 welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. Today is day six of classroom set up and I'm gonna try to get a lot done today. My goal is to get the final three tables completely cleared off so that next week I can come in and start decorating. Another thing I want to get done today is hanging the lights up around the whiteboard and so we're gonna see if I can get that done. I have cash with me today. He's outside here playing with hot wheels. Hi baby. Hey I love you. All right so I'm gonna go ahead and get started. The first thing I want to do is I want to try to clear off the organization table which is covered in all things like organization, book bins, like filing boxes, construction paper storage, kind of like more on like the storage end of everything. So what I want to do is kind of make a decision about where I want to put everything. I'm thinking if you watched in the last video I like just talked about this but I think I want to use this countertop space to store student notebooks and or binders. I don't know yet if I want to store their binders in here. They're going to have two binders. One is going to be their grade level binder and one is going to be their science and social studies binder because I'm teaching two subjects and I just want to have a place for them to keep all of their paper flow. I like to hole punch all of the copies that I make for them so that they can be kept in their binders and the binder just really serves as like a giant folder for storing like mystery science, paperwork, any other like journal things that they're doing like it's just kind of like a paper flow place for them to keep things and blank lined paper and things like that. So I think what I might do is use these book bins to store notebooks because my teammate, one of my teammates already had like three different colors being used and then there were folders in there so I'm thinking that she's probably color coding her supplies so I might go ahead and do that too just to kind of keep it easier on the kids and I think I have enough book bins to potentially do like let's see one two three four five I don't know if I can use teal. So you want two three three four oh okay so let's see one two three four five six so I have enough green one two three four five six I have enough purple and I have enough yellow to do three bins of notebooks and three bins of binders but I don't know if the binders are gonna fit in these if not I do have these bigger book bins that I thought about using and then color coding the notebooks by duct tape so that they know which homeroom they're in. I thought about doing that another thing I pondered was potentially making each one of these big black book bins a table and then for each block there would be five notebooks so that essentially there would be 15 notebooks in this one but they would be specific to the kids that sit at that table and then the notebooks themselves would be color coded by block so there would be five pink five yellow five green pink would be block one yellow would be block two green would be block three and then each like whoever sits at each table they put their book bin or their notebook maybe potentially their binder it could probably fit in here and then they can go to their table box and pick up their stuff because it'll be labeled by duct tape. So I don't know which one I'm gonna do yet I kind of feel like I'm swaying more this direction just so that because I could probably use these elsewhere or maybe just store them because I have room to store them so we'll kind of see I kind of feel like texting Nicole who's my ELI teacher and see what her color ideas are so yeah I'm gonna do that real quick but otherwise I'm gonna put all the other stuff kind of like away in the meantime while I wait for that that I will probably end up doing the book bins for storage because they're a little bit smaller and I don't know if I want to store their binders in here um the only way I'd be able to put these out on the counters is if I took this down and I really don't want to do that the other option I have is to put all of these back here and make this where I store their materials but I just feel like I would rather use that back counter space as a lab place because there are plugs back there and I might need to plug things in so I think what I'm gonna end up doing is using these um and doing just like their notebooks up here and then I'm not really sure about their binders I might just end up having them keep their binders I don't know because I'm not gonna be able to fit five binders in here what I could do is put their binders in these I don't know I'm gonna have to ponder this I could put my paper cutter over there or maybe on top of my thing and then I could just use it on that table since that's like my crafting area and then I could put this somewhere else yes honey yeah it'll be fourth grade I don't know where I'm gonna put this though because I could probably put it in here but then this is gonna have to go somewhere so I don't know what I'm gonna do I'll have to fiddle around with it and see all right guys here is the progress so I did get the lights up around the whiteboard and then I got this table cleared off there's just a couple things on it that I still need to sort out and it's funny like stuff keeps moving from table to table but these are just like the tools I'm using to like do things and then this is just trash and like cleaning stuff so really this isn't like a thing that needs to be dealt with like this is done it's just you know I have to sort it out and then this one's getting close to being done these are all my posters I don't think I'll use all of them so when I'm done and I need to store them I'm planning on like putting them so I put them in this box this is how I store all my flat stuff put them in this box and then my plan is to just like drop the box behind here like I'll move the cabinet out a bit more and I'll just slide the box down in there so that all my like flat stuff can get stored this is empty so I'm trying to like pull down all my empty stuff and like fill it with things so a lot of my technology stuff that's on this table will probably end up going in this bin in fact why don't I just be smart and pull this over now so that I know that whatever I don't use from this table can go in here and then I have one more blue bin up there that doesn't have anything in it and so I'm thinking about what I'm going to put in that probably like extra decor stuff that doesn't get used up I'll probably put in there and then everything else will be put away