 in the car today. I used to do this all the time in my older vlogs. I don't know. I mean I got the phone situated in a spot where it's like perfectly safe for me to drive and it's like the quietest part of my day and it's like uninterrupted time. So anyway today is August 3rd and it is the first day of school. I woke up super early this morning so that I could wash and blow dry my hair. This is what it looks like when I just wake up and blow dry it. Straight as a board. So it's 6.56 in the morning. My contract hours are 7.30 to 3.30. School hours are 8 o'clock to 2.30 so that's really nice. It gives me an hour after school to really like decompress and plan and prep things for the next day. So I'm going to school a little bit early and I don't have cash in the car with me because today is his first day of kindergarten and normally I would want to be there for drop off but because of the way that our school does soft start I won't be able to take him to his classroom every day because I need to be posted in my classroom and ready for my students to arrive. Now down the line I could probably sort out how like my teammates could be standing in the hallway in the mornings instead so that I can take cash down to school but for now Scott is taking him and he's promised me to get like pictures and do all the things. So I just want to make sure that I'm there in my classroom on the first day for any lost students. So yeah I'm really excited. Cash is going to be at my school again and it's like the best. Just the last couple of weeks being there with all the staff I feel like it's going to be a really good place to be and everyone who's there has been there for years up to 20 plus years at the same site so I feel like that's a really good sign and this district so far has just been really lovely and I don't have any like there's no red flags there's no like hard like icky feelings and I'm just really excited to get this part of my life started. So anyway heading to school I'll show you guys what I'm going to do this morning to just get ready for the day. I do apologize in advance if I don't get like really good meaty vlogs up I'm very in tune with my team this year. I have two lovely ladies on my team this year maybe at some point in the year I will introduce them to you on the vlog. As of right now we've been working as a well oiled machine very cohesive all three of us have very similar ways of doing things of managing things and it's just really nice to have a team where every single member is willing to go above and beyond to do things for the gray bubble. The last team I was on I was kind of the the ringleader and I would have to ask my other teammates to do certain things and one of them I felt really bad asking because I knew they didn't really want to do it it was kind of like a bare minimum situation and then the other one was brand new to teaching and I really didn't want to put anything extra on their plate and so I ended up doing a lot on my own which is really hard it's a lot of pressure but where I was at that time in my career it was okay because I had a rhythm and I feel like I still have that rhythm now because I'm teaching the same things that I've been teaching for the last three years so I feel really good about my content and I feel really good about my instruction. We'll see about curriculum I do have two new curriculums that I'm working with the science curriculum is McGraw-Hill Inspire Science and the social studies curriculum is TCI social studies so if you guys have heard of those curriculums go ahead and put something in the comments down below letting me know if you've heard of them or or even if you use those curriculums that would be great they seem to be pretty okay I am going to integrate mystery science in with the Inspire Sci just because it is a brand new curriculum and I don't want to completely dive in head first 100% with it I'd rather like ease into it and put some of it into what I do with mystery science like use the use the resources alongside mystery science and that is totally okay that way like maybe next year I'll have a better idea of how the curriculum works and I'll be I'll feel better and more confident about it so and same thing with the social studies curriculum I'll just kind of use it as a resource and kind of intertwine it with with what I usually do so with that being said I'm almost to school I'm going to get all this junk in I have my mini fridge of groceries in the back so I need to get that in and I also need to bring in my rain boots because Prescott is known it is notorious for our summer monsoons through the months of July August September so the skies are clear right now but you guys it could it could like it could turn look how well hold on look at the sky right now beautiful clear skies but that could change within a few hours and we could be doing rainy day dismissal so anyway I'm gonna get inside and then I will pick y'all up when I get there all right you guys so I'm inside it took a minute to get up here um we had some gate issues but I'm here so um a couple things I need to do to get started for the day I need to get my tv on and get my slides pulled up so my tv actually operates as a computer like a separate one so I don't have to like display anything to it from like a computer it's just its own computer so I just have to make sure every morning when I come in that I get all of the things up that I'm gonna need for the day so that it's all loaded and ready to go okay guys so it's 721 so I'm gonna go ahead and jump off of the vlog for now and I'll pick you guys up throughout the day if I can but my students are going to become be starting to arrive in the next 20 minutes and I just want to go debrief with my team for a few minutes I just sorted my transportation forms I don't have every single child so I am going to go through my class list and just make sure that I know exactly how everyone's getting home today um send a couple messages out to parents on dojo and then um send an email to the front office letting them know which children I don't know how they're getting home today so wish me luck I'll see you guys in like a second all right you guys so it is officially lunchtime I'm having some stir-fry that we made last night today has gone by so well so great so smooth no problems at all um after lunch we do two more hours of team building procedures getting on Chromebooks and then it is the end of the day it's crazy how fast the day has gone I'm super behind on water what that is to be expected on the first day of school I have a couple of really squirrely boys which is totally normal but they all seem really sweet and very willing to correct their behavior I know they're all really excited to be back from summer and getting to see each other again so what I'm going to do right now is attempt to fix all of their tech um stickers and then print those so that I can pass them out and they can stick them on their Chromebooks now today so that is what I'm going to be working on while I eat in the evening and normally I don't stay this late but we had a lot of supplies we had to sort through today and so we got it all sorted and put away where it goes and we are ready for tomorrow cash how was your first day of kindergarten it was so good what was your favorite part of the day having recess of course and what did miss say you're going to learn tomorrow or learn in tomorrow library and what do you think you'll learn to read in one day yeah you do pretty cool really good day two it went by super quick our blocks are only 60 minutes each and then we also have like a 45 50 minute intervention block and we also have a 40 minute writing block so our our blocks are pretty uh short so we're gonna have to like use as much time as possible and not waste any but I'm exhausted of course are you tired I'm really really exhausted you're really exhausted yeah me too so we're gonna go home and we're gonna eat and we're gonna relax and I do have some slides I need to work on um just for school tomorrow but I'll wait till you're in bed to work on them just making sure they're in the right spot because I am going to be doing um something different with my home room tomorrow than I do with the other two blocks because my home room got like my basic procedures and my other two blocks have not gotten those so my home room will be practicing some procedures then my other two blocks will be introducing procedures and like introductions and stuff like that so yes honey is it dark no it's the same lightness in the queen creek yeah so thank you guys so much for watching don't forget to follow me on all my socials instagram tick tock and I'll see you in the next one bye guys