 Good morning everyone. Happy Monday. I am on my way to Starbucks because I have about 20 minutes until I would like to be at school and so I'm treating myself to a Starbucks. I also am kid-free this morning. Scott is taking cash to school for me so I am able to kind of have the morning to myself which is really nice. He usually does this on Mondays because he has Sundays off and so he doesn't have to you know and he doesn't have to come home from work and then take him to school in the morning so it's kind of nice. He gets you know enough sleep and cash gets enough sleep and then everybody's happy. So I am going to Starbucks and I have no idea what I'm going to get. I can love it when I roll up to Starbucks and there is no line. It just makes my whole day better. Sometimes when I roll up to this Starbucks sorry I just realized my heater is like blasting. Sometimes when I roll up to Starbucks and the line is like way back there I get really discouraged and I'm like do I really want to sit in this line but today I didn't pack myself any water. I didn't pack myself any coffee and I didn't eat breakfast because I knew I was coming to Starbucks. So I was really crossing my fingers that this line wasn't going to be super duper long but they did build a new Starbucks between this one and like out of town. So now we have three Starbucks's in our area so we have the Santan Starbucks. We have and then two Queen Creek Starbucks's now so I think that the playing field is equally split now or at least maybe the busyness of this one moved over there because a lot of people go that way for work and that one's on their way. This one is not on my way to work by any means but it's only a three-minute drive to and from so it's really not a big deal. Like I left at 640 and it's 649 and I'm in line already. So definitely worth it. Good morning can I please get a Trenta sugar-free vanilla iced coffee? Can I um can I do almond milk in that please? Yeah. And then do you have any bacon egg bites? Yes I do. I'll take some of those and then three Trenta waters if I can. You said three Trenta waters? Yes please. Anything else? That should be it. All righty it is to be done 22 today. Thank you. I have some things I need to do around the classroom a little bit today maybe. I need to put my magic school bus thing away. I actually really want to laminate all of these items. I might go and ask my school secretary if I can get those laminated. They do laminate things for us every once in a while but I don't know if the laminator is like working or on or has laminated in it. But obviously like my little classroom laminator is not gonna cut it so I'm hoping that they will have laminate. It was quite the task getting all of this up here with the rat bag but I did manage to not spill anything. And I wanted to show you guys since this is out I gave my kids a test on Friday last week on energy. It was just like a quick assessment of the standard that I had been or standards that I had been teaching. And so I did mark down how they scored. So HP is highly proficient and then P is proficient partial proficient minimal proficient. And then I just tracked it along the three blocks. So the first block I had eight proficient and above. Second block was nine proficient and above. And then third block was seven proficient and above. So my I think my average was I think like let's see eight seventeen twenty four. So twenty four of them were proficient and above. The rest were either partial proficient or minimal proficient. So within my minimal proficient I have at least ten that are either sped or ELLs. And so that like you know the test can be read to them though. Like there's a combination set in the test for them for that specific reason. But I think overall they did pretty good. And my partially proficient like they were really close. A lot of them scored like within a few points of being proficient. So I think they did pretty good. And I do have a remediation quiz for them that's been made. It tests them on the same standards. But it has different questions. So I'm going to give them the chance to do a second quiz this morning. Or I guess the beginning of class today. And whichever score they do better or whichever tests they do better on I will give them their higher score. So I think that that's always a really good thing to do is give kids a second chance especially when they see a test. And it's the first time they're seeing a test like test tests are just harder no matter what like kids kids just don't do well on tests you know. So I like to give my kids a second chance whenever I get the chance. All right so I wanted to update you guys on my plans for next year's school year. So I do have a big change coming and I'm really excited about it. It's going to be a lot of work but I am really really excited. So next year I will be teaching drum roll please. Fourth grade science and social studies. I am not going anywhere except I am moving classrooms. So I'm actually picking up and packing out of this classroom and I will be moving over to where Mandy is currently teaching her current classroom for many reasons. Reason number one Mandy is leaving fourth grade. So Mandy my best best friend you guys have known Mandy if you have been following me for my whole YouTube career then you guys definitely know Mandy. We talked together up in Prescott. We talked together in Mesa and we teach together now. She is definitely my dearest and most special friend not just at work but out in the real world. I just adore her and her family. I taught her son Aiden in fourth grade and I'm just in love with her daughter Millie. She is like best friends with Cash and they're the same age and we just love each other. So anyway she is moving on from fourth grade ELA and I'm not going to tell you guys where she's going yet because I don't know if it's official but I do know that the fourth grade ELA position is opening up here. Mandy's student teacher is probably going