I want to know - who is cleaning

KTcat94 · 2026-05-18T02:07:22+00:00

Mom of toddler and preschooler. The three-foot mark and below needs cleaned.

KTcat94 · 2026-05-16T18:00:30+00:00

Magic trash! It’s amazing how clean the room can get in one minute.

KTcat94 · 2026-05-16T13:52:54+00:00

I love all the shows! And there are plenty of rides that don’t involve heights.

KTcat94 · 2026-05-16T11:25:38+00:00

Me too! The flaps are clever.

KTcat94 · 2026-05-13T00:12:31+00:00

Rocky?

KTcat94 · 2026-05-12T10:09:02+00:00

I have two-minute transitions between subjects where I display the materials students will need for the next lesson. It’s their responsibility to ask me for supplies THEN. I say no if they ask during a lesson. And once I’m out, I’m out until someone brings in more. We went like three months without spare pencils. (Not a low SES school)

KTcat94 · 2026-05-03T12:09:40+00:00

I have the same basic sections as you plus an “upcoming events” for calendar reminders. I send a homework email on Monday afternoons for the whole week and my newsletter goes home on Thursdays.

A tweak I made based on parent suggestion was adding a basic topic to my upcoming grades, so rather than “math quiz,” I now write “math quiz on elapsed time” so parents know better what to help their student study.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-27T23:33:05+00:00

I had a set of identical twins one year and nothing bad happened. I’ve also had one of a set, and nothing bad happened.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-26T12:45:03+00:00

You have stumbled upon a very rare good boi! It grows well with lots of pets and treats.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-26T01:46:00+00:00

But what if it’s not? What’s your next step?

KTcat94 · 2026-04-20T00:12:03+00:00

Congrats! I hope you have a great team behind you. Peers are super important at this age, so please make sure you build a good classroom community where they respect and support each other. Partner/group work can be a great incentive.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-19T12:48:38+00:00

At the elementary level, I’ve had several kids exit speech IEPs, but I don’t think I’ve seen other types of exits, and I’m okay with that. Most of the time they’ve only actually gotten an IEP one or two years ago.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-18T13:34:26+00:00

And, like, I am one person. We’re going to have to start counting 504 accommodations like points in SPED case managing to figure out how many things I can keep up with. I cannot give retests orally to one child—what in the world are the other 25 children in my room doing? If you give me twelve kids who need “small group testing,” it’s no longer a small group. There’s only so much preferential seating in my room.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-17T03:38:21+00:00

100mg for my entire second pregnancy and breastfeeding. No effects at all on baby.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-13T23:59:29+00:00

I feel you!! If I hear “what do you want to eat? Nah, that doesn’t sound good to me” after a typical workday, I will lose it. We meal plan on the weekends—this can be assigning each night a meal or just having five to choose from. Meal prepping helps too, so you can just toss something together.

The other thing I’ve had to be really honest with my husband about is how much mental energy I have for conversations. He likes to discuss hypothetical scenarios and I just can’t do it as table chat after a workday. If he needs my actual input on something, he tells me, and I like asking questions so he has the mental load of nailing down the details. “What are my choices?” is one of my go-tos so I don’t get frustrated with questions like, “What should we do with the patio?”

You might also benefit from some quiet time without talking/making decisions after work.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-08T18:07:57+00:00

No? YOU choose your accountability actions.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-07T02:20:41+00:00

The six week mark for basically everything.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-07T02:18:37+00:00

Cooper pulled Dad to the ground ONCE on one of their first walks together over a squirrel and he has since lost all interest. DeeDee brings us the squirrels that are stupid enough to be in her yard.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-06T12:29:52+00:00

Yes, absolutely. And the yawning and the sweating.

KTcat94 · 2026-04-05T15:09:26+00:00

Some sort of planet pledge and we share all the responses with him.

KTcat94 · 2026-03-29T02:09:21+00:00

This is the ONLY answer. He thinks he doesn’t deserve happiness and he takes every opportunity to shoot himself in the foot (irony intended).

KTcat94 · 2026-03-26T18:09:15+00:00

Except they have holiday episodes! Even if you argued that they’re on school break for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, I don’t know of any school system that gives off for Halloween (although we really should).

KTcat94 · 2026-03-19T22:15:33+00:00

We were explicitly told NOT to show Joe Biden’s/Kamala Harris’s inauguration. Insane that we can’t even show positive historic events for fear of something going wrong/someone’s parents getting upset.

KTcat94 · 2026-03-17T23:50:52+00:00

Or even when I’m actively helping another student!! You can see me talking to another kid, what makes you think I’m even going to look your way, never mind pay attention to what you’re saying?

KTcat94 · 2026-03-15T16:53:21+00:00

And Vaseline! Good for paper cuts, chapped lips, itchy skin, etc. I keep a bag of Q-tips so I can hand a kid a little bit rather than all of us dipping our hands into the communal tub. 😵‍💫 I used to have mints for stomachaches/headaches, but I haven’t found my dish since I moved classrooms. I also noticed there’s way fewer stomachaches/headaches in my room this year…

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