Teacher Work Days | Teacher Evolution Ep 31

but it just so figures that every time I get sick it always happens to be around testing time here is my new muffin ability of a cabinet I officially have gotten all the manipulatives put away my sweatshirt what is this oh okay it's just lent [Music] good morning YouTube I do not feel well at all I did not feel well a weekend I told you one Friday and my last vlog that I felt like I was getting sick and I was correct because Saturday I felt ok Saturday like I was still able to run I was still able to go out and run errands and Billy and I went to dinner but when sunday came like I literally did not leave bed all day like I couldn't I had no energy it was a struggle just to breathe like going up and down the stairs took my entire breath away so I had to skip my run yesterday which stinks but I spent the whole day just relaxing in bed I feel better today than I did yesterday so that's a plus but it just so figures that every time I get sick it always happens to be around testing time when like I would love to take a day off but realistically like I can't because today we have to review for our social sales assessment and tomorrow is the assessment and it's just like God can never win but I'm headed to school when I get there I'll explain a little bit about our schedule today because it is a little bit of an off day [Music] all right so I mentioned that our schedule is a little bit different today we do have a two hour early dismissal today and tomorrow because of that into the marking period and then the teachers have professional development in the afternoon plus this morning we actually have an assembly it's like a reward for our students who have turned in completed cup Kuno cards basically the teachers will be doing minute to win it games and the kids will be watching so there's eight different games and we have four teachers on our grade level so we will each be doing two different minute to win it games I'm doing one call to yank it where you have to take plastic cups you have four of them and index cards and you stack them so you put an index card in between each one stack them and then you have to pull out the index card to get them to fall down into one stack and then I'm doing one call to moving on up where you have a big tall stack of cups and one of them is a different color and I think it starts on the bottom and you have to move the cups from the top to the bottom to get that colored one all the way back to its start position so fingers crossed I'm able to get through that with how I feel right now but we were told to wear like school spirit wear so since I got all of my team teachers these fourth grade shirts from the blue envelope for Christmas we decided to wear them today and then I wore blue pants because that's one of our school colors and then those tan quilted flats from express alright it is lunch time I wanted to talk a little bit about the assembly this morning with a minute to win it games honestly was a lot of fun fourth grade did tie for first place with some of the other grade levels but overall it was just really fun to like get to do it have like the kids cheering us on and you know it didn't matter about like winning your game or not it was just fun and I'm so so happy to be in a school that does things like that like I just think that it's great so for the moving on up where I had to like move the cups from the top to the bottom and get the cup to go all the way up and then back to the bottom none of us got it like it was just way too many cups to do within a minute and the cops were like stuck together because they weren't regular like Red Solo cups they were shaped weird so they got stuck like inside of each other so it was difficult and then for the yank it where I had to pull out the index cards and get the cups to fall like in one stack I was really close like I got down to the last one and it fell to the side rather than fall straight down and if what other person did get it but for what my kids told me they were not setting it all the way up each time like once they got some of them stacked they just set those up and I was resetting it every time so I don't know if I misunderstood I thought we were supposed to reset it every time but if I hadn't I think I definitely would have gotten it but anyway it was just fun to play I also helped one of my team teacher she had to do one with like ping pong balls and cops I think was called tilta cup and I had to bounce the ping-pong balls for her to get into her cup and we did end up getting that so overall it was really really fun and I enjoyed it it actually ran a little bit over so we had to adjust our blocks instead of doing 50-minute blocks it turned into like 45 minute blocks but it actually worked out just fine because I had plenty of time in both of my blocks to be able to review their social studies review page which was homework and then we got to play Kahoot to review for the assessment tomorrow so when we come back from lunch we're gonna have homeroom time my students filling out this it's on like expected behaviors and they're just gonna check off which ones they think they follow and then on the back they're gonna fill out like either consistently demonstrate progressing in the development of or needs improvement on like the different categories and that will help us when it comes time for their report cards and otherwise I'm just gonna have kids like making up