This made ME cry, because I know how you were feeling packing up your room. We weren't allowed back in until the end of May, so it had been over 2 months since I stepped foot in my room and then I had to completely tear it down, as I'm changing grade levels (and classrooms), and pack up my kiddos' things. It was really hard to see the room sitting there like someone hit pause. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
I’m not a teacher but a mom of two elementary students. I appreciated teachers before this whole remote teaching thing but I have so much more respect and admiration for you all now. I can see the sadness in most teachers’ eyes. No one could have anticipated ending the year like this and it’s especially heartbreaking since it’s your first year but hopefully you know how appreciated and loved you are. Thanks for sharing !!!
Thank you so much for your kind words, appreciation, and encouragement. Thank YOU for all that you are doing with your kids at home right now - it's not easy! 💕 Thanks for watching :)
I’ve never met you before, but it is so obvious you are such a wonderful, caring and compassionate teacher. Your first classroom was just perfect!! I especially loved the first board in the hallway, as you arrived to your room! That was beautiful! My niece daughter is a special ed middle school teacher. Online was hard! I’m really glad there are only a few days left! Educators work INCREDIBLY HARD every day!! 💗💗💗God Bless! Edit: I wrote my comment before I even got to the end of your video and I knew I had you pegged right! I knew you loved your students, it’s just so obvious! Love, from Northern Illinois!
I am currently putting out my applications for my first year of teaching for the 2020/2021 year and your videos inspire me so much. You really show me what a teacher should be. Thank you for sharing your experience and being honest and truthful.
Awww Maddie this is such a sweet vlog, and I was totally feeling sad with you! I’m sure your kids miss you just as much as you’re missing them. You have such a big heart and it’s so evident that you adore your kids.
Bless your heart. I had tears in my eyes. I'm retired from teaching, but I have friends that are as upset as you at not being able to finish the year and say goodbye to their students. All teachers have a unique story to tell about this year. Best wishes and blessings to you.🙂💕
You brought me back to my feels! 😩 I packed up my classroom last week and I had so many mixed emotions being there again. This is definitely a hard time because it’s our first year, but we are going to become so much stronger from this 💕
I use one of the rainbow photo storage bins from Michael’s to store my word wall cards and it is SO helpful! I sort them by lesson in the order they come up in the curriculum. It’s so easy to just pull out the bin for the next lesson! I also wrote the lesson number on the back of the cards so I can easily put them back in the right box!
That's a great idea!! Thanks, Danielle! I have several of those photo storage bins from Michaels that I got the last time they were on sale that I haven't filled yet! Adding it to my list of summer projects!!
New subbie and teacher youtuber here! I love how you showed us your real emotions ❤️ I probably cried so much as well especially because it was my first year and I felt like I didn’t get to experience my first year ! ❤️
Hi Maddie! Love your videos😍 I just wanted to say you will never forget your first class: it's something very special. When I qualified as a teacher (in Ireland) almost 7 years ago there were very few jobs. I spent my first 2 years subbing in various schools all over. It was nice working with the kids but constantly moving around was exhausting and unsettling. In my third year I finally got a job covering a maternity leave in Senior Infants. To explain, Junior Infants would be the same as kindergarten and Senior Infants is their second year in school. Hope that makes some sense and helps you see where the equivalent would be in the States. Anyway, my last day with this class was the 16th of March as the regular teacher was due to come back. I held it together while the children were still there but once the school gate shut after home time I was a mess and balled my eyes out. My point is Covid cannot take away from all the wonderful experiences you have had this year and all the amazing memories that came with it. You have a long and awesome career ahead of you and if you're lucky (like I was) you will get to stay in the same school and be amazed as you watch your first class grow up. I wish you all the best for the future; the world needs more teachers like you❤❤❤
WOW! Thank you so much for sharing your story with me, Sandra! You are very right - we will never forget this group of kids! ❤️ Thank you - I wish the same for you!!
Packing up this year is emotional for me also. I will go in next week and pack up my kiddos things. I am not looking forward to it. Thank for sharing!!
