 Apples and tiaras. So today I have a really really special video for you. So today I'm going to be talking about my back to school hacks or I guess just how I prepared for the school year and the most important things to me in order to be prepared for the school year. So the very first thing that I want to talk about is number one. So I have 10 hacks here and I actually wrote them down in my notebook so that I don't forget. Also I'm not wearing my glasses again so if I'm squinting I apologize. So the very first thing that I find is really important and it's helpful for back to school is to have an organized closet. Being pregnant it's a little bit different because I only fit in certain things and I have maternity clothes versus regular clothes. So what I've done is I've organized my closet to match my lifestyle. So I have it organized by work clothes, non-work clothes, but right now it's basically organized by maternity and what I can actually wear and then everything else. So I'm going to go ahead and flip to that clip now. So this is an overview of my closet. It does go up pretty high but as you can see it's organized by these are all of my work clothes. So right now these are mostly all my maternity clothes just basically everything that will fit me from now until the baby is here and most of them are clothes that I would wear to work anyways because a lot of my work clothes are like loose baggy dresses and like graphic t-shirts. So I organize everything in the closet by use I guess. This is all of my husband's clothes. These are all of my like normal like most of these I would wear to work if I wasn't pregnant but these are all the clothes that I will be wearing now that I am pregnant. So I have them organized by like pants, skirts, tanks, and like quarter lea- not quarter sleeveless like you know like short sleeve and then I have short sleeve t-shirts and then I've got all my graphic tees here. These shirts should fit me throughout the rest of the pregnancy maybe not towards the very end but towards the beginning of the school year they should fit and then I have long sleeve shirts and then I have a couple of kimonos that I like to wear like over either a tank or like a graphic tee to kind of like dress it up and then I've got a couple of long maxi dresses here and then it goes into like my t-shirt dresses and goes back by length. So these are like short sleeve dresses, longer sleeve, t-shirt sleeve, and then these are all longer sleeve dresses that are necessarily for maternity but they will fit me throughout the rest of the pregnancy. So I have those and then down here I have like heels and stuff that I don't really wear to work and then on this side I have my pants that these are all the like bottoms that have fit me throughout pregnancy and that should fit me through pregnancy and then these are all like the shoes that I would wear to work down here and then underneath you can't really see but these are all my bottoms that I would normally wear if I wasn't pregnant these are leggings so I'll probably wear those those are some like Chico pants from Old Navy things like that but my main reach section is going to be this side and this side and then these are just like sweaters like I have my school sweater and you know whatever. Going along with the organized closet my second hack or what I do to get ready for the school year is I go shopping and I don't spend a lot of money on clothes only because I like to get staple items that I can use all the time. So I'm gonna share with you a couple of staple items that I really like to have in my closet for teaching and the first thing that I want to share is these Chico pants from Old Navy. Now I love Old Navy pants and I love them for teaching because they're really stretchy they're super comfortable and they look very professional so I'm just gonna show you a couple of options they have tons of different colors styles but I do I do have a bunch of these in non-maternity obviously because I'm not pregnant all my life but they look like this and these are just some black and white polka dot ones but they have the nice little pocket flap on the back I don't know if you guys can see that because of the detailing but they're basically ankle length and then sometimes I roll mine up to be like more of a capri or if I want them to be long I leave them long but they're a very skinny tight fitting pant and I really like these because when you can't wear leggings but you don't want to wear like a pant with like a bell bottom or a flare at the bottom if you like the skinny jean look you will love these pants because they look skinny on I also have a pair of maternity pants and these are called I think they're called Pixie or Chico in the store so and they're usually right in the front but I did find a pair of these in the maternity section and they just have the little panel here which I love because I don't like the over-the-belly thing it makes me itchy and I just don't like it and I guess I can wear these after the babies here because you know I'm gonna have a little pooch but same thing they're just maternity version the next staple item that I'm going to talk about is a pair of shoes now the brand that I have is probably not the brand that you will want to get it might be but I bought I invested in a pair of these teaks and the reason that I invested in them is because I've read tons of reviews from teachers that they absolutely love these teaks that they're super comfortable that they last forever yes they're expensive I'm not going to tell you how much I spent on these I'm gonna let you go to the website and go ahead and research that yourself but I did save for them so I can validate why I got them but anyway I love how they fold up so if for some reason I wanted to wear a different pair of shoes for one day and bring these with me that's fine they're super easy to slip on so that's easy for pregnancy and you can get them in all kinds of colors I personally like to have two pairs of flats in my wardrobe this is my only pair of teaks and it is my only pair of black flats I also have a pair of brown flats from Target you can get black flats from Target honestly you can get black flats anywhere but I like to have two pairs of flats in my wardrobe one black one brown to just go with every outfit imaginable okay so moving on to my third back-to-school hack so this kind of goes along with my teacher bag and my teacher bag is actually number five so let's go to number four real quick number four is have a plan and what I mean by that is have a plan for