 Good morning everyone. Happy Monday. I decided I would try to vlog this week. Today is Monday, August 20th and is 6-11. Normally I would leave a little bit earlier but I have my goddaughter with me today. She actually attends the school that I teach at so she spent the night last night and I'm taking her with me to work. So not a lot of exciting things have been going on. Just me being super busy and like crazy. I got my ring fixed as some of you guys may know. It came unsoddered last school year so I got it fixed and then I just put on some press-on nails because I was struggling trying to find time to get my nails done in addition to planning, YouTube-ing, working out, everything under the sea and so I figured press-on nails is better because I don't have to go anywhere. Nothing. It's just one less thing. So I have all my bags packed and yes I said all my bags because if you're a teacher then you understand that you are also labeled as the bag lady. So let's explore these bags and see what's in them shall we? First bag, lunch bag meaning there's water in there, an ice pack and some crappy food that I threw together because I need to go the grocery store. Second bag, gym bag. I am going to the real actual gym today because my husband said if you'll go with me I'll get you a membership that has a childcare center so we're going to Mountainside Fitness. If you guys go to Mountainside Fitness give me a thumbs up. My purse which has like literally five things in it. I probably could just throw those five things in my teacher bag but I don't because I am stupid. And then of course my teacher bag which has my school computer, my planner and then my teacher math edition. I love this one. It says teacher life got me feeling like hey hey. This was actually from Aiden and Mandy last year as a teacher appreciation gift and it is adorable. Oh my god daughter and I are gonna go to Starbucks this morning. That's why we're leaving so early and then I do have some things to prep when I get to school. So I'll show you what those things are and I just realized how long my hair is getting. I have it up just because I was doing my makeup and stuff but it is getting super long. I'm getting ready to get it done in a couple weeks so remember back in the day when my hair was like kind of darker at the top. Okay well I'm going back to that because again one more thing that I don't have to do. My hair is naturally a dirty blonde so I'm gonna get my dirty blonde roots to come back. That way I don't have to go to the hair salon anymore. Baby's sleeping right in the same room as her. Well next door. So anyways we'll see you at school. What is it? Oh it's a bookmark. You want it? It's cute nice huh? Okay guys so we're in the classroom. We've been busy this morning. We got things all set up for the day. Got my morning slide up. I got my schedule changed. I have my date up there. I've got my anchor charts ready to go and made and then I have my math centers created. So I'm gonna have 12 students on computers today during intervention and then six kids on each one of these centers for like 10 minutes each center and that's it. We've got breakfast ready to go. Bell's gonna ring in like two minutes so I'm hauling but trying to get a vlog moment in here. Aujalee's here. Thank you Aujalee for cutting my stuff. Thank you and yeah we're all set. I think I need to put my kids into groups for intervention but for this week we're just gonna progress monitor and like get a list of who needs what when so I don't think intervention's really gonna be that intentional yet but it will be so yeah. Aujalee you ready to have a great day? She's such a turn. I love you though. I'm waiting for mine. I love you too. Okay that's it. I'm not gonna put gloss on yet. I got this lip gloss from Sephora buck thumb. It's got that plumping stuff in it. Oh yeah okay Bell just rang gotta go get my children. It's like what 108 degrees today is the high and we have an outdoor school so we have to walk around outside. Okay bye love you. Bye. Okay hey guys so per usual by the end of the day my hair is up because it is so hot here that I just cannot stand it being down. So it is afternoon recess time and the kids are out for another seven minutes so I wanted to show you guys the cubbies look really messy right now but I promise you at the end of every day they look really good. That's because we've been using them in and out all day long so I did move the binders from in the cubbies up to the top because they've been really difficult to use in addition to the book bins so what I'm probably gonna do is use the binders as a storage place for past like like corrected work in a place where they can store things but I am I did take the notebooks out of them because I want them to keep those in their book bin and then I'm gonna have them take their math book out of their book bin and keep it under their book bin in their cubby because it's really hard for them to move from place to place with a book bin and a binder. So I've just got them stored up here for now and that's just how it's gonna work. I might end up going to Walmart and getting a couple more of these crates just to kind of separate them by number. So we're about to do autobiographies so I actually had pulled all of their writing notebooks out and I'm gonna pass those out. We've done rounding and I've got about 50-50 right now of kids who really get it and kids that really don't so I think I'm just gonna spend tomorrow on rounding to the nearest hundreds and then I'm gonna spend the rest of the week just making sure that I have a clear understanding of rounding. Rounding is one of those topics that's just never like even in fourth grade they still don't get it so I'm not gonna spend too much time on it but I also don't want them to move on without having like sort of an understanding and right now all of my students understand to circle the digit that we're doing, circle