Things are Getting Spooky! | Teacher Vlog Ep.14

also something like really creepy happened today I realized I did the wrong worksheet for my observation and the student was like I'm reading I'm reading I forgot my lunch box in my classroom all right guys it is Sunday and I'm about to have to make last room I was gonna do some printing here and then just go to my classroom a little bit later but I just changed the ink cartridge on this pen and my printer and for whatever reason it's printing really weird when it comes to using the black ink it's just like striped all the way through I have no idea how to fix it so I'm just gonna go to my classroom print some things there so I guess they just won't be in color I was gonna get ready but then I realized I should just go to my classroom right now and all I need to do anyways did my hair so I can do that one to come back so I'm gonna go to my classroom but before I go I'm gonna stop at this store I'm gonna buy some Audibel because I have a really bad headache and I'm also gonna buy some Starbucks all right so I'm my classroom I'm about to change the labels for my focus while to like some thinner labels and I'm gonna pose my standards for the week you all right so everything keeps printing kind of weird as you can see only the black ink is like printed really weird card ink is okay so I think maybe just my black ink cartridge was may be damaged or I don't know but this is really bothering me all right so it's Sunday night it's 10:30 p.m. I'm about to go to sleep pretty soon but I just want to show you what I've been working on for a little bit if I can fling them and literally just had fun more did they go oh here there all right so I showed you these apples a little bit ago so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have glue some pom-poms onto them and then I'm gonna have them in a bin then students are gonna get like the giant tweezers from Dollar Tree and they're gonna pick apples and then depending on what Apple they get they're gonna write it down on this recording sheet so I just printed out four and laminated them because I just want them for practice and because I have a pretty small class especially during centers I can tell what kids are doing their work more kids are not doing their work so that's why I don't have them turn this in at least not this particular activity I also printed out my write the room cards for tomorrow and then I also made some parking lot activities so this is my apartment my parking lot activity for counting so I bought some mini diet not ice what are they called Domino tiles and they're gonna count the dots on the tile and then just Park it where it belongs so I have two different cards to have zero to nine and then I also have two to eleven so I'm gonna have that tomorrow I'm not sure if I'm gonna have it at the Center for math or ask a early finisher activity so I don't know yet so that's all I'm gonna do for tonight I'm gonna go clean up and go to sleep I guess it's Monday afternoon and I'm gonna leave it's 353 right now so I did want to stay a little bit later today but I have to go pay my rent so I want to make it to the leasing office before it closes otherwise it would give me anxiety if I say late today was a good day everything went pretty smoothly tomorrow I have my pre-observation conference with my principal and I'm a little bit nervous I'm not gonna lie I have it after school today in the morning as we were coming in one of my students come up to me and gave me this bracelet it's so cute it's just like a little turn bracelet that has different charms on it obviously but one of them is is it says can you see number one teacher and it's so cute she has one just like it that's just like a different thing but I was so like I don't know I wasn't expecting it and it totally made my day so I am gonna wear this bracelet now also when I get home I want to make more centers my printer was still acting a little bit weird but I did still have like three old like in creditors that I have a meaning to send back that way they can recycle them there so I'm gonna be using those I changed my new one for an old one and the printing problem was solved like there was not printing weird anymore so I think it's just that ink cartridge that it's like maybe damaged and I will send HP an email and see they can do anything about it because I use my printer quite a bit so I can't not have access to it if that makes any sense all right so I'm gonna go now and I'll talk to you later if I do anything school-related okay so I just got out of the gym and I stopped by a Walmart just real quick because I want to implement a listening Center and they don't have like a boom box there your thing I have to actually they just don't have the actual like plug like the cord to plug into the wall and anybody can put batteries in in them but I just wanted to see Ballmer had any of them and I didn't really think so and they did have one but it was like $60 so I'm definitely not gonna get it so instead I just got batteries and I'm just gonna see how long that lasts until I can have someone let me borrow an extra one they have maybe or I can find the cord in the classroom because I have not been able to do that and I really really really want to implement any listening Center into my rotations it's so windy today that my hair looks crazy so ignore that anyway it's Tuesday after school and I'm just putting tape on some of our writing journals so I think I showed you my writing journals actually I don't think I showed you on the vlog but I did post them on my Instagram story a few weeks ago so this is what they look like this one's mine I just made the cover the name and then the inside pages are not blank anymore like they were last month