 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Apple's NTR's vlog. If you are new here, my name is Charlotte and I am a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in Northern Arizona. Today's vlog is going to be a tour of my brand new classroom at my brand new school. So I previously taught in the east valley of Arizona in the Queen Creek area and we recently just moved up to Prescott area which is a northern Arizona city and it is a very small town and so we're kind of like a quad city area. So I am going to be teaching in the quad city area. I won't tell you exactly which district I'm in just to protect my own privacy but I am very very excited to be here. So today I thought that we would come in and just take a look at the empty classroom. I did build like a digital version of my classroom on the Sims 4 a few months ago which was super fun and I think what I might end up doing in a couple weeks is like rebuilding that just based on the changes I'm making. Kind of just after coming in here and seeing everything, the furniture, the layout, what's available, things like that, I might end up changing the layout of the classroom on the Sims so keep an eye out for that. But I thought today that I would just come in and give you guys kind of like a blank canvas tour of the classroom. There's a lot of stuff in here that needs to come down and be removed and like change but overall I'm really excited the classroom is beautiful. There's a lot of really amazing things in here. There's also a few things that obviously I'm going to either change or remove. So what I might do today is just kind of take you guys through. There's only a couple things that are missing from my classroom that are mine. One of them is like a large bookshelf like that. It's the black one that has like the two-story and then there's a really big box that has like my lamps in it and like some bulletin board paper and like all of my taller items that I didn't want to just carry around. I wanted them in a box. So those are the only two items that are not currently here but everything else is here and it's good to go. So I will just give you a brief tour. So just keep in mind all the things that are currently up in the room that are like like physically you can see them on the walls and stuff. Just keep in mind those are not mine and they will be coming down. I think maybe I'll do that today. But anyways you come in the front door and then we pan this way and you can kind of see my huge wall of beautiful cabinets. Now I will have to repaint these. I'm planning on getting a bottle or a can of black chalk paint and just doing a nice thin overlay. I'll probably have to wash these down first and then completely paint them but I did get permission from my principal to do so. And then my teammate who's next door, Jocelyn, she is also going to be painting hers so we might just share a can of it since we won't need a ton. One thing that I have noticed is this beautiful thermostat which is adjustable by me. So right now it's 70 degrees in here and it is perfect. I already started putting some things in these cabinets and like I said a lot of stuff is not mine so I'll have to go through it and kind of dump. But a lot of my things are already in the cabinets in boxes, not organized at all. I will be coming in a few days during the summer and organizing those the weeks that I'm not working for my sister. So you have this really tall one which is great and all of these shelves can come out so if I want to make like a tall layer I can. But again, most of my stuff is in here. Some of the old teachers things are in here which I will probably get rid of like I'm not going to need this one because I'm not a reading teacher unless I want to use it for small group which I will be conducting small reading groups so I don't know for sure if I need to keep those or not. And then they left this huge box of Legos which I'm psyched about because I do a lot of earthquake stuff and also the Lincoln Logs so I'll be using those for science for sure. And then again I have a sink, it looks like the drinking fountain does not work. I hate that this is like taped up like that so I'll probably change that because I don't like that look it's kind of icky. And then I have these under cabinets as well. This is a computer cart. This is a computer cart, Chromebook cart. It looks like everybody gets one. They're like Dell which is really nice. And then you can kind of see the TV over here. Is this a microphone? That's sick. Okay so my big question was do I have to keep the TV? Oh well this I'll probably get rid of this. I don't really need it. And then this looks like just a regular computer which I probably don't need. So my big question was do I have to keep this TV here? Or can I move it around the room? So as I'm looking it doesn't appear to need like a special plug. It's just kind of plugged into the wall here. As far as I know I'm going to just kind of peek about and see but from what I'm looking at it looks like it doesn't need like a phone jack or anything. It looks like it just needs a plug. So my plan is to move it to that side of the room and have it sort of in the center of the two whiteboards because what I want to be able to do is like have like concept model space and then like vocabulary over here. So what I'll do is like I'll make my three vocabulary things and then on the way I can like draw on one side and have vocab on the other side and then over here I can have like my daily schedule and like things that never really go away. So yeah I was thinking I could put things that like don't really move on this whiteboard or see if they can um well no I'll probably just leave this here. Or I could put my small group table in front of it and use this for like small group stuff. And