 So today it's moving down. I'm using a new camera stabilizer, which is what you're seeing here in this corner I don't know if I'm gonna keep it there. What is it? Is it this thing? Yeah, I think it's that thing It's just when I use wide-angle. So anyway, it's gonna be there. I might edit it out But anyways today is going to be a regular day in the life of a teacher vlog Who is getting ready for back to school? So I'm currently in my classroom. It is 11 o'clock. I have a meeting with my principal today at 1.30. It's just like a meet-and-greet kind of Meeting just what's going on here? I'm trying to figure this thing out Move Hello Asshole. Anyway, he is new to our school. He's actually not like totally new to the school because He taught at the school years ago And so he's not totally new to the school, but anyway, it's just a meet-and-greet because he's never really gotten to know The new staff that's here. So he's meeting with all of the new staff all of the staff Just to kind of get to know people and I really like that Not very many principles that I've ever worked for have like really taken the time to just meet with someone and like get To know them as a human and I think that's really good. It's really personal But anyways, I'm here today because I am doing a couple of different tasks a I want to have the room completely ready for me the teacher night Because or at least everything moved off of tables like all of this needs to be put away I have to be done with decorating today because On Monday today's Friday by the way on Monday is when we start Meetings district meetings and I'm probably not going to be in my classroom at all next week And then starting the 31st we will be here, but I'm assuming it'll all be like Staff meetings and so I probably won't have a ton of time to work here in my classroom So I want to just make sure everything is like completely put away. I don't necessarily have to be ready for meet the teacher night But I just want everything put away because I'm sure I'll have time before meet the teacher night to get everything ready I printed out my meet the teacher forms and So I'll just flash it front and back And it's just all the information that families will need at meet the teacher night. It's like my welcome letter And I'll probably print my quarter one Newsletter and staple it to this meet the teacher document So that's ready to go. I just have to make the copies And finish my quarter one newsletter and in my newsletter I like to include like what standards I'm covering the topics the kids are gonna be learning about The skills are gonna be learning and then just like Ways that parents can help their child succeed with what we're doing. So anyway So yeah, and then another thing that I'm working on See you can kind of see my meet the teacher document there. It was printed in black and white though So I'm not gonna get too excited for that and then I'm working on my safe schools trainings I'm working on my safe schools trainings because we have to have those done By a certain time and I just feel like I might as well do it while I'm like sitting here Working on like back-to-school stuff like I'm listening in the background and you know that kind of stuff So anyway, that's what I'm working on. I was gonna show you guys real quick I did complete a few projects over the last couple days that I didn't vlog I don't think I've logged for two days straight. So I'm just gonna show you what I did So I did all my cricket work yesterday Look at what we're learning learning target space space to write the standard and then I hung my because What else did I hang? I did the back bulletin board. I ended up finding my seatbelts everyone words So I ended up just putting them back there and then I stuck miss Frizzle next to the bus I do need to change This like I need to put something over the top of it that represents our school Like maybe our mascot or something. I could do and then anyway, this is done What else I hung these two things back here. I need to put all the cricket stuff away. Oh, I made schedule cards and Printed our schedule. So I have the regular the regular day schedule and then the Friday schedule that way on Fridays I can just come over and change it I'll probably have it memorized within a few weeks, but for now, I'm just gonna keep it there So I made these on Canva and then just printed them in color I brought my colored printer in because it was just sitting in storage and I figured it would be better used here So that I can print stuff like this Here rather than at home, then I don't have to like run home and print stuff and then bring it back I really only use my printer for school stuff to print colored things So now I can just print them here. Anyway, these are all on magnets So that on Fridays I can change it around but you guys can pause the video here and see my schedule Yeah, and then What else did I do? I think I don't know if I showed hanging those I'm gonna make this wall like like a Community wall and it's gonna have like all things like community So like these are my favorite from the Miss R project little posters that are from her daily hypes Which I really like using and so these are like my favorite ones And so I'll refer to them quite often. What else did I do? I don't know I hung my tech posters over there. I pulled out a couple of bins I organized all of those and like had pulled all my little things out I don't know if I told you guys that I have to pull these down before the fire marshal comes But I'm gonna wait to do that Until after meet the teacher night Because I just think that they make the room look so cute. I might even wait until the fire marshal is supposed to come But I didn't say that And then I think that's it and I know my because is a little bit crooked, but I wanted to space it out So don't judge me. I'm gonna try to just not Focus on that I think that's everything that I did yesterday