 Appleton tiaras today is the highly anticipated my favorite video of the year the teacher-tuber secret Santa gift exchange video I am so excited about this year's video and this year's collab because there are so many amazing teacher youtubers that are participating and I'm just so excited and thrilled to be working with them I just want to start this video off by thanking my dear dear friend Darren Nakakihara for always putting this collaboration together and for bringing us all together during this time it's just amazing this community of teachers and I'm just so grateful and so blessed to be part of this community so thank you Darren so much for organizing this if you guys are new to the teacher-tuber secret Santa collaboration basically a bunch of us teachers that film ourselves and put ourselves online here on YouTube but we get together we trade gifts and we get to know each other a little bit better so I'm going to quickly share off all of the teacher-youtubers that are participating in the secret Santa gift exchange this year and I am in fact going to read this list from my iPad because I am 31 years old I'm getting up there in age and I forget all of these names so I am going to read them off for you so I will do my best to read the name and the channel name for you so that you guys know exactly who I'm talking about so we have Darren Nakakihara and of course from Darren Nakakihara if you guys don't follow Darren you need to do that right now his channel is going to be linked right down there below we have Marie Morris from the caffeinated classroom Kate the sleepy teacher Jennifer from genuine teaching CJ Reynolds from real rap with Reynolds Shelley coats from early adventures Kim Hulls from elementary in the mitten Kyle Cohen from Mr. Kyle Cohen and Taylor from the Chronicles of Teacher Tay so if you guys are interested in checking out all of their channels and all of their teacher to our secret Santa videos they will all be linked right down there below so every year we do a little bit of a different gift exchange so we get each other five gifts each gift has a theme so the themes are gift one surprise your buddy with a handwritten note of inspiration do not sign it gift number two surprise your buddy with your favorite snack or treat they might hate it they might love it that's part of the fun so we got to choose a treat to send our secret Santa our favorite treat gift number three your gift should be something that fosters social emotional health it could be another treat use your imagination gift for send your buddy a book that you think they might like it doesn't have to be teaching related but it can be and gift number five the best gift your mission is to get them a $25 gift something that you think that they would love so to find out who I was shopping for you're gonna have to go down in the description below click all those links and watch the videos to see who my secret Santa was all I have to say is it was one of my very very best friends so you will have to click down there to find out I did this opening video a little bit different than I normally do normally I would just sit right here open up all the gifts and then go from there but because I'm not living at home this Christmas I'm actually living in a hotel if you guys are new to the story long story short the house flooded we've been in a hotel for about three months we're getting very close to moving home a few weeks out but we are still not home for Christmas and so I opened all of the gifts at school and I did it on different days so we're gonna get right into the gift opening and find out who was my secret Santa so let's do that so today is Monday November 29th and I'm gonna go ahead and start by opening just one gift today and I'm gonna try to do this like all this week do one gift a day the way it's intended to be done because I don't want to film this in my hotel room that's really not the place I want to do this and also it's just gonna make my week like that much better I'll have something to look forward to every day so this is the box where all of my goodies are and as you can see I have two envelopes here I'm sorry there's a window and press the camera but I'm just gonna open the first one and first of all whoever sent me this I did not peek on the front I knew this was gonna be secret Santa because I don't usually get boxes like this in the mail and I really want to keep this a secret so anyway this is the box thank you secret Santa for making sure everything was packaged so carefully and nicely I love that and so there's two cards here one is for me to open it today and the last one is to open on Friday it says the big reveal so I'm gonna save that until Friday and then everything in here is labeled we've got gift number four five three man this person went all out and gift number five so okay gift number one is always supposed to be a handwritten note so I'm gonna open and read this from my secret Santa sorry I'm a terrible opener I like to just tear it up you know I mean okay first of all how cute is this card clearly I'm from Arizona so we have cacti for Christmas trees here this is the most adorable card I've ever seen I'm gonna have to like hang this somewhere like keep it for the holidays this adorable the inside says wishing you a home full of joy and a season full of magic I love that I love magic so much okay so here's a note I'm going to read it out loud hello to the amazing Charlotte oh my gosh okay I've watched you for a few years now and was so excited to be your secret Santa this has been a crazy year so I hope these gifts bring you a bit more joy this holiday season check the note on each one before opening Merry Christmas your secret Santa and they put music notes around it so if there's music notes around it I have to sing it first of all I love this paper it is a beautiful and adorable and I know this is not CJ Reynolds because I can actually read the handwriting CJ you have beautiful handwriting but homie I cannot read it it takes me a few tries so I know this isn't CJ thank you secret Santa I am hoping that I have joy this holiday season as well so I'm gonna hold on to this and this adorable card I think I'm gonna put it somewhere back here like maybe if I can rip the cactus off I could keep it here forever because I think that's just adorable hello my friends happy Tuesday as you can see in the background I have put up a Christmas tree and I've moved it into two different places I realized that over there it didn't have a plug and over here it does but I still have to get an extension cord whatever but what I've done is I put all of my secret Santa gifts under the tree and so every day I will get to go and pick one out from under the tree today is gift to day and so find gift to now my secret Santa said to make sure to read all of the notes before opening all of the gifts so I'm gonna follow directions here's a little card and it says enjoy a little treat on me one of my favorites gift number two that is so cute I feel like I need to put all these little gifts little cards in my tree because they're so cute and then there