Open House & Pirate Days! | Teacher Vlog Ep. 13

mm long game boys theory all right my car is packed for open house you suddenly hit me like pirates Saturday and I just went to my classroom because I totally forgot my computer charger in my classroom yesterday so I couldn't edit the video that's supposed to be going up today on my way home I figured I would stop at a Dollar Tree that I never go to in hopes that I'll find the little bits that I've been using for some of my centers because I already went to another one and that one did not have them so a few moments later I found them and on the website when I was looking at them online it said that they had a pink as well but I think pink means red and yeah so I bought six red ones I bought quite a few green ones cuz add more green ones and any other color and I bought like three blue ones so in total I bought 15 of them so I think it should be good I also bought these like light switch lights so they common I forgot to buy batteries okay I'll buy battery some other time but so they're just light switch lights basically and what I'm gonna use them for is for blending words because even though like blending comes like in and out with saxton like it doesn't like focus a lot on it it just like it's brief I feel like this will be a good way to have like a visual so I'm gonna have like if we're blending CPC words then I'm gonna have three of them and then each sound I'm gonna turn the light on so they can't see like I don't know does that make sense so I brought four of them just in case and then I also bought like someone next to me so they're probably thinking what is she doing I also go out these little containers and I'm gonna have one of them at the middle of each table so when kids are cutting instead of everything getting on the floor they can just put them put their trash in here so I don't like I don't want to have like little holes but I think you'll be okay and if I didn't get those the ones I didn't have holes were huge so I didn't want to get those either they came in a 2-pack so I got two packs and yeah I'm so happy I found the containers okay so I'm gonna target and a lot of it back to school some things on sale the man is meant like $2 to 98 so I'm gonna get maybe one or two from my classroom in them that's pretty much it good morning it is Tuesday and I did not vlog a whole lot yesterday it was a really busy day I had meetings to go to after school yesterday and I also have to prep and I also have to prep for us up so that took a while then I had to rush home because I was gonna do a test like life faith thing with real Rob with Reynolds but today I do have day 5 of me teacher induction stone will not be in the classroom until after school also today's the day that I will be on teacher talk live with real rap with the Reynolds so by now I hope you have seen it if you haven't only get down below because you can still watch it you hey guys so it is Monday after school and today was a really good day I'm so happy to be back at work as you know I had a family emergency last week and I wasn't at work Thursday I think but I'm back and I'm so happy to be back today was the first day that parents could come in to volunteer and I had two parents come in and I totally forgot what I was saying but I think I was talking about volunteers over the weekend I made some like Wardwell words I guess so with all like so I had the key words for all our Saxon letters and then I had their names and our sight words for the first quarter so I printed them so I printed them all out and I laminated them over the weekend but I didn't want to cut them because I hate cutting like I love laminating but I don't like cutting my volunteers did it and it was so fast and they did such a good job and they put the magnets in the back ready so I had so great to volunteers I'm pretty much gonna have one at least one volunteer every day meaning tomorrow I have the one and then when I have two tomorrow then I have two on Wednesday and then hang like three on Thursday and one on Friday so I'm excited so today I introduced Kindles and though I spent quite a bit of time on Sunday like trying to set them up and make sure that they were connecting to the Wi-Fi and making sure that they were they had a battery of course like things went wrong because they always do with technology right I have five Kindles one of them was dead the other one was not connecting to the Wi-Fi so only had three and each rotation has four students so that was a little bit of a pain but now I'm targeting a few of them and I'm also charting my own personal Kindle in case I have to use it I don't think I will but just in case along with introducing my Kindles I also introduce my scoop rocker tears and it turned out to be perfect because my kids had music today so music the teacher has flexible seating so she just introduced scoop rocker chairs as well so it kind of just worked out okay it's a total teacher fail I am currently doing my newsletter for the week and I was referencing last week's newsletter because for whatever reason it didn't save some having to redo it and I have a typo and I've had it for the last like three or four newsletters and I didn't know I'll show you so this is not right everything's good and then typos what's happening in this week it was supposed to say what's happening in our classroom this week in the bright side at least I caught it now and not like halfway through the year all right so it's Tuesday and I just realized I completely sorry I completely forgot to block today it's kind of hard to get used to blogging again so today was our day that we had no special so today is earliest Tuesday mornings sorry that was my protein shake bottle I've just opened but anyway Tuesday mornings often seem pretty long luckily today we did Hassan and him do in the morning so it kind of like broke things up a little bit brings up another thing you're currently hosting a book fair in school so we were able to sign up for a time where we could take our kids to just kind of preview the book there before they like brought money or something like that so I signed up for today in the morning and we were there for about 20 minutes and the kids loved it so they got to see the books they already know which ones you want which ones they want to ask for and that was kind of good for me to see like what kind of books they are interested in so I can kind of incorporate those into the classroom more after that we came back into the classroom and we finished our morning work and we did our morning meeting we did a calendar and then since we still have time until fawning until I teach phonics we did do a little bit of science so we finished our inker turf comparing like fish like in the water and goldfish crackers so like living things and nonliving things and why they are living with and why they are not living so after