 Good morning everyone and welcome back to another apples and tiara's vlog. So this this vlog is going to be a teaching vlog and it's just going to be like a week in the life of a teacher so it's Monday January 29th and it's about 7.15 we just got to school we're running a little bit late but I wanted to show you guys over the weekend I came in because okay do the best you can whatever you can't get I'll have one of my students do okay I got a new table on Friday and I had to try to figure out what I was going to do with it whether I was going to just get rid of it and roll with my six tables or if I was going to try to use it so what I did was I came in on Saturday and I just kind of rearranged the layout if you guys follow me on Instagram you already saw this but today is going to be the first day we're going to try it so I redid the seating charts to accommodate the new table and I tried really hard to make sure that students who had a hard time focusing we're all facing like the TV like they're the set of chairs not the ones with their backs of the TV even though I do a lot of like whole group teaching down here I do want to make sure that when they're here they're able to focus so it is nice because I have about four students at each table and for each class there's gonna be like maybe one or two tables I only have three kids there so it's really cool we're gonna see how it goes with spacing one percent plug it in so we're gonna see how it goes today I'll let you guys know at the end of the day how I feel about how it went I still wanted to have like a carpet area for kids to come and sit down because I really do like having like a community space where we start class so I'm gonna have cash well I started having cash pick up the numbers but I'll probably just have a couple students do it I'm gonna do those and the rainbow numbers because I'm gonna like move them over a little bit because they do get cut off by the tables over there so anyway cash and I are gonna get ready for the day I came in over the weekend and I did a lot of prep work so I don't actually have any prepping to do this morning other than just like quickly going over like what I'm doing but I have all my copies ready for the week like pretty much all I'm doing is reviewing what I need to do which today I'm teaching quotation marks and I need to change my learning target I also moved this table over here to be more of like an independent space for a couple of cuties that need that okay so this is my really stylish maternity outfit we are 32 weeks today while we were 32 weeks yesterday but we're starting to run out of things that are comfortable so we're just kind of wearing leggings and maternity shirts and just kind of rolling with it we're also not doing our makeup as often because we tired and we want all the sleep we can get I need to pick up this trash leave everywhere I need to feed my frog and I wanted to show you guys what I'm having for lunch today you have some and you have some I'm gonna have to get more food for you guys starting to get low I think this nail is dead it hasn't moved in weeks it's kind of sad okay dojo store I need to do that I need to do dojo points okay that's something I definitely need to do all right um something I thought about doing the other day was putting a sticker on the back of these chairs with like the kid who sits there's name on it but I think that's overkill plus with how many times I have to move kids around it's like why why write their name on something when they're probably gonna get moved anyway okay this is what I have packed for the day this is a breakfast quesadilla on an Ezekiel wrap it's got eggs cheese and pepperoni in it I know pepperoni random and then for lunch I brought a vanilla yogurt I have a cliff bar for a snack I have a bag of like chocolate nut trail mix I've got granola for my yogurt I have a ginger ale just because we had them and it sounded really yummy apple banana and then for lunch I have some I'm not gonna open it I have some strawberries some cucumbers with um olive garden dressing from Costco a star cookie from Trader Joe's and then in this pocket I have a cube or a quarter of that Borsken cheese and some multi-grain like chips black bean chips so combined all of this will become my lunch which sounds delicious I need to eat this now I need to put this away and then I need to get everything ready for our one kids morning everyone happy Tuesday here's the outfit for the day I found these maternity pants at Walmart a while ago I haven't worn them in a while because they're a little short on the ankle and it's been a little bit cold out so I haven't been wanting to wear them but it's warmer this week we're in the 50s and low 60s during the day oh you guys I have to tell you about my new glasses hey guys so I wanted to interrupt this vlog to quickly mention my collaborator for this video and that is pair I wear so if you guys don't know what pair I wear is it is an online glasses company where you can enter your prescription purchase a pair of glasses and have them shipped directly to your door except for pair I wear is a little bit unique in the sense that you get to completely customize and switch out your style of glasses anytime you want so let's talk a little bit more about that if you guys have been following me for a long time you know that I am a very avid glasses wearer I've been wearing glasses since I was about seven years old my eyes are terrible my prescription is terrible but I basically live in my glasses and I feel like a person that has to wear glasses as much as I do