This is What Teaching Should Be Like | Teacher Evolution Ep 3

it is the first day of school and I'm nervous I'm very excited but I'm also very nervous tired last night like a different level of tired than I have been in a very long time like I'm building relationships with them and oh my gosh they get sarcasm like that is so nice because I am sarcastic all the time and my second graders but just like look at me cuz I didn't understand it back to school teacher brain is a real BAE good morning YouTube it is the first day of school and I'm nervous I'm very excited but I'm also very nervous I don't know what it is about the first day I don't feel like teachers ever are not nervous on the first day of school at least I don't think I will ever not be nervous in the first day of school I'm just always worried that there's something that I'm missing as long as all of my kids go home the correct way today I'll consider it a successful day like as long as they learn one thing on the first day of school as long as they don't hate me and they make it home the right way we're good now it has already been a little bit of a rough morning I got out of the shower cut my ankle on the shower door I was bleeding all over the floor then I ended up I know if you guys can see it kind of like by my thumb I ended up burning myself with my curling wand so hopefully the rest of the day is better than that I got up at 5:30 which I got into bed at midnight I probably fell asleep by like one because I was nervous I was thinking a lot so I'm running on like a little bit less sleep than I would like but it's currently 7 o'clock I am getting Dunkin Donuts that is my treat to myself for the first day of school I think I'm gonna get an iced latte and then I'm gonna get to school hopefully by 7:30 now the kids do not start coming in until 855 but I have to be there by 8:05 normally from 805 to 855 we have either like collaborative planning or individual planning or like IEP meeting stuff like that so I wanted to get there extra early today because I do have some stuff to do unfortunately I don't feel completely ready for the day like I feel like I did everything I could to get ready but at the same time I just I don't feel ready but I don't feel like I'm ever gonna feel ready I always feel like there's stuff that I'm missing or that I need to do so I want to just get to school kind of have a slow start to my morning and make sure that I have everything that I need and I will show you all what I got ready over the weekend [Music] morning can I get a medium iced vanilla latte please that'll be it thank you [Applause] there has officially been a casualty of something pulling off that I put up on the walls but it's okay because I used sticky Clips the sticky clip is still up there all I have to do is slide it back in you all will notice I have my new teacher back it's the exact same style of bag is the one that I had before with the black and white chevron it is the zip top utility tote from 31 but this year I got it in the gray color because they did not have the black and white and honestly I kind of wanted the gray color anyway I just think it's very simple and note to solve Michelle do not put any sauce packets in here because they will explode and ruin your bag not once but twice one of the things that I made over the weekend are these little like pails we have to take a lunch count so how many kids one entree one how many kids want entree two how many kids want to grab and go lunch and then how many kids packed their lunch so these are gonna sit over on the counter that is over there kind of by the pencil sharpener but I'll show you guys that once I get it all put together this was an Amazon purchase that happened over the weekend so this is they clip-on cup holder because if you are anything like me you get really annoyed when your drinks like sweat all over the table and it makes it all wet so this just clips on and then it hold your drink right off of that so if you're interested in this I will put my affiliate link in the description box and then these are the file folders that I ordered to go in the black case over there by the door I don't feel like walking over there right now but they're really pretty like aqua blue colors so I will get those put in by the end of the day I also hoarded all of the dollar trees and I got all of these sandwich containers that I could find I think I ended up getting like 15 of them maybe 16 I have two bags worth now I'm probably not going to worry about it this morning but later after my kids leave for the day I'll go ahead and get the rest of the fraction towers put in here and figure out how many more I need and then this is something that I did over the weekend I prepped a ton of labels because if you guys heard my to-do list last week it was mostly making labels so these are some new labels to go in my little mini Sarah Lite drawer labels here these are in my TPT store if you're interested they are editable so I have the labels for these which are all of the letters for my letter board and then I also have new labels for these just to help match because I changed the font and I wanted it to match not that it's a big deal and then here I have a ton of labels so black wine a black - in homeroom these are going to be for the three Sterlite words that are next to each group so the top drawer will be for my homeroom for their morning work journals second drawer will be for my block one for like their science and social studies journals and then the bottom drawer will be for block two so I have a ton of copies of those I have six different copies of those for all six of my groups I made a little sign of for today's date that's gonna go up here on the board above where the date is and then I made signs to go on these for my turn in bin so I have block one block two but apparently I was really tired when I made these because I have two that say block one so I'm gonna have to fix that tonight make a new one I made this little homeroom turn in bin label this is gonna go right on there like that I made this one a little bit thinner because this basket isn't quite as deep and then this is a sign that's gonna go on top of again that little black cart kind of thing by the door whatever you want to call it that's gonna hold it graded papers these are papers that our school has made that I need but our TA to make copies of and then these were signs that I made over the weekend so this is did you highlight your name on your paper my team teachers use this system so we each have a different color so all the kids in mrs. Blatt times homeroom will highlight their names in yellow all those students in Miss Lee's homeroom will highlight there's a pink and so on mine is orange so we're gonna have this hanging by our like turning bins for our students to remember to highlight their names and then this is a school-wide like incentive system cup cheers basically if your class gets a compliment by another adult in the school you cannot give them compliments but if other people give them compliments you make a tally and then when they get to 100 they get a prize and then this is just a little like plastic folder that I got at Dollar Tree it was only a dollar so I don't know how long it will last but for now I'm using it to hold things like this that I make it home and need to bring to school and of course I forgot a couple things I also had to remake my name tags or at least some of them because I had a new student add it to my roster for homeroom and then these are their lunch stick so they're gonna stay in the bin that says lunch count and then they will move it to the other bins that I showed you guys and of course I'm super picky I did not want to hand write their names so I typed them and taped them on and literally just keep finding things I also made all of these labels it's literally just labels for everything around my room so I will try to get those put up later after my kids leave as well [Music] all right it's about 8:30 I've just kind of been doing a couple last-minute things for the school day I've been eating my breakfast which I am just having Greek yogurt drinking my coffee and I wanted to show you guys kind of how I do the first week I like to have powerpoints and just go through it so I don't forget to say anything so here I have just like my good morning sign it gives them the directions for what to do when they come in then I have like a couple talking points about agenda money notes from home classroom donations and then we're gonna be going to cultural arts which is like special so today we have music and PE week Oh like almost first thing we have about 15 minutes and then we have to go so I'm gonna quickly go over that we're gonna go over our schedule for cultural arts and then we're going to talk about hallway expectations because we're gonna be going through the hallway first thing so I always say a four s line silence still straight and smiling and then they have to stop at the paw prints and I always tell them like you guys are the best class you guys need to show the other classes how to do it then we come back from cultural arts and I'm gonna tell them a little bit about myself definitely something you should do on the first day like kids love to know about you so I just tell them some of my favorite things I tell them about my cats my hobbies and interests I tell them about me as a teacher and then I like to tell them what they can expect from me and then in return what I expect from them so they're just pretty simple things but they're definitely important to tell them like straightforward so that your students are aware then we go over hand signals to the bathroom sign pencil sign and water sign because they need to know that ASAP in case they need to use the bathroom talk about what to do when leaving the room they have a sign out sheet that they have to fill out and then we go for emergency procedures because I have definitely had fire drills on the first day of school and it's very important that they know what to do like first thing then we're gonna do a little like get to know you game so we're gonna play this or that so basically I split the room into two sides they have to pick one choice and they move to that side of the room and there's no running so it's just simple things like dogs or cats indoors or outdoors which is worse bad breath or bad body odor just fun little things and we'll go through some of those it's a very easy way for students to see what they have in common with other students without feeling like they are put on the spot happy to talk about themselves I know I don't like to do that so I never want to put my students in that position either the we're gonna sort our supply so we're gonna go through what to keep in our pencil case what to put in the labeled bins that around the back table and then we're gonna go through and label our composition books and our folders then we're going to go over lunch expectations