they are like this so they have room for the prompt and I totally forgot this week but I am gonna print out a bunch of prompts and they're gonna cut them and they're gonna glue them there so you so that way we remember what we're writing about in case whatever they write doesn't look like anything and then a room for their writing so I like pirate days I was yesterday so yeah we have those what we have her writing nails so I just secured the spine I guess with duct tape and I just use some mint duct tape because it's only one I could find but I think it ended up looking cute because it kind of looks like a pumpkin like right I don't know I ended up liking it so I'm gonna go ahead and put them back where they go so we used to store our journals in the back with IKEA magazine folders I like IKEA cardboard magazine holders but because your water fountains right there they would get wet and soggy and I just didn't like the way they looked so I just grabbed a few of my target bins that I'm not using anymore because I did condense my classroom library and we're just looking here right here I just have all my books that I'm using for read Aloud's and my plate over how my kids are not allowed to use for the rest of the week because once again they got some on the carpet and I have no idea how because they're only allowed to use it right here and somehow it ends up like and somehow it ends up like all around here so that's kind of annoying I had my pre-observation conference after school because I had my first formal observation tomorrow morning for sex and phonics and honestly it was a little bit nervous to go into the pre-observation just because I don't know it's just a little bit nerve-wracking it's the first time I'm ever doing it and I came out of it just feeling excited for tomorrow so I feel like that says a lot about your principal if after your pre observation you feel excited about your formal observation so I'm excited and um kind of excited to see how it turns out and I'm not as nervous as I was before I went into my approval servation meeting alright so what I'm gonna do right now let's just clean up a little bit I'm gonna set out a few things that I want my mom cheers to do and I'm gonna set out centers I also want to set up the Kindles because I decided that if we're gonna be using them we are not gonna use the Wi-Fi on it was because for the past I don't know how many days like all last week I couldn't get yeah it's been like over two weeks that I have not been able to successfully get the Wi-Fi to work and if it works it only works on one Kindles so obviously does not cook because I have at least two students on the Kindles every day so oh yeah today was so frustrating with the Kindles because I was trying to connected to the Internet to download this one thing that I need for the Kindles and it just wouldn't connect I even tried to connect it to mine to like my hotspot with my phone and it wouldn't connect either so obviously it's not necessarily like a Wi-Fi problem at the school it's something with the Kindles I think even my own personal Kindle would not connect so what I ended up doing is this is my personal on Kent oh by the way I downloaded this read app right there with a W and it's called WPS office and if you look at and if you have Kindles in your classroom all you have to do is look for mobile office for Kindles so so then I bought two games from teachers for teachers like PowerPoint games that we're going to be using for the Kindles that way we do not that way we do not need Wi-Fi for them to work so this is what the app looks like let me just this is what the app looks like and as you can see I have two things already on them this one was shared with me and honestly I don't really know what it does like I think it's just yeah yeah I think this one you just and you just go through letters so they're just essentially flashcards so this one's not as engaging and interactive so then I also have beginning sounds PowerPoint that I will link down below if you're interested so I just go to this one I press play butterfly and this will show three pictures so then the kids are supposed to figure out what letter is at the beginning of each picture and obviously is gonna be be but it's self-correcting so if they were to pick F there's the sad face that says oops try again when they pick B it makes it sound so then you press lucky mouse and there we go so that's one game that I bought I tried it with one of my students just to make sure that they would be able to do it and he loved it so that's good one thing I don't like about the King knows so much is that it's kind of hard to go back because there's no like home button like the iPads ooh so what you have to do it's kind of hard to teach these kids because they'll forget Ellie's mind well is kind of swipe up see it's not very responsive there we go and then you press this one or the middle one for the home button so that's one so then I also have this one on the Kindles we usually play this one on the smartboard but it'll be great to have on the Kindles as well so this is how we practice sight words so we press w e next and you just practice your sight words like this so we just have so I just have all the sight words that we've practiced so far I also bought another one that I haven't put on the Kindles just yet so I'm gonna do that right now and then I'll talk to us in a little bit okay I was almost about to freak out because it was in copying but it's copy now all I had to do was unlock the Kindle before I did that so it works now you I just finish making the graphic that I'm gonna post on my class so just sorry for parents so they can start signing out for parent-teacher conferences no I'm just using sign appears for parents to sign