should have tons of options as to styles colors sizes and we should be trading our glasses out like shoes right our style of glasses should match our clothing it should be a representative of your fashion sense and so when pair I wear reached out to me I was so excited to give them a try because you can do exactly that you order your base frame glasses and then you can purchase different style tops to go on top of them to match every style that you wear one thing that I've always struggled with with buying different styles and pairs of glasses in the past is that every time I want to change my glasses frames or change the style of my glasses I get a really really bad headache for one two days depending on how many days I want to wear the different frames and it's just a painful process so using pair I wear is going to be a complete game changer for me because I do want to switch my glasses out all the time to match whatever I'm wearing for the day and in the past I've had to struggle with these headaches and wanting to change my style of glasses so now I don't have to worry about that anymore and I'm so so excited I've been wearing my pair I wear glasses for the last about week and a half and I have not had a headache yet and it has been completely wonderful I've been able to switch out my styles each day even throughout the day and I don't have to worry about getting headache so essentially what you do on pair eyewear.com is you sign in you pick the frames that you like the best enter your prescription you can choose multiple different styles there's a ton of different lens options for your prescription you can do blue light blocking light responsive transitions progressive lenses and then of course premium plus which is going to be for your higher prescriptions like mine. Go on the website you pick your base frames and then the fun part you get to pick all of the different tops that go on top of your base frames so I'm going to show you guys all of the styles that I ordered through pair I wear and I will have all of them linked down below as well as a 15% off coupon code for your very first base frame pair of pair I wear. The first tops that I want to show you guys are the sunglass tops because I'm super excited about these I can't tell you how annoying it is to have to sit in the car and like take my glasses off and put my prescription sunglasses on anytime I want to go out in the sun I have to carry them around with me it's really annoying and so now I can actually keep a pair of sunglass tops in like every place I need I can keep a pair in the car I can keep a pair in my purse and anywhere I go I can just quickly put my sunglasses on and I don't have to worry about changing my pair of glasses I just pop these tops on so these are the tortoise sun tops and they're great I've tested them out at recess in the car and they're wonderful for blocking out the sun I love these they're just very classic I'm kind of a classic gal so a lot of the tops that you're going to see me try on today are very classic and simple however I have every intention of getting on the website and ordering tons of different style of tops to match like every holiday every like spirit day every you guys will see when I show you the different frames that are available they partner with like Marvel and peanuts and Harry Potter and DC and there's just so many different styles only the second pair of some tops that I got are just the basic black ones again what I typically do is I keep one pair in my purse in this really cool case it just kind of slips right in here and then I keep this pair in my sunglass visor in my car so no matter where I go I have a pair of sunglasses right there ready to go these ones are great for blocking the sun they're a little bit extra dark on the lenses I love these so much and those are just the basic black tops and then I did get four different style of tops that I'm going to show you guys so I'll show you the basic ones first again tortoise shell and black are simple and go-to these remind me of the frames that I've been wearing for the last few years they're the really big on brown ones that you guys have seen me wear in the past and I had to get a pair of these because I just love a basic tortoise shell and then I also grabbed just a basic black this is just the black top because again something simple I can wear with pretty much everything and then I ordered two funky styles and you guys know when I'm not eight months pregnant I love to wear like fun funky clothes and really express myself through fashion and so getting tops like these which I actually couldn't find these on the website when I was linking at them down below but so unfortunately I do not have a link for these tops specifically unless I can find one between now and posting this video but they are sort of like a purple I think this term is like bokeh bokeh they're like a sparkle confetti kind of situation but they're just really nice purple statement piece and then these ones are my favorite these are the rose gold sparkle tops and these are so me I've been wanting to get a pair of glasses this color for years and all of the ones that are in this color typically don't come in my prescription because they're usually way thinner so I thought these were really really cute and they kind of go like anything that has pops of pink they go great with black leopard print so I got those and then I love the base rooms that I picked because they're just clear and they can basically go with any different top of your choice but they have tons of different ones they have