 Back to another classroom setup video. Today is day two. It's July 6th and mom and I are back here in the classroom. As you can see, nothing has changed since the last time you saw it. So today we're gonna start kind of working on some decor things. I'm actually gonna train mama Pam here how to use a cricket and she is gonna get started on some of the like titles for my bulletin boards. So let's just kind of walk through those really quickly and we'll talk about what is going to be what. So on this wall we're going to put student center and that's gonna be where I keep like calendars, lunch menus, flyers and posters for upcoming events for the school year, important information messages. This is where my inbox will be. This is where all of the supplies my students will need will go and so that's gonna be kind of an important space in the classroom as well as this countertop. Once I clear that off, that is going to be where all of my student notebooks are going to be stored for the school year so that needs to be emptied off and cleared of stuff. So all that stuff that's on there is kind of like decor stuff that needs to come down anyway. This wall here, I don't really have a plan for it yet. I'm thinking it might be unit vocabulary which makes the most sense because I do have to have vocabulary up in the room even though I don't like directly teach it. We'll talk about that on another day. It still should be available for students. So I think I'm gonna leave that as a word wall like unit vocabulary. I might put unit vocab up there and call it a day and then I was thinking about this board because I do have, I will have a focus wall. However, I kind of like the idea because I do need a notice, think, and wonder section. I thought about either using this wall for notice, think, wonder or the board for notice, think, wonder because what I could do is put my notice, think, wonder wall here, divide it into three spaces, maybe take this middle tape out and make this whole section a notice, think, wonder because what I do is I'll do a notice, think, wonder or even just a notice and wonder and then my kids will put sticky notes up here and they'll stay there for quite some time. So I was thinking maybe I would use this square for my notice and wonder. This could be open and available if I need to draw any pictures or models of any concepts. This one I could leave for something else. I don't know. This one would be an agenda and then up here could be like learning target standard whatever else. That would kind of make this top section the focus information. Oh yeah, I was saying this could be vocabulary like key terms that we learn throughout the units. So then that leaves this wall for something else. I don't know yet. Either way, I need a focus wall title. I need a vocabulary title. I need a student center title. And then I have all of the words for this one. This one's just going to be my science is like magic but real. I really like that saying and then I might do a couple of like frizzle printouts like put Ms. Frizzle in the corner and like Liz in the corner and then that that's it. So that's what mom's going to work on today. I do have quite a bit of vinyl. I have some plain black which I'll use for the whiteboard if I'm going to do that. And then I do have a bunch of card stock paper over here too that we're going to use for some of these titles. So I also have to maybe I'll put my cross cutting concepts up there because I do want to use those a lot this year or maybe I'll put them up at the top along the top. I don't know yet but today is going to be finish getting everything off of these tables and organized and then doing the headers on the walls. I do have to finish that one too. So we'll see and then I am hoping to get a hold of my dear friend Jennifer from Genuine Teaching. I want to get her opinion on a couple of things. So we'll FaceTime her later when she's available and see if we can't get some help with that. Okay so my Mac book was not pulling up the Cricut Design Space so I'm having to download it to my school computer which doesn't have all the fonts that I like using. So I'm having to sit here and like download fonts and do all of that to this computer. So I'm thinking what we might do is not do these today. I might have to just do them another day and instead work on finishing getting all of this stuff organized and put away and then when I'm by myself I can come in here and sit or at home I can do this while cash is asleep or you know whatever. I can totally work on stuff like this. So right now mom is actually hanging up some words on that wall and if I can get here and get these things downloaded then I will but if not I'm not gonna waste my time on this because my goal for the end of today is have all these tabletops completely cleared off all of the surfaces cleared off and everything put away so that I can work on walls and finishing decorating when I come in next time. So I'm hoping if I press download on multiple fonts if they will just download and work that would be great for me. Also I love this angle like I can put you guys up on this little bookshelf back here and you can see like the whole classroom so I'm loving that. Okay shift open install it's gonna take forever install I like that one could do that I feel like I've done this before like I've sat here and installed all these fonts before but of course I wish that you could download. Is that spacing okay? Yeah I wish that you could download your own fonts to Google but you can't so I might have to do this at home. Alright so I wanted to show you guys how much decor I have because I'm thinking about like what do I really need what can I take home because I have an office at home that I can