and recess expect the expectations and then we'll go to lunch and recess when we come back we're gonna talk a little bit about behavior expectations we're gonna talk about cup kudos which are their little like stamp cards cup Cheers which is a school-wide incentive and then we're gonna talk about group points I'll talk to you guys about this a little bit later on kind of what I'm doing for behavior management this year because I am not using the clip chart anymore but I'm gonna be using classdojo to give out group points then we're going to talk about homework and writing in their agenda book and we're gonna go through and do it together then we have these truth lessons and like code of conduct lessons that we have to do they're like manda mandated I guess by the county then I'm going to talk a little bit about classroom jobs and tomorrow morning they're gonna have an opportunity to like apply for one if they want it because I only am gonna have like six jobs I might add a couple different ones I haven't decided yet but not everyone's gonna have a job so it'll just be something they apply for if they want then we're gonna do a growth mindset lesson I'm gonna read to them the book giraffes can't dance and we're gonna just talk about like the power of yet and there also is a class dojo video that I'm gonna show on it we'll have a little discussion then they're gonna come up with an academic goal and they're gonna fill out a little like goal sheet I'll show you guys that it's something my team teachers do and they already had copies for me so I'm gonna use that as well then we're going to talk about dear time because my students do have dear time every day at the end of the day for about 15 minutes we're gonna rego over a rival procedure so that my students know what to do the X morning go over dismissal procedures and that will be it and just so you guys can see I decided to do my powerpoints a little bit different this year I am color coding them so Monday's all the sides will be pink obviously we're starting on Tuesday so there aren't any Tuesday will be orange Wednesday will be yellow Thursday will be green and Friday will be blue that way I will make one big PowerPoint for the entire week but I can easily see the different days based on the colors this is the goal sheet that I mentioned that they're gonna fill out like I said it's something my team teachers found so I'm just going with it because right now don't really have time to be planning a ton of stuff so they're just gonna write their name up there in that square they're gonna come up with an academic goal and then they're gonna draw a picture of themselves achieving the goal they're going to color it cut it and then we're gonna have them hanging up in the hallway for back-to-school night which is tomorrow we do not have a lot of time at all to try to get stuff ready so we're just trying to keep it super simple and then just so you can see how I have student desks set up for the first day I totally forgot to do this over the weekend I meant to write a letter to them and I forgot so I had to quickly just get this all ready this morning I didn't even worry about it being cute I literally just typed a letter but it just kind of tells them like you know I can't wait to have a great year with you and then I asked them a bunch of questions and they're gonna write a letter back to me so while the other students are coming in that will be something just to keep them occupied and I went ahead and gave them a sharpened pencil that way if they have pencils but they're not sharpened not everyone is going to the pencil sharpener and thank goodness for pencils that you can buy pretty sharpen because they are a lifesaver I also want to show you guys this I mentioned this in my Amazon favorites video this is a wireless presenter I got mine off of Amazon and mine is just the Amazon brand it's super cheap I will link it for you in the description box but all you do is you plug in the little like USB piece down there in your computer and then wirelessly I can just click the button and have the different things on my slide show show up so usually when I'm using a PowerPoint I am nowhere near my desk I'm hooking around my room so this is super super easy just to keep in my hand and then I can use it as I go okay my students are now at cultural arts I have survived the morning so far overall it seems like a really really good group of kids they were chatty this morning but I'm like it's the first time they've seen each other after the long summer so I can totally deal with chatty it is very tight in here like I feel bad my groups when they quit the stand to do the Pledge of Allegiance like they couldn't get out of their chairs because they're so close together so I'm definitely gonna get rid of those two tables after we get all the supplies sorted so I've been chatting with my team teachers it's about 950 ish and my students are in cultural arts until 1035 which is absolutely amazing so I'm gonna go ahead and just kind of go through the rest of the day through the PowerPoint and make sure that I have everything that I need because I'm paranoid I forgot something and then I'll start prepping the PowerPoint for tomorrow and look at this the sweetest girl ever gave me this beautiful sunflower this morning like seriously I'm so lucky you guys okay I have survived the morning it has already lunch I have such a good group you guys like their chatty but it's the first day so I totally understand with that and I can totally deal with that but overall they seem to be a really good group so I'm counting my blessings so much right now and I'm excited like I am loving fourth-grade so far they're just so much more independent and you can actually give directions and they follow them and they know how to tie their shoes it is a beautiful world my friends so here for lunch it's only 25 minutes instead of a half an hour so I'm gonna eat very quickly then we go outside for recess and then we have to continue with stuff from the morning in the afternoon because we did not get all of our supplies labeled it took us away way longer than I thought it's okay we will get it all done I'm having a great day and I'm excited like my nervousness has worn off I'm now just loving it and I'm excited all right I survived until the end of the day and I don't know why but the first day always flies by and actually I dunno why it's because you have a million things going on but before I knew it it was like 3:20 I was like we need to get packed up and get ready for the end of the day overall I'm in love like my class is really really good my homeroom class like knock on wood that that doesn't change but they're all like amazing and they follow directions and they talk but I'm like you know what I can totally handle that like I like to talk - it's all good overall I'm just I'm excited I'm happy I'm loving my class and I'm just looking forward to a career now it is already 5:10 because my team teachers and I went into what the classrooms and we were all just talking after dismissal which dismissal ended around 4 o'clock at to about 20 minutes but we were in there talking for like an hour so it's now about five ten I've quite a few things I need to get done before I leave here for the day but then I'm gonna go home and I'm going to relax and actually I have a video to edit so I'm gonna go ahead and get working [Music] my head [Music] I am in the process of changing out the labels on these mini Sterilite drawers so I wanted to show you all how I do it you can see this one I just changed out so now it has nurse notes cup kudos and stickers first of all one tip for you guys if your labels are printing out too small and they're not taking up the entire space in the drawer like you can see my label literally takes up the entire drawer you may have to play with your printing settings all printers are different so you might have to increase it over like a hundred percent scale personally I printed these at 107 percent scale so just play with yours figure out what that magic number is so it takes up all of this space or if your printer will print bore if your printer will print borderless if you print it out borderless and you print it like full-scale full-size they will automatically fit within the drawer so then for attaching them I put double-sided sticky tape this is permanent double-sided so this is permanent double-sided tape from scotch and I put three pieces on the front of the label so one in the middle and then one on each side and then I just lift up the drawer and I kind of slide it in there and you'll see I'm kind of bending it backwards because I don't want it to stick until I have it all the way in there and then I just press it in each of those three spots and I'm good to go one thing I did get done during my planning time is getting these blue bins labeled so I have six of them down here on the bottom shelf of this bookshelf the first two are for a map so it has things one and two and then themes three and four and it just continues next to our science and the last two are social studies I'm gonna use these to hold my ICANN statements so I will have all of the themed one ICANN statements together on a book ring and then they will just let me let it add us to the white balance hold on okay there we go so they will all be together on a book ring like this and I'll be able to hang them up and then just take them off and flip them to the next day and when I'm ready to change themes I will just put them back down here in the bucket and grab the next one that I need and a quick tip for you guys I'm currently in the process of hole punching a lot of these labels to hang on baskets and one of my favorite ways to do that is with book rings these are I think they're like quarter inch half inch I don't know I'll have to check but I will link them for you in the description box I have a whole bunch of these little teeny tiny ones and then I just hang them on the basket like that but this is my tip for you guys this little tiny hole puncher it's just a single hole puncher came from Walmart it was literally less than a dollar I think it was like 98 cents is the best hole puncher in the world because it's one of like the easy effort ones so you barely have to press down at all and it will punch through laminated cardstock with ease so you guys can see how strong this blue poster putty is I have had that holding those labels on to these containers for over two years and I still had to like pry them off so I definitely recommend this putty it's super cheap you can get it from Walmart for a couple dollars if not I will link it for you guys in the description box but I highly recommend it you can use it to attach labels and you can use it to attach stuff to the walls so first of all let's start with what I did not get accomplished I did not get these new labels put on the rainbow cart these are labels for those iris scrapbooking containers that are in