Hello everyone, thank you to attend this talk. So the today's topic is how to enable Linux within a safety compliant architecture. So this talk was prepared by myself, Philippe Parfoll, CEO of IoT.BZDH and Stéphane Desneux or CTO. So before moving further, quick introduction about ourselves. So IoT.BZDH is a company located in Laurent, an arbor city located in South Brittany, a western part of France. We have a team of 30 Linux embedded engineers and we have a partner in the automotive sector but also in the aeronautics and the energy. So we've been working historically with Renaissance since the creation of the company and in fact we have to send a warm thank you to both Issao and Kurokawa who have been helping us a lot and in fact many of the topics exposed in this talk were done with their support. But we also work in other industry as with Safran the aeronautique or with Total in the energy sector. So in the end of the day, both the safety and security requirements are pretty similar in those different industries. They clearly use different terminology, potentially different standards, but the core root requirements remain pretty similar. Moving to the art of this topic, the first thing is that in order to make a complex object, safe and secure, you have to work very hard. It's not an easy task. In the car industry, we clearly see an exponential increasing of the complexity. A modern car today can easily have more than 100 million lines of code. Customers are requesting a shorter and shorter time to market, which means that when we have five years to do something today we only have two or three. We get smarter hardware, which is really cool because we can do more advanced things, but this also impose a more complex software. And on top of that, the industry is moving toward a software defined vehicle that imposes a central architecture where we share a lot of different services within the same architecture and this imposes to mix both secure and non-secure services within the same hardware. And last but not least, we have a full connectivity and we have on the update, we have remote control and we also have a customer who are demanding new services, which means that we have to implement things on the car even after the car went on the road, which obviously was not possible with the previous version of the software in the car. And so this is leading to more and more risk. Obviously it starts by increasing the surface of attack significantly. We get more complexity in the car and we have a strong connectivity with the outside world. On the other hand, we also have cybercriminalities that are getting smarter and smarter and a car remains a very expensive piece of equipment, so it's important to protect it with the right level in order not to be attacked on the first day you go on the road. We have more and more advanced connectivity as I said before, so not only we connected with the cloud and the cloud controlled by the EOM, but potentially we also talk with other services like maybe your house or some multimedia services, some weather forecast and so on. And we get quicker obsolescence of product, so people expect more reactivity to the market and they've been trained with their phone when they get new features every day and so they expect more or less the same type of behavior on the car. And this obviously leads to more regulation. Obviously the UN R-155 and 156 are probably the two ones we're talking about today because they are going to be enforced very soon in Europe and other countries, so it's a big shift moved towards that specification. But we should not forget about the EU Cyber Security Act that imposes you to maintain for the full life cycle of your unconnected object to maintain against cyber security risk. We also have some national protection law like in Europe we have the GPRDs that impose a strict compliance to the privacy. And we also have some more specific services obviously coming from the industry itself, so in the car industry we clearly have the ISO and SAE specification for both safety and security. And we should not forget that because we are connected to the cloud we also inherit from the cloud regulations or all the series of 20,000 X that we also have to take an account. And last but not least, each T1 and EOM is coming with its own set of specifications that you also have to take an account. So if we look for the safety standard constraints that we have to fulfill, the first one on the safety standard is the one obviously defining at the general level the guide life for industry. So typically the EIC specifications that define the CIR level from one to four. More specifically for the automotive we have the ISO 26662 that defines the guideline for AZIL not forgetting that we need AZLD for asynchronous driving. And but we have also a lot of related standards that we have to take an account like we have special standard for industrial communication network. We also have some cybersecurity specific to the vehicle on the road. We have some standard for software and programmable component and so on. And depending obviously in the industry, so if you are in the medical sector you also have some specific specifications that come from that industry. And there are more to come. So what we have today is only the beginning and more is going to come. Clearly the hot subject today is the UNR 155 and 156 that are going to be mandated for all new vehicle in Europe starting 2024. The same regulation is going to happen in all other countries Japan, South Korea, UK, Canada and China. They have slightly different schedule and date of enforcement but more or less everyone is going to shift very, very quickly. So this is leading us to the fact that on one hand we need to have more and more complexity. On the second hand we have to fulfill with more and more regulation. Traditionally regulation was done by leveraging the V-cycle but clearly the traditional V-cycle is not applicable neither to modern hardware, neither to modern software. So on one hand on the hardware side, modern hardware are just too smart to be fully predictable. We have a lot of Silicon Bay's continuation features so we have some built-in secure enclave in the hardware but we don't really know how the isolation is done. At the same time we have a lot of sharing. We share the CPU, we share the cache, we share the core, we share the RAM, we share the IO and it's not really clear what is the border between what is isolated and what is shared and on top of that we have a lot of optimization algorithm that are hidden deeply protected by industrial property and so at the end of the day you don't really know what is happening within your hardware. On the software side in theory you should be able to control everything because most of the time you get the source code of what you're running. I say most of the time because it's not obvious you get it systematically but most of the time you have access at least to it. But when you have 100 million lines of code, it's clear that a lot of those lines have been written by people you don't know. They've been written long time ago and potentially those people retire and so they're not there to maintain the code anymore and I just take the example of GDPC where the first release was done in 1987 and so you still have some code from that period of time. And cyber security is clearly not compatible with the two year certification cycle which is another issue. With the V-Cycle it's a very long process and you need to have a lot of reactivity with cyber security and typically the industry is asking you a time scale of 30 to 90 days between the time a CVE is published and the time is corrected in protection. When the reality today of the industry is more it takes two to four years to move from the time a CVE is published and the time you can put it really to push the correction in production so which is just incompatible with the risk we have to deal today. And not only that but we also have to maintain the code for all along product life which for the car industry clearly means more than 10 years in fact it's more than 15 years than 10 years that you have to maintain it and so that's also another challenge because as today more or less a car was shipped with a version of software and was keeping more or less this version of software for the full life cycle of the car. So when we look for all this new complexity coming in what is the response of open source project? What people are working on? And the most visible project is clearly EDISA that is working on the kernel configuration and option required for safety and security. It's a very very long road to go there are a lot of people working in so they're working pretty well but we do not expect any result in the next short coming time. Another group that is also working pretty well is CIP this one is really focusing on critical public infrastructure it mostly focus on cybersecurity and really focus on very very long time kernel maintenance we're talking about 20 years or more and as today safety is not part of the scope so they mostly focus on cybersecurity. Very differently we have a project like Zephyr so Zephyr is not a Linux, it's a real-time operating system we're going to talk about it later and Zephyr has done very significant project to move towards the SIL-3 level of certification they also target AZLD whether it's going to be COD's another story for the core OS only so not the extension but it's done pretty good work especially they revote a significant part of the code to comply