tests I'm sorry I have to sneeze but they never mind no I don't I just constantly feel like I have to sneeze I have to get kids to make up their math test or like finish the parts that they didn't finish and that will be my focus for the afternoon once the kids do this paper like they're just going to do your time like reading afterwards because we don't really have anything else planned for them but for now I'm gonna go enjoy my lunch and I'll catch up with you guys after I did get another bead for my lanyard so for those of you who don't know every time we attend like a PTA sponsored event we get a bead so I know up to eight beads because I went to game night on Friday it is about two o'clock and good news is so we had early dismissal today the kids are all gone I thought that we had like professional development this afternoon or meetings or something but it's actually just like teacher work day so we have this time to ourselves which is good because I do have a lot of my plate that I need to get done but the two hours this afternoon at two hours tomorrow afternoon and then all day Wednesday is just teacher work day which is time that I very much need right now however tomorrow there's a chance for snow in the morning and if we get it two hour delay they're gonna take away the to power dismissal which is fine but then we lose out on that two hours of like work time which I should probably be a good person and like come into school regular time and work for two hours in the morning but we all know that that's not gonna happen so if we do get a delay tomorrow that's just two hours that we miss out on my first priority is grading their math assessments that they took on Friday it's super quick just to grade them in the computer most of it is already graded but for each kid there's like a couple different parts that we have to assign the points based on their work and their answers and all that good stuff so I'm doing that now I'm about halfway done I'm gonna finish that and then I'll catch up with you guys so I run the I think it's called like Teacher Appreciation Committee for SGA which is Student Government Association so I just have a handful of third fourth and fifth grade students who I work with and our job is to provide things for the staff for teacher appreciation so the last time we met we decided we were going to do almost like teacher survival kits so we picked out a couple of things we're gonna include and we ordered the candy on Amazon so we have fun sighs snicker bars starburst Trident gum and lifesavers and those arrived I'm just gonna put them under my desk because I don't need them until we meet again which will be in February life update so my math assessments are all graded I also printed out the scantrons for our social size assessment tomorrow and I went through my grade or and any like reduce and things that kids had turned in the other day I'd graded them but I hadn't put him in the grade book so I went ahead and did that and I just ran a missing assignment report for my grade book you all back in the first marking period I can't believe I did this it was so not smart at all I hand wrote like how many assignments each student was missing and like what assignments are missing actually I didn't handwrite it I typed it but still I took the time to like go through and find all that yeah apparently with this gradebook you can print a report that has all of the missing assignments for each student I feel so stupid that I did not do that the last time but lessons learned you know when there's new computer programs that you're learning in a new district it happens so I have printed out the missing assignment report I'm now gonna go through and make new copies of all of those said hopefully like tomorrow after the social studies assessment and then on Thursday during our study hall time I can get some of these made up because grades are due I think I don't have to have them done until beginning of February like I have time but still I want to get it done and out of the way it is now four o'clock and I'm ready to get out of here I'm feeling okay but like everyone smell my allergies kick in and like I just constantly feel like I have to sneeze which is not a good feeling and then I have more of a kofta day and it's like deep in my chest and when I went outside for dismissal just for there's a couple of minutes of being in the cold like it got that much worse so I think overall like I'm on the track to get better which is good I was able to be productive today after my kiddos left I got science and social studies like missing assignment papers ready I did not have enough time to get all of the math stuff ready but I also don't want to overwhelm my students and give them like a ton of papers at once so tomorrow I'm gonna focus on getting those sites and social studies papers given to students to finish and then on Thursday during study hall I will focus on getting them their math papers to finish I also had a student who was gone for like well over a month because he was in Mexico and he's now back and he turned in like all of his work really really quickly like I was super impressed I can't even lie so I went through and I pulled out made sure he had all of the stuff that I'm grading turned in and I will get those graded tomorrow but at least I've like sorted them and that part is done I am NOT gonna stay late today because I have so much time like today tomorrow and Wednesday I just don't