 Hello and welcome back to my channel. My name is Megan and I hope you enjoy my sub-vlog So I just walked in my classroom it is Monday morning and I just put my stuff down and remembered that because of the carnival I have a lot of Fixing to do in my classroom. I had one of the Carnival activities here in this classroom. This is my stuff right here, but we had to move all the desks and Chairs and a bunch of desks over there and stack all the chairs So I have to move all of that back Happy Monday morning to me You can see there's a beautiful rainbow. So that's really nice Happy Monday. So even though I'm pooped and all I want to do is sit down right now and start planning I'm gonna go ahead and write the morning message Just to kind of get that over with and then I can spend the rest of the time Relaxing and working on the computer. So I'm going to take some of my prep time today Because there is a first grade job opening at the other school that I did the long-term sub at So I'm going through and just updating this Cover letter to send straight to the principal because when you apply online You send out like a general cover letter and a general resume So I'm going to send out a specific cover letter to the principal So that she can get it early this morning look at it and do all that kind of stuff and yeah I highly recommend if you're hoping to get a job in a school district This is a really helpful way to do it is sending out a specific cover letter to that school and even just going to that school and Talking to people or bringing in your resume and cover letter can make a big difference So highly suggest that especially if when you apply online, it's a general cover letter Where she was why shouldn't she be proud of it? She was no token watch it Josie Joe West is getting to you already and the game has barely been sir. Wexler Wexler ignored the Snickers Hi guys. Yes. It's already Friday and The reason I didn't really get to film that much this week was because it was just kind of a crazy week I've been really nervous because today. I'm getting observed by the principal So she can write me a letter recommendation That's something that I just asked her if she would be willing to write me one And I suggested that she could come in and observe me to kind of see what my teaching looks like because even though you work in a school oftentimes other people don't really get to see your teaching or see what you're actually doing as your job and that will allow her to be able to see me and Write a really good recommendation. Hopefully Based off of that. I chose a time that I feel like I've set up really really well and it's during Reader's workshop So here in the school, I don't know if I've already explained this but basically they have Reader's workshop Reiter's workshop and and each of the workshops have a mini lesson a managed independent learning time and a share time so what we've been doing for Reader's workshop is I showed you that body packet and they are doing that the body and So first I'm just gonna go back story just in cases is like your first time here but basically they I got big sheets of paper they lay down on them trace their bodies cut them out hung them up in the hallway on the walls and Then we've been going through different parts of the body. So brain heart lungs pancreas stomach and Today we're doing muscles and they're going through all those different ones They're reading important facts about them. They write about them and then they color and cut out a body part and stick it onto their body So that's what we're doing and then it starts out with me showing how to read a nonfiction text and just explaining like I I will look at the Table of contents, I'll look in the index and I'll just kind of learn different things today I talked about background knowledge and we're going to make a KWL chart So the mini lesson is going to be a mix of the KWL chart to kind of guide our research and Then going into the nonfiction text and kind of looking for the things that we are questioning Or trying to learn more and asking questions about those So that's what we're doing. I feel like I've set it up really well So the mini lesson I explained to you. We basically just read about the body part and I kind of show How to do that in the nonfiction text with again looking at the table contents the index talking about what the heading shows and what the Image or picture shows what the subtitles or captions show What does a bolded led or bolded word mean and different things like that? along with the important information about that body part and Then they go back and I've set up small groups so that I can meet with Like four to five people in the small group will actually read the from the packet will read that together and We'll kind of go over the information we talk about what we learned from that both from that packet of information and the information that we learned from the nonfiction text and then They write it down. I check it off And then they can go back and do their body parts and then during that time I'm also going to make sure to check in with the kids and kind of see how things are going and Then the share time the kids just read what they wrote And so sometimes I'll ask kids like hey, can you read that in front of the class? Otherwise if they didn't get it checked off during work time They can bring it to me to get it checked off at that point in the share time So yeah, I think I've set it up really good. I'm very very hopeful that she kind of sees that I'm a good teacher I'm excited about this and yeah on another note yesterday I started teaching the kids about cribbage and It's a really good game for learning number sense and just like quick Edition and things like that so if you don't know this is a cribbage board and this is what I showed the kids and We just kind of went over Then I got at this advice from another teacher but I really love this idea of real-world application of math and just showing the kids that You know Showing the kids that You know math is all around us and here's a really good application of where you can find math So yesterday I just Started by talking about how to make 15s So we just brainstormed different ways that you can make the number 15 and I lost some cards here and Then I pulled I put out I told them that in the game you deal six cards, but I just dealt four and So I have two fours a ten and an eight and then we just talked about like could we make any 15s? and then we talked about okay, what what are pairs and What is a run and going over different things like that? I showed them one One hand of a cribbage game with another student helping me out and then That was kind of it of our that was kind of it. That was the end of our math time but I just want to go over it more because I really really like this idea of Playing cribbage in the classroom. I've asked students if they would like to bring in their cribbage boards They can and I think again It's just a really great application of real-world math, and I just love when you have things like that The other thing that we did during math hold on a second, please are These trip planning sheets and it looks like these are from love teaching