with Ms. Rassie and other documentation requirements for the certification they claim they could be ready by the end of 2023 we'll see if they're going to be on time or not but they've done a good progress and so we're very optimistic that they're going to succeed in a relatively short period of time we have other projects that have been more dormant OSDL is one of them they focus on safety and security for industrial Linux but we've not seen any significant project in the past four years so if we're willing to go to certification I think it's important to remember that SMALL is really beautiful to certify so the bigger your project the harder it is going to be to certify and so one way of going to certification is like Elisa is trying to do which is certifying the full Linux or at least a small Linux so we do set up Linux but still a full Linux the other option is the option we took in our work with Renaissance is to isolate the safety part into a smaller operating system and in all case we selected Zephyr because it's both small and recent and honestly as I said in our opinion it is a mass-promised open source candidate there are other candidates but the code is much older and we're more skeptical about this capability to go through certification now on the Linux side we have a lot of legacy code and complexity and let's be honest Linux potentially kernel might never be certified maybe Elisa is going to succeed maybe they're going to fail and if we look at what Linus Torval said he said that the Linux kernel originally envisioned that was very small and very modular and very efficient is not what is Linux today and each version of Linux is getting fatter and fatter which means it's going to be harder and harder to certify so either someone is able to do a strong cleanup on the Linux kernel or it's never going to be certified for safety another good candidate for safety is the trust zone part in the ARM architecture we have this trust zone and in this trust zone we can run the micro kernel or real-time operating system which is potentially small enough to get relatively easy certification now on the trust zone we have one special issue the trust zone is sharing the core with Linux so potentially we may have some conflict between Linux having some influence on the trust zone itself so it might be a little harder for certification but it's still a good candidate and we've seen some projects for AZLB especially where people are running a loop check in the trust zone as today at IOTBZDH we considered that at least for 202022 the safety option remains a full hardware isolation which is running a real-time operating system in a dedicated MCU that is hosted within a modern SOC and for the open source operating system we see Zephy as really the best candidate with no real competitor as today. In the commercial sector it's very different, there are a lot of offering proven core, autos are clearly in the automotive industry is from far the most well-known capability to do that now on the cybersecurity space on the other hand Linux is clearly leading the space and Linux has a thousand of different options to implement security and we should not forget that we cannot get safety without security and potentially you can get security without safety but the opposite is not true and so when we look for the option we have inside Linux to implement cybersecurity we have a lot of tools the most well-known one clearly is a name-pace for container isolation with an unbind system call inside the kernel on the mandatory access control we have AC Linux and SMAC for kernel object protection we have C-group for resource control, we have second for kernel firewalling we have the trust zone to bootstrap the initial root of trust, we have the capability to implement encrypted filesystem and at least on the recent version of the kernel we have EBPF that allow us to implement directly within the kernel some hook for introspection which is very useful if you want to implement intrusion detection this being said all those mechanism might not be compliant with your hardware embedded constraints in the embedded world we have a limited of hardware capability so potentially your RAM your CPU, your battery is very limited and so some of those feature may request too many capability or too many resources to be compliant with your project you may also increase your boot time in a level that is unacceptable, this is especially true if you start to crypt your file system and also another element that you have to take into account is unfortunately we don't start everything from a green field but we have a lot of legacy, software and hardware we have to take into account and potentially those new mechanism might not be compatible with your existing software of hardware so if you run the Linux kernel version 3.x probably you're not going to use the BPF and the last element is you have to be careful that even if you're able to implement a safe and secure mechanism potentially if the complexity is too big and if you cannot implement the documentation that proves that your system is safe you're never going to go through the certification so you also have to mitigate the complexity that you can document in order to go through the certification so as I said Linux is a very good candidate and clearly is the best candidate for cybersecurity is clearly not the best candidate for safety so Linux alone might not be enough for safety reason you have also other element if you need to implement hardware Linux is clearly not the best candidate if you have to do very short wake up on data sensors if you have to certify as I said before for safety but also if you have to run on battery for a very long time for example if you have your car getting parked for 6 months you're not going to run Linux for 6 months on the battery or your battery is going to die so you probably want to run a smaller operating system that is going to check whether the battery is too low or whether the car is moving and in case something abnormal happen you wake up Linux and then Linux can exchange data with the cloud or to notify the event to the cloud but you don't have the Linux running full time just for the supervision of basic element there are other element where Linux is probably not the best candidate where you want to have some dedicated microcontroller or coprocessor video encoding is clearly one audio processing, neural computing and so on so there are many other element where Linux is not the best candidate to really implement very specific algorithm that have either very real time constraints or have strong safety requirement the good news is that new hardware multi processing allow us to run a different operating system on the same SOC so on top of the traditional symmetric multi processing that we had for quite a long time now where we can run a rich operating system on different core having a compatible architecture so typically a big a little Indian on Arm V8 where you run everyone is running architecture 64 bit on A57 or 53 so Linux sees that as different cores but it does not see really a difference in between the different core because they are compatible with a new generation of hardware it was introduced a capability to run very different core within the same SOC and so you can for example run a 32 bit core when the rest of the architecture is in 64 bit this is what is happening for example on on the renaissance R-Core Gen3 where we have a cortex R7 so it's Arm 7 when the rest of the architecture is running Arm V8 so Linux is running on the Arm V8 and we run Zephyr on the Arm V7 so this allows us to run multiple OS on the same SOC without an hypervisor so depending on the hardware you can run either a real-time operating system and then one Linux or you may run even two Linux because you can split even the 64 bit cores so it gives you a lot of flexibility and you can do all of that without requiring an hypervisor which is really cool so obviously when is that the supporting that but they are not the only one in fact most of the modern hardware support one or multiple microcontroller and hardware isolation at the SOC level whether it is NXP, Xilinx or ST architecture so clearly modern hardware is your friend so if we deep dive a little more inside Zephyr and Linux on R-Core this is the architecture of the Gen3 R-Core so we have Arm V7 R7 which is a dual lockstep processor so it is designed for safety and alongside we have for Linux for A57 and for A53 and so we can run Linux and Zephyr on the same SOC and so if we look for what we have at the R7 we have really a fully isolated zone so the Cortex R7 is a 800 real-time processor it has some dedicated device for example you can locate the CAN device or your device to the R7 and then Linux cannot use it at all and we use OpenIMP with a hardware mailbox in order to exchange in between the two worlds the real-time world with Zephyr and the rich OS with Linux and this model allows you to run the critical service inside the real-time zone where you really may have hard real-time constraints you may go through certification because it's a very small operating system so the amount of documentation you have to produce remain acceptable you potentially have very low power consumption because you can stop Linux and you can continue to run the R7 and you nevertheless can have a smart and standard mechanism to exchange data in between Linux and real-time as I said before in many cases you know the real-time part is going to do something specific so either because of real-time