Meet the Teacher Night | Teacher Evolution Ep 1

I open up this black bin and just went I am NOT ready to deal with this yet I wanted to give you guys a very quick tip but is definitely a huge time-saver I officially have everything set up and ready for meet the teacher night I have amazing kids and I have amazing parents and I'm just so incredibly grateful right now to be in the position that I'm in and I'm just I'm happy [Music] [Music] good morning YouTube but today is the first official day for teachers a lot of you guys have been asked me when we start teachers officially start today and go until Thursday of this week I believe I don't think Friday we have to go obviously I'm gonna be coming because I have a ton of stuff to get done and then our students start the day after Labor Day so September 5th you should be really proud of me because last night I was editing my video that's gonna go up this weekend which I'm really really excited about I did a teacher lookbook for back-to-school totally out of my comfort zone but I did enjoy filming it for you guys I was editing that until 10:30 last night and then I cut myself off I went upstairs I got ready for bed I lit a candle and I sat in bed and I read now reading did not make me as tired as I hoped it would I probably read for about 45 minutes and then I laid down and probably took me another 45 minutes to fall asleep but still I got to bed much earlier than I usually do waking up this morning was not too much of a struggle but I know as the week goes on it will get harder and harder currently it's about 7:30 I'm headed to school we have to be there by 8:05 I want to get there a little bit early so maybe I can get a little bit of stuff done in my classroom even if it's just moving stuff out of the way because I do want to get my desk range today I did not get coffee and I did not have breakfast but that's because breakfast is provided by PTA this morning so I'm gonna go ahead and get on the road and I'll catch up with you guys later on and remember all of those target haul videos that I did yep all of that stuff is in here along with other random purchases that I have made and I'm hoping no one sees me as I carry this into my classroom because I'm a little bit embarrassed by it I am back from lunch it has been a very hectic morning so far just a lot of information to absorb I have the rest of the afternoon in my room it's currently about two o'clock I have until 4:00 but I'm gonna end up staying late so I'm gonna get as much done as possible today as you guys saw I tried go ahead and starting to rearrange my desk which it's going to be a very tight fit so wish me luck the highways so much shadow to sunrays [Music] I don't even know what time it is because my phone died but I wanted to give you guys an update just what my room looks like I definitely made progress but I still have so so much to do and I'm not gonna lie I'm sorry to get stressed out because meet the teacher is on Thursday but I will start up here I just kind of laid these baskets out I'll be honest I have no idea what I'm gonna use them for yet I still need to remake the labels for these I set up my iPads here I think I just don't have a better eye on them and like when they're being used when they're being returned and all that but I honestly might get rid of this rainbow cart I have a smaller clear one that I might use instead for right now I put these blue bins here but I have no idea if they're gonna stay there or what I'm gonna use them for I'm just kind of putting stuff in places so it gets out of the way I've put a whole bunch of like curriculum type books up there desk is still a hot mess I am leaving that for last right now I just don't even care about my desk because I'm honestly not even over at it so it's not a big deal this is my main accomplishment for the day this tape hole was packed with stuff and I got it pretty much all cleared off I do still have these containers those green ones are empty and then I have these things that I still have to kind of put away and I need to put away those base-10 blocks but for the most part it is clear so I feel good I'm storing two of my Sterilite tubs over here I really wish that they stacked on top of each other but unfortunately they don't fit library so basically looks the same I put my clipboard holders up here along with my lamp you guys can see I did arrange my desks it is very tight like you can see here from where that chair is to where that stool is there's no way like two kids can comfortably sit there there's just no way I have it right now in six groups of five I have 30 desks actually right now I do not have 30 desks right now I have like 28 this because I need to get two more but I will have 30 desks and I thought about either doing six groups of five or five groups of six but when I did five groups of six I just didn't like the way that they looked I like when things are even so right now this is what I'm going with it's just a little tight but it's you know I don't really have any other options this box right here all student files let's come over here this is that clear card I was talking about I might put that up on my desk instead I got all of my bends put away but as you guys can see I need to real able a lot because I kind of consolidated some of them needed bigger bin some of them needed two bins I'm just gonna have to remake these but right now it's not a priority because I can hide it with this cabinet and then this one is like all of my craft type stuff same thing I need to just go through every label it but not a priority right now this area is still a hot mess I am gonna take this with me it is a like read aloud I just really need the book giraffes can't dance I'm gonna use this for a growth mindset lesson the first week of school but I need to go through and read it this is all stuff that I took out of a black bin that had a lot of decor and I need to kind of go through it my schedule cards which are in this big bag I'm getting rid of because I'm gonna make new ones to reflect my new schedule they just don't really work for me anymore as you guys can see I was cutting white border so these are posters they're QQQ posters and I it's like quest for quality questioning I think it's what they're called but these have to be displayed in the room and I put them on the doors I was like I don't really like this so I'm going to surround them all with white border I did all the ones going on the sides I have to do up and down still but I'm not staying any later tonight I'm sweating like a pig right now and I have not done these because I think I'm actually gonna move move these two down to like here and here and then here I'll put like the title because it's really throwing me off that there's two there and not three and I need to balance it out I was just attaching it with hot glue I tested it first to make sure it was okay on the cabinet it was completely fine so I'm hoping that that is going to hold open up this black bin and just wait I'm not ready to deal with this yet this is a lot of stuff like for my desk my clip chart I'm getting rid of I'm not using that this year whatsoever so I can pitch that but I'm gonna keep the little book rings that are on it but I know that's gonna take me a while to go through and it's probably gonna make things more messy so I'm choosing not to do that tonight these two black bands need to come home with me these are both filled with my classroom transformation stuff so my bootcamp stuff my football stuff and I don't have room to store it in here I know you guys are probably thinking like come on Michelle you have all of these cabinets but actually they're getting pretty full I'm gonna have to take these home and store them in my basement and I can just bring them win I need them this box is all stuff that I need to take home this box is actually my sister stuff my mom accidentally brought it to me and I mentioned my cabinet so let me quickly show you guys what they look like so you may remember these Sterilite containers these just kind of hold a bunch of random stuff and that stuff up there is not gonna stay there I'm just playing it there for right now down here is all for indoor recess I love how organized it is right now with the exception of this that's just kind of sitting there but this black bin has all of my like restaurant stuff my kids always have loved to play restaurant and I love seeing them be like imagine so I have lots of play like food and restaurant type stuff and then these Sterilite containers which I got this organizer off of Amazon I will link it for you guys these are all holding my games so this one has like popper magic I have like yes who Legos Jenga blocks Lincoln loss this is a board game that doesn't fit because it's too big I just put it to the side but I hate hate hate game boxes they get all torn up and they do not last so I prefer to organize it in these plastic containers instead this one kind of has a mix of like card games and stuff and this one has a mix of games as well but I just thought it made it a little bit more organized and easier to get to then we come to this cabinet this cabinet is all math so I'll give you just kind of a quick scan each one of these bins are filled with different each okay English place in the shelf each of these bins are filled with different manipulatives so I have like geo boards oh my gosh my mind is blank ainst blocks you guys I'm so tired right now whatever these things are called I can't think of it off the top my head counter is Domino's little fraction towers all that kind of stuff calculators are down here and then this black bin is just kind of holding like things I don't need very often like measurement stuffs like a gallon container I'm not gonna need that every day so I thought I could kind of keep it away and this kind of a hot mess right now oh it's okay hold on guys okay open it there's not really anything on that side anyway up here is all like holiday stuff that I don't use very often I have a ton a ton of these like test card holders I don't know what I'm gonna use them for yet and just kind of so random stuff I don't even know that's kind of where I cut stuff when I don't want to deal with it and then these are just random papers that I also don't feel like dealing with so that's kind of just a quick glimpse at my room for right now I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here I need to go get my car pull it around here so that I can bring out these Sterlite containers and then I'll sit down and talk with you guys a little more I just wanted on the record that I could pass for how I am looking right now help because it was so hot in there even when the air was on it was boiling and then when the air went off it cut even worse so I apologize but just be grateful that you can't smell me right now I know I wasn't actually like talking to guys that much today it was kind of overwhelming so let me go back and start over from the very beginning first of all let me just say how in love I am with my team teachers I'm just so so thankful for them first of all my one team teacher Jocelyn like she texted me last night she's like how are you doing with everything like are you overwhelmed just kind of checking in and I really appreciate that because I am NOT the kind of person to ask for help and it's nice to have someone else like initiate it and then I feel like better kind of asking for help if I hate it and then one of my other teammates Robin she was my room this morning leaving like a little gift and I just really appreciate that I'm just thankful to be on a very welcoming and like accepting team and they're all really really nice my old team wants as well I left my old team and I'm thankful to have a team like that again so we were in like a really long meeting essentially all morning but it's actually really fun and I'm so in love with the school already so the principal how does do like