 Good morning friends, happy Tuesday. It is the 16th of April and day is the AZ Merit math test part one. So I have my little letter to my students on the board. We've got the desks all set up. After Easter break, which is this Friday, I'm planning to get the key to our storage unit here at school and I'm planning to bring my tables back into my classroom. I plan to keep about eight desks in my room in addition to my tables that I'm bringing in because I have three circular tables that I will be bringing back. And then I also have my two rectangle tables. I have that one back there and I have my one back there. I also have these three slash four black tables. But I'm gonna try to use tables again next year, not specifically flexible seating. I plan to still assign students a seat, but I really like the idea of having tables instead of desks. I think that it promotes a little bit more organization and I also do a lot of collaboration. So I really would like to just have my tables back and I really don't like the look of the desks and how they don't match. It really drives me crazy. So Friday, my nephew and I are gonna be coming to school and getting my desks out of here and bringing my tables back in. And I should have enough seating for each student to have a seat at a table or a desk. And I won't have as many floor seats. So I'm planning on putting the legs back on the smaller tables that are on the ground and bringing them up so that my students can sit in a chair because I feel like when they were on the floor, like a lot of them would complain. So I also moved a lot of the stuff from upfront so that I could have my kiddos sitting on the floor during instruction time again. And I really wanna do that next year, but I wanna get a rug. And I have one on my Amazon classroom wish list, which is linked down below. So you can go check out the one that I'm planning to get. But I would like to do a rug next year so that that's like a specific spot. I know that I've used sit spots in the past and I like them, but I'm gonna try the rug route and see if that works for me. I don't know 100% yet if I'm really gonna do it. I'm thinking about it. But the desks are set up right now in groups of two. And they're set up in a way that I had the space in the front of the room without so that I can kind of plot where my tables are gonna go. So I'm thinking I'm gonna do small round, small round, big round, and then I'm gonna do my two sets of desk tables. So I do plan on keeping about eight desks, but I'll probably turn them around so that the opening is blocked so the kids can't use the inside of the desk because I want them to clean out their stuff and just be like minimal for the end of the school year. I also put my teaching space over here because I felt like it was more out of the way. And now when I sit at my table, I can have all the kids in front of me and I'm still able to teach in front of the smart board but I have more space for kids this direction because I felt like before they were like all crammed in the front and yesterday it was nice. I was able to walk up front and I had plenty of space because I could get kids back here rather than being cut off at this line. So it worked out pretty good. So I'm testing this out for next year and I also really like the fact that I can stand on this side of the table and sit on this little stool and teach from there if I want to or I can sit on the other side. So I kind of liked that feature too, but yeah. There goes my principal up the stairs. Do you see him? Oh, he's gone. So anyway, that is what is going on up in here. We have testing again today and then our last day is Thursday. So excited. My dormit just walked in so I'm going to stop vlogging and go talk to her for a little bit and then I'll see you guys later. Okay, so I'm gonna sit down real quick and just do the introvert teacher tag and Janice Won created this little tag thing and it's called the introvert teacher tag and what she did was she took 18 questions from Buzzfeed about introverts and she answered the questions that pertain to her as a teacher. Now, before I begin this tag, I just wanna mention that I don't really consider myself an introvert or an extrovert. I feel like I'm somewhere in between so I thought that this, so I thought that these questions would be interesting to ask myself just to see if I am more of an introvert than an extrovert. I feel like a lot of the two different personalities really shine and it just kind of depends on the situation that I'm in. So really quickly I'm just going to answer these questions. Janice Won is the first teacher tuber to do the introvert teacher tag so if you guys wanna go check out her channel I will have it linked down below and okay, I'm gonna get into these questions real quick. So question one, do people call you antisocial all the time? No, absolutely not. I would not really consider myself antisocial. Do they try to convince you to be more outgoing? I definitely don't think that I have any problem being outgoing unless I'm in a situation where I feel inferior I guess. So I think that I would say that like in staff meetings I'm not very outgoing like I don't usually raise my hand or wanna talk or share out but it's funny because I will talk and share out on YouTube to thousands of people and not to my own staff. I don't know why. Do people ask if you are depressed or okay? I guess sometimes people ask if I'm okay just if I'm not like super bubbly and full of sunshine. So I feel like if I'm having an off day where I'm my more introverted self then people wonder what's going on. Do people ask you what you're thinking about? No, not really. I guess I'm usually one to explain what I'm thinking. Do you take breaks to recharge? Sometimes when it's my prep during recess I have like a 15 minute afternoon recess. I will just sit in my room in the dark and just do nothing. Do you take breaks to recharge after spending time with someone? I guess I would say that when like when my husband goes to work I really do enjoy those nights when I'm a little bit by myself. I guess when my husband