 Good morning my friends welcome back to another classroom setup vlog If you guys are just coming in my name is Charlotte, and I'm a fourth grade science and social studies teacher We are departmentalized and I teach in Central Arizona. So today is classroom setup day number three I'm starting off again at home Just wanted to show you guys what I'm taking to school today and today is Thursday. It's actually 8 o'clock in the morning I'm gonna be going and grabbing myself some breakfast because I've been dreaming about this omelet from this restaurant So I'm gonna go pick it up and then take it to school and eat it But I wanted to show you guys what I'm taking to school today. So let's head on over there I feel like every time I face that window. I have to take my glasses off Sorry girls, but you are not going to school yet If you guys are new here, this is temple Tina and she is my class pet And her sister Peach will be joining this school year These are the rats that I keep talking about so if you guys are new here or you haven't been with me for a while I do have Some pets now. So this is that big cage that's gonna be joining me I'll probably take this with me to school Monday just because they're happier here right now But starting Monday, I'll be at school every single day except the weekend So I will be taking them to school with me on Monday. Well, good morning. Did it break? Okay, you go get yours and you can vlog too Okay, so this is the cart that's coming with me to school today These are all of the plants that I brought home for the summer Okay press it Okay, shoot all the plants and Tell us what you're doing We got a future vlogger in the making Oh, you can videotape too So anyway, I have one two three four five and then a sixth plant in here that I had to water last night look at you Can tell so sad I am gonna water all of these guys when I get to school though I also have the binder that I took home that has my standards in it And then anything that I printed while I was home is in there I've got my ink joy pens and then I have a strip of LED lights that I was thinking about putting somewhere in my tripod You love tempa teeny, huh? Take your picture You're so cute. All right guys, so I'm gonna get my husband awake And then head on over to the Queen Creek olive mill Which is where I'm getting my breakfast from and then I will be heading to work I did choose three bulletin boards that I think I'm gonna go ahead and make so we'll see if I keep that idea and And you guys will get to see those in just a few short minutes So if you guys want to see classroom set up day number three then keep on watching. All right, you guys So I am here in my classroom and guess what? We have six tables I'm so excited My custodian brought me the other two I just traded that one for one in Sheila's room because it was a different grain And I wanted them to all match and she didn't care so we just traded tables So now I have six tables. I will have six groups of five And I'm really excited so I'm still waiting on the stools Sheila said she'd give me five of them Which puts me at about 21 stools, so I would only need nine more and that's if we have 30 students So I think I might stick with the stools and just try To find a few more so I think I might put an email out today Asking if any teachers have any spare stools to donate them to my classroom They brought me like first grade chairs. So I Don't know if those are going to work for me I might have to find my custodian and just tell him listen. These are fourth graders I don't think they're gonna be happy sitting in first grade student chairs, so Am I being nitpicky? I don't think so I think that like in a fourth grade room they should have you know big people chairs My janitors work so hard though, so I do appreciate all of their help and all their work So I'm not gonna whine or complain Um, okay, so I got my lunch or sorry my breakfast. Do you guys want to see it? It's probably cold Okay, so this is an omelette and it's made with spinach betta cheese artichoke red pepper tomato And then the potatoes. I'm not gonna eat this I'm gonna sit down I'm gonna eat Drink my coffee and ponder what I'm going to do today and make it to do list That's the plan. So I just finished my breakfast. I'm gonna keep working on my coffee and my energy drink I need to remember to drink water today Please remind me. So what I'm gonna do right now is just put all my plants away And find permanent homes for them My teammate just brought me five more stools So I just need eight more stools and then I'm good to go on stools So fingers crossed. I'm gonna send out an email just saying hey if you have any extra stools like any of them would help And hopefully I can get eight and then I'm set so all I have left to do is wait for these desks and these chairs To be gone. So all right, I'm gonna put the plants away. Let's get started John is in here He's taking these little chairs away and he's bringing me a few more stools. So I think all we're gonna need now is four more stools So I'm really excited. It looks like the stools are gonna work out So I have this little LED light strip that I bought for my office at home and it just doesn't really work in there So I thought I would hang it Right here around this bulletin board. I think it will be long enough It just looks like this. It's just LED lights and I have these little Light clips so I think I might do this and they'll probably stay on the wall because the back of this I've tried hot glue. I've tried command strips and nothing will like stay stuck to this So I figure if I use these little guys, I can just clip it onto the wall So we're gonna see if that works. They all match the desk mountain is gone and all I'm waiting on are four stools 25 to 26. I'm golden if we have 30 all I need is four more stools I can always just pull chairs in it wouldn't kill me to have four chairs in the room. So now that I have Furniture