really feel the need and honestly like I think I need to get home and relax so I'm gonna get out of here and I'll catch up with you guys in the morning first of all I'm not driving I'm in the car but I'm parked side note if you were ever sick and you do have Starbucks near you I highly recommend that you try a medicine ball if you haven't already you can order it either if I just say medicine ball or for some reason if they don't know what that is it is the honey citrus mint tea it is known for curing colds and like any kind of sickness it's sweet but at the same time it's kind of tangy I don't know but it's good it has like passionfruit tea and like a citrus tea and it has honey and it has like mint in it I can't remember what all is in it but it is very good and it's good for like your immune system so if you have not tried it get on that good morning YouTube thankfully we did not have a delay this morning and I know you guys are gonna think I'm crazy for saying that but I did not want to delay because then we would have missed out on our early dismissal and that's two hours that I have to work without my kids today so it all right out just fine I am gonna go to Starbucks and I'm gonna get myself another medicine ball I do feel better like my congestion up in my nose and like my head is much better however it has moved into my chest I have a really bad cough and I think the honey that's in the tea will help with that so plus it just makes you feel better like whether or not it actually works I don't care even if it's all mental it makes me feel better so I'm gonna go get that fingers crossed there's not a super long line cuz Starbucks in the morning where I live is brutal and then I will catch up with you guys at school [Music] so this happened last night I was at HomeGoods and I've had my eye on his because it matches the drawers that I have over by my library where I keep math stuff for all of my units and I just knew that I had to have it and it was like $50 and I did not want to spend it on it but when I went last night it was on clearance for 35 so I went ahead and just grabbed it I'm not sure exactly what I'm gonna use it for yet but I know I can use it for something I'm thinking I'm gonna move my coffee maker and like turn it so that I have more room and then maybe put it in like this blank space but I don't know I will keep you guys updated so it is almost time to bass students again or FNP so f MP is fountas and pinnell and then bass is benchmark assessment system it is a way to assess your students reading level we have to do it in the fall winter and spring so obviously I've already done the fall for the winter the window starts sometime in early February so this is like a class record sheet where basically I'm gonna list the student names and then I will list their levels from the fall and I actually only have to test the students who have not reached the testing ceiling which I want to say for us it's anyone who is 80 or below so I'm gonna go through figure out those students so that when the testing window opens I can start testing them it is now my planning time we had team planning this morning and then it is not my individual planning time I just spent a little bit of time going through my students that I'm gonna have to FMP test and figuring out what level and like whether they need fiction or nonfiction and I made a list of all those so I will have my t I pull the forms and now I have some emails to answer it is lunchtime so our testing is done with the exception of a couple of kids that have to make up the test I have three students who have to make up the math test two of them just have to finish it one of them has to take the entire thing but she has not been here and then I have four students who have to make up the social size test who are absent today but I have a list so hopefully that helps keep me organized otherwise I have all their scantrons ready to go after my kiddos leave this afternoon I'll go ahead and scan those so I can look at the data in the computer but I feel good like my desk is pretty clean it will have some homeroom time this afternoon and I want to give my students that paper I showed you guys this yesterday where they kind of like rate themselves on the different category so when we give behavior grades for report cards I have that to go off of I meant to give it to them yesterday but get kids to finish the math assessment it was just too hectic so I will give it to them today instead but for now it is my lunchtime and I'm going to sit and enjoy it because it does go by really quickly and one of the second grade teachers it gave me a call earlier and she said she had these flashcards she was not using one for multiplication and one for division and she asked if I wanted them I said absolutely because all of my flashcards from second grade were like addition or subtraction and I am in need of more multiplication and division so I may have my TA go ahead and like hole punch them and put them on a ring for me so I went ahead and move to my coffee maker just over so I wasn't diagonal and it took up a little bit less space and then I put those rainbow drawers right here and for right now that is my planner that's on top I'm not sure if I'm gonna leave it here but for now this will be good enough it is now 2:30 my kiddos were all gone by two o'clock so for about the past half an hour I had to go scan my scantrons into the feeder thing that puts it into the computer so that is done I also had to go through and grade a couple of the math assessments that I had students finished today and then I was working on just like cleaning out my drawers I had a lot of like loose paper so it's getting that out of the way right now I'm gonna focus on grading a couple of like unfinished assignments that were turned in like yesterday afternoon or today and get them put in the gradebook it is now about 450 I went ahead and came out to my car and I thought I would catch up with you guys here I ended up just doing a bunch of like little things that I needed to do you know how you always have a million things on your to-do list and they're just like little things I got all of those done that tomorrow I can focus on the big things just getting report card like comments and obviously I can't finalize their grades until I get a couple of like last-minute assignments and I'm still waiting on from kids but I have all of those ready to go to give to my kiddos on Thursday so I think if I get report card comments done tomorrow I should be good to go I did get the social studies and math assessment scores put into the gradebook and that takes a really long time just cuz it's so many kids and it was both a math assessment and a social sales assessment but that is now done so I need to make corn bread tonight because each month a different like grade level is responsible for bringing in food for the staff so fourth grade had January and we are doing like comfort foods so one of my team teachers is making like chili one is making chicken noodle soup one is making macaroni and cheese Howdy's I think and then I am bringing in cornbread so I need to go to the store and get ingredients for that but first I need to go to the gym so it'll be a little bit of a busy night I'm also gonna try to get my training vlog from like two weeks ago edited I did get some of it done last night but I still have a lot more to get to so I don't know because I'm making all that cornbread we will see but regardless I will catch up with you guys in the morning storytime once upon a time there was a girl named Michelle who volunteered to make cornbread muffins for the entire staff so she went to the store on a very cold Tuesday night got the ingredients that she needed just basic cornbread muffin mix she got some liners because she likes to make them as like little mini muffins she got a pan to carry them to school and she gets home and finally goes to start making the muffins it's about eight o'clock and she realizes that a bag got left at the store now this is where the story gets interesting alright I'm gonna break character Billy and I have searched the house like there's no way we forgot this bag we cannot find it anywhere so the bag had two more things of corn bread mix because I need to make seven dozen and each one of these will make half of a dozen so I had to get 14 boxes and then it also has more of the cupcake liners because I don't have enough of those and also had my halo top which I'm gonna need after I make all of this corn bread so long story short Billy just remember to the store god bless him I'm so thankful that I have him because I don't know what I would do without him in this moment I'm gonna go ahead and start making the first batch I'm not gonna film it because I just want to get this done and I want to jam to some music while I do it but I'll catch up with you guys after all right over two hours later and we officially have over eighty cornbread muffins please remind me in the future if I ever think this is a good idea don't do it because it was a horrible idea it took way longer than I thought and sitting there and smelling cornbread while baking for two hours is not good when you are training for a marathon [Music] good morning YouTube but today is a teacher work day and I know there's me some of you who are gonna complain in the comments and say well we never get teacher work this must be nice listen it is all about the number of days that you have to go to school so our students go 180 days but in my district teachers go over 190 day so that is why we do have teacher work days built in and remember I had a super short winter break like it was a week long I did not have a fall break I do not really have a spring break we have like a Friday and a Monday off so just keep that in mind that's all I'm saying regardless because the fourth grade is bringing in comfort foods today we had talked to administration and we got them to agree that we could also come in a comfy clothes so I have on my black Lulu Lemon aligned pants which are super comfy they feel like butter I have my converse on I have a t-shirt on from the blue envelope and then I have my sweatshirt one oh okay it's just lent so I'm super comfy today I did not do my makeup because I just don't really care today it is all about just being comfortable being in my room and being productive I think I'm gonna go to Starbucks and get the medicine ball one more time cuz I do feel like I'm getting a lot better but I just need like one more day of it and I need something like hot just for my throat and my congestion and all that good stuff so I'm gonna go grab that and then I will catch up with you guys at school [Music] good news is when I was baking all of that cornbread last night I finally had an opportunity to print some more objective cards so this is the fourth quarter of science all the ICANN statements for that and then the third quarter for Mathia theme three for math so we don't have the last theme for math like released yet so that will be the only one that I have left to like type up and print out but the rest of them are all ready to go so I'm gonna have my TA put all of these into page protectors so I can put them in the binders please tell me I'm not the only person this has ever happened to I don't even know what happened but I went to roll my chair and somehow just fell completely over like the chair me everything just on the floor I'm so embarrassed you guys thankfully no one was around to see it alright so here is what I'm about to do next I just typed up all of those paw printer stories those are done I had to go through some emails respond to some stuff cleaned up my email inbox a little bit ate my breakfast it's about 10 o'clock I had to go with my team teacher is about a half an hour ago to the science lab and we had to pick up new math manipulatives so since we have a new curriculum they ordered some new stuff and it finally came in we had to kind of divvy it up between the four of us even though only two of us teach math we don't know what's going to happen in the future and there's a possibility that we may not be departmentalized anymore so instead we would keep the same class all day and we would teach all the subjects so they wanted us to have math manipulatives in all of the rooms so we had to go pick those up we had to organize them separate them into the classes all that good stuff so I currently have mine like over there on a pile of desks I'm gonna show you it and then I need to get them all put away and organized just for reference this is the cabinet that I currently use to organize all of my math manipulatives so I have it pretty well organized I do have a little bit of space left at the top but let me show you guys what all has to get put in here now so these are all of the new math manipulatives that I need to find a place for now yard sticks and meter sticks I actually already have a spot in one of my other cabinets where I store those things like dry erase leaves which I didn't even know we were getting but I think that's awesome those are gonna go over by my small group table and then like dice that's not an issue to store I'll have to find a place for these place value disks protractors IR have a bin for so that's not a problem these are like mirror things that we use for like geometry I'm gonna have to find a place for those cuz I currently have nowhere to store those I think these are like fractions circles yeah I'm gonna have to find somewhere to store these because those are completely new we got more fraction towers which is good because I did not have enough for everyone to have their own I think I only had like 25 sets so I got 10 more sets so I now have enough for all of my students but that means that I have to find a place to store them more base 10 blocks which I already have a ton of so at least these are in a container that makes it easy more pattern blocks which I already have a container for so that should be pretty easy and then these are just little like colored tiles which I actually don't have any of so I needed those but now I have to find somewhere to store them so I'm gonna work on just like organizing this get it put away and then I'll catch up with you guys after [Music] [Music] here is my new method ability of the cabinet I officially have gotten all the manipulatives put away and I had to do a little bit of rearranging but I got it all to work so I'm proud of myself I do need to make a couple of new labels so this bin right here has fractions circles this one right here has more pattern blocks so I'll have to make another label for that trust me that one bin that is different is driving me crazy but eventually I will hopefully find another one of these black bins these come from Big Lots but they're usually only available during like back-to-school time so for now it's okay I will make it work I also moved around like some of the stuffs like this which I don't know why I had it labeled as hundreds it did not have hundreds it had thousand blocks but regardless doesn't matter because I'm gonna have to make a new one anyway this now has a place value circles and then this one that says base ten blocks now has just colored square tiles what else did I move actually I think that's about it now up here those two containers had sets of base ten blocks which I put in two different containers I'll show you that in a second so this has all of my extra like cubes and ten rods that I'm not using and then my thousand blocks which we don't use super often are now up there here's the Sun but this is where I put my sets of base ten blocks so these are just oh that's bad there we go so these are just containers that you get from Dollar Tree they're one dollar each you put the hundreds in the middle tens on one side and ones on the other super convenient so I went ahead and just put those sets that we got into those containers and you will notice that I have two more black bins that I did not have in here before I used to only have the four rows of three so let me show you where I got those from so previously I had those bins down here on this bottom shelf but I went ahead and moved all of my plastic baggies which I had in one of those black bins into one of these white bins which was holding extra juice boxes so I just stacked those up and then the other one has all of the hand