Hello and welcome back to my channel. My name is Megan. If you're new here, go ahead. And if you like this, you can subscribe for more content and you can give it a like so this can reach more teachers. So this is my first time in summer school and I hope you guys enjoy it. Okay so day one is finished. This morning it was a little bit chaotic because number one right away I forgot my lunch. I was gonna do some prep last night, Sunday night, but I didn't go figure. So I had to do some of that this morning on top of trying to figure other things out, trying to talk to some teachers. I didn't know when recess was supposed to be because the other fifth grade teacher signed up. Like it was just a chaotic morning and then we didn't know where to meet the kids for the buses. We were supposed to go outside with some signs and meet up with them and yeah it was just crazy. Luckily I got all my kids and everything was fine. I also couldn't log into the teacher portal where you do attendance and get lunch numbers and bus numbers and everything like that. So that has been a really big struggle because those are important things that you need to be able to do especially for the first day having lunch numbers and bus numbers is so important. Luckily I have fifth grade because if I had a different grade this would be really frustrating. But no it's been it was pretty good. I got everything done so let me show you guys what I did today. By the way I was really nervous about summer school. I didn't really know what to expect but honestly it's just like normal like the normal classroom except for you just have a lot less students and obviously for this it's only three weeks so it's a lot less time that you get to work with the students. You don't have to do any testing which is nice. You don't really have that much interaction with parents and the downside is that I don't really know where the students are at academically. They don't give me any prior information for that other than I know a little bit about IEPs. So other than that yeah so let me show you guys kind of what I did today though. So this is my plan which I did do a little bit of planning before I got here while I was getting materials ready and stuff like that. So I did have some of this stuff ready which is great. So we went over rules and expectations and because they are fifth graders I just had them tell me what is expected of them when they're walking in the halls when they're going to the bathroom when we're going to lunch and breakfast and when we are in the classroom. We talked a lot about like they wanted to say like don't talk or like only talk when you're allowed and I kind of didn't like that so we kind of tried to say like limit your talking time don't interrupt raise your hand to share things like that. Then I did an activity that I just said pick a side of the room based on the questions so they could either choose to be by the window or by the door and I just asked some fun questions like I own a pet I don't own a pet and they'd have to choose a side. They come from two different schools so I had them choose one side if they go or if they're going to the one school or the other side if they're going to the other school and then other questions that will help me academically like I like reading I don't like reading I like math or I feel like I am good at math I feel like I do not do well in math so different questions like that to get to know them both personally and academically and then we just went around and did names and talked about who they are and what they are doing and things like that. We are also doing these lesson plans from this fifth grade science unit for Minnesota biomes so I just did the first lesson which was taking the kids outside. So before we went outside we talked about expectations for going outside and then we talked about what journaling looks like what are observations how should we take notes so we talked about putting the date and our names and then this was the title nature walk and then I focused on three senses kind of four but that one's kind of so-so so that it was just I see I hear I smell and then the I feel wasn't actually like going and touching things but it was things like I feel the wind on my skin so both externally what do you feel and internally and then I had them write down two questions that they wonder so we talked a little bit about this and we went over that that took us quite a while and that was just fine we also had to do a quick write to see what the students learned so when we got inside from this we talked a little bit about what we observed and then we went into our quick write so that was good and I took some time to talk about invasive species and things like that as well. One thing quick that was really fun is I found this book at Michael's are you smarter than a fifth grader because they're going into fifth grade so I thought that would be super fun and it just has some little quizzes which I thought would be fun to print out at some point maybe and just have them fill it out if we have some extra time or answer the questions and then it just has the answers in the back so we went over quiz one and quiz two. Then at the start of math we talked a little bit about growth mindset and I wrote down some important words that the kids had mentioned and then they provided these the option to visit these videos from class dojo and they're just on growth mindset you don't have to be signed in or anything and it gives you a video and some questions to discuss kind of what happened so we started with your brain is like a muscle that's this one and so the start of the activity you watch a video and it kind of goes through some information and then it asks some questions and then share with your parents so that was really fun and they obviously also have whoops some other ones as well that you can watch so those are really fun and a great way to talk about growth mindset. Afterwards I just introduced a few different games whoops that you can see here by the window the school provides these different math games so I just got seven out and introduced them to the students so that they could play them during our math workplaces. So yeah that was about it for the day it went by super fast we have to go