a scavenger hunt so each grade level team had to go out and you had to get clues and then it would tell you which room to go to next and you'd go there and you would get a clue and our team was so good better we're literally sprinting through the hallways I had no idea where we were going because I don't know the school yet but it was fun and I really enjoyed it and I got us up it got us moving and I enjoyed that the school values like play and fun it just means so much to me and I'm so thankful to be in a place that values it the same way that I do then we had to do an activity where we each picked a word to represent our entire year which I've heard of this before I can't think of the guys name off the top of my head but we each had to pick a word that we're gonna focus on and we actually painted it on a canvas which was really really cool they have all of our campuses right now but then we're gonna get them back so I will show that to you guys but my word was evolving so what I mean by that is right now I'm in a situation with a lot of change which usually I do not handle very well but I'm in a new city I'm in a new school I'm gonna new district them in a new grade level like everything is new to me and usually like that would make me want to crumble it just would make me really really stressed out and I am stressed out but I want to take on the challenge of change and use that to grow and to become a better teacher let everything that I've done up to this point my experience and just embrace the change and obviously it's really ironic that this happened that we had to like pick a word because the word evolve has just been in my head for the past couple of weeks and since I am starting a new like series my that teacher life series is basically over I mean I did that for last school year and I don't feel like reusing that I did my teacher summer series so now I'm Sur in a new series and I haven't figured out the entire title yet but it's definitely going to involve the word involve the word evil then of my teammates and I all went out to lunch along with our TA we call her but she's super super sweet we went out to chick-fil-a kind of enjoy our lunch came back and I've been in my room ever since just hustling trying to get as much done as possible that being said it's now like 7:30 I need to get home because I'm starving and it sucks because I know this week I'm not really gonna get going you guys it sucks because I know this week I'm not really going to get to spend a lot of time with him and I miss him so I'm gonna go home spend some quality time with him and then I'm gonna be creating like all night I need to make or make the teacher letter which I know I made one for me but we're gonna do one as a great level so I need to just reformat it for that I need to make our flip book which they put in all the information I'm just gonna put it into my template and I need to make schedule cards I need to make labels which don't have to get done tonight but still I have a lot on my plate so I'm gonna get going and you'll notice I never even took this back out of my car because I didn't want to take more mess into my classroom so incredibly grateful right now for this man right here he has dinner pretty much already for me by the time I get home so this is my new teacher bag it is literally the exact same bag that I had last year with the black and white chevron only this year they obviously don't have that one anymore but I went with gray which I probably would have gone with anyway I'm trying to just really streamline and do less like patterns and do more just solid colors I really really like this one this is called the zip top utility tote I think that's what it's called but I will link it for you down in the description box and it comes from thirty-one so nightly routine Billy and I are watching bachelor in paradise and I'm gonna get some work done on the computer it is now 11:45 I've been working for several hours but I have been productive I got our meet the teachers letter all done and then I also got our handbook done so this is a template from learning in Wonderland I highly highly recommend it you print double-sided on three sheets of paper you don't have to cut anything you're able just to fold them over and staple it so I'm not gonna really show you the pages because there's some personal information I'm now gonna print this out I'm gonna print just like a black and white copy to give to our TA tomorrow so that she can make copies for all of us and assemble them and then I'm gonna print a copy on color paper just to have as like an example for her and meanwhile this is what Billy is doing yeah he got this from Target for like two dollars and 50 cents a year ago and he has been waiting to try it out [Music] go in around these walls to create a song [Music] Update is now about 12:30 and I just looked in the mirror for the first time today and I apologize for this eyebrow because it's looking rather pointy and I don't know why I had plans tonight to make schedule cards for my board did not happen unfortunately all I got done was to meet the teacher letter and the flip book template the like handbook because that took me a lot longer than it normally would have taken me because I had to put their information into the flip book and I'm really good at like shortening and lengthening things as needed to fit in the sizes of the boxes but I didn't want to like change the wording of things from the way that they had it so I had to like really play with the formatting and it took me a lot longer than I thought but that does take a little bit of pressure off of me for meet the teacher night because at least now that is done and our ta will get it all prep for us tomorrow then I can just make my schedule cards like tomorrow night it's fine this don't have to be done by meet the teacher by any means I would like for them to be but if they're not it's not the end of the world so I've gotten into bed I'm gonna go ahead and light my candle I'm gonna read my book for a little while and then I'm gonna hopefully go to sleep pretty quickly I will catch up with you guys in the morning in case you were wondering what I am reading I have restarted My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Pico I read this several years ago but I decided to reread it again Jodi is my favorite author of all time I've read I'm pretty sure every book that she's ever written and I love every single one of them personally my favorite is either 19 minutes leaving time or small great things and yes I am using a tissue as my bookmark because I do not have one good morning YouTube let's try this again because I just filmed like a two-minute long clip and then realized it was out of focus I did wake up easier oh look I did I'm not a morning person I did wake up easier this morning that I thought that I would not as easily as yesterday but I only hit snooze twice I had snooze for 6:05 and then 6:10 and that's when I got up last year I had a really bad habit of hitting snooze for like an hour and then I'd have to go to school with wet hair and I have tried to break that habit this year I did not feel like curling my hair this morning whatsoever so I just straightened it because it is pouring down rain outside and if I curled it it would have lasted for like five minutes anyway now speaking of rain this has been on my mind a lot lately even though I'm really busy with school my heart breaks right now for all of the victims of the hurricane in Texas and what they're going through and I really wanted to find a way to help but I don't really have the time right now to try to organize like my own thing I know that sounds awful but like I'm just so swamped right now with school but I did want to find a way to help them so I was watching Instagram stories this morning because that is what I do in the morning while I get ready and Meg from eggs boxes of creme eggs Meg from Meg's box of crayons I've told you guys about her before I'm a huge fan of hers she has set up a donation page for the victims from hurricane Harvey so she is going to be donating to the Houston Food Bank I'm going to do a couple things I know a lot of people often will donate I'm sorry my hair is like tickling my nose I was trying to power through it but I cut it a lot of people donate to the Red Cross I'm not a huge supporter of the Red Cross because often they're there for the first couple days after like a disaster and then they don't really help like long term and there's a lot of other better organizations that do help long term so I saw that she was donating to the Houston Food Bank and I was like that is perfect here's what I'm gonna do you guys first of all I'm gonna just my ham because I'm like losing feeling in my right hand from plugging the camera I'm going to link first of all makes Instagram down in the description second of all I'm gonna link her donation page so if you want to go on and directly donate you're more than welcome to but I also personally gonna be donating one dollar for every ten comments on this video so that means if I get a thousand comments on this video which I've had happen on plenty of my videos you guys can do it I will be donating a hundred dollars if you post two thousand comments I will be donating two hundred dollars so leave a comment down below something from this video whatever is on your mind even if it's just something like hey have a good day it doesn't matter you'll be contributing to the costs that being said I need to head to school because I need to do a couple things this morning before our PD starts unfortunately I'm in PD all day again I have like reading PD in the morning and then I think I have math PD in the afternoon so it's currently about 7:30 I'm gonna get on the road I do want to get coffee because I have not taken my character school yet and I really really need coffee this morning so I'm gonna go tracked out eight Dunkin Donuts and then I'll catch up with you guys at school okay let me just say this is the weirdest Dunkin Donuts ever you have to drive behind this entire like strip center to get to the drive-through like is this normal in places hi can I get a medium iced coffee with the french vanilla swirl and cream please all right it is now 943 I'm really really happy our PD ver this morning did not take that long and because I am teaching math science and social studies I did not have to stay for the entire thing I got to come back to my room which means I get to be productive however I kind of have to change to the handbook so let me show you so the very bottom section was like all about me but we talked about it this morning and we decided to change that to our schedule so I just need to go and kind of insert that reprint out copies for all of us and then get it ready to be printed on the colored paper zoom a shadow through sunrays [Music] in number if you see the horizon turn us to sow and will grow in number whew [Music] it is now about 11:45 I am leaving so I can go grab lunch because I did not pack anything but that's a really nice thing about like teacher workdays you get to go out and have like an hour for lunch then I have to be at a different elementary school by like 12:30 for an afternoon PD on math and science I got my desk cleared off so that's a really good thing it's not like completely cleared off but I made a lot of progress so little by little it's coming together I'm gonna stay late again tonight get as much done as possible and for right now that's all I can do my adjustable base is coming it is now about 3:40 my PD for the day is completely done which is a good feeling because now I can focus on my classroom so I just drive back to my school I'm gonna go inside and just like yesterday I'm gonna stay as late as I can probably about seven o'clock ish and just trying to power through and get as much done as I possibly can and how about this for problem-solving it is so pouring down right