Returning from Break & SNOW DAY! | Teacher Evolution Ep 27

so it is always fun after winter break and I hope you can sense my sarcasm to walk around your room and find all of the stuff that fell down I'm pretty sure scientific studies have been done that prove that teachers are the most higher the second a bathroom break as you can tell I am still in bed which means we did have a snow day [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning YouTube winter break is officially over and it went by so fast because usually in the past we've always had two full weeks off this year we just had like a week in a day so it did Dubai really fast but that's okay I fully enjoyed every single second of it I was able to relax I was able to get a lot of stuff done around our townhouse I cleaned out our spare bedroom which had kind of just become a junk room I was able to clean out my closet and organize all of that I got all of my thank-you cards written so I did feel productive over break but I would have liked for it to been a couple days longer so I could have had more time to relax that's okay I'm ready to get back on it I feel like I've been doing really really well lately just being the best person that I can be and I know that sounds super cheesy but I don't care I feel like I'm getting into the groove of things again so I'm excited to see it what the new year brings and it is freezing outside it currently is 12 degrees but that feels like temperature is like negative 2 it is insane I always think I like the cold weather until it actually gets cold and I'm like that I like when it's in like the 40s or 50s and that's good enough for me now I know you guys are really need to supply to me but I'm not going to Dunkin Donuts this morning I'm actually packed somebody's coffee just in a coffee to go mug because I do want to try to break my habit of Dunkin at least while I am training for the next few months so I'm gonna get on the road get to school and then I will catch up with you guys there [Music] so it is always fun after winter break and I hope you can sense my sarcasm to walk around your room and find all of this stuff that fell down so I'll have my Boston signs except for boss I have fallen down so I need to fix those and then are like emergency procedure earthing which was on this cabinet right here fell off and this QQQ sign from the cabinet fell off so I guess that's what I get to spend my morning doing and of course as I'm standing there waiting for my laminator to heat up I realize that a bunch of my signs appear fell down of course so now that I've gotten my classroom somewhat in order these are all papers that I like printed out over break so I need to go through some of them need to get laminated some need to get put into sheet protectors and some of them need a sticky note with how many copies I need for my ta and then these are all of the thank-you cards that I wrote over break so I'm gonna kind of organize them by like my homeroom my block 1 my block 2 said I can get those handed out today [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so I just got some stuff ready for science today our students are going to be building their own seismographs so basically they are going to use a ruler and I picked rollers that have a hole at the end and they're gonna stick like a thin marker through that and they're gonna tape the ruler to like something on the desk I think I'm just gonna have them use like those little blue caddy so I'll put them up on the desk and tape the roller to that and then these are gonna be like their papers so I basically just cut strips of paper and then tape to them together like on the back and you can tell these are literally like papers those go throw away and basically one person will have to pull this through as another student shakes the desk so that they can get a seismogram and then in the next lesson we will be analyzing that data it is now my planning time my hair is already up because it is super super hot in my room because of the heat I even had my window open and it's literally like 10 degrees outside I am just getting stuff ready for today because honestly I didn't do a ton of planning over break I never do I probably should be a better teacher and like get my whole next week planned out over break but it just never happened so it always sneaks up on me and I planning like the night before so I have stuff ready to go for today I'm just kind of looking over my lesson plans I got all the science materials ready and I'm just making sure that I have my life together before my students come back one thing I am doing during my planning time today is changing my doorbell chime so before break I changed it to like a Christmas song and that was great and all but it was super long so I'm gonna look through and find a shorter time that I can use now it is lunch time so I've officially survived at least half of the first day back from break the morning has gone pretty well the kids are a little bit chatty but it's okay we got through everything I wanted to get through Matt we built our seismographs and science and we collected data and all that good stuff so I'm happy about that now I know in some of my vlogs I show you guys like what I eat for lunch for the next several weeks I'm going to stop doing that in my classroom vlogs because I am filming separate like I'm calling them teacher and training vlogs but I'm going to basically show you guys my nutrition my runs all that good stuff that has to do with my training for the Boston Marathon so if you are interested in that I haven't decided exactly when that vlog will go up either Monday Tuesday Wednesday something like early in the next week but if you are interested just be on the lookout because that vlog will be up within the next few days [Applause] it is now after school so I've officially survived the first day back from break but I'm actually gonna get out of here it's like 410 right now Billy unfortunately needs to be taken to the doctor he has not been feeling well and he has like a cyst thing so I need to take him to the doctor and then take him back home and then I have to go to the gym and do my run and then I will go home and lesson plan for tomorrow and try to plan out like the rest of this unit and all that good stuff but I will catch up with these guys either later tonight or tomorrow [Applause] [Music] good morning YouTube I'm pretty sure scientific studies have been done that prove that teachers are the most hired the second day bathroom break not even the first day but this