 Today is Monday, first day back from spring break, let me tell you, 5 a.m., not my favorite time of day. Probably the worst angle and the worst lighting of life right now, but I don't care. Um, let me see, the sun is just blaring in here. Okay, we're going to attempt to prop this up so I can talk. So it's 6.30 in the morning. I'm here super, super early because I decided not to come in yesterday to prep cleanup. I don't have a ton of prep to do the first day back from spring break because I'm really just going to like do procedures today, but I do have some like cleaning I want to do and organizing I want to do. Like a couple things are change a few seating charts, just kind of little things like that and pick up where I left off, you know what I mean? But I wanted to ask you guys, do any of you have, well, this is a dumb question. You probably all have one of these, a school alarm. So our school's alarm is armed up until 7am and so if you get here before seven, you have to disarm it and even though I know how to do it, it still scares the crap out of me every single time I do it because I'm like, Oh God, are the cops going to get called? Like what's going to happen? But that's just my own personal downfall. Anyways, I brought turkey corn dogs for lunch because that's pretty much all I had. I have switched from coffee to tea. Don't ask me why, but I have. So I'm drinking Tazo's English breakfast organic awake tea and I've got some organic half and half I'm going to put in there. I need to like brew that. Let me show you the state of the classroom. Everything major, honestly, like it's pretty clean. This is a bit dirty from a lab we did and then I decided to use these tubs instead of these boxes because the kids just kind of like destroy these. So I decided I'm going to kind of keep these up here and then when it's time to use them, I'll send a kid up to grab them because I'm really just tired of like the mess that those boxes created and a fun fact because I just noticed this. These are all the pencils I have left in the whole world. So I sent a message before Spring Break saying we don't have any more pencils. Please send some in at the beginning of the year. I had so many pencils and I know this is like probably I sound like a broken record because we all have the same problem but literally I had so many pencils I had an entire drawer full of pencils and almost every week I would put out like two or three boxes just to like replenish and without fail they were gone and the same kids who are constantly asking for pencils I'd be like okay if you can keep this one till Friday I'd put yet even put marks on it if you keep this pencil till Friday you can earn you know a trip to the prize box nope still awesome so anyway all right I'm going to get signed in here and then I'll catch up when I get a minute. Hello my friends so it's now almost four o'clock in the afternoon I'm just sitting here trying to work on a behavior chart that I am creating for one of my students and trying to just kind of figure out what we're going to do because some of these behaviors are pretty intense and extreme but anyways today went pretty great it was really more of like a procedure practice day just refreshing on all of the expectations things like that um and I created this student agreement which is kind of cool so basically it just like has them like signing that they agree to follow the expectations that have been set by Miss Graff and myself my student teacher and then that they understand what consequences that might come from making a poor choice um I also gave them the opportunity if they fully disagreed with the expectations at school and the consequences that might come from those choices that they were to take those home have their parent you know explain why they could be opting out of those expectations and return that to me promptly so anyway I'm just kind of trying to you know like lock down these behaviors because I'm very tired of all of it I know all the other teachers on campus are very tired of all of it and I think that it's time to stop allowing some of these kids to treat us the way that they have been so that's what I'm caught up to at the moment um but yeah it was a good day tomorrow um we're gonna do some more procedure practice we're going to learn how to send an email because I'm gonna start doing progress reports in emails so I'll be sending an email to the student and their parent for progress reports um I used to do it on paper but I hardly ever got those back so I'm gonna try emails um and then I'm also starting to prep my classroom for testing season because on Monday we start testing which personally I think that is absolutely insane that we're testing the second week back from fall uh spring break but you know that's yummy and then we're also gonna do a read aloud with a book called the class or sorry the recess queen and then I have these discussion cards that I'll be passing out to the kids and we'll be practicing doing a mix up pair up talking on task sharing think-pair share all of those kinds of routines just to make sure that everything is like solid before we start digging into actual content next week so anyway that's what I'm up to um I think what I'm gonna do now is go to the grocery store and grab a few things for food for the week and then I'm gonna go home and just relax um yeah so I hope you guys had a fabulous day whether you're back from break or you're getting ready to go on break I'm not really sure where everybody's at in the rest of the world but here in Arizona we have already had our spring break gone and done nine weeks