You should do a video on all of the websites you as a teacher use for like worksheets and different stuff, websites your students use, your favorites on TPT, and other stuff
Michelle, isn’t it awesome when your students do well on a quiz. Makes you feel better about your teaching. I know what that feels like, and I think we get better once we have been in a grade level consistently and had a chance to teach with the curriculum. You are an amazing teacher! I love learning new things from you. Can’t wait to try the morning meeting.
Yesss! I definitely feel a lot better this year than last year now that I have had a chance to teach the curriculum for a year. Now I already know what misconceptions my students might have and can address it sooner. I also have more resources to pull from and more ideas for intervention! I hope your students love morning meeting as much as I do!
Michelle--I just found your channel in the past couple weeks. LOVING it! I'm a former school teacher (elem, high school, college prof) who now homeschoools my four children. LOVE seeing your heart for the profession and the kiddos. Keep it up!!!! Plus I get to relive the classroom days through you AND pick up some ideas for my home teaching!
Heather Paullus I’m also homeschooling!! Do you have a blog or site where you share ideas or progress or anything?? I LOVE to teach and am so blessed to be able to now do it with my little ones as well.
That’s awesome, Lily! I am actually in the process of starting a RUclips channel in the next couple weeks. However I have an Instagram account (HAPTeach) and a blog (RosyPandemoneumMom.blogspot) I am getting back up for the school year.
Love the idea if the morning meetings, I will need to try it out. I also like the idea for color coding the math work sheet for differentiation. I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do so they will get the right worksheet for their practice and this is awesome. Thank you.
Michelle if you are wanting to get things for the sensory bin I know that when I get nervous or stressed out and upset anything squishy sometimes fabric or something with a pattern I can feel and play with helps me calm down. Another thing I absolutely love when I get upset or stressed is to color, your students may not be able to use the adult coloring books yet but that’s what I use a lot, anything I can draw on or color on helps
I really enjoy your vlogs and I get so many great ideas from you. Organizing, labeling, websites etc. Thanks for putting all these great ideas out there for us.
For the desk privacy dividers you can always minimize the size by taping two vanilla folders together as well. We ALWAYS had these when i was in school!
Its currently 4:13 where i live and im 14 yrs old and i dont know what im doing right now i should be sleeping but hey im not tired!!! But at least i get to see your videos somewhat earlier than usual!!!
Morning meeting is the BEST part of our day. I figured with Kindergarten is would be hard to manage but it starts our day off in a loving and community filled way that makes my heart happy. I can definitely notice a change in their behavior the days we don’t have it.
I love morning meetings!! I always do them everyday but i love looking at your ideas cause i always do the same thing every day and i started brains sprinkles and quiet sprinkles this year, OMG!!! such a great idea!!!! THANK YOU:))
I love the idea of the meetings. I've been doing this about 3 days a week and it has totally made a difference in my classroom community! I also do restorative circles which is an amazing way to conduct the meetings.
I teach in Southeast Texas and we are able to choose our date to have our observations. Walk throughs are always a surprise but only last abut 10 minutes. It's funny that you talk about what you county expects. We don't go by counties here. We go by our town or city school district. Just find that interesting that you and another vlogger I follow always talk about your county. :-)
I love that your school takes i to consideration sensory needs when students need to take a break and chill out. And the fact that they provide it for you?! AMAZING.
Michelle, I love your videos! I just wanted to thank you for the AWESOME ideas you have... I'm not a teacher, I'm a 6th grade student, but my dream is to be a teacher... And when I see your vids I get even MORE inspired. Even though I'm not a teacher I sometimes tell my teacher an idea from yours. I love you❤️
My sisters elementary school teacher always greeted her class in a different language each week. One week it was French the next it was Russian and so on. She really loved it.
I get such great ideas from you all the time! The morning meeting ideas are fantastic, thanks a lot for sharing them and Happy belated birthday!!! Hugs & kisses from Mexico City.