I'm officially going to set up a layout So two things two ideas that I have Put you down so I can concentrate Okay, so my two ideas are Set up sort of like they are now obviously I'm gonna bring them this way and spread them out more and have Then scoot it up because I would like to have a space in the back for community circle time Or like if I want to do a floor activity or if I want the kids to work on the floor I want there to be plenty of space so I can either do it that way or I Can sort of make it in a horseshoe fashion Which is where I would have two desks on this or two tables on this side going this way To going that way in the back and to that way that way I have the whole open space in the middle to do floor activities I don't know. I just feel like utilizing the library space for like community stuff is better I don't know I'm gonna try and space them out first and see how I like it probably go and Here's the view from the front They're not all in line. So just bear with me for that. There's a ton of walking space over here, which is great My computer carts probably gonna go right here. I don't know where that table is gonna go yet. So Hang tight for there for that. I might Move it or remove it. Hello Okay, so This is the view from the back. There's plenty of space between the tables Which is lovely So you can kind of see there Now if we end up getting less than 30 students if we have 20 or if we have 24 Then I can turn the tables this direction and have them all facing the front and have one on each end and two in the middle But I sort of love this So So there will be a kid here And then two on each side a kid here two and on each side So there won't be two kids like back-to-back in that space. It'll just be the one on the end. So hopefully it works out and I still probably could work on the spacing more but this is pretty close to what it's gonna be like and then this I Might have to move these ones up a little because this one's always like crowded But I mean it's got a there's a pretty good amount of space here that won't be there So there's a pretty good amount of space here for that kid to Back up and for people to still walk around. So I might push these ones up further. We'll see The other option is to push all the tables together to make like long rows But I just feel like it would be easier to like Say okay table one table two table three table four table five table six rather than like row one row two row three So yeah, it's looking really good. What I think I'm gonna do now is clean out my teacher cart because that definitely needs to be done and That way I Can start stocking it up for this school year. So I think I'm gonna just roll it back here and sit down and start Kind of sorting through it Throw some stuff away I am gonna keep my notebook from last year just so that I can reference like what things we put in it But I will make a new one and Then after that, I think I'm gonna start working on Stuff for walls. All right, the cart has been cleaned and organized So what I usually do on the top of this thing is keep all the things that I would need for teaching so I always keep my personal notebooks in here and then Glue sponge or sorry, I will have my own glue sponge But I keep spare glue sticks in here headphones And then I'll always keep like a sharpened pencil up front in case there's like an emergency and then lotion for myself I will put a brand new box of crayons in here in a few days when I get those out And then in here I have my skin color crayons. I don't Give these out to kids if they personally ask for them Then I will let them come up and grab one if they need it but it's very rare that we need those except for social studies and then I Keep my spotted so like our PBIS tickets in here I have my mouse pad for when I'm up there with my mouse and then on the side I keep dry erase markers on the cart the kids don't really ever need dry erase markers So it's fine for them to be on my cart and then down here. I just keep so I have stamps. I use these for Checking work and checking notebooks so and taking assessments So like if I walk around and I notice a kid has written the correct answer or you know Have done it right or understanding I give them a stamp and then if I don't stamp a kid Then that means that I need to see them or like once you get your stamp you're done You can move on so stuff like that highlighters for me markers for me. These are like marker pens I love these for note taking the kids can see way better if I use marker pen Then if I use pencil and then these are just permanent markers for labeling things So I have one per table group and I keep them here. I pass them out They bring them back when they're done Then I have some Clorox wipes and then at the bottom is where I keep some engagement tools I don't have a bunch of them out right now Or brain breaks, so I have these brain break Cubes, they're just little exercise cubes. I have bubbles. I will probably keep my little emoji partner cards in here as well as some other like grouping Structured stuff in here so I can just pull I need to wipe it. I realize it's still like dirty from our erosion Unit, but and then I do keep my lightsabers here. I have one for Students the green one So when students come up to the board and then I have one red one for me So again students can come up to the board and those are my pointers. I just found these magnets here on the side So anyway, I'm going to take this up to the front now that it is ready to go So I will create new notebooks like I mentioned before and I'll probably keep these in the back of the room Like at my desk for reference and then put the new ones in here But my students always know if they need to copy a notebook page They can come up to my cart and grab my notebook and they can copy from there Anyway, the cart is ready to go. So I'm gonna move that up front and then I don't know what I'm gonna do next Probably work