that I was gonna give them snack and we're gonna have goldfish for snack but somehow we're wondering like hey what happens if you put a goldfish cracker in water because regular fish will swim but obviously this but obviously these want swim so what would happen so we just kind of did like a really quick like science experiments so we so I filled up like buckets with water and then kind of like just put them in the water we observed them and then we put them away and then we came back to them later on the day and also like before we even did the experiment we kind of brainstorm we just kind of made hypotheses about what would happen when the goldfish crackers weren't in water so a lot of the more saying that was gonna sink someone more things don't get like well you now see someone were saying that it was going to float some other than as others were saying that it was gonna break so I wrote all of the responses down and then we actually did the experiment since we didn't have that much time to actually see like what what happened like some sins it can takes a while for the cracker to get a little bit soggy we just kind of like watch it for a little bit and then we came back to it later I think the other day when they were like oh like huge and soggy and kind of gross super Phonics we just say to sex and phonics and honestly I feel like it's getting a little bit better um a lot of you were telling me like just stick with it you will see results and I do I have a lot today tests say to my students on the STI on the letters that we've learned so far and a lot of them got maybe like just one wrong or none of them wrong but I kind of like knowing that the planets already there for me and I like being able to supplement thanks to so yeah that's how Saxon is going so far just Saxon we did two centers so we did two rotations we are still doing Kindles and we're still trying to get the hang of them so just kind of how to unlock it how to go back to another app which is I'm trying to figure that out myself after lunch we came back we read a story today we read a crude cakes and I think I showed this book in my earlier blocks during the summer when I was teaching summer school because I read about both read summer school and they all really liked it then a we did writing journals so we're still focusing on opinion writing so the kids answered the question of the day and we talked and we and we went around a circle explaining our answer so the question of the day today what is your favorite movie and so I would start like my favorite movie is Monde because I loved the songs in it so we were really focusing on the because because that is that part of your opinion that make sense so after we went around in the circle then we got to work with writing so I pulled a few students and I kind of saw that we're having trouble writing like like from left to right so I pulled five students and they work with them closely while the other students were working on their own so they wrote their sentence first they wrote I like in whatever movie that they liked we had on the board and they drew a picture after that we did a math we played the pickle jar game which is I don't know why we call it that it's just like we're in a circle we count it's just certain number and then went lands on that number they sit down and tell there's only one person standing we went over shapes we made our shape hat yesterday we made a triangle hat today we made a circle hat and tomorrow we're not gonna make a hat we're just gonna compare that to all right this is one of my students birthday today and this is what I'm gonna be getting for birthdays so I've got all this from Target these came in a 16 pack I think I don't actually I don't know but they're all pretty expensive so all my students when they have a birthday to look at this goodie bag so it's just like this little sticky thing this ring that lights up and bubbles as well as a card all right for that later so cause I'm different with these [Music] okay so it's Wednesday afternoon I just got that with a few meetings and I've just been working or in the classroom so I'm like updating our bulletin board with a craft that we did today and I'm just cleaning up a little bit but I do have to go soon because I do have an appointment for a bod pod tomorrow it's open house so I'm kind of getting our trying to get things ready for open house so we'll see how that goes I will update you a little bit more in the car after my bod pod because right now I'm kind of like trying to hurry up so update you in a little bit so this is just the example of the craft obviously it's not completely finished but it's just a bus a pigeon and I was thing missing this part the eyes and then they would just get like either this prompt which is the pigeon should drive a bus or the pigeon should not drive the bus and they would have right like the reason behind it so this was good because I meant our opinion writing [Music] two hours late [Music] all right so I'm done with my bod pod it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be that was a little bit scared to get one because I haven't been consistently working out and a while so I was scared that all my progress hadn't gone away and I mean it kind of did I ended up losing three pounds of muscle which is a lot I mean it took a long time for me to gain one in Panama son for me to lose 3 pounds of muscle kind of sucked through my body part I went to Target and and I bought like treat bags and ribbon for balloons and I bought plates and then after that I went to Dollar Tree and I bought some things as well so I bought two of these baskets because for early finishers I do have like some activities for them to do and usually I keep them make music sorry and usually I keep them and like those little like what are they called photo boxes but my students have a really hard time opening them because they are kind of hard to open and I don't really like the way it looks when they're stored so I figured I'm gonna put the activities in Ziploc bags and I'm gonna secure the edges of those I plug that with duct tape so I also bought duct tape here so I have pink that looks purple but it's it's pink and I'm gonna secure the edges and I'm also going to buy a blue so that way they're like color coordinator with the baskets depending on what subject there and which basket they go and so hopefully that'll be better and it'll be better for cleaning up as well because cleaning up takes a little bit longer with epoxy so I'm hoping that it will not be as long with the Ziploc bags I also bought some googly eyes for a product sale I also bought some socks and I know it's weird but I remember when I was doing my practicum one of the teachers I was with would use socks to erase whiteboards like kada whiteboards and I figured I would do that so I bought three sorry about three of these just have 