 Hello, hello, happy Wednesday already. The reason it's Wednesday already is because Monday was President's Day and Tuesday I am actually observing my long-term substitute teacher, the lady I'm gonna do the long-term sub for. So I was observing her this week, which meant that I honestly didn't have time to sit down and film. I could have done it at home, but I honestly really didn't have that much information to tell you guys anyways. So yeah. But anyways, I observed yesterday and then this morning we had just kind of started the morning and then the principal came in and was like, hey, we don't have a sub in third grade. Can we have you sub today since you're already here and all that stuff. So of course when the principal asks you to sub you say yes and it turned out to be a fabulous day. So I really enjoyed it a lot. So it was fun and we did just quick. We did we they used this handwriting book and we just focused on like different strokes that you can use. We went to the computer lab and used IXL. Oh, we focused a lot and I'll show you the question. So it was really asking the kids like why is why are the illustrations important and it was just really interesting to see like I don't know they just got so cut up in it and like they really wanted to do good and can I get real with you guys like I it makes me a little bit sad when like I had two girls who were freaking out because they wanted to do a good job and they were worried that their teacher was gonna be mad on a pre-test like quick write super simple and they were worried they were like one was crying because she was like my teacher is gonna be mad because I don't know how to answer this question and I don't like here's the hard part I don't know if it's like the teacher and I don't know maybe she's just like kind of strict and harsh and like doesn't want you to just like leave your paper blank or like right I don't know but like and I was telling these girls you know what there are more important things to stress about in the world like this is and for lack of better words right now obviously I didn't tell the kids that but like this is point like there's nothing about this that's like overly important right now anyways I'm starting to ramble but it just hurts my teacher heart and I just love kids so much and I love teaching them and I love just having fun like no wonder our kids are so serious and have like I don't know I just like to have fun I like to joke with the kids I like to play games and that's just who I am and that's the kind of teacher that I want to be and that I love being every single day with these kids and it's great so yeah I'll show you guys the things that we a couple things that we did today so here they have things that the kids have mastered so their names are up there these little b things and then they have things that they've mastered which I think is a really cute idea otherwise it was a good day and I probably won't talk tomorrow just because I am observing again I'm doing a break out so maybe I'll try to like video a little bit of that and show you guys but otherwise I'll be in fifth grade on Friday and then we start next week so I will go ahead and catch you guys on Friday happy Friday everybody I'm actually at the end of the day and it was pretty good I was with the fifth graders today and it was it was really easy so I can't complain about that and a couple of the things that we did they were learning about simple machines right now so they read all these books about machines and one of the things we read was called the marvelous thing that came from a spring and it just talks about how the slinky came into being so that was kind of fun to read about that and kind of talk about how that came into being and everything like that so it's really fun so here are some of those machine books that I was talking about forces and motion energy movement pulleys spring and like just how the body moves how the bike moves there's one that actually says simple machines cranes levers and all of that stuff so this is what they're reading about so they just use that time to read and I think they have like not very much time for science because they incorporate that in through reading these different books another thing that I saw today that I really really liked was they have a thing called Friday writing so they have a partner and they write about anything that they want they talk with their partner they can type it up and it's a really fun time that they can be really engaged in their writing and just enjoy what they're writing about because they get to choose it so I saw some kids writing about a story where a child was trying to escape an orphanage and another group was adding some Spanish words in and how a family was immigrating during World War two from Europe over to the United States like just incredible ideas that are awesome and that the kids get to explore in their writing and I think it was a really amazing chance for them to just like be excited about their writing and choose any topic that they want and then a game idea for you guys they were playing something called unfair silent ball so it's basically the idea of silent ball but then there's an unfair factor about it so all the kids sit on their desks and I'll show you the little clip that I have and then the teacher will call out names when kids get out and they have to go sit in their chairs but when that kid gets out the teacher also pulls another stick of another kid and they have to be out too so it's that unfair factor and then when two people get out so like after that first group then another person gets out after that then they pull a stick for someone to come back into the game so it was interesting I've never seen that but it's silent ball silent ball is always fun because it's quiet but the kids enjoy a lot too so there's an idea for you guys especially with the older kids just kind of adding that like unfair factor into the mix alright so just lastly before I end the vlog for this week I just wanted to share kind of how the whole long-term sub stuff how that's all working out so I went to observe for two days this week and I just wrote down lots of notes their system is a little bit different than the last long-term sub I was in because they do units and they do readers and writers workshop and then they have a math workshop here and they don't use they use like standards but they don't have a curriculum so but they have like a district a district unit plan so I'm gonna have to teach a unit on the human body and like I said with the simple machines here there's also with a human body in the fourth grade class I'm going to have the kids read different stories about the or different nonfiction texts about the human body they're going to make a little display and then in writing they spend time writing so the readers workshop and writers workshop are very similar where you have a mini lesson so for reading that's usually reading some kind of text especially like a mentor text that the kids can use for their own study so you read a text you talk about it and then that lasts usually about 15 minutes then they get around 20 to 30 minutes to read one of the books in the unit and then you come back for about 10 minutes to share what you learned or what you saw in the story depending on what's in that unit and then writers workshop is very similar you do a mini lesson on writing you let the kids write for 20 to 30 minutes and then you come back and share so that's going to be different for me because I won't be used to that and a lot of it's very student centered so you're spending time working with the students and you can't really plan out long term because you have to kind of base what you're going to teach the next day based on how that day went so she's like I can't really plan for you but I can try to help prepare you so that is something to expect for me a lot more planning and thinking ahead instead of just reading over the curriculum the curriculum book so a couple updates I finished my teachers on call paperwork which I noticed that this school district and the other school district have different spring breaks I don't have any plans for spring break so I might try to then work over spring break in the other district while this district is on spring break and then I signed my HR paperwork it looks like I'll be making about 20 30 more dollars a day so it's not crazy a lot but that's about $200 more a month or $200 more a week so yeah just kind of an update on kind of what that looks like and yeah so that's kind of how things are going I don't know how much I'm going to be filming in the classroom I don't know because it's just like because it's longer term and I just don't know all of the like requirements for that so I might do things like this where I'm just talking to you guys or showing you some of my planning at home so I'll try to do more of that rather than actually in the classroom showing you things so yeah I'm gonna end there I rambled for a really long time and I'm sorry about that and I hope you guys have a fabulous weekend and I can't wait to talk to you guys next week and I'm really excited for this long term sub to start the kids loved my breakout yesterday and like even a kid started crying I think I told you guys a little bit about that but like a kid started crying because he didn't get to do it and the other kids were like oh when are you gonna bring it back and things like that so I'm super excited and I'll go ahead and catch you guys next week thanks so much for watching whoa thanks so much for watching guys bye bye see you next time