 Life is a winding road Oh, tellin' where it goes Driving through days and nights Won't stop for traffic lights If I'm fallin' down, I will keep on searchin' for my highs You can say I lost my mind I will keep on holdin' my head high Even if the sky's fallin' down Jumpin' from cliffs so high Trustin' our wings to fly Okay, so for breakfast, Ash has requested a cereal bar. So I made these last week at the end of the week. And they're just, they've been in the freezer. Basically, they're Cheerios, Trader Joe's Cheerios. Rice cereal, peanut butter, honey, and then I put a little bit of chocolate chips in them. And I just keep them in the freezer. And then I just cut them apart. And they look like this. So peanut butter, honey, Cheerios, rice cereal. So like, I'm talking about rice Krispies. Rice Krispies, chocolate, and honey. I don't know if I said that already, but it's only five ingredients. And then like I said, I just keep them in the freezer, and then I cut these off when he's ready to eat it. So he's having this and a yogurt for breakfast. We're crashing down but we get up and start from the ground. Hey bud, say hi again. Hey bud. Push the blue button. Push the blue button. Over here. Open it and say hello bud. Okay, guys, in the car, we have everything we need for public, what are we calling it, public going outing? I don't know. Hand sanitizer, which they're now saying doesn't really work. we've got some disinfecting wipes just in case we touch anything we need to disinfect afterwards and then I have a whole ton of gloves in my bag um those are just like black gloves from the police station um I have masks coming in the mail my mom actually made them so they're gonna be pretty cute but anyway we are on our way to preschool I don't think I'm gonna stop for coffee on the way back because I think I'm gonna drink a pre-workout today instead of coffee that will be my caffeine intake for the day my home classroom and I have been sitting here for probably about an hour and a half now since I last talked to you guys and so what I've been working on is I've been uploading a video lessons to my classroom youtube channel I guess it's just it's not like a public youtube channel it's just the one that goes with my school email and all of the videos there are unlisted um but so I just wanted to quickly share with you guys like the expectations for teachers in my school district so I'm gonna put you down and kind of talk you through it so our school district pushed out a digital learning expectation plan for the teachers um the first week we were posting one lesson slash assignment for each subject and those subjects were reading writing and math only and then a social emotional component so some sort of like activity for the kids to do that is for their social emotional learning this week though we got an email um pushing out a new plan which is going to be two lessons and videos for each subject and they have added science and social studies into the mix so instead of three subjects we're going to have reading writing math science social studies and fcl so the students are going to be given 12 assignments per week things that they need to turn in uh that's two per subject and then we are supposed to make video lessons for each one of those assignments um one video can be filmed by us and made by us and then the second video can either be made by us or we can find something online to support the students with their work um so a lot more pressure on us than the last week the first week um and then we're also supposed to be planning for two weeks at a time so um our lessons are I guess our activities our assignments have to be ready and posted by today Wednesday um for the next two weeks of online learning and then our videos don't have to be live until the Monday beginning so um basically what that means is I have assignments ready for the week of April 13th and for the week of April 20th but my videos don't have to be ready and live until that day the 13th and then the 20th so the videos I'm filming kind of as I go a little bit slower so every week I film like a welcome video where I just welcome the kids to the week I talk about a couple things that are different I talk about like what they can expect from the week and then I kind of guide them through like I do a screen recording on my computer and just show them everything that they're gonna have for the week um and kind of just explain it and then as a team we decided to divide and conquer so I am the ELA teacher uh the digital ELA teacher so I plan post and teach all of the ELA lessons so it's kind of nice because instead of filming like 12 videos a week I only have to really film like three or four um and then my team teachers one's doing math one's doing science one's doing social studies and then um the one who's doing science is also doing SEL so we've kind of divided and conquered um we just send each other all of the assignments and the links to all of our videos and things that we've made and then we each share everything on our Google classrooms so that has really helped um alleviate some of the workload because as you can imagine 12 assignments creating posting and making lessons for that many per week would be really hard to do um the only thing that I worry about with this much workload is that our district says that we should only be giving our students about an hour of work a day and I