18 of them and yeah I'm gonna keep them all together and then we'll just get them as I need them then after Dollar Tree I ended up going to safely because again tomorrow is open house so for steering safely I bought cookies frosting and sprinkles but and I bought two types of cookies the first kind is just sugar cookies and my students are just gonna decorate those for their parents for open house the second kind is just chocolate chip and I'm gonna give those to students they don't know about this yet and I'm just an attach a tag that says something about like thanks for being a smart cookie or I don't know something along those lines and yeah so now I'm gonna go home and I have quite a bit to do I want to make new name tags because my change is heating around for tomorrow I want to make some bulletin board like letters so and I don't know what else I'm gonna make to be honest [Music] all right so I just finished making this little graphic thing that I'm gonna post on the classdojo because we are having an apple tasting event thing in my classroom next Thursday is so I want to put it on class dojo it's a parent's now fact all right my car is packed for open house [Music] [Music] two hours later all right so open house is design it has literally been a little bit over 12 hours that have been here at work my contract hours do end at 2:45 an open house started at 5:00 but there was no point whatsoever for me to go home when I lived 30 minutes away and then come back and I'm glad I didn't because I was literally scrambling where I felt like it was to try to get everything done thankfully my classroom looks decent I made the mistake of letting my kids play with play-doh at the end of the day and a lot if I cut on the carpet and on the tables so cleaning it up was not fun all right so let me tell you a little bit about what happened at open house so before open house I got a new name ties for my kiddos I also had balloons typing hi balloons and I tied them to each of their chairs so we have a new seating chart now and then I sit out there in front of the day books that I was doing yesterday I also set out the cookies that they decorated for their parents and I set out a cookie that I was giving to them that says you were such as Mark IV all those were at their seats in those things and those they were able to take home with my students and when they got here was look for their new seat after that after that they just show their parents the front of the day book they also gave their parents the cookie that they decorated and I gave them their cooking on the balloons they also have a self-portrait that they drew yesterday after that they show their parents they're writing journals so I kind of explained to the parents while we're doing the writing journals and what we were focusing on then they showed their parents their favorite centers so I kind of set out a few classroom favorites and after that they just kind of show their parents whatever they want to show them so some a lot of them show them their tickets they show them their pigeon crafts they showed them my calendar our books our scoop rocker chairs our tablets and so on and so forth so basically the students were just showing them around and I was there to answer any questions um so it was very quick some of them did hang out for a little bit some of them were just kind of came and went it was just really nice I'm I'm glad that there was open house in a lot of I'm glad that a lot of my parents showed up because I know I don't know what a lot of them look like but a lot of them I only met during meet-and-greet and that was a long time ago so I couldn't really remember what they look like and yes I do talk to them on class dojo but they don't know what they look like so that was nice you put like a face to the name if that makes any sense because I was scrambling to get everything ready I just kind of stuff I just kind of stuff things and cap it and in our little pod area so at this point I don't really know where everything is I guess I'll find out when I need it we also have a Book Fair going on so after they came to our classroom they were able to go to the book fair and just pick out books for the Book Fair teachers were asked to kind of put together a wish list of books that they wanted one parent was super sweet and got me this book and I've been wanting this book I do have cable vehicle quack but it didn't have click-clack coming up so I'm glad at this game because I'm so thankful honestly I think getting ready for open house was a little bit more stressful than getting ready for meeting great at least it was for me I feel more prepared for meeting great for this I didn't feel as prepared and the thing is because typically I would have or ideally I would like to have they'd late yesterday to get everything ready but I didn't because I had my pot pot appointment at 3:45 but all in all open houses went really great and now I finally have all my parents I met for class total which is amazing I also have quite a few parents that want to volunteer for our next event or a classroom event our next classroom event is going to be an apple tasting event so I had quite a few parents sign up for it my feet hurt so much I'm also really served from the gym so that so doesn't help and I'm starving I think I last time I ate was during my lunch time and I was at 10:10 and it's already 7:10 so I think I'm gonna go one pretty soon and I'm just going to eat because I'm so hungry yesterday I drew on my friend of the day pictures for my students and I packed them off so I was putting them so I was putting the books together right before I meet and greet I mean a great know right before open house and I couldn't find to my students John said I made money yesterday and I was so like I and it was five minutes for open house started and I was getting ready to sit down and just draw a new picture and then I was looking through their books and it turns out I had already put them inside and they were ready to go I just completely forgot it's not going out because I'm super sick food so we're super tired so I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning guys it'll oh good morning guys it is Friday and I got home less than it around 8:30 I pretty much was exhausted and I feel a little bit better now but I'm still pretty tired so I'm glad it's Friday I'm so super happy by the way that open house turned out I was thinking about it last night and I'm just kind of happy that like now I know like what I want to do for next year so I kind of know what worked and what didn't so yeah it was a good experience so excuse the mess Mike Hart but I went to McDonald's yeah and I cook my food meal and they completely got my order wrong and at this point I'm so tired and I just want to eat I cannot ticket so I had ordered an Egg McMuffin meal with a mango pineapple smoothie for whatever