 I'm gonna be doing the summertime teacher tag. This tag was created by Jessica over at the Social Speechy and Michelle at Creative Scribbles. So there are a series of 11 questions that I'm gonna be answering and this tag is all about summer, so you're probably not gonna hear a lot of stuff about teaching or anything like that. So if you guys are interested, then keep on watching and I'm gonna tag all of you that have channels and or Instagrams and or social media. Go ahead and do this tag and then link your videos in the comments down below. Okay, so question number one. Are you taking any trips this summer? Yes, I'm actually getting ready to take two trips. The first one is we are going up to Prescott for the 4th of July and then we're gonna be going to San Diego at the end of July and actually I'm taking three trips. All of them are in July. After the 4th of July, I'm going to Seattle with my new school for a conference and then we're going to San Diego at the end of July. So question number two is, are you working or are you enjoying the summers off? I am not really working. I did go in to work for a couple of sessions for planning but other than that, I'm not really working. I'm doing like a couple of projects here and there but nothing serious. Question number three. Do you prefer to spend your summer days inside or outside? Well, I currently live in the Phoenix, Arizona area and if you don't know anything about Phoenix, it's about 115 degrees outside. So generally I would love to spend my summers outside but when it's really hot like this, I can't really do that. So we spend a lot of our summer inside until it gets darker out and then we go outside or in the mornings or if it's like a rainy day then we'll go outside. But when we go up to Prescott, it'll be really nice up there so we can actually go outside and enjoy nature. Question number four. What is your best summer memory? So I'm thinking back to like my childhood and I grew up in Prescott on like a ranch kind of place. We had horses and I used to ride them and we had so much property and there was this tree that I would go and like climb and I had a bunch of neighbors that were my age that went to school with me. We would all ride our quads around. We had like trails that we'd go on and we'd pack like a picnic lunches and those were like the best summers and those were probably between the age of, I wanna say 13 and 16, we would do that. Question number five. What time do you wake up during the school year and what time do you wake up during summer? During the school year, I usually wake up about 5.30 or 6 o'clock and during the summer I wake up about 7.30, 8 o'clock. I do have an almost eight month old so he gets me up pretty early but it's okay because it makes my days a little bit longer. Question number six. What book will be found in your beach bag this summer? There is a book that I've been trying to read for like years and it's called The Siren and it's by Cara Cass and I think it's Cara Cass. I know Cass is the last name. She wrote the selection books and the Siren book I've been trying to get through like for years and years and years but I always like read it in the summertime but I haven't really had a lot of downtime to actually read. So when we go to the beach, if I do have time to read, I might be reading that. Question number seven. Do you know where you'll be teaching next year, same grade? I do know where I'll be teaching next year. I'm teaching at the same school that I student taught at and I will be teaching third grade so I'm getting a new classroom, a new grade level, a new team, a new school, everything's brand new but it's not really new because I've already worked with these people at this school before so it's not exactly new. Question number eight. Do you have any teaching goals you want to accomplish this summer? Like big things on your to-do list to prep or make. So I just actually got back from Ikea and no, I did not vlog it. I was way too busy shopping but I did buy the teaching and so forth posters. I bought the grammar posters, the musical inspirational posters, the classroom posters, the big ones. So my summer goal was to get those printed and framed and then I also wanted to work on printing and organizing and prepping my centers. Jennifer from Genuine Teaching, she's the one who tagged me for this video. She's working on the same thing which is really funny but basically we both bought math centers and I bought some reading centers and I'm gonna start trying to organize those in the month of July. Which leads me to the next question, question number nine. When do you start prepping for back to school and when do you actually go back? So I will start prepping, actually a few weeks ago I was planning with my team so that's technically prepping for next year but I usually wait until the month of July to start prepping. I get access to my room July 16th so I probably will start moving in that week and then slowly start going in and start prepping and just doing all my work there instead of here because I'm a little bit more focused if I'm there. We actually go back August 8th but I have to report to new teacher to the district trainings on the 30th and then we have that whole week and a half to do our meetings and prep rooms and things like that. Question number 10. Do you have any professional development plans for the summer? Conferences, books you're reading, et cetera. So I am going on a conference with my new school and it is the AVID conference and I'm super excited to go and learn more about AVID and then I actually don't have another conference until January which will be the Get Your Teach On conference and that's here in Phoenix so if you guys are close to Phoenix I know they're doing San Diego right now but if you're not able to go to San Diego definitely try and come out for the Phoenix Convention and meet Jennifer and I. Question 11. Any songs that are summertime favorites? I've been listening to the greatest showman soundtrack a lot but nothing really comes to mind. I like to listen to like beach boys and like oldies but goodies and classic rock and the summertime it's just a little like kind of like classic American you know which kind of goes with my all-American teacher tank top from Lipstick and Littles. If you guys could see it, all-American teacher. But yeah so okay so those were the questions for the summertime teacher tag. Thank you Jessica and Michelle for creating this tag and I tag all of you again and I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one. Bye guys.