until summer we can do it hello my friends welcome back it is Tuesday the 28th of March back in the classroom today spirit day is actually wear blue or dress like your hobby so I wore my blue bluegrass music shirt and my cowgirl boots because you know I don't know I guess my hobby would be music country music and it's blue so perfect also to you guys love my new frames from zimpf I'm obsessed I kind of think that they're made for men but I really like like the wide and thick rectangle glasses on me I just personally love that um I do have a discount code for a bunch of different frames down in the description box below I do have a coupon code for these frames as well as the other ones that I have from zimpf and they'll be linked down below so I don't know I feel like this vlog is sort of like moving toward just kind of like the background of teaching this week and that's fine with me because I feel like sometimes on this channel like been there done that and I just kind of I don't know I want to share new things like I want to be real and honest and like share the reality of stuff so um today I got here a little bit later um I did snooze my alarm a few times I'll be completely honest but you know what it's fine I'm here I'm on time it's all good um so something kind of funny I have stopped drinking coffee hate that but I'm doing it um I've been kind of like like the whole spring break I didn't really have access to coffee so I've really only been drinking like energy drinks a longy new actually really want to try a couple of like more organic natural like clean energy drinks because let's be honest this is probably poison um and then I've also been drinking tea so I've been drinking black tea with just half and half like organic half and half I've been trying to like push myself to do more organic options just for my own personal health um but yeah it's been interesting and I haven't had any withdrawals I'm still getting a little bit of caffeine every day I've actually been trying to like go down in the amount of caffeine that I'm in taking um so I can kind of wean myself off of it so you know I don't know I just think it would be nice to um not be so codependent on caffeine anymore as I'm drinking uh did you guys see that I hope you saw that drinking and spilling a poisonous energy drink want to see what I confiscated yesterday they were throwing it around the room my guys it's Monday we just got back from break really Luigi with no mustache baby Luigi poor kid anyway I'm gonna hold on to him for a little while um I got an email yesterday from a parent telling me that their child was called um mother hopefully I bleeped all of that out correctly but um and then she told me the two names of the people that had called her child that I sent both parents emails regarding the matter both denied calling said child that word um so I told them I was like uh you know unfortunately you know I can't really prove that anyone's done anything and you know this is a pretty much as far as I can take it unfortunately that's just the reality of today's schools um personally I wish that we had cameras in our classrooms and you know it's unfortunate that that's something I'm even like thinking about but like at this point like parents need to be able to see what their kids are doing um I know we have cameras like out in our yard and stuff they don't pick up any sound or anything like that so like all conversations are private and such but I don't know like I just feel like sometimes I wish I like I wish I had a camera running in here and I wish I could like email a parent be like hey will you um like it would be cool if like only the teachers and administration had access to these videos and like we could like take snip bits of different things and like send them to a parent you know what I mean like it wouldn't be like a live stream so it would protect the privacy of students um but like they would have to release obviously permission for their child's you know video to be shared with other parents I don't know I don't know how it would work but I just wish there was a way for me to like snapshot like a 10 minute period and like send it to a parent and be like check out what happened today like it would just be really nice if I could do that um and I know there's gonna be plenty of people here that disagree with that but I don't know it's just something about this last year has been just really tough I've never in my teaching career had to like make a list of do's and don'ts in a classroom until this year like I literally had to tell kids like you can't run in a classroom like you can't say these things like and I can't list all of the words that the kids can't say at school because that would be really bad but like you can't say this and you can't do this it's kind of like on airplanes where people are or like airports where it's like you can no longer like I don't know where stilettos on an airplane because you'll pop the slide what was that from was that kevin hart or was that angela johnson I don't know there was a comedian a while back who like did a whole bit oh maybe it was jenna marbles jenna marbles on youtube I used to watch her all the time when I was younger she had a whole video about people at the airport doing like making stupid choices and like one of them was wearing stilettos on an airplane and then like when the slide comes out like they slide feet first down to the slide and the stilettos pop the slide like it's obvious you don't do that but like people still do it so they have to say that in the safety video I don't know I digress all right I'm gonna get