 hi guys good morning so it is Tuesday the day after labor day and I just wanted to start a weekly vlog for you guys so this morning it is seven almost seven thirty so I'm running a tad bit late I mean I'm not late or anything by any means I'm just later than normal usually I get here at seven and I'm not here at seven I'm here at seven thirty but that's okay because I had to make breakfast and like so so as you can see behind me my room is like empty I came in yesterday and rearranged reorganized the room because I have 12 less students now with which I'm really excited about and it might be bad that I'm excited about it but I really really am because these kids are gonna get such a better education so anyway I'm just checking my email and then I am going to go ahead and start printing my things for the week I have everything planned out for the week and we're gonna be working on summarizing using text evidence in a summary referring to details in a text when answering a comprehension question I feel like this is really important to do in the beginning of the school year because you set that expectation for what you want them to do every time they're answering a text-dependent question so we're gonna be working on that this week since it's a short week we're not really going to be doing like any specific story I am going to start because of when Dixie probably next week so I need to get that request put into my librarian I have this little bucket here next to my desk my computer desk where I do all my work and it just has like some stabbler pens and note cards and this is where I just keep track of like my to-do list in the morning that way I don't have to like get up but the desk over there my teacher desk is really not even used by me it's used by students who who've earned it so most of my stuff is done over here that's why I have like all of my teacher resources here because I sit here and do my work here that way that desk is reserved for students who've done a good job so along with citing text evidence this is going to be for reading we're also going to be starting our first opinion writing piece and I found this one on teachers pay teachers and it's this social media for kids whoa or no and I really like having a topic that the kids can have some input in and I think that this topic is going to be really really good for them I had another one from last year but unfortunately Jennifer her student teacher Rachel used it and so her kids I have at least I want to say like 12 of her kids from last year so at least half of them would already know what to do so I picked this one I like it because it is grade level but it also goes back to third grade so I can give the third grade passage to my lower level readers so it's kind of differentiated which is really nice so I'm going to start off with just printing off these articles so we have our big walkthrough next week our school board is walking through our school and they will be looking at classrooms they'll be looking at bulletin boards just looking to see that we're following our guidelines and part of that is having a standard based bulletin board and so I want to use this writing example for the bulletin board and so I would like to have it finished and graded by see the 11th is next Monday so I would like to have that done before like the whole writing assignment done by this weekend so it's going to be probably put in place of like language and grammar so I'm probably only gonna be doing social studies math writing and reading this week which is fine so yeah I'm gonna go and pick up my copies and then I will catch up with you guys in a minute hey guys so I'm out at bus duty and I bring an umbrella because the sun's really bright I'm standing in a shady spot right now but usually it's really bright three buses have already come and I only have to wait for four more and then I can go inside I actually really like this duty because once all the buses come I'm done and I'm usually done like 15 minutes before the bell rings so I get a little extra extra time here's our beautiful habitat I see it because there's a ball but that's okay all right guys so I just dropped the kids off at PE and we are going to be transitioning into math when we return so I'm just getting my math stuff all situated I've got my Eureka exit tickets done I've got we did start writing but we did not get to finish it so I'm just gonna put that there and our fire marshals here walking around so that's exciting not really but they're checking our classrooms to make sure that we've conformed by to the requirements or whatever and they just came in and like she like looked around and then she left like okay bye like that was nothing so yeah I'm just pulling up my math lesson for today which is lesson 11 here and I'm just gonna go through it and make sure that everything in it is what I want to be in it and not like random stuff that I don't want to be in it but the kids are up here and they've left their binders here because they're gonna be returning to this place when they get back from math and yeah so I'm just getting prepped I'm probably gonna eat a snack because I'm starving I had like half a cup of cereal this morning for breakfast which is not enough food good morning guys it is Wednesday and I'm on my way to work I love having okay so I think my new plan is to curl my hair every like Sunday night or even Monday morning and then just wear my hair like this the rest of the week because this is like overnight slept in and all I have to do is throw a little dry shampoo through it and some hairspray and then I'm good to go so I think that's a good plan also I'm wearing my lip sense this morning this is first love and I like it I really want to get like a berry color for the fall I think that'd be really nice wintery time because I am gonna be on maternity leave through November December January and part of February I think it would be really cool to like get some nice like fall winter makeup because I'm gonna be home so I'm I don't know I feel like even though I'm gonna have a newborn baby like I want to take advantage of this time that I have off and really milk it and getting to be like I don't know stay at home mom for three months is gonna be really fun and I I want to like get some cute makeup and like make myself look pretty every day and like take my baby for walks around the square and his little stroller and like dress him up and really just go to town so I've got about seven weeks left until you know things start to