then I do have two beautiful windows that have a great view. I'm not going to really try to show you the view though just for privacy reasons. There's a lot of rolling chairs in here which I don't need like there's one two three and then mine four. I actually decided to bring my office chair here because in my new house I will not have an office. So I won't have a necessity for that chair. And then this big desk over here is probably going to be either one moved to a new location or two removed altogether. Cash be careful there's a mouse trap down there. Um and so yeah um so yeah this whole back wall is all bulletin board material. And as you can see there's a lot of like icky like stains. Um so what I'll probably do is cover most of this with like bulletin board paper. I actually considered doing like a better than paper wall but I think that's going to be a lot of work. I would want it to be this one and I just don't think that I have the funds to do that. I might be able to I mean I'd probably have to buy like five more rolls of it but we'll see. Um and then let's see what else. Okay so the other thing I can have six groups of five students at each group which is fine I'm used to that. I will probably see if I can either A get another table or I will create another table with these like hexagon tables that are around because I do have quite a few of them and make seven because I like having seven continents. And then this table is completely damaged as you can see someone's brag tag is like shoved under there. Um yep someone's brag tag. So this table is completely destroyed. What I'm asking I already kind of put in a work order to either get it removed, fixed or replaced which my principal has assured me they put in a work order and so it might get fixed. If not um I might try to ask them if I can repair it myself with like some like super good glue and like Mod Podge just so that I can remove this tape because I'm not interested in having that. I would rather like Mod Podge the table and just you know not have that or honestly like I'd rather even have desks that can form small groups. Um be careful please. So anyway these tables are really nice though they're very large I think they're bigger than the tables I had before and I like how they're gray and black. And then I also love how I have black chairs. Um these are great because A they're black and two um when you push them all the way in the kids can still stand like right here at the table because they do a lot of standing work when working on their um hands on stem activities so that's going to be great. But yeah there's a whole lot of stuff in here that I don't actually need like I'm not probably going to need many of these tables. I won't need whiteboards. Um I won't need this desk. I do love how there's a desktop computer though. Oh god there's another mouse trap under there that's scary. Um so I'll probably hook this up and use it for like class dojo like have class dojo pulled up on it all the time and then the kids can go over there and like take points and give their self points. I really like that. Alright so I forgot where I left off my sweet principal stopped by to say hello. Um another thing that's different is I have carpet instead of tile floors so I'm gonna have to be really strategic about some of the labs that I do involving like water and mud. Um but overall so yeah she just explained that yes I can keep this TV anywhere that I want so that's great and then she also mentioned that I can dump anything I don't want into the hallway and just I don't know and just mark it as trash or please remove. So I think what I'm gonna do today while I'm here is just take down all of the things that are on the wall oh and she also said that if I wanted to repaint the room that I I can um it just has to be like a neutral color so what I would probably end up doing is painting it like just plain white um or maybe like a really like lighter shade of beige um just because like the damages around are just kind of like like this kind of stuff I just don't want to deal with it like the paint's chipping and like she also said that this desk is going to be removed which is wonderful news so I will also spend some time today taking all of the stuff off of it okay that's fine and then she did confirm that there is going to be a replacement of this table and possibly giving me one more and I said that if I needed to I could keep this one and just fix it if she gives me permission I can just use like the mod podge um to fix this table and then I could have seven so that's great news okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to spend a little bit of time here today maybe an hour just taking down all of the posters and things that are up on the wall and um try to get them either put somewhere for trash or for any other teacher like the parts of speech my reading teacher might want that and then like these math posters my math teacher might want that um same for up here so I'm gonna just kind of remove everything for now and then then possibly try to assess some of this like furniture like this thing I do not want that is trash she told me um these two tables I don't know if I'll keep them I might keep them and maybe paint the edges of them with like a black chalk paint because I hate like the smudges and then this one I might keep I don't know yet because I'm planning on like if you watched my classroom sims classroom video I'm gonna put my desk my my uh rise and fall desk over here like this is gonna be my little corner but I'll teach from here too like it won't just be like a desk because I have my black organizer and then my rising and falling desk will go there maybe my black table will go there in the corner just so I have more like space um and so all of this will kind of be put back there the tv is gonna go here and then I don't know about peach's cage I'm thinking maybe like maybe I could use one of these tables for peach's cage or put her on top of this counter top but I also think maybe I'll keep these for like stations because I do a lot of stations um so those could be really good and then they would be just like permanent station tables I'm not sure yet I don't want to waste them because they're great tables maybe just get rid of this one because it doesn't have the black legs because I'm so anal about that like see how this table has black legs and this table has like tan legs so yeah that's what I'm gonna do and then cash and I are gonna go have lunch and go for a walk around the lake so yeah let's do it also my principal just brought this to me and she said that every year one of our local churches sponsors the schools and so in here are a few gift cards for supplies do you want to open it it's okay to rip it whoa an amazon gift card it's for a hundred dollars wow that's amazing what does the card say that's so cool so we'll save this for like markers or notebooks or dry erase markers or anything else mommy needs for a classroom isn't that cool baby not for toys all right so we'll put it in there and keep it safe okay so I've done a little bit of taking things down I think I got all of it minus like but I did get permission from my principal to paint this room so what I might do is go look for like two cans of like discount paint like something that they don't want anymore something that's very neutral like very light maybe even like a creamy white or something and just come in here like the next couple weeks and just paint oh thank you so much but what I did think about was since I do have this sink area I will probably use it for like a mini kitchen if I'm allowed to so I'm thinking is I'll plug in my microwave on the top of the counter here like maybe over there and my coffee pot and then I can put my refrigerator right here with like an extension cord up to that plug or I can put the extension cord on the floor snaking around that way I'm not sure yet um because I do have this plug here so I could snake one down like around on the floorboards I don't know if I want to do that though so we'll see but I did get this wall cleared off and I did get a couple of pieces that I weren't sure I was gonna keep out into the hallway like that weird filing cabinet I'm probably gonna get rid of a few of these rolling chairs because I don't need them I will probably keep this one and maybe the one that's back there I don't like how they like recline that's kind of weird but I might keep them anyway just for like a small group table or like as a prize like they can sit in that chair for the day um so it's like a dojo prize they could roll this chair over to where they sit and sit in that instead of the black chairs or I don't know yet this is definitely gonna be like my desk chair I need to clean it it got destroyed in the move um oh you're putting that in my pocket thank you another one so I don't know we'll see about the whole fridge thing it's either gonna go here which would make the most sense because I'm thinking that this cabinet up above the sink is where I'm gonna keep like my snacks and my food and like things that I need to cook with like dishes and things like that and then above over here I'm thinking I'll do like cleaning supplies make this like a cleaning cabinet or I could put like he's got vinegar in here I could put all of my like liquid lab supplies in here like even paper cups things like that so we're gonna stay another hour because my teammates coming in and I just want to chat with her for a little bit so I think I want to do right now because this is what I'm going to do is I'm gonna be storing all of these crates up on the top of the cabinets so what I might do right now is just put all of them up there so that they're up and out of the way and then I can bring them down when necessary because they're all kind of on this countertop and I could get rid of them and just put them up and then that's done so I might do that all right you guys so I did a couple more things in the classroom just got some things up off the floor because I know the cleaning crew is coming in this week and then I ran into my teammate Jocelyn and we talked for quite a long time it is now two o'clock in the afternoon cash and I are starving so we're gonna go grab some lunch and then I'm sure the next time I go to school yeah they're flying their kite um I am sure that the next time I go into work it is going to be time for me to set up my classroom and I know a lot of you are going to be like why are you going in on your time off I am somebody that really likes to have my classroom looking nice and I don't like rushing I don't like being put under pressure to get my room done when everybody comes back to school I'm gonna have a lot of new to the district trainings that I'm gonna need to go to and so I just want to have my room completely ready before I have to go back to work so I will spend a few days hold on please I will spend a few days in my classroom during summer just getting things set up I do have to repaint the room so it is going to be quite the job but once that's all done like next summer I won't have to come in and spend as much time because I did just move classrooms and I feel like that setup kind of just takes longer than the average so anyway I will be sure to pick up the camera and vlog that for you guys the next time I'm at school but otherwise don't forget to follow me on Instagram and TikTok and of course hit the subscribe button so that you can see all the fun things I'll be posting this summer thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one bye guys