to get that position if she interviews. Well so I will be moving into her classroom for a couple of different reasons. Reason number one her classroom is two feet larger than mine and so with being the science teacher I just feel like I would like a little bit more space. I think it would really suit me. Reason number two Mandy has three super-duper long windows that I really like. She gets a lot of good natural light in that classroom and I really need that. I don't do the whole fluorescent thing when I'm not filming a video or like at all I try to keep those lights off and the lighting in her room is just way better. The view from her room is like the whole front of the school. I can see the train tracks. I can see Cash's playground and I really like the idea of being able to like look down and see him. I think that would be really cool and then also her classroom stays really nice temperature all day long. My classroom gets really hot and muggy because I'm tucked in this like courtyard and I'm facing the sun all day long and I just I'm not vibing in here. So next year I will be moving into her classroom. I will take you guys over there so you can see what the room looks like. It's exactly the same lamp as mine. Door, wall, cabinets, TV, whiteboard, everything is the same. It's just facing a different direction. So I will probably more than likely keep my layout exactly the same. I might switch it up a little bit just because I'm realizing now like being the science teacher I don't really need to put an importance on like a class library. Like I still have a class library but it's not like it doesn't need its own space. Like I just need to have the books available. Same thing with like having a countertop for my kids notebooks. Like I just I've learned now that I'm going into my third year of just teaching science and social studies. I really do know what the kids use and what the kids don't use and what needs to have a spot and what doesn't need to have a spot. So anyway that is my big news. I am gonna be moving classrooms but I am not changing grade levels or subjects and I'm really really happy about that. I am also going to be teaching Glee Club next year same as always. I would love to add like a drama class where the kids can like work on theater like reading scripts and stuff but I just don't think that I'm gonna have the time for that. So we'll see you someday. If I ever make it to the middle school level I could do an elective and I could do musical theater and that would be really really cool. So anyway that is my big not so big news. Right my friends so it is my lunchtime and I just spent about I don't know 10 minutes setting up for an escape room that we're gonna be doing tomorrow. I have this Mayan coding stations escape room sort of thing that I found on tbt. I think it's by think tank. That's the name that I'm seeing on the front of it think tank I believe on teachers be teachers and all I did was I taped the clues down to different areas in the room and then tomorrow the kids will be going around in teams trying to solve the mystery. So there's clues like this where they have to like decipher the symbols that go with a letter and then find a secret message and then if they are able to find a secret message on all four clues then they get a certificate saying that they completed a Mayan Empire puzzle and that they win and each if they if they pass then they each get a starburst. So that is what I just spent my lunchtime doing as you can see I've got a station there a station here one up front there and one on the whiteboard here so I just spent a few minutes setting that up and now I'm going to eat my lunch and just kind of relax. I have grades that are due on Friday this week they're actually not due till Monday but I'm giving myself till Friday to do them so I do need to go and peek through a couple of scores on some tasks and just update a few grades and then my lunch is over in about 13 minutes so I'm gonna try to get as many of those entered as I can in the next 13 minutes and then I usually try to focus on like one class at a time so like one block at a time that way I keep track of what I've done and what I haven't done so I'm gonna sit down and do that and I'm eating school lunch today because I forgot lunch and we had no groceries so I'm eating pizza sticks and marinara sauce so nutritious but that's how it is today. So I decided to take the fourthies outside today to practice their lines because it's a beautiful day out it's like 75 degrees there's a slight breeze beautiful day got some shade so they're practicing their lines with their teams. Alright guys so it is the end of the day it is about 425 ish and Cash and I are getting ready to go to the gym so I haven't been to the gym in maybe over a month. I've been really trying to focus on my eating which as you guys saw today and what I ate for lunch so I'm trying to get back in the habit of going to the gym and I'm going to try to focus on doing this at least three days a week for now and I'm gonna try and do it Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays that way I can have Mondays go to work out and then go to the grocery store Tuesdays go to the gym Wednesdays go to the gym and then Thursday I have off and the whole weekend I have off so that's gonna be my goal for this week hopefully I can achieve it I am drinking a pre-workout today which does help once I drink it I have to go to the gym and work it off otherwise I won't be able to go to sleep later so I am gonna drink this and hopefully it helps me to stay motivated while I'm there okay you guys so it is the end of the day I am now just sitting in my office I'm getting ready to play a little bit of Sims it's 8 15 and cash is totally asleep there's Jack they love to land here with me and mess up the pillows thank you Jack so much for that yes I'm talking to you so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog and I will see you in the next one bye