I’m so sorry! What a sad way to end your first year, but I’m so glad you talked about how proud you are of yourself! The first year of teaching is so incredibly hard! My school has been letting us go in as much as we want as long as we don’t bring kids in with us and we social distance. It’s so strange to have the room be ready for new kids when we aren’t ready to say goodbye to current kids 😔
Thank you! Yes, trying to be positive and reflect on how much we've accomplished this year despite the current state of things 💕 I totally understand that! It is so hard to be in your classroom without your students!!
I remember finding out that dry-erase marker would remove Sharpie ink. One of my kids told me just before I had an extreme meltdown! :) Hope you're feeling better. You definitely have a story for your personal history book!
Although your students are not there, you will always remember them. You never forget your students from your first year of teaching. I have been allowed to go back since last week to clean up and take down materials, and it is a lonely and grieving task. You are always wondering if your students are safe and if their nutritional and emotional needs are being met. May you find rays of light to comfort and guide you during any dark moments.
This is so heart breaking... I know it’s hard but just know you’re not alone in this, even the teachers who have been teaching 20+ years, this is the first they’re going through this... this will pass ❤️❤️❤️
Me too! haha Oh man - I know it's hard for us teachers, but I keep thinking about how all of my little 6 year olds are processing and dealing with this, too! It's so hard for everyone in different ways :( Hang in there!
My last year in elementary school was so much fun and nice I am so said it's over but I am ready to start a new chapter in my life here I come middle school I will miss u ms.ward
Definitely not how we planned or thought our year would end. I can only imagine how it is being your first year! So I’m curious, do you have to take everything off the walls every year?
Aww, I feel for you 😭 its such a sad time but we know it’s for the best. I loved seeing your expo tip make it to your YT video I was so mind blown on instagram lol
Just packed up student belongings Wednesday and totally related with being so upset. I can’t even imagine how much more it’s hurting you not being able to say good bye to your first class. 😣 I wish I would have thought about putting snacks in my kids bags.
Thank you for watching 💕 Yes - it's so hard! Maybe you could look into dropping them off at your lowest income neighborhood or at a daycare/summer camp that is still happening this summer?
We’ve been allowed in twice for 20 minutes each time to get things we need for remote learning. No news on the packing of rooms- last we heard we will be waiting until social distancing is lifted before we can go in to pack up.
Packing this year was hard for me as well. I am a first year teacher in Pre-K and it is so hard not seeing my students and ending the year with them...
I went to school today and packed up the students personal items, some workbooks that we didn't get to and their work I had prior to Spring Break. I am going back next week to put their little gifts I made for them and sadly, that will be how year 14 ends :(. I am not looking forward to do this again and I hope we do not have to repeat this.
How come you have to pack everything up so much, like taking everything off the walls? We just have to move things off our floor for the floors to be cleaned. I can't imagine taking the whole classroom down like that every year.
Yep - we move all of our things so that our floors can be cleaned like you said, and we also take down most things on our walls to prevent fading and in case they need to touch anything up (paint, things like that) :) But now that I know where everything is going, it will be much easier to set up next year!
+Primarily Yours Maddie , This is one of the most touching stories I have ever heard or seen . It's an over ridding theme here in these times that we are living in . Back in the 80s and 90s , if anyone were to ask a child who their favorite person is it would probably be a cartoon character or a singer or an athlete . Today , if anyone asks a child whom their favorite person is it would be their teacher . As much as I hate seeing these stories and scenes of students missing their teachers and teachers missing their students breaks my autistic heart . However , if there is anything that I would like to tell you is that the school systems must learn to do more counting for things that go beyond the curriculum that you the teachers are being made to teach and when you have made a positive impression on the students don't worry about anything else even if a lesson tanks because you are learning what works and what does not work for the students and school should be a learning institutions for students and teachers not just the students . You miss your students and it is safe to say that your students miss you too . I hope that you have a fantastic summer . - Dwight
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This made ME cry, because I know how you were feeling packing up your room. We weren't allowed back in until the end of May, so it had been over 2 months since I stepped foot in my room and then I had to completely tear it down, as I'm changing grade levels (and classrooms), and pack up my kiddos' things. It was really hard to see the room sitting there like someone hit pause. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Wow! It's so hard, for sure.
Thank you for watching, Merin. ❤️
Love 💛 I absolutely love how vulnerable you were with us. Totally feel your mix of emotions 😭
Thank you 💕💕 I appreciate that! A mix of emotions for sure.