So we have a sensory toolbox also. We use it as like a checkout system because stuff has come up missing. So we have printed all of the names and put it where our box is and they write the number coresponded with each tool which is on a little sheet taped near the check out list. And they check it out. That prevents stolen items and people taking them as a toy. We also have a time limit of how long they can have it (15-20 min) because that seems to be a good time span. But you might not have to put a time limit.
+Pocketful of Primary Michelle , Make Morning Meetings a law at least in your classroom . If nothing else gets done at least always do Morning Meeting . If any other lesson that you teach goes out that Morning Meeting is one of those things that will always take you places with students . Also I believe that it should be law that every classroom has a calm down spot and calm down tool kit . In my view that calm down kit is a long time coming . With that said , I am super glad that you were able to relax and have a fantastic birthday and seeing how much your students love you and that is the most important thing because when you have the love of your students everything else will get worked out and come together in the end . By the way , where did you get those rainbow drawers of yours in your classroom from ? With that said , it's almost like you look good in almost anything . You look good in dresses and boots , like … anything . Keep on smiling !! " Keep Moving Forward ". - Walt Disney - Dwight
@15:48 I remember using something like this in my elementary school, my teachers used file folders and stapled them to get a similar thing to the boards... so if you wanted to make more while spending less money, I'd check that out! btw I'm nowhere in the education world nor do I plan to be but I just got into your videos & they're really entertaining to watch :)
Happy belated birthday! 🎁 Love the Morning Meeting slides. So proud of you for making time in the busy fourth grade schedule to do that. May share that portion of your video with colleagues to show that it can be done (and how). Thank you!
I like the morning meets ideas on power points. I watched the ted talk on implicit bias. We need these reminders, I’m going to share it with my team. Thanks Michelle, smiles from down under.
I'm in 4th grade and live in California, and here we don't have homerooms or cultural arts, or classes. We just have 1 teacher were we learn everything in 1 class. It's very interesting how Maryland does elementry!
October 13th birthday checking in. I spent it with my dad as it was his birthday too. We did exactly what we wanted to do...together lol Enjoy your day maam!
I've started a sensory bin/fidget kit in my classroom, but am having so much trouble managing it. I've had 3 of those marble things break and one of my spiky balls disappear. Right now, I'm in charge of handing out the fidgets to kids I think need them, which isn't what I want to do, but I think it's best for the moment. I can't wait to see how you implement it; maybe it will give me some better ideas.
For new teachers in my school district, we have 16 SPOT observations were admin comes in unannounced for about 20 minutes and 2 formal observations were admin comes in for about an hour.
You can get students to draw in Nearpod too! It might be a bit hard using a mouse on a Chromebook but it's really good if you need students to draw diagrams
As a future teacher, I love watching your videos in order to have an idea of how I'd like to teach. Your videos inspire me and make me want to become a teacher even more :,)
I used to be a huge fan of nearpod and actually paid for the subscription. I used it for years. What I found is that it didn't' integrate super well with how I wanted to customize. I would really suggest you using Peardeck. Its free (there is a paid version) and it does the same thing and is integrated into slides. I found more success with it. I also like to use quizalize.
Hope you had a fantastic birthday! (P.S. you really shouldn't worry about being observed because you are already an awesome teacher! Just keep doing what you're doing:)
Hi Michelle! I am a Junior Elementary Education student and I've been watching you from the beginning! As I get closer to having my own classroom I've been trying to bookmark all of the cool teaching websites and programs that I see. If possible could you maybe link them all in the description or do like an updated "what types of programs do I use". Like for that website where they had all the apps together or things like that! I want to integrate a ton of cool new technology into my student teaching and future classroom and I'm so inspired by the things you do!