up before their time slot so if you don't know what sign up genius this is just basically a website that lets you create something like this so parents will receive an email with a link to this and they will just look at the time frames sign up for whatever time frame works for them and their name will appear here alright so I just finished filming a video for Wednesday I filmed what's my teacher bag I filmed a was in my teacher bag video and so by now if you're watching this it's already posted if you haven't seen it go check it out and I'm gonna try to put the link in the description box because I always forget to put things in the description box but I'll try my best anyway right now I already have a few parents I signed up before the parent-teacher conferences I'm going to check those [Music] okay so that clip you just saw was me just kind of practicing or going over my lesson for tomorrow so I kind of already knew what I was gonna do actually have to review one of my things that I did not review okay I have no idea how to play that game um and for the most part I was gonna one see if I got the timing right cuz it's my principle it was gonna take about 20 to 30 ish minutes and I wanted to make sure that the timing was right but yeah I just wanted to practice it just till I feel good about it and for the most part I - this is basically what I do almost every single day from day to day it feels like it changes a lot but at the same time it doesn't so I kind of already know what to expect anyway so I'm gonna go ahead and read over this and a video that's going up tomorrow and then we'll see what else I'm doing alright so I just finished kind of reviewing the game it's actually not as complicated as I thought it was gonna be so now I just kind of want to show you the craft that we did today so since we are learning about flutter 8 we made some little apple crafts and I was supposed to have all about apples but I forgot to make the word I might perhaps make the letter A so actually have one I mean no I can do it I'm gonna put that there and we all meet apples let's see where's mine this one's mine so I cut little Apple shapes with green and red paper so they told me according to what they like better on Thursday like if they like the red apples better they would get red paper if they liked green apples better what they would get green paper and then they were just like rhythm apart into little pieces almost pretending like they were eating the Apple so then they would glue them just on the top or in the bottom and then they put seeds stem-and-leaf so we did that for the little craft today I think it turned out really cute also something like really creepy happen today so let me show you so I have this little gem right here I have two of them so one of them did not work I write too much try to plug this in which is like a little headphone splitter type thing it would just turn off so I decided I'll give it a try with this one and this one worked a lot better so we did our thing whatever in the afternoon I turned so and I turned it off then that in the afternoon it started making a really weird noise like I don't know how to describe it but it was just really weird loud noise and I did not understand why I was making that noise I didn't really know where I was coming from initially because I have never heard that noise before sometimes our water fountain makes a weird noise but I think it's just like the water pressure or I don't know but it was nothing like what this little thing was making so eventually I figured out that there was this one and I kind of took the batteries out but I don't know he was making that noise if it was off so it was a little bit creepy but nonetheless I just took the batteries awful so yeah umm what else did we did today let me show you a game that we've been playing to review with 3d shapes so I have this board right actually let me show you these so have my 3d shapes here and I line them up right here then I also have this board I put it here and it has the same 3d shapes just in a smaller version I have all my kids sitting at the carpet I pick one person to come behind here and they will pick they will like squat down they will pick a shape so let's say you pick a cylinder then they'll stand up not showing the shape so still putting it behind the board and I will pick students to come on up and try to guess what shape they got what shape the person behind the board chose so someone will come up here they will raise let's say they guessed this they will raise it up in the air and they will tell at me cube and then the class will repeat cube and then the person behind the board has to say whether or not it's the same shape so if it's not the same shape then I will pick a new student to come on up and try to guess a shape so we just kind of do it like that I give three chances for them to guess so they're all playing as a team they're playing against me so I'll give him three times it's you right I guess the shape and if they don't guess it then I get the point if they do guess it within those three chances they at the point and they love it and sometimes the one that goes behind the board and I make it really silly and make a lot of noise I like pick my head up the board and to the side maybe silly faces and they love it so that is one game we've been playing for and that is one game we've been using to review 3d shapes and I used a very similar game I also by the way I did not come up with this one of my team teachers it and I loved it so I also played a similar game for 2d shapes but instead of having like actual shapes that could hold I just had the shapes on the Promethean Board so I'm the Promethean Board and it had like little cutout shapes that they would pick from that make sense so that's something we've been doing for shapes showed you this last week but every week we do a letter poster and while I'm drawing it they're also drawing it on a piece of paper so that way they're still engaged and it's not just me drawing things on the paper all right so I finally put together the listening Center thing so if you remember how do those melt like all we already have really laid out and one of my team teachers watches my blocks sometimes and on the vlog that I was saying how on Lakeshore I found this one but I didn't know how to put it together she recognized and she came in is like hey you're just missing that little thing that's up there so I finally put it together and it looks so much better so this is where I'm gonna plan to have my listening Center at all right so it's getting dark outside so [Music] [Music] [Music] it's observation day alright so this is having sensor they're gonna be those letters I saw some Facebook the other days so I'm just putting this on parchment paper and just tracing letters with a couple of them and they're gonna come off like super easily once they dry and then I'm gonna put these letters in a box with white fries - I'll be happy so my students are gonna have to look for the letters and then match where they go so I'm currently feeling a little bit frustrated it's just more of my personal life and I feel like I've been doing a pretty good job dealing with it I'm essentially like the rock of my family that's only my brother my dad at night so but it's hard to be in the rock after family and it's hard doing doing so while like starting off my teaching career is some I'm just feeling a little bit overwhelmed so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clean up here and then just leave him I'm gonna go meet up with a friend that I haven't seen in a while and we're just gonna go get food because I guess she had a rough day - so know that I had a rough day but I'm just feeling a little bit overwhelmed and I am because I'm overwhelmed right now I feel like I'm not productive so I am just gonna clean up and go I am trying to get as much ID as I can for tomorrow because tomorrow I have I have morning duties so it's only you can get things ready before the bell rings but at least I have specials so I have that little bit of time and for the most part have everything ready I'm just gonna get right to my question of the day for tomorrow and then I'm gonna call it a date I seriously have no patience for computers when they free especially this one this one tends to freeze a lot and that reminds me I did order a smaller wireless keyboard for my computer here and if I told you and I also ordered a wireless mouse because I feel like it's very bulky and it takes up a lot of space in my in my desk and it makes it look more cluttered especially because it's black and my desk is mostly white so I ordered a few things and they were delivered today so I have to go pick them up beforehand the leasing office closes always I have that to look forward to I also bought a new mousepad because they this one was already left here from teacher before me and I think and it's really pretty I liked it but I feel like it's a little bit too busy with my desk something they do have a marble print and then just having that on top just kind of looks a little bit too much so yeah but anyway I was trying to show you how I do my question of the day because I don't think I yeah well show you this one I don't think I've shown you this so let me see mmm let me double check it first before I show you because I don't want to show you any students names so I'm gonna go ahead and cover those alright so this is kind of what it looks like this was one of the questions so the day thought we had four last weeks so it just says what is the best letter we have learned about and I'm try to put a yellow box behind the Arcite words so they shouldn't have those words so when I read it I don't say those words they say those words or my students do and typically I have all their names right here but I just cover them real quick so I could show you this and I also have my name on there too so when they are done with morning work they turn it in and then they come up to the permian board let me move this here and they answer it so they'll drag their name to what their answer it's so if I would have picked though I would have left it there and then at the end of it there's a bunch of like names on them and we use their answers for our journal writing in the afternoon so this is what they're writing your notes look like this is just my version so for example I think I showed you a little bit yesterday that question of the day yesterday what has been your favorite class event and I just kind of demo how I want them to answer and what you're going to write with finger spaces and stuff like that so oh but before that we do discuss in a circle our answer so I'll go okay I picked the letter O because I like the sound it makes so I'll give a reason behind my answer and then we'll just go around and then do or go so there's that I forgot my lunch box my classroom I don't wanna go back and get it so I don't think I am and I'm gonna buy like cafeteria food tomorrow they just picked up the package that I was talking about earlier and this was my new mousepad and I know I said the other ones kinda busy this one is kind of too but just the colors a little bit more mellow and I enjoyed this a lot better this looks like it's pretty small like my steering wheel is bigger than it so I like it and it can I reminds me of a Mac or an iMac keyboard I used to have an iMac like a few months ago then I sold because I didn't use it but I love like how sleek it looks then I have right here that's what it