 Good morning everybody welcome back to my channel. I can't wait for you to see what I'm up to this It is Monday morning the kids are about to come in so I hope you enjoy Okay, so I barely got to talk to you guys today because I was just so busy but honestly today was a really really good day and I think part of that is because I have such an active class and I decided to embrace that today and I'm sorry, I decided to embrace that today and I think it really helped obviously I can't Take kids outside every single day And do active stuff every single day today was like a very specific day that I could do that But it was great They are doing these things on their bodies and I don't have the sheet but there's this one and it has like the brain so they write about the brain and then There's another packet of information and it just talks about the brain and things like that It looks like this one is from Kiki's classroom So I'm sure you can find that somewhere online or tpt the other one is Obviously, I don't want to show you everything from that but Oh, this one is a packet a pretty big one and it's called our amazing human body Read about it and also from kiki's classroom. So If I can find the link I'll put it below But basically it just has a little bit of information And so I put up on the board what the kids needed to do. So part of it was reading about the brain and then they We cut out our bodies last week. I told you guys a little bit about that I just pulled long sheets of paper and then the kids laid down on them and traced a partner out And then we switched So monday they traced one partner tuesday. They traced a second partner um Wednesday they cut out their bodies And some hung them up and then thursday everybody got theirs hung up So now on the bodies we put a brain and different parts of the body To learn about them and I told them that in the fifth grade class whoops in the fifth grade class When I was in there their job was to get the information And then they kind of just went off and they did it and I said this is really good practice So I was kind of giving them that practice a little bit and saying like you have to be responsible To get that stuff done. Um, we have the opportunity to have a little free time On the chrome books on friday. So I'm kind of saying like Hey, I'm giving you this time in class to get this stuff done And if you choose not to get it done then you're gonna have to do it during our friday free choice on the chrome books Well free choice Not really free choice, but kind of um So I was telling them. Hey, if you don't get that done like You're gonna have to be doing that during our friday free choice and then Since yesterday well, I guess for you guys now would be a week ago, but um sunday was earth day So it was so much fun. I brought the kids outside It's one of our like really first nice days and I said they could have the option of Either picking up trash And I brought out gloves for them and everything Or they could just play an organized game and math. This was our last day of mca tests. Yay Um and actually the computer lab teacher Help lady Said that we didn't have to be or that I didn't have to be in there and the kids who finished didn't have to be in there So we came back and we played a math game called sparkle Which is where you can well some like in younger grades You'll be like one two three four, but here we just did skip counting So we skip counted by four and then we skim counted by nine and then you have like a magic number and then The kid who says that the kid after says sparkle and then they have to sit down so It's a really good way to learn Those skip countings or just counting in general. It's really fun and you kind of just keep that same pattern So with the nines, we just count the same thing nine 18 27 36 45 54 And then 54 was our magic number. So the kid after 54 would sit down So that was really fun and then Then we I don't know we just had a good day and then I'm still reading the western game And everything like that. So it was a really nice day Just to kind of like relax a little bit and be able to play Some things and do some fun things Outside and things like that. So I wanted to show you guys quick my morning message for tomorrow and then I'll just catch you guys then tomorrow So like I I think I explained a little while ago, but basically Um, the kids are doing a writing assignment as their final project for this human body Unit and So they have to present some kind of writing piece and it has to be like it can be a story It can be a poem. It could be a rap Anything like that. So I'm trying to help them generate ideas of kind of what would A song look like at least that's the one I'm doing today. So I said good morning. Lovely singers And then I found an example online I kind of changed up some of the verses myself, but this first part is kind of similar to what they did and To the tune of twinkle twinkle little star I'm going to talk about how maybe I could change it up to make it better and I'll have to keep editing And then I asked them what is a word related or rhyming with write That we could use to make another verse So I think that'll be a good example for them to kind of start thinking more about their writing And I I put it from the perspective of the brand. So I said I'm a brainy brain and So that can kind of help them generate some ideas for their own writing projects as we get closer and closer to needing to write that So I'll catch you guys tomorrow. See you then. Happy Wednesday I am currently planning an activity for an outdoor math time So like I explained on monday, it has been really really nice weather the last few days Especially compared to the last few weeks when it was snowing um So weather in the 60s is amazing and we have just been having so much fun with having that warm weather and I wanted to plan an outdoor math because my kids have been squirrely and Um, I think it's just going to be really really fun Especially at the end of the day and all of that. So let me show you guys what I have in mind So this is the quick worksheet that I just typed up and I just said math activities and I just have seven of them So I'm just going to talk about them A little bit just kind of show you what I made. I just quick made this I'm hoping it's enough space for them and gives enough direction and information. I'm hoping Um, but this is kind of what it looks like and kind of what I am planning to do with them So I'll show you the materials and talk a little bit more about it So you can pause and read over what I wrote But basically, um, I'm just going to tell you guys what I wrote and kind of show you those materials So precursor I went to the gym teacher and I kind of had some ideas ahead of time But I wanted at first I wanted six activities and I could only think of five and I was like Who would know this? So I was like, oh my gosh, the gym teacher would know what to do and kind of fun activities So I went to him and I was like, what can I do with my kids? What would be fun? all that stuff so All of these are borrowed from the gym teacher So I have this lovely bag and these are called kush balls And I said using a kush ball throw it back and forth with a partner and count And time how long you can keep the ball up between the two of you see if you can improve each time So then on the worksheet, I just have like the attempt And I wrote seconds I wrote a line seconds and then a line and throws So they're just going to throw this little ball. These probably look familiar And he said these are fun and the kids like them. So that's called a kush ball. I really that's what he called them and then um, one of them, I don't have materials for But I'm just going to put a little square of gray or a little square of tape And I just said estimate the number of blades of grass in that piece of in that square of tape and then Multiplying that out how many Like imagine if there were 600 squares of these over this field How many blades of grass would be covering this field basically? And then I said use a timer. This is what their timers look like They're very simple to use and they have a little thing that can go around the kids neck and It just looks like that and it's just a start stop Oops, and then they can restart at pushing that other button So they're pretty simple to use and I am excited that I have those Um, and so they're these are going to be used for two different activities. So one is I'm using a partner one's partner is going to time and then they're just going to use a jump rope So I have jump ropes here And they're going to see how many jumps they can get In a minute and then they're going to use that information to see how many jumps they Could get if they're going if they're going the same rate How many they could get in one year and then how many they could get in five years I also have this big thing of cones and I'm just going to put a different cone at each spot and then Cones around the whole thing to mark off kind of where our boundaries are The next one. Oh, this one's an easy one. I just write down five objects And that have an angle and then what angle that is at And the other thing I'm going to do that also requires the timers is I'm just going to put some paper out there And the kids can make a little paper airplane and they're going to throw it and see how long it stays in the air So they're going to time how long The next one is he gave me this big awesome dice And they're just going to use the dice they can throw them on the ground And then fill in the number that they get on the worksheet. I just gave a little equation They fill in the numbers for the equation And the last one He said these are new something that they haven't used before And I'll probably have to sit down and explain all of this stuff to the kids, which is fine I'm really excited and Basically they I'm kind of mixed because I don't know how well the kids might be able to use these but it's just The reality of being a teacher is that sometimes other teachers come in to chat with you So that's what just happened, but um anyways the last thing is These little balls in cups. Um, you've probably seen them like smaller, but basically the thought here is how many times either or how they have to Time how long it would take them to get it in the cup or timing How many times they can get it in the cup say in a minute And then I just said for them to record their best time below Um, if there's any students who can't handle it. I printed a little Worksheet that says multi-step word problems And they can just do that instead if they can't handle it Or just things throughout the day aren't going very well with that student um I've been talking to you guys a little bit about classroom management And I think one of the biggest reasons I didn't talk yesterday was because I just felt like it did not go very well It was kind of one of those days that I left and I was like Like it was kind of one of those where I'm just like am I cut out for this is fourth grade just too old for me Am I just like Too young or I don't know or just going back to the whole like I know people tell you Like it's hard to compare yourself to the classroom teacher who's had time To build relationships and do those different things with the kids And I'm a sub we always like we constantly talk about how the other teacher is going to be coming back And maybe that's why they feel they can be disrespectful. I don't know um, it was just a lot of disrespect and it's It's still coming from like the traditionally like Kids who have a hard time following directions and stuff But it's also coming from kids who typically do their job And at the beginning weren't really being talkative and now I feel like it's okay to be talkative So I think um This morning I watched a little thing on facebook and it kind of Changed my mindset a little bit and I was kind of like Okay I'm just gonna move this hold on sorry Um, I was just kind of like I need to change the language that I'm using Because in basically in this video they were talking about like you shouldn't use good Good boy with boys and kind of how damaging that can be and it kind of went on to say about how In like the workplace If your boss comes up to you and said like wants to congratulate you and Notices the effort that you've been putting into your work Then like that means so much But if your boss say comes up to you and just like brings you down tells you everything you're bad at like Humiliates you in front of your co-workers like you're not going to feel like Wanted you're not going to feel Happy in that job and different things like that So I was like I need to go through and just like change my mindset about how I am speaking to students And so I want to focus more on the positives and so today I've been trying that where I'm just like Oh, I notice, you know five students doing their job. Thank you so Much or had to talk to some girls in the hall and I was like, wow I noticed these four people were working really really hard and just expressing to students how grateful I am for that effort that they're putting in to kind of Not necessarily go above and beyond but I've been kind of calling it going above and beyond and just again like changing how I'm talking about these things So that's going to be my goal for the remainder of this week And I'm hoping that it kind of helps things a little bit something that was kind of fun And going back to that song that I wrote the other day. I think I showed you guys that But I wrote a song and I wrote this rap I kind of used a little bit of resources outside of my own brain to kind of help me out But it was really fun. Some kids really really enjoyed this and it just showed a different side of kind of school and kind of how things can be And again, just a good example for what they should expect when they're doing their own writing So I'm really excited. I think this is ramping them up to be really excited for this project And I'm hopeful that You know, they kind of see that this can be really fun and they can kind of challenge themselves So I'm excited to see kind of what they come up with All right guys It's the end of thursday almost there So I wanted to talk about Kind of how the last two days have been I told you guys I was doing the outdoor activities I showed you all the fun ones that I had and I just wanted to kind of Circle back around to that And just kind of talk about how it went and Just kind of what I thought about it so To be honest my expectations going into it that were That I wanted to make it math related But if like my main focus though was to get outside And so even though some of the kids didn't get stuff Like some didn't even get anything written down Some only stayed at one station and it wasn't even like a math station at the end of the day like I was okay with that Because my main expectation going into it was just getting outside And so to be honest they met my expectations like we got outside and they got to be active and goodness gracious And so that yeah, that was just my main expectation is just getting outside and being able to just have that experience outside and Being able to still relate it to math So that was kind of my expectation. Um, like I said, there were some that Didn't get anything done barely got through one station that I put up The ones I explained to you guys and I think I could have organized it better I think that was a little bit of on my part of just like not being super organized with that but I mean you you live and you learn I guess um So yeah, and then of course I had the ones that like tried super super hard and like want to do really good And I feel like anytime you do stuff in school like you're always going to have those ones That are super into it and everything so For them it went really well. It was kind of good differentiation In that regard, but it was we did hit a speed bump In the fact that we only had 10 timers and like three of my stations needed timers. So It turned out that I was just like one of the stations I was like nope Just count the number of throws that you do and then like don't worry about the timing Um But then so we only had 10 and three of them broke so then we only had seven and um I don't know it just it just didn't go very well In in that regard with the timers and then people are kind of thrown off because they didn't know what to do and So things could have been made a little bit clearer, but at the end of the day like we had fun. It was fine Um, I also started hold on. I'm gonna go get them quick So there are these call and response cards. I just found some free ones on tpt These say at the bottom lines that matter ink And yeah, it's just little things like cues that you can use So I would say fired up and then the kids would say you're ready to go So we're just being choosing a new one Each day. I'm not the best at using them. I think they're kind of fun and they really do get the kids attention really really well But I just need to find better ways to like remember to use them. That's kind of my like My problem is that I just forget to use them and most of the time I just like five four three two one And I kind of forget about that. So I need to get better at working on using the call and response cards um And then I can't remember if I talked about this, but I decided I was going to change The way I was talking to my students and just really focus on being more positive with my language and really working with those students that typically have a tough time and just really trying to encourage them a lot and with my Tough I guess student in my class. I've really really really been working hard to give encouragement and just make make a positive experience for that student and So I've been trying really really hard. Um, sometimes it is hard though because like they Do something that is not okay, and it's hard to like Stay on that positive route when that happens. So I just have to keep really really Trying to keep things positive with that student And with the whole class too. I mean, it's like it's so easy to just get down and just be like Like you guys are the worst. Like why are you doing that? Not the worst, obviously But like why are you guys doing this like? I don't know and I just want to have better language with like encouraging Rather than discouraging So, you know pointing out the positives rather than the negatives and I've really really been trying to work on that I think I did better yesterday than I did today. Um, there were a few things that went on today that just made it Really difficult. Um, especially at the end of the day. I just had like I I had to yell not that you should ever yell but like um Not yelling as in like upset or angry just yelling as in like I had to get kids attention And I just had to ask them all to sit down Um, we had some students that were unhappy that They had to clean as opposed to some other students that had to clean So they were kind of being defiant towards that and just like not cleaning And sorry classroom was a mess and I told everybody to come in and help to clean it and It was really disappointing because the kids left on kind of a negative note at the end of the day where I like I was telling them that they like that it's not very respectful that they weren't helping to clean That we needed to go back in and clean and You know that they have jobs that they do every single day And the fact that I had to even give them reminders was kind of ridiculous But you know they're 10 years old and I have to keep that in my mind But so that was just hard. Um Leaving on a very negative note where it was just like go clean up the classroom And then it was like hey, we got a goal like goal line up. Okay. Goodbye. See you tomorrow And for me, I just I don't like that. I don't like Leaving on a negative note And unfortunately they did So I just have to work really hard tomorrow. I think to make it a positive day, which I think it will be So Yeah, otherwise I'm just gonna keep working on that language and just really really really trying to Improve the way that I am Seeing a situation and um reacting to a situation. So I'm gonna end there because I was talking for a really long time um, but Yeah, I think um tomorrow I'm working the carnival at the school And I'm gonna finish that I think with I think I'm gonna go for the week Just because tomorrow there's not really anything interesting and I don't know I guess I don't know So I think I'm just gonna go for the week because I just want to be able to like have my Friday Go to the carnival do all that stuff and I will catch you guys next week Thank you so much for checking out my channel I hope you enjoyed the outdoor math and I hope you can get your kids outdoor Outdoor Outside, um, I love to do it and it's a big passion of mine to like get outside and stuff. So Um, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed and I will catch you next week