constraints or because low battery constraints and then it's going to send the result to Linux and Linux is going to compose those data it's going to send those data to the cloud or it's going to expose the data to the end user operating system and this architecture is available on many different architecture ST, NXP, Xilinx and so on even if most of the work we've done today inside IoT BCDH is done for renaissance boards on the Linux side we also have a capability to run isolation and we should not forget that it might not be enough for safety at least it's clearly not enough it's not going to be anytime soon enough for ASLB we could argue about ASLB because that's a lower requirement for safety and potentially we could potentially deal Linux on ASLB but this imposed you clearly to have a very clean and proper mechanism where you can define the privilege you can define the audit of your global security and safety you can automatically generate the rules of ASLNX for the security but also the home, the capability and the set group for the safety so you can guarantee that one given task has access to this limited amount of resource so you can really split your Linux in different silo to guarantee that your critical silo will have enough resource to fulfill what they have to do and on top of that obviously you have to supervise and report because enforcing is not enough you also have to supervise and report so Linux has a lot of different mechanism for do that and obviously container is a key element for that in IoT business we use a red pack launcher for implementing this type of features so introspection and report is a very important point obviously as Steki we mostly tend to focus on the different technical element to implement either the safety or the security but reporting is a mandatory part and if you don't do the reporting you're going to go through certification so you should never forget about the reporting and one key element that is mandatory is to have an IDS to report inappropriate behavior whether we're talking about safety bad behavior for example your system should generate 20 image per second and if you only generate 23 image per second you have to report that because potentially you have to stop the image for algorithm for recognition because it's not going to work properly with only 23 image per second so you have to implement this type of mechanism and to report that so the good thing is for kernel system introspection we have EBPF at least on Risson kernel we have a lot of standard and generate Linux mechanism for supervision whether it's supervision of whether an IP table has been changed you use too much memory one thread is getting crazy and so on so we have a lot of capability to introspect the system if you have micro service architecture hopefully you also have the capability to do introspection directly at the micro service architecture network censoring typically is something where Linux is very strong for introspection and local action as well so it's important that you collect the log you clean that up potentially you store them locally because you don't have connectivity and when you have connectivity you send them to the cloud the cloud is doing the global supervision is doing the correlation generate new rules generate updates and then update your system in your car so we see that anyway even if you have something in your Linux is not enough you also have stuff that happened before at the development time where you have to define the privilege the firewall rules who can do what and then at the SOC global supervision level you also need to collect the data and you have to look for what is happening and clean your system and update your rules and send the update to your device and this obviously imposes you to have a full SOTA photo mechanism where you can update both your software and your firmware at IoT Visage we use the Mander IO for that so Mander is an open source project done by a Norwegian team it's a very nice project there are obviously other options to be honest in the automotive industry most of the people we talk to already have something because they want to handle the update software with the fleet management but if you have smaller system or at least for test and development Mander IO is clearly a very nice option and you want this to be integrated completely within your development chain and your CI CD in such a way that you produce automatically the update and do not forget that if you're willing to react very fast having your update going to the car in 30 to 90 days you need to have a very fast and efficient model for both applying the correction, checking the correction doing the audit test and then updating your boards another key element in the embedded is the long time support the average age of the car in Europe is 11 years a car typically is going to be trashed after 20 years for the maritime sector it's even bigger or the energy sector it's very common to have 30 or even longer lifetime for equipment so it's important to have long term support on your system if we look for the existing distribution today of Linux we clearly see that outside of the main IT distribution whether it is Ubuntu, Suzy or Red Hat no one is providing 10 years or more of support which is probably what you want to start from especially if you want to implement 15 years it's important to already start with something that is supported for 10 years on the other hand if we look for the embedded targeting distributions like Bilhut or Yokto none of them have long term support in our opinion the only way to implement long term support at an acceptable cost is by taking an IT distribution and to tailor your distribution to do the embedded world it's much cheaper than doing the opposite which is taking an embedded distribution and then try to do long term support on top of it and so this is sending us to a kind of global architecture where on the left we really want to have the safety part running in a dedicated core so for this slide I took the architecture of the Renaissance R-Core V3U so it's not a R7, it's a R52 that we have so we run the fee on that and you can run on that processors, that microcontroller you can run all the safe and realtime parts while on the standard A56 core you can run Linux and you can run a different silo to isolate your different service on Linux so having obviously the core service of Linux running at the global core and then have a strong isolation with obviously the traditional isolation like the security, the firewalls the C-group and so on without forgetting the fact that you have to send all the data on the cloud and on the cloud you need to have a security expert that is doing a global analysis of the full fleet to potentially deduct some small noise attack and update the security rules and then push through the software update on the air or firmware update on the air the different modification directly in the core so as a conclusion what can we say as today we don't have a perfect solution and we don't have an out-of-the-box solution but we have many options to move towards a safety compliant model with open source Linux architecture the first thing is we have a very strong model for isolation and we have we can implement very lightweight containers we did that at IoTBZ with Red Pack, Red Hat is doing it with a bubble wrap so you may implement containers that are not like the traditional or at least see very heavy container you can implement very lightweight containers which is really cool for the embedded world on the safety side modern hardware architecture combined with modern operating system as they fear can really enable us to run a very small footprint operating system supporting very hard return constraints that are close enough of certification so the cost of documentation is going to remain acceptable for certification on the updates side whether it is FOTA or SOTA you can combine that with a smart CICD mechanism and you can imply the functional or security correction during the full life cycle of your system which means more than 10 years to be honest today most of the people we talk to are asking us for 15 years of support so you have to be ready to do an update on very very old system for the root of trust, clearly the trust zone is your friend but you may also have some hardware secure element if possible we recommend you trying to move out of the traditional PKI model which is very heavy there are more modern mechanism like OpenID Connect or OS2 that can enable you to implement more lightweight security and authentication models that are in our opinion easier to support on the long run and for the long term support as I said first you have to rely on existing IT distribution because the cost of maintaining a distribution by yourself is going to be just completely crazy but also you have to stop to implement one version of Kernel per project I think it's very important that the embedded industry understands that they have to stick on a common version of Kernel and I try to push people with this model at the maximum one version of Kernel per year if you do more than that then something is going to be really wrong inside your organization and you should work to fix it and the future is going to be wonderful the future is always wonderful on the code side I think the rest native support with both real time operating system like Zephyr and Linux and microservice is going to help us to get rid of the C++ memory safety bug and I remind you that Android considers that around 70% of the highly severity of vulnerabilities they have is coming because of memory issues so moving to a language where we don't have a memory issue is really something very important on the certification side as today we still have a lot of work to do as I said today is very common that it requires 6 months to 2 years to go through the certification process and that is not going to comply with cyber security updates that you have to do in less than 30 or 90 days there are some promising work ongoing and I recommend you to have a check on OSCAL from the NIST an open security control assessment language and the idea behind it is that you should be able to define through this language functional behavior of your system and then to test it automatically which means that in the ideal world we could fulfill automatically the certification documentation on the introspection side we cannot use the existing ideas as they are they're just far too heavy for the embedded world but it's still possible to skim them down and to bake some things that is acceptable for the embedded system on the integrity as today obviously we already have the inviruities that enable us to implement the integrity of the system but we still have to work to implement some things that enable us to have a partial update and especially per package update while keeping the integrity and so we need to have a full automation from the software factory through the production of the integrity which today is not really done on the privacy that's a place where the embedded world have a lot of work to do and as I said in Europe it's a very strong enforcement for privacy with the GPRE so we clearly have to take care of that I think most of the file system are going to be encrypted potentially fully encrypted at least for the early day but on the long run we want to have per application or even per user encryption because we want to guarantee that one user cannot read the data of the other user so this requires a lot of tuning and potentially we have to check how much this is going to impact the boot time of the system I think we have the low level capability inside Linux but the full integration is not done as today so thank you for your time if you have any questions Stefan is going to be more than happy to response to them I also had in you a few pointers on the source code of the different element I talked about but also the software factories that we have where you can train with the different tools with the OSS board or other board that we support as well as a bunch of articles including this presentation and this documentation that you may find on our website thank you for your time and we are ready to answer to your question


We can't just do one of the old sections trying my hardest What's up everybody and welcome back to the channel for a little throwback Thursday if you don't Recognize this garage, then you're not a true Forza fan. This is Forza Horizon 3 We're here back today in my S13 with if you recognize this car You've seen it a long time ago in the channel We're here today to see if we can actually still drift in Horizon 3 on a wheel our handbrake doesn't work So we're gonna be drifting we are in full simulation steering everything will be drifting with basically clutch break and gears No handbrake just to see if we can drift here in Horizon 3 and a little reminisce for a little throwback Thursday Here on the channel. So make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter all the fun scripture box below Let's go oh boy This is gonna be interesting all the countless nights that I've had here on Horizon 3 in the parking lot section where everybody used to drift basically That's oh, that's where she would go if you wanted to drift So we are on simulation steering so hopefully we can actually drift in this I remember it wasn't full 900 degrees though when you were drifting in Horizon 3 It was kind of even though you were on 900 wasn't full. So we can see if we can still drift here today here on The channel looks like we possibly can oh, oh boy. Yep. There's that twitchiness the clutch kick it Well, I think we can Kind of still drift. Oh As I said that we spin out. Let's say it looks like we can kind of still drift here in Horizon 3 very Different than what I remember when I was on the G920 But I also don't have a handbrake. So we're doing this without a handbrake Handbrake is be and there's no way I'm gonna find B on my wheel right now There we go. Like I said, we are on simulation steering. So You guys do remember Horizon 3 sim steering was something to be said for but we are Feeling the flow and the nostalgia that was the parking lot here in Horizon 3 Definitely not as smooth as I used to be But the feedback is not The best here in this game, but it was a lot of fun ripping through here doing some tournaments and stuff like that In the parking lot with all my old team and everything like that my friends. So we're gonna We're gonna try and keep getting the handbrake Doesn't work Gonna rip this See if we can just do one of the old sections trying my hardest to use My brakes as much as possible to keep the car where I want it to and all the throttle and all the clutch kicks Wasn't gonna hold that So Horizon 3 Definitely started a big a big drifting scene. I believe personally and we're just here back today to have a little fun and reminisce on Horizon 3 because in a lot of people are either getting bored of Forza Morsport 7 and Horizon 4 Thinking that we need a refresh and everything and I know there's not a lot of drifters out there anymore. That's why there will be The newest set of content coming when the PC gets built to breathe a little life Into the channel here. I would be surprised. Hey look another hashtag. You'll remember I'd be surprised if I saw anybody Actually on Horizon 3 and if you were they're probably doing the same thing I'm doing Kind of just reminiscing We're not doing too bad. Oh as I said, we're not doing too bad for given You know The physics and how the cars handled in this game. I remember when I used to play this game all the time I think it was amazing and then the fit the wheel physics got better in the other versions And then you go back to motorsports and like okay Horizon 3 was definitely different But Good news is we can still get sideways and I wrecked it wasn't a matter of thinking if we could get sideways. This is more of a matter of Do you think we'd be able to actually drift again here in horizon 3? And I feel like we can Not having handbrake is definitely weird because I was so used to using handbrake on these cars. Oh There's that curb glitch where you lose the tire sound So on sim steering the cars were definitely very crazy And you had to be almost on point and the wheels had to be you had to be very quick on the wheel Especially if you're on 900 Definitely the fields are flowing back would be very interested to get things like this Back but with the newer physics and stuff like that, but unfortunately, I think they're going different directions So if you guys want to keep seeing throwback videos like this, let me know down the comment section down below It would appreciate all the support. Oh so We're gonna switch it to normal steering even though I know it's not gonna be anywhere near the rotation that I am at now because you guys remember Normal steering had all those buffers And you can see I'm almost a full-lock already. There we go And see the last bit of your turning did nothing. I'm going back to this game realizing how much The physics changed going to horizon 4. It makes me appreciate horizon 4 physics a little bit more a little bit more than This Do you remember this livery in this paint? And it was definitely a very awesome paint. There we go. That's a little bit better Trying to just remember up glitch the sound with the curb hop So we got a hop curb again with the back tires to get the sound back There we go. So horizon 3. I think definitely really sparked the big tandem drifting personally and The teams and the trains and stuff like that with this parking lot. We have some of this in Horizon 4 we have some spaces and stuff like that what we can do but nothing as big as the parking lot and we're just Having a good old time reminiscing on this Oh, I remember we've had many good times here on horizon 3 and horizon 4 hopefully more Forza content Will come out and we'll be able to get some breeze some fresh life into the game Maybe some new tracks and stuff like that. We'll have to wait and see This is so twitchy Talk about smoothness on a wheel horizon 3 was not that at all Should have busted out the G920 for this to fully get the real immersion alpha throwback Thursday, we're gonna put it back to Simulation we're gonna wreck into this car. I already know it. Oh We're good so Let me know down in the comments your best fond memory of horizon 3 and Maybe you were a drifter. Maybe you were a racer Maybe you're the person that came into the parking lot and wrecked everybody because that was a big problem, too So let me know in the comments down below what your best memory of horizon 3 was and we'll do I don't know I pull my handbrake basically to see for this little throwback episode Of what everybody remembers about horizon 3 and how much fun they had on it or maybe not fun So as always, I think yes for coming back and watching. I'm evil rabbit. I'll see you guys Not in horizon 3 Put on the track


Lakeland Public Television presents Currents. Hello. Welcome to Lakeland Currents. I'm Bethany Wesley. In August, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced that 74 school districts and charter schools would benefit from $25 million in new state funding, allowing more than 3,304-year-olds to attend voluntary pre-kindergarten programs free of charge. The expansion of the state's pre-kindergarten funding aims to prepare Minnesota's youngest learners for academic success. More than 180 school districts and charter schools applied for funds, but 60% did not receive the state aid. According to Dayton's office, had all the requests been funded, more than 10,000 children in 183 districts and charter schools would have been enrolled in pre-k programs this year. Tonight, however, we focus on one of the programs that is benefiting from the increased funding. Nevis Public Schools was one of the successful applicants, having been allocated more than $142,000 for around 70 students. While it's too early to discuss the impact of the state funding on the Nevis program itself, having had it for only a few months now, we welcome this chance to highlight the Nevis Early Childhood Education program, its class offerings, and its staff. And so, I welcome to the program tonight Abby Henry, the early childhood coordinator who also teaches the four-year-old kindergarten preparedness program and Jen McNamee, who teaches the three-year-old school readiness program. Welcome to the program. Thanks for coming up. Thank you. Thank you. As we get started, let's just do some introductions first. Talk a little bit about how long you've been teaching and how long you've been in Nevis. Abby? I've been in Nevis for seven years now. This is my seventh year. And now, before Nevis, you were in other places as well. Yes. I went to two other settings where I worked as well. Okay. And Jen, you started around basically the same time. Yes, I've been in Nevis for seven years as well. And prior to that, you had career elsewhere. Yes. Let's talk about the programs themselves because there's two separate programs. Abby, let's start with Jen's first since yours is the younger one. I have three and four-year-olds. Okay. Children start in my class when they're 33 months and some of them are four-year-olds as well when they're starting my program. And how frequently does that class meet? We meet two days a week. I have two different groups. One meets on Monday and Wednesday. It's on Tuesday and Thursday. And we meet from 8.30 to 11.30. Okay. So they're half-day programs? Half-day programs, yes. And Abby, your program? My program is a full-day program. I also have two groups of 20 students in each class. And they are four or five-year-olds getting ready most likely to transition to kindergarten. Okay. So are they structured similar? Obviously, different ages, different timeframes. But are they structured similarly? Are they different? Do they have different emphasis? I would say yes. I mean, mine are geared down a level from what Abby does. Sure. My classroom gets the kids ready for Abby's class transition. So fair to say that as they grow, assuming that they start in the three-year-old and continue on, yours is more challenging than they are when they first get started. And now, in addition, we do want to touch on, in addition to yourselves in the classroom, you also have additional teaching assistants for adults who are there as well. Correct. So what are, give or take, you know, roughly the staff to kid ratio? I mean, is it usually... The preschool ratio is 10 to 1. Okay. So I have one classroom aid in the classroom all day with me. Okay. Let's talk about a typical day, like how the kids get started. And so I know that they're kind of arranged similarly. But let's start with your class first. What is a typical day for your kids? My kids come in and have breakfast in the morning if they haven't eaten at home. And then we have playtime, social time. And then we also do some one-on-one skills. We pull the kids out and do some one-on-one time. And then we have our circle time where we discuss calendar and do some skills and get ready for our centers, which are based on usually a letter and a theme for the week that we're working on. And then we have five different centers that we do. One is a skill center, usually based on the letter that we're working on, a sensory, and a gross motor, a fine motor, a dramatic play area, and then usually an arts and crafts center. So they get used to that schedule, right? Yes, yes. The schedule is very consistent. Yes. Is that helpful for younger kids? Yes. To know what's coming up? Yes. They thrive on structure. Is it similarly structured for your kids as well? Obviously you have a fuller day, but do you have the same schedule kind of throughout the day? Yes. My morning time, they come in and have breakfast as well. It's a good transition just to get them comfortable into the classroom. Each day starts out brand new, so it's a good time to give them comfort in the classroom. And then we also transition into our learning centers and we focus on letters and fine motor skills and large motor skills as well. The play, the communication, and those kinds of things that we do in our centers. And our day continues on with lunch and outside time and play time and rest time and things like that. Do you find that you can get further as the year goes on, like those first few weeks? I mean, I'm assuming just circled can take up almost your entire day. I mean, do you find that as they get more used to the routine, that you incorporate more? Yes. We were discussing that on our way down this morning and how much, just in the last couple of weeks, we've seen growth in the children just socially and being more comfortable in the classroom and emotionally being comfortable with us as teachers and with their peers. And going back to routine, routine is safe for them. So they feel really comfortable in the classroom by now. So we can really start to really engage them and move on with some of those skills that they can prosper from. As they get comfortable with the schedule and the routines, do you find that then you can kind of, they challenge themselves to kind of break out of their own shells and learn more? Yes. Yes. Yes. I want to talk about early childhood education just kind of generally for a second. Is it, would you say the focus is academic? Is it social? Is it emotional? Is it all of those things all together? Is it different at your level versus the kids that are in your class? It's all of those things. I think for mine being just three, it's, for the families too, it's an adjustment. It's, the parents are sending their three-year-olds off to school for the first time. And so, you know, it's difficult for them and for these children, it's the first time that they've left their parents if they don't go to daycare on a regular basis. And so for some of them, it can be quite an adjustment. And it's an awesome opportunity for them to be able to branch out socially, emotionally, and academically. And then you build on that. I build on that. Yep. And the social and emotional portion of that is really critical. I think in these early years with how education has pushed down a little more, so it's good for them to have school routine and structure so when they get into the academic portion of their day, they can be able to focus and stay on task. We should say that the kids that are in your program, the four and five-year-olds, are not necessarily required to have gone through Jen's program, correct? Yes. Okay. And so you've seen some kids that come straight from wherever, home or daycare, and you've seen kids who have come through Jen's program. Can you tell the difference quickly? I mean, can you tell on that? Oh, you can. Yes. Yes, you can. In terms like, what is the difference? Like, how can you tell? Just overall following the structure of the day. Oh, okay. Following someone else's routine, things like that, that they need to adjust to. And we do get some that have had their first time ever being away from home and to meet that emotional adjustment as well. Is early childhood education more important now than perhaps it was a decade ago, two decades ago? Would you say that there's more of an emphasis on it than there was before? Yes. Because of what you were referencing earlier, that perhaps education's more intense, younger than it used to be? Education is younger, you know, than it used to be, and I also think it has to do with our societal changes as well. Okay. Have you seen that parents really buy into that, or have there been times that you have parents that say, I don't know if we really need preschool? Like, how do you help parents kind of walk through that? Does that ever come up? I think I know when I first conference with parents, they are amazed at all the different things that we work on with the academic skills, the fine motor skills, just sitting down and having snack and what our expectations are, their self-help skills. I mean, there's a lot that goes on in the classroom, and for their first time, you know, for some of them, it's their first child coming in. So the expectations for them, they're surprised at what we require of them to do. I want to talk a little bit specifically about those individual stations so people can kind of just get better ideas to how they're different. And so I think the day that I was visiting most recently was were you doing a lesson on bears? Yes. And so you read a book about bears, and then each station was set up to kind of focus on a different skill, but still kind of reflect that general idea. Maybe you could walk us through the stations. Would that be... Sure. Trying to remember. One of the centers we were working on was patterning, and that was our skill for the day. Our sensory table had a flower kind of building consistency where they can make caves. It had animals in there, and they were building caves for the animals. At our arts and crafts center, we were making bears and putting the pieces together to make the face, the ears. And then we had a bear cave in the classroom, and the children were reading books in there and dramatic playing with the bear. And then our last center was our gross motor center where there were animal tracks throughout the classroom of different animals that hibernate and migrate and adapt to the winter.  So we practiced those gross motor skills as well. So they're all at these different stations simultaneously, right? Yes. So you have smaller groups. Yes. When you break into smaller groups in your classrooms, does that help you and your teaching assistants kind of help kids more individually than you can in a big group? Yes. Yes. We can focus on different skills, needs in areas where they need more. And the centers themselves, they're learning independence. They're learning communication skills. They're learning those language skills. The gross motor, they're learning how to manage those things on their own with adult supervision. So we're able to step in if we need to. But they also are developing then more of that independent learning and things like that. And I'm assuming that's also when you can kind of work on some of your testing and evaluations without necessarily doing it too publicly. I want to talk a little bit about when you can help a kid earlier. Like if you find, I'm assuming that when you have kids who are younger and you're working with them daily, that you can probably identify some kids who might need some extra attention or extra help as the school year goes on. Have you seen that? Yes. And is it easier from what you've seen to help a kid when they're younger versus later in their educational career? Yes. How does that work then in your programs? When you have a kid that you say, you know what, this child might just need a little bit more attention or a little bit extra assistance. Well, all the children have to be screened. Okay. And so when we screen the children, that helps us to know, okay, we're seeing some issues here. Then we can go ahead, especially if they don't pass the screen and go ahead and start with the testing. And then, Abby and I will discuss with our special ed, early childhood special ed teacher. Because you guys haven't dedicated early childhood special education teacher, right? Yes. And so she's working with you guys pretty constantly. I mean, you guys are pretty firm teaching team. Yes. And so, does she work in the classroom or out of the classroom or how does she work with the kids? She does a little bit of both. She will work in the classroom or if there's anything more specific about her as she works through first grade. So she's able to follow them on as they get into the school setting and continue to meet some of those needs early on. So as they transition the kid from early childhood to K and beyond, at least they have that familiar face who's kind of there to help them. Yes. Oh, that's great. I want to talk some more too about some of the other things you guys do. I know that when weather cooperates, you guys do have a lot of people there but there's more involved than just the actual play time. What is it that kids are learning as they prepare to go outside and are they kind of, it's a learning process. Yes. Can you speak a little bit to them? Yeah, they're learning their independent skills. They're learning to do things on their own. They're learning to zip their coats, put on their snow pants and boots all on their own. They're learning to keep track of their own items as well. And is it for some of them, is it the first time they've done that? I mean, in a lot of cases, moms and dads have done those for them. And so, I bet you hear a lot from parents, the growth that they see from their kids from fall to spring. Yes. Yeah. Did you see that when you were having conferences recently, like even in the first half of the year? Yes. That is one of the things that is on my assessment is that they're able to put themselves. I know we talked a little bit about parents and kind of their response to preschool, but do you feel like the community as a whole has really supported your program? Do you feel like the community supports the expansion of the program? And I know that you guys have a fairly new facility, correct? And that's just a few years old? Yes. And that was bond money? Was that a referendum or something like that? Yes. The facility is now a dedicated part of the school, correct? Yes. And so it's an easy drop-off for parents. How important is it that you have this facility and with the amenities that came with it? Did that help the program blossom? Do you know what I'm saying? Like have there been features of that new facility that helped you out? Yes. Such as? A new facility, which was a walk. Yeah. It was a safety walking through a parking lot and now parents can just drop them off, come right in at the front door. We have the roundabout there where parents can pull in and drop them off and it's much easier. Okay. And now I know that in your rooms you also have restrooms. You have certain amenities closer which has to make it easier for the kids. How do you use a smart board with little kids? I have a curriculum that I use through it and it's interactive so they can interact with it as well. Any kind of music, large motor, things like that that they can follow along with they love to do. There's all sorts of things that you can use your smart board for. Does it help to have those kind of different things to keep their interest? I know they get used to their routine but they get used to it when it's smart board time and things like that so it's fun. They really enjoy it. Tell me about when you see the kid, what is your favorite part of teaching throughout the day? Do you like the small time? Do you like the big time? Do you like all of them? I enjoy all of them. The one-on-one time with the kids but yet the large group they're sharing it's always you never know what you're doing. You two work in tandem. I know you have your separate programs but you work in tandem. How do you go about planning for the school year together? Like to make sure the programs are aligned well to make sure that what they're learning here helps them in your program. How do you work together in those ways? We started a professional learning community with the kindergarten teachers as well so we are doing what we think would help each other out. And each year it varies depending on the kids and so we adjust curriculums, adjust what we do, skills based on the kids that are coming in as well. Do you have some years where you have kids that seem to be kind of up here and other years when maybe they're just not quite as ready and you do know that before that first day or do you kind of have to figure that out? We talked a little bit about how you can tell which kids have gone through Jen's program. Do you hear similar things from kindergarten teachers and beyond that they can tell which kids have been through preschool? Yes. Yes. Yes. And from what you've heard does it seem to benefit them beyond those first couple years of elementary? Like is there any way to know? I think the biggest benefit that we've got is that they catch on quickly and they learn quickly. So I think it just just falls back on that routine and knowing how to function in the classroom I think has been the biggest the biggest point made. And it's great that we're now a part of the actual school. And so coming into the elementary school for the first time as a kindergartener isn't as overwhelming for them because they've been in the school before and they're the teachers and there are a lot of familiar faces for them so it isn't as overwhelming for them. They're comfortable. Yes. So I'm sure that first day kindergarten is a little less I'm sure there's nerves but it's a little less intense than perhaps it could be otherwise. Yes. We've heard you know that kindergarten's kind of the new first grade preschool's kind of the new kindergarten. Do you guys teach the kids to read at your level in kindergarten? I tell parents at my conferences all the things we do don't have to be mastered by the end of preschool it's just experiences in it and like I said if they catch on they catch on but it's all things that they review in kindergarten as well and it's just it just gives them that extra step into the familiarity and the comfort in kindergarten. I think parent you might be talking about next steps for a kid either in your program or your program where you might suggest you know what I just don't think your child's quite ready for that next step I mean the decision's ultimately left to the parent but do you ever have those conversations where you're like this kid might benefit from Yes. Are they pretty receptive to that? Yes. Because everybody wants what's best for the kids and how often are you talking with parents and then how strict is it in terms of evaluations to move forward? Do you know what I'm saying? How often do you evaluate kids? Let's start. We do our progress report is in the spring and the fall so we start with our fall one which is about six weeks into school and then our last one is in March. Okay. And you can certainly document then the games and so is it just if you