black blue tortoiseshell pink like you can pick any color base that you want I just thought the clear would be great because then on a regular day if I don't want to wear any tops I can just have a clear pair so anyway I have rambled on and on but if you guys are interested in checking out pair eye wear I will have links down below in the description box as well as a special link for 15% off of your first purchase of pair eyewear base frames and I'm just really excited to be able to share this with you guys because these have been a complete life changer not getting so many headaches being able to change my style of glasses only having to buy and wear one pair is completely life-changing so anyway you guys are interested check out the links below and let's return to the blog all right you guys so this morning was kind of a struggle I won't lie to you I slept in a little bit I wanted to get up a smidge earlier just because I wanted to do a little bit something with my appearance today it's funny when you watch my blogs you can always tell if I slept in or if I got up on time because the product is always different but I did get up in time to do my hair put some makeup on and cash took a while to get up he's not feeling the greatest he has you know obviously what we all have so he he took a little bit to get up but it's okay he's pretty good about getting up and getting ready to go I wanted to show you guys my lunch for today because it's really special okay so I brought another Greek yogurt cash actually ended up eating this yesterday after school he stole it from me he's looking at me now like I want that you stole it from me I mean I saw the granola to put in there for breakfast I'm just gonna heat this Trader Joe's chicken sausage breakfast burrito up and I have a little bit I have a little bit of Taco Bell salsa that I'll put on there just for breakfast and then you guys this is so bad I'm eating a different burrito for lunch because I literally like this equals no time to prepare anything healthy and delicious for lunch so we get these from Costco they're just the reds I really like the bean and cheese ones too and then I brought a chocolate chip cliff bar for after school snack I've got a ginger ale for lunch because I like to have a little something different and then I have these black bean and quinoa chips from Trader Joe's that I love and I have the buffalo chicken dip in my fridge so I figured if I wanted a snack I could munch on that throughout the day so I'm just gonna go put all of this in my fridge heat up my burrito and get started with our day my students are going to be writing a rough draft of an essay we've been planning for and I'm using our state test to like I pulled the what's it called the prompt and everything from the state test so we're really just doing the sample and practice test to learn about how to write an informative essay so we're doing that we've been planning for the last two weeks taking them through making graphic organizers what goes into a body paragraph what belongs in introduction I'm just kind of going step by step through the planning process of planning an essay so that they can really see how long the process takes and then today will be day one of writing their actual rough drafts so what I did is I went online oops that's not mine I just realized this piece of paper that came out with my copies does not belong to me so I'll put that back in there um but I gave my students a draft checklist on one side and then on the other side is a writing checklist from the actual testing website um and it's the uh the test is a asa it's called asa um and so the draft checklist just has like little things I want them to make sure they're doing while they're writing their draft I want them to try to skip lines because I want to be able to provide them with feedback and have them make corrections somewhere on the draft and so if they skip lines while they're writing that gives me and them a space to provide feedback make corrections add change whatever um hopefully they will do it some of them will probably struggle to but I'm going to hopefully try I'm going to try and make an incentive like if you skip lines you can get three more dojo points like try to motivate them to skip lines um indenting and spacing between sections readable handwriting good letter spacing introduction three body paragraphs and a conclusion so that is the checklist on this side and then on the back is an actual checklist that goes with the grading rubric for a writing task like this and it just has things like I introduced my topic or text clearly and explain the subject matter telling a surprising factor giving a big picture yes so when they're done writing their introduction they can then it goes into organization transitions um elaborating quotations things like that so pretty much anything and everything they need to include in their essay is here so that while they're writing their drafts or maybe like shortly after or halfway through they can go through this checklist and just make sure that they're including everything and um when I pull them to conference throughout their drafts like maybe in a couple days um we can go over this checklist together and just make sure that they have everything um so I'm going to give those out today and then we're starting to talk about Valentine's Day because it's February or yeah it's February or January 30th today um and we're starting to talk about Valentine's Day plans so my teammates and I are just kind of like sharing all the things we have um we do have to give a