 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Apple's NTRS vlog. If you are new here, my name is Charlotte and I'm a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in Northern Arizona. So I'm back in my classroom today. This is like, I guess day two of working in here over the summer. It is June, I don't know what day it is, June 13th I think, and I'm only here for a couple of hours but I wanted to pick up the camera because I feel like I really want to document this whole process because I'm moving into a brand new classroom and there's a lot to do. So I'm gonna be taking you guys through this process like the whole summer. And I know what you're thinking, a lot of you are probably gonna give me a whole lot of crap. Why are you in there? It's summer vacation, you don't need to be at school. They're not paying you to be in there, yada, yada, yada. I get it you guys, I fully understand but I'm a person who thrives in this type of environment. I find joy in setting up my classroom and I really don't mind spending the extra unpaid time making my classroom environment a very calm and welcoming one. So no, I don't feel like I'm being overworked or being taken advantage of. No one has asked me to come in. I am just choosing this because I think that if I don't come in, I'll be really stressed out at the beginning of the school year. And because I'm new to the district and new to the school, I would rather not feel stressed out when everybody else is coming in to get set up and I would rather be able to spend that time like acclimating to the school. So I am gonna be coming in quite a few days this summer. This is day two that I've come in. I got a lot done yesterday, I'll kinda show you. I put all of my crates up there. I got everything else that was on the floor, up off the floor. I got all of the posters and things that were left by the other teacher down off the walls. So I did a lot and I was only here like three hours. I plan on only being here today for two hours and my main goal is to open up the cabinets and take all the things that I shoved in there when we moved in. Just kinda take them out and actually organize what's gonna go in there because I have a lot of science materials that I need to organize and I'm thinking that I might make this big guy right here, my science supply cabinet. So what I need to do is just kind of go through everything. I have a lot that I shoved into these cabinets that I'm probably gonna take out and put into here and then make labels kinda like these for all the containers that I put them in that way when I have a lab or something that I want to do, I can just open the cabinet, see what's inside, pull out what I need and then put it back when I'm done. So that is my goal for today. All that's really left to put away and unpack is all of this, which seems like a lot and it probably is and that's fine but my main goal today because these can just be shuffled around when they come in to do the floors. My main goal is to get these cabinets as organized as possible in two hours. So with that being said, I'm gonna get started. This is going to be a lovely musical montage for all of you until the next time I pick this up. So enjoy. And my purple is which I'm supposed to have more of. One, two, three, four, five, six. Oh, maybe not, maybe I only have seven of those but that's fine. So what I'm thinking is maybe I'll put these two bins in the bottom and then that one there, if it'll fit and then I can keep all my like stem bins down here. This is electrical circuits, which I could move. We're gonna see if I can fit these two down here maybe stack that one on top. If not, then I might put them in this one because this one has like a bum shelf and I could probably sort that out. Like maybe move the shelf up. I don't know why this wasn't done before but I think I could fix it. Oh, I see why there's a missing one. So maybe what I'll do is just remove these and then I can shove the shelf in like I think I can shove it in there. You know, I can get it to fit perfectly. Good news, all three stem bins fit in there. Now I do have more Legos and I have some other stem activity things. So what I'm thinking is I might not keep it down there. I might move it but I kind of love how this cabinet right here has a plug in it. So I like half wanna do something that has to be plugged in there like my, I don't know, I don't know what I'm gonna do yet but I don't wanna waste that plug. I mean, that plug's pretty sick and I don't think there's like a hole in the cabinet to like plug a lamp in there. So I don't know what that's for but what I might end up doing is I might end up moving all of these stem things in here. I need to find my other stem stuff because I would like to keep it in one place, either that or I have this cabinet back here but I don't think these will, I don't think all those bins will fit in there. I'd rather hide them. So what I don't love is like I wish, like maybe I could take this shelf out and put it down there and then I could stack a few of these purple bins maybe and then I could have more room for like the other two stem things. I think I might try that. Let's see. Okay, so I just discovered that these ones actually stack down on this shelf. I think the shelf is slightly bigger. So that's great. And I think what I'll be able to do is fit my two other stem bins right there and then it's all put away. So I think what I'm gonna do is maybe go through these and try to find them and then I'll actually have room to put these big bins. I think we'll fit in here, like on the top. I'm actually gonna try it right now while I'm thinking about it. Let's see if they fit, if they do. Okay, one will fit. So that's positive. So I can put all these. I only have a couple. One, two, more. So yeah, if I put one on each side of here, actually I could probably put two in there. Let's try it. Okay, so they don't stack. So here's my next idea. What if I stack these four in here and put these in here? Let's try it. This big guy will fit in here. So what I might end up doing is, but the only problem is these ones can't