one of my cabinets that have books and then these are labels for some of the iris containers that have like random supplies in them I did not get those put on however I did get these rainbow little containers whatever they are down here labeled I got this one right here labeled and I got my new black one in block 2 labeled tonight I'm gonna change this side into a four by six that way I can fit it in this little plastic frame from Dollar Tree and it will sit right next to the to turn in bins I got these two bins labeled with papers to go home and Wednesday folders so they're Wednesday folders will take home great at work and then the papers to go home will be things I have to go home in their communication folder basically like a take home folder but I'm gonna put them in this bin that way each day before we leave I can just quickly check the bin if there's anything in there to go home I got my hanging file folders put in this file crate and I got it labeled with my little label that says graded papers and I got this cart labeled with all of my labels for like graded work so all of the graded papers that need to get sorted will go in here all of my homeroom papers will go in here because it'll be both papers from me and from the other blocks will end up going in here all of the three other rooms and then class rosters and then since I got the supplies put away I was able to put these three bins back on my desk so this one this one will be for Box Tops the students turn in this is for our cubby of the week it's like a nomination of a student who's been doing really really well that week and then councillor forms and then I kind of already showed you but just so you can see the finished product I changed the labels on this small mini Sterilite drawer system and this one as well it is about 6:45 and I'm really hot and sweaty so I'm gonna get out of here I am gonna try to bring in a fan tomorrow because it was very miserable in my room today and even my kids were like can you bring in a fan so I'm gonna take one from home and just bring it in because it is very very hot in my room I didn't get everything done like things that I made over the weekend I didn't get all my labels put up I didn't get all if the fraction towers put in the sandwich container so it's okay like it doesn't have to be done today and I'm ready to get out of here I'm hungry I'm gonna go home and eat dinner make sure that I have everything together for tomorrow which I didn't even get through everything I had for today so that shouldn't take long at all because a lot of stuff is gonna carry over and then I have editing to do because my mail haul video was supposed to go up today I did not have time to get it edited last night because I was working until midnight and I need to get it edited today so that is out of the way because tomorrow night is back-to-school night and I'm gonna be here very very late okay PSA hi I'm sitting down to try to edit it's like 953 I think I sat down and started importing footage at like 9:30 social media person I don't know whatever you call it second so I put in my class first and putting myself first and right now this is what I need so I'm gonna get what I can done I'm gonna go to bed and I'm gonna know that it's okay because it'll get done and it will be up before the end of the week and it's so yeah it y'all I'm going to bed I'm just going I'm gonna leave it there you know what I'm trying to say I am packing my lunch before I go to bed that way I don't have to worry about it in the morning and I thought I would just quickly show you guys what I am taking so I have a Light & Fit Greek yogurt this will be for breakfast it's just really easy to grab and eat at school I have an apple to eat when my students go to cultural arts then for the main part of my lunch I have this little like tuna snack kit I love these because they're really easy just to grab and throw on a lunch and they don't have to be refrigerated which is awesome and they're not like horrible for you I know they're not the healthiest thing but it could be a lot worse I could be eating Chef Boyardee if we're being honest with ourselves and then I always like to have something like salty to kind of munch on so I just have a hundred calorie pack of pretzels the main reason I buy these is because they are already prepackaged and I am too lazy to take it back up Etzel and like divide them into little bags because I just do not have time right now and then finally I have a Laura bar kind of as a dessert and sweet treat to have at the end of the day good morning YouTube I got into bed at 10:30 last night which any of you who've been watching my books for a while know that that is like almost a record for me I never go to bed that early but I was so tired last night like a different level of tired that I have been in a very long time like my entire body was just exhausted so I got into bed at 10:30 I think I fell asleep by like 11:30 which is really good for me and I still hit snooze from 5:30 until 6:15 because I was just so tired that's okay I got up at 6:15 I got ready it's now like 7:20 I am leaving I was planning on leaving by 7:30 so since um no I was gonna say since I'm leaving by 720 I can go get Dunkin Donuts but I have to carry you in a big fan to my classroom because it so hot in there my poor kids yesterday we're like begging me like can you get a fan tonight to pretend cuz it was so hot so since I have to carry that in I don't think I would have Dunkin Donuts cuz I don't want to put it in my new bag and have it leak everywhere cuz I'm trying to prevent that from happening with this bag because my old bag was disgusting I'd ignore this like box in my back seat it is full of stuff to give to one of my old team teachers that I don't need anymore I'm gonna go ahead and get to school because when I was laying in bed last night I was like oh crap I need to print out like a job application for my students to fill out if they are interested in one of the classrooms and I didn't do that so I got to school and the first thing I did was go ahead on TPT and try to find a classroom job application and I messed up when I printed it because instead of just printing the single page I needed I printed the entire packet 30 times but that's okay this is the page that I am using so it was editable I was able just to go in and type up the job so I'm just gonna have a few jobs in my classroom because I don't really need to come up with like 30 different jobs that everyone can have one so I'm just gonna have my lunch count person who will help make sure that all of the sticks were put into the lunch cow and then they will fill out the form and take it to the cafeteria my messenger will take things to the office or other teachers when needed my librarian will help make sure that all of the books are like straight and in order my mailman will I cannot talk you guys the mailman will soar all of the graded papers the custodian will help like sweep up the classroom or anything else when needed substitute will fill in for anyone who is absent and then teacher's assistant does basically whatever I want them to do so both of these will be on their desk this morning for like their morning work the classroom job application is optional they only have to fill it out if they want to apply for a job then they're gonna work on this like a few things about me page one of my team teachers found it on TPT it's both front and back they probably won't finish it all today that's okay because I can have it continue into tomorrow and then we did not get to this yesterday honestly most of what we're doing today is stuff that we didn't get to yesterday so my planning last night was super easy we're gonna read drafts can't dance to start to talk about growth mindset we're gonna watch a growth mindset video on classdojo and then they're gonna fill out this banner which I think I showed you guys yesterday we never got to it and then this is the fan that I brought in I had actually gotten this for Billy for like Christmas a couple years ago we're kind of blaming you guys he wanted a fan so I got him a fan but now we have ceiling fans in our townhouse so we don't really need it so I took it and I brought it into my classroom because that's a totally normal thing to do [Music] [Applause] even [Music] so I've just been around my room like labeling stuff and the librarian came in and I was talking to her and then she leaves and I looked down do you guys see all of this dirt oh my please her like talk about making a good first impression all right it is now the end of my planting time I met for basically the entire time with my other team teacher who also teaches math sites and social studies and we just mapped out what we were doing next week so I feel much better now it's probably gonna take a couple weeks of planning with like this new curriculum to kind of get used to it but I feel good like there's so much more curriculum and so many more like options and supplemental materials here that I had before so like it is now lunch time and I actually got through everything I had planned for this morning which is a miracle I finally feel like I'm starting to get into the swing of things which is really nice and you guys I'm in love with my homeroom class like they are amazing and they all like each other and they get along and they're nice to each other and like they follow directions and they listen and oh my gosh it's like an entirely different world like I am loving this like I finally feel like you know this is what it's supposed to be like this is what I envision teaching like I'm actually teaching I'm not just disciplining and like I'm building relationships with them and oh my gosh they get sarcasm like that is so nice because I am sarcastic all the time in my second graders would just like look at me cuz I didn't understand it before theatres get sarcasm like this is literally the best thing in the entire world like I'm in such a good mood and I already noticed it last night when I went home like last year almost every day I would just come home in a bad mood and I felt bad for Pelle cause like he had to deal with it and this year I come home and I'm like I'm excited like I actually want to get up and go to work the next day and I'm just so thankful right now like I really really AM I need to scarf down my lunch cuz we only have 25 minutes and now I'm down to like 20 minutes so I'm gonna hurry up and eat but I will catch back up with you guys later on so of course now I sit down to vlog I'm like great I have makeup all over my eyes oh you guys it is after 9 o'clock I'm literally like Justine home and sitting down for the first time today and I know it's been a while since I blogged I think the loss of my blog was like lunchtime and now like a ridiculous number of hours have gone hi yeah thanks Luna okay we're just gonna continue and pretend there's not an animal walking in front of the camera I know a long time that's gone by since