on bulletin board stuff. Okay quick update The room is pretty much done aside from like getting rid of the junk This table is gonna be gone I think I might give it to Maria my old teammate or I might put it next door in Rob's room see if he wants it And This is what it's looking like. I took all the stuff off of this now Keep in mind this will have a black tablecloth over the top of it So none of that will be seen all of this will be on a black tablecloth I will probably move these two black tubs and put them somewhere else to store things in But I got all the stuff that goes on each table group Put on the table The cart's ready to go. I need to hang up my look what we're learning thing Here and I might actually section off the whiteboard maybe We'll see I only have one learning target per day. So it doesn't take up a lot of room So as you can see things are coming together What else did I do I don't know if I showed you this So Sheila gave me this cute little news board. I think it's adorable I'm gonna probably hang the lunch menu here and then possibly the district calendar So that we can tell when we're here or not and then I just rearranged that a little bit What else did I do? That's pretty much it so Essentially all that's left to do is boards and then planning Okay, I wanted to show you guys my bulletin board ideas So I found them on Pinterest yesterday But I was thinking about This one on the top Going on this board right here and it's just a frizzle quote and it says take chances make mistakes get messy And it looks like this It would be super easy to do all I need to do is cut out letters and then do the little beakers and stuff and I also want to do a big Paper-sized version of all of the supplies my kids will need throughout the day So like a giant pair of scissors glue sponge all that stuff and have them up on the whiteboard So that every day when they come in I can just slide over the supplies that they're gonna need for the day And they'll already know what to take out So I'm gonna do that board. I think I really like this one too Science is like magic, but real so it's between Get messy make mistakes, whatever or science is like magic I think I might do science is like magic but real on this board and then out in the hallway I think I'm going to do This one I'm trying to zoom in on it. Oh I think I'm gonna do this Welcome back have a magical year with the magic school bus because I have a board out in the hallway that I need to decorate So I might do that That one will be student work. So I don't need to do that one And then I do have to do Something over there I might do like The scientific method and make that like a content board And I start with the scientific method even though it's not really a standard It is a standard practice that needs to be done So I might put science content there And then for now since I'm not going to have vocab for a while I'm going to put vocabulary or my classroom rules up there up front and then I'll eventually take them down So I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to sit down and work on I'm going to do this one first Science is like magic but real So the way that I do this is I use power point on the computer I just type out the whole thing one letter per page And then I will print them out on colored paper colored card stock I probably won't laminate these just because it's one extra step and I really doubt that I'm going to take it down Like let's be honest So I think I'm going to start with that one and then after that I will go for the magic school bus board So I think at this point Um I will pause and then once I get everything Cut out and made I will update you guys on the board. Hey guys, so quick update. It is about 245 And I'm probably going to leave today around 330 Um, I want to do one or two more things before I go. I want to find my classroom rules And put them up front because I do still have those from last year And then I remembered I have an engineering process Thing that I want to find and possibly put somewhere Um, but I went ahead and printed a bunch of stuff I've got some bulletin board things here printed So I do have my Cricut, but I don't have my actual computer Here that has the Cricut thing on it and I realized I could download that to my work computer, but Honestly, I can give my husband a pair of scissors and he can help me cut them out Over the weekend and that will be fine. So I have two bulletin boards worth of words Printed out and that is pretty much all I needed because I have the rules already done Just that board and just that board and then I do need to print some stuff at home in color So I'm going to print a few things at home in color. I need to make a to-do list So I'm going to do that right now while we're talking Because that just makes sense Okay to do So To do a list done so now I'm going to look for my classroom rules and hang those up Hello my friends, so I am now at home in my office. I'm editing this vlog and I did not finish it out yesterday. Sorry I have this terrible lighting in here right now, but I just wanted to thank you guys If you made it all the way to the end of the video Congratulations. You stuck it out. Um, thank you guys so so much for watching and for joining me on this classroom setup journey There will be another couple more videos in the series I am going back to school monday tuesday and then I do have um Like meetings and stuff wednesday thursday friday and then that whole next week So we will probably transition from classroom setup blogs to Plans for what we're going to do the first and second week of school and then we'll get into regular normal teacher vlogs So thank you guys again so so much for watching I really appreciate you being here and for your support If you're not already make sure to follow me on instagram at apples and tiaras to see more Daily updates and just to keep up with me and I will see you guys in the next video