 Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. Today's vlog is gonna be a little bit different. It's gonna be my Snapchat story. So I do have a Snapchat. I'm not planning on sharing it with everybody just because I usually keep like only my closest friends and family on Snapchat. But last week I did like this little Snapchat day in the life of a teacher thing and all my friends were like, um, this was really fun to watch. So I'm gonna do a little Snapchat thing today. So all of my vlog will be kind of this like long like Snapchat style vlog. And I think I'm gonna be able to show you a lot more because I'm not editing anything. So we'll see how today goes and keep on watching. Good morning, everybody. We're gonna do another day in the life of a teacher story today. Um, okay, I was taken out. I had a feeling that my trash wasn't taken out because all the other trashes on the outside of the building weren't taken out. So I was like, okay, if they didn't take my trash out, I'm gonna be mad. I have this huge trash can because I'm the science teacher. And especially on days like today, we do a lab, there's a lot of trash. So this guy will probably be full by the end of the day. And that's fine. We're doing a lab today that involves lava. So I came in early, it's like barely seven oh five to start preparing for the lab. And it's gonna involve me playing with flour and water. So also I did not finish my breakfast at home. So I'm going to finish that right now. Basically I had two fried eggs and a handful of sweet potato fries. And then I'm gonna eat an apple as well. Ooh, Google Chrome is up to date. Yes, I would like to sign in please. And then I just made myself an iced coffee with my iced coffee, Mr. Mr. Ice Coffee Maker. Love that guy. Second to my husband. Second. Okay, so the lab that I'm using is from Mystery Science. He's talking in the background. Mystery Science is this really cool curriculum program that I love using. And the reason I like it so much is because for every lesson, there is a hands on investigation like lab sort of thing. And so today's lab is I am prepping two different types of lava. One is going to be thin, one is going to be thick and the students are going to investigate which type of lava explodes and why it explodes from different types of volcanoes. So they will learn very quickly that the thin lava doesn't explode, it just kind of like runs everywhere. And then thick lava is the kind that explodes and they do that by blowing air into the different types of flour and water mixture. And the thicker lava ends up bubbling and exploding because there's more pressure buildup. So anyway, I do have to prep like 15 sets of lava. Sorry, cut me off. So I'm preparing 15 different cups of lava. 30, 30 cups of lava. 15 cups will be thin lava. So it'll be like mostly water, some flour. And then the other type will be mostly flour less water. So I'm hoping I'm going to cross my fingers that this lava will work across all three classes today. But I have a feeling it's not going to, especially the thick lava, I'm probably gonna have to either thin it out or remake it. So wish me luck. How best way to do this in Snapchat? I don't know. Okay, that'll work. Wow, this whole clip is gonna be me trying to open the flower. How entertaining. All right, let's do the thin runny lava first because they're doing this with partners and I have 30 kids in each class. I have to make at least 15 cups worth of each type. Okay, so the good news is that for the thin lava, I just need 15 cups of water and that water can be used throughout the whole day. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put 15 cups out on these red trays, and then I will fill them all. There goes my paper towels. Fill them all with just a little bit of water enough for the kids to be able to blow bubbles into it. I don't want the water like spilling out all over my table. So I'm going to fill it like very, very small amount. 15. And now I have to fill 15 with the flower mixture. Now I don't use Snapchat often, so I don't know if I'm able to like add a music to these clips. I probably can, but that reeks of effort. So I'm not going to do that. It is handy to keep like a I use this watering spout for my like class plants, but it does come in handy when it comes to prepping labs like this that require water. Just like that. We need one more row here, and then we should be good. Okay, so the next thing I'm going to do is I do have six of these trays, and I do have six table groups. So what I will do is I will prep each tray for one table group, which is going to be tough because I do have one class that has five kids sitting at each table. So I might have to put a couple of pairs here at my back table, but that's fine. So I'm just going to prep all six trays and then whatever extras I have, I do have one more like brown tray that I'll put on the back table. So I just need to put out two of my flower mixture on each tray, and then I can stack them on my lab cart, and then they are ready for me to roll around and pass out. Of course, now I can't find my scissors, so I'm going to go locate