reason they gave me two ed McMuffin meals and that meal it's just two egg muffins no fresh ground and they gave me a frappe right here and this is all what I ordered and they try to crack them like three times and they still got it wrong so this my like okay fine I'll eat this and I don't even like five pairs but I guess I'll try them nails I've got this one wrong all right so it's the end of the damn Friday and for science with the tornado bottles so this is what they look like I did not make these by the way my son and their teacher made them and you let me use them so this is something that's like and a tornado supposed to form okay there we go so supposed to look like something like that it makes its her neato so we did that at the end of the day because this week was tea week so tornadoes tea where we observed those bottles we watch the video on tornadoes and then we talked about how tornadoes are formed so we talked about how that the tornado would need hot air and cold air and the hot air in the cold air like chase each other until it makes a tornado so when we were observing them I put him in teams so I had a blue team and I had a green team I told him that cold air was coming out of those vents because it's the a/c and I told him that we had to make hot air for their tornado to form so it was kind of like a race so first we try to make hot air by jumping I was really cute and then we made hot air by clapping so they would be trying so hard to make hot air and then eventually the tornado would form for the blue one we were kind of having trouble with it for me but eventually it it was fine they had so much fun and it was I would definitely do this again like I said I did not make those bottles one of the other teachers here did it but all you need is like the liter bottles and I don't know what the thing I'll connect them is I know it's like special for tornado bottles or for making this project I think she got them she said she got them out of teachers store but sometimes are also at Dollar Tree so I'm sure you can Pinterest it and find out how to make them but they were so cool they all loved it so now I kind of want to always do like a science experiment that goes along with our letter of the week next week we are learning about the letter P so I'm thinking about maybe having a pizza party and we I heard people are doing like putting painting so maybe I'll do that yeah I it was in such a great day today today yesterday um as far as teaching goes yesterday I felt very good about it I wasn't feeling so great about my teaching Monday and Tuesday not so much Wednesday I don't know I just felt like I'm just gonna felt like you know I prepared for it I made my plans I felt like I was just getting by and I don't like that feeling I like doing things right and I like doing them well so even though I was getting things done I just didn't feel I didn't feel that successful as they wanted to so on so yesterday everything went so well everything my math lesson was better my Saxon lesson was better I like I think yesterday was probably my best Saxon lesson yet and I felt so good about it I don't know what it was I just I feel like it just kind of clicked and I'm starting to feel more comfortable with it because honestly at the beginning of this when I first started it I did not feel comfortable with it because not only am i dealing with being a first year teacher like the first of everything but just dealing with a new curriculum that was intimidating to be honest but now I think I'm starting to feel comfortable and I think I'm getting better and um I see it working I don't think you'll I don't think I'm gonna stay very long today but I think I am gonna come tomorrow just to set things up I don't really want to do it tonight but probably tomorrow when I can just do things let me show you our craft that we did alright so we just made this tiger and we put googly eyes I had a few laying around so you use them but for next project we're going to use something else for the eye so let me show you okay so these are eye stickers and these are from Oriental Trading there were about seven dollars I believe and one of the teachers got them for me so they are 1000 stickers so it's awesome the one thing with this though is that Oriental Trading shipping is usually expensive but sometimes they have free shipping so one of the teachers let me know but there was free shipping so that's why I got them but yeah these are gonna be so much easier because of googly eyes okay you don't want to stay on very well so these will stay on much better we did use googly eyes for our pigeon projects so these are a few of them so it's 419 and I feel like haven't done much but I have we had a meeting after school so I went to that and then at 2:45 ish and after that I want to go get some apples cut out on paper with our I don't I don't know what the machine is called that thing that you put paper on you roll it through and it cuts it for you so I did that because we are gonna be having our Apple event next week so I cut a bunch of those apples for our crafts and I also cut letters for bulletin board I can't took me a while because I've never really used that machine before so I'm kind of like learning how to use it I'm gonna change my environmental prints bulletin board because I don't know we didn't really focus on it too much so I want something that we're actually gonna focus so I just got to my classroom it is Sunday morning and I actually stopped at Walmart's before I got here because I wanted to buy duct tape I think no but I am going to put my early finisher activities in Ziploc bags and I'm gonna secure the edges with duct tape and they're gonna be color-coded so math activities are gonna be blue I believe and then ela activities are gonna be pink so I went to go buy some I had bought some pink duct tape at poetry but it looks kind of purple in certain lines so I didn't want to confuse kids so I just went in Butler I also bought some magnetic tape has I am gonna be making it magnetic tape no because I am going to be making a Center where they go fishing for sight words for letters I think I'm going to start with letters and inside words so I'm gonna cut out little fishes I think Rd so I'm gonna cut out like little fish and stick some and then I'm gonna put some paper clips on them and then I'm gonna make fishing poles with these like little sticks and at the end of the string they're gonna have magnets so they can latch on to the fish I hope that makes it so about those little sticks too and I bought some string I didn't want to just have like any kind of string you wanted some pretty strings so that's why I have that and then I also got to buying some shoes because the shoes that I had that word this color we're completely like falling apart so I bought me one these are pretty cute and they were only like $10 $11 yeah they were $11 