to work here I'll catch up with you guys when I have a time my student teacher is not here today so I'll have like the room to myself and I can just kind of like chat with you I'm gonna drink this and then head out to bus duty okay so the playlist I'm playing today is the patsy kline radio I told my students all about my Nashville trip and like who was discovered there and stuff and they were like uh who's that like they don't know who willy nelson is so today we're playing the patsy kline radio which has got stuff like dusty springfield at a james the supreme's merle haggard um patty loveless at a james leslie gore so that'll be a fun playlist and then the scent that I am melting I guess is called lemon sugar cookie it smells just like fruit loops so I got this at fries or like kroger um I always always have wax melts um here in the classroom and um our favorite smell scent is the lemon sugar cookie like it is legit the bomb okay run out and get you some sugar cookie lemon sugar cookie and then listen to the patsy kline radio suggestion made to you by charlotte apples and tiaras hey guys just wanted to check in with you it is 3 30 in the afternoon and I'm working on a handful of teacher input forms so my um sped teacher has sent out like three student information forms and a few invitations for IEP meetings that are all going to fall in the month of April so what I'm doing right now is I'm spending a few minutes just typing in all of my um comments in the teacher input form so that they can use those comments to run their IEP meeting if you're new to teaching or if you're going into teaching this is something that is very common it's very normal um the special education teacher will send you a document that you'll need to fill out information about the student so it might be like a reading strength reading weakness math weakness math strength behavioral concerns things like that um it kind of varies district to district but right now I'm filling out I think there's like three of them that I need to fill out and I typically like to fill them out the day that they're sent to me because then I know that they're done um and so I have like 30 minutes I should be able to be done by four if not I want to just stay past my contract hours to just make sure that these are done um because I don't like having to go back and do them later um because I forget a lot so uh by the way I'm using this house house labs it's lady gaga's makeup brand and it's her lip oil and I really like it this is the shade secondary um I got it at Sephora but I really really like it it's very moisturizing it's kind of glossy and I really enjoy it so that's what I'm using anyway okay I'm gonna stop talking and I'm gonna fill these out I'm gonna listen to some music while I do it and just knock it out also today's playlist is going to be the Elvis Presley radio playlist it has like Connie Francis passing line a couple of folks from yesterday's playlist but that is what we are listening to today and of course we still have lemon sugar cookie in our wax melts hello my friends happy Wednesday today spirit day is dress either in red or dress as your dream career so I dressed up as an instagram mom I have like sweatpants on and shoes and whatever anyway I'm currently working on reading through my student teacher's first performance assessment lesson plan um she is going through the um Arizona State University teaching program which is ASU they do a full year of student teaching and they're in the classroom three days a week which is totally different than when I was in school we were in there four days a week but either way she has a performance assessment coming up on Tuesday next week where she is going to have one of her professors come in and observe her teaching so I'm actually just reading through her lesson plan which we are using or she is using sorry a mystery science lesson so it'll be kind of like the engage portion of a 5e lesson plan and we're going to be using the energize everything unit from mystery science so that's what I'm currently working on today during homeroom we need to practice our testing procedures and that is just going to entail the students grabbing their Chromebooks logging out of their Chromebooks and opening up the secure test website um if there's time I might take them through signing into a test uh sample test just to have them be ready for Monday because we are testing Monday um and then I'm going to be doing that recess queen activity that I mentioned earlier in this vlog um so that's what I'm currently working on a coworker of mine is going to be borrowing one of my favorite tiaras this is um sleeping beauties tiara if you're wondering why I have a tiara think about my youtube name apples and tiaras so I actually used to dress up those of you that are new here um I used to dress up like princesses and entertain at children's birthday parties so that's where the tiaras comes from um apple teacher tiara princess I used to do both um so that is where the name came from but she's going to be borrowing sweet Aurora today because she is going to be a princess that is her dream job or queen um or something like that but anyway she's going to borrow that so I'm going to read through this I've got about 30 ish minutes until the kids get here and Jessica is not here again today so I'll update you guys um here's what I'm having for breakfast it's very nutritious this dip from fries I think you can get it at Costco and some manna's chips yeah it's very um nutritious and healthy and it's also very easy so that's what I'm having for breakfast and I'm gonna get started