paper so i made this anchor chart last year and i love it it's on my instagram if you want to see it alright so this is how it starts i have the title of quadrilaterals and then each type and then their attributes and i'm going to put up the actual shape with the kids and i'm going to color those first i think i'm also going to put stickies over the descriptions and i'm going to have the kids i'm going to say okay what do you think a parallelogram is draw it on your whiteboard and then we're going to talk about the attributes because we haven't really talked about the word parallel yet opposite sides that's what we have to dig into today so right now i'm going to draw squares around each of these and then connect the lines to show the little web and then the students have a copy of the sheet that they're going to follow along with and write down simpler versions of this on their sheet all right so that is set up and ready to go last year i definitely used a ruler and took my time and my lines were better but it still serves the same purpose i quickly just shaded in the shapes and i also have this little polygon poster i'm just gonna put up i already have that polygon anchor chart that i shared in my last vlog the kids thought it was fun because we did the check marks and the circles together and decided if it was a polygon we're gonna refresh our memories on polygons today and then we're gonna jump into quadrilaterals so i'm gonna go set this up on my easel which i kind of bring to this corner over here to show the class and then i'll keep this anchor chart probably on there for a while since the polygon one is up and i need them to see both as we talk about it as a class i'll pull things out i don't like to give kids the answer right away they'll be able to answer me and then i'll give them the visual i love geometry it's such a nice break from like word problems and addition subtraction multiplication you know i also went ahead and covered quadrilateral because we haven't discussed that vocabulary word yet and i want to see if they can come up with it i also don't know where this comes from but if i can find out for you guys i will link it down below some tpt so this is what the anchor chart is supposed to look like however i love this visual so much more because it shows what is connected to what that heat today let me tell you it turns off and it turns right back on it can't make up its mind so this is what my students fill out while we go over that obviously they can't fit everything in this little bullet point so i have to pull my copy with like the little things that i write down and i'm gonna go hole punch these so that they can put them in their binder all right so that is set up and ready to go i need to go through now and see if any kids did work after like four o'clock yesterday when i checked this because we have friends if they don't do work we're supposed to give them five days to make it up but if they never do they're counted absent for our remote day because they have to do it you know this looks like a lot but it was ixl skills and they were is this a polygon yes or no just basic questions so and they only had to make 70s on them i just made myself a note of what they actually made let me go do this because it's already 8 18. so the kids will start coming in in about an hour i love starting my afternoon by clearing off this table these are just papers that i need to pass out tomorrow and then our vocabulary words so i could quickly review before their quiz and this is stuff that i wanted to go over but i'm not sure if we ever will so i might just end up putting that away but everything is nice and neat and ready for tomorrow except for the fact that my computer is very fingerprinty actually i have wipes i'm going to clean that real quick okay that's a little bit better i did spray the kids desks with our spray that we need to use but i kind of want to clorox wipe them it's been a while since i've done that as well and that just makes the room smell fresh and clean so i may do that but now i'm going to bring my yellow turning bin over here finish clearing this off finish going through that not the whole thing there's extra stuff in there we're not going to talk about it and probably head out for today good morning happy friday it really is a happy friday i think i'm just so like overjoyed that i successfully woke up at 5am every day this week or like around 5. this morning i laid in bed for what i thought was like an extra 30 minutes at least and only 10 minutes had passed by so i got a bed at 5 10. so my body's getting into a rhythm and it's interesting because i was thinking about it and in the past i didn't roll out of bed at the same time every day i literally just like got up when i was finally like okay i have to some days that was earlier than others so now that it's been consistent it's so great i feel so good today unfortunately i didn't get my video up last night that's my fault for not editing more of it sooner but i didn't want to post it before i have all the links in the description because i talk about like a lot of my favorite things that i have linked in like my amazon store or other places they come from and i just feel like it's not complete until i have all that set up so i'm going to finish that tonight but obviously you would have seen that already