 Good morning, good morning, good morning. Hey you guys, welcome back to Apples NTRS. For those of you that are new here, my name is Charlotte Valdes and I am a fourth grade science teacher in the East Valley of Arizona. If you're not familiar with Arizona, I am in like the Phoenix area, but I'm not in Phoenix. So I'm on the outskirts in more of like the country land areas. So anyway, today I thought I would give you guys a tour of my fourth grade classroom. It is currently August 2020. So right now I'm really just here by myself. So for all of you watching, I'm going to focus more on my virtual learning space in the beginning of this video. And then I will show you guys the rest of my classroom as well. But I figure if I show my virtual teaching space in the beginning of this video, if you're really just looking to see the virtual setup then the video or then the beginning of this video is for you. So I'm going to go ahead and give you just a quick pan of my room. And then I will show you guys everything in detail. I will try my best to link things down below, but you guys most of what I have in my classroom was either purchased on Amazon from Target from Walmart. So there's nothing super special or super like secret about everything that's in here. Most of the printed items are from teachers pay teachers or I created them on my computer, cut them out with my cricket and went from there. So I will try to tell you guys as much as possible where things are from, but I promise you I'm not going to link everything down below because that takes me hours to do. And I just don't want to link things when I can just send you to Amazon and you can find it on your own. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. So I am standing in the center of my classroom right now directly in the center. And I'm just going to give you guys a quick like pan around a good 360. And then I will start zooming in on things. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. So something else that I need y'all to keep in mind when you're watching this video is that I have my room set up for students as if they would be returning in person with no social distancing with no pandemic and so when the kids do return in October my room will change and I will do an updated classroom tour but it won't really be like a video like this where I show you every detail it'll just be an update of how I've changed things around so anyway let's get into the tour this is my favorite type of video to watch I love getting inspiration from other teachers seeing the way they set up their room seeing the things that they have and you know I'm I'm a consumer so if there's something in your video that I like and I want to buy it I'm gonna be all over that so I'm gonna show you guys my virtual setup first I'm gonna just kind of zoom in on this area and because this is kind of like the main hub of the classroom right now and then I will show you everything to you guys so I'm gonna flip you guys around and show you everything in here alright you guys so this is just a quick little pan of my virtual teaching space so I do teach from my school I prefer to teach from school I prefer to be able to come into work and just be at work and have work and home separate because when I go home I do not do any work and it is nice because I'm a mom and a wife and I like to work out and I like to clean my house so I like to focus on things at home when I'm home so I'm gonna give you guys a quick little tour so first things first I am missing an essential item in my classroom and that is my smart board but they are coming in in the next couple of weeks to install a giant television screen which will take place of the smart board so that is why I actually have my setup over here because I'm waiting for that screen to come so that I can use it as a monitor to see my students so that is kind of why I've plopped myself up here rather than back there is because I am anticipating this lovely screen and it'll be perfect for working on so that's why I'm up here but anyway the first thing that I am seeing is my teacher chair so this is just the average teacher chair that every school gives most schools and I do have my get-your-teach on little chair cover here and I keep my planner and my grade book tucked away in here for just quick easy access and I actually never kept anything in here and I just realized that I could put these in here so grade book is just a binder and then I do have a happy planner it's not a teacher planner but it is a happy planner that I use for keeping plans and school related stuff in so there's that and then over here I just have this cart which is really nice and handy it's nice and close by and in it I just keep all of the things that I use that I do not want cluttering my actual workspace so pens pencils I have a lot of blacks in here because I do have a student with a visual impairment and she has a trouble seeing other colors other than black so whenever I take notes or whenever I do any type of writing I like to do it in black so that all my students can see everything I'm doing so in these little buckets here I just have my doorbell there it goes actually up there we'll wait for that to end and then in here I just have some more technology so this is a charger I can charge my camera I can charge my wireless speaker my globe timer and then anything else that requires of one of these little guys and then I also have a webcam in here just in case I decided I wanted to use it for whatever reason and then I also have a random regular timer down here just in case I need