goes to work I really do enjoy the nights that I have when I'm by myself. Once I put the baby to bed I just like do nothing. I sit, I watch Netflix. I take a hot bath. I enjoy a cup of tea and I really enjoy having that time by myself. Also after I have company for like the weekend like my mom and dad will come for the weekend I'll just like totally enjoy the quiet for a while and where it's really hard to enjoy quiet when you have a toddler. Any chance that I get I will just sit in quiet and enjoy that time. Do you purposely ignore a call if you don't know who is calling because you'd rather not talk to a stranger? Absolutely. If you are an unknown number on my phone I am not answering it. Do you hate when your hairdresser, manicurist or strangers like to make small talk? I kind of do. It's like I don't really know you so I don't really want to talk about like anything with you. I would rather just sit there and be quiet and just enjoy the silence. Do you stare at the ground so you can pretend you didn't see someone approaching? I don't say I stare at the ground. I look everywhere else. So like if somebody's coming up this way sometimes I'll look that way or I'll look at my phone and then when they get closer to me then I'll like look up and give a smile but I'm not like gonna look at the ground. I don't know, I guess I just look away. Do you spend most of your time at a party slowly nursing your drink or eating snacks? Yeah, at parties depending on which party I'm at I don't really attend parties very often or social events or gatherings unless it's like for family but if I do it depends on who's there. There's someone there that I haven't seen in forever then I'll have a conversation but I spend a lot of time at parties eating snacks. Like I'm always by the snack table. And I don't think that's an introvert thing. I think that's a foodie thing. Yeah, if I don't know anybody at the party I'm gonna be sitting on the couch by myself eating my food or like if it's something where my husband is like I'll just be kind of like trailing around behind him. Do people mistake your thinking face for a resting beep face all the time? I'm told all the time that I have a resting beep face and I think it's because I don't really have a very big smile or big mouth. So when I'm just sitting quietly I kind of just do you not participate in events that would involve ice breakers? Technically no because if I have to participate in the event then I do but when the time comes to actually talk sometimes I just don't. Just introducing yourself fear inducing. I always get a little bit hot and like my heart beats really fast and I get a little bit sweaty when I'm put in a situation where I have to like introduce myself but once I get comfortable then I feel like I open up and let go and become a little bit more friendly. Do you like using the internet because you can show your personality without having to deal with people? I don't think it's about having to deal with people. I think I just find myself a little bit more comfortable talking to a camera. I do like to share with people in person but I also feel like I have to be very selective with who I share with because if I over share with someone who doesn't appreciate being shared with then it feels very awkward and I feel a little bit like they're annoyed by me because I'm sharing. So I guess I feel like if I share on the internet then whoever wants to hear it or wants to accept what I'm sharing will take it and if you're not interested in hearing what I have to say then you just won't click on my video. So I feel like it's a little bit easier for me to share online because the person is not in front of me reacting to what I'm giving them and I don't have to deal with people who are not interested. I guess, is that weird to say that? Face to face, if they're not interested I guess it's more like like if I try to share with somebody like in person that I know who doesn't want to be shared with it's harder to read them whereas I can just share with everyone online because they're gonna click if they wanna know. Canceling plans, guys I am really bad at this. Like I'll make plans with someone and then the time will come and I'll just be like, you know, I'm a little tired I don't feel good I think I'm just gonna stay home and I do that all of the time. I've been trying really hard lately in my life not to do that but I have been a person that has done that a lot in my past trying to fix that but I am a person that cancels plans not on purpose, not cause I don't wanna see that person just because I'm like, I would rather be home I'm such a homie. Does everyone try to fight you to be more social but you're happy the way you are? I don't really think that people fight me to be more social I think that it's just like I would rather spend my time at home in quiet just sitting around than going out and doing extravagant things. Like on weekends I usually spend my time at home in my house or just like branching out a little bit here and there to places I know like I'm not a social butterfly I don't attend Christmas parties I don't attend like other holiday events I don't attend a lot of friends' barbecues and maybe that's just because I don't have a lot of friends that are here in the moment a lot of my friends are like out there like Jen she lives in Prescott my best friend Nicole lives in South Carolina Mandy she lives about an hour away however she'll be teaching with me next year so I'll get to see her all the time and I don't really feel like I have like a close tribe of friends where like we all hold events and everyone goes to their each other's houses and like we have social stuff I don't really feel that I have that right now and that is something that I would really like to have because I feel like it's just more fun to have like a close group of friends where you do everything together like you celebrate holidays and everyone comes to kids' birthday parties it's more like I talk to you on a regular basis and I see you on a regular basis our next door neighbors are amazing we see them all the time we hang out with them all the time and so that's really nice but I don't really feel like I'm a person that has to be in a social setting all the time I really do enjoy being quiet and to myself and it works for me so anyway that is the introvert teacher tag if you're interested in participating in that if you feel like you are an introvert or if you're maybe like on the fence of you don't really know which one you are or maybe you're like me and you're both an introvert and an extrovert depending on your situation then go ahead and film the introvert teacher tag I will put the questions down in the description box below don't forget to check out Janice's channel and her video and I'm gonna get back to the vlog so guys happy Thursday I feel like doing my Friday dance like it's Thursday, Thursday gonna get down on Thursday yeah so I'm here at seven, oh, 10 seven oh 10, that's what time it is wow you can tell that I've gotten a lot more sleep today I'm sorry, last night then I did the night before because I have so much more energy and I feel so much better and I did get coffee this morning and I'm gonna share with you what I get from Starbucks I do not get anything super fancy from Starbucks because quite frankly, I don't know what to get and sometimes when I try to get too crazy I don't like what I got so I just get a Trenta vanilla iced coffee with classic and cream that's it and I like the classic and the vanilla because it makes it extra sweet and I like it extra sweet and then I got a spicy chorizo sandwich also I wanted to share some details about my outfit this morning because I have tons of questions about them all the time so I'm gonna try to do that a little bit better you know, than I usually do so my headband that I'm wearing today is by Teaching Joys she has an Etsy shop and I love her headbands because they are $2 cheaper than Naughty's and every time I try to buy a Naughty's headband every time I go on the Etsy shop they're not open like they're out or they're on vacation or whatever so I haven't been able to get my hands on them but Shannon at Teaching Joys makes headbands too she has different styles than Naughty's but they're still super cute and she's actually a local here in Arizona and she has a little one year old boy and we've gotten together and had the boys kind of play but we're planning on having a little bit more fun with that this summer now that her little one's walking oh he's so cute oh my gosh his smile just makes me ah anyway, I'm moving on then my earrings are by Alan J. Dreams and they're on Etsy as well they're also on Instagram and I will link both of these Instagrams down below I'll just put their handles I will put so they're by Alan J. Dreams and I love these because they have like a pinky floral type pattern in there I don't know what that pattern is but I love it and then the tassels are pink with blue I love them I thought they tied in really well with my kimono today which I'm so sorry guys but this kimono is from Target from like two years ago so you probably can't get it but it's long and flowy and I picked it because I'm wearing my lipstick and littles may your strategies be with you shirt again because today's the last math test and I thought well I need like my my vader cape you know so I can flop around the room so this is from Target you probably can't get it at this point in time sorry and then I'm wearing some lulu legging pants because I need to be comfortable today and then my shoes are from Target I love these I get so many compliments on them and I love how they make my legs look a little thin my feet are huge I wear a size 10 but I feel like they make my leg look thinner so I wear them I only wear them with pants though like if I try to wear them with shorts my legs just look chubbier I don't know I don't understand also my friend Becca who's been observing in my class a couple of times she's the girlfriend to my husband's best friend and they work together anyway she came in yesterday to do an observation and teach a small group lesson cause she's studying teaching and she brought me a bunch of books I'm so excited, look at this one tons of magic tree house books which I'm so excited about because my kids are a little bit lower readers and they're going to love these and then a world record book two copies of Charlotte's web so now I have 20 books total I had to check out two from the library so I'm going to add these two because my lovely teammate who's retiring gave me a class set of Charlotte's web so I have a class set of Charlotte's web and I probably will just keep these three copies just in case from the library but now I have 20 books of my own technically I have 21 because I have my own personal copy that I keep super safe in my bookshelf and even though I probably don't need to but this is the color edition that's why it's my special copy it's the one that has the colored photos so I keep this one safe in my own little bookshelf and nobody touches it you don't touch Mrs. Veldeth's Charlotte's web copy no you don't so that's exciting I gotta put those away I think I'm gonna go through my library pretty soon and just toss some of the books that are a little bit too higher level for my kids and maybe donate them to Mandy since she'll be teaching fourth grade next year her kids might enjoy them and because I know that when she cleaned out her classroom she got rid of a lot of books so I think I might just put them in that box and then donate them to her for next year so here's what I'm gonna do yesterday I got all prepped for Charlotte's web and I don't know if you guys watch Jennifer at Genuine Teaching you probably do she's my BFF she and I are both doing Charlotte's web to get, well not together but we're doing it at the same time and we're using the same resource I'm looking around my room trying to find it where did I put it? Oh, it's over by the books wow so I have it all printed and it's organized by section in here and it's just like separated by a sticky note and then let me show you it's by the book umbrella the actual resource is by the book umbrella oh here it is the