 Hey everybody, welcome back to the vlog. Hello there, my name is Charlotte. If you guys are new here, I am a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in Southern Central Arizona. But today is going to be classroom set up day number two. Sorry, there's a glare on my glasses because I'm standing in front of the window. Is that better? That is better. So I'm starting today's vlog off at home. I have quite a few things that I'm gonna be taking into my classroom. Before we get into the video, I just wanted to shout out Zinf Optical. If you guys have been here for a minute, you know that I am a glasses connoisseur and I just love wearing and getting new glasses. And these are one of my new pairs from Zinf. Sorry, I am actually blind. So you're probably seeing a lot of zoomed in right now. But these glasses are so adorable. I actually think they're men's based on the shape and the size. I think these are men's glasses, but I really don't care because I think they're really cute. 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I'm gonna head to Target and HomeGoods and then I'm gonna head into work and so I will catch up with you guys once I get there. Hello you guys, I'm back in the classroom and it looks like they have unstacked all the desks. Not sure why, but I am here. I just got done running my errands. I went to Target, HomeGoods and Walmart. And so what I've gathered is mostly on this cart. I do have another load which just has my Cricut and another couple things that didn't fit in the cart. But hot tip for you guys, if you don't have one of these carts, you need to get one and just keep it in your garage or keep it stored in a cabinet because these carts are amazing for bringing things in and out. And I teach on the second story so bringing things up and down the stairs is just a nightmare. So I have everything here. I'm gonna unload this, go back down, grab my last load. But while I've been gone from my room, I've really been pondering what I'm gonna do about desks or tables. So I just walked into my teammate's room and she has tables right now and it looks extremely crowded. So I think what I'm gonna do today is set up a mock setup, see what it looks like and if it suits my fancy, I might just keep these desks because aside from like the random couple that are the wrong height, they're all the same level and what I like about them is I can store things in them. So like when the kids do projects, I can do like first period put stairs here to dry. I might be able to get like a couple of those like things that you would put under the sink to like raise things up. I might be able to get a couple of those and put them in here and then I can have three projects drying at a time. So I kind of wanna keep my desks but have them all raised. Does that make sense? So anyway, that's what I'm gonna do today. I'm gonna put together a layout and see how it looks and then go from there, keep the desks or switch for tables because I don't know. I think I might just. I just ate lunch and I did a little work cause I'm a little sweaty. So my teammate ended up having three extra tables. So I went ahead and grabbed one just to kind of see and I ended up seeing her layout once these three were gone and I realized that this will be great cause I can do six tables with five at each table. That's 30 kids and that's even if we have 30. So I am gonna go out and try to find, I have one coming from Mandy. I just need two more. So let's go get that now. Shall we? I had to restack all these though. So I'm like pooped. So we're gonna go get one more table from Mandy's and then I am gonna need stools. I have enough for three, but. Yeah, I went, I was gonna wait and then I had to go to Walmart to get something else and they were all there. So yeah, just go without me. Go without me. Yeah, I ended up just going cause I had to go for something else. So yeah, so let's go get that table. No, I was gonna do the. I love you. So update, I did end up getting another table. So I officially have four tables now. I do need to raise this one up though because it is a little shrimp, but I do officially have four tables at this point. I just need two more. So hopefully fingers crossed they will find two more tables for me, two more rectangles hopefully. So what I'm gonna do at this point is kind of try to organize everything that's over here because I can't really do much more about the layout until A, the desks are removed and B, I have the rest of my tables and the rest of my stools. I am gonna need about 15 more stools to have a class set of 30. At this point, I'm planning on doing six tables with five students at each table. And that's if I have 30 students. So hopefully there will be enough space for everybody. And I'm gonna have room for my little like center things too. The only thing I'm gonna be giving up is the extra storage space inside of the desks. But I think it'll be okay as long as I utilize like the counter space in the room a little bit better. Like I think I could try to move some of this stuff somewhere else and utilize this as a drying rack. So I just need to be creative. And then I could also just send their projects with them to each class and have them store it in their homeroom. So I don't know what we're gonna do about that yet, but we will figure it out. Sheila, my new teammate, which you guys will meet on the vlog, I'm sure, gave me this really cool inbox. So I'm gonna label these block one, block two, block three, hang it somewhere. I'm thinking maybe right here on this wall. And that is gonna be my inbox where kids turn things in. So that it's like off the wall, up on the wall and not taking up table space. So yeah, I'm just gonna putts around. And I might make a project table so that if I have any helpers come in, like I think Aiden might come in tomorrow, he can make glue sponges. So I'll put glue sponge stuff over here. Over there where I thought I would put it. And it doesn't act the stars go as big as if it was on the ground. So I'm gonna try to find a lower point in the room, maybe by the door so that it can project onto the whole ceiling, because it does work on the floor. It's just, it needs to be lower. So I think I might put it over here. So I'm gonna try it and think. Just on the ground. So I'm gonna just mess with it right now. This is what it's projecting. And if I tilt it a little bit this way, it does project on the whole room. So I just have to get it in the right spot and then we're good to go. Okay, so this is where I've decided to put it for now. My rats will be right here. And I'll show you what it projects. So it essentially gets the majority of the room. I think I might be able to get it further out, but it looks like it's projecting like right in the