I've walked but it just got very very busy um but I'm in a good mood like normally days like this I used to get home and I'm just like Oh like I don't want to get up tomorrow but I don't feel like that like I'm excited like I want to go back and see my kids so let me just cut it back up for a minute and tell you what has transpired since last time and I blogged alright so after lunch I'm sorry I'm just looking at it like the viewfinder like oh my gosh Michelle you're a hot mess pull yourself together after lunch we had to endure recess because it was pouring down rain now before with second graders indoor recess was like cringe-worthy I was like oh and no recess I loved it with my fourth graders like first of all they were really excited about the stuff that I had so I have like Legos and Lincoln Logs and Jenga blocks and like all the rest sup Rhett words the restaurant stuff and like they were like you're the best teacher ever like very so excited so that made me really happy and they played together nicely what this is newfound territory for me they just played and they were nice of each other and like they all just went off and had their little groups and oh my gosh I haven't loved you guys anyway so then after recess we talked about growth mindset and I read them the dress can't dance book we talked about it I showed them the classdojo video we talked about it and then they filled out their little banner which thankfully my TA was able to get them all like hole punched and strung together on string because after school my team teachers and I had to hang them in the hallway so dismissal ended at like 4:00 which was pouring down rain and for dismissal we have to go out like we're each responsible for a different group of kids and we have to walk them and we have to stand outside until they're gone no thankfully today because it was raining so hard we kind of kept them in until like the last possible second but I have ordered rain boots and I'm gonna keep in my classroom because I'm gonna be saying a lot of time in the rain but anyway so hope dismissal ended I don't know it's like for probably 15 by the time I got back to like my room my team teacher and I were kind of talking we strung up all of the banners in the hallway just cut it for back-to-school night I think I told you guys that tonight to school like I don't even know because back to school teacher brain is a real thing that I'm experiencing right now so I'm sorry if I didn't mention it but tonight was open house back-to-school night whatever you want to call it so we got all of the banners hung up and then the school provided dinner which was like this is amazing the school provided dinner there's a local one not local I guess it's a chain place I think Nando's Nando's Perry Perry that's how it's pronounced I don't know if it is they provided that and like chick-fil-a like sweet tea and lemonade and everything so we got a plate of food my team teachers and I ate together with the exception of one of them she was at a master's class tonight we kind of got ourselves ready with like the powerpoints and everything and we split into two rooms so I was with my other team teacher who teaches reading and like language arts writing and then the other math science and social studies teacher was with the other reading and writing teacher and we just combined in two rooms did the presentation so back to school started at 6:30 and they did a presentation in the gym somewhere were kept area somewhere I don't know I don't remember even where we were I think we were in we were in the cafeteria so we did a little presentation and like they introduced all of us and all that and then we go back to our rooms kind of waited for the parents to come and then we did two different sessions just to kind of help with any parents that have kids in multiple grade levels so we did our presentation and then people left more people came in we did the exact same presentation again how did you chat it with the parents afterwards but I have an amazing group appearances you're like I'm so so lucky I'm just unlucky all across the board but anyway talk to them they left and then our principal and like Edmond actually kicked us out of the school like at first we thought they were joking they came over the loudspeaker and they're like all teachers like report to the front we're locking up and we thought they were joking we thought they were doing that to help get like the parents out of the school but they weren't like they were serious they were locking up so I wanted to stay and gets more stuff too in my classroom but I couldn't because I was kicked out it was like 7:45 so I left and I came home but I called my parents on the way home and I ended up talking to them for like an hour and I was just kind of sitting in my car while I finished up the conversation came in and it's now like 9 o'clock so I am now starting to collect my thoughts from the day even though I did eat that was that like 4:45 so I'm kind of hungry again I want to have second dinner and I need to figure out what I'm doing tomorrow like I have a rough outline but I just kind of want to plan it a little bit better fill out my little like PowerPoint that I use every day I need to get editing done and I don't think that's gonna happen tonight you guys I'm so sorry like I'm I'm trying to manage it all and I'm trying to balance it all but like I'm Michael I it's really hard right now because I also have some labels and stuff that I want to make for my classroom because I want to film my classroom tour on Friday so I can have that up for you guys and I feel like that's priority over like this mail haul video so I think I'm gonna spend tonight getting everything ready for tomorrow the and I'm gonna work on making some labels so I'm gonna go work on that because I'm really really tired and I don't want to be up like super late tonight so I'll catch up with you guys in the morning I'll kind of show you what I got done throughout the day like in the afternoon when my students were working on stuff I got some more stuff labeled so I'll show you guys that in the morning for now I'm gonna go wearing and go to bed I mentioned to you guys that I ordered boots for what I have to stand out in the rain for dismissal and I ended up treating myself to Hunter boots which I have wanted for such a long time but they're expensive I'm not gonna lie they're really expensive and it was like I could not pay like $100 for rain boots that's insane but I was like you know what if I'm gonna be standing on the rain like I wanna look cute doing it and I wanna have cute boots so I consider this an investment like if I'm gonna be at the school for several years I'm gonna be standing in the rain for dismissal I'm gonna get cute cheese to do it in so I did invest in a pair of hunter rain boots I will link the ones down below that I got they're just like the original gloss rain boot I went with the high ones so I have like the black kind of shiny ones very basic but I thought they were cute and I don't know I'm happy about it so now I'm gonna take these to my classroom and leave them in there for the next day that it is pouring down rain okay you guys story time I feel like I always have a story um I've logged myself walking out of the townhouse I've logged Luna in the window I walked to my car I get in my car and I go to vlog and my camera is just not it's not working and I don't know what happened I didn't drop it I swear I did drop it cuz I know I have done that before but it's almost like the lens I don't know how well you guys can see it but like the lens is partially like out and it won't go back in and when I turn it on here let me show you guys okay I get this like message cannot attach lens properly and I don't know what happened because I didn't do anything to it like I held it in my hand walk to my car got in my car and suddenly it's not working and I've tried taking off the lens playing it back on I've tried zooming out and zoom you know I've tried turning it on and off and nothing is working so I guess all my good luck that I've been having this week where I've just been like enjoying my life suddenly is not the case anymore but it's okay I'm gonna try blogging on my phone today which I don't usually do so I don't know how I feel about this actually I will tell you how I feel about this I don't like it because I just filmed this entire clip I talked for like four minutes and then I went to watch it back I had the wrong camera going I had the front camera going so I filmed my windshield for that entire length of time but that brings me to my next point I am utterly exhausted I'm not even gonna say I'm tired I'm exhausted like that I think tired exhausted are two different things and I'm definitely exhausted like I don't remember the last time that I was just tired and hopefully it doesn't seem like it but I am and it's more just my body as a whole is just drained and I'm really struggling to be productive right now and that's not like me like usually it's really easy for me to be productive and today I'm just like uh-uh like I'm not feeling it at all and I get it because I've you know I've been getting up it really early every morning and I've been having long days like yesterday I was at school for 12 hours that is insane so no wonder like I get home at 9 o'clock I eat second dinner which I had sooo I got myself ready for today and then I made a couple of labels and like that was it my body was like I'm Michelle you were done stop doing this to me go to bed so went to bed at like midnight not horrible I got a pit 545 which is loon earlier than I wanted to get up that's okay I don't know I'm just very exhausted and if you're not a teacher probably don't understand and you're probably like wow she complains a lot talk to any teacher after the first week of school and I promise they will tell you the same thing like usually I don't complain or at least I try not to complain about like just how much I work and being exhausted but this week I'm like I'm just so wiped but I'm excited like I'm excited to see my class I feel like I'm really starting to build those relationships and like that's my focus to share I really really really want to do that and I feel like it's happening like yesterday during dismissal so our kids kind of go to different rooms for dismissal like I take be door walkers and I take the open door which is like an after-school program and I take van riders and so I had a mix of kids one of the kids from like my homeroom was in there and I overheard him talking to another room he's like talking to another room oh my gosh you guys I overheard him talking to another kid and he was like yeah you need to hope you get this for a for one of your blocks like she's so cool and it just it makes you feel good even though kids always say that about their teacher like they're always like oh you're the best teacher I've ever had like I had a girl she's like you're the best teacher