kids I think this was about like ten dollars on tpt But it's really cool. It comes with Five or sorry seven different Places you can visit. They're all in the US and It has different things. I'm just gonna show you this sheet just because you do have to pay for this but So basically they choose their city and then I had them do it in pairs do this project in pairs and Because you're doing it for two people So they would make sure that the two of them are or it would be like the two of them planning the trip So they have to choose their flight rental car hotel activities and food and then you know for They're going for three days So they have to do it three times and they three meals a day and three activities one for each of the days and then the hotel they have to do it for three nights and Again kind of a real-world application of kind of math not sorry a real-world application of math and How do you plan a trip? How do you make sure that you start with a certain amount of money? How do you make sure that you don't run out of money by the end of your trip? And if you have excess money, what would you change in your trip? This is for the students who finish early, but I Asked them if you have extra money left over. What would you do with it? like would you buy souvenirs or would you do something different on your trip and If you don't you know, why didn't you have enough money? But for students? this is kind of simple Simple multiplication or simple addition But it requires some thinking and sometimes you have to go back and say you know what I can't stay in that hotel I can't have that expensive rental car because I won't have enough money to do activities or even eat so that was something else that we did that was really fun and The kids really liked it some of them, you know like any project You have some that finish in 10 minutes and you have some that can't even get through one problem. So I have kids that are kind of all over the board right now and I'm trying to find time but yesterday there was a small group that went to accelerated math today There's a small group going to Gift it and talented so it's kind of like it's been really hard to try to finish this so I'm hopeful that The cribbage will kind of take up that time and then if we do have time for the trip planning then we can do the trip planning but Anyhoo I Think that is going to be it for right now I will try to talk to you guys at the end of the day and talk about how the Wow, it's been nine minutes. Oh my gosh How the Observation went so yeah, I hope you guys enjoy Hey there, so yes, it is a different day And the reason I didn't talk on Friday after the observation is because The principal actually came in to talk to me at the end of the day because we've been having an issue with I Don't know if it's Necessarily bullying. I don't know anyways We've been having an issue so she had to come in and talk to me and I asked her a little bit about how she thought my observation went and She seemed very happy about it. She said my academic language was great Especially if I had EL students in here that they would have benefited a lot from kind of what I was doing and how I was speaking and things like that So she seemed very pleased she missed I'd say half of my lesson so the lesson started at 10 30 and I know she had to talk to one of my students after after specialist because They weren't being very respectful So I was kind of thinking like okay, maybe she'll come in later and Honestly, she didn't really end up showing up. So Then we just ended up Like continuing on and I sent out a quick email and I was like by the way like you're supposed to be at 10 30 and it's like 10 50 We can either reschedule or you I mean my lesson goes in for another half an hour or so you can come see that She ended up coming for the end of it. I had small groups and she came to watch my small group as well as Sorry as well as Watching my share time. So I did end up going a little bit over but because she missed the first part I wanted to make the second part Just as good. So I worked with my small group. It was fun and Yeah, I think it worked out great Let me show you quick what the sheet looks so to get things started I Began with talking about a little bit about muscles I asked the kids about this word background knowledge and then I said what background knowledge do you have on muscles now? The principal didn't get to see this, but this is part of what I did for the morning message and Then I Now she missed a lot of this but I got to use a little bit of this in my small group As well as in my share time So I just made a kwl chart what we think we know questions or wonderings and new learning So as we were reading or well before we started we just talked about what do we think we know and Then we I asked what our questions are wonderings because they can help guide our research And then as we were reading we went through and checked off things to confirm our knowledge Just give them a little check there based on what we read and then any of our new learnings Or things that answered our questions we wrote down in our new learning categories So one of the big things that kids wrote down was that if I can get it here tendons join your muscles to your bones and a couple kids wrote that down and Maybe they wrote it wrong or whatever and I said why don't you go check our new learning and see what it says And so then we talked to a lot again about tendons join your muscles to your bones. So that was kind of part of the academic language of Like understanding kind of what these big vocabulary words mean and kind of How we can explain them a little bit better to students who might have troubles understanding So the principal did say that she's excited and happy to write a letter recommend Recommendation she even mentioned being a little bit sad that they don't have any job openings in that I should continue looking for jobs in this district. So I'm kind of hopeful that if I have two letters of recommendation from principals that I'll be doing pretty good I'm even working summer school this summer. I reached out to one of the ladies at this school to work at summer school So I'm hopeful that something will come of this and I'll get kind of lucky a little update I I think I told you guys that I applied for a first grade position in the district I did my student teaching in a long-term sub in and just subbed a bunch of times have really good connections there And unfortunately, I mean it's Monday now and I still haven't heard anything back So it can be I think it's could be a mix of different things, but You know, it does make you worried that if you don't hear anything back that You know probably isn't very promising Which makes me a little bit sad because I have some good connections there and it would be nice, but you know everything happens for a reason so Yeah, I think I'm gonna end there guys. I hope you had a great weekend I hope you're having a great week and I will talk to you next week. I'll look exactly like this because it's Monday So I'll talk to you guys next week and I hope you have a fabulous week and Enjoy your teaching as we get closer to the summer. So I'll catch you next time guys