second day I did not want to get up this morning which when you watch my fitness log you'll see that I've been getting up earlier yesterday I got up at 6 stick up at 6:15 cuz I was really tired and I'm just wiped I don't know what it is and as you can probably see it is so cold like the past two weeks have just been freezing while when I say the past two weeks I mean last week and then this week it's currently 14 I think that feels like temp is like 5 which I know there's many people who come and say oh I live here and it's this temperature okay for marilinda like that is pretty cold it does not usually get below freezing here only every once in a while and I'm sad because there is zero forecast for snow like if it's going to be this cold I wanted to snow and I'm really jealous because the area where I used to live there getting eight inches like tonight into tomorrow and we get nothing we get to go to school that's what we get I'm going just zero coffee today because I'm all out of like the coffee that I drank yesterday morning and I'm trying to break the habit so I'm not gonna go to Dunkin oh I'm gonna break her at this so hard later but that's okay I'm focusing just on drinking water and said so I'm gonna go get to school and I'll catch up with you guys there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so this morning we are having a functional security drill which essentially is a lockdown so I just went ahead and got my room like ready I've covered up this window for now I just used black cardstock I need to make some kind of like a shade that I can just pull down there really quickly because obviously I would not have the time to like tape cardstock up there but for right now that's good enough and then I went ahead and just pulled the blinds down so all I have to do is turn them to close them and then our doors actually stay locked all the time and we actually keep a like magnet right in here you can get them on Amazon I'll link it for you they are kind of expensive but it's really nice because then all we have to do is pull out the magnet close the door and it's already locked I did bring in more birthday cups because I had two students who had a birthday over break and then I have one student whose birthday is today and they're nice and cold because they've been saying out in my car and then I have some papers I printed out last night to have copies made up this is one of them so I quickly made this up last night our students have something called cup kudos so our school mascot is a cub and basically we just stamp like right around here and we just use these like Crayola Stamper markers to stamp them so it's really really easy and then once they fill up either ten or the entire card which is 20 they can exchange it for different like prizes well kind of prizes you know to me so for ten kudos they can get a dumb-dumb or a piece of candy they can wear a hat for the day they can bring in a small stuffed animal or they can bring in their squishy which I've showed you guys those before they're really really popular with our fourth graders and then for twenty kudos they can either have a lunch punch they can read aloud to another class they can sub for ECI or ACC which are classes that we have here and PJ's with a friend special chair or write with a gel pen for the day so I'm gonna have my TA make copies of these and give them to all the homeroom teachers so we can give them to our students to glue in their agendas so I just met with my team teacher and we kind of mapped out the rest of the marking period which ends at the end of this month and I feel better than I did last marking period like last marking period we had to cram so much in and I do think we did a better job this marking period of like keeping a good pace that we don't feel as rushed and I feel good like I mean there's still a lot of things we have to fit in but like it's doable and really really good news so now tomorrow morning there is a chance for snow definitely not gonna be enough to like get us off of school but it may be enough to get us a laid and I'm gonna be checking the weather like all day now so I am having my students do a quick check today on measurement conversions for both metric and customary units and I was able to get about half of my block 1 grated while my students were on Chromebooks doing their math facts so that's a silver lining for today it is lunch time which means the day is about half way over I'm still kind of tired but considering I had no coffee I feel pretty good I'm gonna sit and just enjoy my lunch and then in the afternoon well actually we have indoor recess which I normally don't really like but it is so cold outside I'm happy we have indoor recess and that will actually give me time to continue grading the quick checks that my students took this morning so maybe fingers crossed I can get all of black ones graded before block 2 even starts ok friends let's talk about things first of all it's like 5:15 and right after school I came to our room and I said you know what I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna grade all of those quick checks I did get block 1 graded by the time block 2 came but I did not get blocked to graded so I was like you know what I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna get it done and I did and I got them put in the grade book so I feel excellent about that unfortunately though I do still have papers from over winter break that I never graded probably should have but it just didn't happen so I'm bringing those home with me whether or not they get done tonight we will find out but I'm not like stressing over it right now I do have good news so I told you guys dad hold on did I tell you I think I told you I told you about the snow right yeah okay I told you about the snow it has actually increased originally it was just like a dusty like less than an inch and now it is at like one to two inches which around here could possibly be enough to cancel school so I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed if things keep looking like they will we should definitely have a delay and then we'll see about cancellations so I will keep you guys updated on that I'll let you know in the morning what happens or if we find out tonight which would be amazing I'm actually gonna get out of here I'm going to head home you guys will notice I'm not really vlogging like at home like watching my jeopardy and everything because I am now doing like two vlogs a week I'm doing my classroom vlog and my fitness vlog when I get home like that is my me time I am NOT vlogging whatsoever I am vlogging for my fitness vlog just like what I am eating and all that but you guys probably will not see a whole lot of like my home life because it's just a lot trying to handle both vlogs but I just want to let you guys know I will catch up with you tomorrow morning hopefully telling you there's no school so even after four years of dating even though we live together Billy still takes the time to write me notes and leave it on my car after a long school day so to any of my followers who are not already with someone make sure that you do not settle for less than a Billy I wanted to talk you all through my nightly routine that I've been having lately so this it's kind of taken apart right now here's the top of it but this is a diffuser for essential oils and I had used essential oils before for like my migraine but I had never had a diffuser so Billy actually got this for me for Christmas now he I think he got it from like TJ Maxx or something but I'm actually gonna link a different one down the description box for you guys it's the one that I am getting to have downstairs because I really really like this so far just having like a diffuser so we are getting a second one to have downstairs so I will link that one for you guys so he got me the diffuser but he did not give me any essential oil so I actually went on Amazon and I ended up getting these so I picked him because they had pretty good reviews and I'll link them for you guys down below but what I really liked about these is that they are blends which most people seem to mix essential oils anyway so I liked that these were already like a blend of different oils so this includes a good sleep blend a deep muscle relief blend stress relief blend health shield blend to like prevent getting sick breathe blend and then head relief blend so tonight sorry welcome to my life I'm actually gonna be using the head relief blend because I have had a migraine that started after school and I've had I like all of tonight and my head does not feel too hot right now so I'm going to try this one out it's really easy you just fill up this with water as long as you don't go above like the max fill line which is right there and then I literally just put three drops of this on the inside I put the top on I hit the button and it's ready to go the other part of my routine besides drinking water is I have been reading Turtles all the way down by John Green Billy got this for me for our four year anniversary it was a surprise gift we said we weren't getting each other gifts but he got me one anyway but I'm really happy because John Green is one of my favorite authors right behind Jody Pico but I started bringing John green when I was in high school and I've read all of his books and I love them all so this is his newest book they literally have only read this the past two nights and as you can tell by my bookmark I'm a hardy like almost halfway through so it is really good I am enjoying it so I'm going to put on the diffuser read my book drink some water get into bed and then hopefully get tired and fall asleep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good morning YouTube as you can tell I am still in bed which means we did have a snow day so excited about that I just saw outside there's not like a ton of snow I think we got maybe two inches it's kind of hard to tell because I submit really windy so the snow has been like blowing around in some places it's like three or four inches deep and then other places it's barely a dusting but I think we got around two inches which around here is enough to cancel school because we are not equipped for the snow I did sleep in it's like 10 o'clock now I was only gonna sleep until 9:00 and then 9:00 turned into 9:15 which turned into 9:30 which somehow turned into 10 o'clock but that's okay I think I deserved to sleep in that's what snow days are for but that being said I do want to be productive today so things on my to-do list number one I need to clean the kitchen number two I need to go for my run and I'm not running outside I'm gonna go to the gym and run on a treadmill number three I want to go to the store and get ingredients for chili so I can make chili for dinner tonight and number four I don't want to be too ambitious I think I'm just gonna keep it to for her I also want to get some lesson plans done for like later in the month like I want to get the math like the unit we're on I want to get that finished and then the next unit I want to get that at least like started in my Google slides that they are ready to go so I'll try to film as much as I can today but honestly I'm not gonna be leaving the house except to go to the gym in the grocery store and I'm just gonna be like cleaning and sitting on the couch and doing work but I will catch up with you guys later on so the kitchen is officially clean and this has not happened a really long time Billy and I honestly have been really bad lately about doing dishes so I just have a couple of last dishes that are like drying off before I put them away so now all that is left is going to the gym which in order to do that I need to clean off my car which I'm kind of dreading and I need to do my run and then I will go to the grocery store get stuff to make chili and then I can sit on the couch and lesson plan just a small life update it's like 4:30 now so I haven't really looked in a while but after I finished cleaning the kitchen I went to the gym and I just finished my workout I'm not gonna go into detail because obviously that's gonna be in my training blog but I'm now at the grocery store getting stuff to make chili and then by the time I get home Billy will be home from work and then we have to go get Zara from the vet because we actually had to take her she has like a tooth that had to get extracted so she was there this morning Billy dropped her off and she's been there all day so we're going to pick her up around like 6:30 ish [Music] good morning YouTube yes I am fully aware and I look ridiculous but it is so cold outside okay hold on alright look a little bit more presentable now I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed my snow day yesterday I did not touch anything score elated I didn't grade I didn't plan should I have maybe buy it instead I focused on spending the time like in my house because I'm not just like saying around like actually doing stuff so I clean the kitchen which need to be done so so badly I got my run done I made chili which I have not personally cooked in a while thankfully Billie really loves cooking and I like cooking but it's just time consuming and I don't really have a lot of time so typically Billie does a cooking so since he was at work and I was off I wanted to cook for him so I made chili and cornbread and it was delicious and then we had to pick up Sora from the bet and I spent a lot of my night just with her because she has like the cone of shame and I feel so bad for her and I'm just trying to like comfort her and make sure that she's nice and calm and relaxed and secretly was I hoping for another snow day did I get another sniffing no that's okay we did get it two hour delay which actually they had called on like Wednesday on Wednesday night they said you're gonna have a two-hour delay Thursday and Friday and then Thursday morning they changed it to snow instead of a two hour delay and they kept the two hour delay for this morning partially because the roads are still kind of icy and also partially because it's super cold this morning the feels-like temperature is in the negative which for around here is super cold a lot of our kids walk to school and a lot of our kids do not have like jackets like a lot of them come to school in shorts year round so that is that I'm headed to school as schedules can be a little bit off today one of my team teachers texted me a picture of like what we're gonna do so when I get to school I'm gonna like write that down I do not have planning time because of the two-hour delay like my planning time got missed but that's okay it hopefully will be a quick day and then after school I'm actually going to go to happy hour with my team teachers to celebrate our TAS birthday which was over break oh and I'm not getting Dunkin Donuts you all should be so proud of me this will be an entire week that I went without Dunkin and I don't know when last was it I could say that but I packed myself it's like a Starbucks light caramel macchiato or something like that and the thing was like $5 but I'll probably get three or four servings out of it and I'm like that's much cheaper than Dunkin anyway so I'm gonna drink that on the way to school and I'll catch up with you guys there [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this is what our schedule will look like today we are only going to have our blocks for an hour and a half instead of two hours which actually isn't that bad because the two-hour delay is in the morning and usually we have cultural arts an hour of that time that we lost was just our cultural arts time so really only affect our blocks by like a half an hour so we're gonna have block one from eleven thirty five to twelve twenty go to lunch have indoor recess and then usually we have black one from 105 to like 120 but we're gonna extend it today to 150 and then we'll switch for block - and then we'll have deer time and dismissal so not too bad and then we have a weekend so I can totally do this [Music] I feel productive I was able to get math homework done for next week for both my black one and my block two that way I don't have to worry about it after school or rush to do it on Monday morning it is already lunch and I'm not complaining what so however the mornings gone by really fast which is excellent before people ask me my earrings are from charming charlie actually the one that's near me at the mall was going out of business so they had everything on like really big discount so I got these would like just a couple of dollars but I like them because they are like our school colors so on Fridays we get to where I like school attire and they match perfectly so I'm gonna eat my lunch I'm actually really hungry which is kind of surprising since I eat breakfast so late but I didn't have my yogurt so I guess that's probably why I need to fill out our card for our TA that we're gonna give her when we go to happy hour today I'll get that done during my lunch and other than that I'm just gonna sit and eat and then I will catch up with you guys at the end of the day I also had this light bulb go off this morning so this is the remote for my smart board and it's really like chunky and I was keeping it in this white bin where I keep just like my stampers and my wireless presenter that I get from Amazon I can link this for you guys down below and just extra markers and things but this was taking up a ton of that space just because it's really chunky so all of a sudden this morning I was like you know what why don't I put a piece of velcro on the back and I put a piece of velcro up here so I can now stick it right there to my document camera and it's really handy when I need it okay flash forward a little bit it is now the end of the day the afternoon went pretty smoothly my kids were a little talkative but like it's fine with my block too like I'm ahead in social days but behind in math so I think on Monday I'm gonna do like extra math and not as much social studies but it's hard because I have a student who actually goes to fifth grade math and then he comes to me for science and social studies so like I have to keep my schedule the same I don't know I will work it out and I'll make sure that I get it done but I do have a little bit of grading just like one social size assignment from block two that I have to get done over the weekend I would stay after school to do it but my team teachers and I like I told you earlier are going to happy hour at Green Turtle which is I think we only have them in like east coast or may even maybe even just like Maryland I don't know but it's really good restaurant if you ever have the opportunity to go I'm just gonna say it and like hang out with them I'm going to try to drink as much of my Potter as I can I think they have an appetizer that's like veggies so I think I will get that to eat but I'll have to go for my run afterwards so I can't like eat too much or anything but that's okay I will just enjoy hanging out with them but I'm gonna go ahead and just end this vlog here I hope you guys enjoyed it be on the lookout for my training vlog I don't know if it's gonna go up Monday Tuesday Wednesday but it'll go up sometime early in the week so if you are interested in what I am doing to prepare for the Boston Marathon in terms of running and nutrition and like hydration and all that good stuff make sure that you check it out and 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Channel: Pocketful of Primary

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Length: 24min 10sec (1450 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2018