like out of all of my teachers you're the best one I've ever had and I know they say that to all their teachers like I am fully aware but still like it's really nice to hear that so I'm gonna go get Dunkin Donuts coffee because I did not get any yesterday and that was a very big mistake and then I'm gonna get to school and I'm gonna show you my classroom because I did not vlog yesterday for like half of the day because I got so busy and I made a change a pretty big like change within the room or at least a big change for a classroom and I'm gonna show you guys a little bit of progress that I did make with making labels I'm gonna be there late tonight because I want my classroom done like I want all the labels done I want everything is organized as possible so that next week when I start curriculum I can focus on that rather than focusing on my classroom and I need to fill my classroom tour on Friday so I'm gonna get going and once I get there I'll show you what progress I've made yeah remember how I said I was really tired totally missed my turn and ended up at a dead end you guys sent help or caffeine or both can I get a medium iced coffee with the pumpkin flavor and cream please yep that'll be it thank you [Music] because I still have my Coke Zero sitting here that I did not finish and I always finish it so you know that I was busy if I did not finish drinking like vanilla coke Zero so this was kind of awkward I'm not used to vlogging on my phone whatsoever and I wanted to show you guys like those of you who think that I'm really good at balancing everything I was gonna show you that I have 37 unread text messages 37 because I've just been neglecting like even going on my phone because I haven't had time this week but then I realized I can't vlog about that because I need my phone to vlog so this is gonna take some getting used to I told you guys I had a pretty big change in my classroom and this is what I'm talking about I got rid of a table that's like thank you change or anything of my poor kids like especially in these back three groups they went to stand for the pledge of allegiance on Tuesday and they could not get out of their chairs like they could not even scoot back because they were so close together and I was like okay guys this is not okay so I got rid of one of the tables they were in an l-shape and all of the upper elementary teachers are supposed to have that but our principal did give us permission to get rid of them because we have such high numbers this year so I got rid of one I don't want to get rid of both of my tables because I feel like I do need a table like I feel like there's just so many opportunities where I need like if I'm working with a small group of students or even if I'm just working on like making an acre chart or something I feel like I need a table so I got rid of the one over on the side so I was able to push this one over and kind of back so it's more out of the way and I was able to spread out these back three groups and that helped a lot for those like those are pretty good now these front groups are still a little closed I don't know how you get like on the camera it doesn't look as close as a doesn't person especially when like there's two fourth graders sitting there so there's still a little crammed up in the front I thought about combining and instead of having six groups having five so like three in the back two up here but I feel like they're gonna be so many kids at a group and it I might not even have enough room like from here to that back wall to be able to do many kids so I don't know it's a work in progress but taking away that table for now did really help and just to show you guys how cool is this so I have my five like little stools and I got from Ikea they were only like five dollars a piece and when I stack them they perfectly fit under the table like it is the little things you guys that made me so happy also another little thing all of the new teachers that called up to admin yesterday and we got to pick out like spirit wear so they said we could take a sweatshirt or a t-shirt and I'm that person that took a sweatshirt I was like you know what if you're gonna offer it to me like I'm gonna take it but then I thought about it and my room is so hot like what am I ever gonna wear this because it's like 80 degrees in my room every single day but that's okay I got a free sweatshirt so I go to show you guys like my newly labeled stuff and I come in to find this label from the front of this bin has completely fallen off and the label frappin is literally nowhere to be found like it's nowhere I even checked underneath of this little bookshelf and it's not there so no idea where that way but I will have to make a new one and put it on there I dig it all over my recess bins labeled and I feel much much better now and I think it looks really good we did have indoor recess yesterday and my kids did a really really good job of putting everything away neatly like this is exactly how it looked when they put it away like I have not touched anything so I'm really proud of them for that and just a funny story so this like bowling set isn't here now I had it in this container and when I opened up this cabinet to show my kids like the recess games they were like oh you have bowling and I was like oh that's kind of for math but okay like I'll get it out and I mean it's not doing any good like just sitting in there I honestly haven't used it as much as I thought I was like what the heck I'll just start into the recess stuff and let them use it and they really enjoyed it and then I also got these bins all labeled along with all the bins are in here that have a lot of like stem type of supplies that still need to clean out down here but it's coming together so these are just some of the random labels I made last night this is for like the lunch count things because I totally neglected to make a label for the salad choice and then page protectors hanging files notebooks lamination folders file folders and real loud these are all for some of like the flat stare like Tanner's some of the bigger ones that I have in my one cabinet although I'm totally gonna have to make more tonight some of them are empty and like I don't have anything in them yet so I'm trying to think about what I'm gonna use them for and then make the labels this is a replacement label for those turning bins like over there because I completely lost the wine this is for the label for they're like Starlight drawers that are next to their groups because I accidentally made two that said block one instead of having one that said block two this is for that little blue like and then these these are for that little white like three door unit so just to keep over by my small group table nurse notes again some band-aids and then just any small supplies basically I once stuff the hair by the tables that I don't have to keep running over to my desk whenever I need something so the next thing I'm working on is picking out my classroom jobs because I totally left their job applications here last night and forgot to do it last night so I'm now going through and I'm reading their applications cracking me up I just want to show you guys I kind of sorted them into pile so I looked at their first choice and I separated them by the jobs so like for my substitute I only had one kid who wanted to be substitute I've done every job of the list before and I would love to fill it for anyone else so I gave that student substitute and you'll see I just put a yellow star next to it that way when it's time for me to pick jobs again for the second marking period I will know who has already had a job what job they had and that way throughout the year I can try to give everyone an opportunity and like this one this student they wanted to be the messenger there were only were two students who want to be a messenger but I just loved his explanation I should be a messenger because I'm quiet in the hall and I'm quick but I don't ride I forgot to show this to you guys yesterday I had a little girl walk in first thing in the morning and she gave me this little like desk pad of sticky notes it's the little things you guys seriously reattach these labels and this time I just used like clear transparent tape we'll see if that holds but I went down here to adjust these buckets because they were crooked and I found where the block to label win one thing I did get accomplished this morning while my students were on Chromebooks so we just went over really teachings for Chromebooks now you can see all of them at their seats I got an anchor chart prepped for this afternoon we're still talking about growth mindset we're gonna talk about it all week and I wanted to have an anchor chart to kind of model like growth mindset talk is so kind of rewarding things that we usually say like I give up this is too hard and so on so I just kind of did the bare bones of it and then we will do it together in the afternoon probably by far the ugliest anchor turret I've ever made but I'm like you know what I don't care about it being pretty like it the kids don't care it's colorful enough like as long as they get the message that's all that matters but I did get that done so that's one less thing I have to do this afternoon I also got my speakers fixed so we are super super fortunate to have these speakers up in the ceiling so whenever we are playing like a video or music or whatever they will come through the speakers which is awesome but mine was not working and I was actually coming through just like the CPU unit and it was not very loud at all my poor kids yesterday we're trying to watch a growth mindset CEO and they could hear it but I finally figured out how to fix it I just had to move one of the cables around so I feel accomplished for the day so it is now lunch time but my lunch blogs this year are gonna be short because we only have 25 minutes for lunch and I'm used to having a half an hour so by the time I end up blogging I'm down to like 15 to 20 minutes left to eat and eating is one of my favorite things to do so I do enjoy that and I want to make sure that I get to eat my lunch overall though the morning has been fantastic my students are pretty good at the Assembly like way way better than second graders I mean they're able to like sit longer and compared to some of their classes like I think they did a really good job so I'm proud of them for that they earned two cup cheers on the way they got one from our reading teacher and they sorry hair in my face and they got one from our Vice Principal I was like I'll take it came back we did a little game where my students had to get into a silent line so they could not talk at all they had to get in line based on height so they did shortest to tallest and then they did based on birthday so the earliest birthday to the latest birthday and then they did by alphabetical order by their first names so it just helped them to figure out like how to