was a Reese's in there so delicious Reese's are one of my all-time favorite candies and right now I'm not doing bright line eating I'm just kind of like living life because I'm living in a hotel and it's very hard to measure your food and track all of that when you're living in a hotel so I'm gonna actually enjoy these today not right now I'm gonna wait until after I eat lunch a little bit of nutritious food first and then I will enjoy this delicious king size Reese's from my secret Santa so thank you secret Santa for this delicious treat happy Wednesday friend those today is day three so I'm going to just tear into this oh I love this card it's so cute love it okay so if you're like me I always forget to drink enough water during the school day hope you like this cute water bottle with some reminders oh my gosh I love this idea so day three's gift is supposed to be a promotion of self-care and so I'm wondering I think I'm probably oh this is so cute oh my gosh I love this and it's a glass but I will take good care of it so it's this cute little water bottle I'm gonna use it today it has the little reminders oh my gosh I freaking love this okay this is perfect timing I'm gonna go rinse this out and then fill it up with water yeah needs to be washed but this is adorable thank you so much secret Santa this is amazing I absolutely love it okay I'm gonna go put my little card under the tree and then I'm gonna go fill up my water bottle and start chugging away okay tomorrow's day four which is a book that you think your secret Santa would like so we will see which book my secret Santa chose for me good morning you guys happy day four of secret Santa gift opening I just have to say that I feel really proud of myself for actually sticking to the schedule and not opening everything in one day so high five to me yeah okay gift number four today's theme is a book that you think your secret Santa would enjoy so this is a book that my secret Santa thinks I will like okay I have to be completely honest with you I am not an avid reader reading is not something that I ever make time for I don't hate it I just don't ever do it so maybe this book will be something that I will enjoy okay so here's the little card of the day so cute okay I know you're not a big reader but I could not put down this book I hope you enjoy okay so that means that you've read it secret Santa I love this because when we fill out like we saw this little like guide thing it says like our favorite color and our favorite smell and things like that and it says like your genre of book or something and I always put that I don't like reading or don't enjoy it or I guess I don't make time for it so this person paid attention okay let's see the silent patient cash honey please stop sorry about that okay an unforgettable and Hollywood bound new thriller ooh I like thrillers a mix of hitch cocky and suspense Agatha Christie plotting and Greek trad tragedy Alicia bear baronson's life is seemingly perfect until one night when her husband Gabriel returns home late from work and Alicia suit shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word ooh okay so this is definitely gonna be like something that's gonna keep my interest I'm gonna have to read it and you know what I think I'm gonna read it in class even though I'm not gonna let my students really know what it is when the kids do silent reading I might do silent reading and pick this guy up I love that idea thank you secret Santa for my book I love it now because I'm going to be gone tomorrow gift number five okay so gift number five is just any old gift something that you think your secret Santa would enjoy a personal gift and there is a spending limit but I feel like all of us cheat and go over the spending limit I know I definitely do okay so here's the card for gift number five Merry Christmas to wrap this up pun intended I hope you enjoy something fun I couldn't resist pun intended wrap this up what do we think is it a scarf is it Saran wrap is it a coffee coosie what could it be are you gonna play with lightsabers okay hold on let me finish oh gosh I love the those are so fun I feel like I should wear them today there's more there's more in here secret Santa you did yourself oh my gosh these ones are cute too they're all little like retan rattan retan earrings I love these so cute and the fourth pair I love them thank you okay I'm gonna pick a pair to wear today and then there is a secondary gift here you're supposed to do one present secret Santa you guys love how my kids just in the background being a Jedi a weighted glass never trust an Adam they make up everything that's so cool and I'm a science teacher and this is totally science-y oh my gosh I love it this is so cute I only have one coffee mug here at school so this is perfect what I'm gonna do with it is I'm gonna put it right here by my coffee bar that when I make my coffee in the mornings I can just drink it out of this guy never trust an Adam they make up everything get it cuz like they lie cuz they make up everything is everything's an Adam and now for the big reveal first of all you and your cards are just the cutest every single card has been just adorable so I commend you for that secret Santa this one is the peanuts Christmas I think I need to display this on my desk like in my library section okay all right we've come to the end wishing you a very Merry Christmas from way over here in Boston, Massachusetts oh my gosh musically yours the Chronicles of Teacher Tay Taylor are one of my favorite people to watch reason number one your music teacher I always always wanted to be a music teacher but I definitely cannot read music so I could never do it and you are so funny to watch if you guys have never heard of the Chronicles of Teacher Tay Taylor he is incredible to watch super funny super friendly and just amazing so I'm gonna link his channel right down in the description box below I'm even gonna pop a picture of him right here this is Taylor hey thank you Taylor I love all my gifts so much oh my gosh this is so great okay I feel like I need to reach out to Taylor and be like listen we are like spirit animals because of all of his music and that his love of music I love music so thank you Taylor again for all of these sweet and thoughtful gifts you truly truly just brought joy to my heart and not just because of the gifts but because of all of the thought that you put into them so thank you again Taylor so so much and now you guys for the outro thank you so so much Taylor I am so so happy that you participated this year in the Secret Santa gift exchange it was so nice getting to talk to you on Instagram and thank you so much for all the sweet gifts you were so thoughtful in your gifting and I'm just so appreciative of everything and again thank you Darren so so much for organizing the Secret Santa gift exchange and of course if you guys are interested in checking out all of the other videos and channels you will find all of the links down in the description box below thank you guys so so much for watching and I will see you in the next video Merry Christmas