out with the kids for recess we eat lunch with the kids and our break during the day is during PE that they have for 50 minutes it flew by today so I'm hoping tomorrow will be a little more relaxed I hope but you can see tomorrow for a morning meeting morning meeting it is about an hour so we're going to do a wave talk about a question which I already have this is what the slide will look like and then the question is what is your favorite thing about fourth grade what was your favorite thing about fourth grade and then we will play a game then we'll go into lesson two which I just printed out the activity so this will be a getting to know you thing that we will do as well probably during that morning meeting time and then the kids will get this sheet and they're just going to cut it out I know this isn't relevant to every state and school and stuff but this is what we focus on so they're just going to cut them out and talk and write about or draw about what they might think that the or what they think that these different words and areas are and kind of what's in them animals and plants yeah I'll kind of go more into what we're doing tomorrow when we get there otherwise yeah it's been quite the okay so that will be all for today I did give all the kids a lay and yeah I think that's about it so yeah it's been it's been pretty good I wish there wasn't like the chaotic piece but I mean that's kind of what teaching is a lot of today was very I think on my feet didn't try to get things done so I'm glad that I kind of have tomorrow planned out and ready to go that will make things so much easier otherwise yeah I was supposed to leave 30 minutes ago because we get done at 2 30 and it is now 308 so I will catch you guys tomorrow hopefully I'll be able to have some time in the morning but it was just so chaotic with not having my lunch and having to do all the stuff this morning it was crazy so hopefully I'll have some time during like the morning time or my prep time but who knows it's kind of a plan as you go type of job so we'll have to see if I'm making copies or doing other important things so wish me luck guys and I will catch you tomorrow bye so the kids are at PE right now they're coming back in one minute it's been a great day so far and I can't wait to tell you guys more I have bus duty tonight which means I ride the bus home with some of the kids so I'll be doing that but I'll talk to you guys after okay so I just got back from riding the bus home with a group of the students I guess for the first two days they just do that so kids can get to the right place and on the right bus and all that stuff and it was actually pretty fun I wish I knew what to expect but honestly it was pretty fun and I kind of enjoyed it it was great to get to watch the kids go home and talk to the bus driver and all that stuff so I'm really glad I did it otherwise the days have been going good and they've been going really fast which is honestly just fine but it's like sad at the same time but I did have two students who were having a couple issues today I did have to remind some of the boys to kind of knock it off one girl is choosing to read what she does have an IEP but yeah so she was reading instead of doing what we were supposed to do so I kind of kind of told her that that wasn't okay and I would try to give her times but she would only be able to read during those times that I allowed her and then one student I guess it wasn't in the classroom and she didn't really have any problems in the classroom but I guess at PE she was in the fetal position the entire time and the PE teacher came and told me so yeah just a couple of little things like that a couple of boys who I don't know if they were just like if they just are well I know one has an IEP and then I guess the other one has ADHD so I'll really have to be focused on those students and really making sure that they're getting their stuff done and all that stuff so it's been quite the adventure today so for reading again I know this is very specific to Minnesota but they had to cut out the different parts and we talked about biomes and ecosystems and all that stuff so we specifically talked about the biomes of Minnesota coniferous forest deciduous forest and prairie grassland the students were then told to cut them out take them onto a page and this student had a little bit of dilemma with her backpack so she obviously didn't get any writing done but then they were supposed to write down on the pieces of paper some of the things that they thought they knew about each of those areas so prairie grassland coniferous forest and deciduous forest they take forever to cut things out and then I made this ranch art while the students were still working so ranch art just is kind of like a KWL chart except for there's two more categories I guess so there's what I think I know or you know what I know okay and then confirmed so what I want to know which is wonderings over here and then the one of the new things is so we have confirmed which is what I learned slash new learning and then we also have misconceptions so of course we watched a video before and one of my students explained what one of the facts were so a lot of the students decided to write those down which doesn't really help in you know talking about the biomes but I think we'll try to add more to that and then we'll just move post-its over to the other categories as that kind of happens and then we'll also answer our wonderings as well and then again for math we just did a bunch of math games like we did before I just have them on a rotation and they're doing one game per day I also mentioned this website in a prior video but it's called which one doesn't belong and we just did a couple of example ones and just talked about using evidence to explain our reasoning and all of that stuff so it's been really helpful in just getting them to really start thinking about how to explain things and not just saying well it's this and that's just because I know so I always like to start with fun ones I just did this one with dogs and then we did do one with shapes and then I did one with canoes and it was kind of cool because one of the students pointed out like this isn't a canoe this is a kayak and these ones all have mountains