so super good deal so right now I'm just going to cut up a few things not everything because I am gonna have my parent volunteers cut those but I do want to cut up my Center titles I guess our labels because I let me show you I made some center labels and I'm gonna put these in a pocket chart and I'm gonna and then I also made labels for my students that way it's easier to keep track of rotations because right now I've currently do it on the Promethean Board and sometimes I forget to save it so I have to figure out who's supposed to be where and sometimes the kids are members so I figured this is probably gonna be a more efficient way as I'm walking outside so I just have I think I made I made 18 Center titles in total I do not have all of them ready but I plan on introducing them eventually so that's why I made them I'm gonna go ahead and cut these and then I'll show you what it looks like on the Pocket right hopefully they fit [Music] I ended up putting together the sensory rotation so I'll show you what it looks like and then entirely crazy of what it looks like right now but for now it won't work I think eventually I'm just gonna put magnets on the back and not use the pocket chart and then just add a border and stuff like that to make it nice and pretty so I know it's annoying to fell vertically but I don't want to show my students names so here are the options that we're gonna have for this week so rolling cover silly sounds tablets right through them and go fish silly sounds tablets and right through room are always gonna be up there but I'm always gonna change at leas but I'm always gonna change two or three of them so that's why I kind of want to get rid of the pocket jerk because I only have five so maybe I'll just do that right now actually okay so I'm home now obviously and I'm just waiting to get picked up but while I'm waiting I'm just finishing up my lesson plans for the week being home I was trying to think what can I do for P week P week for a letter P week and I was trying to think like what if something's on me fun and engaging like yes we're having your Apple tasting a little bit earlier just to get ready for a week but um so don't we hit me like pirate though I know I'm pretty sure still archery has like some pirate stuff so I think I'm gonna have like a pirate day that's gonna reveal the Apple day if that makes any sense and we're also learning about maps so maybe we're gonna have a pirate map that's gonna lead us to Apple tasting days so I just have a like him so I'm not really sure how it's gonna work out or if it's gonna work out but I really hope it does because in my head it sounds like a bunch of fun so I don't know I just have to get the details [Music] hey guys so it is Tuesday I did not vlog yesterday yesterday was a crazy day I had some family things going on so I didn't vlog I wasn't gonna walk today but I'm doing a lot of things for tomorrow so I figured I wanted to show you guys I think I mentioned that I want to do a pirate week and it's not gonna be a week it's gonna be three days so I have all the pirate stuff in my car that I'm gonna get later and right now I'm working on some pirate centers I should have done this over the weekend I plan on doing some of these yesterday but again I had another family emergency so I couldn't so let me just talk a little bit about what I plan on doing tomorrow and then what what I have been working on so tomorrow I'm gonna have their little pirate best lay down on their table and they're not gonna touch them until we come in I'll tell them that we are pirates now and so on and so forth Mar morning on the window we're gonna have a big pirate ship and I'm gonna print it out and laminate it using the website that I used for like those words to the Block posters calm I think and Suzu me a pirate ship and would have like waves of water on the window then we'll have like little pirate themed activities throughout the day and actually throughout the three days so let me just show you kind of what I've been working on all right so I've been working on this the first activity is going to be a matching activity so they have the sight words that they've learned so far and it'll match it the next activity is just go fish so I'm gonna have magnets at least I'm gonna have magnets and like fishing fishing poles I guess and they're gonna fish for letters so these are all the letters we're gonna fish for and they're gonna have this little recording sheet so whenever they catch a letter they're gonna write down the letter the next activity is just a pirate hat it's gonna be black and white so that kind of sucks so these are the letters that we've learned through Saxon so these are letters again and then we have some things right here for the beginning sound so Pig will go there octopus airline there and so on and so forth and then this will be their pirate hat I will have them color the back black known that black because this is gonna be black because black-and-white so they'll probably end up coloring their hat right and I will paint that on cardstock actually so those are all the centers I have so far I do what I come up with at least one more for tomorrow and then yeah in some firm math too maybe not so much for math Tamara's early release maybe not so much but mostly for um literacy I'm so sorry I'm like scattered I'm exhausted ending don't go home so yes what I have so far I'll try to vlog a little bit more tomorrow and let you guys know how this went all right so just came up with two new centers so one of them is gonna be you walk the plank and they're gonna spin a little they're gonna spin a paperclip it's gonna land on one of these six pictures if it lands on let's say the pig then they'll have to walk the plank so I'm just gonna laminate these I'm gonna put I'm gonna laminate these image just glue them on not glue them I'm sorry I'm gonna tape them to the floor and they are gonna walk the plank and then they'll just take turns so I have all of these that I'm gonna print out and laminate tonight and then the next one is just a version of this which is Ron trace it's just pirate tea themed I guess and then we only have the letters that we have been working on so far I think I'm just gonna stop it out here I'm gonna go park my car closer to the school and then just take out the little vests I do have to go to Walmart and try to find like stronger magnets cuz otherwise the go fish is not gonna be working [Music] my window and this is what it looks like I use the block poster website and I made it three by three so this was not like a super high resolution picture so it did come out a little bit blurry so what I ended up just doing is I ended up just outlining it with a sharpie you know looks so much more clear I know why don't you told me that you tried making a poster and it came out blurry so maybe try this instead of print it out and then outline