 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Apple's NTRs. So today I'm gonna be doing a super fun tag video. If you guys know Darren Nakakihara here on YouTube and also on Instagram, Darren is like the tag king. We love Darren. He's always down for doing tags. He's always down for doing collabs. And he's one of my best friends. So today we're going to be doing the summertime teacher tag. If you see me looking over here, it's because the questions are over here and I need to see them. So as you guys probably know, if you follow me on Instagram, I am currently on summer vacation. We do get out a lot earlier than the rest of the world and that is because we start in July. So our school year is the end of July all the way till the end of May and then we're off for all of June and most of July. Tag, you are it. If you have a YouTube channel, I would love, love, love to see your summertime teacher tag video. So please, please, please comment with your video down below in the comments. And if you don't have a YouTube channel, that's okay. You can totally answer these questions down in the comments below. I will have all of these questions listed in the description. So in addition to Darren, there are quite a few of my friends participating in this summertime teacher tag and some of those people are, obviously Darren Nakakihara. We have Shelly from Early Adventures. We have Vanessa from Off the Brooks. Jennifer from Genuine Teaching, the lettered classroom. Brie from High Vibe Teaching. We have Fernanda from That One Happy Classroom. We have Taylor from Teach Me Something Good. So we have just like a whole bushel of teacher tubers who are participating in this tag and all of their videos will be linked down below. So we're gonna get right into my answers, my responses, the teacher, the summertime teacher tag. Okay, so there are 12 questions. Question number one, where and what do you teach? Okay, well, I teach fourth grade science and social studies in Arizona. So I am in the Eastern Valley of the Phoenix area. Question number two, how much of your year was fully remote versus hybrid versus fully in-person? Okay, great question. We were all over the place. So like I mentioned, we start our school year in July. So from July to October, we were completely online virtual. Whole first quarter. Second quarter, we were all in-person, fully in-person. There was an opportunity for some students to opt out of being in-person and join the virtual academy. Those students could return at the beginning of the next quarter. So any student who was virtual from October to December would stay virtual until the return in January. Okay, so second semester, we were all in school. So I had about 20 kids per home room. I'm departmentalized, so I teach all of the fourth graders. So in each home room, we had about 20 kids come back in-person with us, full-blown in-person masks, social distancing, the whole nine. And then in January, we came back for a few days. We had a huge amount of cases. So we went virtual for about three weeks and then we came back full-time in-person the rest of the school year. Lots of drama. Okay, question number three. What are you planning to do on that first weekend of summer break? Technically, I'm on my first weekend of summer break and I'm filming this video. So this weekend, I didn't really do a whole lot. I've gone to the gym. I've sat down in my office to play the sims. I have swim in the backyard with my son. I have gone to my friend, Mandy's house to swim. I've hung out with my neighbors. So this first weekend of the summer has been very normal, but in a couple days, we're gonna be going to the water park, Hurricane Harbor, and then from there, we're gonna be jumping up to Prescott where you guys know I'm from and so we're gonna see family go fishing, kayaking. It's about a 20-degree heat difference up there, so it's a lot cooler and that's where we like to hang out. Question four. How does your summer morning routine differ from your school morning routine? Well, during the school year, I get up at about 6.30 and during the summer, I get up around eight o'clock. I still eat breakfast and then I go to the gym in the morning rather than obviously after work, so little bit of a difference there. Question five. What is on your summer read list? This is really funny, but I'm reading parenting books over the summer because my child is three. He's in the three major years and he's really struggling with some behavior stuff, so I'll be reading a couple of parenting books. One is called The Explosive Child and I will be reading some other behavioral books with him, so not terrible, terrible behaviors, but things that I wanna nip before he joins me at my school for preschool, so. Question six. What is on your watch list? I'm planning on watching Friends all summer. I have a bunch of people that I watch on YouTube and then I honestly don't have, oh, The Bachelorette. I'm gonna be watching The Bachelorette. My parents also suggested The Last Kingdom on Netflix. They said it was very Game of Thrones and I love Game of Thrones, so I'm probably gonna watch that, but I'm gonna try really to not be on Netflix all summer. I would rather, especially in Prescott, I would rather be outside than sitting down watching TV, and I'm a parent, so I don't really get to just lay around and bed all day and watch TV. Not that that's a bad thing because I totally envy people who can do that, but I have a toddler running around so sitting on my butt watching Netflix is definitely not on my daily to-dos. All right, question seven. What have you been putting off for months that you hope to do during the summer? Nothing. I haven't been putting anything off. I guess I would say keeping my house clean on a daily basis instead of every weekend. Getting out of town more, going home for the weekends, going home to Prescott a bunch. I haven't really put things off. I've kind of switched that up. I've done a lot more for myself this school year than I have in other school years. I've been making myself more of a priority so I feel like everything has kind of not been put on the back burner other than like getting out of town, I guess if we could say that. Question eight. Do you have a summer job or side hustle? No, not really and I kind of love that. YouTube is kind of a side hustle but it's not exactly like a job. It's more of like a fun hobby but that's kind of it. No side job other than being a full-time mom which is a job in itself. Question nine. What is your ideal self-care summer day? Well, Friday after I checked out of my classroom I went and got my nails done. I got my hands and my toes which I don't always do. I usually just get the toes but I went and got my hands done, my nails done and so I feel like every few weeks I'm gonna go get my nails done and that's gonna be like my little self-care moment. I've also been going to the gym almost every day and so that's kind of my own self-care moment. Question 10. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Here in the valley, absolutely nothing. I don't like being outside down here. If I am outside you will find me in my son's blow-up pool or under the sprinkler if I'm outside or it's dark out when I go outside but if I'm in Prescott I love to go fishing, camping, kayaking, we do that a lot. My sister has paddle boards up there now so I'll probably be doing a little bit of paddle boarding this summer which I'm really excited about and my family, we like to go downtown Prescott at the courthouse and listen to live music so that is really exciting and very fun. Prescott is gorgeous if you are from Arizona and you haven't been there, get on up there. Number 11. What is your favorite thing to do inside? Well, if it is completely quiet in my house and my son is sleeping or not here I like to just sit and play the Sims 4. I'm gonna be completely honest. I love playing the Sims 4, it's just a blast. Question 12. What professional development do you want to do, if any? So I actually just did quite a few professional developments in the last couple of weeks of school. They were all science based so one was questioning, one was making models, creating models, one was about interactive notebooks. So the last couple of weeks of school I actually did a bunch of PD so that I didn't have to do it over the summer. And at our district, we don't really have to do them over the summer. We can just, we just have like five hours we need to complete during the school year and then we get our performance pay for, and part of that is for our performance pay. So I do not have to do any PD over the summer and that is grand because I do not wanna do anything related to teaching until like the week before I have to go back to work, which is July 13th. You know, it seems like my summer is super short, which it is, but I think it's just the right amount of time. So those are the 12 questions. Like I mentioned before, please, please check the description for all of my friends' YouTube videos, their summer teacher tag. Make sure to tag your video in the comments below and of course, answer them in the comments below if you don't have a YouTube channel. I would really like to see what you guys are up to this summer. Thank you guys so so much for watching, don't forget to keep up with me on Instagram at Apples and tiaras and I will see you guys in the next video. Bye guys.