Do you pack up your classroom every year and have to take everything home?
I’m not a teacher but a mom of two elementary students. I appreciated teachers before this whole remote teaching thing but I have so much more respect and admiration for you all now. I can see the sadness in most teachers’ eyes. No one could have anticipated ending the year like this and it’s especially heartbreaking since it’s your first year but hopefully you know how appreciated and loved you are. Thanks for sharing !!!
Thank you so much for your kind words, appreciation, and encouragement. Thank YOU for all that you are doing with your kids at home right now - it's not easy! 💕 Thanks for watching :)
What a crazy time to have your first year of teaching!
I’ve never met you before, but it is so obvious you are such a wonderful, caring and compassionate teacher. Your first classroom was just perfect!! I especially loved the first board in the hallway, as you arrived to your room! That was beautiful! My niece daughter is a special ed middle school teacher. Online was hard! I’m really glad there are only a few days left! Educators work INCREDIBLY HARD every day!! 💗💗💗God Bless!
Edit: I wrote my comment before I even got to the end of your video and I knew I had you pegged right! I knew you loved your students, it’s just so obvious! Love, from Northern Illinois!
Thank you so much!! 😭🥰❤️
I am currently putting out my applications for my first year of teaching for the 2020/2021 year and your videos inspire me so much. You really show me what a teacher should be. Thank you for sharing your experience and being honest and truthful.
You are so sweet, Chelsey! I really appreciate your kind words and encouragement. 💕 Best of luck on your job search process - keep me updated!! :)
Awww Maddie this is such a sweet vlog, and I was totally feeling sad with you! I’m sure your kids miss you just as much as you’re missing them. You have such a big heart and it’s so evident that you adore your kids.
Thanks so much for watching, Kim! 💕 I really appreciate your kind words and your friendship!! Thinking of you and your kiddos right now, too.
Bless your heart. I had tears in my eyes. I'm retired from teaching, but I have friends that are as upset as you at not being able to finish the year and say goodbye to their students. All teachers have a unique story to tell about this year. Best wishes and blessings to you.🙂💕
You are so right! Thanks for the kind words and warm wishes, Lynette! 💕
I have been inspired by you this year! So sorry your first year ended this way!
You're so sweet, Pamela! Thanks so much for following along with me this year! 💕
I feel for you. What an end to your first year. This class will always have a special place in your heart, regardless.
You are so right, Chrissi! :)
You brought me back to my feels! 😩 I packed up my classroom last week and I had so many mixed emotions being there again. This is definitely a hard time because it’s our first year, but we are going to become so much stronger from this 💕
YES! You are so, so right 💕
Awh!! I LOVE your room and I'm so sorry this is how your first year had to end 😔hopeful for a better next year. Loved catching up with you as always ❤
Thank you!! 💕 Yes - it will make all of us treasure this time next year even more!!
Thanks so much for watching, friend!!
I may have picked the last day to delay this. Thank you for your honesty!
Zachery Hoffman You can do it!! ☺️ You are welcome - thanks for watching!
Awww. So sad to see the year end like this. (Loved the Sharpie tip. I can’t believe that works. 😀😀)
Thank you 💕
Right?! Me either!! I really wasn't expecting it to work, haha! But I'm glad it did!!
I use one of the rainbow photo storage bins from Michael’s to store my word wall cards and it is SO helpful! I sort them by lesson in the order they come up in the curriculum. It’s so easy to just pull out the bin for the next lesson! I also wrote the lesson number on the back of the cards so I can easily put them back in the right box!
That's a great idea!! Thanks, Danielle! I have several of those photo storage bins from Michaels that I got the last time they were on sale that I haven't filled yet! Adding it to my list of summer projects!!