looks like so this makes my heart happy [Music] it's Thursday after school and I don't feel very well I feel very tired I feel almost like I'm hot but I want to be like wrapped in a blanket and it's not a good thing I know a lot of my kids have been absent throughout the week and like they've kind of been rotating and I feel like it's finally getting to me and I don't want it to so I'm gonna just clean up organize a few things for tomorrow and then I'm gonna leave because I can't I don't wanna get sick okay so my day just got a little bit better because our lakeshore order came in a few blocks ago I mentioned how we had a little bit of money to spend and this is what I got so let me show you okay so I got these these are judges like DOS stampers which will be great but not for now because we're taking a break from Plato since it just goes out of since it still gets on the floor so until we can handle Plato we will be able to do those I also got these sight-word steps which we which will be fine with someone's staring at me which will be fine with the help of the volunteer this is probably my favorite one this is unlock unlock eight number match so they have a number and they have to find like a right key to unlock it and then I just have some pencil grips because I think it sound like those will benefit from this I totally don't remember why I got these ideas because I had a few dollars left and they really know what else is there just magnetic ones I guess right in white pockets I have five already so now I have 10 more these are prettier right now I'm just kind of organizing this cube organizer because I was using it with stuff like this that we don't use on a daily basis so there's no need for me to have it there and taking up storage so I'm gonna go ahead and put this in a play area and I'm just gonna clean up this a little bit but yes no these are kind of these two pins are gonna be there which is gonna look a lot better than them being thrown around right there and I'm gonna fill out two to Sun home tomorrow [Music] [Music] okay so it's 4:15 and I'm about to head out because I'm gonna meet some friends for dinner so before I leave I wanted to show you what we did um in between one of our rotations for today and I made some Halloween themed I have who has cards there with dis with it alphabets so we played it for the first time today and I just kind of wanted to see how it was gonna go so I wanted to play it once and they like begged to play it again so it was really good they were helping each other and I really liked it so I think I'm gonna keep doing it and I'm gonna make some from math to with numbers and maybe what shapes so happy Friday it's the end of the day and it was a really good day my classroom smells like vinegar because we did a science experiment with vinegar so now it just smells like it and it's kind of giving me a headaches temporarily gonna leave soon for our experiment we had a lot of leftover apples from our apple tasting event so I decided to do an experiment with them I saw this thing on Pinterest where you'll kind of like make a hole on the Apple I like you take out the core what is it called whatever you make a hole and then you put and then you fill the hole with baking soda then if you put vinegar on top of it it's gonna like fizz out and kind of make like a volcano almost so I wanted to do that originally because it was gonna need me by myself at the end of the day I was going to just do the same way that we did a tornado's where I do it in front of everybody we just kind of watch but luckily I had a parent volunteer she was originally going to come to the class from 9/11 but she was running behind so she asked me if I still wanted her to come in I'm gonna say yes and I'm so glad I did she was able to prep materials for all my students so we could all have an apple and see what happens so we all had an apple at our table with a plate with a little container of vinegar they had like little plastic baggies on their hands so like they wouldn't get it on their hand but before all this we did kind of talk about like what we thought was gonna happen if we put the vinegar on the Apple with the baking soda and a lot of kids were like no it's something gonna happen it's just gonna get wet or it's gonna explode or things like that so when we came back from the playground they were able to do it themselves but we have to do it all together and they were supposed to follow my instructions and they were not supposed to talk because we were supposed to be safe and they did such a good job like I'm always so surprised by the way they follow directions like with this and the decorating the cookies and the tornadoes like they always follow directions because they are so eager and they really want to do it so I think that's really cool oh my god my head okay they all love this I'm going crazy and like I just kind of gave him like another round up then I got to put in their Apple and it was really really fun okay here's what you're gonna do with one hand you're gonna get your little cup of water or liquid up don't not yet not yet when I say go and very carefully you are going to put it where the white stuff on your Apple is okay we're gonna see what happens some of you said it's something that nothing's gonna happen so we're gonna find out ready go you can you can use two hands I also did our a craft so if you've been watching my vlogs and you know that every week we do up crafts to go along with a letter of the week so we did it an alligator or a me an alligator so this is what it looks like um I did let my students kind of decorate the background a little bit more because it's kind of plain they all really enjoy making their little crafts also I don't know if I'm gonna vlog I'm