the digit of the place value we're rounding and underline the one to the right. So that's a good start. If we can have that narrow down then we're good to go. So I'm gonna go pick my kids up. We're gonna finish off the day with writing. We're gonna start autobiographies and then it will be the end of the day. Thanks for hanging in there today guys. It's been a wild one. I'm still trying to get organized. Third grade is definitely different than fourth grade and I really want to reflect at the end of my day today so stay tuned. I'll probably see you in like literally a second. Hey guys so it's the end of the day hold on I'm gonna shut my door so I don't get caught vlogging. Alright so it's the end of the day and my teammate and I are reflecting on our lives and I've decided that this transition from fourth grade to third grade is insane and I love them. I like love their age level and like how sweet they are and funny and they're not naughty and like gross but their ability level is so much lower than I'm used to and I'm struggling. So yeah if any of you third grade teachers out there have some advice for me please comment it down below because I need advice. So I'm struggling with my life today guys. It's a transition so like I said third grade teachers if you've been doing it for a while I even talked to Jennifer and she said just you know go really slow and don't dumb it down for them because you need to have high expectations but definitely like take it slow and I feel like I'm taking it really slow but I'd like how much slower can I get. So third grade teachers enter your advice down below. Thank you very much. Good morning everyone happy Tuesday. So I am just in my classroom and I'm getting things ready for the day so I wanted to share with you a little snippet about what I do for my center time. So I usually have my students rotating daily. I don't have them rotate throughout the day but I have them work on one thing each day. So I might go into more detail about this in another video but last year Jennifer gave me the idea to have my students rotate every day instead of during the day if that makes sense. So over here so over here I have my center bins and basically they're separated by math and ELA and my math centers I actually purchased from Jennifer Finley on teachers pay teachers and I love them because they're low prep all I have to do is copy them on colored paper and then cut them out and I do have an aid that will cut them out for me. For the most part they're pretty simple to cut. There is a couple that are more difficult and those are like the puzzle pieces but for the most part they're just cards. So basically what I'll do is I'll have a student like okay you're gonna be on math center one today those students would come over they would read the directions on the card and then they would grab their recording sheet and then these place these playing cards or whatever the pieces are they stay in the bucket and every time a student needs a new one they come over and get a new one and then put the one they were using back. For the most part what I've been planning to do because I haven't used these with my students yet we're actually gonna use them today but I would say okay if you're working on math center one you're gonna be at this table so I would actually just keep the center on this table and then that way they don't have to get up from here go over there and come back. So any student that is working on center one would be here that way they can also collaborate quietly to work on the center and then so they would work on this so our math intervention time is about 25 minutes and so I think that that's plenty of time to get as many as they can done. I don't expect them to get every single one finished and these copied really weird they should have been black and white but I think they came out on orange paper so I had to just copy them that way but same thing for these so these three are math centers and then for an ELA centers same kind of thing except for these are summarizing so these are ELA task cards and my ELA centers are totally different every day so they have a writing center which is from pocketful of primary and I use the monthly writing prompts and then they have a task card center each week they'll have a vocabulary center each week and I am starting to think about what I'm using for vocab I'm probably gonna do something from rooted in reading if we're doing rooted in reading that week and then they also read to self and respond in their reading response journals and these are from teach create motivate and basically I just sliced these composition notebooks in half my neighbor actually did them for me using a table saw so I have one for reading response journals and one for math vocabulary books and so basically I copied the expectations and the actual menus really teeny tiny so they can keep them in there and then they respond every day usually it's one or two boxes and I'm choosing the boxes right now and since we've been working on summarizing the box that I usually choose is box number seven and box number seven on fiction or non-fiction so depending on what they're reading so every week they have a task card center a writing center read to self and then they will have a vocab center and then on Fridays it's going to be ketchup and pickles so this seems to be going well so far and then in their math vocabulary books we just literally write down vocabulary and then I give them like an example so today we're actually going to be filling in rounding and they're gonna just write down the actual steps to rounding so that they have them in their math vocabulary books and they keep these in their book bins which I have my own so that I can be a model for them and they keep those in their book bins and then when they're done with their reading response journals they actually turn them in to this inbox I have two inboxes