 Hello my friends, welcome back to another teacher vlog. So today is going to be all about Meet the Teacher Night. Today is Monday, July 19th, and today is Meet the Teacher Day night for me. So I'm gonna take you through my day of how I prep, plan, and get everything ready for Meet the Teacher Night. I am dressed in normal clothes because it is 8 o'clock in the morning, not even 8 o'clock, 7 15. And I don't have to be ready for Meet the Teacher Night until 4. So we have some meetings this morning, and then we have quite a bit of work time in our rooms. We have some team meetings scheduled just to go over how things are gonna go starting on the first day of school. If you guys are new here, my name is Charlotte, and I am a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in Central Arizona. So I do have my teammate Mandy, who has just joined me. As my ELA teacher, we have worked together at the last three schools. We love each other. She's just my best friend, and I couldn't be more excited that she's on my team again. And then Robert next door, he is our math teacher. You will probably never meet him. He's a little shy. So, but we are gonna be meeting today to go over some things. I have some stuff ready to go for Meet the Teacher Night. So just a few things. I do need to print a couple of other things. We need to make copies of stuff and laminate stuff, and we're gonna be using the Cricut today. We do need to do a bulletin board out in the hall before Meet the Teacher Night and then, you know, just put the random things away. So I'm gonna just take you guys through how I plan and get ready for Meet the Teacher Night. So if you're interested in all of that then stick around. The girls are happy because they got their bed back. I took this home and washed it and this little tube last night, or I guess this weekend. It was your first weekend here without me. You did so good. She wants to come out and play. I know, baby, but I gotta do some work. We'll play later, okay? They made a big mess. That's okay. I will clean that. They also need some more fresh water, so I'm gonna have to fill that too. Okay, so I have a meeting at 8 o'clock this morning. It's a certified staff meeting. And then from 9 30 to 10 o'clock, I have a sponsors meeting and I am the club sponsor because I am doing Glee Club this year. And then at 10 30, we're gonna be doing a team meeting at 11. Our gifted and talented teachers are coming in to talk with us. And then we are in our classrooms until 4 30, which is when the kindergarten Meet the Teacher Night starts. Hours doesn't begin until 5. So I'm planning on being completely ready by 4. And that way, I can show you guys around the room how I set things up, how I do things. And then, yeah, after that, we have the welcome dance at 6 to 7 o'clock. And then there's an athletics meeting this evening. So today is gonna be jam-packed with all kinds of things. I probably should eat, so I think I'm gonna do that. And I'm drinking my new favorite Elani new flavor. It's the cherry limeade. It's so good. I really hope something's in my straw. Tastes like peanut butter. Who does the dishes at our house? Not me. I'm gonna have to go clean that out because that's gross. Anyways, I really hope that they don't discontinue that flavor because it is my jam. 12 o'clock, I'm getting ready to take my lunch break, but I just wanted to show you what I've been up to. So as you guys just saw, I just put together some of my welcome packets for my homeroom students. So I'm gonna just briefly walk you guys through the documents that go in these welcome packets in case you're not sure what to put in yours. So I always always put a meet the teacher. I'm gonna do my best to cover up my email and phone number here, but I always do my best to put my meet the teacher letter and all about me page in their packets. So it just has a little bit about me, my contact information, a few of my favorite things, and a photo because they are gonna have three teachers, so they may forget who's who. So I just do that. And then I also have a welcome letter, which has my school's letterhead on it, so I'm not gonna show that. Basically it just talks about what your child will be doing in my class. So I'll just read you one paragraph. It says how to communicate with me what I teach, what time school starts the first day. Each day your child will attend 90 minutes of science social studies, classes will involve daily warm-ups, weekly vocabulary, daily instruction, class discussions, interactive notebooks, and weekly labs. The supplies that they need for this class are as follows. And then I also put when assignments are due. So like my policy is all assignments should be turned in the Friday after they've been assigned. So if it's assigned Monday, they have until Friday to complete it and turn it in. For partial credit assignments must be turned in before the second Friday after the due date. And all assignments submitted after that will be marked as 30%. So basically they can't get a zero. The lowest score they can get is a 30% if they don't turn it in or don't submit it at all. And then I put, I love to teach using hands-on activities, labs, and STEM opportunities throughout the year. I'll be using a variety of supplies. I would greatly appreciate any donations of these supplies to help alleviate cost. I will have a sign-up genius sent out periodically. Check your email to see those. And then I also include a QR code at the bottom of this letter that has my sign-up genius directly attached to it so they can sign up right from their phone or hang it on their fridge or whatever. And then I also put a copy of our supply list and our parent planner. That is something given to us by the school. And then I always put this little packet for families. The first page is a student information page so parents can put their address, allergies, medical concerns, siblings, any holidays they don't celebrate, the parents contact information, which we have in Synergy but it's just nice to be able to pull. So it looks like this. And then the second page is a student survey. So it's right on there. It tells me their birthday, their favorites. And then the last one is a parent questionnaire. So this is where the parent can just write some of the things like what's your child's strengths, what do they like to do on the weekends, do they like coming to school, expectations from me, anything else I should know. So this is kind of their homework. They need to return this to me by the Friday after school starts. So that goes in there as well. And then we also have our free and reduced lunch application. So all of those things go in my homeroom packets as well as a dojo invite. So I'm not going to show you those either because that has student codes and names on it. But the cover of this packet is their dojo invite. That just means that every child in my homeroom as of