New subbie and teacher youtuber here! I love how you showed us your real emotions ❤️ I probably cried so much as well especially because it was my first year and I felt like I didn’t get to experience my first year ! ❤️
Yes! 💔 But it will help us cherish these months next year even more! 🥰
Hi Maddie! Love your videos😍 I just wanted to say you will never forget your first class: it's something very special. When I qualified as a teacher (in Ireland) almost 7 years ago there were very few jobs. I spent my first 2 years subbing in various schools all over. It was nice working with the kids but constantly moving around was exhausting and unsettling. In my third year I finally got a job covering a maternity leave in Senior Infants. To explain, Junior Infants would be the same as kindergarten and Senior Infants is their second year in school. Hope that makes some sense and helps you see where the equivalent would be in the States. Anyway, my last day with this class was the 16th of March as the regular teacher was due to come back. I held it together while the children were still there but once the school gate shut after home time I was a mess and balled my eyes out. My point is Covid cannot take away from all the wonderful experiences you have had this year and all the amazing memories that came with it. You have a long and awesome career ahead of you and if you're lucky (like I was) you will get to stay in the same school and be amazed as you watch your first class grow up. I wish you all the best for the future; the world needs more teachers like you❤❤❤
WOW! Thank you so much for sharing your story with me, Sandra! You are very right - we will never forget this group of kids! ❤️
Thank you - I wish the same for you!!
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Great stuff!
Thanks for watching, Connor!
Packing up this year is emotional for me also. I will go in next week and pack up my kiddos things. I am not looking forward to it. Thank for sharing!!
Good luck!! It's hard but you can do it :) You're welcome - thanks for watching!
I’m so sorry! What a sad way to end your first year, but I’m so glad you talked about how proud you are of yourself! The first year of teaching is so incredibly hard! My school has been letting us go in as much as we want as long as we don’t bring kids in with us and we social distance. It’s so strange to have the room be ready for new kids when we aren’t ready to say goodbye to current kids 😔
Thank you! Yes, trying to be positive and reflect on how much we've accomplished this year despite the current state of things 💕
I totally understand that! It is so hard to be in your classroom without your students!!
I remember finding out that dry-erase marker would remove Sharpie ink. One of my kids told me just before I had an extreme meltdown! :) Hope you're feeling better. You definitely have a story for your personal history book!
Yes!! My mind was blown! haha
Thank you - I am ❤️ I do for sure!! haha :)
Although your students are not there, you will always remember them. You never forget your students from your first year of teaching. I have been allowed to go back since last week to clean up and take down materials, and it is a lonely and grieving task. You are always wondering if your students are safe and if their nutritional and emotional needs are being met. May you find rays of light to comfort and guide you during any dark moments.
You are right about that! I will truly never forget them.
Yes it is!
Yes - you get it! Thank you - I hope the same for you, John!
This is so heart breaking... I know it’s hard but just know you’re not alone in this, even the teachers who have been teaching 20+ years, this is the first they’re going through this... this will pass ❤️❤️❤️
You are so right!! That is an important perspective to keep. Thank you :)
I cried.This entire video was so emotional because my 6 year old misses his teacher and his classmates and seeing you doing all of this is so sad 😪😪
Me too! haha
Oh man - I know it's hard for us teachers, but I keep thinking about how all of my little 6 year olds are processing and dealing with this, too! It's so hard for everyone in different ways :( Hang in there!
My last year in elementary school was so much fun and nice I am so said it's over but I am ready to start a new chapter in my life here I come middle school I will miss u ms.ward
You are SO ready for middle school!! I love you very much! :)
I'm so sad as well! I'm going in tomorrow to finish cleaning up , im gonna start crying (Again!) . you're not alone!!!!!!
Oh man :( You can do it though!!! It's nice to know that we aren't in this alone! ❤️
Definitely not how we planned or thought our year would end. I can only imagine how it is being your first year! So I’m curious, do you have to take everything off the walls every year?
I know! 💕
Yep! We are allowed to leave a few things, but mostly everything has to come down so they can clean :)
Aww, I feel for you 😭 its such a sad time but we know it’s for the best. I loved seeing your expo tip make it to your YT video I was so mind blown on instagram lol
Yes! Sad but I know it's for the best - you said it perfectly! ❤️
Right?! I was too! 😂
You can also use alcohol to take it off. I use it on my boards at work when I accidentally grab the wrong marker.
That's a great idea, too! :)
you are so strong I am a student and we are getting a new principal this year and it is so hard
I'm sorry, Julia! I know that change of any kind is difficult to adjust to. I hope that your new principal is a great fit for your school!
