Teacher Life: Week Before School #1 • 2021-2022

oh my gosh it's like almost eleven first official day back uh was running super late pulled in here at eight o'clock when i was supposed to be here because where i live school went back yesterday so traffic was insane gonna have to go a different way tomorrow but got here right on time we had a faculty breakfast and faculty meeting till nine then my team met until about 10 30 and then we took our new team member on a little walking tour of the building to show her where everything is and stopped by the media center to get my document camera checked back out so i gotta get this set up um now it's 11 30 and i'm finally sitting down for a second i have so much in my brain from the faculty meeting and the team meeting about uh sneak peek on friday things that i still need to do you know you just you feel like you're like in a really good place and then you have a meeting and you're like oh my gosh a million things to do but my look what my teammate gave me she gave us all of these um just i love a checklist i don't know where this is from it's by craftsmart so maybe like michael's or joann's or something and then these cute little thank you cards love these so much so that was so sweet and then the ribbons are cool colors she's so thoughtful love love love these i got a couple little snacks um and then i'm gonna sit here and put a bunch of this stuff that was dates in my planner [Music] kind of multitasking right now um on my personal computer i'm working on a little transportation sheet um because i like to know how the kids are going home first day of school and then we need to know how they're going home like normal um but a lot of people the first day of school will do something different like maybe they'll do carpool the first day of school and then they'll ease into the bus so kind of do uh birthday rest of the year computer i'm going through my work emails so this is my school computer going through my work emails i'm just going to speed this up and show you [Music] my multitasking crazy [Music] okay it is literally like 1 30 and people keep coming in um just bringing stuff asking stuff checking in on stuff so this is what happens when you come back to school for real just so you know in case you're new um that's why i love getting in here during the summer and getting things done because there's no interruptions no expectations you're just coming in and like getting things done now it's like everyone's here so lots going on all day my checklist i'm doing pretty good the last couple things i do need to make i'm just making a basic contact form i really just want to know like name phone number email do you want to be on my distribution list any allergies anything i need to know that's it a lot of the stuff i find online is just like this like full page of information i really just want the basics because our website platform has basically everything you need to know i just want to know like what email you want me to email or call and if you want to be on the distribution list and then i need to do assigned seats those are the two things i need to finish and then i can go to the copy room and make some copies of that stuff and i'll show you what i copy to the copy room got a bunch of stuff printed so these are the fix-it tickets from laura santos um respect called on tpt so i have those i'm gonna put those in a yellow folder these are the reflection form i just edited her she has this one in there this one i took off the parent signature i just have this one be between the student the teacher and then reflection form is like the third step and it says basically the same thing um and at the bottom they have to get a parent signature so first step is a break second step is fix it ticket third steps reflection form that goes home um i'm going to put these in a red folder those in yellow folder and i put them over in the little break corner if you watched my video where i talked about that it's in there i don't remember which one i'm so sorry uh i'll try to find and maybe link it down below for you okay then i did a little half sheet for transportation i need to know how they're going home the first day and then how they're going home the rest of the year like their normal transportation and this is just a half sheet so i'm going to cut these in half did a little contact form i just want to know student name who's going to be number one contact are there any allergies or anything i need to know and would you like a second contact and then yes or no if either of them want to be on the distribution list for the classroom emails that i send out um and then the last thing are the respect contracts we complete this after we've gone through each step of respect so i do all of like her little lessons and everything we read do unto otters and it takes about a week usually i do this the first full week maybe even go into the second week a little bit and then at the very end we all sign these and they sign it their parent or guardian signs it and then i keep these uh in a file so that is all i copied what i need to laminate now is i need to print these out and put these on the desks um this is like the routine for what they're supposed to do when they fill out a fix-it ticket or reflection form and so i'm going to laminate this and put it hot glue it to the folder so that they know the steps they need to take when they have to do either of those things then this is in my pastel rainbow set i just did a little welcome banner and then i made this quick little it says like two second grade and then i just made these little circles i'm gonna put their names on the circles and all the rainbow colors to put as our like hallway display so got some laminate and some cutting to do there oh i meant to take these to the coffee room and print these but i did not these are the job cards i showed yesterday i'm going to print these yes i say yesterday like i don't know when this is going up but in my last video um these are their jobs so i'm going to print these on the right colors to match the team so like the maintenance crew job cards are going to be printed on pink the teachers in training job cards are going to be printed on blue