communicate without actually talking it helped abhart begin a build teamwork and they actually really enjoyed it and they did a good job with it so we did that and then we did a code of conduct no we did a truth lesson we do a truth lesson and it was on like making mistakes and how they're not a bad thing and that actually plays perfectly into what we are talking about this afternoon with growth mindset so that worked out really well then they went on Chromebooks and they're gonna be on Chromebooks when we come back from recess for about another ten minutes and then we're gonna work on growth mindset / pretty much the rest of the afternoon then we are gonna do our dear time early typically we have dear time at the end of the day but instead we're gonna push it up and we're gonna outside and we're gonna do a human nut so that's where we have our students like they get all tangled up and they have to hold hands with each other and they're like in a big night and they have to untangle themselves and get into a circle without letting go of any of the hands it's always really really fun I did with my second graders and they really enjoyed it so I'm excited yeah excited to see how my fourth graders do with it especially with this big of like a class I'm gonna have just a huge cluster but hopefully they can figure it out and I will enjoy watching them so I'm gonna go enjoy my lunch because I am starving good news is the hot glue actually held these labels on all day so fingers crossed they can stay on there the rest of the year it is now after school over all the afternoon was pretty good we did a lot on growth mindset you know we watched videos and we read a book and we discussed it we made an anchor turret and all that then we actually had time left at like the very end because we were gonna start dere time at like three o'clock but it was like 2:45 I was like okay we have 15 minutes so we ended up playing like the telephone game where you get in a big circle and someone starts and they whisper something in someone's ear and it goes all the way around and then you check to see if the two things are the same or if it got mixed up somewhere along the way and they really enjoyed that we had our dear time and then we went outside to do the human not it did not go as successfully as I thought that it would it was kind of a hot mess so I split my class up into boys and girls I was like it's gonna be a competition but I had way more girls than boys and I didn't really realize that until like I got out there and I put them in girls versus boys my poor girls like they tried so hard but they just could not get there cuz there were so many of them and then my boys there were only a couple of them but like they ended up just in this huge knot which I know is the whole point but I had to stop them and be like alright guys you need to restart because you're a hot mess and then they restarted and they got it but they ended up instead of one big circle they had like two interlocking circles and I figured out I was like there's no way they're gonna end up in one big circle so I stopped Emal's like you guys are good they started to get frustrated like the boys were kind of bragging and the girls like well that's not fair miss fray helped you and so when we came back to the class we only had like a meander - until dismissal but I just talked to them was like guys we need to work on this tomorrow so we're gonna have some more team-building activities tomorrow and I'm hoping that we can like work on it but overall really good day I am tired like I just sat down like a chair and I was like oh I'm just tired I have a lot I have a lot that I need to get done here before I leave and then I'm gonna have to go out tonight and get a new camera because I am NOT enjoying blocking on my phone whatsoever and I kind of forgot that my camera broke until I sat down and I was like great and I checked I was like maybe it's working after staying there all day no still not working the lens is just like jammed like I said I don't think there's anything I can do and this is the second lens that I've bought for this camera and I really don't want to buy another one so I think I'm just going to upgrade I was actually planning on upgrading to a new camera soon so now is the time I'm gonna upgrade I'm gonna go get that tonight so I need to get busy around my classroom so I'm just saying here at my desk like working on some labels even an apple like that is literally every teacher's dream I know it's the only third day that yeah I know it's only third day of school so like they have plenty of time to mess it up but seriously like look at this you guys I'm so impressed okay we're gonna do some like vlogging while I'm walking around my room trying to clean stuff up because I just called Billy and I proposed the idea to him of us going to Annapolis tonight because I need to go to Best Buy because I need to get a new vlogging camera because my camera is shot and I've already bought a lens for it before and I really don't want to buy another lens and like have something happened to it in a couple months and I was playing on upgrading vlogging cameras soon anyway and I have no idea if I'm even like in the screen right now because I have no like flip camera and I could use the front camera on my phone but it's not as good quality as the back camera I'm trying to like look around why is this in the sink you guys see this like this is what happens when I go around and I'm trying to like clean up I'm just gonna put it here for now I don't even know why it's there but just to quickly show you guys I took off all the labels from all the bins I made new labels but I could not print them because I don't have card stock here so I need to get card stock tonight print them laminate them and I will tape them on tomorrow some of the labels put on here earlier I made the other ones but again I have to print them out tonight I organized this just a little bit I put a little hook there for my like duster I'm trying to do this really quick because I told Billy I was leaving and that was kind of a lie I'm so down here I cleaned this out well actually I just moved it up here that's not really cleaning it out but I put my students extra highlighters and post-it notes in here and then the rest of their extra supplies um let's see I need to move those color bands back over there because I move them because I was gonna put something else there and I changed my mind again I need to go through finish going through and sorting these but I need to get more sandwich containers so yeah this is a box of stuff that I need to like go through and sore but I don't think I can do that tonight cuz Billy's gonna be mad at me if I don't get home in like ten minutes so oh she any my flash drive um sorry this is I don't even know if this counts is like vlogging I'm just kind of taking you guys around with me as I pack up my stuff um overall I feel like I've been really productive I have a lot to do tonight and I know I say that like every night but I really have a lot to do tonight because oh I need to print all that stuff I need to get stuff ready for tomorrow we are switching blocks for the first time tomorrow so I need to just figure out like what I am doing with my two blocks I mean I kind of know but I need to set up like the PowerPoint and everything yeah I need to go to the store and get some like candy for bring this with one hand hold on it's really difficult oh this is like the worst bulk you know I've ever done you guys this is this is my to-do list I need to take home with me yeah I think I'm good to go I just need to grab my stuff and get out of here so I'm picking up Billy so he can go to Best Buy but I just want to show you guys remember that Coke that I had leftover from yesterday I drinking it okay several hundred dollars later I have a new vlogging camera um so I am kind of done with Sony I know Sony's actually pretty decent for cameras but I'm a Canon person and my sit-down camera is a Canon and I love it and I haven't had any difficulty with it and I've had it with this this Sony I know some people said I could like send it in to get repaired but honestly I don't have time for that and I've already replaced the lens before I don't want to go through it again so I ended up getting the Canon GX 7 mark 2 which I have wanted for a very long time I've heard great things about it I'm gonna continue blogging with my phone for tonight just for convenience and then I'll get this all set up and tomorrow you guys can tell me whether or not the quality is any better how you guys like it and we'll see the difference you so I went in for some like jars and a little organizer Billie got chocolate checks and we got a memory foam kitchen mat because that's what everyone needs on a Thursday night because I need to do some laminating and I find these popsicle sticks because apparently over the weekend in my head I thought that it was a good idea to paint popsicle sticks Oh basically I'm kind of assigning like a color to each one of my classes so orange is my homeroom class because all the team teachers talked about it and my homeroom class is going to highlight all of their papers in orange so I decided to stick orange with my homeroom class and I decided to do pink with my morning block so black one and then I also have blue ones somewhere here my glue ones blue is going to be for my block 2 class which is in the afternoon and the reason I am painting these oh of course it's stuck hold on there we go that one comes off easy okay so these are only painted on one side I need to go back and do the other side but I'm going to put their name in the middle and these are gonna be my equity stick so equity sticks are just sticks that you pick out to make sure that you're calling on students like evenly and the reason I have once I painted is so like let's say the blue side sticks up after I call on that student I will flip it and then I'll easily be able to see which sticks I pulled out rather than I used to always like sit the sticks on my desk and then I'd like find them several days later cuz I forgot to put them back in the jar this way I can keep the sticks in the jar this all like at the same time I don't ever have to actually take them out I just take it out read the name flip it over and I know who has been called on and who I still need to call on but yeah more all of the story it seemed like a good idea until I got halfway done painting it didn't finish and here we are our Thursday night still not done okay PSA alert just in case anyone happened to see that last little clipping went oh that's a really good idea no it wasn't at all actually because I'm a really messy painter the paint yeah that it's stuck to all the paper towel so I don't know I don't know if it's worth it right now to like Ripoff these little pieces of favorite towel I feel so stupid you guys oh why did I decide to do this I feel like I'm committed now like I've already torn