Just packed up student belongings Wednesday and totally related with being so upset. I can’t even imagine how much more it’s hurting you not being able to say good bye to your first class. 😣 I wish I would have thought about putting snacks in my kids bags.
Thank you for watching 💕 Yes - it's so hard!
Maybe you could look into dropping them off at your lowest income neighborhood or at a daycare/summer camp that is still happening this summer?
Did you have a damp cloth or just a Kleenex for the sharpie and expo marker?
Just a dry paper towel or tissue!! :)
We’ve been allowed in twice for 20 minutes each time to get things we need for remote learning. No news on the packing of rooms- last we heard we will be waiting until social distancing is lifted before we can go in to pack up.
Oh my goodness! I'm sorry - that would be really stressful! Any word yet on when you can go back in to start packing up?
Primarily Yours Wednesday!
@@megansaunders3847 Good luck!!
I still have not been allowed in my classroom since March 13th.
I'm sorry! Have they given you a date yet for when you will be able to go back in?
@@PrimarilyYours nope. We are all just teaching from home.
@@wengerje I'm sorry :( I hope that you are able to get answers soon!
Packing this year was hard for me as well. I am a first year teacher in Pre-K and it is so hard not seeing my students and ending the year with them...
I am so sorry :( We will get through this!! 💕
I’m packing up my room tomorrow 😢
Sending you hugs! You can do it!!
Wow. Are you moving classrooms? Do you have to take everything down every year?
Nope, I will be in the same room next year (thank goodness!)
Yep - we take everything down so that our rooms can be cleaned. :)
I went to school today and packed up the students personal items, some workbooks that we didn't get to and their work I had prior to Spring Break. I am going back next week to put their little gifts I made for them and sadly, that will be how year 14 ends :(. I am not looking forward to do this again and I hope we do not have to repeat this.
I know - so sad to pack up all of their work and personal items! Sending you hugs! 💕
Im sad! I miss my class as much as any teacher! Stay strong and know up til this point---they got the best of us! K
You are so right about that, Kerry! 💕
What state do you teach in?
Florida! ☀️
Primarily Yours Sounds amazing! I’m sure your kids miss you❤️
@@sagebell6055 Thank you! 🥰 I am missing them big time, too!
How come you have to pack everything up so much, like taking everything off the walls? We just have to move things off our floor for the floors to be cleaned. I can't imagine taking the whole classroom down like that every year.
Yep - we move all of our things so that our floors can be cleaned like you said, and we also take down most things on our walls to prevent fading and in case they need to touch anything up (paint, things like that) :) But now that I know where everything is going, it will be much easier to set up next year!
+Primarily Yours
Maddie ,
This is one of the most touching stories I have ever heard or seen .
It's an over ridding theme here in these times that we are living in .
Back in the 80s and 90s , if anyone were to ask a child who their favorite person is it would probably be a cartoon character or a singer or an athlete .
Today , if anyone asks a child whom their favorite person is it would be their teacher .
As much as I hate seeing these stories and scenes of students missing their teachers and teachers missing their students breaks my autistic heart .
However , if there is anything that I would like to tell you is that the school systems must learn to do more counting for things that go beyond the curriculum that you the teachers are being made to teach and when you have made a positive impression on the students don't worry about anything else even if a lesson tanks because you are learning what works and what does not work for the students and school should be a learning institutions for students and teachers not just the students .
You miss your students and it is safe to say that your students miss you too .
I hope that you have a fantastic summer .
- Dwight
Yes! You are very right.
Thanks for your comment, Dwight! I hope you have a great summer, too.
@@PrimarilyYours
Thank you Maddie !!!
- Dwight
Started cleaning my room on Tuesday... such a hard day. You did great!
It is indeed - exhausting in every sense of the word... physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Thank you! You can do it, too!! Power through! 💕
Future teacher who just finished her last year in university. No graduation. This is soooo sad, maybe even sadder:(
I am so sorry! 😢 I hope that you are still able to celebrate with your family in some way or another! ❤️
you work hard for kids...
I love my students & would do anything for them! 💕
My grandma is retiring this year 72 years as teacher
Wow! That is amazing. 😊
I know
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Thanks for watching, Anna!
So heartbreaking to end your 1st year like this 💔
I know :( But it will make us cherish this time next year even more!!