those, and then I'm going to attempt to pour this lava into these cups without spilling any on myself. Wish me luck. So here's my thought. So I did last year it worked fine. I'm going to just take the corner and kind of cut the tip off, and then gently pour the flower mixture. By the way, I did add some red food coloring to this, so the flower mixture is now pink because I have to be extra and make the lava actually, you know, colorful. It's like chunky gross. Now what I can do is come back with a spoon and just like stir these. Ew, it's so gross. It's like chunky. It looks like vomit. Ew. Love teaching science. Love it so much. You know, this would be super nice to do if you had like a cake decorating bag. I mean, I pretty much just makeshifted my own cake decorating bag. Okay, so I do need to make one more small batch of the flower mixtures. I'm going to do that real quick. Just get some water in there. I do need to go get more water. Lava. And I don't need that much because I only had like three cups that needed some. So, and then some red food dye. And I'm gonna have to go get more water. I just know it. So, I'm gonna add some more flower. You know, I think I'm gonna just make enough to refill in case like something happens and I need extra. I don't want to spend my whole lesson period back here making lava. So, I'm gonna go get some more water in this. I'll be right back. The cool thing about my schedule is that I have one block class and then they go to recess specials lunch. So, then I have specials and lunchtime to prep for the other two classes. So, let's just say for instance that this flower doesn't make it through this first block and I need to remake it for the next block. I do have time to do that. Thank goodness. It's way more water. So, there's that and I can just remake like two big batches of the flower. The water is gonna be fine. It lasts all day. My favorite thing though is gonna be I'm gonna tell these kids do not drink the water. Do not suck in the flower. Do not drink the flower. Do not eat the flower. Don't ingest anything and guess what? They're still gonna do it. Okay, we're getting somewhere. So, now I'm just prepping all of the different trays and pray for me that these do not fall because that would suck really bad. I'm only gonna do three high. Okay, so here's a kind of sucky thing. Bus duty in like five minutes. So, I have to be done setting this whole thing up in five minutes which I'm not going to be done in five minutes. I still have to put all the straws out. I still have to roll out the tablecloths and draw on them. So, I have a feeling during like our warm-up block this morning, I'm gonna be asking my homeroom class to help set up which is fine. That's typically what happens because, you know, as teachers, we don't just teach. We have bus duty and when our own children are here, we have to take our children down to preschool. Luckily, Cash is not with me this morning. Thank you, sweetheart, for taking him to school today because there's no way I would have gotten any of this done if my four-year-old is here. I just would not have happened. I'm very grateful that my sweet husband... Okay, I was interrupted but I was saying thank you, Scott, so much for helping and the bell just rang so I literally have five minutes to wrap up what I'm doing, get downstairs to bus duty and then students are here. So, this is the state of this project right now. The trays are there but they're not fully loaded yet. So, what I'm gonna do is just push this over here as gently as I possibly can without knocking anything over and hopefully, because my students don't come over to this side of my desk, hopefully nobody will touch that. Fingies crossed and then I do have three extra cups of flour mixture made and then I know I have a few extra cups of water already made. That is just in case I miscounted which I probably did because I'm terrible at math which is why I teach science and not math. And look, my breakfast is still not done. I didn't even touch it since the last time I showed it to you guys. I should have gotten here earlier than I did but I got here at seven and I got up at five thirty. Usually cash doesn't like wake up in the mornings when I leave early but this morning he like rolled into my room at like five forty five. So usually when I don't take him to school Scott will get up with him, feed him, get him dressed but because he was awake with me I had to do all that before I could leave. So, the life of a teacher mom. All right, I gotta get down to bus duty. It starts in like three minutes and then I can come up and I'll have at least like two or three minutes to spare before the kids get actually, oh shush, before the kids actually get up here. I'm just putting this on the screen behind me. And then, sorry I was cut off again. And then so my colleagues whoever has bus duty goes to the mailboxes and then cuts upstairs and opens the doors for everybody. So I'll have at least a handful of minutes before kids are actually in my room which means I can do a little bit more like turn on my lights and you know stuff like that, go to the bathroom because I haven't done that yet either. Because I went out to bus duty and immediately my hair was like sticking to my neck and it was so uncomfortable. So anyways, we survived the first group of labs and we literally finished the lab like minutes before our timer went off to leave. So we didn't get a chance to like debrief or like discuss anything. So we'll have to start with that first thing tomorrow. And I'm crossing my fingers that the next group goes better because A, I won't have to do attendance or like lunch count or like finish setting up the lab. Everything's already done. So my next class should be good. I do have to refill some of the cups and I'll show you guys why. So a lot of them kind of look like this right now, which I want to go through the paper towel and just wipe them all down and then refill them so they're nice and filled. And then put like the spoons and the straws back out and then we're good to go for the next class. So okay, so I actually decided to just open up like the side of the Ziploc bag to dump that out and it was nicer because then I could preserve what was left in here. So I'm not doing the cut the corner thing for this next one. It just did not work. And then I do have my next batch of lava mixture made. I just need to dye it. And at this point, I don't even know that I will dye it. I think I'll just kind of throw it in there and say, oh, well, it's just an extra step that wasn't actually necessary. So probably not going to do that. But I do need to refill a couple of these water cups because they were spilled. So I spilled the water literally as I was talking about them not spilling the water. Bob trays are ready to go. And so I'll just kind of show you like what happened. So when water would spill, they would try to wipe it up, which it did wipe up pretty good. But then obviously the paper tears and like this one too, like this one had a big water spill. But the rest of them did pretty good. This one was a lava spill. And then I did have a couple groups back there with me. This one was a big water spill, but these guys weren't really following directions too well. So that explains that one. Okay, so now that the lab is reset, I'm just going to go sit at my computer and make my like lesson plan for tomorrow because we didn't finish today's mystery. So we are going to have to finish it tomorrow, which just changes what goes on my agenda slide for my principal to see if she were to look. Okay, so I'm testing out filming a Snapchat facing this direction. I want to see if it saves to my phone facing this direction. We shall see. It is lunchtime, which means it's time for me to pretend like I'm going to eat and enjoy a break. I'm having an Asian sesame salad today with some chicken that I got from Trader Joe's that expires today. I actually think it expired yesterday, but that's fine. I'm still going to eat it. So one of my kids had a birthday today. And something that I like to do is take their birthday cupcakes down to the cafeteria and they pass them out during their lunch so that I don't have to interrupt any of my instructional time passing out cupcakes. Now, obviously if the cupcakes don't arrive until after lunch, then of course I will pass them out during like our reach time, which is like the end of the day when we have our own homeroom kids. But if I can avoid passing out sugar in the classroom, I definitely will. So I just got an email from our admin assistant about picture day and the schedule. And this is the kind of thing like I'm not bagging on her at all. Like obviously she had no intentions of doing this. But when I get an email like this because I have ADHD and I have to try to manage so many tasks and remember so many things throughout my day. When I get an email, I typically try to either A respond or B write down whatever that email said so I don't forget. And so what I just did was I had to get up. I had to write picture day this Thursday and the time, but now the document won't load. So instead of standing up there waiting for it to load, I'm just going to have to come back here and eat and then try to remember to look at it again later. Try. All right, so I'm waiting for my teammates to bring all of the kids up. I wait upstairs because there's usually like a handful of kids that come up here with the lunch baskets. And we don't want them up here alone. So I typically wait upstairs for the rest of them, which is nice kind of gives me like five extra minutes to set things up if I need to. I love my teammates. All done. What are you picking code? Yeah. Love it. I told you guys it would be full. Okay, so it's the end of my day. Do you guys want to see one of my favorites next? Pickled eggs. Hard boiled eggs and a jar of pickle juice. Let it sit for a few days. I always make them on Friday and by Monday they're like so potent and delicious. Kids are gone and my Roomba is going because I do have quite a bit of dust on the floor. What I'm going to do is prep everything for tomorrow so that I don't have to come in early. I can just walk through the door and start teaching. And that is the end of my day as a teacher.