sanitizer which was in the other black bin and I think that one was holding an extra tissue so I just put all the tissues out so they're all together and then done here I just have wipes an open thing of sandwich baggies because that's what I use most often this just has like extra duster refills which I have my duster hanging right on the door with a command tuck so it's not perfect but in order to get those black containers you got to do what you got to do so organizing all of that math stuff took up basically the entire morning it's about 12:30 right now I'm very hungry so since fourth grade brought in the comfort foods I'm just gonna have that for lunch so I'm gonna go up to the lounge grab some come back eat it just relax a little bit and then this afternoon I think I'm gonna work on report card comment I know I said I was gonna work on like report card comments but that's not what ended up happening I forgot that I needed to meet with my team teacher so we wanted to go ahead and get some planning done for the new marking period go over science and math and all that good stuff so I just met with her it's currently 207 so I think we met for like an hour and a half and I have about two hours left of the day so I guess I can go ahead and work out a report card comments I also need to start the Google slides for the next science unit because we are a unit behind but we're gonna like skip over that unit and come back to it at the very end because it's not on any of our assessments so we can kind of fit it in when we need to but we want to have just a fresh start with a new marking period so I need to get those Google slides started I also need to start my math Google slides but I can always work on that at home so I think right now I'm gonna focus on report card comments which I can do at home but I'm less motivated to do that at home than I am Google slides so my TA was able to get those couple of things and I left for her done so I now have multiplication and division flashcards personally I just really like having mine on a ring rather than in the box because the box always ends up ripping and then it's really easy for kids to flip through them when they're on a ring so I'm not sure exactly where I will store these yet but y'all know I will find a place for them and then these are quarter for science objectives and then this is quarter three math objectives so I'm just gonna go ahead and pop those into the binders which I have down here I already have like the binder slides and the covers for all of them so I literally just have to open up the binders and put them in so I did get a lot of report card comments done I may have to alter some of them as I get some more like reduce in and missing work and all that good stuff but for the most part those are basically done so it won't be too hard to just finish up my grades before Tuesday I also did get a little bit of planning for the next marking period done I got my Google slides started for science I did not start them for math but that's okay I will work on that tonight it is four o'clock which means I'm officially done for the day I could stay a little bit later but I actually have to get out of here I have to drive to Hanover which is kind of up by like the BWI Airport it should be a 20-minute drive to get there but I'm thinking with traffic it's probably gonna be closer to like 45 minutes I have to go to a girl's on the run coach training so I'm officially gonna be one of the coaches for the girls on the run team at my school starting in February so I'm really excited for that because I'm just anxious to be able to combine like my love of running with my students and I did previously coach a cross-country team at my old elementary school but that was for fourth and fifth graders and at the time I taught second grade so even though I coached some of my like former students it's not the same as like getting to coach kids who are currently in your class so I'm really excited about that but I have to do some different trainings and things before I can actually start so tonight is a three-hour training as from 5:30 to 8:30 which kind of stinks in like the middle of a week but the other option was Saturday morning and I'm like you know what I'd much rather sleep in on Saturday so I'm going to head to that and then I will catch up with you guys tomorrow [Music] good morning YouTube if I'm being honest yesterday like afternoons last night was just a really long night and I'm feeling just so exhausted and I shouldn't because I didn't even teach yesterday like it was just a workday but last night getting home so late and it just it wiped me out so I got home from girls on the run around like 8:45 ish but I didn't end up eating dinner until almost 10 o'clock because I ended up talking with Billie just don't like a bunch of different little things that were overwhelming me right now and like you know I had my moment I cried like I don't know what it was but right now and I know it's just this time of year I just feel like I'm like drowning a little bit and it's not even all just school stuff it's just like everything combined so I finally ate dinner around 10 o'clock and then I had to shower and I had to dry my hair and then I had a lesson plan for today because I had started it but I hadn't finished and we're starting a new math unit so I have to type up notes pages and all that good stuff and we're kind of like adding our own lesson into the curriculum