 Hi! Welcome back to my channel. My name is Megan and I can't wait for you to watch my long-term sub vlogs this week. Happy Wednesday everybody! I didn't share Monday or Tuesday because I forgot my camera at home. But it is Wednesday and this week has been going um good slash They need lots of reminders. They're very chatty and I feel like I'm getting sick again, which stinks a lot. I'm very upset that I might be getting sick again. You can see by my dry lips, my throat is a little bit achy today and everything like that. So it kind of stinks. But anywho, I wanted to share a couple of the things that we are doing this week and just kind of update you guys on what's going on. So to start this week I did a morning message about the body and just kind of really fun things. I'm talking about it just to get them in the idea. We started a little bit of data without them even knowing. We did a tally chart on if they've broken a bone before. So that was just kind of a fun way to get them into the body as well as data this week since those are the two main things we are focusing on is the body and data. And then part of this day we also were talking about points of view because I wanted them to practice writing from a different um or from the first person point of view and a different perspective in their book report. So we just did a practice one. It's totally made up. I just drew a couple sticks and the kids gave a sentence for me to write. We had to decide on a main character and everything like that. But we did it from first person and that was just a fun introduction into our final project for Writers Workshop which will be a narrative from the first person point of view from the perspective of a body part. And they'll have to decide that next week but for right now we're just kind of going like slowly introducing it without officially saying that that's what it's for. Then yesterday Tuesday I talked a little bit about germs. So one of the standards that we have to cover is about germs and about keeping your body healthy and everything like that. So in order to cover that standard we are talking about germs specifically this week and then at the bottom we were talking about how can we or yeah how can we prevent the spread of germs. So just talking about how you can kind of keep yourself safe. We watched a video on how to cover your cough and your sneeze and just different ways that germs are spread and how we can keep our bodies safe and keep others safe as well. Then part of Tuesday I said we were talking about data or data depends I guess on how you say it. So I just said what is data we talked about some kind of small definitions of it and then I was asking them what are some charts and graphs that we use to show our data and we talked about a couple of them. I didn't go into a ton of detail because they talk a lot about data and graphs and stuff in second grade and I believe third grade as well. So I didn't want to go too much into it. I have a good feeling that they knew a lot about this already but we did go into it a little bit and just talk about what each of these are used for and kind of why they're important and then we get into today. So today I just wanted to cover more on data and just give them a little bit more of a definition and kind of like what how we use it and then I said we're going to make a bar graph. So I just asked them what their favorite color is and they did a little tele chart here. We actually drew this during morning meeting so this wasn't up there when they were doing it and then I asked them which graph or chart would be used to show this data. So which one would make the most sense? Why would we use that and or why wouldn't we use the other three is kind of my question right down here. So most of them said bar graph which is great that's how I had hoped they would respond and then but we also kind of talked about it too. I mean if they did say pie chart or line graph you know why did they say that? What does a line graph show? Oh well that shows change over time and things like that and then over here during morning meeting I graphed this and we just kind of talked about what that graph shows and why it's important and how it helps us and we also talked a little bit about well yeah maybe we could use a pie chart but why wouldn't we or what would it show and things like that. So that was all of the things we've done. Today we're talking about mean, median and mode and range so I will be making another one for that but for now I don't have anything there yet. So that is kind of all the things I've written this week in terms of morning meeting type of things and then informational sheets. One source of classroom management is giving rewards for things so I decided to give them the option of being able to earn a game after writer's workshop. We tend to have a little bit of time so I wanted to give that to them. First of all I like playing games and second of all it's just been kind of tough. There's someone here who like to talk a lot and it gets to be very disruptive so I wanted to come up with a system where I can kind of give rewards and take away rewards based on how they are doing. I gave a lot of input from the students. I kind of wrote most of this stuff on kind of what I expect but all of this right here was kind of the student's choice so we are going to spell out a word and then they're going to try to earn it daily but if they can't earn it in a day then they will try to earn it the next day. I said that it's only going to be the words themselves are only during our morning meeting specialist reader's workshop and writer's workshop time because we're going to do it at the end of writer's workshop so I specifically gave some time so you can see I put game here. I gave some time 14 minutes because today would be 13. You can see so far at least if they can earn that and again this was like most of them like their ideas and coming up with this. I really wanted to give them a lot of input and that makes them more more feeling more responsible for it than just me coming up with something and telling them that's the way it is so these are kind of the little ways if you guys do have any suggestions that would be awesome. I'm just kind of having a hard time with the classroom management being a sob and stuff so this was kind of my little way out of it plus I do love to play games as well so I mean it's kind of nice that this this gives them the option and it kind of makes me more accountable for trying to include a game as well because I get tired of seeing the kids like sitting all day and I know they're tired of it too so that can be kind of tough for them and then I just wanted to share kind of my little plan for the week so we have a tornado drill tomorrow. On Friday we have Chromebooks so I'm gonna try to do a bunch of math review for Kahootz because we have MCA testing next week and then I also wanted to do an escape room type of thing and then Jeopardy is really fun as well so those are a couple things I haven't really planned out next week yet I mean it's only Wednesday today so I do have some time but I'm still kind of trying to think about what I'm doing next week and then you know I haven't even written anything for the next week so that's kind of what's going on so today I'm going to be reading this book called Your Body Battles Cold again just talk about germs and how to keep your body safe or unhealthy and then Writer's Workshop we are working on writing our stories so those are due on Friday like I said we're doing mean median mode and range for math so I'm just gonna do five numbers and we're gonna talk about it and then they have a packet that they're working on a data packet just has a bunch of examples of how to read different charts and graphs and then they have daily homework of getting their planner signed reading 30 minutes and handwriting so I'm gonna leave it there I will talk to you guys probably more tomorrow and just kind of share some of the other fun things