outside and the thing on the top of this bag was my laminator and I did not like to get wet so I used my plastic subway bag to cover it up okay so having a TA is literally life-changing I came back from PE to find all my meet the teacher letter it's copied onto colored paper all of my hand books not only copied but assembled I'm seriously in heaven right now I wanted to give you guys a very quick tip but it's definitely a huge time-saver now at my old school I couldn't do this because we couldn't print off our nurse slips we actually had like ones that had transfer paper and we just had to get new ones from the nurse but here they actually have this sheet that has four of them on a page and you just make copies of it when you need it so I went in now I have Adobe pro Adobe Acrobat Pro so I am able to like go in and make fillable forms and that's how I did this but I just typed in my name the teacher name and the grade level and I'm gonna keep this as my master copy so every time I make copy is my name and the grade level will already be filled in so I don't have to write it every time see the horizon [Music] and will grow in number [Applause] [Music] to see those [Music] [Applause] we'll go [Music] all right I'm gonna give you guys another update of my room it probably doesn't look like I've made progress but I feel like I have so I've kind of been moving things around over here I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna keep it it's still a work in progress my goal tonight is to make schedule cards to go up on this board along with like my objective titles I put just a couple of the colored bins down here on this shelf no idea what I'm gonna use them for but they fit pretty well my desk is all put together now it was clean earlier it's not really clean right now but once I like get my stuff in my bag to go home it will be much cleaner spec area looks about the same now these drawers were a little bit of a labor of love they were all taped closed so I had to peel up all the tape take off all of the labels and they're empty with the exception of these two drawers I need to get some more of those plastic containers those are holding the rest of the months this had all of my rooted in reading in it which was like the reading curriculum that we used in second grade but those are now organized into those bins like monthly so I'm gonna end up taking this home and storing them there then over here we have this little board like right by the door this is almost like a little message area so I had this little pencil and I gotten from the target dollar spot it was like out of $3 maybe and I'm gonna use this to hold like announcements and things I need to make a title for it it's not a huge priority right now you will notice up here I've put the color bins not sure exactly what I'm gonna use it for I was thinking maybe like math games or something and organized it by the standard but I don't really know yet then in this cabinet these are all those containers the Irish containers filled with like read-aloud books that I used to use I was gonna take them home but I figured I'll just leave them in here and then these are all interactive read aloud books that are provided by the county even though I'm not teaching reading I still have to store them in this cabinet then this one is empty which is fantastic because I might end up putting some stuff in there while I try to clean up for meet the teacher night this one has some Sterilite containers that have some like extra supplies so a bunch of extra Ziploc containers that one's also extra Ziploc containers that is Legos but those are not Legos that I let my students play with those are for like math or stem activities these are some extra like brown paper bags these are all pieces of cardboard and like toilet paper tubes and then this is a bunch of like pipe cleaners some like little wood rods and some aluminum foil and then this bottom part is empty for now I got this cabinet a little bit more cleaned up you'll remember I had a bunch of stuff up there I got some of it put away I'm still working on the rest but the rest of it is pretty clean and these two cabinets pretty much look the same I did not even get to finish me my posters today it's okay because tomorrow is a work in our rooms day so I should have time to get it done then I need to take these two bins home with me today which of course I think is still pouring down rain but I'm gonna go pull my car around that way I can load them up and get them out of the way so I come home to this three ginormous boxes from Amazon because I got bored over the weekend and went on a little bit of a shopping spree so I'm gonna eat dinner and then after dinner I'll show you guys what I got because honestly I don't really remember again super super thankful I come home and Billy has dinner ready and waiting for me thank you dr. Tuesday the look in your eyes though and I shine the camera on you [Music] [Music] [Applause] okay I wanted to show you guys what I came up with for my schedule in the past I only ever displayed like the subject I never displayed the time so this year I decided to change it up and display the times mostly to help keep myself on track so I typed out all of the times on these slips now these are probably the same size as like the Sterilite door labels honestly I don't really know I just kind of like made up a you know a rectangle but now that I look at it it kind of looks like the same size so I don't know I will have to check on that for you guys but I typed up the time here and then I'll have these colored circles that have all of the like subject areas now this is not our arrival time this is actually our morning meeting time I forgot to make one for arrival oops oh I'm gonna have to go back and do that but I just want to show you guys kind of what I had come up with I decided to do it this way just cuz I think it'll make it a little bit easier for me like this is our cultural arts time or like our special time so I'll be able to leave this up every day and then just change out the circle so I have like a different circle for each one of the cultural art so like art music PE all that and then actually we have music and PE both during that time on two of the days so I will just put like whichever one we have first here and then I'll line up the other circle next to it kind of like that on the board I hope you don't have enough room I'll kind of have to lay it out on the board tomorrow but I'm also gonna have to check to see if I have magnets because I have no idea if I have magnets if not I'm gonna have to go to the store tomorrow but if this is something you guys are interested in just let me know I'm not gonna promise I can get up in my store right away cuz I am kind of busy right now but it's definitely something that I could put on my to-do list okay you guys I'm sitting here like finishing up my laminating because I did print out the page that has her actual start time for arrival and Billy not only is he playing golf again but he is now done it in my office area are you serious what's the shot [Applause] all right it is now Amazon unboxing time I'm kind of really embarrassed by this you guys but at the same time I'm not I have gone ahead and just kind of cut them open but I haven't actually looked inside I'm gonna start with this one because it's like insanely light like do you guys see how easily this is moving right now let's see what this one is okay there better be more than that what is oh this must be my layout okay oh I can't really do it one-handed okay thank you for some shade on it silly guys haha alright you guys I saw this lamp on Amazon and I was literally like I have to have this I currently have the lamp that is by my like filming area but I also have my little vanity in there and I wanted a lamp over there because when I first walk in in the morning I literally stumbled trying to get to the other lamp so I would like one that is just a little bit closer so I got this one I can link all of these for you alright I couldn't link all of these for you in the description box if you're interested in this lamp it was like I don't know thirty dollars so it's kind of pricey for a lamb but for the black and white stripes like I had to get it one box down we're gonna do this one next this one's kind of light okay this one's kind of lame this is just a trash can alright this is just one of the Rubbermaid I think it's like the ten gallon trash can it's a one that I told you guys that I would buy as a first-year teacher my classroom only has one trash can like this and then a recycling bin I do have a small little trash can by my desk but I really wanted to have another one so I went ahead and ordered one they're not too expensive I think they're like ten dollars it's totally worth it so I do need to label it though with my last name and my room number which I don't even know what my room number is I honestly have it like looked at the door when I go in so I need to make sure I do that tomorrow alright your cuts alright last box for today at least oh okay these are shoes a lot of shoes actually I told you guys that I ordered oh no I didn't tell you guys you haven't seen that video yet okay nevermind I I guess I will go ahead and show you the shoes and then it will make more sense when you see my video that goes live tomorrow so this gives you a little bit of a sneak peek it obviously is a fashion video so I got some more pairs of shoes this is really embarrassing okay so these are all the exact same style of shoe I just ordered it in different colors so this first pair these are the silver ones and these are actually really really pretty all right so these are the silver ones I just run into a pair of silver shoes I don't have any silver shoes but I really really liked these they look like Cinderella shoes pair number two okay these are a nude suede I really really like these two pair number three okay these are just like the silver ones but these are in gold which actually I have a pair of gold heels but they're really really really tall I would never in a million years wear them to school so I wanted a pair that I could wear to school that's what they look like and pair number four these should be a black suede all right so that's what these look like I do have a pair of black heels but I wanted a pair in this weight I'm really really loving sweet lately so I went ahead and ordered all of these were each like under $20 I think some of them were like 18 19 20 somewhere in there which is super super affordable for heels and these are really really comfortable okay I stopped filming and I realized that there was more in this box okay I also got the book the most magnificent thing I have not actually read this but I heard that it's really really good for like introducing your class to growth mindset and I want to focus on that very much in my class this year so I thought that that would be a good book and it seems a little bit more appropriate for like intermediate grades whereas most of the books I had were more appropriate for primary grades and what is this I don't know okay I'm on the struggle bus here you guys this is not easy with one hand oh these are the lights that I ordered okay this is actually really good timing so I can put these up tomorrow okay I'm gonna put the camera down and then pick it back up okay so these are some battery-operated lights and they have a bunch of different settings where they like will twinkle different ways and they have a remote I plan to put these up around my smart board so tomorrow when I get into my classroom I will show you what those look like and then the last thing in here and let me just make sure yeah are these little boxes these are just some magnetic hooks I'm gonna use these on my board to display my objectives and I will show you guys tomorrow how I end up doing that but they're just basic like magnetic hooks I'm not gonna take them out