I see you do a great work with your students. I know Italian since I have learned some Italian myself. When you greet someone in English you usually say Hi informal or casual speech The Italian word Ciao means Hi in English and you can also use it when you say bye www.wordreference.com/iten/ciao Here is another word you can use when you say bye or see you in Italian: ci vediamo www.wordreference.com/iten/ci%20vediamo www.wordreference.com/iten/reverse/ci%20vediamo Here is the word for good morning in Italian: buona mattina www.wordreference.com/iten/mattina?s=buona%20mattina
I really love the format of your blogs with really useful tips on what you are doing. By any chance will you be selling your lesson plan format for Google slides in your TPT shop. If so I would purchase them if they were editable. I like the format
Love that you shared what you do for morning meetings. You mentioned that you usually spend 10 minutes on morning meeting, do you manage to fit all students in for the sharing time section? I don't do morning meetings yet but I'm really looking into it at the moment. I am so excited to see how relationships improve with my kiddos with morning meetings!
When I was in school, we had 2 Manila folders taped together that we set up as privacy shields for testing. Maybe that would work for your desk size and not be too expensive?
Thanks again for sharing your week with us!! It’s always great to hear from you and get updates! Can we meet?! Lol..hey! You should do meet and greets for your fans!!! (In NC!) -from your RUclips bestie! Haha!💕
I have a student that also does all my work at the end of the day. The first time he did, he left me a note saying "Your job is done. Please go home and rest". I honestly almost cried because it was a difficult day and just having someone showing they care. Now it became his jobs and I might or might not give him tic tacs every day 🙄😉.
coco bebe it’s a safeguarding issue as she’d need to ask every parents permission incase their children were seen in the video and even then I imagine she would get publicly scrutinised by teachers and non -teachers.. she doesn’t need the stress haha!
i had to take a quiz on my personality the other day and it told us what jobs we would be great having. i got education! i really want to be an english major and most likely be a teacher because it seems like the best job ever to have
These have been a life saver for me this week with the roll out of online learning! Do you have tips on how to set up my classrooms so that their is good lighting and the students can hear me clearly (I sound like a squeaky mouse when I record videos!)
You should do a video on all of the websites you as a teacher use for like worksheets and different stuff, websites your students use, your favorites on TPT, and other stuff
Michelle, isn’t it awesome when your students do well on a quiz. Makes you feel better about your teaching. I know what that feels like, and I think we get better once we have been in a grade level consistently and had a chance to teach with the curriculum. You are an amazing teacher! I love learning new things from you. Can’t wait to try the morning meeting.
Yesss! I definitely feel a lot better this year than last year now that I have had a chance to teach the curriculum for a year. Now I already know what misconceptions my students might have and can address it sooner. I also have more resources to pull from and more ideas for intervention! I hope your students love morning meeting as much as I do!
Michelle--I just found your channel in the past couple weeks. LOVING it! I'm a former school teacher (elem, high school, college prof) who now homeschoools my four children. LOVE seeing your heart for the profession and the kiddos. Keep it up!!!! Plus I get to relive the classroom days through you AND pick up some ideas for my home teaching!
Heather Paullus I’m also homeschooling!! Do you have a blog or site where you share ideas or progress or anything?? I LOVE to teach and am so blessed to be able to now do it with my little ones as well.
That’s awesome, Lily! I am actually in the process of starting a RUclips channel in the next couple weeks. However I have an Instagram account (HAPTeach) and a blog (RosyPandemoneumMom.blogspot) I am getting back up for the school year.
Love the idea if the morning meetings, I will need to try it out. I also like the idea for color coding the math work sheet for differentiation. I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do so they will get the right worksheet for their practice and this is awesome. Thank you.
Michelle if you are wanting to get things for the sensory bin I know that when I get nervous or stressed out and upset anything squishy sometimes fabric or something with a pattern I can feel and play with helps me calm down. Another thing I absolutely love when I get upset or stressed is to color, your students may not be able to use the adult coloring books yet but that’s what I use a lot, anything I can draw on or color on helps
I love the idea of different greetings each day! Definitely will be trying this.
I am 12 years old and i really want to be just like you...you are a awesome teacher💚💚
Dirpcurl ciarah same and I live her videos to
Same!
Well.. I am eleven turning twelve this year
I really enjoy your vlogs and I get so many great ideas from you. Organizing, labeling, websites etc. Thanks for putting all these great ideas out there for us.
For the desk privacy dividers you can always minimize the size by taping two vanilla folders together as well. We ALWAYS had these when i was in school!