now has a packet assigned to them. So I have that and then I will also put a meet the teacher sheet and a welcome letter out on the tables for the other parents, the parents of children who are not in my homeroom, because their homeroom teachers, Mandy and Rob, are also making homeroom packets to put out for just our homeroom students. That just makes it easier so that they don't have to get, you know, a supply list from every teacher. It's just coming from their homeroom teacher. So those are the documents that will be given out. I also have to hand out QR codes for our parent pickup students. So when they come through the parent pickup line, our students sit in the cafeteria and wait. When their QR code is scanned, their name pops up on the screen and they know that their parents there that they can walk out. So I do have to distribute those tonight as well. I don't know what else I need to do to get ready for meet the teacher night. I think that's pretty much it. What I like to do though is put a poster board on the, I'll probably put it on one of the tables actually. I like to put out a big piece of like butcher paper and just write on it. What do you need from your teacher and let all of the kids that come in, grab a marker, write the things that they need kind of on like a circle map. And then I can read through those on the first day of school. Like they might say I need my teacher to be understanding or I need my teacher to give me hugs or I need my teacher to know that I struggle with math. And so they don't have to put their name on it. They just put things that they need from their teacher, things that they want their teacher to be. And that's really a fun and engaging thing for students to do when they come to your class at meet the teacher. So I'm going to do that. So I need to go get a big piece of white butcher paper so that I can do that. I also need to make a board in the hallway. Mandy and I are going to collaborate on that. But first I'm going to eat lunch because it's 12 o'clock and I haven't eaten all day. I haven't had any water all day. So I'm going to take a break and eat lunch and then update you guys when I get back. All right, my friends, it is now 4.15 and I am ready for meet the teacher night. So I'm wearing the exact same dress that I wore last year in my meet the teacher video. But last year I had long hair this year, short hair. So it's different and new. Anyways, we are all in the final stages of getting ready for meet the teacher night. So I'm just going to show you guys around and kind of explain how I run things. So I'll have my computer with me during this process just in case I need to check anybody in on class dodo or check synergy, which is our like attendance and stuff. So I'll have that with me. But you can see here's the overview of the room. Okay, so the green cones are Miss Perry and Mr. Cummings homerooms. So everyone else. We have my welcome back letter and my meet the teacher letter here for those students who are not in my homeroom. And then the pink cones are for students in my homeroom. So we have our homeroom sign in. And then we have our homeroom only packets. And these have their dodo invites, their class supply list, meet the teacher letter and some other district paperwork that they have to fill out. And then I also provided little buckets with pens on a few of the desks so that if parents want to fill everything out here today while they're here, they can. So all of the pink cones just mean homeroom only. And I have this little what's what sign. So it says pink cones, homeroom, green cones Cummings and Perry homeroom, yellow cone for students. So when the kids come in, if they're not going to do what their parents are doing, they can come over here. And I just have a little activity for them to do. So what do you need from your teacher? So I think I explained this earlier, but I've got a box of markers here so they can just write like I need you to be nice or whatever, whatever they need. And then over here, if students bring supplies for their homeroom and they want to leave them here, they can put them on this table and just label them with a sticky note. And then I will organize them probably tomorrow. And then up on the board, we just have our welcome sign. I have music playing during this time, but I turned it off for the video. But it basically just has the exact same thing I just told you. So homeroom families sign in, pick up a student packet, sign up for dojo. If you have any supplies, label it non homeroom families, please visit the green cones, all students see the yellow cone. So Mandy, I see you pairing in here. So a hot little tip. I have people coming to the a hot little tip. Mandy and I do. I meet the teacher night. We don't stand in our rooms. We stand in the hallway. So I have my table here so that I can direct kids, check off that they came, hand out their codes, and then I don't have to get sucked in. So if you stand in the hallway and say, please go inside, look around, check it out, make sure to visit the pink or green cones. And leave any un, like paperwork you'd like to turn into me. You can bring that to me before you leave or otherwise you can take it home with you. And I just stand outside the door. And then that way parents can't suck me into a conversation inside of the classroom. And I'm not just stuck in one family because sometimes parents think that meet the teacher night is all about like having a conference, telling us about their child's needs and where that's really important, but meet the teacher is not the place for that. I firmly believe that if a parent feels the need to do that sort of conversation that it should be a separate conference. So if any parent does want to have a conference, we are more than welcome to sign them up because there are three of us that are involved. So it's a little bit harder to have those conversations about a student that isn't just yours. You know, we all share them. So that is why I don't stand in my classroom. Mandy does the same thing. So here's my little table. I'll just be hanging out right here. And I'll be marking kids off as I greet them, just to see who was here, just in case they miss the sign up. And then we do have our pickup QR codes that we're handing out. And I have a list of parent names just in case I want to greet them my water phone. And yeah, so this is everything. I'll show you guys the outfit. This is an Amazon dress. So I probably have a link for it somewhere if it's still there. And then shoes. And yeah. All right, you guys. So that is everything for me at the Teacher Night. Hopefully it was helpful, helpful in some way or another. So thank you guys so so much for watching this video. If you are not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel to see more updates. And of course, follow me on Instagram. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye.