PLANNING WITH MY TEACHING BESTIE + answering your questions 

Love Kenzie! BRING HER BACK! ♡

How fun! Such sweet friends 🤣. I feel like a good teacher friend is critical to your mental health. So glad you too still keep in touch!

We are Muslim and celebrate Ramadan and Eid. My son goes to a school where not many kids celebrate our holidays. He felt so happy to share information about his holiday with his class. So much time is spent teaching holidays we don't celebrate so it's nice when someone takes time on other peoples cultures and religions.

This was such a helpful vlog. Kenzie's advice about focusing on one subject each year was mind blowing! I'm a first year teacher and that to me was GOLD!!! Thank you for this useful vlog, I loved it!

Y’all are adorable! I highly recommend making all your lessons into a PowerPoint and/or Google slides. It definitely keeps you organized and know what has to be covered for the day. Also, when you’re absent it makes it so easy for your sub to just follow the slides. Plus, you always have a student who can lead the slides or help. I will say it takes time but it’s totally worth it! Positive thing: you will always have them making it easy to tweak for years after.

Oh my god stop, I had watched one of your videos 3 years ago called “classroom set up day 1” and even commented on it saying I love it. Today you came up on my for you page and Im sooo exited because watching that video 3 years ago made me want to be a school counselor… as of right now I’m on my second year of college to be a counselor ❤️🥺

I literally love this, you and Kenzie are the cutest! Definitely do more videos like this and more with Kenzie! Also, Kenzie should make her own channel! I would watch it, for sure!! 💗

Yessss math is just. For me, math has always been difficult. Teaching it has been an uphill battle! Thankfully we use Eureka, and Eureka is great on taking things step by step. I've been learning so much since I started teaching math. So much about place value that I didn't understand until I started teaching. Other methods of adding/subtracting that I wasn't aware of or don't remember learning it that way when I was younger.

Love your room, Kenzie!!🥰

Love this! I'm a third year teacher too, and still my biggest mistake is one of the first things you both discussed- I wanted to excel at every subject and ended up feeling completely overwhelmed. I decided a couple months ago that I'd either quit in the middle of year (from being so exhausted) or that I'd change my teaching. I decided to change the way I taught subjects- I'd focus on math and making sure the kids get the best of math this year- I feel soooo much better. Great advice throughout the video, thank u both! 😄

This was such a fun video! Nothing better than teacher friends.

My daughter is a PreK teacher. She is doing gingerbread for next week. I watched her make gingerbread homemade play dough today for her students to use for different activities next week. I teach 5th grade math. My students would love it if I brought out homemade playdough for them to use!

Thank you soooo much for making this video!!! I have no one to plan with so I finally felt like I had a team…. The thank you letters and poinsettias are an awesome idea and the books look very interesting… When will you guys be planning again? I can’t wait to plan with you all again… Have a wonderful week back….. ❤️

Thanks for making this sweet video, I am a K-5 SPED teacher in Sac and I plan alone for myself and two aides, so it was nice feeling like I had a team with me :).

How fun!!! I can tell how much fun you both had, and I so wish I had a teaching partner to plan with. The video gave me an idea though... you don't necessarily need to plan with your grade level partner. Just hanging out thinking through the lessons would be fun and helpful with any colleague. Thanks for sharing, both of you!!!

Yes, more planning with Kenzie and/or other teachers please!

Cute!! What fun!!🥰

Loved this video

So fun! But seriously… air fryer is a game changer. So much faster and easier to clean up than an oven! My air fryer fries and baked. Amazing!!

Loved the video so much! How do you incorporate the 5 books you chose for the week your doing a “grateful/thankful” theme. How do you do this with having a story a week you focus on from primary scouts. I am a kindergarten teacher, and I really love teaching ELA, but I always feel like there’s not enough time for everything.

We have benchmark but it came in late in the year so I haven’t really gone through it. It was literally 15 boxes to unpack so very overwhelming 😆

Can you share some of the read alouds you might do for holidays around the world?

What holidays around the world does Kenzie use?

Loved this video. What were the binders on Kenzie’s table?

My old district used everyday math when I first started, it was horrible!!!

Being a 3rd year teacher moving to a new grade (Kinder!), it still is overwhelming. I have a really amazing team, but I don't want to annoy them with my questions. LOL

so much of chat so much of joy so much of smiles so much of fun so much of wow so much of amazing Author Venkat 😎😎

I don't have Benchmark or Everyday Mathematics, but all my teacher friends with either of these day they aren't very teacher- or student-friendly.

+Mrs. Call's Campers Well Mayleen , Looks like Your Teacher Bestie made herself perfectly clear with her students on that anchor chart about the consequences of their choices . Meanwhile I hope you two beautiful teachers have had an awesome Thanksgiving Weekend . Christmas is soon to follow . - Dwight

Which decodable do you use with your students? I've seen ones from Reading A to Z and Open Court but didn't know what you use.

What backpack was Kenzie using at the end of the Vlog?

Love Kenzie and those drawers, anyone know where to find them? I really need them for my ELA :P

I teach kindergarten and we use everyday math :( not a huge fan. I supplement a lot.

Kenzie, Kaylie, Kylie, Kayla, Kirsten, Kristen...so who chose "Karen" for the Black-Labeled Society? 😣🤣