center of the room. So it's either gonna stay there or I might move it to the other side so that it gets more of the middle of the room. And then I love it. Like it just adds one more thing to just make the room something else out of this world as Frizzle would say. So I'm loving it. And I like how it moves. It's just calming, I feel like. So we're gonna stay there for now and I'm gonna just keep trucking along. So I realized I hadn't updated you guys in a while. So I did a few things here and there. So I moved that little black table here and my rats are still gonna go here. So it's gonna be kind of a busy area right there. But my rats will fit perfectly here. What I'm thinking I might do is put my two bucket chairs over here, which I moved this square cube thing over here under this board. So I could put one there and one there. So this could kind of be like a cozy spot. Either that or I'm thinking about making this space a group space. So what I could do is turn this sideways and then have the table. So it could be kind of like a group, like a project center. And so I could actually use the tabletop as like an actual, like have a purpose for it. And then I could put my bucket chairs up front. And then that way like my flexible seating kids are kind of in the front instead of the back. And then so this looks really crowded right now but I'm planning on moving things around a little bit. I decided to move the supply bins over here because I'm thinking about making this entire area a student station where all of the things that they need are here. So my little inboxes are hung up here. I would have spare paper lined paper, blank paper, whatever else paper that they would need. And then in these drawers I have like band-aids and stuff that the kids are consistently asking for. So this would be like the area where everything would be that they would need. I don't know about leaving this here yet though. I kind of hate it, but I'm not sure yet. We'll see. Because this fits perfectly under there. So what I could do is just put band-aids and stuff in a different box and put it on top of the table and then just move this somewhere else and use it. And then I did end up putting these two black tables here under this board next to this wall because I figured this could be a small group area not just for me, but for STEM stations. So that could be a station spot. This could be a station spot. Up front could be a station spot. The bar could be a station spot. And then over here on the floor could be a station spot. So I have a ton of space for stations, which is exactly what I wanted. So I'm kind of just finagling and trying to figure things out. I did spend a good amount of time over here. I've got Taylor up above the white, the inbox so I can say, hey kids, put your name on your paper or whatever. And then I have block one, block two, block three. They just put it in there and then it's done. So yeah, I think I like this. I don't know about that though. So yeah, I need to figure out something to do with these because I don't necessarily want to move them out of the library, but I'm not gonna have a ton of kids like sitting in the library because I don't have like a reading time. I have reach in the morning, which is like our intervention time, it's 40 minutes. And I'm pretty sure I'm not pulling groups. I'm pretty sure I'm like the enrichment room. So I will probably be doing stations at that time, which means that kids aren't gonna be like sitting and reading for an extended period of time in my classroom other than their warmup, which will be at their table. So I think these are flexible seating like kids purchases with their tickets or their dojo points. So I might just plop one on each side of the room and call that a day rather than having them crowding the back space. Cause what I really want to do is have this space available for like circle time for SEL. And like if I want to do a circle lesson or I want room to put like do musical chairs. And so I really just want to have this back of the room empty either that or do like a perimeter and have the whole middle of the room be empty. I don't know yet for sure. If I do the whole middle of the room then this really doesn't matter cause the tables will be back here anyways. And then the whole middle of the room will be empty. So kind of pondering those ideas. I don't know yet, but I have time. So it is currently 125 and I'm gonna be here till four o'clock. So I have plenty of time to figure this out. I really wish these desks would go away but unfortunately they're just here to stay for a while. So I think what I might do is move this little white table back here and see how I like it as like a project space and then go from there. I am a very OCD person and I am all about symmetry. And if things aren't even or symmetrical, it bugs me. So I moved these things right here and although they look okay, it's bugging me because it's not symmetrical. So I don't really know yet. What I'm thinking I could do is just put the table there, call it a day, maybe move this to the front next to that cube thing and use it as a counter space. I could still put kids there and I could use it for drying. These are the things that go in it, which if you look at what's in here, like this is empty, this is Play-Doh. So realistically that should go in the cabinet over there. This is like water stuff and then like a crap ton of pencil sharpeners. I do have like an abundance of storage bins that are like empty. So I could use that as like a drying space. I don't know yet. I wish I had Jennifer here. Jennifer, I need you to come and help me decide what to do. Okay, let's see what happens. Hey you guys, okay, so quick update is 324. Let me show you what I've been doing. Okay, so I got this area organized. I took everything off of this cart and organized it. I decided to put my coffee stuff on this cart because I very rarely use this until it's cold out. So I thought I would just get it out of the way. What I like to use this cart for is throughout the year as I start planning and doing all of my professional duties, I start putting things that I grab for a lot in this cart, like my grade book and my standards book and any curriculum and any like documents. I kind of just put them here as like another place and then I can roll it out of the way and put it here. But for right now, since I haven't done any planning yet, I'm gonna just leave it empty and then whatever I feel like I need to have all the time, I will put on this. But for now, this is a great storage space for my coffee stuff. So I did organize all of these bins. I went through and kind of like threw things out that weren't being used. I decided to use this bucket to put curriculum books in because