district writing assessment on Valentine's Day which is unfortunate but I think the reason why is because most students don't like miss Valentine's Day at school because they want to be here for all the stuff so we're planning on giving the writing benchmark test um not a test it's just an assessment to see what they took away from what I just taught um and to practice for um ASA so we're gonna give that on Valentine's Day the first half of the day uh the first like three hours of the day and then the last three hours of the day we'll do like Valentine celebrations so everybody's here um and they're motivated to get to that um event so anyway that's what's going on today I need to pass out dojo tickets this morning um I have tutoring scheduled today but I might have to reschedule it because I have a parent who would like to conference about her child um it's been some pretty rough things going on uh behavior wise and things like that so we need to conference um just so that everything is out in the open all around the table um and so I might have to cancel my tutoring session which sucks because that is like 60 bucks um off my paycheck when I cancel tutoring and I I could reschedule but I literally have no days this week to reschedule um so that's gonna be really hard but it is what it is um actually considering like pulling out of tutoring because in the next seven weeks um A I'm not gonna be able to do it anymore um I have doctor's appointments every two weeks and then we have so many IEP related meetings like MET ones red meetings IEP meetings coming up that pretty much all of my tutoring hours are gonna have to be either rescheduled or canceled anyway so I have half of mine to just pull out of tutoring and not offer to do it anymore because I'm just gonna have to like cancel anyway so I need to figure that out and look at my calendar and really like dial in when I can do it and if I can maybe just change it to one day a week but do like four hours after school which would be a lot because that's how many hours a week I tutor now is four hours two hours on Tuesday and two hours on Thursday so I'm gonna see um but for now I'm just gonna get the day ready and then check in with you guys when I can good morning everyone happy Wednesday I feel like this week is going by so slow I don't know about you guys but January just isn't ending today is January 31st and I just feel like this week has gone by at a crawling pace cash and I just got here it's um seven 20 and uh I don't have much to do this morning to prep because my kiddos are still writing their rough drafts today but I am wearing a pair of my new pair eyeware glasses this is gonna happen to me you just watch I'm gonna be like showing off my glasses and then drop them anyway I chose pink today and I wear pink butterfly clip in my hair and I've got like turquoise and pinky toned jewelry so um also how cute is my pickston class I'll just comment on that anyway I'm eating for breakfast a bagel breakfast sandwich that I made it's got egg cream cheese pepperoni and um colby jack cheese on it but it's pretty delicious I made scott one too let's do a fit check tag cash I'm trying to light on okay here's the fit jean shirt black maternity bum uh back maternity top these maternity leggings are from amazon I love them they have pockets and um their ankle length and then I just have my vans on today and again some pink and turquoise accents very cute also how adorable is this lanyard I got it from etsy a couple weeks ago I think it's really cute I love miss frizzle anything I can do with miss frizzle oh speaking of miss frizzle my teammate jocelyn has this system in her classroom and I don't know where she picked it up but I'm stealing it um and it's called the wizard and basically what happens is she has a stuffed owl that she puts on the desk of the child who is excelling at whatever assignment or task she's given them they're done early um they're an exemplar they've mastered it she puts this owl on their desk and that student is allowed to respond to questions and hand raises that come up during like independent work time so it's like an extra teacher in the room that can go around and help kids I thought that was genius um and so I decided to make one for my classroom so I'm using the frizz because science um so I made these little um graphics I made two of them and what I intend to do with them is the same thing that she does basically if I have a child that's excelling at whatever task we're doing they're done early and they could um be another helpful teacher I'll just put that on their desk and then they are more than welcome to go and respond to hand raises I'm also thinking about using Liz or something um I do have a class raider so um I have a student who is responsible for paying attention to behaviors in the classroom and at the end of each day our guest block they report on a scale from one to five what they thought um how they thought the class did for the day and so I might use Liz to like sit on the raider's desk I don't know yet um but I thought it would be fun to like utilize those okay I need to get planned and prepped for next week the problem is I don't necessarily know how next week's gonna pan out because kids are rough drafting today tomorrow we're doing science Friday we're doing science and social studies is kind of split and then some of my kids are gonna need to finish writing Monday and Tuesday next week so I need to either like find an I'm done activity for the kids that finish and like plan to do writing Monday Tuesday and then Wednesday Thursday Friday