 Hey guys, welcome back to another vlog. So it is actually Sunday night at 8.30 p.m. March 7th and I just got my son, my three-year-old son to bed and I have quite a few things left to do tonight to prepare for the week. Next week is our final week before spring break and let me tell you I need spring break. I am definitely feeling that teacher burnout. I am definitely tired. I am definitely ready. So anyway it is 8.30 p.m. Normally on Sunday nights I kind of take it easy. I spend the time that I have kind of preparing for the week whether it's like making my food for a few days or putting away laundry or sometimes I'll play the Sims kind of late at night but tonight I'm actually getting some work done and I don't usually work from home but it's kind of a crunch time at this actual moment. So it is the end of the quarter. Our grades are actually due tomorrow Monday at 1.30 p.m. So I do need to wrap up my report cards. So what I'm actually going to do is work a little bit on my report cards. I need to add my comments. All of my grades have been inputted but I do need to put all my comments on there. Now keep in mind I do have about 55 students so this is going to take some time. However most of the comments that I do are like pre-selected ones so that takes a little bit less time. And then I also need to prepare for the week so I need to prepare my agenda for the week. This week in fourth grade science social studies we're going to do what's called a wonder week. So my dear, dear friend Vanessa she is zest for teaching or Vanessa Matroni on Instagram. She teaches the gifted program third graders at her district and she was telling me about this super fun project she had the kids do where they started out with a wall full of wonder. So she and it was super cute she made this bulletin board with all the kids pictures on it and they each had a speech bubble and they were given sorry I ignore my dog he's trying to eat my rat. They were each given a sticky note where they could put questions they had about anything that they could dream of basically any question at all like why is P yellow or why do tornadoes happen um pretty much any question that they had. So what I thought I would do is because I only have my students for about an hour and a half every day because I am departmentalized. We're going to do a week of wonder and so we're going to start tomorrow Monday by just exploring our questions our curiosities. I'm going to share with them a few podcast ideas for them to just kind of get inspired and ask some questions. So tomorrow is going to be just about asking questions. What are we interested in learning about because they're going to be responsible for their own learning. So tomorrow will be day one of wonder week and then hopefully by Tuesday they will have at least one question about something that they will begin to research and we're going to spend the whole week researching the item or the question and then they're going to create a very short presentation about what they learned about their questions. Sorry Jack this is Jack everyone and Jack is obsessed with Templeton of the Rat. He just wants to eat her. We have a dog gate over here specifically because of this guy. He just wants to eat her all day. Huh I know you're so misunderstood. We're going to go put him away. So like I was saying we're going to do a little bit of a wonder week. So it's going to begin with just some basic questioning some research and then creating a presentation. So I think it'll be a lot more fun than trying to like cram a bunch of stuff into a week that is leading up to a big break. So I think it'll be fun. So I do need to create my agenda slides for the week for that and then finish up my report card. So that is what is on my to-do list. So we're going to just jump in for the kids to be able to log in and see what exactly we're going to be doing for the day and it looks like this. I believe these slides are from teachers by teachers. In fact I know they are. I just forget who made them. It may be teach, create, motivate. I don't remember though. I'm probably wrong but anyway. So their objective is I can explore my wonders about the world by asking a question, researching the answers and presenting my findings. So they will be creating some sort of presentation. So they will have to research Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then begin working on their presentations Thursday and Friday. Now I do have a school city test that I will be administering on Thursday so I do need to account for that but that usually takes like 30 minutes and then they're done. So we're going to leave time for that and then the rest of the time they will have to research and make their presentations. I also almost forgot that this next week is spirit week. So tomorrow is tourist day so I think what I'm going to do is dress up like a Disney fan because tourist is cool and all but a specific tourist like me and Disney fans sounds like way more fun. It's spirit week. I get to wear jeans and or yoga pants and or whatever I want as long as I am dressed in spirit evening that I am pretty much done with the plans for next week. My agendas are both finished. I also printed out so my friend Vanessa purchased this Wonderwall activity from TPT and did share it with me. Sorry it happens. But anyway she sent that over and then she also sent a couple of copies of her students assignments that they did. I'm going to be deleting the names from those assignments and then sharing them with my students so that they can see examples of what other kids did and then so that is ready to go. So now my next task is to begin report