gonna blog next week but I don't know about the week after that because we are gonna be on fall break so there's not really much to vlog about I'm still gonna be working I'm gonna work at the daycare that I worked out over the summer just to help out a little bit but I don't know there's gonna be a blog at that weekend and if there's not then I'll post some other kind of video all right so now the doors closed I feel a little bit better um I was thinking about my observation and I feel like it went pretty well until yesterday when I was pulling out the worksheet that I was supposed to for sex in that day I realized I did the wrong worksheet for my observation technically we're still working on the same skills throughout the week so shouldn't be that big of a deal but I had to put in my observation I was gonna use worksheet 26 and I used worksheet no I on my observation lesson plan I had to put that I was gonna use worksheet I'm seven when in reality I was going to use worksheet twenty wait a minute I'm getting confused now No uh-huh I think on my observation plan I had put that I was going to use worksheet 27 and I ended up using the worksheet 26 so I don't know if that's gonna be a big deal or not I hope not and if it is I don't know how a teacher moment I don't know if I talked about this already but I don't think I have yesterday we introduced like little decodable reader so let me show you what it look like so this is what they look like so this is hot hot hot because we already know this letter to somewhere you should know those sounds and we should be able to kind of blend them so I pulled a few students to read those little books with me so I pulled so I pulled two students so I was helping them out and we were like decoding each word and this wants to do I was so excited because he was reading I mean technically I was still helping him a lot but just the reaction or just his or just students reaction was priceless and I made me so happy I almost stirred up a little bit because the student was so excited I was helping the student decode the words and then we would read it together and read the whole sentence to get there and the student was like I'm reading I'm reading and it was so cute and after every single word that the student read the student would still say I'm reading I'm reading and it was just so awesome to see that this is why I wanted to teach kindergarten because I want to see that reaction and with every single student so I was so happy totally made my day yesterday another note so first today with technology today again I think this whole week has been like a weird week for technology yesterday my promethium board wasn't really working I think I've talked about how I have a question of the day every morning so when students finish your work they go and answer the question of the day by themselves with the pen and they drive their name to their answer yesterday wasn't working the panel was like calibrated it because you can see like when you touch the board the little blue icon on the corner would light up so it tells you that it's working or it's supposed to be working but it wasn't doing anything to the board and then I tried turning it off turning it on we started my computer and it just wasn't working luckily it works just fine teh I had also ordered a wireless keyboard a wireless mouse and new mouse pad just to kind of condense like all the bulkiness of my my desk and the mouse was working fine the key word however this was not working and it's so frustrating because I really wanted it to work I was so disappointed at first I thought it was just the batteries that I was using because I do have like pretty cheap like Dollar Tree batteries oh those were the only ones I had with me anyway but then I asked another teacher to see if she maybe had some and she did and hers were like actually like me and brand and those didn't work either so I'm gonna return it and hopefully get a new one the only thing though is I really want a white keyboard so I know there was only two on Amazon that was like Wireless that there was connected to bluetooth so anything I can do that with this computer but hopefully I can get one that works this whole week I've been having issues with my Kindles they just won't connect to the internet when I need them to actually like towards the end of the week they were better but at the beginning of the way they were not connecting so just frustrating because I do have a center of just like tablets where they play like where they play like literacy games and they weren't working so that was frustrating I was on Wednesdays video I mentioned how I was trying to figure out a listening Center and I think I talked about or I don't have I talked about it and I have like those little blue box stereos I have two of them in my classroom however none of them have like that the outlet plug wire thing that you would plug into the wall none of them have it and I can't find it for the life of me so I bought batteries for them and it was working for the first one but the disks that I have kept scratch like skipping which makes no sense because I just opened them like literally that same day and it was just kind of annoying so I tried it on the other boombox there your thing and the same thing was happening so I figured you know what I can just put out my laptop plug in the headphones there and they can do it there and nope it wasn't working the disk was also skipping on my laptop so then I was trying to thing like what can I do what can I do so I figured if I import if I import the audio for my audio disc and just make a playlist on my laptop it should be fine so I tried doing that and it wasn't really working because they I was skipping yes I know you can just look up Rita