change hopefully we can stick it keep them in there for 38 weeks that's my goal keep them in there 38 weeks and then we're safe also you may notice that I've been wearing this little ring my wedding ring doesn't fit my finger anymore it fits but I can't get it on and off very easily and I really really want to like I take it off to put my lotion on my belly and because I don't want to get lotion all up in the crevices of my ring and then I can't get it off and I can't get it back on so I found this one at Target it came with like a like a real wedding ring kind of looking ring too but I don't like wearing that just because it looks fake but this one doesn't look bad from far away it just looks like a band so that's why I'm wearing that and it is really big so it will swell with me I am starting to get a little swollen in my feet at the end of the day but that's no big deal and I'm really tired last night I fell asleep on the couch at like 8 o'clock and then moved to the bed around 10 and just passed out so I'm definitely more tired than normal that's okay so yesterday I didn't finish out the day with you guys but yesterday was magical like teaching 24 kids was so much easier and so much more like fluid than teaching 38 and as much as it pains me to say I am so glad that we were able to find another teacher and you know get these kids you know 12 kids into her class because not only is it easier on me but it's better for them they get a better education that way they get more one-on-one attention I felt like yesterday I really only had like two or three kids that needed my help instead of like 15 and it was really really nice to be able to actually sit down and help them and not have to be like oh we'll just hold on like I need now I need to go over here and I need to go there like I didn't feel stretched so thin yesterday and it was a lot quieter it was a lot more organized there was no like having to like squeeze by somebody or it was just magical so I'm really really pleased with how everything worked out with the other teacher and I did get to see all those kids in the morning and I gave them the hugs and I said stay positive and they all seemed to have a great day so that's good yay for breakfast this morning I'm eating I want to say I want to say drinking but I'm not drinking it because it's not really that liquidified unless I like let it sit for a bit I'm drinking a chocolate protein and strawberry smoothie and for lunch I have a whole bunch of snacks my mom went to Costco last night and bought a whole bunch of foods I've been struggling with food like trying to get something healthy to take for lunch that I can make really fast is really difficult so she made some homemade pad Thai noodles with some broccoli last night and so I'm taking that anyway I'm gonna stop blabbing and I'm gonna get to work good morning guys so it is 7 30 and I just got to work and Thursday and I am exhausted and it's really cold in here so I'm glad I have my school sweater a couple things I need to do yesterday I left really quickly my goodness why can I get this jacket on a couple things I need to do this morning I need to clean off my table because yesterday I did not clean it off after school we had a staff meeting and I kind of raced out of here really quickly so I just kind of left it all where it was I had to do that and then I need to print my materials for reading because I don't have anything printed for that everything else is printed and ready to go but reading is simple it's just strategies for answering questions and things like that so nothing too too annoying I need to run some things to the office and yeah so tonight I'm going to Jennifer's house on Thursday my husband leaves for the Valley and he goes to work and then on Fridays I drive down to be with him and so Thursday nights I usually stay at Jennifer's we'd have like a sleepover and just hang out because otherwise I'm myself so why not right so yeah that's what's going on I think we're gonna do like a barbecue kind of like she's got a fire pit she wants to try out and so she invited both of us over to do that before he leaves so I think we're gonna actually go to the house and pack some more because our house isn't empty it's not moved out of yet we have until the 27th to move out and we have a storage unit so we are gonna go over there and just move some more things or pack some more things up and then we'll go to Jennifer's house for dinner before Scott leaves for work and then Friday night I will after school I'll go home to my mom's just relax for a couple hours pack my stuff and then I usually don't leave for the Valley until like 6 or 6 30 just so that I don't have to deal with any traffic down there just because it is kind of like paint in the butt with traffic so I try to avoid that and next week I need to plan some 5c activities I really need to incorporate those more and in a better fashion we have a field trip next Friday so I need to prepare for that and yeah so that's kind of the week I know you guys wanted to see like more vlogging there's really not a whole lot of exciting things going on in my world other than you know my class size being smaller which is magical I'm not wearing makeup today some rude person said that I'm ugly without makeup obviously that's why people wear makeup just kidding I don't think that I'm ugly without it I obviously don't think I'm as pretty without it but I definitely don't think I'm ugly without it so thanks for that comment and yeah so I'm gonna get to work and catch up with you guys later Jennifer texted 5,849 times in January happy Friday Jennifer and I are having breakfast as we do every Friday this is our new tradition pumpkin spice lattes and breakfast burritos so good and we're matching of course true story bro true story even though it's not getting me it's getting my breakfast burrito yeah don't have anything prepped for today classic teacher fail and neither of us have anything prepped for today but we don't care we know what we're doing I'm doing I'm doing a race city I'm gonna teach them how to log into reading counts that's good idea and do a reading counts quiz mm-hmm then we go to specials and then we come back and then it centers and I'm doing ketchup and pickles I want them to sit down quietly and then I'm doing reader-seater for those that have finished I need to get that from you yeah well my I got them on Lakeshore so you just make copies of our friends by something on TPT yeah my kids love it they're good at it yeah I need to do readers