yeah we have our math check-in today i drove to school playing taylor swift her newest album evermore which i think i love every song on it they're all just um they hit me in my feels so i'm gonna continue listening to that because happiness is on right now and that's like my favorite and it is 7 am now i don't really think i have much to do this morning i think i might just relax and jam and enjoy my morning all right i'll talk to y'all after school we do have enrichment today i'm not sure if we're planning as a team but i mean i don't like to film during school anyway so i'll see y'all later hey y'all i made it through friday i'm talking kind of quiet because people are still here but i am organizing my weeks ahead because i'm just motivated more than ever so i pulled my bucket all my copies for at least the next two weeks that we have prepped are in here i have a roster for multiplication facts so i'm just going to go through and pre-plan or write the kids name on what fact they're on because i don't let them move on to the next one until they fully get a 100 percent on the one before and then i'm going to play around with my files the ones that we are currently using i want to put in a crate like that that way i don't have to keep going in and out of my filing cabinet single planning period and hunt for them i used a shipping label sticker to make these and they don't say stay stuck it's very frustrating this is a free temple in my tpt store if you would like it i went ahead and ran morning work for the next three weeks do it all at once instead of every monday and then i'm gonna obviously go ahead and file it all right so i'm not going to do this filing system yet i do have this crate right here with really old scholastic news in it so maybe that will be a project for me on monday i still have all of my papers down there that are my master copies and need to be filed and oh my goodness my student was taking down the calendar and then left it i'm gonna leave it and here's our anchor chart i never showed you what it turned into i love it i've never put the polygon on the top before but i love that we have that sheet and i love that it's a star because we talk about quadrilateral tree the family tree how it's all connected and i said don't forget the star goes at the top it starts as a polygon so that is a great visual for the kids so all of this stuff is like stuff i want to pull kids for i know i need a better system i haven't made a snack organizing spot yet it just looks like a mess back there but at least my front table is clean i'm gonna bring this home because my kids have been doing scholastic news weekly for homework for the past two weeks so i need to check those over do something of the sort i just like that it gets them writing and gives them that extra practice finding text evidence so we stack our chairs on tuesdays and fridays that's just an extra desk but i'll stack that and that way the custodians can sweep and mop and my board back there i don't know if you can tell but these are our multiplication it's our multiplication fact wall i do have that in my tpt store with those numbers blown up and i use that as a little piece of motivation for my kids to pass they love to see their name on the wall so you can't tell but their names are on those and then we haven't done 6789 yet but we are getting there and my kids are awesome i love to teach them songs i need to put a playlist together of my favorite math fact songs they're all incredibly different which is really helpful because when i say count by threes they're like instantly three six nine and i only do it for threes fours six seven eight nines i teach them the nines trick and then tens ones twos fives they know how to count by those there's actually a couple nines tricks but i am going to head out for today i'm gonna come in early monday morning and do the things that i don't have the energy to do right now like my calendar see i can't stand that way because there's no light my calendar put away my library books clear off my desk start filing some things but i love that i'm prepped for the next few weeks and i'm going to set up my plan book this weekend i use my plan book this week and i really liked that because i haven't done that in a while because we've just been pulling from a google doc but i took the plans and reviewed them like i used to the week prior because even though we plan everything it's like we plan so in advance that i forget so i'm going to review my plans this weekend as i put them into plan book and get myself ready for the week i'm going to continue waking up at 5 a.m next week and hopefully it will just i really just thought someone was behind me holy cow okay um i'm gonna go hopefully it will just be up from there i'm not sure what i'm going to try out next week so make sure you're subscribed and stick around to see what is the new thing that i'm implementing in my life to help my mental health and just give me some self-care and focus on me and maybe do it with me so i'm gonna call my mom and head out and i hope you all had a great weekend because now you're watching this on sunday or another day but i'll see y'all next time thanks for watching bye

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Length: 14min 15sec (855 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 06 2021