in the back but this one doesn't this has three people you know they're using oars here instead of a paddle there's no people so it really creates good evidence for explaining things and just really diving deeper into the evidence of what you're doing so they also have a thing here called number corner that they really focus on for these students in the school district so they have a pre-made notebook of number corner for summer school here so this is one of the examples so you can see it says week one day two and we're just going over this array model and I can reveal the numbers we're talking about different strategies and solving things and all of that stuff so it's been really really fun just kind of going over that and talking about how we got the answer and all that stuff so it's been really fun and honestly we just go through one or two questions but we're really really diving into why that is or what we're doing to really explain to others and I really like to put it as you know how would you explain that to someone who might not understand so the kids really get an idea of you know there might be students in this class who don't understand even though I find it easy and I know the answer right away I need to explain it in a way so that those other kids who don't understand can get a grasp on what we're doing also already done some prep work for Wednesday and Thursday so that I can be ready for those so I'm just using these folders I have a get to know you activity that I might use if we have extra time otherwise we're talking about per grasslands and what that looks like all right I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here because I've been here longer than I needed to for the past two days now including today and then yesterday so I'm gonna go home and eat a snack and enjoy my night I'll catch you guys tomorrow hey everyone it is Wednesday over halfway through the week already which is crazy and I got here a little bit early so I've gotten to do a couple of things so far this morning I'm really trying to stay ahead of the game so I will be prepping for tomorrow and then as well as next week so I think I'm gonna go pull some more math games for next week I think I only need six because we have a field trip next week which we need field trip permission forms and we don't have any yet and it's less than a week away so it's kind of freaky but I'm probably gonna go pull some math games and I'm going to prep my morning message and do some things like that to really get ready for next week so all right hi guys I am back at the end of the day and it was it was a good day but I definitely needed to give some reminders I have exactly what the kids should be doing during our math workstations and some of them chose to not follow the direction so that was a little bit frustrating but otherwise it was a pretty good day you can see I'm really trying to prep I already have next Tuesday's morning message written out so I'm feeling pretty good about that I probably have to make a new to-do list because mine's getting a little bit crazy but you can see I have kind of my daily tasks and I have them by which day I need to get them done and I also have to go make some copies we don't have anybody who makes copies for us anymore so we have to do that ourselves but that's not too bad can't complain all right I'm gonna end there it's been a little bit tiring I really trying to prep so yeah I really am kind of tired so I have a few minutes I'm just gonna pack up and go for the day and I'll catch you guys tomorrow hi guys it is Friday for us but it's actually Thursday and this day is flying by we only have math left and it has been pretty quick there's really not much to report math has been the same we were still talking about multiplication and addition to digit multiplication tomorrow or next week we're doing fractions so everything's geared towards fractions and then the last week it is decimals so yeah nothing too crazy for that we're still talking about growth mindset and it's been fun to hear some of the kids use some of that terminology and then we're just going trucking along with our science unit for readers and writers workshop we're talking about biomes and today we talked about the deciduous forest which is about right where we live here in Minnesota we have a deciduous or we are part of that deciduous forest biome so we went outside and looked at leaves and nature and it was really nice to just journal about it and then next week we are going on a field trip so I'm excited for that otherwise yeah there's nothing too much else some people were asking me in the comments about how the job search is going there is no update or changes for that I would honestly let you guys know because I'd be super excited but I had those two interviews and I was called for a third interview or like an additional interview in a different school district but I was unable to attend because the only opening they had was during my summer school hours so I've just been applying I found there are about 26 and maybe more school districts around a 50 minute radius from my house so I've definitely been looking to apply at those places I've applied to about maybe five or six different school districts in addition to the two that I substituted in this last school year so I'm trying but not successful yet here is hoping and you know the hard part is with 26 school districts it is hard to to know what could work out so I'm still applying in hopes that I might get something but who knows I mean if I have to sub again it's not a big deal to me but it would be ideal I've loved having my own classroom and the kids know I'm their teacher and it's just really enjoyable and I really like it so yeah otherwise I am going to a conference next week it's called Ed Flipgrid or something like that I'll have to let you guys know more about it next week but I'm super excited and I can't wait to share more about that with you guys so nothing else really to report on this week I'm going to let you guys go because I'm ready to go home I'm sure like the kids are even though it's a shortened week I don't know just summer break and I just want to enjoy it so I will talk to you guys next week


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