was really just a cricket day and then I worked on my meet the teacher stuff so I also laminated my Table cards. These are my table labels and then I'll be putting them in here. I don't know if Target sells these anymore I like totally bought like five or six packs of these back in the day when they sold them And so I haven't had to buy them for like years So anyway, I'm gonna cut these out and stuff them into here and then I will just simply stick One at the end of each table and arctica is gonna be back there this year Actually, I might make my TV like my carpet and arctica like so they come here and chill And then that is like volcano island or the arctic circle or something like that So anyway, I'm gonna get to work because I'm gonna leave today after I'm done with My meeting with my principal. Yeah, I have questions for him That way I can get everything kind of like out of the way and then yeah I'm just gonna make today a work day Good morning everyone. Happy Monday. Today is July 24th, and I am heading to my first district meetings Today is the first official day Contract day for new teachers to the district. So that includes me If you guys haven't been here for a while I just recently moved cities And so I am starting at a new district and it's actually The district that I graduated from So today all of my meetings are gonna be at my alma mater at my high school So that's kind of exciting. I get to like go back in and see how it's changed Which I'm pretty sure it's changed Hardly at all Like maybe some fresh paint, you know what I mean? So anyway, I'm excited for that I'm not excited to sit at meetings all day But the good news is is that our meetings go from eight to one And then from 130 to 330. We are at our sites. I don't know How many other people are new to my site? I think maybe one So I'm not sure what my principal has planned for us But we'll see so and then There's a I don't know if you guys know about it's called the I think it's I don't remember which bar it is but there's a bar down in the valley I want to say four peaks Yeah, four peaks does a like school supply pickup for teachers So I signed up to do that There's no four peaks here, but there is a bar called the founding fathers And they're actually partnering with four peaks and they're going to be able to do teacher supply pickup for teachers in this quad city area So yeah, that is on my Schedule today, I've got all the things I packed my I'm drinking a poppy this morning because my tummy is feeling a little Like just bloated and stuff But I've got my water. I've got my gallon I packed one snack because they are catering Chick-fil-A So I'm excited about that. I don't have to pack a lunch And then hopefully fingers crossed the last bit of the day I get to just kind of spend at school in my classroom and I can get some more like Planning and prepping done because what I really want to be able to do by the end of this week Is have the first two weeks of school completely planned prepped printed Everything done. I have all my meet the teacher stuff Done. I just need to make copies of that and then I just need to get those first couple days of school's worth of stuff printed and then I'm ready to rock and roll. So anyway, today's vlog will be Kind of jumping around a little bit. Well, I guess this is like day two of this vlog Because I did start it the other day but I will update you all as soon as I can and Yeah, wish me luck guys. So district meetings are officially over for the day Just got back to my classroom. It's about 115. I'm going to be working in here until about three My two goals are to finish the two safe schools training Lessons that I have get those certificates printed and then start working on my slides for the first two days And the first so I guess the first seven days of school is what I would like to begin with Um, only like my agenda slides and what I plan on doing. I probably won't Like put together specific slides yet aside from like meet the teacher because I want to just make sure that I Um, like include things that are specific to the school So I could even just start working on slides now and then just add them. So that's what I might do I guess my goal Okay I guess my goal Is to have the first seven days of school planned prepped printed and ready to go before this Friday So I'll be in here between one and three o'clock every day So that gives me quite a few hours to get all of that done Um, so I'm going to just sit down and get started um Yeah, so Great meetings. They were really really nice. They didn't like drag anything on tomorrow our agenda is about um subs subplans classroom instruction self evaluations HR benefits um ess or sped um and then That's it for tomorrow Um, so it should be a nice easy day again They're serving us lunch, which is really nice And everything about working in this district so far has been wonderful. So I'm really excited. I'm really happy Um, and I'm eager to get started with the school year um Here's how my room's looking Nothing really has changed. I really want to figure out how to get rid of I mean if I take you guys out of full screen, you can't see it But it's really annoying how it's there. But don't you love this stabilizer? Oh Knocked you out of whack It's pretty cool I just wish That this little Thing wasn't in my view, but that's okay. We'll do with it Good morning guys. So it is Friday July 28th And I am here at school. I don't have any meetings today at district level Today, they're talking about math curriculum And I don't teach math. So I don't have to go to those Um, but I have quite a few projects. I need to get done today Because on Monday begins the first day of school Um level meetings and there are lots of them Um, I did get my hands on the curriculum that I'm going to be Um having access to this year So for science, it'll be the McGraw-Hill Inspire Science Um curriculum if you've never heard of it, neither have I So it'll be new to me as well. Um, but from what I hear I will be getting student books Um, and the book is I mean, it's nice. It's a it's a textbook But it has a lot of investigations and like STEM related activities and stuff Um, and so I'll be using that in addition to mystery science because mystery science, I just I love it. Um, so And then I'll also trickle in some generation genius in there as well. Um And then for social studies, it's called TCI. I don't know what it stands for Um, I clicked around on it yesterday on the online component And from what I can tell it's really just like an interactive textbook Um online, I don't know if I'll get physical textbooks from that. Um, but I uh, I really didn't mind it. I mean, I'm only going to be doing social studies for like four to three weeks a quarter So, um, I think that'll be a nice way to Um To do it. Uh, it's really cool. It has like reading passages So they read a small section and then they do like an interactive activity Um with whatever this they read so like if it's on latitude longitude lines, there's an activity for that Um, and then it gives me reports on how they did So I can use that in conjunction with like the things I've used in the past and all the things I have Um, but as far as like curriculum goes it looks like it's pretty user friendly. So Uh, I'll be diving more into that on Monday and Tuesday next week because that's when my meetings for that are A couple things that I did while you were away for that really quick second. Um, I hung these words. This one says, um Key vocab and then this one says wonder wall. So I plan on doing what I always do with vocab and just listing the words here Um, and then under the wonder wall is where I will have students place like sticky notes for questions. They have um, or if I do any interactive like Board stuff like if I'm like, okay, write a sticky and then go put it up on the wonder wall This is where they will all go um, so I decided to kind of like split this board up into that and then um, I did get quite a few copies made and stickers made um I have binders that I need to unpack today. They all just look like this. These are they're going to be their grade level binders and this is what we will be putting their pencil pouches in and then we also have These black take home folders. So I need to put all the stickers on these. Um And then I also printed the cover for their science binders, which I'm kind of struggling with because I'm not sure if we're going to end up using binders I did ask for them on supply list and I have every intention of using them as long as every kid brings one in um, we also asked for a red green and blue Sorry, there's a landscaper walking by Um folder with no prongs. So it has like the holes hole punches in them um, and so what I'm thinking is As long as every kid has a binder Then I can do that. Um And then depending on if the kids bring in the right colored folders We'll see so I'm going to have to like wait Engage it depending on what the what the students bring But at least for now they all are going to have a grade level binder and this is grade level wide My teammates also did this. Um, we all bought black binders And we all have black pencil pouches and we all have black take home folder So at least for now like until we get all of that sorted They can put all of their stuff just in that black binder And I like to pre-copy everything with holes Um that way they can stick it in their binder Um, so then what I might have to do is expand on this storage idea Because if they all are going to have binders I might have to store binders in here, which is fine But it just means I'm going to use more of these And just have a little bit more room kind of taken Another idea I had was to get rid of not get rid of but like Move these bins these these black and blue and purple bins and I can store And I can store notebooks and or binders in there like I could do a whole class of binders here A whole class of binders here and there and you know overflow. So we'll see how it goes I mean it really just depends like if every single kid Brings a binder then perfect. We'll use binders um But you know if they don't um, we put two binders on their list though So odds are most kids brought two binders And in the event that like enough of them brought two enough you didn't maybe we can give one to the other I don't know. We're gonna see how it goes. Um, but yeah, I'm just gonna wait I also put in some supplies into each Um box for the first couple days of school Just a couple crayons some sticky notes and pencils And I got really lucky because all my sticky notes actually match the color of the table. So not only can I do continents For like recognizing tables, but each table is a different color Um, so I can like color cord coordinate certain stuff So I like that So I have a lot of things to do today um A lot of it is just getting ready for the first days of school I'm pretty pretty much ready um, otherwise, so I made these to go on my I have science goggles or yeah goggles And I'm gonna put yes. I am ditching science on there And that's the hall pass. I just thought that's funny Um, I'm the first one here too. It's 7 30 And I think I'm gonna go Try to Snag the coffee machine While no one else is here Hey guys, so it is like 140 in the afternoon And I've gotten a lot of stuff done. Most of it is planning Um and prepping things. I'll just kind of show you and then Um Tell you where I'm gonna go with this next Okay, so I went ahead and printed out my first mystery science lesson materials I'm actually gonna be starting with one of their third grade. Um Lessons because it does support one of my fourth grade standards um This standard um Is pretty close to the fourth grade standard Um, and so what I'm gonna be doing Is using mystery science to springboard the unit and then following mystery science We will be using the inspire science Um Unit to follow this which is all about fossils environmental data And stuff like that so and then I am going to be starting out the year with doing some Activities from the science penguin. I really love her stuff. I don't use a ton of it But she does have a back to school like it's called I learned science and it has a ton of activities That kind of introduce students into the world of science It goes into like what tools are used to measure what tools are used to observe And then it finishes out with a um Claim evidence reasoning activity with skittles So it's just really to get the kids in the mood Or in the motions of science and getting to start with the jargon and stuff like that And then for my bulletin board in the hallway because I teach a writing block Each of us teaches our own homeroom writing We're going to be starting with a very easy Goal writing activity just to kind of get like a beginning writing sample So we'll be talking about um goals that we want to accomplish within the school year And the goals don't have to be limited to academics. They can be behavioral or social Because I think that a student who Is super Good with academics could have some social goals Or like a student who really struggles with behavior They might not need to focus mostly on academics but more on how they treat other people So it's cute. You actually fold this into yoda's jacket and then you blew his head on And then I found some microscopes. I don't think we'll use them But I did find them in the storage room So I don't know we probably won't end up using them, but they're over here This is kind of like my table of All the things that I need to either copy or have copied And then what I've been doing for the last few hours is just going over The first mystery science Unit that I'm going to be teaching comparing it to my districts digs Which are the instructional guides and then I'm going to then Dig into my after Monday because Monday I get training on the science curriculum I'll actually dig into that and start planning What I'll do with that. I'm imagining this first mystery science unit is probably going to take Around two weeks. It's only Three lessons with one anchor And a performance task which involves writing which is perfect Because I'm going to be doing informational writing in science as well It's probably going to take about two weeks And I think our quarter is eight weeks long. So Um, that's kind of perfect. Um So, yeah, I'm just kind of working around I did a little cat nap on my chair This is like the best chair for this classroom because it leans all the way back and it has a foot stool or a foot rest And I totally just took like a 20 minute cat nap. So That was lovely I don't have a ton of other things. Oh, wait, I did do something else I also added all of my students onto their tech login papers Um, I would show you I guess I can show you What they look like without student information on them. So You just put their name And then their username and password And then I also put in their student email. Um, I'll be printing these on sticker paper And then I'll be putting them inside of their chromebook So that they always have their username and login on their chromebook. They're personal like the one they used Um, what else did I do? I was working on all of my Lesson slides. So this is week one. This isn't officially final yet. Um, this is just the first two days I haven't really like gotten deep into it because I also have this class procedures activity or I guess slideshow on canva and then week two I have all of the slides loaded. These are the eye science from the science penguin Slides on there as well as the miss our project affirmations and daily hypes slides, which is what I like to use I'm hoping that my teammates will do these So that I can just do them with homeroom and that would really save me a lot of time With um academic blocks. So I'm going to chat with them about this Just as like a quick like five minute ad To their morning meeting. Um I just think it would be really beneficial if they say no, it's fine I'll just still use them for like a quick like five minute before the lesson starts every day Um, but yeah, so I have to make sure I have My win time fluency and then a writing. So I have a science block Um an intervention block and then a writing block that I'll be teaching every day And then or social studies too. So But yeah, I've been super busy. Um, just getting all that kind of stuff done a lot of it is just like computer work planning Things that I would be doing normally during like my mornings or preps At school or after school before contract hours are done So I feel really good. I'm up to like week three I have almost all the way through week three Slides done. So that's really nice. It makes me feel really good That I'll be ahead which means that during my preps probably during week one like the first two days I can really focus on like transportation and sorting supplies And then week two is completely planned and prepped and printed Um, I can spend that time focusing on planning for week four And then that way I'll be almost two weeks planned ahead, which is great And really the only thing that would happen is like maybe we don't finish a lesson on like say monday We start one and we don't finish it. We can just push everything to the next day And then everything is still copied and ready to go. I just have to adjust my slides. So I feel really good. It is almost two o'clock I am gonna leave here at 2 30 to pick up cash from summer camp It ends at three and I just kind of want to go home and like take a shower and relax a bit Um, and then tonight we're going out to dinner for scott's birthday. That's my husband So it's going to be kind of a fun like, you know Weekend Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog. Don't forget to follow me on my socials and I'll see you in the next video Bye guys