 Welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. It's Monday and it is 27 degrees Fahrenheit and we live in Which is like a it's like a lower northern Arizona City, it's October 30th It's the day before Halloween cash. Are you excited for Halloween? My voice sounds all It key because we slept with the window and the fan on when to open in the fan Which was really difficult to get out of bed this morning. How about you? Were you cold last night or warm? You had lots of blankets on huh and your fan was on but your window wasn't open, huh? Anyways, it is the day before Halloween We are heading to school at 647 in the morning, and it's real cold and That's okay. We're excited. We have lived in the Queen Creek Valley area Which is like Phoenix for the last five years and Down there. We don't get fall. We get a summer and fall And the fall does not it's not real fall it's just It's just cold for like two weeks and then it warms back up and then it's done But here in Prescott we get all four seasons and they're beautiful and we get to enjoy them Including the sicknesses that come with them Well, it's just hot there, baby. It's the desert so Today at school I'm gonna be setting up for a haunted scavenger hunt, which is like a Super duper easy day it takes so little time to set up and it takes so little time to do Basically, I print out a series of 20 cards and I get them from super teachers calm So for next year if you're planning a Halloween thing like and you just want to do something kind of fun It comes with like 20 cards that just kind of give you like Halloween facts like arachnophobia is the fear of spiders and Pump there are blank blank blank many pumpkins sold each year Like it just gives you facts about Halloween and then the kids have to answer a specific question based on the cards It's basically like a task card activity. However, how I do it is I hide them around the room Out of plain sight so they can't just see them from like plain view and then I completely black out the room With either black trash bags or black butcher paper And then I put like little tea lights around and I do like spooky sounds and like a haunted house on the TV And they have to bring a flashlight in To use to be able to read the cards and then answer the questions and as they answer the questions When they finish if they get them all right they get a piece of candy So it's just kind of a fun activity to do when Like energy is high because it's almost Halloween. In fact, I used to do this on Halloween But our Halloween in our district is a PD day They do it on purpose to let the kids out early, which is really cool The kids get out at 11 20 in the afternoon and then teachers go to a professional development day Until three three thirty so it's a really nice way to get the little kids out and to be with their families on Halloween So anyway, we won't really have time for any of that tomorrow on Halloween. So today is Halloween And my kids are at specials. We just did our like costume parade, which was so fun We got to parade around the whole school and show off our costumes and cheer for all of the other costumes And it was just a really good time. I am miss frizzle For obvious reasons. Um, but today is like a super short day. We are only in school until 11 20 and so, um Between specials and recess we're really only in the classroom for like an hour and a half So this morning we started out the day by just watching the nightmare before Christmas We got permission slip signed brought in and then After recess, which is what's coming next we will do a little bit Of a lunch party. So we have like snacks and popcorn Um, and the kids will just pull out their normal lunch and then they can come up and get like snacks and treats And that's pretty much it. And then the rest of today Is pd day for teachers And it is going to be hosted at our school So we will have all of the elementary teachers from the district coming here And we'll be breaking up into collaborative teams. So I'm assuming I'll be working with I usually go with the la group because I teach social studies, but Um, we will see so I'm kind of perplexed. I'm I'm looking at my calendar and Trying to plan out the rest of the quarter And what I'm going to probably do Is focus on science monday tuesday wednesday And then focus on social studies thursdays and fridays And that is because I want to be able to completely fit in Everything that I want to do for the rest of the quarter I'm finishing up my energy unit this quarter next quarter. I will do earth science. So we'll do erosion weathering um rocks earthquakes all of that and so I just want to utilize the quarter as best I can and then do a small social studies unit And i'm going to be doing meso america again And i'm trying to decide maybe you guys can help me because I do have like two weeks until I actually start doing social studies because we have so many weird like Like next week we have veterans day. So we're off thursday friday Um, and so we only have three days of school that week and then after that We have Thanksgiving, which is another two-day week. And so I'm trying to decide if I want to Do a paper version Of so this is the resource. Let me just turn you around. Okay So this is the resource. I have it. I purchased it from tpt. It's by um I forget student savvy Yeah, student savvy is meso america powerpoint and it comes with a bunch of different things. So you can do a digital Um interactive notebook, which I might end up doing I'm not positive This might be a better way to track everybody like just to make sure that they don't lose stuff And it will save paper Um, or I can do it where all the students have access to this virtual experience and then they do like, um An interactive notebook, um on paper I don't know. I'm kind of in between like I want to make them this But it's also going to be a lot of cutting and gluing and whereas this is more just typing, which I know isn't as like In the moment, but I feel like it would save time and since I'm only doing social studies two days a week What I could do is I could present this one this version um, and then they would Complete this version on their own. Um, and we would only do this two days a week. So You know, we would go through each of these pages Um, and then They would just turn this in at the end And I would throw in some other things like I like doing the Mayan like I like doing like the role play stuff where we like write a narrative a day in the life of a Mayan person Um, I just don't want it to be boring. Um, but it is just two days a week So we'll see. Um I feel like this would just be a really easy way to Like incorporate it if I'm just doing it two days a week Um, and then potentially have them Do like a narrative at the end like a day in the life of and they could choose a Mayan or an Aztec Or an Inca person And then watch the road to El