 Welcome back to another Apple's NTRs vlog. Today is classroom set up day 7. Is it day 7? Man, it's a lot of days. Typically I only take like three or four days, but because I just moved into this classroom, it's taking a bit longer because there's a lot of organization to be done. But today is probably gonna be maybe the last or like second to last day of actual set up. After today, I'll be starting to work on like preparations for the beginning of the school year. So let me just walk you through what my plans are for today and we'll get started. Alright, so my plans for today are going to finalize the walls. So I asked y'all on YouTube comments to let me know what you think I should do with this back wall here. And I had a lot of comments and I just want to say thank you guys so much for commenting and sharing your ideas. They really do help and I just really appreciate your taking the time out to comment on the video. Many of you said that you wouldn't take the time to cover the entire walls with butcher paper. A lot of you recommended fabric, felt, and unfortunately in my district we have a pretty strict fire marshal and so we aren't allowed to put fabric up on the walls unless it's like completely soaked in fire retardant which is why these can go up because they are like officially fire retardant. So what I what I'm planning on doing is I'm going to do three separate bulletin boards. I'm going to do one here in the center. I'll do one here on this side and one here on this side. All three of them will be done with this wood paper and then I'll just put different borders around them. These are the borders that I currently have. I'm thinking what I'm going to do is on the middle I'm going to do my light bulbs and then one side will be teal and the other side will be black. So I think that's just what I'm going to go with. It's just simple and I'm not trying to be overly like you know that bulletin board is pretty bright and I just don't I don't know. I've always been kind of like I like I like bulletin boards but I never change them because I feel like the kids just don't use them and I'll be displaying student work out in the hallway so these bulletin boards are going to be for decor purposes and like motivational if that makes any sense which I'm sure does. So yeah, so that's what I'm planning on doing today and then I'm hopefully going to get all of my posters and pictures hung up in the places that they're going to be and then the final task of the day is going to be to finish painting these cabinets. As you can see they're kind of scuffed up. They used to be like a maroon purple color but then someone came and painted them and they look great. These two doors were painted already so all I have to do is just go back and paint the rest. I don't really feel like I need to do much to the top. I mean this one has a little bit of a scuff so I don't need to do much. This one definitely needs help so that's going to be one of my other tasks and then I'm trying to so it's pretty early in the morning it's 8 15 right now and I'm trying to kind of like ease back into like my work schedule. So I tried to be up out the door by 7 so that I could start kind of like working on a normal schedule and so after school today or after work today I'll leave here at like 3 30 and I'll go to the gym and so I'm really just trying to like get myself back into that routine of what it's like during the school year. So with that being said I'm gonna get started. I think I'm gonna begin with this middle wall. I don't know what I'm gonna put on the walls yet. I have some ideas. I'm gonna rummage through my boxes and see if there's anything I can just reuse so I don't have to get the cricket out but I will probably end up having to get the cricket out which is fine you know that's why we have the cricket here. So yeah I'm gonna and then I'll show you guys some of the ideas I have I'll just pop pictures up throughout the video and show you all what inspiration I have or what I want to copy. I know I need to like reserve a place for brag tags oh and I also want to put a bulletin board there. I have like a small square piece I think it's this one maybe not but anyways I have a really small square piece that I'll put over there and that'll be like a student center but I need to find a place to display brag tags. I don't know where I want to do that I'm thinking maybe like over there on the wall I don't know I have to make a brag tag display I'm pretty sure so I don't know where I'm gonna do that yet but I definitely have to do that. So all right let's get started. Okay so I went ahead and started on this smaller one because it's smaller. I ended up having to trim off like a good section of it because of the door thing but that's okay because now it like completely centers the piece and then I will end up moving the clock over just a bit so that it's centered over the top of the bulletin board so I'm gonna go back in now with this light bulb border and I even thought about doing like the pretty black one behind it but I don't think I'm gonna do that it's just a lot of work so I am gonna go ahead and go back over it with this and then you will see the finished product. Okay so the board is done I feel like this top corner and this bottom corner obviously need a little bit of work so this is the moment where I start adjusting like this I can just fix real easy but like this I can easily just stick a little pom-pom there and then that problem is solved. So I have these little guys and then I have all of these pom balls so all I need to do is pull one of the small ones out. I'll fluff it up and then I'll stick it on that corner and then that corner is perfect it gets fixed so yeah so I'm gonna put this little pom right here in this corner and then I won't have to adjust that border but this top part I will adjust because I can see where I need to fix it. One bulletin board done I feel like the clock could scoot a smidge to the left but I'm not gonna worry about it it looks pretty good. I don't know yet what I'm gonna do with this board I'll probably make it like an infoboard so like I usually do like text tools maybe like like lunch menus but I kind of want to do the lunch menus over there and like the daily schedule or like the monthly calendar or whatever and then here I can put like tech tools I can put like grading information like the grading scale like a one two three four because I'm gonna be doing standards based grading or standards referenced I suppose so