laws on YouTube or epic I love epic I've been wanting to be able to use in my classroom but unfortunately epic is not compatible at least the app is not compatible with Kindles that's the first thing I tried when I found out that I had Kindles and it's not compatible and yes I think they could go on the browser but again the Wi-Fi is so spotty that it's just not reliable and I don't want to have that as a center and not how it work and just like throw things off if you know what I mean so what I ended up doing is I tried to download a video from YouTube like a read aloud and I transferred it to my personal Kindle and it was working perfectly sorry like the sudden came in and I freaked out but I think I was talking about how I downloaded the video from YouTube I put it on my Kindle and it was working just fine so the kids would just play the video listen to it and then they would do a response sheet to the story and like I said it was working wonderfully yesterday I had two groups do it and they loved it and all the other kids were really excited to get a chance to do it themselves this morning it just wasn't working but I turn on the Kindle and there was zero videos I had put six videos in there with stories and there was none I restarted it I took the memory card out I did so many things to it and nothing was working so I figured okay fine I'll just load them on there again so can I get it to the computer and it wasn't recognizing it so I'm so so annoyed with Kindles right now and it's not even like that the school Kindles are bad or anything it's just I feel just the brand as a whole like I feel like they're not ideal for like apps I think can like obviously Kindles are well-known for ebooks and that's what they're they're meant for but for apps they're not like the strongest tablet out there if I could have it my way in the perfect world I'd probably have iPads iPads are just a lot more responsive they're easier to use a battery lasts longer I think they're just more heavy-duty and like more durable in my opinion I've had really good experiences with iPads before my brother has an iPad he got he has a generation one iPad he got it when it first came out back in the day and it still works like perfectly so that says a lot about iPads my opinion so I think I'm going to try to write a DonorsChoose project that would be great if they got funded and I don't mean like iPads for my whole class I think with four iPads at four or five iPads it'd probably be fine so well we'll see how that goes honestly I'm kind of regretting buying the Kindle because like one of the Kindles that I have here is my personal Kindle that I bought to having a classroom because I wanted to have some type of tablet in the classroom and I bought it during Amazon Prime days so it was a little bit cheaper but I don't think I I personally don't think it's it was worth it especially now because I bought it like for my classroom but I also thought like oh I can probably read books on it too if I want to which I can but I can also do that on my phone so I don't know I'm just I'm a little bit I'm just a little bit frustrated with technology right now I hope that I can get it figured out for next week next week is when I have another observation I think I talked about this a little bit and like a few Clips ago I'm gonna have an observation from my instructional coach she's also going to observe phonics which is gonna look a little bit different than a day to when my principal observed me because I just got this thing from Teachers Pay Teachers where it's like a flip chart for Saxon so instead of me like having to look at that script I guess it's just in the Promethean Board and like worksheets are there but cards are there so it's all there and it makes it super easy so that is why it's gonna be a little bit different I didn't get that until yesterday so that's why I didn't use it for my observation because they didn't have it then but so far I am really liking it if I remember I will put it in the description box below alright so my classroom is not that clean but I am gonna start heading out pretty soon I just have some things to do at home and I think I'm just gonna come back tomorrow for a little bit as well as Sunday it's just to get some things ready but before I go I'm so excited because I have construction paper yay I am running my own instruction paper and aster buys paper because I've been using Astro bytes paper instead of construction paper because I had more of that but now I'm running out of both but you have construction paper I'm so happy I had just bought construction paper yesterday from Target and it was one of these that come like with a sort of paper and that don't come separated but I had a parent volunteer separate them for me so I can kind of know how much paper I have I also had a parent volunteer make these little booklets for me so when students are done with the center early they're gonna work on these yep Oh also I had a parent give me a few Halloween decorations which was really cool so I have this and a banner that I haven't put up yet so this is our a poster for the week and it was kind of hard to come up with any pictures that it were easy to draw I'm covering these because they have names of three girls that have a name as with an A but I liked our pipo store a lot better it was easier to come up with things sure looks cuter [Music]

Channel: That One Happy Classroom

Views: 9,069

Rating: 4.8823528 out of 5

Keywords: Things are Getting Spooky! | Teacher Vlog Ep.14, That one happy classroom, Teacher Vlog, Classroom Tour, Classroom Management, Kindergarten Teacher Vlog, Kindergarten Classroom Tour

Id: msfcACZC2uc

Length: 45min 18sec (2718 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 18 2017