because they expect kids to know stuff that they're just not gonna know so we kind of had to add a lesson which means like my lesson for today I had to basically make from scratch and just took much longer and I did not fall asleep until after 1:00 a.m. I was working on my computer until like 12:30 and then I had so much of my mind that I couldn't fall asleep so I slept in until 7:00 hence the no makeup look and I slept in until 7:00 yesterday but it was more acceptable yesterday because it was a work day it was comfy clothes day today it's a little bit less acceptable but that's okay I'm uh I'm headed to school and we will all get through it so I will catch up with you guys there [Music] all right so this is our girls on the run kit that they gave me last night so I'm going to take this to one of the second-grade teachers who's like more so in charge of it than I am I'm gonna put my stuff away and then I'm going to sit in this chair and I'm going to work on finishing my plans for today so these are the goodies that I just printed out and of course I printed them to the printer that's right around the corner and I forgot that it's currently broken so I had to print them to the office go all the way up there for some reason it didn't go through so I'd to come back to my room reprint them go all the way back up there but I finally got them and that's all that matters so these are the plans from plan book for my ta today I need to go in and like write out what the strategy looks like for each of these today we're focusing on changing a mixed number to an improper fraction so I just want to give my TA some strategies that she can have the students do and then these are the notes that I'm gonna give to my students they're not gonna be on a full page she's gonna shrink them down so that they're two to a page but I basically defined a mixed number gave an example Jerome model and then same thing for improper fraction and then I only focused on one of the strategies for their note sheet because this is like the most efficient strategy so it's abbreviated mad m is multiply the whole number by the denominator a is add the product to the numerator and that becomes your new numerator and then D is the denominator remains the same and in this white space down here I'm gonna like show that for two and three-fourths how I would convert that to eleven fourths so I'm gonna do that before I have her make copies and then this is a paper that we will need for science I'm not even gonna be able to teach science today or tomorrow but my TA but my team teacher needs it so I'll have her make copies for both of us that I am ready for next week [Music] it is lunchtime overall I think the morning's gone pretty well math actually went really well so told you guys that we were focusing on changing mixed numbers to improper fractions and honestly my kids did a really really good job with it they were basically all using that mad strategy where you multiply add and then keep the denominator the same that just seemed to be what they were all gravitating for but they were all getting it I'm so excited about that and hopefully that will make tomorrow's lesson on like adding mixed numbers and then when we start subtracting mixed numbers a little bit easier then we had Chromebooks so we did not get to science or social studies because it's way too hard to try to fit in Chromebooks and science in social studies but at least we are on the Chromebooks getting in our math back practice it has just been a little bit hectic like the kids are a little bit crazy I've heard that it's like a super moon or something and I can definitely feel it and like it's just an off week because of the early dismissals and being off yesterday and then coming back on a Thursday so I think that's completely to be expected overall like they worked really really hard math and they were all doing a great job so I'm happy I'm going to enjoy my lunch and I'll catch up with you guys later on so this was super sweet one of the girls who had turned in a handwritten paw print her story and then I typed it up and sent it to them for her so she didn't have to type it cuz goodness knows like my kids are pretty good typers for being in fourth grade but obviously the older you get the better you get at typing because you get more practice so it still takes a long time for them to type things I did not want her poor hands to fall out so I just did it for her but she was super grateful and she made me this little box so cute it just has white duct tape and then she drew my logo and it says pocket full of primary and then there are pencils and I love the one with the little cats so so sweet alright I have made it to the end of the day I don't know why today felt so hectic like we had off yesterday it's almost like a Monday but at the same time tomorrow's Friday so it's like there's that exhaustion from the week but yet it felt like the first day of the week I don't know it was just a weird day but we got through it my math lesson for both of my blocks went amazing so I'm super happy about that I felt like my kids were getting it they've got notes to help them like I feel good about that tonight I'm bringing home their social studies booklets to like mark which ones were right and wrong and I need to print out score reports to send those home tomorrow and I need to print out math score reports to go home tomorrow because my team teacher sent hers home today but I still like