Dorado. Um, so this will take us pretty much all the way up until Christmas break Um, which would end that would be we'd have to finish Like The 20th of December because then I would want to have all my grades in and done So I'm contemplating doing this or I can easily use our Social studies curriculum Which is digital. Um, it's just a lot more like reading Which wouldn't be bad, but also has them like mapping um and It goes into Like it has a lesson on the Maya Um But again, it's a lot of reading uh slideshow video More reading um Looks like there's some vocabulary games And some notebook stuff Um, so I don't know. I'm gonna keep looking through this. I have it like I said I have a couple of weeks Before I decide I feel like this would be more engaging um and This would be a little bit more I don't know. I feel like trying to use this this one Like it's my first time using it. I don't know. I should probably just explore it a little bit more This I've done for the last like four years. So I know how this works. Um, I know the best way to deliver it And it might just be easier for me to do this Plus it's all on google classroom. So if a kid's like missing a page, I can just Have them go do it rather than them fiddling around with the paper one So I think I'm gonna I'll probably end up doing this one The digital notebook, but I'll probably go through and delete a couple of slides. I don't know. We'll see Um, and then I'll throw like I said some other little things in between like depending on how quickly we go um, so yeah These are all the things to consider. Um, so realistically if I do this I'll have two Potentially like so I'm mapping myself out for having two to three days for each mystery science lesson that I'm gonna do eight days Maybe more to complete the unit, which I feel like if I was gonna do Like in the past I've done this unit for like two weeks ish So I feel like it should be fine. I should have plenty of time um and you know Hopefully Like I said, I've I've mapped out like Like for this week. I have lesson five teetering between two days if we finish it in two days If I use the two days and I finish in two days then great done If I need the third day for science great, I can use it But if we finish on time then I could easily start Doing the social studies on wednesday um And then you know fill in the gaps on friday, so it just kind of depends on how it goes I mean if I if I schedule it for two days, then at least I know how much time I have and then if I have more time Um, or whatever I can always like throw it in here Or I could always use wednesday for like an alternative activity like I could do like task cards or like Model buildings or projects on wednesdays that are related to science or social studies So um, I think that this will be a great way to kind of split them up rather than doing Like a couple more weeks of science and just like trying to rush through it Um, and then trying to do social studies at the end So I think I'm gonna just do that and call it a day. Why don't we climb these rocks up here? All right guys, so it is thursday evening What? Well, is there you gotta catch it? Um, we just cash and I just left school. I had tutoring and we came to the property This is our land. Um We're meeting here to That looks suspicious We're meeting here to put our address sign up because we're gonna start having subs coming here in the next couple days to start Breaking ground on building our house Scott and I would really like to start doing like a family vlog We have a channel. It's called apples in the badge And it'll be linked down below. It's also in my other channels Um, but we want to start documenting like the process of building a house and all of that I touched it Weird So anyway, this is our land. Let me turn you guys around Looks like this I'm standing in what will be our driveway on the streets up there Our driveway will actually come down this way And then this will all be like parking space And then our garage will probably start about here And then all of this will be house and then our backyard will be really little but we'll have a nice big side yard. So Are you getting cold? I have a coat for you in the car. Yeah, this is our land Um, I don't want to go down there Well, I mean just go and see Yeah, let's go see Finds me of the camp out. I was trying to pound stuff into the ground for the tent Bigger ones, honey. Big as you can carry without dropping it on your foot Worth a shot. All right, let's get bigger rocks. That'll do donkey Okay, kash you want to screw it in there? No, it's fine. It's fine where it is, baby All right, you guys we have made it to friday Um, today we're doing some mystery science challenges with the energize everything unit And it is the day that the kids create the spin-o-matic The twist-o-matic, sorry Unfortunately because it's friday. We didn't have enough time to really finish it. So I have half a mind to Only go through a little bit with my other two classes And then have them do the lab on monday Just so that everybody's in the right place. Oh my gosh. I'm so out of breath Um, but anyways it's going great so far. Good morning. Um, but I wanted to show you guys a bump date So we are 20 weeks on sunday and Little man Is growing a lot I actually just scored like a ton of maternity clothes from a girlfriend of mine She and her sister-in-law Both just wrapped up a few pregnancies And they gave me two huge bags full Pants leggings t-shirts tank tops long sleeves sweatshirts It's like, oh my gosh, you guys saved my life like The amount of money I would be spending on maternity clothes Is like it's zero now So i'm just really excited. Um That I don't have to spend all that money on those because They jack up those prices so much because they know that pregnant women have to buy them like there There's no getting out of it So anyway, i'm sitting at my desk if they're at specials right now. I have about 25 minutes left And i'm just gonna enter some scores Um into my grade book and then I am working on my schedule my agenda slides for next week Next week is only a three-day week because of veterans day. It's really cool They give us thursday off for pd day And then friday off for veterans day So technically like we only work thursday and we're just gonna be grading um some writing assessments And then we are actually going to disneyland For kash's birthday because his birthday is on wednesday next week. So that's super exciting Um, we'll probably do a disney vlog on our family channel and um Yeah, so it's been a great week so far. I feel like this week I finally have like hit My groove and I think it's because I decided to just go ahead and use mystery science something i'm used to using Because it's so easy. It's so user friendly um And I just feel really good about it. I don't feel stressed. I don't feel rushed Um, so I think it's gonna be really good