don't see a consistent gain that might be when you might just talk to a parent about your child? Yeah. We're continually assessing and watching our children every day. I bet you've seen kids who have off days and they have good days and kids certainly seem to enjoy being in school. I mean do they like the challenge of school generally speaking? Yes. I think so. And then you've seen from the first day I mean I'm sure you've had kids who just drop off crying and then by the end they're running inside. Yeah. Yes. How do the kids respond to you when they come back the next year? The kids that you haven't seen in the summer that maybe I know they might be going to Abby's program but they might see you. I mean are they excited to be back? Yes they are. They are. Always a smile and a hug. Yeah. When you go about setting up your stations in different sections for pumpkins and Halloween are you trying to tie it in to just reinforce that overall larger lesson? Yeah. The theme based I think helps expand their vocabulary. Some kids aren't exposed to different things like opening up a pumpkin and looking inside or even just learning about hibernation or migration and things like that so it really expands our vocabulary and experiences overall. I wanted to touch a little bit about the sensory table itself because for somebody who hasn't been in a preschool it might be a strange concept the fact that you're giving people just different textures to play with. What is the purpose of it or what's the benefit of a sensory table or what do the kids get out of that? Well a lot of it is it's play but it's also the fine motor and it's sensitive to different textures different touches and so it's an experience for them a learning experience not only with just the play but also with the sensory and those fine motor skills. I mean because you expect kids to be writing and to be doing certain things like that in a school setting but when you see kids doing bear crawls around the room it's hard to sometimes understand I wanted to talk a little bit more specifically about circle time because there's so much involved in it it's not just reading a book tell me a lot what you take the kids through every day so they know circle time really sets up the day right so what is it that they're learning at circle time that you got calendar and things like that can you walk us through that? Yeah they're learning body awareness how to sit in a group with others without being distracted and staying on task with your friends any kind of finger play that focuses on counting rhyming numbers and then calendar just focuses on all those math skills as well So they start to get familiar even if they're not learning all of the months in a row they're starting to get familiar with the fact that there's generally 30 days in a month and then they see how it progresses through the week by the end of the year they really have that circle time down I mean they know what's going and they look forward I'm sure to finding out what those tables are right because that's really what the big unveiling is is what the activities are each day and now how do you decide who goes to which table do they rotate every day or yeah they rotate we rotate them and you have a schedule that they are announced to I've seen that so tell me some about what made you guys want to be teaching these grades what is it about this age that really appeals to you that you enjoy the most for me choosing early childhood it just came so naturally to me I was a babysitter I babysat kids when I was young I just I don't know there was something about it I just loved and they're so eager to learn that it's just fun to watch them grow so much over the year yeah and I knew when I went to school that I wanted to work with and this opportunity came up to work with preschoolers and I've just fallen in love with it I love my job we who don't teach have frequently heard from teachers about that moment the light goes on in the kids in this age do you see that repeatedly all the time because they're constantly mastering a new skill yes they're very excitable they take absolutely everything in they appreciate everything that you do with them and they're so excited to learn new things well it sounds like you guys have really mastered the program and kind of gotten your program up and running and going well and going forward what do you see in the future of your program do you see it possibly expanding or is it pretty strong how it is now I think we have a pretty strong program yes great well I want to thank you guys for coming up today I want to thank you for having the opportunity in your classrooms it was the kids were having excitement and laughing and it was just fantastic to see so thank you thank you for joining me today on this latest episode of Lakeland Currents please join me the next time thanks


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back to day five of classroom setup today. It's probably going to be the last day of classroom setup since pretty much everything in here is done minus a couple little things here and there.  So first thing, I went a little bit back to school shopping this morning, got a few of my staple items that I always get every year. I got this really cute pair of black pants from Kohl's in the Lauren Conrad section. Super cute, high rise black sort of jean material, but super stretchy, very like slim, perfect for wearing teacher t-shirts with. And then I got a pair of jeans from Old Navy and a couple tops from Old Navy. Just a few items that I thought would be great staples. I like to wear teacher t-shirts on Fridays. I get to wear college t-shirts on Wednesdays. So I really only have to worry about something else Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I also got a couple things for my Get Ready cabinet. So from Walmart, I just put in this mirror, and then I got a curling iron. This is just a one inch from TJ Maxx. I didn't wanna spend a whole lot of money on it. I got a whole little drawer here for hair stuff. So I have some dry shampoo and some hairspray, and then I got these yesterday at Michaels. They were just on sale. I got a brush to keep here, and then this is the beach bound spray from Bedhead. This is really great if I wanna wear my hair down, but it's like flat like this, and it's just not doing its thing, then I can put some salt spray in it. And then I plan on bringing some of my backup makeup products to keep in here. That way, if I wanna get ready for work at work, if I wanna just get up, shower, and go, I can do that. So thus far this morning, I have not done a whole lot. I just kinda walked in the door, and it's about 11 o'clock. So the projects that I have to do today are finish up some things on this table. I've kind of been putting everything that I wanna do on this table. So I need to number my clothespins. I'm gonna do two sets of those. One is for grabber store, and one is going to be for a writing thing that I'm gonna make. And then I need to put numbers in these adhesive square pockets and put those on the inside of the cubbies. I think I might just leave the numbers that are in there right now since they're already in there and there's nothing wrong with them, but they do need new numbers on the inside. And then I need to make labels for my little thing. As you guys know, I talked about that yesterday. I need to go through these anchor charts. I need to finish putting the letters in there. I need to do my dojo stuff and my label for up there. And then just little random things like put all this curriculum away. This needs to go in binders, so I'll do that. I need to make the labels for that cart with my Cricut. And then just some other little printing projects. And then of course just cleaning everything up. Most of the desks or tables are cleared off. I do need to finish that while I printed everything for it. It's just kind of like little signs here and there and make a label. And then yeah, just kind of put everything away so that on Monday when I come in here I can just start planning, prepping and printing. So I think I might reprint those little posters in black and white and use binder clips to hang them on these signs to have it each table. To have it each table for students to use throughout the year they can flip through those. And then I do have these little signs that I might use for behavior stuff instead because I had them from last year. And just put the behavior expectations back in there on the other side. So my desk is a mess again. Those are just things that I need to do, put up over there. I'm just gonna putts around, let's see. What do I wanna do first? Okay, I'm gonna go through this box of supplies. This was all stuff that was like sort of in my desk last year and I'm gonna organize what I can into these. I still need another bin. And then after that I think I'm going to work on cutting out the things I printed and then do the avid wall since I have all of that ready to go. Just printed these labels out and I just used PowerPoint to print them. And then I just stuck, sorry, I'm trying to push it in. I just stuck the labels onto the cubby system and now I know exactly what's in each of these. And yay! Guys, welcome back. So I have done considerably a lot since we checked in last but I wanted to do something real quick while I eat lunch before I move on and show you everything that I've accomplished today. I've gotten so many questions in my comment section and my comments are upon review you guys. So if you don't see your comment down below, just know