right now but I will show you guys in the morning it is 12:30 and I'm just getting into bed so I'm gonna make this pretty short but there were a couple of things that I thought about that happened today that I never even told you guys about so first of all during the afternoon PD I got there like 12:00 I don't know 12:10 and I didn't go in until like 12:15 but I was there a good at like 15 minutes early so I got there before my team teachers I went in I checked in the lady told me to go to a certain room I go to that room and I saved three other seats for my team teachers and people were coming in and they could see like that the seats were saved and they sat somewhere else and the room started to fill up more and more and like there was no sign of my team teachers I was trying to text them but I had like no service in this school and eventually like someone asked because it was the only seat laughs if they could take one of those seats and I was like wow saving it for my team teachers but like they're not here yet so I guess you can have it and I ended up giving it up but inside I was panicking because I hadn't seen my team teachers yet apparently they ended up in a different room because they ran out of space in our room so they didn't end up showing up so I looked like a complete jerk for saving these seats and like denying people from sitting there and then no one even ended up showing up but it's okay cuz actually I ran into my friend Emily there she's the one that I had met up at the Columbia mall a couple weeks ago and she kind of showed me the curriculum which I'm so so thankful for now because it gave me a little bit of a head start so I got to chitchat with her some which was nice then I got back from the PD and you guys saw like what I did my classroom then I told you guys I was gonna carry out those big black tubs to my car and I knew that I didn't want to like carry them one by one cuz I was gonna take a really long time so I asked a janitor as if I could borrow one of their carts and they said yes the janitors at the school are amazing they're like super super helpful anyway I go out and I pull my car up like as close to the school as possible and I go in to get the car and I'm locked out and my badge will not work because I guess it after like seven o'clock it shuts off and it won't let me pack in so I still hide for a while like banging on the door and no one heard me and I debated just going home but I was like no Michelle like you need to go get those jobs eventually I found there's like a bell that you ring when it's like at nighttime if you're trying to get in so janitors came in love yeah but it's kind of really embarrassing but it's okay I got those carried out I do solve a couple of things at school that I need to take home but I can get those tomorrow right now I'm gonna go ahead and read a chapter or two and then get to bed because I have to be up bright and early again tomorrow good morning YouTube I'm pretty tired this morning I'm not gonna lie this morning I snoozed in I snoozed in you guys know what I mean I slept in until 6:20 which still is much better than last year like I would sleep in till literally 7:20 and then leave at 7:30 but still I need to like cut myself off like no later than 6:20 yesterday I told you guys I was gonna find a Dunkin Donuts so I searched it on my phone and of course it was literally the opposite direction of my work and I was like whatever I'll just go for today after I got the Dunkin Donuts I googled not googled iGPS how to get to my school and I found a secret back way so now the Dunkin Donuts is actually on my way to work so I'm really excited about that Billy has more interviews today in DC so wish him luck he's just having a little bit of a rough time with the job search right now is not like prime time to get hired in DC so keep your fingers crossed for him give him well wishes whatever it is that you do I would really appreciate it I packed my lunch today in my breakfast so I'm proud of myself for that I'm not gonna go out to lunch I want to just stay in my room literally all day long and just be as productive as humanly possible I feel like my classroom is coming together but at the same time I keep having so many things pop into my head that oh I need to do this so I need to do that and I keep trying to prioritize like what actually has to be done for back-to-school and honestly most of it doesn't as long as my room is neat I have some stuff up like it should be okay but I'm just gonna try to get as much done as I can so I'm gonna head to school get my coffee and I'll catch up with you guys later on hi can I get a medium iced coffee with the French vanilla swirl and cream please [Music] okay so my team teachers and I met to talk about the first week of school which I needed very very badly but I thought we were only meeting for like a half an hour we literally met for over three hours so my entire morning is gone it's okay I am back in my classroom I just hung up the lights that I got from Amazon last night or on my smart board so I'm gonna show you guys what they look like okay so you guys can see the lights just strung around the smart board I use these really really tiny little command like hooks they came with like 48 in the pack I think so I put three on each side one at the bottom one in the middle and then one at the top and then since this little like wire has two pieces I just kind of hooked one piece around the little hook I think it should say perfectly fine throughout the school year hopefully and then it should be able to be removed without damaging the smart board so I have this little like battery pack it runs on three double A batteries originally I was trying to store it back here so it was like hidden but I realized that in order to use the remote you actually have to point it at the box so it does need to be visible but I'll just show you guys quickly so I turn it on oops wrong button turn it on okay so that is what it looks like this is the first setting you'll see on the remote there are eight different settings and you can also make the lights dimmer or brighter so I'll just quickly go through the settings so this is number one this is number two it just moves a little bit faster number three kind of looks like it's moving around the board number four gets like brighter and then dimmer number five like kind of moves and then flashes like really fast number six is like another one where it gets like brighter and then softer number seven I don't think this is ever gonna be used and number eight is just like the solid light so I think personally honestly my favorite is number one we're just kind of twinkles but I thought that this would look really really pretty and it says that the batteries last up to like 120 hours and inside of this little box there is a timer that you can set for either six 18 or 24 hours also I kind of overestimated with my schedule cards and made them a little bit too big but I think I made it work I just had to push this one all the way at the top I'm not even gonna worry about having like a card that says schedule and then you'll see I kind of had to overlap the circles and I would have overlapped them more but there are the magnets underneath so they won't move up anymore but once I get more magnets and I get these other two up I think they will all fit now that I've kind of smushed them together and then these black hooks are those ones I showed you from Amazon last night these are how I'm going to display my objective card so I probably show you guys that later on because I'm still working on preparing those now I'm gonna use this same little hooks which I was wrong I apologize there's only 40 of the hooks but there are 48 of the little stickies I'm going to hang these up kind of underneath of my cabinets that way I can hang this light [Music] [Applause] it is 7 o'clock but I have made so much progress I'm really really proud of myself I feel like it has finally come together I'm not gonna go through like everything obviously because I'm gonna do that in my classroom Tourvel just kind of give you guys a sneak peek this black tub right here came from Big Lots and I'm using it to hold my 5 scoop rockers I have some extra text books pencil sharpener that's gonna be where they make their lunch choice anchor charts that's gonna be for absent work this desk right here is going to be for bud who is our TA and then this car is going to be to organize like graded papers cuz they're gonna get passed back to the homerooms and then this back counter I'm gonna have a black like filing tub thing here that's gonna be too great or to file their graded work and then I have my clipboard organizers but I have no clipboards these little bins try to keep it pretty clean over here you'll notice their desks are all set well almost all set up for open house I have their agenda books meet the teacher letter actually meet the teachers let her because it's all at 4th grade and are hand books I still have to make them a little goodie tonight no idea what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go to Target on the way home and try to figure it out I also still need to put name tags on all of the desks so that should be fun tomorrow morning I did finally finish like putting the border around these posters I'm gonna put the title like right there but not really a priority right now this stuff is all coming home with me I just realized our play-doh sitting here hold on guys okay that's that stuff's gonna come home with me and then I showed you guys the lights already down here is where I'm gonna organize like some of the units of math like the I can statements that way I can easily pull them out and put them on the board along with science and social studies and I still need to change those labels but it's okay I will get it done now this right here is a hot mess of papers and stuff I'm gonna go through that tomorrow but I just don't feel like staying any later tonight cuz I have a lot to get done when I get home but for the most part my desk area is pretty clean I did kind of cheat and I put two boxes down here because I just have not had time to get them emptied yet but that's okay you'll see I never even drank my coffee from today I got like half of it drank and I need to get magnets on the way home to finish my schedule cards and then over here no idea what these black bins are gonna be for I just kind of had of them have them sitting here right now um this is just kind of storing some random stuff no idea what these bins are gonna be used for but I thought that they looked pretty and then I put a lot of stuff over here because I hate how do I want to wear this I hate what I'm seeing in my back table and I need something like a nurse's know or I don't know anything so I wanted to kind of create just a little station here where I can kind of keep duplicates of things that I don't have to keep going out and go into my desk or having a kid bring them to me my stools are underneath of here and then you guys have already seen my library nothing has really changed there I apologize because I'm a hot sweaty mess again but I've been working hard and I feel like I've been productive but I'm also thinking about all the things I need to get done tonight and to get nametags done that's like number one priority I'm just gonna do something simple like almost I'll probably take almost a label like this not quite this big and just put their name on it I really don't feel like being fancy right now and honestly I don't know what my kids are gonna look like so in the years past I always had like clipart that looked like them but I can't do that so I'm just gonna keep it simple I also need to figure out what tree I'm getting to my kids tomorrow I need to figure out like what other papers I'm gonna have out and what stations and I need to make station like card labels they're gonna go on these little plastic things that I've gotten from Dollar Tree so yeah I need to get my life together tonight but it's okay because then after meet the teacher is done on Friday we don't technically have to come in but I'm going to come in and my room is pretty much done so then I'll be able to work on stuff for next week so after today I feel good I do feel like I got a lot done and once tonight is over I hope you'll much better so I'm gonna go ahead to target and then I'll catch back up with you guys later on [Music] I just got home from Target it's about 8:15 Billy has dinner ready we are going to be having salad and such a nice touch first of all he's using our rate dumbbells second of all he put the bowls in the refrigerator so they are nice and cold which I love and we are having a meatball subs it lighting is really good in this corner of like our dining room and I don't know if that's a good thing right now because I look so disgusting because I had been sweating all day I unfortunately I'm gonna have to go back out after dinner because Target did not have everything that I need but thankfully Billy's gonna come with me we're gonna go to Walmart which is like I don't know 15 20 minutes away hopefully fingers crossed that they have everything that I need and then when we get back I will get started on all of my stuff that I have to get done tonight [Music] you [Music] you [Music] so I got these glow sticks at Walmart of course I already tore off the top of it so you can't see it but it was a pack of 65 they were like $7 which were kind of expensive I should have ideally gotten them from the dollar store however I was a last-minute Lucy had procrastinated so I was stuck with getting them at Walmart Billy was nice enough to count out thirty two of them for me and then he put the little plastic thing on the end these are gonna slide into this little note that I made you are going to glow this year and I had him pick out like the yellow ones and the green ones and then I said Billy what's this one over here like as I included and he goes oh no that one's mine oh my life update and I'm gonna make this short it is 2:16 I'm just getting into bed I did not get everything done I mean I did but I did it like I got the name tags made and laminated but I did not get them cut out however it's okay because meet the teacher does not start until 2:30 tomorrow so I will have some time to get some stuff done in the morning and my TA will be able to help so it will all get done I'm just gonna sit in bed I'm gonna read really quickly and hopefully fall asleep just as quickly good morning YouTube note to self waking up at 6:30 is too late I need to set a limit of 6:20 because I'm running about ten minutes late right now but it's okay because I'm not gonna get coffee I don't want to have coffee breath for meet the teacher night and I'm taking the shorter route to work so hopefully it'll end up evening out but I'm gonna go ahead and head there because I'm running a little bit late and then once I get there I can show you guys my outfit for meet the teacher and I'll show you guys what I got done last night and what I need to get done today all right I just got to school I did make it on time that's a good thing let me just quickly show you guys kind of what is on my to-do list for this morning these are my name tags that I'm gonna use this year I'm just keeping it super super simple these are from ladybugs teacher files I can link them for you they come in like five different colors they're editable and they also come in different shapes and sizes so the reason I have three different colors orange pink and yellow is because I have three different groups I have my homeroom group my block one group and my block two groups my homeroom is orange block 1 block 2 I'm going to put these in these adhesive label pockets that I got from the target dollar spot but the problem is I need to have up to three on each desk and I had 32 desks but I only have 80 pockets which the head is not work so it's thinking about having one pocket for my homeroom group and that one stays there all the time and then having another pocket with each of these two in it and then they can just flip it out when the next person comes in I don't know may or may not work we're gonna try it though I already made copies of my sign-in sheet because I used to only have like 12 spots on here because I never had more than 12 parents gum but I have so many students I'm gonna have a lot of parents so I made several copies I also have a transportation form just to get some information on how they will go home I also have this sorting supply sheet this is gonna be out at a station to tell my students what to do with their supplies I need to cut those apart I also need to cut apart their locker tags these are actually my mini Sterilite drawer labels these right here they're in my store I can link them for you I just use these to create little nametags for their lockers now I have these little Glo tags that I've made up really quickly last night this was a super simple gift to give to my students I've already hole punched them I just need to slide into glow sticks this is gonna be for a photo booth Photo Booth props so I need to cut out like the rectangle for the photo and then glue these on the bottom and then these are signs that I made for my stations these are gonna go in these little clear stands that I got from Dollar Tree so I have welcome please sign in and then move to the next station you will be visiting four stations station one is walk around the room and find your desk and it lets another name tag is in the orange color station two they're gonna use this sorting paper right here to sort their supplies and put them where they need to go station three is filling out the transportation form and the station four is the photo booth prop and then last but not least I need to put magnets on my schedule cards I really like the magnetic buttons they're just like little circle magnets but unfortunately Target nor Wal Mart had them so I'm just gonna have to use the magnetic tape not the end of the world [Music] so the best part about using these labels for the locker tags is when I go to tape them down I will actually be able to use just one piece of packaging tape to cover the entire thing rather than doing like two different pieces [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I officially have everything set up and ready for meet the teacher night so I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys what it looks like all right so out there I just have like a little welcome sign with the sign-in sheet and then right here is Station one so it just says to walk around the room and find their nametag and it says it's with the orange color originally I was going to put all three of the name tags on the desk right now but I decided to wait on the other two because the classes keep changing so for now there's only one name tag on there anyway so again these are from ladybugs teacher files and they are editable and then on their desk I have their handbook this is a template from learning in Wonderland and I just edit it and created like all the titles and everything and then this is a letter template that I created it is not in my store yet but I'm working on getting to put in there I promise this is just introducing all of the fourth-grade teachers this is a little tag I made up last night literally took like 5 minutes it says you are going to go this year and then this is a glowstick I just hold punched on either side and slid it through and then they have their agendas so after they go to their desk and look at all the stuff there they will come over here distinction too and it says use the paper below to sort your supplies if you brought them so they will take one of these with them and it tells you the directions to place the following into their pencil pouch along with some of their folders and notebooks they're gonna put those in their desk and then the rest of these they're going to place them in the correct bins around the room so I just labeled these now these little labels right here they're not in my store yet but they will be these are actually the exact same labels that I used to the label this card over here I just used a different font so I have pencils cap erasers dry erase markers glue sticks sticky notes sharpies highlighters notebooks lined paper so what they are gonna do is they're gonna keep some of it like with their stuff they have lockers out in the hallway and they'll bring what they need to class and leave the rest in their locker but then we collect all of their extra supplies and they use that to replenish it up the year kind of like community supplies and then right here is where they're gonna put their tissue and again I just put a little label there and teen teacher made this one I'm just using that so they will fill it out and then put it in the bin - tell me how their student goes home and then station three is the transportation form I have a transportation form in my store but this one's a little bit more detailed and just fits the school better and I did not have time to make one so and then last but not least they will come to station 4 they're gonna have their parent take a picture of them with the little photo prop sign I've seen this all over the place ton of teacher tons of teachers do it so this is just a foam board you could use white or black or really any color that you wanted and then I just printed out these letters and cut them out ideally I should have used my Cricut but I haven't set it up yet and I didn't feel like doing it last night so I just cut them out and then taped them on the bottom so they will hold this up kind of stand it for the library hold it up and have their picture taken all right so this is just one final look at the room everything is ready I was gonna make something to project on the board but honestly I just don't think I'm even going to worry about it because I have all of the stations lined out with their signs and it should be pretty self-explanatory and honestly I just kind of don't really have the time right now I did want to quickly show you guys my outfit so I have on this white and black and gray dress this came from Amazon super super comfortable and it's like really modest and just really awesome for school necklace is from Charming Charlie along with the matching earrings and then these heels are off of Amazon I can link both this and the dress in the description box for you guys actually have these in like four different colors now I am in love with them and no I did not wear them to school I put them on five minutes ago because I was not gonna be wearing heels all day I wore flip-flops and then put these on so this is the aftermath of meet the teacher I think my room looks pretty good consider him like I was able to keep it under control I went around and just picked up my signs I did leave this tissue label here because when my students come on Tuesday I want them to know where they can put their tissues but overall I think it stayed pretty neat nothing really got like destroyed it's always really chaotic when there's so many people in there I'm gonna keep somewhat well know maybe I wall I think I'm gonna get rid of these but I'm gonna put this information on a PowerPoint slide for next week when I have my students go through their materials but these are the bins of all the extra stuff that they turned in so I'm gonna hold on to these supplies and throughout the year when they need more stuff like another glue stick or more erasers or more pencils I will be able to give it to them then but I am gonna leave these out because my students who did not come today will have supplies on Tuesday or even some of the ones that came they didn't have supplies yet so they will come on Tuesday and this will help keep it all nice and organized for the first day of school it is now about 4 o'clock and meet the teachers over it was from 2:30 to 3:30 you guys I'm in love so let me kind of back up for a second first of all in my homeroom class I currently have 29 students but apparently our grade level just got three more so that is going to be increasing my block one I have six students and then my block - I have 32 students so of my 29 I did have 20 that cave which is way way way more than I've ever had come to an event like this but that's awesome that shows how involved the parents are and how supportive they are and after talking to them I can hardy tell I have amazing kids and I have amazing parents and I'm just so incredibly grateful right now to be in the position that I'm in and I'm just I'm happy I'm just really really excited right now but I am NOT staying late because I've stayed late all week and tomorrow it's an optional day and I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna work then but for now I'm gonna go enjoy my night I'm gonna go home I'm gonna spend some time with Billy I'm gonna eat I'm gonna sit on the couch watch some Gray's Anatomy get some stuff done make some labels and all that but that's relaxing so it's okay I will catch up with you guys later on quick tip though while I was seen here playing away tissues I just stacked them up like on a cabinet these right here you'll notice are like the plus lotion tissues I'm going to keep these separate I really like to hold on to any of the tissues that are like super soft or have lotion in them and I like to hold on to them for the winter time because my students usually have colds they're blowing their noses a lot we all know that when that happens your nose gets really raw so I like to save these tissues for that time I could not even get my stuff packed up before I got an email saying I already have a new student [Applause] [Music] so I finally checked my p.o box for the first time this week because all the other days I've been staying too late and the post office closes at 5:30 so since I actually got out of there at a decent time today I said oh let me go to the post office I literally have almost 15 letters that is absolutely insane and that's not even including like packages because the office area was closed and I couldn't get those so I'm gonna have to go back like another day this is crazy see you guys I'm really really really excited to open all these up but I honestly cannot fathom having this mail at one time it's insane but I'm so appreciative so grateful I'm never gonna stop saying it - guys I honestly have the best followers and the best subscribers in the entire world so then I get home to check my actual mail and I have even more deliveries so I got these from Sahn over the weekend these are sticky clips these are really really really good for a whole I don't know why I keep saying things like three times you guys I'm sorry these are really good for holding up papers in your classroom you're able to like remove them and reuse them and they don't damage the walls these are awesome I highly recommend them I will link them for you in the description I also just got a monster thing of velcro because I use velcro a lot and I tend to go through it pretty quickly so I decided I would go ahead and stock up and it is much cheaper to buy it in rolls like this rather than little packages from the store then I have another delivery from the blue envelope I've told you guys about them before I've mentioned them that I love them for teacher shirts I honestly think they just have really good customer service really high quality I'm not being paid to say this whatsoever I have no affiliation with them I just really love the company so I treated myself to another shirt I actually wanted to get this one when I got my fourth grade shirt but they were out of stock so once I saw it came back in stock I jumped on it and opened it so I know I jumped on it and ordered it y'all are gonna have to just accept my teacher brain it's gonna be happening more and more it's the week start to go on and I get more tired so I'm gonna open it up and show you guys what it looks like so this is my third t-shirt I have it in teal and red and I really like this like white marble tee so I got this one it just says teach it's so so soft and these do runs small so I personally get an extra small even though I usually wear a small okay so tell me again what you're doing alright comment down below if this is like common knowledge and thank you for throwing it away and I'm playing it back in the pot and in case you didn't already figure it out tonight's dinner is spaghetti and meatballs in garlic bread general science and friends of Dorothy where do we start 20 stir with composers for 400 his signs and samples for higher yield traffic signs are in this training ball tree and painted red around the perimeter hey what's a triangle that's it right okay so I've been working for the past several hours and I totally forgot to vlog I've just been busy trying to get as much done as possible so let me quickly show you and then obviously I'll show you tomorrow my classroom as well so I just typed up some letters and laminated them that I'm gonna put up around the room so this is for the little bulletin board that is by my door that's gonna be for classroom news these two pages are QQQ posters that's to label those posters that are on the closets in my room and then math focus that is gonna go on the big bulletin board that is closest to my door and then I got these really pretty posters off the TPT I wanted to make my own but right now I just don't have the time so I ended up I need these and I thought that they were gorgeous probably way better than I could have done anyway I can't remember off the top of my head who created these but I will definitely link them for you in the description box they are growth mindset posters so I just printed them on regular paper trim them down and then tape them on top of like a strobe rights and then laminated the entire thing this one says it's always seems impossible until it's done Nelson Mandela it's hard to beat a person that never gives up Babe Ruth believe you can and you're halfway there Theodore Roosevelt I didn't fail the test I just found the hundred ways to do it wrong Benjamin Franklin it's kind of fun to do the impossible Walt Disney if you can't fly then run if you can't run them walk if you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward dr. Martin Luther King jr. these I'm kind of excited about they're kind of mixed up I laminate something random orders um so one thing that I truly hate doing is writing the date on the board I know that sounds pathetic but I hate like erasing the number and then like parts of it get erased and you have to redo it and I just I don't know I don't like writing on the board in general and I don't like posting the date on the board so I'm gonna show you guys tomorrow once I Assembly cuz I don't think I could explain it very well right now how I'm gonna be showing the date hopefully it ends up working because it may not I don't know these are titles for where my I can statements will go so math science social studies these are some letters and there's some more in here somewhere hold on first they're like the bottom here we go alright so these are some numbers it says number and then talk I'm gonna have one of the whiteboards in the front of my room be for my number talk because it's an actual whiteboard and they need to be able to write on it so that will be a title for that and I apologize because I know the lighting in here it's not good these are some like sentence starters for a number talks so can you explain how so I hear you saying that I see it a different way because that answer makes sense because those go with something else hold on one second the strategy I used was and I agree with blank because and then here is the title for that one sentence starters I'm gonna put magnets on the back of these and put them on the whiteboard and then I also made up a little like reminder cards for the hand signal so if you're not familiar with number talks look them up I highly suggest doing them our school actually does actually our County does them like countywide as part of our curriculum but these are the different hand signals so the students start with like a closed fist right in front of them and that means that they are trying to think of a solution I did them out of order I don't know why then they put a thumbs up if they have a solution with one strategy and then they add a finger for each different strategy that they can come up with to get that same solution and then they also use like the sign language for I agree these go with like the date thing that I was telling you about which I'll show you that tomorrow once I get it all assembled and then this is going to be a title for a bulletin board and no that's not a typo I'm gonna cut them out and when I put the U here it was too close to the Oh hard to explain but anyway I'm gonna be creating like my own bulletin board I love above my library area I have a huge blank wall right there and I thought it would be great for displaying student work so this is gonna be the title it's gonna say our brightest work and that's it so I will show you guys all of this once I get it into my classroom tomorrow good morning YouTube let me start this off by saying that today is an optional day for teachers like we are by no means required to go in but the school is open for us if we want to go in now the reason I'm laughing is because I overslept this morning I supposed to get up at 6:30 I didn't get up until 9:30 I have no idea what happened I just didn't wake up when my alarm is an offer I turned them off to my sleep or something because I literally had like 10 different alarm set but obviously that's my body's Way of telling me that I'm tired I'm a little bit sleep-deprived because I haven't stayed up really late this week trying to get stuff done and I'm like you know what I've worked hard all week if I slept in for an extra like three hours this morning I'm totally okay with that I think I deserve it I'm still gonna get a lot done today it's okay I'm actually kind of worked out because if I had gotten up at 6:30 and gone into school at like 7:30 I wouldn't have been able to go the post office and I need to go back to the post office because when I was there yesterday I had slips from packages but I couldn't get them because the actual office part of the post office was closed so I'm gonna go to the post office first I'm going to get that then I'm gonna go to Target because I want to look at they're like hanging file folders I have some really really ugly green ones and I don't really want to use especially if the file box is gonna sit on the counter I would like to hopefully get some like pretty colored ones then I'm gonna go get some coffee maybe get like a sandwich or something to take with me because I just realized I never packed my lunch I know I could easily go in and do that but whatever I think I'm just gonna get like a Subway sandwich go into school and I'm gonna get as much work done as possible now originally my plan was to film my classroom tour day I don't know if that's gonna happen because I keep thinking of all these little things I still have to do and even though my room looks good and I feel like it's mostly done like my bulletin boards are still empty and I know I printed stuff out for them last night but I just I don't know we will see if I get a lot done and I only have a couple of things aren't done and maybe I'll film it and just kind of put a disclaimer like sorry it's not all done or if not I will film the classroom tour like next week but it will definitely be up next weekend holy guacamole you guys and not only were there more letters which was like wow I had so many packages when I told the lady my p.o box number she was a goal you have a loss she literally had like two boxes filled with all my stuff and like this entire area