that in the top I have crayons and markers for drawing in our notebooks I also have some sticky notes for if I need to take a note real quick and then stick it somewhere tissues for obvious reasons and then my notebook so I have science notebooks social studies notebook and then I keep student info in here so like every week I write down which kids are not passing and then I make sure to send that parent an email I have my easy grader my science source just in case I have a content question and I need help with planning and then I also have my fourth grade science and social studies standards laminated so this one's cool it actually compares the next gen standards with Arizona science and it's really cool to see the correlation in the differences and then I also keep any other like important documents from the school in here like scheduling anything like that a whiteboard just in case I want to help a student with math during office hours and then I also have some more other planning resources here these are just like I can statements and things like that that I might use so that's all that's in my car I also have my Mr. sketch markers here for Fridays when we do drawing during Google me I love that and then I always have my lightsabers here I know Shelly from elementary or early adventures uses one of these in her classroom and it is just a pointer so I have two of them one is green this one's for the students and then mine is red because I'm Darth Valdes and Darth Vader has a red one so I use a red one over here I have my little mini whiteboard which is what I write everything I need to do during my Google meet-on so today is Friday I need to make sure to talk about the unit one quiz I need to make sure to remind the kids that they need to register for online or in person which is starting on October 5th so something I need to remember to do and then coming this way I do have my breakfast waiting for me we'll just get into the desk space so right here I have my document camera this is really cool I showed it in a couple of vlogs ago but you just flip the Lenovo around and point this camera down and then it projects to the screen so this isn't doesn't need to be plugged in you just take it around with you but I have it right here for if I need to use it and then I also have this one which is for my phone so if I wanted to project something in Google meet I could just join on my phone and then face it down so like if I want to do any demonstrations or anything like that which I could do on that with this but I like the quality of my camera better on my phone so I do like to use that for that right there and then I do keep a fan here because it's Arizona it's hot and then I also have a wireless speaker which I love to use when I'm just sitting here by myself and planning this little nifty tripod is for my cell phone and it does pop little legs out like you guys just saw and I can put my phone there I like to use this when I'm doing my virtual teachers lounge and just during the day I keep my phone there so that I can see it and that's from Amazon as well and then I do keep a little like desk planner and I just start writing things down for the next week so that when I walk in on Monday I can see everything that is going on for the week and then you guys this beauty whoo this is the star of the show today so this right here that you guys can see is my flexi spot computer desk riser and I'm gonna have to put you guys down to show you how it works but you guys I do have a link down in the description below for you guys that will take you to a $15 off purchase so if you use my link below to purchase this flexi spot computer desk riser you will get $15 off now it is around $130 but y'all this thing is a game changer if you are virtually teaching if you're teaching in school it's still really cool but for virtual teaching it is a lifesaver I used to be set up over there and I had my virtual like Google Meet space set up with this table and I would move my computers from there to there three times a day and I know that doesn't sound like a lot but it got really annoying and so when flexi spot reached out to me which yes this is technically sponsored they did send it to me for free I was like yes please I want that so I do have this I'm gonna show you guys what it does in a minute but it is like change the game for me I also have one of these computer stands for my district computer which is where I watch the kids on so I watch the students on this computer and then I present and my camera and my mic are all on this computer because I like this camera better so this is my computer and then I have this one just propped up so I can see the kids but when my big TV is here it'll be a lot better so I am gonna show you guys what this desk riser does so I'm gonna plop you guys down right here maybe I'll put you here now you can see better okay so there's a little button over here that you just press it's like a little lever you press it and then you kind of help it up a little bit and then it rises so that you can stand and sit at your desk and what I love about this is that when I do my Google meets I can stand up and make it feel more like I'm teaching rather than just sitting there being lazy not to say that if you sit during your Google meets you're lazy but I just feel more energetic when I'm standing up and I love that so it does come with a keyboard tray that is removable so all you do is unclip it here and then you can take it off so if you don't want this on there blocking your space that's fine I personally like it I have my mice on here