Its currently 4:13 where i live and im 14 yrs old and i dont know what im doing right now i should be sleeping but hey im not tired!!! But at least i get to see your videos somewhat earlier than usual!!!
Jimena Nuno same
No joke me too, I’m also 14 and should be asleep
Morning meeting is the BEST part of our day. I figured with Kindergarten is would be hard to manage but it starts our day off in a loving and community filled way that makes my heart happy. I can definitely notice a change in their behavior the days we don’t have it.
I love morning meetings!! I always do them everyday but i love looking at your ideas cause i always do the same thing every day and i started brains sprinkles and quiet sprinkles this year, OMG!!! such a great idea!!!! THANK YOU:))
I love the idea of the meetings. I've been doing this about 3 days a week and it has totally made a difference in my classroom community! I also do restorative circles which is an amazing way to conduct the meetings.
I teach in Southeast Texas and we are able to choose our date to have our observations. Walk throughs are always a surprise but only last abut 10 minutes. It's funny that you talk about what you county expects. We don't go by counties here. We go by our town or city school district. Just find that interesting that you and another vlogger I follow always talk about your county. :-)
Yay a new episode! I've been binge watching this past week like crazy!
I love that your school takes i to consideration sensory needs when students need to take a break and chill out. And the fact that they provide it for you?! AMAZING.
So encouraging to see you focus on all of the positive things rather than the negative!
Ms. Ferre IS #TeacherGoals! Good luck on your observation - You'll rock it!!
Michelle, I love your videos! I just wanted to thank you for the AWESOME ideas you have... I'm not a teacher, I'm a 6th grade student, but my dream is to be a teacher... And when I see your vids I get even MORE inspired. Even though I'm not a teacher I sometimes tell my teacher an idea from yours. I love you❤️
My sisters elementary school teacher always greeted her class in a different language each week. One week it was French the next it was Russian and so on. She really loved it.
I get such great ideas from you all the time! The morning meeting ideas are fantastic, thanks a lot for sharing them and Happy belated birthday!!! Hugs & kisses from Mexico City.
I love the idea of morning meetings and the activities you do every morning.
So we have a sensory toolbox also. We use it as like a checkout system because stuff has come up missing. So we have printed all of the names and put it where our box is and they write the number coresponded with each tool which is on a little sheet taped near the check out list. And they check it out. That prevents stolen items and people taking them as a toy. We also have a time limit of how long they can have it (15-20 min) because that seems to be a good time span. But you might not have to put a time limit.
+Pocketful of Primary
Michelle ,
Make Morning Meetings a law at least in your classroom . If nothing else gets done at least always do Morning Meeting .
If any other lesson that you teach goes out that Morning Meeting is one of those things that will always take you places with students .
Also I believe that it should be law that every classroom has a calm down spot and calm down tool kit .
In my view that calm down kit is a long time coming .
With that said , I am super glad that you were able to relax and have a fantastic birthday and seeing how much your students love you
and that is the most important thing because when you have the love of your students everything else will get worked out and come together in the end .
By the way , where did you get those rainbow drawers of yours in your classroom from ?
With that said , it's almost like you look good in almost anything . You look good in dresses and boots , like … anything .
Keep on smiling !!
" Keep Moving Forward ". - Walt Disney
- Dwight
djthereplay you can get those drawers from Michael's!
My schedule is
7:35 - 7:45 Unpack/Announcement
7:55 - 8:45 Specials
8:45 - 9:00. SEL
9:00 - 9:30 I& E
9:30 - 10:55 Block 1
10:55 - 11:55 Block 2
11:55 - 12:25 Lunch
12:25 - 12:55 Recess
12:50 - 1:10 Finish Block 2
1:10 - 2:30 Block 3
2:30 - 2:45 Pack Up
2:45 - 3:00 Dissmisal
@15:48 I remember using something like this in my elementary school, my teachers used file folders and stapled them to get a similar thing to the boards... so if you wanted to make more while spending less money, I'd check that out!
btw I'm nowhere in the education world nor do I plan to be but I just got into your videos & they're really entertaining to watch :)
My teacher dose the greeting in my classroom too! She just started doing it this year.
