WEEK IN MY TEACHER LIFE | watch how I teach, first grade, reading small group, math 

Not even a teenager yet but i like watching these type of videos! It helps me prepare for my future class!

It’s really great to see examples of what you’re teaching. I love the mystery number game. Mine are between 7-9 years but I could definitely adapt it for them. 😊

I loved the strategies you used for small group! I’m a former Kindergarten teacher and just learned I’ve been moved to First grade next year and I’ve been searching ideas. I came across your vlog and I’m loving what I’m seeing. Great job and thank you so much for your tips 😉 I’ll definitely keep watching 👋🏻

It's so helpful to see you model the activities! Thank you for taking the time to do this ^^

Thanks for sharing and talking us through the whole-group Mystery Number game and small group activities! Also really enjoying that you're splitting your weekly vlogs into two more detailed parts. :)

An idea for walking in the hall that might help.. something I always did when I taught second grade (at a title one school) is have a class job be the "Line Monitor." That person used a mini notepad and pen that hung around their neck and walked beside the line. They wrote down three kids' names going and coming back that we're walking quietly. (Didn't matter how they spelled the names as long as they knew who they were) I reinforced they weren't to only choose their friends and if someone they wrote down started talking, they cross them off and write someone else. When we'd come back to the room they'd have six names and set a skittle on the desk of each of the six. It seriously worked like magic. I'd say things when we were walking like, "oh I see so many for so and so to choose from today!" Or "So and so, remember, if someone starts talking, choose someone else." The line monitor changed each week and their "tools" (pad/pen to hang around neck) were kept by the front door for them to grab each time we left the room.

I am a first year first grade teacher and love your videos! Thank you for sharing so many teaching tips and scenarios!

So helpful to see how you do small groups and math, thankvyou for demonstrating!!! This newbie is so grateful!

I am very impressed with the upside writing.

I love your videos! I learn SO much about how to help kids learn various subjects. I use it for my own kids for homeschooling, but I'm also a pre-service elementary ed teacher and I take lots of notes on ideas to use in the future!

This is so helpful, I have taught English for the rest of my life until this year, I try something different, I become a homeroom teacher and also Math teacher for grade 1. I love your insights stories and tips. Thanks a lot :)

Love your videos, Katie! As a 2nd year teacher, I have learned a lot from you.

Thank you for sharing how you do your small groups. I am learning so much from your videos. Please keep sharing.

I just found your videos and you are officially my new favorite teacher youtuber!!!

I love watching your vlogs. I love all of the tips and hearing what you are working on in your small groups. I will be playing mystery number with my students. Thanks for sharing so many details.

Monkey has the closed syllable but the key part is a vowel team syllable not open Loved the math game

Really enjoy your vlogs. Very inspiring. I was wondering if you could share your / your school's process on baselining your students. Thank you

As a Teacher i can relate lol class can be hard sometimes

Thanks for the google slides tip...I'm now "fixing" my slides too; Those poor 6 year olds can never grab it just right! :)

This video was so helpful!

I plan on moving down to 1st next year so I have been watching tons of 1st grade teacher vlogs. I really enjoy yours. Thanks for sharing all the details of your day. Is there a video where you go more into detail about how you do math journals?

Thanks for showing how to play mystery number. I’ve heard of it but didn’t know how it is played. 🙂

Great video! Love the mystery number game!

Just subscribed! Thanks for sharing your great ideas. I will be a second year kindergarten teacher in the fall. Your classroom set up and tips are helpful as I prep/plan this summer. Please share the teen number printable website. I want to add it to my math stations. Thanks 😊

1. loving your videos! From the title I thought you meant you filmed teaching your kids. I was so excited. Regardless, I feel like you do a great job explaining how you teach the material. 2. Do you have a link for the open/closed syllable monster sort for center? 3. Thanks for the whole group slide tip. It’s so annoying when the kids can’t drag something lol

Hi Katie! I am a homeschooling mom to a 6 year old. I am absolutely loving your videos. I get so many fun activity ideas that I do with my daughter. The open/close syllable Monster party was part of our reading program. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's very much appreciated.

I knew you were in a Florida school when I saw the yellow line on the sidewalk. Hahaha. We had yellow and red lines at a school I was at. We called them ketchup and mustard. Ketchup was one direction and mustard was another.

Hello. I saw those books, like There was an Old Lady who swallowed a Chick book and the if you Give a Pig a thing book. They're both parodies of There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly and If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. I don't swallow a real chick, but I only swallow a Peeps Marshmallow chick thing, so yeah.

These videos are good especially for first-time elementary school teachers like myself. U teach in Fla?? Wish u the best! ; ) lol

What are you using for an eraser? Do you wash them at the end of the year or get new ones?

Happy Wednesday 🥰

+Mrs. Allain in Elementary Katie , First off , looking good in your outfits on this video . Second , good call with the stealing lesson because it's something that they really need to know . I have a cousin who does that and lies about it to try to get out of it and he is back and forth in jail . Third , Have you ever thought about doing a video on your behavior management strategies because if you do not have one that works especially in this point of the year then forget it . Keep handling it like a champ . - Dwight

Where did you get the white board erasers you used in small group??!!

Can you link the teen number resource? I looked but couldn’t find it. Thank you! Love your videos!

Is that a smart board or smart tv? Would you recommend that we buy one (out of pocket) if our school doesn't have one?

What math curriculum do you use?

Where did you get your lanyard?

I'm a big fan I love you 😍 ❤ 😘 💕 💓 💗 😍 ❤ 😘 💕 💓 💗 😍 ❤

Hi

So, your name is Katie or Allain?

I’m amazed that you can write upside down.

Hi Katie!!!!

thank you for showing us what you are teaching 🤍 i will take notes for when i start my teaching journey!! you’re amazing