think that the amount of work they're asking us to post is far more than an hour a day so I'm just going to suggest to my students that they do one subject per day um like maybe they'll do reading on Monday maybe they'll do math on Tuesday science Wednesday social studies Thursday and then Friday they can do their SEL um which is like you know like a fun emotional type activity and then they can do their PE and their music videos our PE and music teachers are also posting videos every week for our students to do so I'm kind of thinking that if they do it that way they'll be able to manage everything and make it an hour of work a day um but our principal is so amazing and he's always telling us just do what's best for kids and if you feel like what you're posting is too much for them then cut it back but do what's best for them so we're pretty much done with the next two weeks and then after that I think we might cut it back a smidge um but as of right now I do have about 15 students logging into google classroom or at least have logged into google classroom whether it's from a computer a tablet or a phone um and so far I've only got about five active students which means that there are five actually turning things in so um that's really positive especially since in our school district a lot of diverse needs a lot of kids don't have technology a lot of them don't have internet um and so we did push out a lot of packets for kids who had a phone I suggested that they get a packet so that they can do the work and then just post a picture to google classroom instead of trying to function google classroom on a phone because it is a little bit harder especially for a nine-year-old um so that's kind of what I'm doing I've already filmed I filmed it yesterday my welcome video and my eLA video you guys can see my little anchor chart is still out so I kind of just film right here and then today or tomorrow I think I'm gonna film my holes read aloud so um I know this isn't a third grade level book but it is a really fun read aloud and I promise them that I would read this to them before the end of the school year and so I wanted to oh I wanted to my crown fill I wanted to make sure that I read that to them before the end of the school year so every week I'm doing four chapters so I need to film that probably today or tomorrow post that and then all my videos are done for next week the 13th of April and then I will start filming for week three which is the 20th of April um so that's what's going on I've had coffee this morning I've had my skinny tabs as you guys saw I need to get hot to trot I'm drinking my water because it's been hard to manage like so many beverages in my day um but yeah that's how we're kind of doing things here um and for my boo boo classroom what are you up to trying to get a police hat a police hat from chase yeah oh are you gonna work out I want to work out too I eat some prots prots what's a pro it is teach me yoda jocados chocolate way protein banana and peanut butter wow it sounds delicious carbs and protein all in one you're off today huh yes you want to go watch them all american oh that sounds good why is my oh see so see what had happened was I put I switched it because cash was helping himself to the pantry you get me right well I accidentally put this facing the wrong direction so you can take it off and fix it but it doesn't bother me I had to do it quick before I got caught by the toddler it still works all right guys so I'm officially done working out um if you want to do the workouts that I do I'm following this girl on instagram her name is I'll show you guys um her instagram k campfit um it looks like this k campfit um I really like her workouts before all of this staying at home stuff started she did a lot of stuff in the physical gym and now that she's home she posts a lot of at-home workouts that are really easy to do so I just did a back and biceps workout now I'm going to make lunch and I think I'm gonna make a sandwich like a basic sandwich okay so it has been quite some time since the last time I saw you around lunch time since then um I haven't really done a whole lot in our day we um showered we watched all american which is a show on netflix that we're both really in love with um we watched what like two episodes of that um we went to pick up cash from school we went and picked up a drive-through order from coals cash needed some new shoes and some new clothes he's like outgrowing everything um and then we came home we went for a scooter ride which I will insert a clip of that here we're getting ready for bed cash is just watching his favorite little show he wanted to watch a show tonight instead of reading books so we're going to do that hi and we're ordering food to be delivered because we do not want to go out what buddy where's what though it's under your blanket babe anyways we're gonna go ahead and end this vlog tonight um I think after we put cash to bed we'll probably watch more all american um we're ordering our favorite little mexican place it's called marino's really good um and then I think we're gonna just watch some more tv probably either all american or we're on the game of drone season one we just started it so um so we'll probably just watch that and then go to sleep and start our day all over again so I hope you guys enjoyed this day in the life video and I'll see you in the next one bye guys