Happy belated birthday! 🎁 Love the Morning Meeting slides. So proud of you for making time in the busy fourth grade schedule to do that. May share that portion of your video with colleagues to show that it can be done (and how). Thank you!
I love how you get excited for your students success!
This is amazing for a lesson!! I will be trying nearpod when I start student teaching! Thanks so much Michelle!!
you really go above and beyond.
I like the morning meets ideas on power points. I watched the ted talk on implicit bias. We need these reminders, I’m going to share it with my team. Thanks Michelle, smiles from down under.
I love this and i will for sure be doing this with my students. Thank you so much!
I'm in 4th grade and live in California, and here we don't have homerooms or cultural arts, or classes. We just have 1 teacher were we learn everything in 1 class. It's very interesting how Maryland does elementry!
October 13th birthday checking in. I spent it with my dad as it was his birthday too. We did exactly what we wanted to do...together lol Enjoy your day maam!
Can you do a video on all the technology you use for lessons? The nearpod site is amazing!
I love your videos! I'm currently an education major and I have gotten some good ideas from you that I add my own little spin to!!!
Thanks for showing the kitties!!!
You are so awesome. You’re my favorite teacher- ever. I wish I could say more, but I don’t like to get too personal on the internet.
Would love ideas for virtual morning meetings. Thanks!
I've started a sensory bin/fidget kit in my classroom, but am having so much trouble managing it. I've had 3 of those marble things break and one of my spiky balls disappear. Right now, I'm in charge of handing out the fidgets to kids I think need them, which isn't what I want to do, but I think it's best for the moment. I can't wait to see how you implement it; maybe it will give me some better ideas.
You can get a big sensory kit like that for 10 to up to 30 dollars off amazon
i love your vlogs so much, they're inspiring me as a teacher...and i love your class too. i wanna see how you teach in the class.
You are so inspiring Thankyou
I would cut the privacy boards in half and I LOVE Nearpod! We use it on our campus 💕
For new teachers in my school district, we have 16 SPOT observations were admin comes in unannounced for about 20 minutes and 2 formal observations were admin comes in for about an hour.
Aww how nice. Happy birthday
Hi, I love your channel, it gives so much delight and happiness❤️
You can get students to draw in Nearpod too! It might be a bit hard using a mouse on a Chromebook but it's really good if you need students to draw diagrams
I'm a high school student and I'm not even interested in teaching but I love watching your videos
I always loved the pea pod fidgets: you squeeze it and a little pea comes out. Sort of like getting older. 😏
10:13 my phone is the same marble case. Cool
You really inspire me to be a better teacher! Thank you.
Love your hair like that💕💕
Between yesterday and today I watch 75% of your vedioes
Good luck tomorrow! Looks like a great lesson! Love the dot differentiation!!!! 👍🏻
When my teachers used privacy boards back in the day, she used regular folders but gave us 2 per desk.
Jennifer Jiang I still do it that way.
I did that back in 1st/2nd grade 9-10 years ago
I love NearPod! We learned about it in my instructional technology class and it is great!!
Your such a great teacher!!!
Your such an amazing teacher
As a future teacher, I love watching your videos in order to have an idea of how I'd like to teach. Your videos inspire me and make me want to become a teacher even more :,)
I used to be a huge fan of nearpod and actually paid for the subscription. I used it for years. What I found is that it didn't' integrate super well with how I wanted to customize. I would really suggest you using Peardeck. Its free (there is a paid version) and it does the same thing and is integrated into slides. I found more success with it. I also like to use quizalize.
Hope you had a fantastic birthday! (P.S. you really shouldn't worry about being observed because you are already an awesome teacher! Just keep doing what you're doing:)
Hi Michelle! I am a Junior Elementary Education student and I've been watching you from the beginning! As I get closer to having my own classroom I've been trying to bookmark all of the cool teaching websites and programs that I see. If possible could you maybe link them all in the description or do like an updated "what types of programs do I use". Like for that website where they had all the apps together or things like that! I want to integrate a ton of cool new technology into my student teaching and future classroom and I'm so inspired by the things you do!