that I haven't seen them or reviewed them yet. I usually approve every single comment unless it's like hateful or mean. But a couple of questions that I've received through my comments, sorry, I'm sitting down to eat lunch. I'm just gonna go through a few of them, the ones that have come a few times. Okay, one question that has come up quite a few times is about student numbers. So I've seen this done in a lot of classrooms. It's a number system where you give every student a number and you try to do your best to do it alphabetically. In the first week of school, it's hard not to assign numbers because you wanna get started on all of that organization and getting the kids memorizing their numbers. So I usually do this the second day of school, I give students their number, they memorize it. It is given in alphabetical order depending on who is in my class on the second day of school. If a student were to leave, their number becomes available. If a student were to come, they get the next number in the out. They get the next number even if their alphabetical name doesn't match that number. So let's say Mary Adams is number one but Katrina Alphabet comes to school in like the third week. Katrina Alphabet is going to be number 21 because that's the next available number. However, when we line up or go anywhere, we line up in alphabetical order, not number order. It's a little bit confusing but pretty much the only person that needs to remember that their second in line is Katrina Alphabet because she's number 24 but she's obviously number two in line. So it does get a little bit confusing depending on when kids leave and when kids show up but it's never been a problem for me. I've had kids come in the middle of school and their number 24 and it just happens to be that. And I've also had kids that are number four and number six leave in the middle of the year and their number is just blank. The kids should memorize what order they line up in anyway and the number system is really just to keep track of people. And I'll name things off, I'll say okay numbers one through eight, go to your cubby. Numbers nine through 10, go to your cubby. It's just a lot easier to manage than saying their names. Also, if you number all of their things then whoever it belongs to, if their name isn't on it at least I put their number on it and I can put it back in the cubby where it belongs or I can give it back to that student. Somebody asked about the white numbers over there. They go from zero to 12. They are third graders. They should be able to count from zero to 10. Those are for math facts quizzes. So once they pass a math fact quiz they get their name written on the fact. So like if they know their twos they get their name written on the two. If they know their threes their name gets a putting on the threes. It's just a way for them to feel accomplished and they get to go up and write their name on the number that they've memorized. Here's another question. How are you mounting your anchor charts when the wall is not magnetic? Let me show you. So on my anchor chart wall I have hung little gold hooks and they kind of blend in and then there's a tension rod there. And most of my anchor charts are made with holes in the top. So I just put a binder clip through those holes and hang them right there on the tension rod. Then I can take it down and flip through the anchor charts and find which one I'm looking for. Somebody asked me how long my commute is. Every day it's about 40 minutes here in an hour home. Okay so those are all the questions that have come up multiple times in my comments down below. So if you guys have any other comments or questions don't hesitate to put them down there because I am looking at them and I would love to answer those questions for you in a video or commenting back. All right it is now 4.30. I'm planning on leaving pretty soon like any minute now. I have made so much progress and I'm thrilled to share with you guys. So a couple things. I'm not gonna show you every single detail just because I feel like I need to save that for a classroom tour. Pretty much everything is done and ready for like working in my room for back to school. We are gonna have quite a few hours in our rooms next week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday to work in our rooms. But as far as it goes right now my room is meet the teacher ready. I have plenty of space for supply dumps. I have plenty of space for everything to go down. So I have a couple more projects left to do but I'm gonna wait and save them for next week. This project is still going strong. I have not done this yet. I'm just dreading it because it's painful.  I put everything for the Cricut on this cart that I'm gonna get rid of. But for now since the computers aren't in here and people are still wanting to use the Cricut I'm just gonna leave it on this cart and then when I'm done I'll take it home, get rid of the cart and we're done. So I also hung my little Dojo prizes. So five point prizes, 10 point prizes, 20 point prizes and then I just have like a coloring box back here for like a chill out spot. I'm gonna add some more sensory things in there for like chilling out maybe a timer, maybe some reflection pages don't know yet. Nothing over there has changed.  As of right now I have 19 students. That'll probably change but this is set up for 24 and if that easel were to move you could see the other two or four hiding back there but I figured that's a good way to hide that kind of blank corner. What else have I done? I hung, I did my avid wall. These are from TPT. I hung my bath or my bathroom. I hung my birthday things up there so I'll just get a little printout of everybody who's in each birthday month and then I'll just tape it below. I put my whole brain teaching rules up. What else did I do? I still have to do, so this is one of the projects that's left, I need to go through my anchor charts, see what I wanna keep, see what I wanna get rid of and then this curriculum needs to be sorted through and put away so I'll probably do that on Wednesday. I put some things on my board, my whole brain score board and our goal tracking, noise levels and then I put this learn thing that I got from Target right above where I put my learning objective so I think that'd be great. I'm probably gonna end up putting my schedule over here and I have schedule cards so I might just use those and then make some vinyl labels for learning objectives since I really only need to write learning objective for like four or five subjects. I need to hang up my cute little mis-fifth signs. I put all my magnets in there because they were just junking up the board and I didn't want them out and then I cleaned this area and got organized. I have a to-do list that started, things I need to do before back to school so it's like creating stuff. I sorted on my supplies. That fan is in a great spot because it's plugged in but I can move it off of my desk if I choose to do so. This little table here is a flexible seating thing. It's like perfectly hidden under my desk but a kid could pull it out and use it. What else did I do? I don't even know. I've been like, oh, I hung some stuff over here. Put a lamp there. I also made my little coffee station and a pencil sharpener. I just used some Velcro dots and hung this power strip back there. I realize now that I wish I would have put it under there but the cord would have just been all twisted and stuff and it's not a big deal. I'm not gonna label this, I decided. I'm just gonna put everything in it that the aid will need and that's it. And then over here, I added a few things.  And then I also created this little thing. It's just gonna be a tracker for who's here. This was like old from one of my old classrooms that I just had and I just didn't feel like making anything so I'll just put the kid's names on these and then every day when they come in they'll move their magnet to in class and then whoever's not over there, I'll mark absent and then as they leave the room they'll put their magnet where they're going that way. I don't have to pay attention. They'll just put their magnet where they're going. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. My backpack tubs are here. They're gonna take up a lot more space so I think that during the day when they're full I might put them just across here. I don't know yet cause this is where the kids line up so I might put them like here. I might even put them outside right under the window just so that I can still see them but they're out of the way. I don't know, I'm gonna ask my principal about that one. But yeah, this is what's going on here. Pretty much done. Still don't have a label for that wall. I will get it done eventually. Oh, this needs to get put away. So pretty much all that's left is anchor charts, curriculum, I need to number clothes pins and then finish those letter board letters. So I feel pretty accomplished. The room is ready. I don't need to come in here again until Wednesday next week which is our first contract day anyway and on our back to school schedule there is a lot of time for working in our rooms so that's perfect.  Thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Apples NTRs to see more daily updates. After this week I will be only posting once a week. If you're loving what you're seeing here on this channel make sure to like and subscribe so that you can see all of the things that I post throughout the next school year. Thank you guys so so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys.