 Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel. I'm so glad you're here, and I hope you all enjoy this week as I'm in first grade today, long-term sub-observation tomorrow. Nothing yet for Thursday, but hopefully something will come up soon and Friday I cannot remember. So, but yeah, I'm glad you guys can join me for this. Happy Tuesday everybody. Yeah, I'm in a first grade class today. This is actually the class that I, or the teacher that I pre-student taught for. So before like like one of my first field experiences was with this teacher and it's awesome to kind of come back, I don't know, kind of like coming back to your roots in a way. I know that sounds kind of weird, but it kind of does feel that way a little bit and just like seeing all the familiar things that I do remember doing with her. So that's really fun. So just some of the things quick that we did. The first, we read Tacky the Penguin, which I just love this and adore this book so much. It's so much fun. The kids love it, especially here in the first grade and it's just a lot of fun. It's I don't know. It's just silly and goofy. And we didn't get to them, but two of the things that she, I'm trying to find the other one, that she had wanted us to do if we had time, which we did not. We barely had time for what we got through. But this is just a little thing that you can put in their writer's notebook and it just says what write about your favorite part of the story and tell why you liked it and then this is just let's see. Oh, a little Venn diagram of how Tacky was different than his companions and then I guess they can write about it too. So those were a couple of ideas. There's also another Tacky book called Tacky in Trouble. So that's a cute one too. And just a tip, that is pretty good that I really like. If you're ever planning for a sub, give them extra things. They probably won't get to it, but in case they do, typically I fill that time with playing a game, to be honest. But it is nice to have that extra stuff just in case things go faster than you think. Another thing is just to incorporate like fun little holiday things. Instead of pulling sticks, she just has these hearts and each of them has their number, their math number on here. So that's kind of a fun way to incorporate February and Valentine's and everything like that. Another really cool thing, you can see it actually behind me here. So these are cards that will tell the kids what movement to do. So I pulled a seven of spades and spades is jumping jacks. I don't think you can see it up there, but so spades would be jumping jacks or whatever activity and then they would do seven of them and then they can pick a few cards. So hearts is high knees, clubs is squats and diamond is ski jumps. So she just has this on a little pocket on the side of her desk and and the helper of the day picks a card. She has these really big ones, but you could just use a regular deck of cards and it gives them a little movement break for math. She did clear the board. Really simple. It's just, I mean a normal piece of paper says clear the board, has some numbers at the bottom and basically what you do is you have cubes. You put 10 cubes out however you want and then you roll a dice, add those two numbers together and take a cube off for whatever number you got the sum of. So that was fun and the kids really liked that. It's a good way to practice math and it's an easy game that doesn't require much setup. This afternoon, oh my goodness, we will be reading Ace Glastic News about Abraham Lincoln and then the day's over. So it was a pretty easy day so far. They're pretty awesome. One of the sites they used here was Splash Math. So it's just like a math website kind of like that Dreambox I showed you guys and then they just got to play with some of the cubes. So I've talked for almost five minutes. I'm going to let you guys go. I have to go down to the cafeteria to pick them up. So I'll talk to you guys at the end of the day. Bye! If you ever wondered about my artistic abilities, that is it. That was the example and that's the picture I drew. So yeah a little lacking in the artistic abilities department but you know I give it a go and that's all I can do which honestly is okay because you know I feel like it helps the kids know that like it's okay you know like they're not having to compare theirs to some like amazing drawing you know like I don't know. So yeah a lot of them kind of turn out a little silly just because mine is like not great but you know what I try and that just shows them that as long as they try that's important. I did have a I did have a little bit of a mini heart attack because on the plan here it said to walk down to the gym at 12 30 and it was already 120 and my heart stopped. I was like I'm this late but then I was like wait a second and I looked back and it said lunch was and lunch and recess was at ended at 12 50 so I was like okay logically that doesn't make any sense so 130 made more sense so I'm gonna pick them up at 2 15. We're going to do the calendar back here so basically they changed the calendar they spelled February they sing the days of the week song which I'm pretty sure is like to the Adams family days of the week days of the week days of the week days of the week days of the week there's Sunday and there's Monday there's Wednesday okay so that's kind of how it goes um and then they have you can see they have stars and hearts so they get to choose an action so maybe stars will be clap and then hearts will be cheer so they'll go one two three four and then they'll count all the way up and then they add a dot for like how many days they've been in school and then they count by tens to the number 113 because they've been in school for 113 days and then that is the end of the day so I'm gonna say goodbye I need to do a lot of cleaning the desk the desk is a complete mess so I just need to clean it up and write a couple notes and head out not head out um and and just get ready for the after like the end of the day here so yeah I'm gonna say goodbye and um I might not talk to you guys tomorrow again just because like I'm doing the observations and stuff like that but um on Thursday so see you guys then bye two whole pages of just words would you like it if there's a few pictures to look at okay everyone I'm in first grade back in the class I was in the other day and the kids are working on making walls but it looks like you're still building with it you guys are running out of clay to same what was your mixture um soil clay clay a wall you made a wall what did you use in your wall happy Monday everybody I just got to the school and and so this is what I see when I walk in and I'm a little bit overwhelmed but then I remembered I'm actually going to be here on Friday so today's Friday and looks like we're gonna do Dr. Seuss and happy birthday Dr. Seuss and I'm also going to be here on Monday morning so there are the things for Monday as well so that makes a lot more sense at first I was super overwhelmed but now it makes a lot of sense to me so I can breathe again so here are the Friday plans and I'm actually also getting stuff ready on the computer here so it's kind of nice she has a bunch of the files ready for me so essentially I don't really have to do that much work and honestly for her it's probably kind of nice too because once it's on the notebook file you don't really have to do that much work either so that's really nice so looking over the plans I'm realizing very quickly that it's going to be a very long morning um the first break I have is recess at least based on what I'm seeing because we have to go eat lunch with them and that's at noon and then recess isn't until 1 30 and then they have specialists right at the end of the day so it's going to be I feel like a long day but then the end of the day will be good so it goes either way my hair looks kind of crazy with the light shining behind it but I swear it's um yeah so I finished looking over the plans she's very very detailed it's very thick which is a really good thing too and lots of information which is great so that's really helpful and yeah I think it'll be a good day kindergarten they do a lot of playing too so that will be just fine checking the time quick and yeah so I think it's not going to be too bad the only things I really want to make sure that are ready like for sure is kind of that morning stuff so they have morning meeting that's fine literacy will be fine um and then they have literacy stations so I want to make sure I go and get those ready and kind of have that prepared in my mind ready to go otherwise it looks like it should be um not too bad or also have time to kind of prep things as the morning goes on so I will catch you guys a little bit later all right it is the end of the day and wow what a difference like lighting makes because I felt like that other lighting made my eyes look really weird like really dark and now you can see that I was just like my makeup anyways that's any stupid but um yeah so I wanted to mention that Scott Burgess I believe that's how you say left a comment on one of my videos recently and I wanted to answer his question so he was talking about like at the beginning how kindergartens kindergartners love to give hugs and I wanted to talk about it today since I am in kindergarten and basically I'm going to skip down to the question that he asked he said the way you have talked way you have talked about k through one grades it seems as though those are your favorites and where you want to end up within the teaching so and where like basically where do you want to end up and kind of what grade do you want to teach um he said is kindergarten one of the top choices for a teaching position that you want to be honest I'm actually not certified in kindergarten and the only reason I can teach it is because I am a substitute so I could teach up all the way to adult education all the way down to preschool just because I'm a substitute but for a full-time position I would not be eligible to do kindergarten my license is only from one to six I'd have to take some early childhood classes and honestly I forget how insanely crazy kindergarten is like kudos to these teachers because I feel like it's just crazy there's constantly kids like yelling they don't know the rules of school yet and I don't know it's just a little bit much for me I feel like if I was in it every single day that would be different but like going from first grade and fourth grade and fifth grade and all these different grades coming down all the way to kindergarten is can be kind of a lot so I feel like I could do it I feel like I could love it and it could be something that I want to do every day but currently I'm not certified in it anyways so um to answer that question honestly I don't know because it's so dependent on the kids and I don't know like I've been in first grade classes that I love and just it's so much fun and then I've been in first grade classes that I'm like I don't know how the teacher does it every day that's for lack of like better explanation and then same for fifth grade I've been in fifth grade classes where I'm like whoa this is amazing like top of the school and like doing everything that they need to be and then I've been in fifth grade where I'm like same thing you know I don't know how the teacher does it every day so for me that's kind of the thing um obviously the younger grades are fun because they love their teachers so so much and the upper grades I think they still love their teachers but they just show it differently but you can do so much more with like dive deeper into the content than you can in first grade and second grade so I do love that about third fourth and fifth but I mean the hugs and being able to be cutesy and I feel like my classroom management can be a lot better with first and second and kindergarten but so that's kind of my explanation I really don't know I think honestly I'd be happy just anywhere that I end up because I love teaching I love the kids and I feel like I can adapt to any situation and any grade level and still enjoy it and love it and put as much effort into it especially like you can do coding in all the different grades you can do breakout in all the different grades because I've done breakout with first graders and I've done breakout with fifth graders if you don't know what break it is go check out some of my past videos but yeah so I just I don't know I just love teaching and honestly wherever I end up like I will be happy with that so Scott thank you for your question I really hope that you are having an amazing teaching experience yes I'm from Minnesota um it is getting warmer outside which is nice so I'm going to sign off for the week I was going to show you guys some financial stuff but I think I might save that for a week that is not as busy so I will catch you guys next week bye guys