Michelle you inspire me everyday you won’t see this but keep working hard
You're so engaging and vested in your student's success. Love that!
I just started following you and I loveeee your videos.
Oh my goodness the little squishy pea brain break tool is adorable! What a cute idea!
Most K-3rd grades that I know usually do Morning Meeting. My school had all grades do it for SEL.
I see you do a great work with your students. I know Italian since I have learned some Italian myself.
When you greet someone in English you usually say Hi informal or casual speech
The Italian word Ciao means Hi in English and you can also use it when you say bye
www.wordreference.com/iten/ciao
Here is another word you can use when you say bye or see you in Italian: ci vediamo
www.wordreference.com/iten/ci%20vediamo
www.wordreference.com/iten/reverse/ci%20vediamo
Here is the word for good morning in Italian: buona mattina
www.wordreference.com/iten/mattina?s=buona%20mattina
NearPod seems kinda like Pear Deck by Google! We use it in my classroom and it’s such a fun and cool tool!
I love your channel!
What our teachers used to do with the desks is turn them around so that the open side is away from the students
I really love the format of your blogs with really useful tips on what you are doing. By any chance will you be selling your lesson plan format for Google slides in your TPT shop. If so I would purchase them if they were editable. I like the format
Love that you shared what you do for morning meetings. You mentioned that you usually spend 10 minutes on morning meeting, do you manage to fit all students in for the sharing time section? I don't do morning meetings yet but I'm really looking into it at the moment. I am so excited to see how relationships improve with my kiddos with morning meetings!
moring meating
When I was in school, we had 2 Manila folders taped together that we set up as privacy shields for testing. Maybe that would work for your desk size and not be too expensive?
That groan on monday is my life 😂
Thanks again for sharing your week with us!! It’s always great to hear from you and get updates! Can we meet?! Lol..hey! You should do meet and greets for your fans!!! (In NC!) -from your RUclips bestie! Haha!💕
I have a student that also does all my work at the end of the day. The first time he did, he left me a note saying "Your job is done. Please go home and rest". I honestly almost cried because it was a difficult day and just having someone showing they care. Now it became his jobs and I might or might not give him tic tacs every day 🙄😉.
I absolutely love your necklace!
Happy belated Birthday
your videos are gold.
Could you film an actual lesson? I like hearing you talk and all, but seeing you in action would be really cool!
coco bebe it’s a safeguarding issue as she’d need to ask every parents permission incase their children were seen in the video and even then I imagine she would get publicly scrutinised by teachers and non -teachers.. she doesn’t need the stress haha!
I dont think she can for her kids
She could always blur there faces but I also agree that it might not be the best idea! :)
I would love to know more about your formal observation! I'm currently planning for mine, and would love some tips!
i had to take a quiz on my personality the other day and it told us what jobs we would be great having. i got education! i really want to be an english major and most likely be a teacher because it seems like the best job ever to have
Maybe with the partitions you could get away with half the amount by altering up and down a row.
I use the "legos" from the target dollar spot for fidget toys
Love your Morning Slides , can you tell me how you get your ideas for team building ?
0:33- Hey look! Its my birthday! Michelle were birthday buddies
I can't wait to try the "Andy's Coming" game with my Pre K class!
I love your channel so much .
So many ideas! Love it! Wondering if you give homework every night?
I love Sundays because it’s upload day!!
Good Luck on your observation!
I want to be a teacher when I grow up but watching these videos I don’t think I can wait anymore 😂😂
Something similar to your nearpod website, is pear deck
happy birthday!
Yess happy birthday
LOVE THIS CHANEL SOOOOO MUCH ❤️❤️
These have been a life saver for me this week with the roll out of online learning! Do you have tips on how to set up my classrooms so that their is good lighting and the students can hear me clearly (I sound like a squeaky mouse when I record videos!)
My teacher had a huge tub full of stress balls but no one used them for “stress relief” 😂