like put stuff in I also have a garage that I can put stuff in if I don't need it so this is all the decor I have I want to just kind of like take everything out and have it out so I can see what I have and what I don't use and what I can take home so I'm gonna do that real quick. Yeah I agree I found some containers on Amazon in the sponges so I might just order them on Amazon. Yeah okay so I need your advice or I guess your input. Okay. Alright I'm gonna flip you around. Okay so I decided I was gonna put myself in the back here but no desk just a table and then I have this little table that I can scoot under that desk if I don't want it in the way but then I can pull it out if I need more room for small group. Yeah or like you know a lab or a station or whatever or if I need to isolate somebody. My question is I know there's a lot of crap everywhere else but my question is does it look stupid having these two black tables on either side? No. Okay. Because it gives you more space. Okay because this side's my kitchen. Yeah. For a kitchen. Right I got an ice machine. We overthink things when we're setting up our classroom because we wanted to look perfect but think about your room mid-year how junky our rooms get because we just throw stuff in. I know. I'm trying to eliminate that problem now because then look over here I have a teacher work area. I think you should keep it because it's nice that it's out of the way and it's in your space. Yes. Okay next question this is the one I needed help with. Should I put this thing this flexly spot desk riser and my desktop back here on the corner of this table and it can be where I work to grade and stuff and then up front is where I'll teach from. Okay because I was trying to figure out do I want to put my desk riser? Yeah this one rises up and down too. I gave it to my friend well it was Sam's wife Jessica. Uh-huh. You met Jessica. Yeah. Because she was an online teacher and she was working in her dining room. I said here have this. Yeah. So you don't think it would look stupid to put that desk riser here with my like my monitor and this is where I'll sit to like grade and do small groups. No. Okay. Because it'll be useful. That's true. And then if you ever need to for some reason be in the back while the kids are in there your back won't be to them. Yeah I'll always be behind them or in front of them. Yeah. So okay. I wish we had TV's. All right so this is all of the decoration or most of the decor that I have in my classroom that I need to put up and as you can kind of see it's not a lot of like junk. I mean there are some little trinkets like you know the little Target dollar spot pencils the little like succulents these just go in my window but I don't have a ton of like junky decor a lot of it is like fake plants picture frames and like little trinkets that will go on my bookshelf behind my desk. So what I'm going to do right now is just hang a couple of pictures on the brick wall because there's some anchors there for me to use. So normally I wouldn't really be able to hang anything on the brick wall because they're kind of depending on like the heat like it's really hot out stuff will fall off if you tape it up there and when it rains it's really humid so things will fall down. You can hot glue things up there but because my room is three out of four walls or brick I'm gonna have to just use these anchors that are already there so I have two there I'm gonna go ahead and hang up a couple of pictures there now. So here's what I've got left for decor I think what I want to do and I might get in trouble for this but I kind of want to like hang these from the ceiling like staple them up there. Won't that be cute like just sparsely around the room? Or should I put them on the corners of my bulletin boards like I always do? Okay so then pick a couple of pom-poms and go spur some on the bulletin boards. Okay so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna finish off this border because once that's finished then I can do a lot more stuff so I'm just gonna finish that border then we can put a couple of the pom-poms there as well and then I do have this this will fit across the top of that bulletin board so I think maybe I'll put that up there to spruce up that board a little bit because it's just plain black yeah and then I have lights that go around the perimeter of this wall or this board I need to find the plug for that and then I can turn those on and that'll look really fun. Okay so this board is up and ready to go there's no title for it yet obviously and I might not even make a title for it to be honest with you because it probably would be a waste of time but there is a set of LED lights that runs from here around that board so Mandy gave me that I need to find the plug that goes to it I know she gave it to me but I don't know where I put it so I think I'm gonna spend a little bit of time looking for that because that will mark something else off of my list okay we're hungry it's time look I haven't had any water and it's 130 and we're done in an hour we're having a salad from Trader Joe's I also stole some of my dad's buffalo dip and some peppers some things have taken place since last time I picked this camera up this wall is done a lot of the tables are almost clear this is here now thanks to Jennifer and I have I have stuff on two tables I'm gonna leave today only having stuff on two tables and that's it the rest will be done and and cleared after that really all that's left is putting up the final like decorations things on the boards and then starting to set up for meet the teacher so I think we're doing phenomenally well mom hung this little thing up so that these two baskets she hung one on this side and