and I have a keyboard that's connected to that computer so that when I'm working since it's not on the desk I don't worry about like reaching up there and typing it also has a mouse on it which is kind of cool and then yeah so you just rise it up you guys can see it's kind of like chest height for me so when I'm teaching I'm like kind of right here my hands are up here and I can see everything in front of me and it's just really handy for you know the type of movement that I'm doing every day I really love it so anyway I'm gonna move on like I said there is going to be a link down below also guys it's really sturdy it's made very well it doesn't shake it's not rickety like I'm not afraid it's gonna break or anything like that and so yeah you guys can get these at flexi spot com and I will have a link directly down in the description that will send you to where you can get $15 off so I'm gonna continue here with everything else on my desk so this is this really nifty remote it has these little plugs that you plug into the wall you plug your devices into it and then you can actually turn them off with the switch so I have this whole front space on a switch I have my whole whiteboard light on a switch and then I have all my lamps on a switch so you just and then everything turns off so with the click of a couple buttons I have everything turned on for the day I really love that that is an Amazon find and it is linked in my storefront and then I have my little globe timer here so this is for just like if I give kids two minutes to do something I can just hit this timer and then I put it on the screen and when it goes off they know that they're done or if someone's sharing or something like that this little mouse is from Amazon this one's connected to that computer and this one's connected to that computer so all right enough of me talking about my virtual teaching so guys that is my virtual teaching space I absolutely love it it is really really working out for me when the kids come back to a school I will move this back to my teacher desk and I will probably still use it quite often just because I do like to stand I used to have my desk on that guy and this will just make it so that I can use that teacher desk and still be able to stand up and stuff like that so alright that's my virtual teaching space also I do have everything plugged into a strip right here so the cords are a little yucky but there's really nothing you can do guys to avoid cordage unless you have like cord you know clamps and stuff but I'm just not gonna do that since this is kind of temporary I don't want to really you know mess it up so alright I'm gonna show you guys the rest of the classroom I'm just gonna do a brief little tour I'm gonna go this direction so on my door I do have this really cool shower caddy it does have all of my hall passes on it and I like to keep like bathroom sticks tardy sticks anything else that the kids need when they leave and enter the room I like to have it right here by the door I do have some little lights these I was planning on putting boys and girls on and then if a girl or boys in the bathroom they just press it so that I know someone's in there obviously we can't use it right now and a lot of things I'm gonna talk about you guys are probably not going to be used when the kids return because of COVID and so just don't judge me in the comments and say oh I'm like I'm shocked you have that the kids can't use it okay I know that but it's still gonna be in here whether the kids use it or not so just bear in mind this little space is just kind of empty right now so when we do return to school there's a chance that teachers will be rotating classrooms and so I do have this blank space here for the ELA teacher and the math teacher to put any anchor charts that they want on the board and then this space is kind of reserved for them if they have anything they want to bring and put down or whatever this is also where I keep my prize wheel and so that might move depending on what they need but the prize goes from Amazon it's going to be used for a classroom management tool and then this tablecloth I got from Amazon it is kind of wrinkly but it is hiding a lot of junk so flexible seating cushions things like that that can't really be used are all hiding under there and then if we come this way I do have a filing cabinet is full of supplies I'm not going to show you what's in them because I don't think you care I do have quite a few things that aren't up yet that I would like to hang like these two posters if I don't have to rotate then I'll hang these on this wall and I'll put some sort of like scientific posters in them and then I have my disc chairs which I love but they can't be used this space will probably be where my computer cart goes once we have it and then I have some of my schools posters there so you can see that and then over here is kind of like a student hub so I have I know we can't use them but I do have all my construction paper stored in this this is also from Amazon and then this little spot right here is where I keep like my first aid stuff so band aids things like that pencils hand sanitizer just like kind of the extras that kids are always like looking for because I don't want them going in here or in any of the cabinet so anything I might be like oh hey grab another bottle of sanitizer everything's kind of like over here and then I have all my plastic bins which a lot of them are empty because I did a lot of clean out so I do have a lot of empty storage space guys I love this little cabinet I don't like how it looks