one is for paper one is for journals so that's what I've been doing with small groups and centers and like I said I might do like a really more in-depth video about centers but I wanted to just quickly explain what I've been kind of doing and also during math intervention students are either working on a math center for the day or they're on prodigy or they're finishing up independent practice or they're with me at the back table so I gotta go to duty in a few minutes I'm gonna go good morning guys so I just walked into my classroom and today is actually my birthday and I'm here at school ready to teach so I just walked in the door and the first thing I'm gonna do is just get my schedule ready for today it is Wednesday so I don't have a special this morning so instead of going to special I would do and it is early release so whatever I'll normally do at the end of the day I'll like move it up to when we do specials so instead of doing specials today we're gonna do writing okay so the schedule is ready to go and so now like I said I'm just gonna organize my things for next week and then get everything ready for the rest of the day guys so it's Thursday it's after school I definitely did not vlog today but it's fine so a parent just came in and brought me this lovely gift thank you so much I got some balloons yesterday so many little sweet things so I'm getting ready to leave but I wanted to make sure that I vlogged a little bit today and I moved a couple things around so I put my black IKEA stools under my desk because I had some kiddos that continually were rocking in them and I just don't want them to break and I don't want my students to fall so I ended up having enough chairs to have four kiddos four chairs under here available if students wanted to sit there this desk is meant for standing but I also have a lot of kids that prefer just sitting in a chair at a table so I put those there I took one away from here so now this is three seats and I do have an aid that comes in during reading intervention so she sits here and works with students either one-on-one or a couple at a time so I thought that this would be a perfect setup for her I've got her little bin there that she works from and then a chair and she likes to sit across from students so I put two there and then I have I still have room for five at my table so when I'm doing small groups I usually have five at a time and then I think I might have to go to Walmart and buy a new black ottoman because this one is so jacked up the for some reason I don't know how but last year the frame came out so like there's no frame on this ottoman so it has to be sat on like diagonally and I just don't like that it could possibly break so I just made some room adjustments and that is everything I'm still learning a lot about third-grade and things that I need to improve on things that I need to do management wise and make sure I have ready to go every day every week I did also open up my windows over here they were closed but I had some things that I wanted to put up in the window so I did that today and then I also organized my intervention table so I have my supply caddy here and in it I just have scissors because they do a lot of cutting out at my back table I have my light switch which I actually need to hang back up because this is usually on when I'm working with students and the kids know not to bug me and then I also have pencils sharpened and they have little flags on them so these are the pencils that stay at my table and if I see this pencil I'll know that it's been stolen from my table I also have enough highlighters here for everyone at the group including me for close reading and then down below in this thingy here to the left I was planning on putting math manipulatives things that I'm using for small group so right now I just have big number lines and paper clips and this is for helping with rounding and then so as I use stuff I'll add it in there and then I also have some reading stuff so I have some like little cards I think these are actually for I'm not sure but these were from the last class that I had so anything that I'm gonna use for reading is gonna go in here and then in this one I have all of my special read aloud books because I noticed when I had them out my students were like going over there to read them and I don't mind that they read them but the covers are already getting ruined and I just want to hide them away and they have to ask and like check it out and then here I have whiteboards markers and erasers for my small group table so when we're doing anything with whiteboards and markers I have enough in here for myself and then six people in case I want to pull six so I have all my small group materials here in this little cabinet and then I have like other things over there that like don't matter but I thought it would be nice to have everything just kind of like behind my excuse me my small group table so that it's easily accessible and I don't have to get up and so that's what I've been focusing on I have a to-do list going for tomorrow morning when I get here and for Monday morning when I get here I am gonna take my computer home tonight because my husband is working this evening so once I get the baby to sleep I am going to do some planning and that's usually when I do it is at nights when my husband's not home because I literally have nothing else to do so I'm gonna go home and I'm just gonna end this vlog here because I feel like it's already really really long and I need to edit and so yeah so thank you guys so much for watching this week I'm fingers crossed hoping I can get lots more vlogging done now that I have kind of like a groove and I'm a little bit more ahead then I thought I was gonna be so yeah stay tuned for the next video thank you guys for watching don't forget to follow me on Instagram at apples and tiara's and I'll see you guys in the next one bye guys