book umbrella Charlotte's web novel study and the reason why I like this one better than there's one on there's one on Super Teachers 2 which is like if you have a membership then it's free that one is organized well it looks like this this is a Super Teacher one this one is broken up into four chapters each and I just feel like three would be easier to do in a two day period so we're gonna do three chapters every two days so on day one we will do vocabulary and then start reading and then on day two we'll finish reading and do the comprehension and understanding activities and then my teammate also gave me this and it's by Smart Chick Teaching Resources I don't know if this is on TPT it probably is but it's a Charlotte's web stem engineering challenge pack and it has a ton of stuff in here like design a pig pen design a spider web and it's like a plate thing there's a water bottle piggy bank in here super fun stuff so I have those oh yeah piggy bank bottle challenge build a spider challenge so I'm gonna try to look through those and see if I can't like shove a couple of them in in the last like two weeks of reading Charlotte's web because my plans have us reading up until the last Friday before the last week so we'll have the whole last week of school to do like all the STEM challenges that go with it to do all the like after reading stuff like character analysis, studying analysis all the things that come after reading the book and then we'll obviously watch the movie so I'm thinking maybe we could reserve that for the last day of school since our last day of school is a full school day it's gonna be a wild one so I'm thinking like morning watch the movie afternoon board games done so I feel great about the end of the year however, I feel like my room has exploded into a disaster zone so I feel like I'm gonna come in on Friday tomorrow with my nephew we're gonna move some furniture around I think I already told you guys but I'm also gonna try and clean today after the kids are done testing so I'll have them work on like a work menu which I have on the board right now and I think I wanna make a slide for it but I have just like a menu of things that the kids can work on and since we have computers if the kids are done with everything on my menu they can play on a computer game or something like that because we do have the cart since we're testing so I think I'm gonna spend the afternoon cleaning maybe have some kids work on some cleaning projects I did have some kiddos organizing fraction tiles and they have done a really nice job each of these has every single tile that they need so for next year I have these wonderful math manipulative bags and each one of these contains like as much as each kid would need and I have like 35 of them so I think what I wanna do is assign a couple kids towards the end of the year to take everything out of those and then just like recount and make sure everybody has the same amount because I'm thinking next year I'm going to assign each kid one of those have them keep them in their cubbies and then when we're gonna use math manipulatives they just take out their manipulative bag and it's done I don't have passed anything out I don't have to count anything but if I know ahead of time how much stuff is in there then I can plan around how much is in there so I'm gonna do that and then I have these I should have kept up with it but I have these bins right here full of curriculum so like things that I purchased on TPT that I need to hole punch and put in my binders but I actually don't think that my binders are big enough for a lot of the files that I purchased so I need to get a crate I think I have one underneath one of these cabinets that's just holding clipboards and I haven't really used clipboards all year because I use whiteboards as a clipboard like they just flip it over and write on it so I think I might get rid of those clipboards and put them up in the office and see if anybody needs them and then use the crate and do like files and then store that somewhere because I would love to put all the smaller files in these binders so that I can just grab and go but like the big files like my lit studies and stuff I feel like I need just like a thing to put all the big things in maybe even two and I do have the extra tub so I might just do that anyways I am rambling and it is now 7.28 so that means I've been talking for like 12 minutes so I'm gonna go and get started on some of my projects and I'm gonna update my to-do list I need to progress monitor today as well so I think maybe since I have my aid in here maybe when the kids are done testing if they're done before lunch which they were last time about 20 minutes before lunch maybe we'll have her progress monitor and then that's done and over with and I can just continue with my to-do list all right, I'm gonna go eat my breakfast and shut up Hey guys, so I am going to end this vlog here it is now 3.12 and I definitely did a lot of work today when I didn't have students and my kiddos helped me a lot so I'm gonna turn the camera around and show you everything that I've changed and it's actually a lot and I'm really digging what's going on and there's a few things I still wanna tweak and like change a bit but for the majority it's looking the way I want it so these are the desks that are going back to storage and being replaced by tables I kept eight tables to create or eight desks to create two tables and what I did is I turned them around so that the openings are away so that kids can't like put stuff inside it's literally just a table except for this one would not turn and be level cause I only kept tables that were level cause all of these were like different colors different levels, hated them now they look so nice and uniformed and I might even buy some black table cloths to throw over them for like fun so these are all going back into storage and I will be bringing my three round tables back if there's four kids at each round table that will be 12 seats plus four more is 16, 20 and I have 21 students so I can have a kid sit there I can have a kid