so we're getting there so let's talk about bulletin boards I want to do one here make this like my little space like my board where I can put like my pictures and like my cutesy stuff maybe my good vibes thing could go there I'm thinking either my good vibes up here like on my black shelf or maybe over here I have this clear file thing I want to hang like right here on the wall and then maybe this clear one I could hang here on the wall because I want to be able to keep like paper stuff up and out of my way instead of on my tabletop and then I'm thinking I'll put like all my like Darth Vader stuff here because I have like a bunch of Darth Vader decor like little pictures and stuff so I'll probably do that and then I'm thinking I'm going to do I'm still waiting to hear from all of you guys because I know by the time like during the time I'm filming this I like just posted my classroom shopping and haul video so I know that like nobody has seen the the next video where I ask for advice but I'm thinking about doing one two three bulletin boards with my paper um maybe one long one and two shorter ones border them and then in between each one I can hang one of my pictures you guys have seen these for years um and I'm thinking for the beginning of the year in the middle I want to do seatbelts everyone and do miss frizzle um because I have my magic school bus that I made years ago I just need to put a new picture in it and like change the name of the school and then make it like magic school bus themed and then I'll do a social studies board and a science board um and I'm I don't know what I'm going to do yet I think I might do like the five themes of geography there just like simple and then on this one um I'm not sure yet we'll see I don't want to I don't really like doing silent teacher boards where I put like information up on the walls because I feel like the kids don't ever use them so I don't like wasting my time and then I'll be putting student work out in the hallway um I also need to make my big because and that will go up on top of the whiteboard right there um and then I have these posters that help students with talking like how to speak in a classroom um and I really want to hang them but I don't love the way they look like they're kind of like I don't like the colors that they are so I'm thinking about remaking them and I don't want to laminate them because I feel like and they're shiny and you can't see them but I want to recreate these um I wish I could just like do like the like poster printing at like office max or whatever but I don't want to spend the money to do that um but I want to print something out like this where it's like like purposeful sentence frames or like phrases that I want students to use in the classroom um I ended up putting all of my binders which I need to go through these ones and like consolidate because they have a lot of similar stuff in them like this one needs to be updated um I put all my binders with like pretty much all my paper stuff I don't really have a lot of stuff on paper but I have like six minute solutions read naturally text stuff like certain things that I've kept in binders and I just stuck it under my desk here I don't use them that often but I do use them for like small groups and intervention so I'm going to keep those there and then I also put this under here and I'm going to use this as like a desk space um and so yeah it's just kind of it's kind of coming together um slowly but surely so my goal for the rest of the day because it's almost two is to finish getting this table cleared off finish getting this table cleared off deciding what posters are going to stay out and what posters are going to go away and then um maybe start doing a little bit more decorating so yeah that's a plan empty these need to go back in the cabinet that needs to go back up so this doesn't count and then all that's left over here are my posters which I keep inside of this thing um whenever I move them I keep them in that so that has to be put somewhere well I guess that's kind of partly like decor so I'm not going to stress about it so now that I've gotten the tables cleared off what I would like to do is potentially put like five chairs on each table that way the chairs are up off the floor and then I can start moving tables around and really like dial in the layout like exactly where the tables are going to be because all the other furniture is placed um so nothing else is changing furniture wise except for the tables like they're all going to be scooched back a bit because I want to have more space in the front um I don't know if I'm going to use my sit spots but what I might do is use the dots along here because that's where my students are going to line up so I might end up using those not as a floor seat option because it may not be feasible for me unfortunately but for when they line up um I always do line up in ABC order anyway so what I can easily do is just have them like put you know one through thirty right here on the floor and then when they line up they line up on a dot so we'll see so I'm gonna do that I'm gonna put these away put all this away and then it's only two eleven so I got that done pretty quickly I think what I might do then is maybe do my bulletin board since I already know what's gonna go on that and then that way I can start kind of doing a little bit of decorating I do still need to put this stuff away though this is like this is like small technology stuff and then this is like super random junk that was like either in this desk here or like in my drawers um before so I need to go through this and like pull out what I actually need this I need to just put away um and then I can actually start decorating like this stuff is gonna go in my desk drawers over there and then yeah so I guess that's what I'm gonna do next is just kind of start um I'm thinking these my table buckets I have such a hard time with these and put a comment down below if you feel the same way I wasn't asking you uh okay explain to me how you guys feel about this because I go both ways I like having them I think they're great but they always just end up junked up and gross and I just feel like like I want to put them out I want to put like crayons and five pairs of scissors and five glue sticks and all the things the kids are going to need but I also feel like when I put these out on tables they just either a mess with them b put their trash in them and c they never clean them up anyway no matter how much you ask them or remind them um so I have half a mind to just like store them here all the time and then when it's time to use them we pull them out like I even wouldn't mind just putting like three and three there but I really want to utilize this countertop as a station space at some point because I would like to do like station one station two possibly station three station four station five and then maybe one on the rug in the front um I just want to have enough station space so anyway let me know in the comments how you feel about these I've tried everything I've tried these I've tried the big ones I've tried sterilite bins one for each table group and no matter what I do it always ends up happening where all the stuff is just thrown in there and it doesn't ever get cleaned up and it's just annoying so I like I don't know I feel like when it's time to do a notebook task I could like have the glue the scissors and like highlighters in there and I could just drop them on a desk when it's necessary and then they can just go put them back because I really just don't want to deal with the mess that they make with them I don't know we'll see okay I might get back to work I'm not going to film myself doing this work yet if I decide to go work on my bulletin board I will put that in this vlog but I'm not gonna film myself putting stuff away um just to kind of save you know that for later so I'm gonna keep jamming out to music and I will update you guys shortly like right now all right y'all here is the final update of the room for the day so um you'll notice that the chairs are all down on the tape in under in under the tables um the tables have stuff on them again but that's okay because everything that's on the tables is decor or walls um so I also um covered this little board here with butcher or bulletin board paper and a border uh what else did I do I brought my rug out to start flattening um I ended up putting this chair here in the front I probably won't I don't know if I'll keep it there um we'll see it might just be like a cozy spot to sit for like morning meeting or something I don't know I need to take this tape off of the board I just realized that I hung up my date cards which I don't know if I'm gonna keep those I don't love them um I kind of want to print them on cardstock and just do white um because they're kind of shiny and hard to see and then what else I moved my desk over to its final resting place um and then my cart my teaching cart is there what else did I do oh I hung my bulletin board behind my desk and I ended up framing my frizz dress picture and then I hung this and I realized this isn't centered but it's only on thumbtacks so I can move it um I was thinking either move it to the center or scoot it over and then put something else there um and then my miss frizzle box that my sister made me so cute I can't like lay it down I need to display it what else did I do um I kind of just like put little random things in places just as like a way to ponder where they're gonna go these are all my borders um I kind of started like buddy deadying around with like plants and my diffuser I think I'm gonna put these two on this wall like stacked I don't know what I'll put in them maybe just pictures I don't know um and then library just stuck some stuff around I like this idea where I have a plant a lamp and a sharpener on each end of this like huge shelf so that it's equal I still don't know what I'm gonna do with like my treasure box my candy jar and my spinner I'm not positive I don't want it to be in a place where like the kids are passing by it a lot because I don't want them messing with it so no treasure box and candy jar might stay over there so that they can't touch it and then the prize well I don't care um and then I have like pictures and stuff that need to go up and things um I still don't know what I'm gonna put in here we'll see um and then there's just more random decor pieces that need to go somewhere this might go there or there or even there I don't know yet I have that clock so I don't need technically too but I have it so I'll probably yeah that's pretty much what's been done today but I'm getting ready to go and today's Friday so that means I will not be back tomorrow I'm going to giggle my fanny off if I come back on Monday and stuff has moved because they're trying to uh do the carpets I'm just gonna giggle um I hope that they would be kind enough to like pick things up put them on tables at least um yeah just to respect my things I'm sure they will but you know so anyway I'm going to pack up and then I will be back on Monday I'm planning on being here all next week to a finish the classroom and b start planning and prepping for the first few weeks of school I'm going to be starting the year off with like a couple of weeks of like basic skills um making observations drawing models um asking questions with various little labs and activities and then I will jump into my first unit of and I'm probably going to use mystery science and I'll be doing the energize everything unit um with mystery science as long as there isn't like a set curriculum they want me to use I've heard that the curriculum they want me to use will not be ready until January which is fine um I'll just I'm breaking it up into units I'm going to do physical science this quarter and then second quarter I'll probably do life science and maybe a little bit of earth like weather and climate um just because with like winter and stuff would be cool to observe weather and then um quarter three earth science and then quarter four just like wrapping up everything and just kind of like reviewing the whole thing and then of course I have to mix social studies in there as well I'll probably do like a week on a week off either that or I'll do like Monday Tuesday Wednesday science Thursday Friday social studies I don't know yet we will see I don't want to like make a commitment and then not follow it or follow through so we'll see I also want to know like what my principal thinks like if he cares if I do like a week on a week off three days on two days off we'll see either way I also need to paint these cabinets next week so I think the paint that I bought is going to be fine I mean it's not perfect but it's black and it looks much better than like the scratched ones and then the tops don't really need much at all so I think I'll be okay so yeah that's how it's looking I love the LED lights behind the TV they're my favorite all right time to go I hope you guys enjoyed today's classroom setup video if you did give this video a thumbs up don't forget to follow me on my socials instagram tick tock and I'll see you all in the next video bye guys