be stacked or at least two of them can't be stacked. So I'll move two up and then put this one in here. And then I can probably fit some other things in there. And then I can put my other stem bins in here once I find them. And then here's my other plan. I have craft supplies here and I can put construction paper there, like the long ones, cause I have a few of those. I'll just stack them right here. And then this can be like craft closet. Either that or I can put all the craft supplies here and save this for something bigger. Like I wish that this would fit in there. Probably what if I took a layer off? But that would be really cool if I could put that in there. And then that way I could keep all my craft supplies in one place. So maybe I'll do that. I'll put the craft bin here with the construction paper. I decided this is gonna be my paper cabinet, but I can move all the construction paper cause it does go in this thing. When it flips around, it's got like all the slots. So I think I'll do that, move it to that one cause that one's like slightly larger. And I don't wanna take any of this craft supplies out of this bin. So let's try that. Pull it tight. And then the teacher before me left a bunch of construction paper here. So what I'll do is move it and it fits perfectly. I don't use construction paper a whole lot, but I do have lots of these like big slots, slots of construction paper. So I will just store them right here. All right guys, so I got a lot done today. I'll just quickly show you everything that I did. I focused mainly on these cabinets. I'm not positive on some of the placement of some things, but this is the best I'm gonna get right now. So this is all like lab supplies and STEM supplies. And I'm pretty sure I have a couple of things left that might need to go in here, but I can adjust some things if I need to. So yeah, this is this cabinet. And some of this stuff, like this one is not even science stuff. It's like my doorbell and my pencil sharpener. So when I set up, that won't even be in there. So like I said, a couple of things will get like fixed. And then up in here, I don't think I did anything in there. Down here, I put all the craft supplies and big construction paper. What I'm thinking I'll probably do is put my construction paper box on top of the counter here. Just like it will be placed there. And then that way I remember that's where the construction papers is underneath. And this one, I started putting these flat storage bins. I have like five of each color. Sorry, five different colors of each type. Like you can see how they're different. And so I'll probably just store them in here. Some of the stuff in them is stem supplies. So I might reorganize them, but they should fit on this shelf and this shelf. We'll see. And then in this one, it's empty as of now. This one is gonna be all of my like holiday special event stuff. So I have all my fall decor in here, winter, and then like my T-Rex and Luau themed items will go in that. And there's room for one more box if I need it. And then up here is gonna be most paper. This one has more paper. This is like my card stock paper. And then what I might also do is put all my cricket stuff in there. And then maybe I can like get rid of this or repurpose it maybe by my desk or over by the sink. And then in these two cabinets, I'm not gonna open them are my little like blue and white teacher supply bins. They may have to get moved because I don't love what it looks like. They might actually get moved down into here. And then these cabinets do not fit binders. So I attempted to put some binders up there, but they do not fit in there. So I'm gonna have to put binders in my big black cube shelf thing or I can put them in this and just stand it upright. I do wanna use that for a bench in front of the TV. So we'll see. And then I moved all these over here. My supply cabinet for the kids is not here yet, but that's probably gonna go over there or over there. I'm not sure yet. I'm getting a second one of these this big bookshelf thing. So what I'm thinking is what I might do is put those blue teacher supply bins in these, in one of these. And I think what I'm going to do because I can move them is put them both back here centered on the wall for two reasons. One, I can use them as like a back counter space and I can put all my teacher supplies in them or I can still use it as a back counter space and put more lab stuff there or just storage, like games and things. And then also I like how it will cover all that like icky, scratchy stuff. I'm gonna try to clean it with like some Dawn dish soap. But what I am thinking is I might consider going forward with making the entire wall out of this. I got to ask first to make sure like the fire marshal will approve it. I'm thinking I'll do like a complete shiplap wall because I'm not planning on doing like bulletin boards, but what I could do is like create bulletin boards out of like the border and just like square off sections. I don't know yet. Or like border it each one of these sections, you know what I mean? And then each section could be a different thing. We'll see. And then I did get permission to paint. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to buy like a really muted mint green or seafoam green, like almost like the color of my Cricut, but way more muted and paint the whole classroom. My mom says I could probably do it with one gallon. So I think I might do that. And then I do need to touch up these cabinets cause they got destroyed. So yeah, so that's everything I did today. They're getting ready to move this out today. That's cool. And then we should be good. That concludes day two in the classroom, getting things organized, getting things put away. Like I said, a lot of things might change. I might come in here and load boxes and be like, oh yeah, no, those can't go there or you never know. So anyway, thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and TikTok and hit that subscribe button so you can stay so that you can stay caught up with all the things. And I'll see you all in the next one. Bye guys.