down here you can't really see it but that is filled with packages this is insane and it's funny cuz she even told me she's like you didn't keep the box and just bring it back the next time I was like okay thanks this is insane you guys like what on earth is in here that you guys are sending me okay I think this might be at first I walked out of target with only a Starbucks this is a venti iced cascara coconut milk latte it's okay I don't know it kind of has a strange taste honestly I didn't know scar even meant I just decide to order it and see if I liked it it's okay not the best but Target did not really have a lot of hanging file folders or at least a lot of cheap ones they had ones that were really cute but really expensive and I'm not about that life right now so I drove like 10 15 minutes to this office depot and I've never really been to this little area before but I looked let me zoom in yeah that's a t.j.maxx down there so I'm thinking I'm gonna go to Office Depot and then walk down to t.j.maxx and maybe eventually I will actually make it to my school today [Music] all right it's about noon I just got to school I really struggled trying to get all my stuff in here cuz I had two drinks so I put one on each side of my teacher bag knowing that they were gonna leak which of course they did it got like all down my leg but it's okay because this is the last day I'm gonna use this teacher bag cuz I have my new one that I can use starting next week but I brought in this big like file crate it is gonna go over there on the countertop kind of by the door I'm gonna use it for like student mailboxes that's how my team teachers do it I struck out I checked at Target and Office Depot and they did not have like cute file folders and I really hate these ugly green ones so I went on Amazon while I was in office depot and went ahead and ordered some like pretty aqua colored ones I can link them for you in the description box but hopefully those should be here maybe by like Monday I don't know does me oh come on Labor Day we will find out but I did end up going to a Dollar Tree and I got so these sandwich containers are kind of hard to find I could only find two but I love these I might end up going online and seeing if I can order them online I'm gonna use them to hold these like fraction and decimal like towers I checked and when you like stack them like these four will go on top of these they fit perfectly in a sandwich container and I hate storing math manipulatives in bags I just think they're a pain they end up tearing they rip they get holes in them I do not like them so I always like to use plastic containers so I'm gonna be hitting up all of the dollar trees around me over the next couple of weeks trying to get enough of these to store all of these so I got Jersey Mike's for lunch they're a sub company if you have never had them it's really really good I'm gonna sit here and just kind of enjoy my food and then I have a ton of cutting out to do unfortunately and just to show you guys how these little fraction towers fit in here I mean I could even fit more in here but it literally is perfect so if you have some of these for like math manipulatives I highly suggest getting these sandwich containers to store them small hack for you guys I know I shared this in one of my really old videos but since I have gained a ton of new subscribers if you have a trashcan and you're throwing a lot of stuff away you know how the trash bag will like fall inside of the trashcan and it gets really annoying trying to keep playing it over at the corners I use binder clips just to clip and hold down the bag on each side that way it stays in place [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah I'm finally done cutting out all of the letters that I printed in hindsight I probably should have used my Cricut I should have just sucked it up and hooked it up so I could have used it but at the same time I wanted to eliminate the letters and I don't think the Cricut will cut through lamination I've tried and it didn't work maybe there's a secret so if you guys know if you have a Cricut and it can cut out lamination please let me know cuz I would love to try it but if I wanted the letters laminated I had to hand cut them my hand is literally like knob like my the tip of like my first finger right here is actually numb so I had to cut out here where it says QQQ posters now I'm not gonna leave but leave it like this originally I was but I didn't realize how big of a space I had here so QQQ stands for quest for quality questioning so I'm gonna cut out I'm probably gonna do like a script font for the rest of the letter so quest I'll have you yes t up here and then for and so on but I will have to get that done over the weekend also over here I got the news part put up on the board and I also got math focus and just a little tip for you guys when you're putting up letters like this start in the middle and work out that way you don't run out of room so I counted here math mata chats 4 letters plus a space and then fo see us it was a total of 10 letters so I said okay I'm gonna split it like in the middle and do five five so I kind of lined up the middle here like right in between the space and the F I put the F down first and then went this way and then I went and worked backwards and went across that way I can make sure that everything is nice and centered over here on this board I cut out the headings that say math science and social studies and then I just have these like papers that say I can statement coming soon because we're not gonna need those until the second week of school and then here's what I ended up doing for my date I told you guys I don't like to write the date so I wanted something really easy but I don't know if this is gonna work exactly the way I wanted to originally I was going to hang these on book rings so like these little rings right here but then they did not lay like flat they were like turned to the side and that didn't work so I ended up just hanging these right on to these hooks this one's kind of a weird hook this one was already in my classroom and I ran out of my hook so I had to use it it works for this and even like the letter so then I can just like take it off when it's the next day and then I'll keep like the ones I've already used somewhere else and then replace them at the end of the month but for the months because they're so long and like I didn't hole punch them all exactly in the middle they're kind of like tilted and it's probably gonna bother me but whatever I'll try for a couple of weeks see if I like it if not I can figure something else out and then over here I'm gonna be using this board for my number talks we have to do these every day in math so I just cut out the letters up here that same number talked and I put magnets on the back I made these hand signal signs to just remind my students what hand signals they use and then over here I have like sentence starters for them and I just put magnets on the back of all of these and I have them on the sides I like to put magnets on them rather than like taping them to the board because sometimes you want to just like take them all down and wipe the whole board to make sure it's all clean and then it's nice and easy to put them back up now here is my next project I this huge blank space back here on the wall and I want to try to utilize it as best as I can so I'm thinking of putting like a little bulletin board here just like creating my own and having a bee force displaying student work but here's the problem I was going to get white paper to put in the background I know it looks like the walls white it's actually almost like a cream kind of color it's an off-white so it's gonna put white paper in the background and then put some just like green border like the same green border that's over there on that board but we don't have any white paper at this school so now I'm thinking of putting up the border and just not having any white paper it's not really needed and then I'm gonna put it like colored a strobe rights paper tube at all of the papers that get hung up so I'm gonna go ahead and work on this for a while and then I'll catch up with you guys after [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay here is the finished bulletin board I'm gonna call it a bullet tomorrow even though it's not really a bulletin board so I just laminated colored sheets of a strobe rights paper and then to attach these I used the blue sticky poster putty I don't know if that's the official name I will try to link some down below for you but I really like it because it does stay up but you're able to pull it down really easily and it doesn't leave any marks on the wall and then I use these sticky clips that I showed you guys that I got from Amazon they're reusable so I can even take them off at the end of the year I'll be able to use them again but it's really easy because all I have to do is slide the paper up into the clip I only have spots for like 12 like papers however I have a block of 26 kids and then a block of like 32 kids and actually those numbers are still gonna go up so there's no way for me to display every student's work all the time so I'm just gonna kind of do it in ships and rotate them throughout the year and then another new addition these are those posters that I printed out and laminated last night I decided to hang them right above the board because I kind of had some like weird empty spots there and I wanted to cover them up and again to hang those up I use the same sticky clips and they're holding them really really well even though they're laminated and kind of slippery they're holding them with not a problem so I had to get a desk added so I now have a group of five group of six group of five group of five group of six that's the new desk that I just added and then another group of five but that's 32 desk and I might have even more than that in my one block because they still have like six students that they have to place these numbers are literally insane like I've never had this many kids at one time and I'm a little bit nervous I'm not gonna lie but my team teachers are nervous too because I said they always have had high numbers but they've never been this high so we shall see good news is we have these two rectangular tables back here they're in all of the intermediate grades so grades three four and five however our principal did give us permission to take them out if we want because they do take up a lot of space and we have really big class sizes now I want a table to be able to meet with students like if I do pull a small group but I do not need this much space so after next week once I collect all of the supplies I'm gonna end up getting rid of at least one of the tables maybe both and I might see about getting like a smaller table I don't know work in progress but I will probably end up kind of splitting up my groups over here and putting another group over here next order of business I need to go around and all the students who did not come to open house I need to put their names on the handbook and the teacher letter and collect them because I don't want them on their desk when they come in on Tuesday I want their desk as clean as possible I'm gonna leave the glow sticks out for them but I'm gonna collect these I need to write their names on it though that way I can keep track of who has gotten them and who hasn't and I'll send them home with them on Tuesday hopefully that will work out I don't know out of these boxes of students who ordered school supplies and they just pick it up through the school but they did not come to open house so they're now sitting on their desk I might collect those two and just give it to them when we start going through supplies in a 6 o'clock and I am ready to get out of here I saw a lot of stuff to do but it's ok because it's a three-day weekend I will get it done I wanted to