they're not exactly things that I use all the time but they're definitely not things I wanna get rid of. And then I went through all the binders just to make sure that what was in them was actually useful and if not, I threw them away. And then any empty binders I'm gonna use for students. And then, so yeah, you can see that this kind of got cleaned out. And then I did organize all of my teacher drawers. I'm not gonna like walk you through what's in the desk. You can obviously see for yourself. Yep. And then this side. And then this is like my personal drawer. So like snacks and all the things for me in there. And then I did organize my desk a little bit. It probably won't stay this way, but it is for today. I set up this ring light, which I bought at HomeGoods. I thought I would use this for filming for YouTube and Instagram and stuff like that. And then I just put this mirror here because if I need to like fix my makeup or when I'm filming, I can turn the phone around then I can see what's being filmed. So that's kind of cool. And then my computer and that stuff. And then what else have I done? I ended up moving this table right here. And what I'll probably do is make it just a station table. And so depending on how the layout is, I can just pull it out and kids can work there. I do have a couple of little random flexible seating choices. So I might store those under this table, but for now I'm just putting all of my project items on there, my Cricut, my laminator, my glue sponge stuff, everything that needs to like be like for projects. Once I start coming in tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday next week, I'll start actually like doing projects like putting up bulletin boards and making stuff for the classroom. So that's kind of there. This guy just travels everywhere he go. And I don't really know where he's gonna park. I think I might park him over there when school starts. So and then I'm taking this stuff home, ended up doing the library this way. The rats are still gonna go there. So just picture them there. I do need to put these books that are in this bag away, but I thought the library looked cute. If we do circle time, I can just sit in one of these chairs or I can push them back and that works for me. And then this is gonna be that student center I was talking about. Obviously I need to organize it better and like clean it and stuff, but everything pretty much as is is going to be here. I'll probably put like sanitizer and like another thing of tissues. And then that is there for now. I'm starting to put things that are leaving this room over here. So these big Ikea frames I bought a couple years ago. I don't remember how much they were, but I'm gonna ask if any of the teachers at my school want them before I throw them away or stick them in my garage. This is all garbage. This is gonna go down to the workroom. And then these need to be returned to the teacher's resource area. Stuff that needs to be kept. I don't know what I'm doing with this yet. So just ignore that. But what I'm gonna do now, my last project of the day because I do wanna leave at four, I'm gonna go ahead and put these books away. And I have this pretty book display what I wanna do is kind of pick out my science books and display them. So like I've pulled a few here, like this cracking up book I just found, the Four Spheres of Earth, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Energy Island. I've had this book forever. It's cartooning for teachers. It's like how to draw cartoons. I have never used this, but I want to. I think it'd be so fun. My science source book. So I'm gonna go through these and pull out anything that's related to science. And that way I can display them here and then on my other picture books and read aloud, I can just plop down there. And I might even have room to move some curriculum books over here and just get them out of the way. So that's what I'm gonna do next. The empty space. Okay, awesome. My camera died while I was putting books away. But this is what it turned out looking like. So I did manage to put all of my picture books and read aloud in two of the compartments. I found a space for two storage bins and got them off of this, which is great because it will allow for more projects to go on it. And then all of my like science related books are now up here. I feel so accomplished. I did pull out a couple of like first day of school books because and like Danny and Darla, just because I think those would be great for like the first week of school to possibly pull out and use. So yeah, so that is done. So I know I can put like a plant here, maybe a plant there, or I can just leave it blank. Like I don't need to put stuff on every surface. You know what I mean? Tomorrow though, I need to tackle this cart. This is like what I teach from. So like this cart and this desk are where I teach from. So those two things need to be organized before next week. So maybe that will be a project for tomorrow. So yeah, that is the status of the room. I'm feeling really good. I do have tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday next week. And then our official day back next week is Wednesday. So if I can get the classroom completely done by Tuesday next week, I will be ready to plan, start printing. I might even be able to be done with this room and start printing out stuff probably Monday because if they bring me my tables, like they're supposed to, my custodian said that he would do his best to try tomorrow or at least Monday, he would take the desks out, bring the two other tables. And he also said that there are no more stools left in the entire school, which I don't know if I believe because I had all stools at the beginning of the year. I traded them with Maria and then she brought them back and somehow I only have 14 stools. So I think somewhere somebody took my stools and I don't know where they are. So I might be sending out an email just, hey, if you guys have any extra stools laying around, I'm trying to get up to 15, please let me know if you can spare a few because I feel like in a science classroom, stools are just better, but if I can't find them, then he will replace the stools with chairs, which is not a huge deal, but I just feel like in a science classroom, stools are more ideal. But it is what it is, if we have chairs, then at least we have a place to hang our backpacks. So I'm trying to think positively. Anyways, that is it for today, you guys. I am exhausted, it's almost four o'clock. I need to go home and eat. I've hardly eaten all day. I need to drink some water and I'm gonna come back tomorrow and get some more stress then. So thank you guys so, so much for watching. 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