like you know four is mastery three proficient to partially and one minimal and just so that they know what those you know one two three four mean and then I can just put like other useful student information here like I always put like a I could also do this as like a relationship building board so like you can put all my like like strategies for a relationship stuff like you know talk it out and stuff like that on here I don't know we'll see this is like where my students supplies is so if there's not something in here or if there's like what you know if they're low they can come shop over here so typically what I do is once I divvy out the supplies into the buckets I put the rest in here and then that way if they need to like buy like shop for something like come get another highlighter they come here and then I always put lined paper and white paper here so that if they like lost their notebook they can grab lined paper or if they want or like if we're gonna do model drawing they have like white paper so this is like a student center so we'll see I do have the words student center that I could put over the top but there is the clock does need to be there so I could even put student center over here and then put an arrow or something I don't know we'll see I may not even put student center or I could make it smaller and put it across the top we'll see okay all right we're gonna move on to this back wall and like I said I still don't really know what's gonna go on each of these boards but I am just gonna hang the paper and do the border today I need a little quick drink so I'm gonna use this big piece to go here and I'm gonna center it so I'm gonna measure it real quick and then try to center it on the tape on my goodness the wall and then hopefully I can hang it up by myself we'll see I'm gonna have to try to use the measurement method today just to make sure it's straight because I am by myself and it's pretty large so over to the left of it so that I could get it like and all I have to do is like shift the pins a little bit okay so now what I'm gonna try to do is put the border on and I think for this wall I'm gonna do the light bulb border as well because I have a lot of it okay ready okay so the walls done I'm gonna put a cluster of palms there and a cluster of palms there and then I like how the top came out like I could put a title up there or something we'll see anyways it came out straight it came out flat so we're good okay so this is what the whole wall is looking like at this point okay don't kill me but I have a thought what if I didn't do another bulletin board what if I just left this one as the only one in here and on either side of the bulletin board I did posters and pictures instead of more bulletin boards because let's be honest I'm probably never gonna change it maybe once or twice because I just don't really think bulletin boards do anything like the whole silent teacher thing at the kids just never use it so I'm thinking about maybe just leaving it and I have a ton of these picture frames that I really don't have space for anywhere else so I was thinking what if I did let's see how many do I have one two I have six okay these are from maniac in the middle are they maniac in the middle or teaching and so forth I honestly do not remember which is sad but let's put them out and I'm thinking okay I have five because then I put Darla in one which I could take her out no problem I have six of them typically technically six of them I could put like two on this wall and then two on this wall and I could do something else there like maybe I could do the rag tags there unlike something I could even cut down some of this paper because I have a ton of it I mean you can see this is like my favorite I bought this one on Amazon thinking it was the same one and it's not so that sucks I'm gonna go take it to the teacher's lounge or see if one of my teammates wants it because it's cute but I I can't do not matching so yeah but I could cut one of these down and do like a small brag tag thing here like maybe just a small square and just make it just the one center point piece because I also have these cute picture frames which I think I'm gonna put these because I have four of them across there and then I have some other posters that I could put up across there it's either that or I put these all six of them like three on this side and three on this side I don't know I'm gonna ponder the idea I'm actually you know what I'm gonna call Jennifer because Jennifer always helps okay so I just realized that I had these posters so I think what I'm going to do is put these either three on each side or up here three on each side because I have six of these and I have six of those so right now it's just kind of deciding which ones go where I think I'll end up putting these ones back here because there's more room and then these ones will fit nicely up top it's just gonna be spacing them out that's gonna be the struggle for me so yeah I think I'm gonna do that okay so I went ahead and hung these centered on the wall and I actually really like it so I think that's what I'm gonna go ahead and do with the other side I have three more someone put those on that side and then I will put these six of these up across the top I'll do three on that side and okay guys so I have painted the rest of the bottom cabinets they probably won't be ready to put the handles back on till tomorrow I just got done painting this bad boy a little drippy so I just have this side left to do and then this bottom here this isn't too bad I don't know I have half of mine to just leave that alone because painting is hard like it hurts my hands anyway I'm gonna take a break from painting I'm gonna eat lunch and then I'll go back to it hopefully I'll be done painting in an hour I should be because it's only 12 now so I should be done in an hour painting and then I can continue decorating hanging stuff up finishing that my goal is to be done decorating by tomorrow so that I can have tables clear and I can just start working on like fine-tuning and maybe you know a little bit planning would be great so all right lunch time realize that I never ended today's vlog so it is the next day but I'm all dolled up because I have to do a staff photo today but I wanted to close this vlog so thank you guys so much for watching if you're not already please subscribe and don't forget to follow my socials Instagram TikTok all the things 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