film my classroom tour today so I could have it up next weekend unfortunately my classroom is not quite ready enough for my classroom tour but throughout next week as I finish up these things I will film it and it will be up next week and I promise promise promise that will be my next video however I need to make a to-do list so I know all the little things that I have to get done and rather than writing it down I'm just gonna walk around the room and tell you guys what I need to get done and then I can go back and watch this video that way I remember all right we're just gonna start here by the door first thing I need to do is make a shade for this window to cover it up in case of an emergency I need to get the hanging file folders that are gonna go in this crate they're gonna come through Amazon so I don't need to go out and get them or anything but when they do come in I need to make labels for them I also would like to make a little label for the front of this that says graded papers and then just hang it on with a book ring in these cabinets I have a lot of new labels to make I think I'm just gonna start over and do completely new labels for all of these and all the ones that are in here I need to make labels for these bins one of them is gonna be for Wednesday folders and honestly I don't really know what the other one's gonna be for so I need to figure that out coming down here eventually I would like to label these containers I don't think I need to have it done like right away but that is on my to-do list this cabinet is gonna have to get cleaned out because this is where I shove stuff when I was too busy trying to just get ready for meet the teacher night so I need to go through this and eventually I think what's gonna go in here is maybe all of that extra supplies that's currently on the back table so I will have to make labels for those as well and then this cabinet has a lot of like stem kind of supplies up here and then this is just crap that I threw down there so I need to get that cleaned out but I'll probably just use that as like extra storage I want to try to find another one of these black bins to put over on this side I got it target I checked the other night and they did not have any in the black color so I'll just have to add that to my list to keep an eye out for in this cabinet I need to try to get more of these little plastic like holder things for the shelves that I can put these shelves up at the top and clean all of that stuff out but otherwise I would like to make labels for these and probably some labels down here on these recessed bins that way my students can't get to them more easily I also need to get the rest of these 3q words typed up so I can paste them up here on the cabinet alright this cabinet has all of my math stuff so I do want to make labels for these black bins and I do want to keep an eye out for more of these little sandwich containers oh yeah I don't even know originally I was gonna replace these with those bigger bins there on the back table but I think I'm just gonna keep the extra supplies in those so maybe I need to get more like bigger bins I don't know I'll figure it out you guys I did get hangers so I can hang any like jackets and I do have order that's here hanging and I have like an extra tote bag that is all technology stuff which once I get the extra shelves put at the top of that one those are gonna go up there so I don't really need to worry about that right now but I do need to go through and unpack that box I also need to either clean out this bin or get another bin like this to put out to collect library books thankfully this board is good to go that is good to go up there over here I need to type up the ICANN statements but I don't need to have that like for my tour it's more so just for when curriculum starts I need to make a little label that says today is and then figure out if I'm gonna keep that system or not I need to make new labels for these turn in bins one will be block one and the other one will be blocked too I also need to make labels for these bins down here so there are six of them I need to figure out how many math units are and figure out how many math units there are and figure out how I'm going to organize them I also need to make labels for these black containers I need to change the labels on this cart because I am NOT teaching the same subjects anymore I need to make labels for these bins down here that are holding some of my curriculum books and then some dry erase sleeves I need to try to find more bins like this because I'd like to keep the same bin like in this area I need to make new labels for this little three drawer unit because it is not holding math stuff anymore it's holding the little letters and things for my letter board over by my computer so I need to make labels for those that stuff is up there I'm not gonna worry about labeling those bins this area up here by my desk is good I need to make a label for this this is gonna be like a turn in bin for my homeroom so any like notes from home that they need to turn into me I don't know what I'm using those bins for so I don't need to worry about labeling them yet I need to real able this unit but if I get rid of these tables I may not even need it so I'm gonna kind of hold off on that for now my library is looking pretty good but I was thinking of taking these read letters and hanging them like vertically on the wall right there so if I do I need to figure out a way to do that because I have some extra of these black bins and I was going to put them over here on this side but that's only if I can find a place to put the read letter so I need to just kind of work on that I need to make labels for these rainbow drawers but honestly I haven't exactly figured out how I'm gonna use them I want to use it for like early finisher activities but I'm not exactly sure like which activities I'm gonna use yet so I will probably hold off on that I figure out what the heck I'm using this bulletin board for I have no idea right now so I'm gonna just do a little thinking over the weekend figure that out and get that ready to go I will need to make new labels for these like little bins not sure exactly what I'm using them for yet so I need to figure that out too I know I sound like an awful teacher right now like I have no idea what I'm doing in my life I swear I do I usually figure it out it just takes a while I need to get some stuff ready for my math focus board I'm gonna hang up posters for the mathematical practice standards because we do have to have those displayed and then I'll figure out what else I can put up there and then I think this is last thing and this is going to be for like graded work so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put work for my class that has to get sorted into that file crate down in this bottom drawer and then when any of the other classes have papers to drop off they can just walk in open up this drawer put it in there and close it I'm gonna put papers that have to get sorted for the other three teachers in this drawer and I'll have a classroom job where they open up these drawers and they sort the papers in there and then this top one is gonna stay empty for my TA to use oh and that reminds me I'm gonna use like this little empty space of the board right here to display student jobs I'm not gonna give every student a job I'm only gonna have like five or six jobs so I need to just work that out and figure out how to display it I also need to make no name tags for the new student that I got alright I have sat down to try to fill Miss out dough out oh my gosh I have sat down and tried to film this outro clip like 10 different times but my brain is so fried right now that I end up this and I'm not making any sense so bear with me I'm doing the best I can first of all I'm gonna get out of here because as you guys can tell I'm just very tired and I need to continue working hard this weekend so I'm gonna go home edit this video relax eat some pizza and then be ready to start working again tomorrow I hope you guys enjoy this video I know I personally have loved seeing my classroom come together and I realized how much I'm in love with this space I know originally I kind of had mixed feelings like I didn't know how I felt about the green wall actually I really really like it now it is kind of small but you know what like there's plenty of classroom smaller than this I'm sure so it's not a big deal I love this space I love how new everything is it's made me super excited to come to school every day and I know how incredibly lucky I am because not a lot of teachers have that a lot of teachers classrooms are very old and rundown and I'm extremely lucky to be here and I'm extremely lucky to have the resources that I do and just to be in this County like this County honestly is amazing the parents are amazing the kids are amazing I'm just so so blessed and I know it like I'm fully aware I'm fully appreciative and let me know you guys are thank you my classroom so far if you like it if you have any ideas for me leave them down below I would love to hear from you and speaking of comments just a reminder I am gonna be donating one dollar for every 10 comments on this video to the Houston Food Bank through the page that Meg from Meg's box of crayons setup I will leave the link for it in the description box if you want to personally go on if you're able to donate that would be amazing if you can't just leave a comment on this video whether it's something that you enjoyed from the video something good going on in your life anything you're gonna help contributing to the cause and I'm aware that made no sense I should have said you're gonna help contribute to the cause not contributing and I like to just point out I have motion sensor lights and I've been seeing here for so long trying to film this that they went off hold on okay but like I was saying you guys leave a comment on this video please go ahead and give it a thumbs up that just helps me to know like if you guys are enjoying my content or not it helps give me feedback and it helps for you to engage with the video don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already because I have a very exciting video coming tomorrow you guys have been asking me for a really long time to do a video on teacher outfits which is totally out of my comfort zone but I did film one and honestly I'm loving the way that it's coming together so it's gonna be up tomorrow it's a back to school teacher lookbook I guess that's what called I don't really know I'm still trying to get this out that I really hope that you guys like it it's something like I said totally different for me and I think came out pretty cool and like I said next weekend my classroom tour video will be up I'm so excited it's probably a good thing that I didn't film it today because then I would have wanted to post it like ASAP so I will film it next week it will be up for you guys next weekend I cannot wait to see what you guys think alright I think that's like everything that I needed to cover in this little clip I'm gonna go ahead and peace out because I need to go to the Dollar Tree I need to edit this video I need to edit the video for Sunday and I have a lot of my to-do list so as always thank you for watching I love you all so so much don't forget to think positive and I'll catch you guys in the next one thank you 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 the link right up here the links to my social media sites and my teachers pay teacher's store are in the description box for you along with my P o box if you are interested thank you for watching and I will catch you guys in the next one

Channel: Pocketful of Primary

Views: 808,536

Rating: 4.8762665 out of 5

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Id: ZMfYmUVt3u8

Length: 87min 49sec (5269 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 02 2017