off all these pink ones and I took the time to like tear off paper towel and now I feel like I have to keep going like I cannot quit now send help time honey now by hand all of these stupid letters that's okay because I figured it out so I went with the poster board setting on my Cricut a lot of you guys have asked me to do like a tutorial video but obviously because I'm just now finding this out like I am NOT an expert with so ever so probably not the best person to do that if I teach myself and I become better like I could definitely get future but for now I'm gonna do do a happy dance because my letters are being cut out of lamination by a machine so last update for the night a because my phone is gonna die and be because my computer battery's low it is about 1:45 in the morning and I'm exhausted I've been productive like I've gotten stuff whoa look at that white balance happening I got a lot of stuff done and I feel good but at the same time I'm still saying you're just thinking like okay I have to get to school early because I have to put like all of these labels onto the stuff and I saw stuff that I have to get ready for tomorrow and I'm just I don't know I'm still overwhelmed and part of me actually considered pulling an all-nighter because like it's already 1:45 I need to get up at like 5:00 anyway like what's another couple hours but then I would like die tomorrow night trying to anyways vlog to have that up for you guys on Saturday so there's just no way and I still have to edit that mail haul video like it has not it has not happened and I don't know you guys like I just feel like I'm failing this week I feel like my teaching has been good but like the rest of my life is just not so I'm gonna get to bed and I will check back in with you guys in the morning good morning YouTube so this is my first time vlogging with my new camera you guys will have to let me know if you notice a difference I don't know so far I like it like I have to get used to the setup of the camera because that's very different but its overall lighter that my other camera and the lens does not stick out as far so I think I've gotta end up liking it I'm excited but I'm so tired right now buddy I mean I didn't get to bed until like 2:00 and then I got a bit sex and I'm just like mm-hmm not a good idea Michelle don't go back to those bad habits I'm trying not to do that I think it's just because it's this first week and I'm trying to focus on my classroom and get that out of the way so after that I could focus solely on planning it is currently 7:20 I am getting to know notes this morning because it's a Friday and I'm treating myself and I'm excited because it's a casual day so I have jeans and then I have my t-shirt this is from a company called the blue envelope I will link it for you guys in the description I'm gonna go get an iced latte pumpkin because pumpkin is back my friends at Dunkin donut and I don't even care how it makes me look I like it I enjoyed the taste I look forward to it every year fall is my favorite time so I'm gonna go get that and then I'll catch up with you guys at school good morning can I get a medium iced pumpkin latte please yep that'll be yet thank you okay I wanted to show you all what I got at Target last night so first of all I got this just a little desk organizer I think was like six or seven dollars it's gonna go inside this drawer cause right now it's kind of a hot mess in there this I didn't get at Target this is from Dollar Tree it was just sitting in my car because it fell out of the bag last week when I brought them in then I got these three jars they're the same as like my lunch count jars that I brought in earlier this week but these I'm actually going to hang them with command hooks like down this way so like they'll just be on top of each other and each different bucket is going to be for one of my like classes for their equity sticks like my homeroom class will have their equity sticks and then my block one class and then my block to class and they're each gonna be color-coded then I got the materials for saving thread which if you have never done saving bread and you teach like Elementary I would say second and above I did it with my second graders and they actually were able to do it they enjoyed it I highly recommend it it's such a fun activity you can google it and find like I mean people have been doing this for years but basically students are gonna work in partners and each partner will have a gummy worm that's Fred they will have a lifesaver gummy they'll have a plastic cup and they'll have four paper clips so basically two paper clips each and when you set it up you put a lifesaver gummy underneath of the cup and then you put a gummy worm on top of the cup and so the gummy worm is Fred and basically this is a boat fred is trapped out in the water he flipped over his bow and his life preserver which is the lifesaver gummy is trapped underneath of the boat so students have to use the paper clips to get Fred up flip over the boat get the lifesaver onto Fred without touching the boat thread or the lifesaver so it's always just a really fun like team-building activity so I decided I would do that this morning for like kind of like a fun Friday activity and I wanted to mention briefly those of you who watch my vlogs last school year you know that I started doing something that I called the teacher three and I started a hashtag for it on social media just hashtag the teacher three so the teacher three is basically each week you're gonna do three things one thing for your students one thing for your classroom and then one thing for yourself I know personally that just really helps me kind of prioritize like I want to make sure each week I'm doing something for my students something to help build relationships something that I know that they're gonna enjoy that they can look forward to I always want to make sure that I'm making my classroom the best that it can be so I like to pick one thing each week to focus on and then I also want to take time for myself and I want to make sure that I'm treating myself so for me that really just helps me kind of prioritize things if it's something you want to participate in tons of people have joined me on social media just post actually have a freebie in my store I'll link it for you guys down below but it has like social media images that you guys can use and you can just like insert pictures into it that's what I do so I want to tell you guys what my teacher 3 is for this week so first of all for my students we're gonna do the saving phred activity this morning for my classroom you guys have seen like I've been just printing labels like there's no tomorrow so I've been labeling everything and that's what I did for my classroom this week and then for myself I got myself this new camera so if you're interested in doing this if you download that free be there are like more directions and there's some ideas of things you can do for your students in your classroom and yourself so I really hope that you guys will join me in this I always had people asking me like what's the teacher three months of teacher three so go download that freebie it will tell you all about it okay so I actually have to get going to a committee meeting so on Friday mornings we have to go to our committees our school actually created like a new teacher committee because there's quite a few like new teachers and I'm actually really happy about that just because I feel like it'll be a good way to get information just about like the school and the county and curriculum observations all that kind of stuff so I to go to my committee I'm gonna try to like sneakily fill this out on there so I don't have to do it my students aren't cultural arts I have to go through up my roster which is over there and I have to fill out my students schedule so I have to put their name on it and then tell them who their block one teacher is and who their blocked to teacher is so I told you guys that I am loving my class how sweet was this in my turn in bin where my students turn in all of their work I checked it and one of my students has been joking with me and he said like his friend works at a candy factory and he was like oh I can get you chocolate and so I was like oh yeah yeah like we'll talk what we'll get will get me hooked up and I thought it was jokey that he actually came in and brought me this Reese's today and it says happy Friday and I think he probably just got it from the store and like it's driving but it's okay I will totally take it by far my favorite candy and then one of my super sweet girls actually the same girl who gave me the sunflower I thought it was on my desk but actually I took it home same girl who gave me the sunflower brought me this there's this little car and it said like thanks for a great first week and there's a chocolate bar and it's dark chocolate which I absolutely love so now it is my cultural art time which is basically my planning time I have quite a bit to get done even though it is now my cultural art time which is my planning time and I have quite a bit to get done I'm gonna use these sandwich baggies and I'm gonna put in there the lifesaver gummy the gummy worm and I'm gonna put it inside of the cup oh and for paper clips for each partner so I need to bag those up and then not only did I have to make the schedules for my students with their blocks but I also have to put it on this letter if that's gonna go home to their parents so I have a lot that I need to get done [Music] all right it is now lunchtime so the saving Fred activity for the most part went really really well like there was a lot of good teamwork they were cheering each other on they were really excited when they finally got it I didn't have a team like break down in tears because they could not get the lifesaver on bread but it's okay we persevered we talked about it I think it all ended up okay but I always just loved seeing them like trying to figure out so if you haven't done this with your cause I highly recommend you try it out then right before lunch we did tell our classes they are like block classes we gave them a copy of their schedules so we'll see how that goes I'm a little bit like kind of on the edge because I'm finally getting to know like my homeroom class and now I have to get to know like all of these other kids so it should be interesting I have a lot of names to learn good thing is I do have several of my homeroom kids in my block one and my block two so that makes it a little bit easier but fingers crossed that the afternoon goes pretty smoothly it's a Friday and it's beautiful outside and I have windows open and it feels good so regardless I'm in a good mood I've eaten three-quarters of that chocolate bar that I got this morning so I'm gonna eat my lunch now and then I'll catch back up with you guys after so I don't think I'm really gonna eat lunch today because now I need to go through and I need to put all of