going on so that is it for today happy Friday everybody I didn't talk yesterday just because there wasn't really anything new to share and yeah so yesterday the kids turned in these data packets so basically they are just looking at different data that's one of the last standards for fourth grade math is looking at data so we were just practicing learning how to read a graph and kind of fill in the information about it and so yeah we did different things like that I also decided to try something else out with the kids so I'll show you guys that so I wasn't sure exactly how they would react to go noodle just I don't know some of these kids just kind of seem like they are kind of too cool for go noodle and because we're doing the human body I just decided to try out doing bones bones bones on sorry about that on go noodle because it talks about the different bones in the body and it tells you how many bones are in the body and I just thought it would be a really good one and they really liked it so the last few mornings well yesterday morning and then today we just started doing that just as something for fun and I've chosen a couple students to choose different go noodles if you sorry if you don't know what go noodle is it's basically just a site that is free and they have a bunch of different videos you can choose by category or channels you can see there's lots of different channels most of them are under five minutes other than this indoor recess which is meant to give lots of different activities in the span of how long your recess would usually be um cuckoo kangaroo is one of my favorite channels and they just have you can see two or three minute videos that are really fun and the kids tend to really enjoy them we just did milkshake and it's just a fun one to get the kids talking and repeating the and doing the actions and things like that so it's just really fun and I think they really enjoy it and I really enjoy it and it gives a smile in the morning to all of our faces so here's kind of the rough plan that I'm doing I have each of the different three different sections of the day just I'm posted just kind of roughly of what I'm doing so readers workshop is first and we have a little time for snack but it's not that long we usually use the bathroom and have a snack then I'm going to do this read aloud the immune system because it's a non-fiction book we can kind of go into whatever we want so I might just ask the students kind of what they would like to read about and let them kind of choose what we will read about for the immune system to cover the standard of the body and kind of how to keep your body healthy for writers workshop I'm just going to do a quick check in put them into partners and then they wrote some stories from a different perspective from their book report so they're going to read those stories to a classmate and then I left a little bit of time to pull some sticks and have the students read to the whole class we've been trying to earn games so if they do earn the game today which I told you guys about that today our word is fry yay I gave the directions of kind of how they can earn it they get automatic 15 minutes for the day but they're already down to 11 which is kind of too bad I hope they can earn it because I do think it's kind of fun and it's nice for them to be able to do that but you know this might be one of the days that they don't earn it so if that's the case with this game I'll just have them continue to share instead of doing the game for math there's kind of no specific plan we have Chromebooks on Friday but there are no ixl lessons which is another site that you can go on for math lessons that the kids can practice different standards and so I just kind of made my own kind of things for the day so they have something called 100 words which I think is super cool so in order to get 100 words the students have to figure out what words can form 100 dollars so if you think about it each letter is a number so a would be one and then b would be two and then they have to come up with words that would be 100 so they have a few on here they try to look for different ones to see if they can come up with words that would equal to 100 and so far this is what they have and it's just kind of a fun way so I was going to see if there's any new ones to add to our list on here any who back to talking quick then we are going to do the pulse taking our pulses and that's going to be part of our data so I'm going to read a little bit from what is my pulse and just kind of talk about what is the pulse kind of why it's important and then we're going to talk about how we take a pulse and I found a little video on here and it's how to take a pulse it is a nurse who shows how to take the pulse and kind of talks about all of that stuff so it's kind of cool that it comes from a nurse as well and can just kind of talk about all of that stuff and then I printed some sheets and it just has students name and then we're going to take two trials for resting pulse we're going to average out our resting pulse and then we're going to do a pulse after a minute of exercise then we're going to write down a couple different students in the class and what their pulse was and then we are going to graph it so I thought this was a great way to collect data and organize data and then graph the data as well so I think that will be fun and then lastly they have mca testing for math so I decided to find a kahoot kahoot is just a site where they have little games on there they're kind of quiz type games and because we have the chromebooks today I decided this would be something really fun that we can do as a class and just do some fourth grade math review so I thought that would be really really fun um otherwise I just asked the students today to get them prepared for our writing assignment I just asked them what their favorite body part is just to get their minds in that kind of mindset and we lastly to finish off we are reading this book called the westing game and it's a little bit confusing I think it's meant to be a mystery I don't really know that much about it I didn't really get like I didn't get to choose it so I decided to go ahead and as we're reading we're going to write down information about the different people and where they live excuse me and everything like that so oh gosh come on don't be shaky so yeah that is what our week kind of looked like nothing too crazy or exciting I'm still having some troubles with the classroom management that's been kind of tough for me and I'm just trying to figure out ways that would be best to kind of handle that I'm trying the game thing and sometimes it works but I've noticed it really hasn't been working that well but I might try it a little bit longer and just kind of see how it goes um otherwise I'm I'm kind of out of ideas maybe I should just start kind of hammering down and having you know calling parents or something I don't know I'm kind of at a loss right now because I don't know so anywho I also emailed the principal from the school that I did my other long-term sub at and asked her to make a updated letter of recommendation for me as well as emailing the principal here and asking her as well I know it's only my second week which I stated to her but I wanted to get it out there sooner rather than later um and I just said I wanted to put it on her radar for the next four weeks that I'm here and invited her to come observe if she wants to or needs to so I think that was a good idea kind of get it on on her radar early and kind of give her a chance to think about it and all of that so I'm gonna sign off for the week I have my triathlon this weekend which I'm super excited about I'm kind of nervous but it'll be really fun and um planning for next week so I have some fun things that I'm looking forward to showing you guys for next week so I will talk to you guys next week I hope you have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you next week okay bye guys