get back into science I think it's what I might do and then I might just keep it like that for a while until we're done with the writing project just so that I'm not wasting like the whole week on writing because they're at this point where like they've written a rough draft and now I have to provide feedback and then they'll go and type a final draft based on what I like think and what revisions they should make um so I feel like we're at a point where like if I reserve Mondays and Tuesdays for writing then I can conference with kids on Mondays and Tuesdays I can give all the kids like quiet independent work they can do if they're done and then Wednesday Thursday Friday we can get back into science stuff because I'm starting to run out of time I mean realistically let's see we have one two three four five weeks left five that's not very many um I'm going to do the birth of rocks mystery science unit it's five lessons long so if I'm doing science only on Wednesday Thursday Friday I'm only going to get one lesson done a week which would be fine but I wanted to cover more than that this quarter it is what it is at the end of the day but is what it is I'm doing the best I can so I think we might have to do that Monday Tuesday writing Wednesday Thursday Friday science sprinkle in social studies when we can and um holiday when we're done with writing I might do social studies on Monday Tuesday and then do Wednesday Thursday Friday science that way they're getting um a good amount of both it's just crazy how quickly time goes and then five more weeks is my last day of school for the year because I'm going on maternity leave that in itself is wild all right I'm gonna get to work planning and then we'll see how the day goes I have character council meeting today I need to do a whole video in character council honestly um I'll add that to my list because I want to tell you guys about it wow this whole professional youtube tripod thing I've got going here is fabulous character council video okay oh we have a spirit assembly today at nine o'clock too so that cuts into our writing time lovely okay I'll see you guys in a minute like literally a second good morning guys happy Friday I did not vlog it all yesterday because yesterday was a wild and crazy day um we had doughnuts with dames in the morning which is an event where we invite all of the moms and grandmas and it's basically female role models to school and the kids get to have a doughnut with them and it's kind of like a and it's kind of like a it's like a doughnuts with moms thing so anyway um we had that going on yesterday and then I also had my formal observation yesterday which went really really well um I don't ever I mean at this point in my career I just feel like it is what it is and I don't ever stress about it put it down just a little baby left so anyway that's why I didn't vlog yesterday but it is Friday today and it's a little bit of a rainy morning which is nice um it's great for winter today's groundhog day um so we'll see if we get some more winter which I hope we do because I really do enjoy the snow and just moving back here like I kind of want to have like a fun snow day like we need a need a real snow day so anyway I'm excited for that um today we're going to just chill um we started mystery science um the birth of rocks unit for fourth grade if you guys don't use mystery science for your science curriculum and if you are allowed to um you should definitely look into it is very high interest very engaging covers pretty much every standard there's a couple of little gaps you have to fill in along the way but overall like it's pretty amazing I've used it for the past three school years this is the fourth school year I've used it and it's just really good the kids learn a lot from it it's highly engaging um it's minimal prep and minimal planning all you have to do is get stuff printed um get the materials for all of the investigations and then um grade so it's wonderful um so I might start that second lesson today the kids were begging me um I was gonna do like a catch-up day with a social studies task that I gave but honestly it's kind of one of those assignments that I just want to check because it doesn't really give me any information anyway so I might just check it um I call it a day and um give them something else to do for that so it's been it's been hard because we've been doing writing the last few days and writing is exhausting um I have all of these notebooks I'm gonna have to grade this is only just the ones that are done I have three stacks of notebooks three stacks of notebooks um that I'm gonna have to grade so and it's gonna be a while but I'm gonna try and do it quick and just grade it on the rubric and call it a day um I might even like not grade them yet and wait until their final essays are written and typed and then grade those like do a quick glance through and not really grade grade but like give them feedback anyway um I went to Starbucks this morning because it's payday got me a sausage egg bacon wrap they're my favorite they're a little coffee just a little grande sign of the dead I'm gonna get ready for the day if we are gonna do this um um the science thing then I gotta get that rolled out it's a short day today though so um it could either benefit me with what we're doing or we could get more behind so we'll see all right you guys it is Friday afternoon the weekend has begun it was a crazy long week y'all but we did it we survived and um on to the next thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you in the next one bye guys