your classroom before the school year even ended last year I got a piece of graph paper and I started drawing what I wanted to do with my classroom I had everything completely set up and ready to go so that when I walked in the door a couple of weeks ago I knew where everything was going to go so that's number four is just have a plan for your classroom okay we're getting into number five and number three which go together so my teacher bag this is going to be just a really quick overview of my teacher bag I will be doing an updated teacher bag video that goes into very specifics of what's in there but it's important for you to have a bag I guess you don't have to but I just like it because it's easier I don't know but my teacher bag is just this backpack from Kate Spade Jennifer and I got these when we went on our IKEA trip they were super duper on sale so if you have a Kate Spade outlet near you I think this was around $70 on sale so it was a perfect buy I like that it's waterproof it's got that like waterproof material and it's just perfect for carrying everything that I need the second thing so this is my third hack and it's actually in the bag so I'm not gonna go into depth because it's in the bag and I'm gonna do a video on that but I do have a makeup essentials I was gonna talk about makeup essentials one thing I want to mention is lip sense lipsticks amazing for teaching and then of course bare minerals powder foundation I love having that in here and I am going to go into more detail of what's in this bag like I said in a separate video so oh my phone just went off sorry the next part which is also part of number five is to get a planner now you can get any kind of planner that you want I personally do not like having a lesson planner because I plan on planbook.com and I use the planner from genuine teaching so Jennifer's planner from her TPT store I really like using that one just for an overall plan but I really like the Erin Condren life planner because there's enough space in here for me to plan my personal life and also put work related things in here so I'll just kind of show you what that looks like so this week looks like this and I'm not like a super big planner like I'm not gonna go through here and put a ton of stickers and like do all that I just don't have time for that but I do like to write down in different colors I like to coordinate color coordinate everything in red is work related everything in pink is me so and then I usually put a to-do list down here at the bottom with sticky notes because I don't like to crowd everything and then I can still flip up if there's other things written underneath so I really like the life planner because it does allow me to do everything that I would need to do in a lesson planner I just write my less I just don't write my lessons in it so I do have some post-it notes here for math topics that my clap my teammate and I put together because I didn't want to write them down yet until they were final so anyway I love this planner I also have a $10 off your first Erin Conjurn purchase down in the description box below so if you're interested in getting an Erin Conjurn planner anything from there click that link and it will give you $10 off your first purchase so number six is to organize your materials out my phone's going off again I apologize as you guys know over the summer I took all of my teaching resources and put them into binders and I'm going to show you that right now and is to get into a routine two weeks prior to school so what that means is two weeks prior to school starting I start getting up early I start prepping my meals for the day I start making a plan and I go to bed early and try to do all the things that I would do in the school year within my day at home so that way it acclimates my body to what it's going to go through when the school year starts again and it's just an easier transition number eight really really important over the summer I did a lot of this and I'm really glad that I did number eight is get organized and clean your house I don't know about you guys but during the school year my house will start to fall apart it gets dirty it gets cluttered and I just don't usually have the energy to clean it deep clean it all the time so I organize everything in my house over the summer I got into a really good cleaning routine so that when the school start when school starts up again I will be in that routine and it'll be much easier for me to keep up with if I start now number nine is plan your year at a glance what I do with this is I get all of my standards that I am working with I don't need to worry about math because I have Eureka but for reading writing social studies and science I pull all my standards together and I decide when I'm going to teach those standards and topics and I write them in my planner and like I said I use genuine teachings planner on her TPT store so she has a really good setup for this it's doesn't it's separated by quarters semesters months and it's really easy to plan a year at a glance so I definitely recommend you plan for a year at a glance it will help you when you're planning your specific lessons number ten I said have a last fling now this means go out and have a fun weekend go out and have a fun night whether it's with your significant other or with your teacher friends or with your other friends or with your family you need to have one last fling before the school year starts that way you can say that you spent that time that you were mentally ready to start school year but that you enjoyed your last moments and I definitely think that that's really important to do so those are my ten back to school hacks I hope they were helpful like I said I will be doing an updated what's in my teacher bag video probably right after filming this video so I hope you guys stay tuned for that so if I'm in the same outfit for like four videos please don't mind me alright guys thank you so much for watching I hope you have a wonderful wonderful school year and if you guys have any teaching hacks for back to school please comment them down below or make a video and link it in a comment as well thank you guys so so much have a magical day hey guys thank you so much for watching till the end of this video and for being here to support my youtube channel don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel as well click the little bell next to the subscribe button it will alert you when I post a new video and will help my channel grow thank you so so much for watching and have a magical day