and that way you can tell based on what team you're on what job cards your team needs to be looking at when they decide who's doing what jobs made some changes to our class pass menu this year so first thing they can buy is new eraser they can choose two of them that's fifty dollars and you just saw they got paid for doing those jobs they get paid weekly stinky feet stuffed animal day no homework pass pen day hat day they can pay to sit at the vip desk for a day drawing time read aloud and then lunch with the teacher so that's our what they can buy i need to laminate those and then i made some more of these i said i was gonna make some more of these for the hallway to clip up until i get work out there so let's do some laminating [Music] awesome [Music] okay i have to stay till 3 30 and it is 3 32 so i'm gonna try to get out of here um that i have here because i need to leave that here for friday so parents can sign up this is stuff i need to put away in the right places this is stuff i need to put out on the desks i need to take that stuff to the copy room i'm going to get those folders put together tomorrow i'm going to do a yellow one and a red one and then those respect contracts i'm gonna put in my little copy drawers for next week this is stuff for the hallway bulletin board and then this is um the rest of the stuff for the hallway bulletin board stuff i need to cut out and then my to-do list my planner my little bag for my my pens and markers and then i need to put i got the other wall pops that i needed because they only come three in a pack so i have the three so tomorrow i need to put that one on and this one on i have no idea what this all looks like it probably looks like a crazy hodgepodge of clips of just me not knowing what to think what to do or you know anything and that is the first week back uh that's basically how it feels all week and the first week of school but um this first week back is always tough if you come in and you feel like you're completely ready and you have nothing else to do you are either a a magical unicorn or b uh forgetting a bazillion things you're supposed to be doing because i have this to-do list just for when i come in tomorrow and all this stuff left out so i don't forget any of this and i'm sure that there's more than i am forgetting and i've not even dealt with planning or copying for the first week yet our team is going to get together and do it tomorrow so i'll show you what we decide to do and what we're going to copy and we'll do all this again tomorrow bye good morning it's me again um wednesday august 4th today is the second day of pre-planning yesterday felt like a tornado just because i got here like right on time i did not get in here early and get to kind of get myself settled for the day and i don't like that but today i took a different way to school so i didn't hit all the school traffic and i got here like 7 45 i have to be here at 8. so that worked out perfectly gonna do that again the rest of the week um let's see for this morning i went ahead and printed out uh name tags for my leadership teams so i'm gonna laminate those today what else did i do hold please i printed out the fix-it ticket and reflection form examples she has these ready for you i just changed the top on this one to say reflection form and then i changed a little bit of the text to say reflection form i put these in the folder with the sheet that they have to fill out so they can see kind of my expectations about that so i'm going to laminate these and i'll make these folders today and show you how they come out put that in my laminating pile i went crazy and made some little i still haven't decided which ones i'm gonna do i think i'm gonna do this one just because they stand out a little bit more i think than this one i made two different options for schedule didn't do anything with time because i'm just going to tell you i'm kind of terrible about that and um i just like the flexibility of like if something in our schedule has to move because of pictures or something like that that i could just move the piece and i'm not as concerned with the time i feel like my second graders just need to know like okay math is done that means phonics is coming next like they don't need to know down to the minute what's going on um and it's just a lot more for me to make a lot more for me to keep up with and then if my scheduled times change for whatever reason which has happened to me before um then i've got to like remake something so i'm like you know what we're just doing the subjects and then if i need to move stuff around on my board it's super easy so i'm going to laminate those and put magnets on those put those up today these i will save just in case you know who knows maybe somebody will want them i do need to cut out the book bin labels today and put those out i went with just black this is in my tpt store one's just black because my bins now are some are blue some are green some are teal and i was like you know what we're just gonna do black for all the book bins since the book bins are colorful other than that that's all the stuff that i have to like print or cut and laminate so let's do that and then um i have a training i have to do at 8 30 so that gives me a little bit of time to do get that done before my first [Music] training [Music] ah [Music] okay i just did the training that i had to do and we're using this is just a yellow folder that i used to keep february stuff in i'm just going to reuse it um this is going to be the fix-it ticket folder so i'm going to take the fix-it ticket routine that they need to follow and i'm going to just hot glue it on the front and then this is the fix it ticket example i'm going to hot glue that right on the inside and then i printed the fix-it tickets on yellow so there's going to go in here and now this is ready to go over in my little take a break corner same thing for the reflection forms got the routine and the example and then i have the reflection forms printed on red so those are just going in there and then i showed it in a previous video but i'll show you where these are gonna go okay this is my little take a break corner so we have the respect posters here the big respect poster here and then the top has take a break which just has a reminder of what respect stands for and what we all agreed to a one minute or two minute timer that's their choice and then this is the fix it ticket form so i just put this folder in here and then reflection form folder i'm just putting that in here and then i keep a little stool right here in this corner so they can choose to take a break i can ask them to take a break they can come over here set the timer think about you know what does respect stand for and maybe what part of respect were they're struggling with if they have to come here again they do a fix-it ticket which stays with me if they have trouble again then they do a reflection form and that goes home [Music] okay i love this i think i'm gonna make a little probably gray that just says like our schedule or something like that to put there and then this little i was worried it's gonna be like too much going on but i think it's [Music] fine [Music] okay this will probably be the last time i show you what i'm putting out for sneak peek because i'm getting ready to write my kids names on their name tags but i just made this real quick contact information transportation this i put in my tpt store um it's their little gift from me and then in this folder so like this is everything they take home this is what i need them to fill out and leave so in the folder is the wish list the open the night before second grade confetti meet the teacher and then our schedule so everything i showed you yesterday i didn't put anything else new in here i just stuck it in a folder put this on top makes it super easy take all this home i need this filled out and left here [Music] okay i don't know where i left off but um just got back from meeting with my team we met from like 1 to 3 30. we got the whole first week planned and then we were just like pulling together we all brought like our back-to-school folder and pulled everything out started going through it um and i am copying monday for the whole grade level so there's five of us we each took a day and we're gonna make the copies for the whole team so tomorrow that's on my to-do list this is everything for monday and i will copy this uh i also found this in my folder so i want to go and copy this it's like a personal word wall and i love these so i'm so glad i found it because i have no idea where it's from or who made it but i'm going to go ahead and copy it before i lose it then i'm going to copy my job cards on the correct colors like i told you each team job is going to be on a different color i'll show you how that comes out and then these are new my old ones were getting kind of rough so these are the little please clean tickets they come with laura santos's class economy um i'm just going to print these front and back on new card stock pieces and i actually might laminate them this time because i did not do that last time and they lasted a while but um this is our bus lineup so i'm gonna print that out to put on the tables for parents in case they know like we use things like the black panda bus so maybe they know it's the black panda but they don't know the number so it has both on there hopefully we can figure out everybody's bus number when they come in these are the shout outs for the friendship shout outs and what i'm gonna do i went through you can see i wrote on the back of this um my second graders need a lot of help um correctly filling out a shout out and not just putting like josh is a great friend right so what i did was i kind of made little blank so they would say josh showed friendship when and then write what they did to show friendship so i did it this way so that i can still use this for every month no matter what abigail showed kindness you know whoever showed optimism i can use it for every trait but it's just a little bit more scaffolded for them i'm going to print those on one of each color so that they're like a little rainbow in there okay i just covered their names um this is the special schedule and it says subject to change i will send an updated version if it does change but i like them to have the special and the teacher name so that if they start getting emails from that teacher or they need to reach out to that teacher they know their name and i also like them to know our special so that they know when to wear the right shoes for pe this special is it rotates between media center computer lab and guidance that is our special schedule so i'm going to copy those and put that out for sneak peek i've just been waiting for that schedule to come out that's why i didn't have it copied already um and then i wrote down all my kids birthdays so tomorrow i'm going to do the little birthday spots for them and i literally got three things checked off my to-do list so still need to do cafeteria seating chart but i'm having to hold off on that for now my assistant principal said i need to make some kind of room rep sign up i think i found one that will work for free on tbt so i'm going to print that tonight i need to write their names on their name tags i need to copy the shout outs copy and laminate the job cards copy the buses that i showed you i didn't show it to you but the one i told you about i'm going to set up our photo booth tomorrow so i just take streamers i think i pulled them out already i just take blue and teal streamers and i make like a little photo booth that they can take a picture of um at sneak peek i'll show you that tomorrow i'm gonna do the birthdays tomorrow and then i need to fill in my dismissal charts but i have to wait for sneak peek on that i just have it on my to-do list so i don't forget but i guess pretty productive day i mean with my team very productive day for my to-do list still got a lot to do it's 3 55 i've got a hair appointment at 4 30 that's the only reason i stayed or else i would have tried to leave at 3 30 and i would have been successful but i knew i should stay till 4 because my hair appointment's on this side of town okay see you guys tomorrow for thursday day before sneak peek here we go

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Length: 25min 22sec (1522 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 07 2021