and I'm gonna get this morning rolling good morning my friends how are you happy Thursday um today spirit day is where purple this is pretty much the only purple that I own um I don't know I just don't wear purple it's just not my thing luckily though the shirt totally fits so you know today is also our spring carnival um which is running from five five to six thirty I also have after school tutoring until 350 and so I will be here on campus until about probably seven and then I have a special visitor coming from California do you guys know who Kate the sleepy teacher is I don't know if she goes by that anymore he's uh passing through she was doing like a major spring break excursion through California and Arizona I love how adventurous she is I wish I was that way I'm more of a small time adventurer if you know what I mean um so anyway right now I'm just um redeeming all of the points from my dojo store if you guys are interested how I use class dojo and the dojo store for my classroom management there is a video I will link it here in the icard um you can go check that out and um if you have any questions about dojo or how I use it watch that video first and then feel free to ask me any more questions that you have all right this is probably too much talking already so I'm going to let you all go and I'll see you later okay morning everyone happy Friday we've made it a whole week whoo it was a doozy but we made it today spirit day is supposed to be rainbow day like where as many colors as you can but I don't have that or marry cut oh my gosh I can't talk I don't have very many colors in my wardrobe so I wore the most colorful shirt that I have and jeans because I can so my student teacher is fully taken over today it's going to be her first day doing doing three lessons in a row usually she just watches me uh she'll watch me do the first couple of classes and then she will do um the third class or sometimes she'll watch me do two classes and or watch me do one and do the second class or the third class wow I can't speak it's because I need caffeine I swear my brain is like not able to function without it anyway something so sad happened yesterday my lanyard broke I think I pulled it too hard it just came undone so a lot of the beads fell on the floor but my fourth graders were like running around trying to scoop them all up so anyways we made it to Friday today the kids are going to do a STEM challenge with Jessica at the lead um and it's kind of related to earthquakes I think I mentioned in my last vlog that we didn't really get to finish like our earthquakes unit um so today the kids are going to be doing a marshmallows uh toothpick tower um and then I have a have a shake table that we might throw them on at the end just to see if they can withstand an earthquake but their goal isn't for it to do that their goal is really for it to just like be the tallest one so um I find that toothpicks and marshmallows you can't really make anything that tall and actually like if they focus more on making it sturdy then it will stay standing and not fall over and then it will be the tallest so but anyways I'm trying to move myself back here because Jessica is going to be teaching from the front today um so I'm trying to like reposition all my stuff to the back of the room that way she's got plenty of space I like giving her like when it's her turn I like to completely move out of the way and give her her space so that she can feel like it's her you know it's her class because it is so um yeah that's what I'm doing right now I'm gonna be going to Prescott this weekend um to visit family and so that'll be a fun time and yeah Friday made it first week back from spring break success next week we have testing so I'm probably not gonna do like a teaching vlog um because it's just it's just is what it is I don't think I need to take anything else down uh because I don't have a lot of like signage up anymore like I don't think I need to take all of this down because none of it is like testing motivation or anything like that I like it's all just I don't know I don't think I need to take it down I'll have to erase like the schedule and stuff well no yeah I'll probably just erase it just because but yeah I don't have like as you can see I don't have a ton of like I might take because down but actually maybe I'll just cover it because I don't want to take that down yet we use that a lot but yeah I don't need to take a whole bunch of stuff down for testing um I am going to though have to figure out like I'm probably gonna have one so I have four kids at each table so what I'm gonna do is have one sit here here there and across rather than like two two two two like we'll utilize the ends of the tables so I might move the tables around just for testing and then move them back and also have one two I have two other like tabletops that kids can sit at and take their tests I actually could put two kids up here too if I cleared this off I could put two kids there to test because I want to make sure that there's plenty of space between them all so yeah and that's it that's all she wrote I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog it's been an interesting one this just this just just different than normal um I'm just trying to do something different because what I've been doing has been boring me so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one next vlog is going to have a very important announcement in it all right well maybe not the next one anyway thank you so much for watching have a great day my best memories fly by driving by the fields I used to run through