SmartieStyle in the Summer | Summer Haul Vlog

good news so far 59 of you my friends has signed up for teacher connect hello it is Monday June 25th I believe I am just now leaving having breakfast with Liza and I'm on my way to another restaurant because I'm having a meeting with members of subcommittee that was formed through the APEC which is the African American parent educator taskforce that I'm a part of so our last meeting we decided to create these subcommittees to kind of hone in on the things that we wanted to work on as a larger group and I volunteered to sign up for the parent education portion of it so I'm going to meet with the other members of that subcommittee to kind of get our thoughts together about what our goals are going to be for the upcoming school year and going forward and I'm running a little bit late as I lost track of time when I was with Liza so that is where I'm headed I'm not sure how long it's gonna be but yeah aside from that not much else is happening I woke up got dressed up and met with Liza when I finished with the meeting if I'm not too tired I will feel you guys on and on my weekend hey guys it's Tuesday and I don't know it's probably 515 or so and 511 this is the first time I'm checking back in with you guys since yesterday yesterday I hopefully included the clip but I went to breakfast with Liza at the very last minute and then I had a meeting that I had to be at at 11:00 so I went to that and then after that I stopped by charming Charlie because the place that I met for this meeting was right next to Charming Charlie so I just went in there to see if they had anything I want it and I picked up a couple of necklaces which I will show you at some point I'm not sure when I'm gonna talk about that in a second and then I pretty much came home took a nap as one should do during a summer break and then I walked Genesis which she's laying on the floor right now which I'm now regretting and I'll talk about that in a second and then um I went to Nordstrom Rack because I had a gift card that was given to me by one of you and I want to make sure oh okay I found it sorry I'm glad I looked at it cuz it's not Christine so yesterday I went to Nordstrom Rack because I wanted to use a gift cart that was given to me by a very generous I'm assuming she's a subscriber her name is Nicole and she I believe she's going to be teaching middle school in Camarillo I was just reading something else that I had screenshot it from her let me get to that yeah she's gonna be a first time teacher teaching middle school in Camarillo I used to live in Camarillo way back when I was young Nicole so she sent me a gift card which was very generous of her and I was I decided to use it and I chose to use it because the main reason I didn't vlog after my meeting yesterday is quite honestly I just was in a mood and I didn't think that was anything anybody wanted to see and it kind of goes in line with summer break for me summer break is like a catch-22 for me I absolutely positively without a doubt love having summer break I love having unscheduled days I love having the freedom and flexibility to do what I want to do when I want to do it not waking up to an alarm clock early in the morning just the ease of it but by the same token I have a lot of free time on my hands during summer break because I'm not working I don't have kids that I have to tend after I don't have a spouse that I need to be worried about I'm not really responsible to anyone except for myself and Genesis which in and of herself can be a handful and so for me sometimes having all that extra time on my hands becomes dangerous because that allows me to start like thinking and harping about on things and over analyzing things and questioning things and thinking about all the things that I feel that I'm lacking in life and the things that I feel like I should have accomplished and it sometimes that is a fleeting thought that I'll have and then sometimes I just get really down into that and it puts me to move and if I were to be honest that was the mood that I was in yesterday and you know intellectually I know there's no reason for me to be in a mood I just read a comment that someone left on the last ball that I put up and this person was basically saying you know that they're not quite sure where they're gonna be living in the near future and that's what they're worried about and they wish that their biggest worry in life was you know worrying about getting a video uploaded to YouTube which I understand like I totally understand some of the things that are stressing me out are so miniscule in comparison to what other people are dealing with but you know everything is relative to a person by no means when I was talking about that last week was that like the most stressful thing that I'm dealing with in life at this point I was being a little bit dramatic but I say that to say even when I'm having those where I just am in a mood I know that I have a lot to be thankful for but there are certain things I'm sure we all have them in life that is like a sore spot for you or just an issue that you're trying to work through or deal with and you have those days where you're just stuck on it and you can't get past it and I was having one of those days yesterday I'm still kind of there today not as bad as I was yesterday but I'm trying to kind of get out of that trying to keep myself busy the other thing is keeping myself busy without spending money keeping myself busy during the summer a lot of times involves me going out doing things that cost money or shopping and you know I'm on a budget so I can't just be spending money left and right all the time and what's frustrating is a lot of times when I'm trying to find something to keep myself busy that doesn't involve me spending money it ends up being work-related and then I get frustrated that during my vacation I'm working so it's just this vicious cycle so anyway that is why I didn't vlog yesterday much after that in terms of me sharing what I got at Nordstrom Rack I keep going back and forth I did an instant story and it was almost 50/50 where I was asking to you I'm gonna show you what I bought along the way or do you want to see it as I go most of you said I think 54% or something it was said as you go but then a part of me wants to just do it as a haul however I do know that CTA magazine should be coming out sometime this summer and that's the feature that Megan from - Kula middle middle school and I are in together where it talks about teacher fashion so a part of me wants to either do one big haul like I said or show you as I go and then make a video that coincides when when that magazine comes out where I really just focus on like my thought process when I go shopping like when I went to Nordstrom Rack yesterday was I going there looking for something in particular do I just pick up things as I see them do I have a mental checklist of things I want to buy and how my closet is organized a couple of you have asked me to do a closet tour not that I have some glamorous closet but I think they want to see just kind of how I choose to organize my closet so I keep going back and forth on that so if you don't see any clothes in this video it could very well mean that I decided to do one large haul and if you do some clothes see some clothes in this video that means I chose to follow what you asked for which was go or show you as I go so as far as me regretting walking Genesis yesterday she just is not herself today and it's that this is I guys I don't even know what to do she is going to be 13 in July so she's older but everyday I don't really know how she's gonna be feeling so last night she was fine and then suddenly she wasn't fine so she'll be fine and then suddenly she'll just give me this look and her whole body will start trembling and it will tense up and that's kind of what she's been doing since then she hasn't eaten all day I haven't given her any medication because her antibiotic and antihistamine needs to be taken with food so I haven't been able to give that to her so she doesn't eaten all day she'd been laying around and I think what it is every now and then just her joints hurt so she's on a joint supplement because it's common for this breed to have their like little I guess it's like their little kneecap pop in and out of place and I think her hips you know she has hip issues and so I'm wondering if our walk yesterday just kind of agitated that and maybe that's why she's feeling this way so she's on the floor right there laying down and she's pretty much been laying down all day I've been trying to carrier as much as I can not letting her go up the stairs and stuff so that's where I'm at as far as what I've done today I went to Orangetheory I went to the 8:45 class I didn't go yesterday because I don't go on Mondays today was a treat coz Liza was there sorry the Lighting's going out so we got to work out together today it was an endurance workout which is probably what I prefer I don't like strength because that means I'm gonna be on an incline and for today I burned 539 calories had 24 minutes in the orange two minutes in the red but somehow well maybe they're rounding up I have 27 slap points in total so I did that and then I came home and made a phone call I'm still trying to get my refund check from the security company I just sent a very lengthy email luckily I took notes every single time I called that company who I spoke to their extension what they were supposed to do what they didn't do because they rarely do what they say they're gonna do I called them yesterday to say because a refund check coming back up last time I spoke to them aside from today and yesterday was June 11th I was told on that day that a refund check that had been sent out to me the day prior which would have been June 10th as of Monday June 25th I hadn't gotten that refund check that check is coming from Connecticut I live in the Los Angeles area it does not take that long for I check to get from the east coast to the west coast so I call and I tell them that and come to find out the supervisor decided to send my refund check to the city I don't know why so I told the person why on earth would you send a refund check to the city when I'm the person paying the bill and the city is the one that's charging you so they were supposed to call me back yesterday they didn't I spoke to someone today he is talking to the accounting department supposedly and he asked me to send an email so I said very lengthy email all the trials and tribulations I've gone through to try and get this refund back and what's probably gonna happen is I thought I saw a book it was probably gonna happen is I'm gonna cancel my service with this company cuz this is not the first time I've had billing issues with them and it's just enough is enough so I did that I made a couple phone calls I took a nap I have breakfast now I think I'm gonna go get a nice coffee from McDonald's just cuz I want one not going to Starbucks because I don't want to be like awake for hours I just wanted the taste of it and I'm gonna cook so and probably do some school stuff if I feel like it so that's what's going on sorry for vlogging very much yesterday but I just really was in a mood I just need a kind of a day of silence and try and work through my emotions so not sure if I'll check in again today but you will definitely see me throughout the week for sure I also need to work on my teachers connect post for the week good news so far 59 of you my friends have signed up for teachers connect what I will say about teachers connect this is what I've been meaning to say is a couple of you or maybe one of you responded to a question that I read on teachers connect on here I would highly highly highly encourage you to respond to it on teachers connect because that's where they need the information so you guys that are watching they're teachers you're all experienced and so there are a ton of new teachers they're looking for information just go share what you know it doesn't have to be super lengthy super involved like for example someone asked a few days ago tips on being a sub I think they're going to start being a sub in a district and they want to know you know what are some tips I have so I just told her what I like about sub so some of it is very light some of it's a little bit more detailed so definitely if you have an answer to a question respond to it because that's really the premise of this site is just sharing information so I need to do that as well so but as of right now fifty-nine of my friends have joined and that's great so keep spreading the word if you can but I'm gonna go get this iced coffee and move on with my life so I will talk to you guys a little bit later okay it's 136 on Wednesday June 27th I believe I know the date today and I've been up since 10 o'clock I did not go to Orangetheory today it's my day off and I am just not checking in with you because I got up I got dressed I attempted to watch the livestream of CJ from real rap with Reynold and Darren from Darren are keeping nakaka Jara they present at it see today in Chicago and they live streamed it so I was watching that while I was getting ready but then the livestream failed so I'm gonna try and catch that somehow somewhere else but aside from that I also filmed the video on setting up your quote/unquote dream classroom I have no idea how that video is gonna turn out because every time I do one of the videos that are more like sit down a nature I always feel like I'm rambling on and I don't even know what I'm saying while I'm saying it so I know I made several attempts to record it and I'm not exactly sure if anything that I said was coherent and makes sense but hopefully it was because I put on makeup for that reason so I did that and then I am still as I really still battling it out with did I tell you min - oh I'm gonna drive throughout Starbucks that's why I'm holding the camera in the car don't be alarmed I'm at Starbucks to get my first meal of the day but I am still battling out with the security company and as of right now if you guys deal with a company called what I thought my condo they were called security one but now I think they go or they're owned by safeguard security or something their customer service is just dismal aside from the person that's helping you right now he really is working on it it sounds like I just have had just such poor experiences with them anytime it relates to billing issues they are real quick to call you when your alarm goes off so kudos for that and they love to call when the alarm goes off which is why I'm having this issue of them sending me a bill for one hundred and fifty dollars for police dispatch because my alarm is going off and I think I explained this in a previous video before so I'm not going to go into any details basically I've paid a hundred and fifty dollar fee that I don't believe I should have paid because they've called me when my alarm has gone off and I have verbally a short than that everything is fine and then the alarm kept going off because genisys who's in this carrier right here moves around it trips the alarm off again so then they contact the police department because they said they're obligated to do that so I'm trying to get refunded $150 and it's just been a nightmare I've been working on this particular issue with them since May the 29th several phone calls have been made so if you're looking for a security company right now I cannot recommend them if this person that's helping me turns their life around and just blows me away with its customer service maybe I'll reconsider but as a right now know so I got off the phone with him I very calmly express my frustration once again and now I'm at Starbucks to get you know what a venti vanilla sweet cream cold brew I get extra ice I always get three splendas I've been getting ventis because an employee at Starbucks said the grande size is like a waste of money if you're gonna get one and it's going to be grande you might as well get a venti for a few cents more and get more coffee so now I feel obligated to do that but I'm getting that because I'm going to visit my mom and I don't necessarily want to go there and take a nap which is what I do quite often because my hope is to edit the video that I just filmed and have that scheduled for you guys to see on Saturday so I need to stay awake to do that and maybe do some other things because I haven't been as productive as I would like so I definitely thought I should check in because I know I've been very hit and miss this week Monday I was in a mood yesterday I checked in it was a pretty lengthy check-in but then I didn't check in for the rest of the day and here we are on Wednesday Genisys is here she's in there I don't know if you guys can see her cuz I don't know her but it's right there her face so Genesis is in that carrier she always travels in that one we are driving together we had a rough night last night she just I mean the sneezing it's not even that she's sneezing she's like going like this all the time strike clear nose or her throat but it's like it was to the point last night where I thought she was doing it out of pure neuroses like that she didn't need to do it but she was just now in the habit of doing it one second here hi I'm just here to pick up a mobile order Latonya Latonya Latonya yeah your pocket it wasn't even a huge hole through with after eyes and three brothers right yes I have it ready for you at the window yeah thank you it's a chip her little Starbucks employee she is so anyway um yeah so she's going through that yesterday she was not feeling well she didn't really eat she didn't get her medications like she should cuz one of them she has to take with food and she wasn't eating so I didn't think I should give it to her today she seems much better but this is it's it's it's rough on my mommy heart so anyway I'm gonna get my drink I'm gonna go to my mom's I'm gonna have to get something to eat cuz like I said I haven't eaten yet and she said that she does not have much food in her house to feed me with right now so there's that but anyway that's what's happening on my Wednesday right now Oh an update on Liza's living room we after we vlog together last week we picked some prints she has gotten those prints printed and she has taken those prints to Michael's to get them framed now those of you that like my decorative style in my house and have left compliments and out quite a few people have asked me about the prints of my wall I will say this when decorating your house that you're not always going to be able to find what your house needs at Hobby Lobby or Target or I care whatever the plate the case may be because they only have what they have and my biggest challenge in my living room was finding prints or finding a wall hangings that were not only big enough for the wall that I needed them to be on but also matched so I ended up ordering prints and having them custom framed so the prints of my living room are custom framed at Michaels I have prints in a bathroom in our custom framed I've quite a few custom framed prints I will say it is pricey but I believe it to be worth it because now you have some pieces that specifically go with your living room are your tastes because you can't pick them so when Liza went to get her framing situation I'll figure it out we facetimed and I helped her pick the frame and then I told her yeah that's the one and then she got the price and found out that for each one it was going to be I think a little over $100 to frame and I said that sounds about right and then she sent me a little gift I just learned last night it's supposed to be jiff but she sent me a little gift because she was shocked by the price so that's my decorating tidbit for the week if you're decorating your living room and you're looking for wall hangings and you have a very large wall especially you might have to bite the bullet find prints that you like on Etsy which is where I always would find mine and then have them custom framed to your liking make sure you measure the wall measure the size and all of that but so yeah I don't even know how I got on that topic but that that also happened today lies I got some prints or she's in the process of getting her prints framed so anywho I gotta go cuz I'm almost out the window and I'll talk to you guys later guess where I am I'm at McDonald's I just checked into the mobile pickup spot to get my iced coffee today I woke up and one of my first thoughts was I deserve to have an iced coffee for McDonald's everyday if I want to I don't know how I justified that but that was one of the thoughts that I had this morning I think it's because they're only $2.00 and every I think it's after you order five you get the next one free so I feel like it's not that much money so that's what I'm here to do after this I'm gonna head over to my classroom just to take a look at it today was the last day of summer school and Jenny's there because she's having to move in to the classroom next door to mine so she wants to get a head start on that and I'm just really going in there because I just always like to go in there and get a lay of the land I'm not changing anything drastically I'm definitely not redoing the classroom but I know that the bookcases behind my desk I was not thrilled with so I just kind of want to see what it was about it that I didn't like and how I can organize things a little bit better there I won't be there for very long because I'm not trying to do that right now today I went to Orangetheory just before I got to Orangetheory my sister sent me a lovely text that said today and her opinion and went down as the all-time worst experience that she's had at Orangetheory and my sister has a pretty high endurance like she's not like one to have a hard time exercising so when she says that I was concerned so I walked in there and showed that text to Liz one of the trainers at Orangetheory and she just left and it turns out that workout was pretty challenging it was a was it I think it was a strength workout and so Liz demanded that I burned 600 calories today and I would have been on track to do that but my little heart monitor like was disconnected for a period of time so I only ended up burning I think 510 calories and I had 32 splat points of course my sister if I remember her correctly she had like 725 calories burned I don't remember how many splat points but I know her red bar was like very high so I did that and if I look distracted because I'm looking for the person to come out with my iced coffee then I went to Bath & Body Works to exchange some lotions that someone gave to me then I went to Petsmart to ask what to do about Genesis Genesis is not in love with that $90.00 gourmet dog food that she's having to eat and when I say gourmet I'm being facetious or sarcastic I don't know I well I know it's not for me I think it's just very bland and she doesn't like it I've even tried mixing it with the wet food but she just picks little bits of the wet food out and leaves all the dog food there so my dilemma was there the two pills that I have to or there's three pills I have to give to her but two of them she needs to take with food and she hasn't really been eating the past couple of days so I don't know if I should give her the pill without it or whatever so I got that question asked I need to give her food with it at least one of those pills and she needed some more medication so today I tried to mix her prescribed food with some of her regular food to see if she would eat that she had a little bit more than I put some of the wet food in there she a little bit more and that happened then I had just a rip-roaring time with the customer service person from my home security company I you know basically I was told I was gonna be refunded then today this person was telling me I was not going to be refunded and he suggested that the solution to my dilemma was that I go to the city and start working on changing the zoning codes for the city and the policies and the procedures in the law for the city so that other future residents of the city don't do what the same issue I'm dealing with I just I really wish I had been in his presence when he said that to me because that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard so I said back to him sir my last concern right now is changing the city's laws and zoning policies my concern is getting 150 dollars back and so we went back and forth I finally got to the point where I said look we're talking in circles well you have yours-- and I obviously disagree with it I need you to tell me what steps I need to take to counsel my service with your company and then I asked for a name of a person that was like the most senior person there he tried to give me an email address I was not having any of that because they don't respond to emails so I just called back again and actually got ahold of someone who is apparently the manager and the resolutions department had to rehash everything that's going on and he's gonna do some research and hopefully he will be calling me tomorrow with some some better recourse than me calling the city to change the zoning laws and policies I got off that phone call and I was livid like a whole was burning in my stomach because I was so irritated primarily because I've been dealing with this for the past month and oh my coffee's here thank you you just made a cameo in the blog primarily because I've been dealing with this for the past month and more so because there was a point where they were sending me a refund check but someone who wasn't thinking sent my refund check to the city and when I called to say you did my check has not gotten there then they changed their mind and decided I don't need a refund I actually need to call the city and change the walls so that happened then I talked to Jenny for a little bit and found out that she is going to be going to school and I told her I'd meet her there to kind of look at my classroom and show you her classroom she's perfectly open to you guys thing the process she goes through instead of her classroom later on today my plan for you guys it is I'm going to show you the labels that I bought for my planner and how that is working out and I have to side it - let's do a taste test that's good it's really good guys I have decided to show you the clothes that I've bought along the way so I'll show you those today and that's pretty much it I know I didn't check in any more yesterday after I left the drive-thru of Starbucks but I was really just hanging out with my mom and I really didn't want to have a camera in my mom's face well you know we were hanging out together we didn't do anything super exciting I was just kind of spending time with my mommy so I'm gonna head over to the school now and then I will check in with you guys when I get there I am back in my classroom I've been here for a while let me turn the lights up here it is a post summer school they did a very good job taking care of it a lot of my things are not in here because I moved them into the pod because I wasn't really sure and I was a little nervous about things being taken so here's some of my stuff here here's what our pod looks like right now because it's this giant storage space because we couldn't get into our rooms but all in all everything is fine the walls are still in good tact nothing's been ripped and actually the teacher that was in this classroom for summer school was nice enough to water my plant for me every day and she was so nice that she sent me a text to ask me if I wanted her to take my plant home over the summer and she would take care of it for the rest of the summer and I thought that was really nice obviously I said no I was going to come and get it and water it myself I see that there was a couple of cattle tease here though she oh okay so these got knocked off the wall that's not a big deal because that has happened to me I just have to hoop hoop glue hot glue gun them back on the wall so here is the bookcase that is annoying to me for some reasons it's not this area here like let me move this lamp I am perfectly happy with this area it's this area here that needs some help it's a little disorganized it's a little disheveled so I need to take a look to see what's actually in there and see how I can make that just more pleasing to my eye in particular because I don't like it I also need to go to Michael's at some point because I need to see how much it's gonna cost to get my Scholastic magazine article framed my thought is to put it I just thought I was going to put it there but now I feel like that's too high I'm not sure maybe I can fit it somewhere over here but we'll see what happens so I'm gonna take you into Jenny's room right now she has her desk arranged and that's about as far as she's gotten so I'm gonna show you what a room looks like now since we're gonna be documenting the progress that she makes okay this is Jenny's room so it's empty Jenny's gonna get it together didn't she look really nice for someone who's gonna be setting up a classroom she's wearing a little outfit that looks very Ann Taylor ish that's Ann Taylor there's Brendan that's one of my future students running right there so the server room right do you want to tell them your your color scheme your what is your vision right now my vision right now is stick with the border I used last year which was this turquoise border oh okay let's show them this paper or it's not paper it almost it feels like it's vinyl or something it's supposed to is tape it's not supposed to wrinkle quit retainer is that like I feel like I've felt that before it doesn't it doesn't feel like paper at all it does feel like vinyl there's the best way I can just describe it so it's super thick it's supposed to not wrinkle not tear it's called they're so confident in this product that they are saying it is it is better than bulletin board paper so she bought four rolls of this and this you said was 1490 $14.99 for 12 feet 12 feet it will be very expensive but if it saves me a headache of you know sprinkles or putting up new paper each year in this last yeah over the years that's a good investment for me and then this is new right I like this border so she has this are you using this well because I like schoolgirl style anyone oh now she has her own her body through Carson Carson de Tolosa the low so you got that at cm not Lake Shore right okay they have a lot of her stuff there right now so I was debating between doing like black and white with this versus this is the border from last year would you like them to leave a comment to guide you through this so guys we would like your opinion so her thought is this paper it's like ship left this is not gonna be on every wall but it's gonna be on a significant amount of walls and she's either going to use the border that she had last year which is this in white so double border white or this border here from schoolgirl style with the white so that's that's where she's at right now she's she's Shan Division she just needs to fine-tune her accent colors she has the desk set up I think the way for the most part that she wants them to be set up and what was the other thing we talked about oh this area here so she has almost the same room as I do but she has this very large cutout space right here that I don't have and in my room what is this it's what it's like the rooms are flocked or something oh I know what it is okay so you know how outside of my classroom next to the door there's this big space where I have the bench in the plant she does not have that big space because that big space is this yeah so yeah and my old room was like that which is why like this sets there yeah Alco so her plan is this is going to be our small group area which I think great because it's secluded I know when I do small groups if I'm reading a book the kids are really into the kids that are in the desk next to the small group area always jump in so it's nice that that's there she's not sure what to do over here she thinks that's going to be your classroom library just like a comfy chair maybe a rug I'm not sure maybe some bookcases of some sort but she's actually you have the lower bookcases IKEA mm-hmm I like those because they free up yeah but the ones that I have what the bins in it for my picture books those are like thirty dollars a piece at Target and I feel like you could do that here too because the bookcases from Ikea I want to say I want to say they were like 70 they were more expensive than the ones I got from Target but so she wants to make that her small group area her teachers well teachers area will be there I really am used to keeping it in the classroom somewhere mm-hmm but and my old room they were against the wall and double double stacked oh yeah so she we both have to file cabinets I leave mine in the pod because I don't put a whole lot in file cabinets anymore I found I'm oh you know what mostly then there's like student records stuff that I just need to keep so minor in the pod so she's not sure if she wants to keep her in here or maybe put them in the pot but it's like a security blanket you know she's used to having her file cabinets so she's debating but one here and one in there yeah but I definitely I would put this on the other side yeah and the other thing is your printers over there too in your room is it yeah I had to use I move mine over was on my desk last year oh I think I was just too lazy to do this I mean it takes up a chunk of room so that's the downside that may have been it feel like I think I was too lazy to figure out how to do that but the upside is you print something and it can you grab whereas I print something and I have an Exercise muster up the energy I walk across that where I say that that's gonna happen a lot can you go over there I just printed something go get that so so but yeah it's she's got time it's not even July 1st yet so this is Jenny's room our other teammate as of today we don't know if things will change it's Peggy her room is right across this way none of this is hers right this is not I don't think she has any of her stuff in here this used to be our union room so I think that desk so has to be moved so this is the other room looks exactly the same it was also used for summer school and last year this was our room when we had union meetings so you can see she also has that big space in her classroom that I don't have I don't have it by choice I didn't really want that big space so I don't have it but yeah so that's it we're calling Gary to leave Jenny's got a look I got my bearings we're not right quite ready to just go full-blown into doing this room just yet but we I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot of Jenny and Brendon Brendon don't hide this is this is your life now so we'll see you guys later bye they have one more question that's how my class with the shiplap paper Jenny wants to know should be vertical I prefer vertical vertical or horizontal that's horizontal it just feels right to me visible I mean horizontal but then which would be cheap like how which would be the most economical you know I think this is gonna be easier to play with cuts and stuff so leave a comment in the comment section now Jenny nice no are we going vertical with this paper vertical or horizontal you said you like this one I prefer horizontal oh but I bet it will be easier to hang it vertically but like the look I prefer her horizontal I can just cover the whole window yeah you like kids you don't need to see what's happening outside so hello it is 8:15 ish I'm obviously home after the last time you saw me I cleaned my classroom up a little bit just in terms of the bookcase that's behind my desk then need some organization so I worked on that a little bit then I went to Target because I decided I need some more decorative items for that bookcase to make my heart a little bit happier and then I came home try to resolve an issue with j.crew Factory I have really just had a lot of bad luck with customer service this past summer so I bought three pairs of pants online through j.crew Factory I was super excited because they're just basic pants but I really need these this style of pant um I got my package the other day and it was not three pairs of pants but a black and white checkered shirt the shipping package said it was three pairs of pants but it wasn't so I chatted with someone on j.crew factory told them that and then she tells me that the black pair that I ordered was out of stock so I said okay she was gonna credit my account and told me what to do to ship back the shirt and then suddenly we got disconnected so that I have to go back and chat with someone else and then that person told me all three pairs of pants are out of stock so I don't I'm not getting the pants I'm getting my money back obviously but I have to keep checking the website for these pants if you are familiar with j.crew they're the lexie pant I've never happened before I don't do a ton of shopping at j.crew but they look like the type of pants that I'm looking for kind of business-casual slimmer fitting and the right length so I won't be getting those right now I have to keep checking I am also home because I wanted to feed Genesis before I go to Target because I just decided since I didn't find anything I like at Hobby Lobby I'm gonna go to Target to see if they have anything there and before I go I thought I'd show you what Genesis decides to do with that $90 dog food that she's been prescribed so she's having dinner right now and from the looks of it it looks like she's eating her dinner just fine but if you look very closely what she's actually doing is digging down her bow you just saw it right there and she's picking out what she wants to eat and discarding the pieces that she doesn't want to eat notice most of the pieces she's discarding like she just did there are these bigger pieces of food and that is the $90 food so she's not a fan of that food but she needs it so that means tomorrow I talked to Pet Smart today I'm gonna have to pay not pay take the bag of dog food that I bought last week that was $90 I can exchange it for a different brand and hope that she likes that and if she doesn't like that I don't really know what I'm going to do currently I just tried a new strategy of feeding her what I was doing was taking this wet food that she had last week and almost died trying to eat it because she wasn't chewing it I saw I'll take a little bit of this and mix it with the dry food so at first I was like intermixing it she still was pulling out little tiny bits of wet food and dropping the dry food so just now it's not working because she's doing the same thing I thought well maybe if I put the wet food all underneath the dry food she'll have to inadvertently eat the dry food to get the wet food no she found a way around that so that's not working so hopefully what I get tomorrow something she will like as far as today I really was going to show you the things that I've bought so far in terms of clothing but now it's dark and I don't think the lighting will be very cooperative with me to show you the items that I so I'm gonna put that off until tomorrow but when I get back from Target I will show you my planner and the labels that I ordered from an Etsy shop so I'm gonna turn the camera off right now go to Target and then come back and that's it so okay I'm back from Target so let me show you my labels and my happy planner really quick my strategy might be working because know she's at the bottom of the bowl eating some of that food but anyway these labels are from an Etsy shop called it ow like the ow I'll plan with you I had sent her a message through Instagram about a week ago asking if she had any kind of coupon code in case you guys wanted to order from her and she at the time said she did in but was open to the idea of creating one just for you guys I just followed up with her to see if she still wanted to do that so if she responds and says yes then there will be a coupon code in the description box but if she doesn't respond and or says no then there won't be but I paid I want to say I paid more than 20 but less than $30 for this set of labels when I worded it there was a promotion going on so I think I got 20% off and so basically you get the labels you tell her what you want the labels to say so you just type that in the I think it's like a product description or special instructions there's some place on Etsy sorry about the lighting where you type in exactly what you wanted them to say so this is what I decided I told her that I wanted a third of the labels to say if it focuses wonders so here I'll put my small group stuffer wonders this would probably be approaching on level and Beyond or something along those lines and I'll just maybe color code my plans if you have wonders I think approaching is orange on level as green and Beyond is blue I could be wrong I always get those colors mixed up but I can color coat that way and then on the other side I told her I wanted some labels that said guided reading same thing here I would put my guide at reading lessons and this section here and one of my professional goals for the year is while I'm doing guided reading to get better at taking antidote anecdotal notes and what's nice about this is I had actually misspelled an adult notes and it total notes I've hearts I'm saying that word and she caught the spelling error and corrected it for me so I just labeled that all throughout so I just spent a Sunday afternoon putting all of those in you can see them I don't know if you're seeing that there in there yeah there you go so you can see that I just did that hopefully it'll work out and that is pretty much it I think I'll be happy with it I've ordered from that shop before for one of my previous planners and I don't remember having any issues with it so yeah so I did go to Target I found a couple of organizational things that I'm sure you guys will see it either and either a back-to-school type haul for school supplies or just kind of along the way when I put him in my classroom nothing it was nothing really exciting but I'm gonna sit down and watch TV I'm a little tired if I would be honest it's about 9:30 now and I've just been running around all day so I'm tired so good night I will see you tomorrow for our Friday and so I will see you this hello it is a quarter to 4:00 and before I say anything else I just need to announce that it is well past my nap time I am extremely sleepy right now because I haven't had my nap yet so I'm leaving HomeGoods I went and picked up some items for my classroom which is decorative items for the bookcase behind my desk that really agitates me because it has a lot of empty blank space I'm not sure if everything is going to work but if it doesn't I'll take it back and I'll be sure to show that to you guys when I get home after my nap as well as the clothing items that I've purchased over the past few months for back-to-school and I just got a shipment of shoes in today so I will surely lose to you as well I haven't tried them on I haven't even open the box yet so I'm leaving home goods right now and then I'm going to pick up my iced coffee from McDonald's because right now I'm just indulging in that bad habit I don't have a lot of vices in life and I feel like getting a $2.00 iced coffee from McDonald's in the grand scheme of life really so I'm gonna get bad and even though I'm getting a nice coffee I will probably still take a nap because that it's just how sleepy I am right now I'm very very sleepy I woke up this morning and went to Orangetheory went to a 10:00 a.m. class and just before I went my sister told me that it was like her worst ever and again my sister is pretty in shape so for her to think it was her worst is always scary then I and I don't know she burns seven hundred in like 45 calories and got 50 points our monitoring system was down at the studio I go to so my numbers were off so I'm going to assume that I burned somewhere around 650 and got maybe 40 points it was 23 minutes of running straight there was no walking recovery and that's what made it difficult it was an endurance workout so I did that and then I went to Pet Smart I exchanged the 90 dollar dog food that genisys did not approve of got another bag of dog food that it was prescription and not bag of dog food only cost $40 which begs the question why not prescribe the cheaper dog food to the person to the customer before you prescribed a $90 dog food and so I went home and gave her some of that food and I'm not gonna say that she loves it because I don't know that to be the case but I know that she definitely likes it better because she ate it at least so and then I went to my classroom because I needed to scan something because I needed needed to email someone and I couldn't do it from home so I had to go use the document camera so I'm just right down the street from picking up my coffee I'm gonna stop talking now so I can focus on my driving and I will talk to you guys a little bit later hey it's 6:30 ish I've been properly napped and I am here to share with you some of my purchases I'm going to first share with you my purchases that I made a couple hours ago at HomeGoods for my classroom I just got to figure out how I'm gonna set you guys up here in a second and then I'm gonna head upstairs and show you the guys show you the guys show you guys the clothing purchases I've made over the past few months so let me see if sitting you on this paper towel roll is going to work let's see there we go you're on top of a shoebox and paper towels so in my classroom all year last year as much as I loved my classroom the bookcases behind my desk were a much taller than what I expected them to be when they arrived I thought they were gonna be the same height as the bookcases I had in my previous classroom and those were perfect because it was just enough height and just the right amount of space for the things I wanted to keep there these were super tall and I did not have stuff to put in all the spaces available to me in terms of the shelving and so they were the bottom two shelves were just kind of empty and or filled with just random stuff that I was too lazy to put away depending on the time of the year so when I went in yesterday to get the lay of the land of my classroom after summer school was over and look at those bookcases I just kind of figured there's not really anything else I need to put there I don't have that much stuff that needs to go on shelves like that aside for my T's andmy picture books that I keep for teaching purposes so I say well I mean make it what kind of decorated so I was targeted initially last night to get some more of those magazine file boxes but they ended up being too big so to take those back so here are the things that I got so I got one of these I don't know if this is the same height as the ones I'm returning to Target tomorrow but for some reason it feels like this one is shorter and if it's not then this will go back but I need this for I have like boxes of labels and there's just like random office supplies that I put in in these things because I need to have access to them right there and I put them in these so I don't know if that made any sense but I need it one more of those then I bought this this is not gonna go on the shelf this is gonna hang on a wall somewhere and what my plan is for this is I have daily schedule cards that I put on the whiteboard using magnets and they change and vary from day to day but I don't have anywhere to put the ones that I'm not using so I thought I can hang this on the wall by my whiteboard and just put the ones that I'm not using for the day in there and they would just be easy access because the space I'm thinking of is literally right next to the white board so the white board is here then there's this little wall space so my thought is to put those right there so that's what this is for then the rest I believe are like different plant type pain and wrap protection [Music] the first one is this it's just this cute little fake succulent arrangement that I'm gonna put somewhere on the desk I liked it because it gives some green in the classroom and then it has like the gold accent so I bought that [Music] [Applause] then there she is just trying to see where Davis this is that I bought this plant here pretty self-explanatory I love a good fake plant I actually wish I can find a really nice big fake plant to go on my porch because I've killed the two that I had I had to repurchase some plants a couple of weeks ago because I just seem to have a hard time keeping real plants alive and then I bought I don't know if that's supposed to be happening but I bought this so I bought this one because I felt like I was going to meet one that was long and took up a little bit more space I'm not exactly sure how I'm gonna be arranging these things so it's gonna be a lot of playing around when I go in there and like I said I'm not even sure all these will work the way my mind thinks that they are gonna work and if it doesn't then I take it back and try again so that is what I bought today at HomeGoods that is specific for my classroom and you know what while I'm at it I feel like I'm gonna have to show you the other things I bought for my classroom so far I thought I was gonna do like a back to school haul for like school supplies but I don't think that's gonna work out because some of this stuff I need to just get moved into my classroom along the way and I don't really have time to be saving everything for the purpose of a video to show you guys so I'll just show you what I have bought um let's see what had I not shown you there we go I have not bought that much so don't get too excited basically I needed a new wall calendar with gold I saw this at Target and I picked it up right away because you never know if they're gonna have ones that go with your classroom later on down the line so my accent color is near my desk or gold so this is just a basic wall calendar that goes from July - July then I bought these two books because I thought I thought that I at least had this book when it came time for state testing and then realized that I didn't a little too late and then I bought this one as well since I was there so these are two very popular books last day blues first are not first day jitters I do have that book but this one is the big test this one I mean it's a little dated in the sense that they talk about bubbling in things and you can tell in this book the test that they're taking is paper and pencil based and I know for most of us if not all of us our assessments are computer-based but I still like the premise of the book and then I bought this book that I really wish I had known about last year because the school I'm at is well it's no longer brand new but last year last school year was the very first year of that school so it's it's a new school and so this is a picture book about the school's first day of school so I thought it was cute to kind of read to the kids and like personify the school on how the school is getting ready for the first day of school and just as nervous as everybody else and in this book the school is brand new so the school is talking about some of its anxieties about new people coming and it being named so it's named Frederick so in this on this very first page it's the school and it says the sign above the door read Frederick Douglass excuse me Frederick Douglass elementary that's a good name for me thought the school so I just thought it was cute and even though over the sky work I won't be new forever it's still kind of cute to tell the kids like maybe the school is getting ready for the first day of school as well so those are the things that I've bought for the classroom now I'm going to go upstairs figure out how to set up the cameras because I the camera be set up in a way so that I can show you full-length things so I'm gonna go upstairs and do that so I'll see you in in a little bit upstairs all right I'm now it stares in my bedroom sitting on the edge of the bed because this was the best setup I could find to show you guys what I've purchased so far so this is all the clothing item I bought with the idea of using it for next school year same disclaimer that I've said several times just to keep things in perspective in terms of how I budget for clothes and spending this was stuff that was bought over the course of a few months the shoes were just recently bought but the money that was spent on this comes from an account that I have specifically set up just for shopping so it really eliminates for me the guilt of like I can't believe I'm spending money on clothes because I'm spending it for its intended purposes now with the shoes you're gonna notice that they're repeats of each other because there were some basics that I realize I needed last school year and then I found some things that I liked and then liked them so much that I thought I wanted them in more than one color so the first thing I'm going to show you is this pair of brown wedges do a better job holding it up from DSW and I've tried these on they are extremely comfortable they're not tight on my foot in any way I feel like I could wear these at work and be standing and feel relatively good all day I haven't tried that yet but just from the trial they seem like they would be okay these are from DSW and they are called the lily and i want to say that these were about $65 if I had the packing slip I tell you but I'm not a hundred percent sure but I think they were around $65 a pair so I bought them in tan you put those down then I bought a nother pair and gray these are probably most excited about because I wasn't really looking for gray sandals but then when I saw these I thought having a pair of green ones would be very useful and then I also got Ben in black the black ones look like this so I tried them all on they were all comfortable the straps aren't tight the zipper zipped up nice and easily so I would highly recommend them again those are from DSW then also from DSW I found these I've been wanting a pair of shoes like this for a while but I just couldn't find the pair or the style that I felt I could wear and not feel silly wearing them so these are from Steve Madden and these are kind of like I don't know what you would call these but you know when I was looking for them some of them were cute and then some of them just look like orthopedic shoes and then even when I took these out of the box I was unsure of them but then when I put them on I really liked them on and they are very comfortable so I got these in black these are called the Keanu again I don't have the price but I will try and be a very diligent vlogger and I will link all of these shoes in the description box for you you guys should be very proud I'm gonna I'm gonna do that tonight because I'm gonna be editing editing this vlog tonight so I got those in black and then I got them in another color that I'm a little unsure of and you guys gonna have to help me out so I got them also in this taupe color what you guys think about these on the way and I like it because they're different on the other hand this is the shoe where I'm like is this a granny shoe and I just don't know it is this taking that trend a little too far and my concern is this white bottom that's gonna get dirty really easily I know I can clean it but you know saying I'm gonna clean it and then actually being responsible for cleaning it or two different things so in the comment section please let me know if you think I should keep those so those are the shoes and I feel like I need better lighting let me see if I can turn this camera in a way okay I feel like that's better and you guys get to see a little Audrey so those are the shoes now I'm gonna show you my clothing items and I'm gonna try and tell you what I bought these and where about these from I don't think I'll be able to link these just by the nature of where I got them from so this first thing I bought here this is from Target and it's like a long kimono type thing if you guys saw my insta story I bought something like this before and I did a poll on whether or not I should keep it because I had a really strange fit and I took it back because it didn't work and I got this one instead this is from Target like I said it's from the lion a new day I've gone to Target recently and I've still seen this but I bought this like in April or May so um if you liked it see if you can find it at Target then this top I bought from TJ Maxx I hadn't been to TJ Maxx in a long time and when I went I really thought to myself why haven't you been going here more often because they have a lot of stuff that's very cute but well priced like for example this top where's the price tag this top was 1699 and all these purchases from TJ Maxx I actually had a gift card that someone had given me and so that's where the bulk of my TJ Maxx purchases that's how they were financed so it's just a polka dot top it buttons in the back and I really like the back because when it buttons you'll see the polka dots but then there's also this solid panel and I really focus on buying tops that had no sleeves because we start school in August and it's going to be hot and so I wanted to try and stay as cool as possible so that's from TJ Maxx then I got this blue top from TJ Maxx as well the price tag has fallen off so I don't remember how much it cost but I want to say it was around the same as that top maybe 16.99 I bought this because it's light loose and I don't have anything in this color so that is that next TJ Maxx this purchase here another top no sleeves Nessa's print at the bottom this costs $19.99 here's the back there and the shoes that I bought I think I've bought those before I got the shoes so even when I was buying the shoes I have those things in mind to make sure I had things to match this shirt I really liked when I tried it on though these arms are a little weird I thought about taking it back but I just liked it so much that I'm just gonna have it I'm just gonna keep it and no the arms they do something a little different and I think maybe it's supposed to be different I'm not sure but I just like that it's simple but then it has like this print on it right there and then it has that print going down the back so I really liked that so this was from TJ Maxx and the price was 1699 and who doesn't love like a little nautical shirt so this is TJ Maxx it has anchors on it salt on the back of the white stripe going down the bottom it's very loose and light feeling the price tag also fell off of this one oh no I didn't this one was you see that is it gonna focus $12.99 it's not focusing so there's that one then I have wanted some more polka dots and especially black and white polka dots so I picked this up for some reason I was really gravitating towards shirts that were all polka dots to the point where I had a few on my hand I had to put some down because I thought I can't just be walking around wearing polka dots all year so this is 1999 this was also from t.j.maxx it's another light material it's thick enough so I wear I don't have to wear anything underneath it so there's that one this is from Target and I bought it the same time as I bought or ended up exchanging that one top this is a dress now I bought this and I may have shown this to you guys I feel like I have let me stand up I bought this thinking that it was like a top to go over leggings but then when I tried it on it was longer than what I thought it was was actually a dress and so I was on the fence about it but I'm gonna keep it because it's different it's when you put it on it looks pretty dressy in a way so I'm gonna keep that this is from the line Universal thread at Target and this was $24.99 when I bought it it wasn't on sale but I think those purchases from Target were also bought with the gift card now that I think about it they were from my birthday I got some gift cards for my birthday to Target and that's what prompted me to go to Target to do some shopping then this is also from Target it's a jumpsuit so it has I don't know if you can see let me do a better job here has arrows on it if you can see that it's actually pants so there's the pant leg I tried it on I obviously will have to wear a cardigan with this and I have a mustard colored cardigan but I think will look really cute with this so that's what I'm gonna wear it with let me see this is their exhilaration line you know the target line and this cost $27.99 from Target now we're going to some old Navy purchases so I bought this shirt just basic blue-and-white striped shirt just a professional work shirt if I wanted to I could probably wear this with jeans and some wedges and this cost $26.99 but I think when I went to Old Navy they were having one of those sales or it was like 40 percent off your entire purchase it's very rare that I buy something that's not on sale so I highly doubt that I paid full price for the shirt there was probably some kind of discount going on then I bought this I just thought it was cute it has watermelons on it right now though I'm not sure if I should have bought this I don't know why I'm having second thoughts about it I think I was just so enamored of the watermelon slices and the idea of summer because I was still in school at the time that I bought it but I'll make it work this was also $26.99 but again I'm sure my purchase was on sale I kind of remember that but that's that this is also from Old Navy when I went to Old Navy during this time they had like most of their store was in this color scheme and I really liked it cuz it just felt very light very summery so it's long-sleeve and it's a little bit longer you can see that it's very hard to show clothes on camera this had a price tag oh well I don't see it in there oh here it is 2006 99 also so I bought this this these are items that I bought a few days ago thanks to my friend Nicole Eggert she was the one that sent me a gift card to Nordstrom to thank me for making these videos that she finds helpful so that was very sweet of her so I took myself to Nordstrom Rack to make the most out of that Nordstrom gift card I got this black and white dress here this is from Madewell and this one this is the most expensive thing that I bought when I went there this was 59-97 I disliked it because I know this brand I don't this is the first thing that I have from Madewell I just like the fact that it's kind of simple and yet stylish and I like black and white together and dresses so I bought that then this is nothing really fun I just bought a sleeveless black cardigan because these always come in handy and I don't have one that's sleeveless so here's that this was what was this price um $22 then I bought some more tops about this one this one's kind of risky because it might just blend in with this shirt when I put it on but at the same time I just like the color and I don't have anything in this color again notice there's no sleeves because I'm trying to just be prepared when it's August and it's blazing hot out here this was 1997 here's this top again I bought this one because I don't have anything in this color and I really liked like this neckline and the arms I just thought that was different so it's a solid color but it has a little bit of character with the neckline up there this is this was $22 and some change I just realized I got a little bit of makeup on it that I'm gonna need to wipe off oh here's some more polka dots these are smaller more subtle polka dots this is yeah this was from Nordstrom Rack I bought that nice and flowy I will probably have to wear a shirt underneath it this was 1697 and these are some online orders from Old Navy this dress here just you know you can't go wrong with the dress in the summer and this was regularly I know this was on sale because I was surprised that it was on sale I don't see they don't have the price on this one but if I can go back to my online order I'll link it in the description box for you guys this is another Old Navy purchase this one it's a little risky I'm either gonna feel like I look cute in this or I'm gonna feel like a grandma that's going on vacation in Florida because it's very floral but I like it I just feel like it feels fresh and light and summery and breezy so this was from Old Navy this also doesn't have a price on it but I know this was on sale and then I found another black and white dress from Old Navy hat and it has this down at the bottom this pattern down here I've tried all these on and they all fit so you guys will be seeing these next school year then this top from Old Navy I really feel like I bought a lot I've been talking for a while already just no sleeves just your standard top and then you know I love some cardigans and I love strikes and I love black and white so they have this black and white striped cardigan from Old Navy I love it I put it on and loved it even more when I tried it on he's got pockets in it they had different colors I can stop myself from getting multiple colors excuse me then I bought some white like cropped jeans that I needed these came from TJ Maxx and I always get nervous with white jeans a because I feel like I'm gonna get them dirty B because you know I'm a little bottom heavy I feel and sometimes I feel like I look extra bottom heavy in white pants but what are you gonna do this in and up at the back but this also came from Target it's just a sweatshirt and I just like it because I feel like I can dress this up and dress this down what I really like about it is that it has these like lace ups on the side so there and there okay so then there's that those are the clothing items and so I'm gonna stop the camera for a quick second and then I'm gonna come back and show you some of the accessories that I also bought on my shopping trip and then that's gonna be it for my little haul ok I'm back on my accessories they're all in this little charming charlie bag they're not all from Charming Charlie I just put them all in there to kind of keep them together I guess I'll just leave this on my left so this first one this is from Charming Charlie they had like a little rack where you buy one get one free but the one that you bought was they were already marked down so this was $8.00 and it just is this chain and here is like the little part at the end so I just thought that was pretty it can go with a lot of different things so that came from Charming Charlie then the thing that I got free to go with that let me see if I and show that to you it's here so this whole is free and it's just this necklace oh what's the next point for me to do this you can see it okay so there's the necklace okay so it took me a minute to show you the second item because I couldn't get it to focus but this is the second item I got from Charming Charlie this item was the free item and this comes with some earrings that match I don't know if I'll wear these earrings because I've been into hoops a lot lately but that's the second item from Charming Charlie then these other items are part of the purchase that I made while I was at Nordstrom Rack so I just was going for some basic things so I got these hoop earrings and they come in three different colors so there's a rose gold pair a silver pair and a gold pair and I bought these because if you see on the back they actually latch shut I don't know if that's actually focusing but I have learned with my current hairstyle if I don't buy a hoops that latch shut and they're open hoops then my hair gets stuck in there and I'm always pulling them out during the course of the day so I picked those up for the fact that they were latched shut and they came in three basic colors but I always need then I got oh here we go then I got this necklace here kind of like the first one but this one has like gray in it and silver and then I got this one this one I specifically bought to go with that brown shirt that I showed you guys and when it was hanging on the rack it didn't look like much but then when I put it on top of that shirt in the store it looked really nice together and I'm sure I'll find other things to wear it with then I got some studs same as the hoops just like basic colors sometimes you just want to wear your stud and then last item is I got like this little tassel bracelet so that is what I've spent my money on over the past week or so I did order some pants from j.crew unfortunately I will not be getting those pants ISM right now cuz they were completely out of stock or j.crew Factory I should say I think I talked about that a little bit last night so I still need to look for that I definitely need some better work pants so I need to clean all this up then I'm gonna go downstairs because I need to check in with you guys with the teachers connect for the week and let you know what I'm gonna be posting there and share some questions that are there that you guys might be able to help other teachers out by answering and then I'm gonna close out the vlog for the day because I need to edit it and I need to be a little bit more productive than what I have been so I will probably see you guys when I get back downstairs okay I just logged on to teacher connect our teachers connect I should say and I there's one question that I want to share with you guys and encourage you to come on this site and answer because I think it's a really good question and it's a question that I feel like almost every teacher could answer and it's a question that I think really should be answered to make this work a little bit better so this person says I would love input for helping general education teachers understand the issues of students with learning disabilities in the areas of working memory and executive functioning how do you as a general education teacher very committed to your old routine like to be approached with new concepts and ideas for teaching and reaching so I had to open up with and reaching kids with disabilities what clarifying questions can I ask to help you take ownership of helping students succeed what can I do to build trust I really like this question it was posted today and what I like about it is obviously this is a special education teacher and I know from my own experience and working with my co-workers that sometimes there is this battle or this point of contention or this butting heads of general education teachers and special education teachers so I like the fact that she's acknowledging that sometimes that could be a challenge but it's opening it up to all of us to kind of give her some tips on how should she approach a general education teacher when she's coming in maybe with some new strategies new ideas that are outside of the comfort zone of the teacher so I would highly recommend because I know like I said earlier this week that there's 59 of you at least that are on this site and have signed up and created a profile and I know I'm following a few of you some of you if I recognize your name I follow you for sure and there's some I haven't followed yet just because I haven't gotten caught up with that but please please PLEASE login and answer this question because I think this would help all of us it should be fairly near the top when you log in because she just posted this question today so I know for sure what I have a little bit more time later on and I have had a chance to really think about like what would I like for that for the special education for the special education teacher to say or how would I like him or her to approach me I'm gonna respond to that because that I I think that's a great question I think it's great that she's doing that so that is one that I think we should all jump on there and help her out some of the questions I answered a couple but it was earlier in the week again and I think I can't exactly remember which ones they were but I know there's a teacher on here specifically looking for those of you out there that are watching if you're a preschool teacher she's looking to connect with some of you and there's a couple of international teachers here as well one of the other things that was posted this week that I thought was amazing was the impression I got was this person that posts it was a fairly new teacher or was just looking for a professional development so her question was what are some really good professional development books and so there are a few teachers here that gave her some great books to read and then there was another teacher who was asking specifically about professional development and whether or not we all go out and how do we go about getting our professional development do we just rely on the district to provide it for us are we seeking it out so she said hello I am new here just completed my first year of teaching and would love some advice on professional development does anyone here find PD on their own or does it have to be offered through your school thanks in advance so she got a couple of responses but then one of the responses she came that she got came from one of the founders of teachers connect Frank and he gave her like a list of different professional development activities that she could seek out so he said he just did a quick search on professional development and found some great discussions and shared it with her so I think that's amazing especially for new teachers but for any teacher so I'm gonna be posting today tonight at some point it'll be up by tomorrow to go and coincide with my video on creating your dream classroom or your perfect classroom I'm gonna be posting a question that goes along with that I haven't decided what that question is going to be yet I have a couple of ideas and then I am going to just write a quick post to kind of go with that so if you're interested in checking that out by the time you see this it will be there but more than anything I'm not so much concerned with you responding to what I put up but just really read through the posts on there and anything you can help someone with be sure to do that because more advice and more tips is always going to be better so I am going to close the vlog as far as what I'm going to do right now I need if I'm gonna take Genesis on a walk because in her old age I'm starting to wonder if those walks are agitating her joints and that's what's making her kind of sick to her stomach sometimes I don't know if I mentioned but she's thrown up 2 times overnight this week so and it always is on nights where I can see that her body her body is physically tensed up so I'm wondering if that walk it's too much for her because she is gonna be 13 you guys in July so she's not young so I'm gonna decide that and then I'm gonna have to eat some dinner at some point but the bulk of the night I will be doing my post that I want to put here and then editing the vlog for you guys to see so anyway that's it for this week I hope that you enjoyed it I don't know how long this one is going to be I'm so glad that you guys didn't like balk at the fact that last week's was an hour if you like the video please do give it a thumbs up and share it out so that more people can see it if you haven't subscribed make sure you do other than that I will see you guys next week if you're a teacher I hope that you are having an amazing summer break if you're not a teacher I hope that you're just having an amazing time in life right now and I want you to talk to you guys next week and [Music]

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Length: 84min 24sec (5064 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 01 2018