but I'm getting over it I used to have all my bins here and then that thing over there had random stuff on it and I just couldn't deal so I put it all here this is going to be my science and social studies wall right now it has all social studies on it mapping skills but this will get changed and then over here I just have more storage so I do have some extra decor items in there some science stuff so this is like flour and salt for salt dough maps and then these are all of my little dry erase pouches and then this one's empty so kind of cool up here on the top I have some extra storage I hate what this looks like but I had literally have no other choice this was supposed to be community bins that I purchased for the kids to be able to keep stuff on top of the tables but I know we can't use them I have borders in this one and then down below that some science stuff this is my little toolkit for bulletin boards it's from when I was putting the room together and then this has some technology and stuff in it and then poster paper in this cabinet is all of my science and math stuff that I've had over the years all my math manipulatives that I own are down below I have some crafting stuff in here I've got lots of tape paint and glitter and then extra cords and I have some composition notebooks stored back there these are these three actually these four purple and white buckets are science kit stuff three of them no two of them came from the school and then that one and then these two on top are actually mine so it's kind of funny that they all match but I just have like random seven here paint cranberry juice from a lab paint or more science stuff so all of this is kind of just like my Monica closet I got like random science and Christmas decor and you know all that stuff it is organized and clean so it's not super messy but it's all away so over here I just have my little science is cool I got this idea from Josie Bensko this is gonna be my teaching station if I do have to rotate classrooms so if I have to move from room to room to teach this is what I'm gonna be on I'll just have all my things that I need on this cart and then I will roll with it so that is gonna be just hanging out there I do plan on putting my book bins in here if my kids don't rotate I'll just put all my homeroom kids I'll give them each a book bin just so that they can store their stuff in it and then they'll obviously wash them out this is gonna be where all of my like students turn their work in so I want to get one more these baskets are from Ikea but I want to do like period one period two period three but right now I don't need that I have pencil sharpeners up here my sensei pot which is not a sensei pot it's from Walmart and then this is a really cool galaxy light thing that I thought I haven't used yet over here I have my class rules these are by Josie Benz go as well maniacs in the middle if you don't know who she is you're living under a rock go and find her she's amazing and then just my Ikea things a lot of those bins guys are empty because like I said I did a lot of cleaning out and so a lot of those are empty so you know as the years go on I will fill them with whatever I need to fill them with and then panning this way you already saw that area but I just have the whiteboard zone I have the calendar I forget where that's from I know it's from teachers pay teachers but I haven't even edited it yet obviously and then I have a few of these magnetic spice racks which I love this is my remote for my disco ball and then I just keep like you know most of the stuff that's over here would move over here once we're back in session and I'm not like teaching from this space so this is my whiteboard I do have one of those nifty pull-down maps it's of the US though and that's not really I mean I do teach the US history but it's like way back in the day and then I have this space this is kind of just here for now I figure if we come back I'll probably use this space up front as like the demonstration spot like my teacher table so I'll move that like I said I like to stand and then these will become a small group table probably up here it kind of just depends on the layout and then I do have some plants over here I'm not showing this part of the board because there are some Google classroom codes on there for my specials teachers but I have some plants here that desperately need to be watered Friday's watering day so they're all dying of thirst globe you guys get it my disco ball is right here in the corner and I do have a student with epilepsy but I did speak to their mom and she said that lights like this do not trigger her so we are good to go that should be fine and then I have this storage area like I said a lot of bins are empty so that's great when school supplies starts flooding in I have a space to put everything that's an Amazon rack I also thought if I had to I could take all those bins off and stack them and then I could put like projects to dry on this thing would be super cool so then panning this way I do have this really neat storage cabinet this was here and I was super super excited when I walked in and saw it because I knew I had a lot of stuff and guys this thing holds a lot of stuff so on the top there you can see all my literature studies and read alouds down here I have some empty bins and then over here I have some random like collaborative structure game things so I have like these these kind of balls in here and I have like some calming tools stress balls stuff like that this is all my supplies so like my hot glue guns my paper my binder clips my highlighters my staples all the things that would go in a teacher desk but I don't want to clutter the teacher desk so I don't put them in there and then down here I have my curriculum this is the PhD science from great minds and then all my dictionaries in this drawer I have all of my board games and movies up on this side we have my daily drawers I have some more empty storage bins and then I do have some science curriculum books and then in this drawer I keep my privacy folders some extra bins these are I like to use these for centers and then these are for centers as well or for any other purpose whatever I need cones for and then in this direction we can see my community supply bin which I know won't be used I keep all my colored cardstock right here and then my small group stools and then this is my engineering process board I was gonna put engineering and science down the top in the side but I didn't do it yet because there's no kids in here so I haven't done that yet I might I might not I don't know we'll see this is my teacher space I do have my desk up against the wall because I know that when the kids return I will probably have to move the desks around and I'm gonna need as much floor space as possible and I don't really sit there anyway so it's not taking up space and I do love when I do sit there to be able to look out the window and just get some sunlight on me on top of my desk I do have some candy tissues that really trendy box from a couple years ago target picture of my husband and I lamp in the drawers is just like random stuff I have some plant food you know basic things that teachers keep in their desks stickers oh I need to take some of these home thank you for reminding me okay cash needs those and then my bases for kickball are down there my copy bin I do have a space heater down there too because I get cold in the winter my sub tub is here and then I have a toolbox tucked down under there and then this way we have the coffee bar and the fridge so I do have a little coffee bar station in the winter I'll probably use this more because I love hot coffee in the winter and then over here is where I keep like all my snacks and like food items so like my coffee mug my forks some rice cakes and straws and my cup warmer and stuff like that I have a little thing of feminine products in there and kids I need them in this little corners where I shove all my junk so everything I bring to school with me I kind of shove it in there and then that way it's out of my way and out of sight which I love and then this is my little teacher's own so all of my cutesy pootsie things my college degree and a picture of Darth Vader and all the things Ikea again for the furniture and then I do have my teacher toolbox here and I love these little scent pots these are from Walmart I like the cheap ones I like the Walmart scents to the better homes and gardens those work the best but yeah I like the space these are hung for when kids turn things in like field trip forms or like school documents I will put them in here to track who turns them in and stuff and then the this I have reserved this little space for like my professional things things I need to turn in are there and then I have a little plant there then I've got a printer that doesn't work so it's kind of tucked away this is kind of like my little creation station so I have my paper cutters and staplers and things like that and then panning this direction is my library so if I can sorry guys my camera turned off on me but anyway I do have some overflow of Diary for One Big Kid books over here and all of their favorites dog man and you know and then we come to the end kind of where we began this is where I keep my mirror so I do my outfits of the day here and then I wanted the kids to have a mirror to look at you know with a little slogan up there you matter I love it and then over here is where I'm gonna keep like all my student information so like scholastic news information calendar things like that it's not there yet because we don't need it yet but once we come back I will update that space so and then we're back at the door all right my friends so that is my fourth grade science and social studies classroom I know that it's not very like sciencey social studies E but I am a Jenna teacher and I just came into the departmentalized world so I don't have a lot of like science stuff and like social studies stuff yet but I feel like I don't really need that for fourth grade because I do have like my own homeroom and I will start accumulating as I go and if I stay in this position which I hope I do for a long time then I will start to kind of build up my collection with science stuff I know I didn't show you guys the layout of the room because it probably will change right now I have four groups of seven and I know that it will probably change so I'm not gonna like show you guys too much I do have like little plants and signs on the tables but anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this video and got some inspiration or found some things that maybe you hadn't thought of and you might want to try or some items that you might be interested in getting for yourself to make life easier like I mentioned that flexi spot desk riser is $15 off if you use my link and I really hope you guys enjoy if you do end up getting one of those it is a game changer so thank you guys so so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this video if you're not already don't forget to subscribe follow me on Instagram at apples and tiaras and I will see you in the next video