 Hello everyone welcome back to another vlog so today is Wednesday April 14th and I'm actually starting this vlog at the end of the day. It's a Wednesday so it's early release it's about 1.15 right now in the afternoon and my kids have all gone home for the day and I'm getting ready to spend the next few hours prepping going to a few meetings and I thought that I would just start my vlog this afternoon since I have all the time in the world so I'm gonna do first an outfit of the day because I know you guys love those and then I'm gonna show you guys this really super cool new desk that I just got that I know you guys are gonna love. Okay so the outfit today is coming to you from Old Navy so this t-shirt is an Old Navy t-shirt and I just rolled it up and it's over top of a dress so the dress is like a tank top dress and I just rolled it up right over the top of it so it just kind of has like the flowy skirt effect this is kind of like my favorite go-to outfit and then my glasses are from Glasses USA and I will have those linked down below I think these glasses are really funny they remind me of Johnny Depp I call them my Johnny Depp glasses and I always get lots of compliments on them they come with this really cool like sunglasses thing that like pops right on the front of your glasses but anyway these are one of my favorites from Glasses USA they're like super nerdy and they make me feel like a super smart scientist so I like wearing these ones and then my shoes these are these like excuse the mess these are these I forget what they're called but they're like made out of yoga mat material I don't know but they're comfortable so anyways I wanted to show you guys this super cool standing and rising desk that I have been obsessed with the last few weeks since coming back from spring break okay so this is the desk and I love that it has wheels on it so this is the apex desk and it is really super cool because not only does it rise and fall but it also has wheels on it so this has come in handy a lot with the whole moving around the room I like to kind of change where I stand and where I teach from so I like it because I can roll it around with me I can roll it out of the way and then I can have students working here in this area I can kind of take up space in this area I can roll it across to the other side this would be a great desk for you if you're teaching hybrid students because I know a lot of you don't like leaving your students just in one spot while you go attend to your in-class students so this would be a great tool for you if you're teaching hybrid you could bring your online students around the room with you while you go to in-person students so anyway I love the wheels it does have a locking mechanism so you just kick the lockdown and then it does lock the wheels so it's a lot harder to roll and then sorry mine's a little dirty we had some fun with mud making soon homies and then it's really cool because it does have a tablet slot right here so you could just plop your tablet in there and then it also goes up and down so it rises so it can be super tall and then it also comes down to about there so a student could use it so I'm gonna stand next to it so I can show you guys the perspective this is a desk at full when it is completely down and here's the desk at completely up so I will leave a link to this apex rising desk down in the description if you guys are interested in checking it out okay so today was kind of a weird day for us we're right in the middle of azmerit testing today's Wednesday it's early release so we don't rotate students but I am behind on teaching some of my lessons for our water festival that's coming up in the next couple of weeks it is virtual unfortunately but there are a few lessons that are supposed to be taught before they come and then a couple of lessons that happened after one of the lessons was this really cool simulation that simulates water molecules and show students how heat and heat energy changes the state of matter that liquid water gas water and solid water go through and so I am going to put the link to the website in the description of this video but basically what the kids were able to do and get my copy okay so what the kids are able to do with this website by the way this is too long of a website for me to just sail out so I'm gonna just put it in the description below but if you teach water or anything related to water or anything with states of matter you can definitely use this website so you click on states and then the kids choose water as their molecule and then you can see here the water molecules are in the jar you want to change it to Celsius which that's closest to Fahrenheit and then essentially what the kids do is they choose a state of water to begin with let's say we start with the gas and then they're able to see how the molecules are moving in relation to the temperature so I explain to the kids the higher the Celsius degree the hotter it is 100 degrees is when water can become a gas 100 degrees Celsius is when a water can become a gas so it's at 156 degrees centimeter Celsius right now and which is why it is in a gas state so we make observations what are the molecules doing how are they moving how are they behaving the kids can see that they are moving pretty quickly they are very spread apart and then what we do is we can change the temperature and watch as the molecules begin to behave differently so if we cool them down you'll notice that the molecules are coming closer together they're not moving quite as much they're all sinking to the bottom and then eventually as it gets colder and colder and colder they will eventually freeze and stop moving so kids are able to see how when water is chilled it becomes a solid so as you can see the molecules have stopped moving and then they can pause they were writing observations and then they can basically change all of their states of water and see how things change them so if we go to solid we start as a solid it's pretty cold right now they are shaking but they're not really moving that much and they're very close together and if we apply heat we're going to melt them into a liquid okay so now they're extremely close together they are moving but they're moving a lot slower than they would if they were above 156 degrees Celsius now they're becoming a gas so it's just a really cool simulation website like I said oh we'll link it down below if you're interested in doing it with your kids there is some need for written directions so if you can see my students had access to this written direction it's from Arizona Project Wet if you guys are interested in this you can look up Arizona Project Wet and you might be able to get access to this but this is something that our district gave to us it is through the Arizona Water Festival so I can't send these to you but what I can do is tell you that it is very helpful to type out the instructions for your students if you're gonna use this tell them what to choose and then they were able to go through and answer some questions along the way so if you're interested in this I would suggest going to Arizona Project Wet or the Arizona Wet Water Festival to get information on that if it's something that you are interested in. So I do have another lesson so it was very strange today we didn't rotate students so we decided to do a full-blown hour-long Google Meet where I taught all of the fourth graders but they were in their own home rooms and so I did teach today on Google Meet but I got to teach all of the fourth graders and what's cool was that their homeroom teachers so my ELA teacher Maria and then Rob my math teacher they were in there to help lead discussions listen to discussions make sure the kids were on task make sure that they were on what they're supposed to be on and so it was actually really nice to be able to do that so that very weird. So tomorrow we are taking the second ELA azmerit test and the second math azmerit test and then when we're all finished we're gonna do another Google Meet lesson just so that I can at least get 30 to 40 minutes with them. The Water Festival is next Tuesday and I have five lessons I'm supposed to teach before then some of them will go together but there's some modules that the kids need to go through before they do their Water Festival thing so I wanted to have time and so my teammates are amazing and they're giving me that time so I really appreciate them for that but it's at this point in the day where I'm gonna start doing some planning and grading I need to grade these and then start finishing up plans for those water lessons that I'm gonna be doing the rest of this week and then Monday as well so I'm gonna collect all of these pages and start grading them and going through them and then I will have a PLC meeting at three and then it's to the gym for this girl I don't know what we're doing today maybe legs but I will try to show you guys some of the workout. Hey you guys so I definitely forgot to film our workout but today was back and shoulder day so we started out with some front raises and lateral raises and then we moved to the lat pull-down machine after that we did oh and flies and then after that we went into one armed rows and double rows but we did it with the rope where you pull it towards you I should have filmed this but I was in the zone and then after that we did basic shoulder press oh we did some Arnold presses Arnold presses too so shoulders and back super good workout I did not take a pre-workout but I did drink my Elani new energy drink kind of at like three o'clock so it was kind of like trickling off of that but all-in-all great workout so it is 510 I'm gonna head on home making some flowerless shrimp tacos tonight with my Hickama wraps which I can show you guys when I get home Scott will have flour tortillas and then we're gonna just hang out the rest of the night so yeah I'll see you guys at home. The final product shrimp tacos on a Hickama tortilla. Thank you babe. Yummy. Let's taste.