sit here I can have a kid sit there I can have a kid sit here so this is another thing that I moved I brought my big tall black table from back there and I put it up here because this is my teaching station and I normally don't sit at it I usually stand at it so I thought I would just use this for my teaching place and then this table I think I'm gonna give to Mandy next year cause she's gonna be here at our school next year and her classroom that she's moving into doesn't have very many tables and since I don't need this one because I have those I'm going to save this and just keep it here for the rest of the year and then in August I'll take this into Mandy's room so that she has it so this is what this looks like right now and I love this because I can have all my kids sit in the front here like I do normally I can have them all sit right here and then next year that will be gone but then back here is gonna be all their tables for their work for their collaboration I can fit one, two, three round tables and I can fit everybody in here and I do have the legs to one of my circle tables so I'll only have one floor table and then that one isn't even gonna be used for assigned seats that will just be like another flexible seating option and I might even take two of them away and move them up front just for me to have a place to put stuff up there this table here is going to go to Mandy as well because again she's coming to a classroom that doesn't really have a lot this is a dry erase table I've never really used it since I have my big dry erase boards I just throw them down on top of the tables and they worked us fine also I'm keeping all my chairs because I do plan to have the kids using chairs not stools at my tables except for the one table that will be on the ground they will be using cushions and then if I can get my paws on some legs for those for that circular table I will because I really just I know the kids don't really like sitting on the floor and so for assigning seats I'm just gonna ask the kids who's comfortable on the floor all day and if they are great if they're not I could even have them assigned to this table and then when it's small group time have them move to the floor table that might be even helpful because it's only an hour they'd have to sit on the floor or they can sit on the bench or they can sit on the Ottomans we'll figure it out but there will only be one floor table so that's nice I moved this long thing from over here I wanted there to be more space in the front of the room for kids to sit so this is gonna be my small group area this will be Miss Jane's small group area she's my aide that table will get pushed up a little bit more but for now it's just gonna be pushed up there until I move this and then this I was planning on putting back there for next year but I'm not sure it was between leaving that there which I might actually do now that I'm looking at it and just move my black one over there and make that more of a my stuff thing because this is gonna be my little desk area it's super small because I don't really use it but it's gonna be my space so I might move this here and then I wanna get two smaller short bookshelves to go here to make a small library because I really don't feel like my library gets used that much like all of the books that are there I'm planning on donating a lot of them to Mandy because they're higher level and the books that my kids never touched like I don't need to keep them if they're not using them so I wanted to get two shorter ones to put over there for next year so a lot of the stuff that I'm trying to do and accomplish right now is moving towards what I wanna do next year and I'm trying to get ahead so that I don't have to do it when I come back in August so a lot of the furniture moves I did it now because I have the time I love where this ended up it's centered on the wall it's perfect I don't have to take this paper down this summer so I've just figured I would leave it there and I love where it turned up and then this paper and I love how this fits right here so it's kind of like perfect the way I moved it all I was going to get a horseshoe table but I don't know if I want to because I love how this table doesn't take up that much space and if I need more space I can just push it up against the wall and it's an extra counter space that I can use and then I just pull it out and use it so I kind of like the fact that I don't have that however, now this is not centered so I don't know if you guys comment down below do you like the way this wall looks or should I move this over so that it's centered on the wall I don't know, you guys tell me and then I put this one over here I need to paint this but this will be like where I keep all my small group materials and then I want to get some supplies things you know the ones from Ikea with the little drawers I want to get those and put them up here for next year so that all the stuff the kids use and touch will go in those and then I really want to get a stage you guys like misfits, the one with the storage underneath I really gonna see if my dad can build me one because I feel like it would just be the cherry on top of my classroom so since that will be gone I think that there will be plenty of space for it because then I can have kids sitting back here and it will be perfectly fine but I think that this will be great I think that I really like the space it gives me and I love the idea of having my tables back really love the idea of having my tables back and I just think that it's gonna be way more fun with all the projects we're working on at the end of the year and all the stuff also I had my kids clean out their desks obviously and they put all their things in their cubbies so their cubbies look a little bit messier now that's fine, that's what the cubbies are for so the mess is over there and not out here okay guys, I've been rambling on too long so I'm gonna let you go but thank you guys so so much for watching this week I will see you next week and hope you guys have a fabulous Easter and I will see you next week