it with a sharpie or a marker and this should look better morning it is Wednesday I just got to work it is 6:50 in the morning and today is pirate day how they know is that it has something to do with pirates so I brought oh you can see right there all the little best I have on my sensors and I'm gonna Ted and I'm gonna set all of that up when they are at specials today because today they do have specials so yeah I'm also gonna have a few parent volunteers come in today so I think I'm gonna have them cut and laminate some things and [Music] so I have been wondering where all my black exporters work and I was cleaning out my mat centers are just hiding them up and of course they're all here all right so this is just what the boat ended up looking like that I made couple nights ago for a pirate week and I think it turned out pretty cute [Music] all right so it is the end of the day on Wednesday it's three o'clock and I'm gonna head out because it's my boyfriend's birthday so I still have to go buy him a gift and all those things today was a start of pirate days so we're also gonna have pirate day tomorrow and Friday but they absolutely love the centers I have for them so that was really really fun to see my students favorite Center from today was walking the plank which I didn't think would be a popular one but it really was and after that they loved the fishing one so I'm gonna keep those and I'm gonna add one more tomorrow to replace the hat making I think because all but one group got to do the hats but it was so fun they all were wearing their little pirate vest they were all wearing their little pirate mustaches and it was just so fun so we're gonna keep on doing that tomorrow if I have time tomorrow I will show you what the sensors look like like all set up but yeah I'm sorry I'm not vlogging very much it's kind of hard to get back into it but I hope you understand all right so the days over and my rooms mess we had Apple days so let me show you some of the crafts or the only craft that we did but they stayed here so I cut a few apples in house and they would just stamp it to make fall leaves so this is one of them and this one's mine another one this one turned out pretty good hey guys so it is Thursday afternoon and I am so incredibly tired I do not know why we had our Apple tasting event today so basically I kind of showed you a little bit I think I showed you a little bit of it the last clip but I'm just gonna explain it to you so we did that today because we're doing apples we're doing a next week and technically I could have done it next week I don't really know why I didn't do it next week but most of my teenagers were gonna do it this week so I did it this week too so I had parents sign up on signup genius to bring apples and honestly I just wanted each parent that's lined up to just bring one Apple because we're gonna cut the apples in half any we were gonna have enough so with like six apples if we cut them in so it like 16 apples we could just cut him in half and it'd be enough for everybody but we had so many apples I still have so many apples that we did not use which is really great one parent saying that before when parents end up to bring one Apple they ended up bringing like a whole stack of apples which was fantastic I also had a parent saying that for like whipped cream sprinkles chocolate syrup and caramel so as far as the apples go I had parents bring red apples green apples and yellow apples so all the kids were able to taste them and then kind of figure out which Apple II liked the best so tomorrow's question of the day is going to be which Apple you like the best so they're gonna pick them and they're gonna fill out this little sheet of like why they picked them so one of the activities that I had it was like bobbing for apples so I filled I have two buckets and throw them with water and I put six apples in each buckets so then actually bobbing cuz it's kinda gross and they would pick them up with these cooking tongs and put them on a cupcake tip it looking like a really rich and it loved it my students also made like Apple puppets so that that was cool too and they had five parent volunteers so they were just like helping supervise the activities then here's an example of an apple puppet let's see my one of the teachers gave me this so this is from scholastics I think but I'm sure you can also get those on Teachers Pay Teachers also I am kind of nervous because I have my formal observation my first formal observation next week on Wednesday and I'm getting absurd for phonics and it turns out that for that particular lesson we are introducing decodable readers so I'm kind of nervous about that because I thought I was feeling comfortable with it and then all of a sudden it's like oh there's this new thing you have to do so that's what I'm getting upset for I'm gonna nervous the way that things are supposed to be is for my understanding is that you get an instructional coach for your first two years of teaching in the in the district and then you are supposed to meet with your instructional coach first before you get observed but of course that doesn't always happen because just just because schedules are kind of hard to manage especially when you have a really big school so I'm gonna meet with my UPS my instructional coach on the week of the 9th and she's gonna observe me teach on tenth and then we're gonna have our meeting afterwards in the 12th which is great I'm really thankful for that however I am getting observed by my principal Smith for my observation on the the fourth wait a minute and I have my pre-observation on the third and then post sometime that week as well mentally I kind of just have them flipped which is fine but yeah I'm kind of a little bit nervous for that to be honest and how can you not be I don't know today we continued pirate week and we just hit the same centers that we did yesterday all the center's this week they just focus on the letters that we have learned so they focus on l OG h t and p so we're focusing on those just because i want to have more practice and these and my students seem to be really really enjoying them I think they really really enjoy the walking the plank one so I might have that one as a Center for next week as well just kind of fix it a little bit because it looks kind of funky already and they also really like the fishing one we didn't get to do crafts that we were gonna do today for apples I think we're going to start that tomorrow and basically I just cut a bunch of little apples on bread paper and green paper and then they are going to decide which Apple they like the best they're gonna get the green or the red they're gonna rip it up in little pieces as if they like ate it and then they're gonna cover like I cut shapes of like a core of an Apple like you know like the hourglass figure and I'll glue the top and the bottom of it with that rips paper hope that makes sense and then we'll just put that in the bulletin board I am so sure that this vlog is like all over the place because I'm going to include like three weeks worth of log putted I believe so I'm so sorry right now I'm just gonna make an outline of Blois manatee tomorrow because even though I do haven't plans for the week I have I like having it like an outline a daily outline just to make sure I have everything so let me show you what I'm talking about so I have this and I just check things up as they go that way I make sure that I do not forget anything so I'm gonna do that I'm gonna clean up well quite a bit and then I'm gonna head home because I am so incredibly tired I do not know why so I'm tired I'm hungry and I just wanna go home and lay down for a tiny bit all right side switch that to incre it's supposed to say anchor it down you're learning but I do not know but I don't know with the word downwind so right now I'm just gonna see this anchor you're learning I mean silk kind of makes sense but I don't know if I'll leave it like that let me know in the comments below I think I should print out laminate and cut the word down or just leave it like that but that's just where my anchor treads are gonna go [Music] we're gonna go through my books and just condense my classroom library Oh what is that I thought I saw a bug it's not there anymore we had ants you days ago so anyway I'm gonna condense my classroom library quite a bit because it's just taking up room and we don't really use them all that much especially because a lot of them are really old so I'm gonna take home all the old books and actually my boyfriend's company or the company he works for is having a book drive so I'm just gonna give him all to them because they're taking up space and I need all that space so I'm gonna go ahead and do [Music] so these are the fishing poles that they use this is what they look like and they just have like the little magnet clip on the back these magnet clips I bought because they are the ones that are strong enough to pick up like paper clips with a paper as well as like binder clips so I just bought them for Mama and they came in a five pack for like a dollar and I need eight so super affordable I made these fishing poles so I bought like like a stick I don't know I'll have to call it it was like 1/8 of an inch thick I think and it was this month so I just cut him in half I bought two of them and I think they were like 80 cents a piece or something like that at Walmart's again in the crafting section I just broke him in half and then then I attached this string onto it again ask for a moment I just attached it to like and I just kind of put it down here and then just started like wrapping it around with duct tape and the whole stick is wrapped around with duct tape and that way it's not like as hard or as fragile because it is quite a thin stick so these are their fishing poles I'm gonna make for them I haven't figured out a way to store them storing like most efficiently but I just kind of put them in these bins by the way my alpha-bits trick is I'm a techie so for a dollar so these are the fish that they are fishing port and at first I had just put paper clips on them but I found out that because this magnets quite strong sometimes honest I don't even know how but oftentimes they just come off here there are paper clips so what I started doing is i started putting binder clips instead i do have two size binder clip so i have like any small ones and they have these like even smaller ones the small ones are not that great they don't hold a grip as tight as these do so i'm kind of change them to these instead but they just push for them like this is i chained it a little bit so i moved this down and I'm gonna keep it within career learning and I put borders around to that we may have I can possibly put another one right there but I said knows I might keep it like that maybe I can't wait a minute I'm gonna try that never mind I'm just gonna keep it like that and then they'll do that tomorrow because I'm just gonna go home now so I'm heading out now and I finished going through the books that I have in my classroom and I just kind of picked out the ones I'm gonna keep in my classroom like for my kids to be able to agreed and look through and I also separated the ones that are just for me for read Aloud's and on top of that I also went through books that I thought were just worn oh good and I'm gonna donate those too and I'm not done there because I have a ton of books still at home and at my dad's house that I want to go through before I became a teacher I really wanted to collect books and build my classroom library however now I have way too many and I feel like the saying quality versus quantity applies because I have a ton of books but they are not great books like I just took them because they were free and they were like super old from like the 70s or faded almost like falling apart so those type of books I just wish I wouldn't have gotten so if you are studying to be a teacher and you're trying to build your classroom library just keep that in mind just get really good quality books that are gonna be engaging and fun to look at and don't get like really ugly torn apart books just because you want to build a classroom library I think it's all about having good quality books and having like a ton of just whatever books morning it is Friday and I'm really happy it's Friday because I'm kind of tired good morning it is Friday morning and I'm just getting things ready so right now what I'm gonna be doing is I'm gonna be ready so right now what I'm gonna be doing is just writing some thank-you notes to the volunteers that helped out with the Apple tasting yesterday's so I have I bought these cards from Walmart they're a two in a pack with envelopes and I think I think so okay and they're just different colors gonna make them all red because it was Apple day or whatever and then I'm gonna also tape a pack of starbursts on there I saw something on Pinterest I'm gonna write down so I'm gonna send those home today there's play-doh on my carpet and I have no idea how since if they're gonna do play-doh they're supposed to be on this table or on the white floor so I guess I'm just not gonna let them use play-doh anymore cuz this is the third time we've gone through this we've gone over where we do it why we did it in the carpet and it's still happening so I guess no more play-doh for a while now do you do play-doh in your classroom if you do how do you managed to not get it on the carpet because no matter what I try to do it somehow ends up in the carpet and they're like really annoys me because it's such a house that will take off let me know okay so I put my shirt on inside out just I could vlog more comfortably because I am wearing a school shirt so oh my god mimosa today was really jam-packed day so let me just set you down so I can can't tell you what we've done I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that in this vlog that this week we kind of did like a pirate-themed week because we were learning about the letter P I showed you a little bit of our centers for the week so walking the plank going fishing looking for treasure and making pirate hats and stuff like that so we did those today was and of P weeks was also the day that we ended our pirate week so we ended our pirate week we did more pirate centres and then we also had a pizza party because P for pizza so luckily my best friend didn't work today she has fried is off no every other Friday she has off so today was her off Friday and she was so kind to go and get me pizza for my class so she came in I introduced her to my kids and she left so we had our pizza party in the afternoon after we finished math so they ate their pizza because what they had to tell me why we were having pizza so they were out of something like her Pizza Pizza they had pizza on top of that we also had a price box i I do price box once a month at the end of the month so this is the last day of September that we're gonna be in school for so we have price box so they've had their little tickets so they hide all these playing on all these tickets and they would get them throughout the month so they're so depending on their percentage I would get a certain amount of tickets then they have these little pockets this is what they look like I'm just rying to cover the name okay this is what they look like but I just printed these on aster bytes paper i laminated them and then I put them together I just put clear tape on them and then put a little velcro duct so I just have them displayed right there they keep all the tickets in here so then I would call three students at a time I had my table just set up with prizes and numbers so they would be worth a certain amount of tickets so I had anywhere from ten to one ticket prices or one to ten ticket prices we did price box at the end of the day and then then and it ended up working out pretty well because price walk starts with P we were learning to put the letter P so they thought I did it on purpose but I did not so that went really well price box is always chaotic no matter how I've done it but it is what it is and the kids were really excited about it I did take all our tickets even though they didn't spend all of them just because I don't know just to start just to start off fresh next month something else that we did today that jam-packed our day is we painted with pudding so let me show you just kidding they all took him home I thought someone upstairs here but the way we did it is we all got like a little cup of pudding it was a chocolate pudding and we were all our tables I was demonstrating what we were going to do on the ladybug and so they were seeing in their fallen directions they fall the directions really really well so it was almost like a spelling test but not really so I would tell Mike okay with your pudding you are gonna paint the letter that makes sound and then they would write the letter H so we kind of did those with all so we did that with all the letters that we've learned about and then we also tried a few words so we try to log and hot and then they're with their names and they can write whatever they wanted in the end they could eat their pudding if they wanted to and that all of them wanted to but a lot of them did so that was definitely a highlight of our day then yesterday we had apple apple day so I think I had talked a little bit about that but I'm still thankful I had volunteers so right now I'm gonna go ahead and sit down and finish the thank-you notes for the volunteers that came and helped yesterday but first I am gonna clean up I do want to add another anchor chart spot over there yep right there maybe I'll do that say maybe I won't I'm not entirely sure but I do want to clean up Oh what today I'm just kidding before I clean up I am going to send a few pictures to parents from today and yesterday so for that I need my phone a few moments later okay so that's done I literally sent pictures to all my parents of their kid I sent two two three pictures to every parent and then took about 15 minutes um it was kind of time-consuming but I know that parents really appreciate it seeing pictures of their kids in the classrooms so that's done I'm gonna start cleaning up now and then clean up some more [Music] [Music] all right so I've changed my standard so I changed my focus well to this panel right here just because um this is a huge bulletin board for like I don't know like just because I figured I could be using that bulletin board for student work and so just standards I'm gonna move my standards over here alright so I'm getting ready to head home I move my tables around so let me show you I at first I had the big two tables on the ends and then one little tape and two little tables in the back but then it didn't make sense because that table has four people and I don't like having kits like having their back space aboard so just make things to have the big table on the back for them because they were kind of squished in these smaller tables so I did that I was kind of playing around with the seating arrangement but this is probably the best that I can do right now I moved my rules to there I changed my centers I'm gonna buy washi tape and just like section that off to make it look nicer I put that shoe organizer that I had right here put it right there and I'm gonna buy maybe two more and stack them up there I did go to Walmart to try to buy another one and I just couldn't find it so no yeah and they also put duct tape along this line right here because that's where did the carpet it's coming undone so every time I'm kind of vacuum that gates it gets caught on that so this is probably gonna prevent it for a little bit I don't know how long this is gonna last but this is what I have for now alright so a couple of my best friends called me that I haven't seen in a really really long time and they invited me out to dinner so I'm gonna go ahead and wrap up here and then just leave and then I'll do this they're tied like maybe tomorrow [Music]

Channel: That One Happy Classroom

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Keywords: Teacher, Teacher Vlog, A Day in the Life of a Teacher, classroom transformation, pirate classroom transformation, open house, kindergarten open house, centers, literacy centers, math centers, teacher vlog, kindergarten classroom, kindergarten, classroom tour, kindergarten classroom tour, teaching vlog, that one happy classroom, teachers pay teachers, teacherspayteachers, tpt, setting up my classroom, setting up a classroom

Id: yiLbBI8S6Uo

Length: 65min 22sec (3922 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 01 2017