It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas | Teacher Evolution Ep 22 

One of my elementary school teachers used to make us leave a shoe at her desk when we borrowed a pencil so we wouldn’t leave without returning it 😂

Try setting an alarm on your phone to go off every week-day at a certain time saying take off microphone

One of the teachers at my high school went on jeopardy one time...I think you should too! You would have a pretty good chance of winning :)

For capacity ( cups, pints, etc) have them make a gallon man.. body is gallon, legs and arms are quarts, fingers are cups

I’m so glad I’m in not a teacher in the states! You guys have it so tough with all of the lesson plans etc :/

Oh my gosh! Can you please either put your metric conversion notes on either Instagram or TpT? I'm in college but never understood them and your notes helped me understand it! (Math is my weakest subject)

In our school students (like me) use black erase markers and the teacher uses any colors. But if we go up and write on the board we can use any color.

I totally think they should have a teacher jeopardy and you should be a contestant! I am in college for my elementary education degree and your vlogs make me so excited to finish school. I have learned so much from your channel, and I feel like all of your advice will make me a better educator! Thank you so much! I️ hope you have a great last week of school and a wonderful winter break! ❤️

I remember the days we were required to wear a skirt that covered the knees and sometimes below and a shirt with a formal jacket covering! We were never allowed to wear jeans! I do miss the old standards but I must move along with the changing times. My classroom at Western Heights and Hagerstown High school both had large bulky projectors and "fishes" which were the nickname for the document cameras on sturdy yet space taking carts. I also recall the days we hit children with paddles which I was totally against meanwhile my coworkers were all for it which was idiotic! I also remember when we had everything on chalkboards and there was always a classroom that was "modern" for the time which was equipped with white projection screens & a Bogen Intercom, I do recall the days we did bomb drills instead of the horrifying lockdown drills! I remember showing the kiddos videos of Bert/Burt the turtle and taking my emergency evacuation folder out during fire drills while wearing heels in slippery grass! Unfortunately my classroom was in the center of other classrooms which meant you had to walk through a classroom and sometimes another classroom to reach mine so during a fire drill it was pretty chaotic! I remember my first school lockdown which occurred in 1971 at Salem Elementary when someone walked on campus with a shotgun and the little ole guard noticed so we decided to put the new lockdown strategy to the test and see how well it worked! Our custodians cut the power to the entire school so my emergency lights went out in my classroom but since my classroom was within another classroom we kept teaching but quietly! During the time schools didn't really have windows due to the impending fear of terrorists or bombs dropping from the sky or active shooters which were very rare!

I should be writing my Essay but like idk what to write sooo I’m watching this 😂😂😂

I wish we had an early dismissal!!! We have an extended school day (8-3:30) and the last round of buses (7 rounds of 8 buses at our charter) normally leaves at 4:20 (earliest I leave). They did not call an early dismissal! The last bus arrived on our campus at 6:45!! Luckily, they let me go at 5:30 since I only had one kid left, but the roads were awful and it took people 1-3 hours to get home. Luckily, that was our last day until January!!! We earned it!

By the way...I do the same thing! I type up notes for my students to have them glue in their interactive notebooks. They are slow at writing notes too. This method just helps them have it instantly in their notebooks. I totally agree with you.

Dunkin' Donuts definitely needs to send you some merch girl! You are their number one! :)

I’m from Canada (I live in a place that gets cold), I can’t beleive you guys get indoor recess when it’s just below freezing. Our rule is it has to be -30 below Celcius to get an indoor recess! I some days wish it was just freezing lol!

We have the same favorite Christmas song. Love hippopotamus song. You have such good taste

I completely understand the "burning eyes tired." I'm envious of you going to work in the daylight though. I drive in total darkness to school every morning. Makes it so much worse I think.

I tutor and home school for 4 families and when I make study guides/references for their spiral books if they use their highlighters they get a bonus! This helps me check in if the 3rd and 4th graders are using the guides. Another way to encourage use is to have the students use a check mark on the page for each time they referenced their helping pages.

I love your videos and I'm actually an AACPS student (North County High) ! When the early dismissal was announced my whole AP Computer Science Principles class went crazy !!

Watching your old vlogs make me so happy!!! Happpy birthday!❤️

I look forward to my Sunday mornings with u and a great cup of coffee! 😊

YES on the notebooking notes for math!

About to go to sleep...notification of new video pops up...I guess I won't be going to sleep now till midnight! At least I'm not teaching tomorrow. Love your channel! (From Sydney, Australia)

My students are obsessed with he squishies too! I have had to embrace it since they're not as annoying as slime or fidget spinners. 😂

I love how inspiring you are I will be a teacher when I grow up

Sundays are the best when I get a notification letting me know your video is posted. I’m so happy for your post-observation and your highly effectives. I know as a teacher that means a LOT! Thank you for the recommendation for Number Rock! I subscribed! Have a beautiful day!

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas is my favorite too!! Love that song

I love watching you❤️❤️. Your such an inspiration and you put a smile to my face 😊

Oh my goodness! I can't believe you can't go outside with kids if it's below freezing! Our "can't go out temperature" is -25C...so about -13F? I can't imagine what it would be like here if freezing were our limit. We'd be inside from October to April! Haha.

I LOVE surprise early dismissals! It's a little hectic getting the kids ready to leave, but WOW what a great gift to leave early! Love and hugs!

I love how you are so much happier in this new school. I was thinking about the first video that I saw from you and it was about your unscheduled observation right after (or before) a holiday . Anyways keep up the good I can tell you are a wonderful teacher 🙂

I loved how happy you were in this video!!

I started watching your Vlogs a few months back and had never tried DD coffee before. Well now I'm hooked! So thank you and Merry Christmas!

❄⛄Snow Day!!! So cozy and fun!❄⛄

Thank you for sharing about all of your tech sites and resources! I am a 50 year old TK teacher in California and I have really learned a lot from you! Have a blessed Christmas!!

I really love your vlogs! It is very interesting to see whay teaching is like in the US. I live in Bonaire, and we always have to plan a week in advance. We have to give all our lessonplans for the week to our principal on monday. She checks it and signs it so that she knows that you did your planning for the week, just in case you get sick and a sub can come in and continue the lessons

I look forward to your videos weekly! I’m currently in college and I constantly was confused by what I wanted my major to be. I was torn between psychology and elementary education... and because of your videos and my love for kids I decided to major in elementary education! I am so excited❤️

I love numberock videos! I just used the one about lines and another about angles over the past 2 weeks for my 4th grade computer classes. I always tell them the videos can help them remember during tests, or homework since it's in their heads and no one can take that away from them. They really like the hip hop, rap type songs. There is a really good one about PEMDAS also. Glad your post observation went so well. I had mine last week and it went great too! Glad that's behind me for a while. I hope you put all the math journal notes you produced on your TPT site. Those look great! Have a great week. I only have a day and a half before our Christmas break. Break is only a few hours away now!! ;-)

Definitely interested in those notes to glue in!!! Awesome work girl ❤️

Yes. I hare when my eyes burn in the middle of the day. It drives me CRAZY! We left 1 hour early on Wednesday (Michigan) we had a late start and school started 10:05 and then we got out an hour early 1:33 so we had a very short day!

Sundays are my favorite because of pocketful of primary’s vlogs.

I'm from Wisconsin! we have indoor recess when the weather is -1 and below, so 0 degree we go out Brrrrrrrr

Love the math notes!!!! Would love that product!

absolutely yes to the notes!

I used your signing out marker idea for pencils since those vanish also !

YES! Please...make math notes for all the standards and place in your TPT store! Thank you Michelle for your wonderful work and making it available to us. We know this takes extra time and we appreciate you Soooo VERY Much! 😘

Thank you for the websites and RU-vid channel suggestions. I think my students will love it!🍎🍏🍎🍏

Brand new K/1 teacher this year and I’ve been watching all of your videos. I appreciate them all! Have you ever done a teacher workout video? I’d love to hear about how you schedule to get to the gym, how you plan your workouts, etc. My workouts have gone to the wayside since teaching and I’m noticing how terrible I’m feeling!

Yall are so smart getting all the jeopardy questions right. I can even.

Great video! I would absolutely be interested in those math notes! My third graders use Saxon 4 and we are working on the EXACT same concepts that you just described (ie going through the EXACT same struggles).

Love the conversion!

As always, I loved your video! I would most definitely LOVE the notebook notes. I teach 4th grade as well and can totally relate to how slowly they copy notes! These would be very beneficial to my class next year.

Your notes just helped me pass my SOL 👌🏽

YESSSS! I teach culinary!!! Please put any units of measure in you TPT store!!!!

The more I watch your videos, the more alike I see we are! Haha sloths are also my favorite.

I would definitely be interested in the math journal pages to glue down! Sometimes just having good examples can help kids (and I completely agree with your comment about the "flaps" being too much).

A good way to help students with metric conversions is "Horse to fly, multiply! Fly to horse, divide of course!" also number rock has a good video on youtube :)

Hi, I'm a senior in high school right now and I'm in the process of choosing a college because I want to become a math teacher in middle school or high school. And I know you're a fourth grade teacher, but I just love watching your videos so much because they give such good insight as to what being a teacher is like! I honestly love watching them so much! And you seem like such a good and organized teacher and I hope to be just like you when I become a teacher! And next year in college, if I feel stressed and just not up for my work, I'm gonna watch a video of your's to hopefully motivate me again and to remind me that that's why I'm in college! So I just wanted to say thank you for making these videos because I just find them sooo interesting!

I’m an undergrad student and for the past semester I’ve been struggling with the idea of committing to teaching... every time I start to doubt it, I watch your videos and it shows me how wonderful teaching is. ❤️

If you go back to the metric unit for review you can use KHDUDCM K King kilo H Henry hecto D doesn't deca U usually unit (meter liter gram) D drink deci C chocolate centi M milk milli I know that at least for me considering I'm a 6th grader last year this helped me to memorize it. PS for everything past the unit move the decimal one space to the left, and for everything behind the unit move the decimal one space to the right ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

You are so much better at explaining math then my math teacher! Love your vlogs!

My math teacher plays us strings music sometimes and we love it!!

I wish we had the potential of snow days. I live in Saskatoon in central Canada and our students get an indoor recess if it is -27 C or colder. I have only had one snow day in my entire career 10 years ago (my first ever teaching job) and we had a record breaking blizzard. Our school busses do not run if it is -40 C with the windchill, but we as teachers still have to go to work! I am definitely jealous of your snow days. You are so generous with all the giveaways on Instagram. Your favourite things are mine too! Love them all!

Its so wild to me you get to stay in at that temperature! I live in Canada, and we ONLY have indoor recess when it gets colder than -25 Celsius (-13 F) !!

Thanks Erica for your videos

Omg I love your videos michelle😘😘😘

Check out interactive notebooks and doodle notes. You are nearly there with what you are doing but they involve a little more student interactivity with the paste in notes. 🙂

Preach!!! Ditto on "catching you" statement.

You should play Crabs for Christmas, too! My students love that its about our state.

The amount of times she says all that good stuff 😂

Metric conversion takes a lot of practice! Great notes, I might turn it into an anchor chart. NumberRock has a TPT store I think too. I have no idea how some teachers e-mail in the middle of class

Love you so much

Even though I’m retired, I love watching your videos.

🤗🤗🤗🎉💐💐 congratulations 🍾🎈🎉 love your videos, happy holidays .

Thank you so much for showing us numberock!! I showed my kids some videos today and it is so amazing!!! I also totally stole your anchor chart from last week. I love that you teach fourth grade now lol 😁😁

Not being able to go outside at 32 or below cracks me up, being from Minnesota 😂😂😂

Love your vids Michelle!!

YES!!! Love you math interactive notebook notes. Please make available in you TpT store!! Merry Christmas

Best teacher ever

I love the version of “The Christmas Song” playing in the background! Who is the artist? Love your videos; you’re such an inspiration!

I love your handwriting

I feel that tired when I was early weeks preggers with my babies. I couldn’t figure out why I tired. It could be the training schedule

I eat the same thing every day too! I have those blueberry-vanilla Kind bars every morning for breakfast.

Loving the music!!

The math journal would be an awesome addition to your TPT store!!

I love squishes! I'm playing with one now!

Great video Michelle your a great teacher😀

We get one day of snow every four years.

I used this when teaching measurement conversions: big to small (put hands straight out for BIG; bring your hands in by your chest in a "x" for SMALL; you made a multiplication sign with your hands so you multiply). Small to big (hands in front of your chest for SMALL; hands straight out for BIG; your body looks like a division symbol now so you divide!) I'll try to link pictures that better explain!

Wait, wait, wait?? Tell more about the dots you have above the markers. Hand signs for I agree, etc. Please share the link. BTY, glad to see you are feeling better :)

Yes, can you please add your measurement notes to your TPT. This is my first time teaching measurement, and I feel they will be very helpful.

I love your vids so much!!

This makes me feel old, but that weight video made me think of School House Rock! 😂 Re-watching the vlogs wishing school was back to normal! Love you! :)

I love you videos and I know I am a kid but when I a grown up I want to be a teacher

i love your videos!

Love your videos😩

You should do a video on how you creat your worksheets and what programs you use!!

Idk why but ur videos make me so productive Is it just me???

Yes, please add your math notes to TpT. This will even help my 5th graders.

Second love you so much cxxx 😘 you inspire my future xx 😘

Tbh, I’m a middle schooler in competition dance and I have to do a lot of timed, painful stretches. I watch your vids through them all