cards. So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to play the Sims a little bit and then I'm going to get at least one subject's worth of report cards or at least one class's worth of report cards done because all I really need to do is fill in the comments so that's really not going to take too long and I also have my prep time tomorrow. So fingers crossed I can get those done in time on time. We should be good to go. I love that my report card system pops up missing assignments like it says right on there. They're missing five assignments or they're missing four assignments. Yep they are missing. So yeah that's kind of nice. So anyway I'm going to sit here, work on report cards, play the Sims and then I'll probably go to bed around 10 30. I still need to pack my gym bag for tomorrow and I already made my lunch for tomorrow. I'm going to have turkey with some zucchini. It's all taco style so it's kind of like a taco bowl. I'll throw some sour cream on top of it in the morning and then it'll be delicious. So anyway that's what we're doing tonight and I'll see you guys tomorrow in my Disney garb. I did manage to finish all my report card comments. Yay high five to me. I'm just waiting for them to come back approved. So what I'm doing now is posting some stuff for this week. The kids are taking a test on our Mesoamerica unit so I'm posting that as a draft right now and then I have about 20 minutes left. So I'm going to start doing some stuff for the week we return from spring break just so that I'm ready and I don't have to stress the Sunday night before. When we come back from spring break we will be starting to study earthquakes. So we'll be doing seismic waves, different types of waves under the earth's crust, um or sorry under the earth's surface and then we'll be doing uh about two weeks on earthquakes. So um you know all the goodies that come with that. After that we will study water and then after that we will get into like electricity and physical science and stuff like that. So I'm gonna start working on lesson plans for Monday coming back from spring break. So exciting. Hey guys so it is now much later in the afternoon um it's about 6 30 in the evening and Cash and I are running Aaron so I actually skipped the gym today because Cash was down for a nap and my neighbor who watches him had to leave right when I got off work today. So um I did have to rush home to grab him he finished up his nap and then I took today off from the gym to run Aaron's get groceries do all of the things that are needed. We're vlogging say hi baby say hi over here where are we going yeah we're gonna go see daddy we're gonna go drop some dinner off for daddy uh we picked up the chop shop if any of you know what the chop shop is then you know you know you don't know what the chop shop is it's like this delicious like healthy um place they have like protein bowls and salads and wraps and sandwiches and juices it's really delicious um so we picked up some wraps from there and we're gonna take them to Scott who is meeting us at the border we call it because it's the border of Queen Creek and Mesa so we're gonna go meet there we're not gonna go to the jumpy place today but you and daddy will go this week okay yeah we're gonna go see daddy right now yeah he's at the jumpy jumpy place waiting for us so all that's left in our day is to go meet up with daddy we're gonna go home and make this one some dinner I'm gonna watch the bachelor because it's bachelor night I usually watch the bachelor and put laundry away at the same time so it's kind of like my night of chores um and I desperately need to clean my bedroom so I'll be doing that tonight while I watch the bachelor cash I love you I love you more I love you most he's back there wasn't fun but hot bike take one of please forget while you're here you're gonna eat run on me I feel you right now I guess you want to climb in no we're doing vlogging we're cute Tuesday today is athlete versus math lead day so I am dressed up like an athlete you know this is so athletic um Tina do you like my outfit she's like going crazy this morning she's excited to be out huh teeny teeny my face is starting to look a little bit better do you have some breakouts going on right now Tina so funny um so yeah this is what I'm wearing for sports day I realized this morning that I did not finish out the vlog yesterday so today I'm going to finish up the vlog so um last night after cash and I got home we ended up making dinner and then we went to bed super early I did watch the bachelor though and um it was really good and it was what I expected so um I didn't end up actually going to sleep till like 11 30 because with all the commercials it takes forever to watch that show if I don't start watching it like right at seven um I don't end up going to bed until 11 so I think next week we're gonna have to watch it on time instead of waiting until bedtime to watch it so either that or I need to wait until Wednesday or sorry Tuesday and watch it on Hulu so that I don't have commercials I think that's what I need to start doing instead um okay so anyway I'm here I got 10 minutes till the kids come in I don't have a lot of prep to do because kids are working on their wonder projects there are quite a few that think they're done so we'll have to explore their presentations to make them better and yeah it's going to be a pretty chill day it's a little bit gloomy outside which is great I love gloomy days I love gloomy days but Tina and I are going to go Tina say bye I hope you guys have a great rest of your day thank you so so much for watching today's vlog and I will see you in the next one bye guys