on this side this will be my kitchen side and this will be my teacher work side and then I also put this back here so I can put on my like personal items in it and then this will be my teacher desk thinking about swapping sides with that one to be over here don't know yet but I'm liking what I'm seeing and it's all working out we're doing good having this whole thing isn't yeah this whole thing is like I don't know why I didn't put myself in front of this before but did you work in your old room yeah I had this in my old room I had like okay my friends this is what it's looking like we're getting ready to leave I think I have to go potty before we leave I'm gonna hang that on that wall it'll go there I just don't know where yet and that shelf will go there too okay so this is the progress so far I've got a little whiteboard here four headers that I'm gonna make next time I come in with my cricket but this is what it's looking like let's see what else have you not seen I cleared all of this off so this is gonna be where my student notebooks will be stored block one block two block three so every day these student assistants will pass those out during warm-up I'm gonna be putting any notes that were printed in this basket so that if a student was absent for notes they can grab them from right there and then I don't know about this basket yet I might keep my notebooks in that basket so that if a student needs to take my notebook to copy from they can take it I actually thought about making two notebooks one for myself and an extra for copying so I can put the masters in my notebook and then I can fill out an extra that way there's always two notebooks that are completely filled out for someone to copy from that might be a good idea then that way if a kid comes late I can send them home with one and they can copy but anyways so these two tables still have stuff on them I need to go through all the supplies over here and either trash it if it's bad and then or store it I do have room in these bins right here and I'm probably gonna actually have an empty bin because I think I'm gonna put this somewhere else what's in here somewhere else is like extra decor it's decoration stuff I can put this somewhere else and then I can put extra like more supplies in here and then just pop it up there so that might be where I put all my like extra stuff I need to find a box or a bin or some kind of something to keep all my first aid stuff in and then keep it somewhere near my desk area like maybe under that table so that if I you know the kids can access it they know where it is or I have this empty purple box here but it's looking really good things are moving along I really like my area I don't know for sure if I'm gonna keep this on this table or if I want to scoot it down and put it on this table and just bring it up to eye level and make that just my desk and then the rest is small group don't know yet for sure this will go up front that's what I use for like all my teaching stuff that will go up front but I need to clean it off and organize it first before I do that but yeah it's looking good I still have to hang some stuff here and the next time I come in I'm gonna hang the lights around the whiteboard I just am waiting for the command hooks to come in because those are kind of important to have three these three plants will not be here those are not mine they're foster plants but I have a couple more that will come in and then we're still gonna hang this mirror up here and then we'll put my you matter up over it and then I don't know what I'm gonna do with this I might just hang it there and keep it for like extra paperwork like that could be my professional bin or something I don't know maybe I'll keep snacks in there I don't know and then over here I'm gonna probably keep this trash can just popped right in that corner because it'll be out of the way and then my chromebook cart will be right here with a couple of school signs above it so this corner will kind of be a little jammed but the trash will be all the way in that corner and then chrome cart and a couple signs and then I do have to put my microphone and speaker somewhere which I might I don't know where I'm gonna keep it maybe up there in the corner just for when I have glee club but I don't I don't usually have glee club meetings in here so this usually stays downstairs by the stage in the cafeteria so I just have to move it anyways I still have to clean this off and label that with vinyl mom will you go right on the to-do list vinyl for inbox cart vinyl labels for index car or um inbox cart I'm gonna label it with like white vinyl block one block two block three I have to hang my security curtain I think I might put some velcro because there's already velcro up there Mandy left so I can just velcro it to the door the turn in cart or inbox cart in box cart yeah and then all that's left really is walls and that's it and I have the rest of this week a few hours in the mornings I have next week a few hours in the mornings a couple days and then I got you know all the time that they allow us to work in our rooms I'm gonna have all that time as well so I think I've got a pretty good head start and I'm very pleased so we're gonna turn everything off we're gonna get out of dodge thanks mom for all your help couldn't have gotten this far without you so that is going to be the end of this vlog day two I hope you guys enjoyed and you can look forward to day three now it's gonna start getting to the point where I can like show you guys certain things that I use in my room like decoration organization management wise that are gonna be really helpful so I'll see you guys in the next 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