my block one student names on sticky notes and put them on their desk so they know where to sit and then put all of my block two names on blue sticky notes so they know where to sit because our blocks have literally changed up until like half an hour ago so I could not make nametags because they changed on a daily basis so I'm just gonna do sticky notes and once we get it figured out for good then I will end up making nametags hey you guys my first official week of teaching fourth grade is over and I have to tell you I'm in love I know I've always said that second grade is where my heart is and like I only wanted to teach primary but now that I'm in upper elementary I think this is where I'm supposed to be like I am in love with the fourth graders they just get me better and I feel like I can be more myself you guys know for my videos I always have people telling me I talk fast and I said I know like that's how I teach - I teach fast - pace I'm all over the place I'm standing on chairs I'm saying on desks I'm running around the room and I'm talking fast because it engages my kids it keeps them interested it no it just works and it works better for fourth grade than second grade because I have been stopped doing boy I was like am I talking too fast for you guys like no we love it so you know what like it's part of who I am and it's part my teaching style and it works and it works so well with like my kids that I have this year I am in love with all my kids my homeroom is amazing like I am so incredibly blessed and grateful to have them like I love them to death I met my block one for an hour today and my block two for an hour today they both seem really good my black one they have a little bit more energy but that's okay like well we'll get through it my block to where they were awesome and I was all over the place so they can put up with me like we're gonna be good overall I just have amazing groups and I'm excited I'm so excited for the school year I'm so excited to take on the challenge of fourth grade and I'm excited to be in this school in this county and not that there was anything wrong with my school or my county before like I miss my school actually I was emailing the guidance counselor the other day I was like can you get these kids like a hug for me like I really miss them but I just feel like every teacher kind of has their place and where I am now like I feel like I'm home like I feel like this is my place this is where I'm supposed to be I feel like I'm making a difference I feel like I'm actually teaching I feel like this is what I want to come to school and do everyday for the rest of my life like this is what I envision being a teacher being a teacher would be like this is like my dream come true as cliche and cheesy as that sounds like this is just everything falling into place this is I don't know like I just step into my classroom and I loved my classroom before but it just didn't quite feel like me but now I walk in here and I'm like this is my happy place like this is where I want to come to every single day this is where I want to teach my kids I'm just so genuine happy like that's the best way I can put it I'm so genuinely happy and excited and I don't know yeah so I will just leave it at that I have a lot to get done so I felt back to my team teachers are like we're go ahead happy hour' do you want to come with us and I was like I can't I have a lot of labels to put up my room and I need to just make sure it's clean and ready to go so I can fill my classroom torx I told you guys it is going up on Sunday so even though it's not like 100% done I don't think our classrooms are ever 100% done at least I know mine is never 100% done so I'm just gonna film it the best that I can and except that's not done it's okay like this is real life this is my real classroom so you guys will get to see that tomorrow on Sunday so make sure that you guys check that out I'm gonna go get to work and I'll catch up with you guys later on so I totally forgot to take my camera with me but I just drove home to get my carrot because I meant to bring it with me this morning and I needed to make sure that it was in my classroom door so I drove home quickly grabbed it and now I'm back at school okay guys last one leaving because yeah it's not a clock at night all right you guys I'm gonna end this vlog and I'm gonna go on just a slight rant and I know that this is kind of contradict during the fact Khan yeah that sums up right there contradicting the fact that I've had a wonderful week I've had an amazing week probably the best like first week of school that I've ever had but right this second like here's how I'm feeling I am stressed I am overwhelmed I'm exhausted I'm starving just to sum it up so you guys know I'm running on like three hours of sleep I didn't leave school until nine o'clock I have eaten a yogurt that's all I've eaten today because I had to skip lunch because I was trying to get the post-it notes put on their desks for my block and I didn't have dinner because I was working all night in my classroom and it took longer than I thought like it all the labels put on stuff and get it ready for my tour but there were still little things in my tour that like weren't done and that's frustrating I was rushing through my tour and talking super fast and like not being as descriptive as I would have liked because I was worried the janitors were gonna come and kick me out any minute because it was 9 o'clock at night so I'm just frustrated you know and it's currently like 9:30 so Billy and I are gonna go out and grab like a bite to eat because obviously I'm starving and then we'll probably get back by like I don't know 10:15 10:45 10:30 somewhere with this hair you guys can tell I'm tired I still have to edit my vlog this log that you're currently hopefully watching before I go to bed and then it's like tomorrow I have to edit the classroom tour I have to film the intro and outro of the classroom tour I have to edit the mail hall which has to cope next week and I still have to plan for next week so yeah I'm loving my class I'm loving fourth grade I'm loving my school but right now I'm just like holy crap I don't know why I'm so blue right now I think it's cause like the TV predicted on me besides that I'm gonna try to like be positive again overall like message that I hope people get from this video do not be afraid to change grade levels I know it's scary when you're used to a certain grade level and you think that that's a grade level that you always wanted to teach and you think it's at the grade level that you want to teach the rest to your life and then suddenly you change grade levels and you're like I don't like this at all don't be afraid of it because changing grade levels for me I think was one of the best decisions I ever made because I thought that I always wanted to be a second grade teacher and now I'm teaching fourth and I'm like this is what I'm supposed to be doing and I've never felt more sure of something and I have right now another message of this video is just I guess just don't be afraid of change in general you know changing districts and changing schools terrified me because I felt very comfortable in my old score at least I was like starting to feel really comfortable but I've been in my new school for I guess technically two weeks if you cut the teacher week and I already feel so at home their staff is just such a big family and just I don't know I just feel like it feels right and I don't know how to describe that but it's just a gut feeling I feel like this will be the school that I teach at you know for the rest of my teaching career and that's a really really good feeling I know that I will be happy at this school like for decades so long as nothing change his like admin doesn't change and all that like where I am right now I love it I love the grade level I left my kids I love my team teachers I love my admin I love everything and hopefully you guys aren't discouraged by that because I know you guys a lot of times liked my old blogs because I was like having a really rough class and all that and you could relate to that but hopefully you find this like motivational like how happy I am and you know what if you're not this happy then something's wrong because that's what I realized from this week like teaching isn't supposed to be I mean it's hard like don't get me wrong but it's not supposed to be that hard and it's not supposed to make you that unhappy and if you are that unhappy then something's not right either you're not in the right grade level you're not in the right school you're not in the right district you're not with the right like teammates something but teaching should not make you feel the way I felt last school year I guess and hopefully I'm sure someone will end up taking this the wrong way and I'll have like a mean competitive and I'm just gonna delete it because I'm not in the mood for that because I am so on cloud 9 with just my situation and everything in general I'm in love with it and if you're not in love with your job then change something fix something you know maybe not this year maybe not next year but change something because when you feel as good as I do suddenly you're like this is exactly what I spent my entire life preparing for this is what I want to spend the rest of my life doing and this is exactly how I dreamed of it being okay I'm gonna end this log because Billy's like standing in front of me and I'm starving and I'm super tired and I just have a ton of stuff to do so my mail haul video because I told you it's gonna go up on Tuesday and then I was like it's gonna go up on Friday and I still have not edited it because I haven't had time I will have it up for you guys next week I'm sorry that I had to postpone it like I'm so sorry but real life got in the way and I just could not physically or mentally get it done so it will be up next week I'm also gonna do an Instagram live and I talked about it in the mail haul video so you'll get more information on that anyway if you enjoyed this video please please please please please give it a thumbs up engage with me tell me that you liked it leave a comment tell me something positive going on in your life anything don't forget to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any future videos tomorrow you guys will see my classroom tour which you guys have asked up really really long time and I can't wait to hear what you guys think so peace out I'm gonna go stuff my face with some food and edit and go to bed thank you for watching as always I love you all so much don't forget to think positive and I'll catch you guys in the next one thank you 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 a link right up here the links to my social media sites and my teachers pay teacher's store are in the 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Length: 77min 16sec (4636 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 09 2017