kids who had not taken the test so I couldn't send mine home I feel like I'm behind but I will get that done tonight it's all good for now I need to get off here and go home and go for my run so I will catch up with you guys tomorrow [Music] good morning YouTube it is freezing outside it's back into the 20s and yesterday was in the 50s I just don't understand how it changes so rapidly but I am on my way to school I'm gonna get some coffee this morning even though we had early dismissal days on Monday and Tuesday and then no kids on Wednesday like I am just so tired this week and I keep trying to get to bed early but like it's hard because yesterday I don't finish my run until after 6 o'clock and then I have to make dinner and then I had to eat dinner in the night to shower and buy time I actually start working it's like almost 9 o'clock however I take it my plans done for today which because it is a new math unit I had to start my Google slides like from scratch which just takes a little bit longer but those were done and then I also got my social studies assessments like graded which they did it on a scantron and that got sent into the computer and we print out score sheets for them but I also wanted to mark it in their books cuz I'm gonna send their folks home with them that way there's no confusion with which ones they missed so I'm happy that I got all that time that was everything I had my list to do last night so now I'm gonna get to school and try to be productive this morning and during my planning time good morning can I get a medium ice last name with the winter white chocolate Li has these that'll be it [Music] it is now my planning time actually my time is over so I have 30 minutes left I just printed out their score reports for social studies and math from the quarterly assessment so what I have to do is like fold them and then staple it so that they cannot see inside and I can just see their name at the top so that I can hand them out in blocks today it is already the end of the day because I could not blog at lunch since I had a group for lunch bunch but I survived it is like 4:15 4:20 s somewhere around there I have to leave for the gym around 5:00 and before I leave I want to get math homework for next week done so that I am not scrambling to do it on Monday morning so I'm gonna go ahead look through the curriculum get some practice problems and whatnot look through the book that my students have at home and get that all ready to go math homework for next week for both my block one and my block two is officially ready to go the nice thing is because I have this Google slides template like made up all I do is I go in I change the date I type in here like what the different assignments are so they can check them off I type in the skill practice and then if I add anything to the bottom and then most times I usually like staple another page to it so in this case this is from like the online part of our books that our students have at home so I printed that out and then there's another page on the back so super super simple we give it to them on Monday and it's usually due at the end of the week which most the time is on Friday good news is the copier that's like right down here is finally working again so yay and also good news I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here I have math homework ready for next week I kind of know what I'm doing for math on Monday but I'll work on it over the weekend science is ready to go for Monday and I'm gonna go enjoy my weekend because even though this should have been an easy week like having the early dismissals and then having the workday it still just felt like a really long week but it is finally February and you know what January felt three months long so I'm happy that it's finally February I feel like February and March usually go by pretty quickly at least in my experience so we are getting there I cannot believe it's already halfway through the school year second marking period is done a third marking period is underway and I'm already starting to get sad about like losing this class I always feel like it hits me halfway through the air like my time with them is limited and it just makes me sad but I'm gonna go have myself a good weekend I'm gonna end this vlog here if you enjoyed it please give the video a thumbs up and takes a second and it really really helps me out also if you have not already subscribed to my channel what are you doing go ahead and hit that subscribe button down below hit the notification bells that you are notified every time I post a new video I say it every time but it's because I mean it as always thank you for watching I love you all so much don't forget to think positive and I'll catch you all in the next one thank you so much for watching all the way to the end of this video and for supporting my youtube channel if you want to check out any of my older videos you can use the two links right down here if you want to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any future videos you can use the link right up here in the description box you'll find links for my teachers pay teacher's store along with my PPO address if you're interested thank you for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next one

Channel: Pocketful of Primary

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Id: dx42yqNsA-M

Length: 39min 20sec (2360 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 04 2018