 So today I am doing my classroom tour and I just want to preface this by saying it is the fourth week of school. We are now knees deep into third grade and so the room has been used, it has been loved and I have done my best to keep it neat and keep it tidy by having high expectations of my students. So the room that you're seeing is the room that was left at the end of the day. I did not pick up, I did not clean up, I have done nothing that I would normally not do at the end of the school day. So what you're seeing is raw usage of the room. Now I do have high expectations for my students so the room is pretty clean because I don't let them leave the room without it being clean. They take pride in their classroom. So I'm going to give you guys a tour and I also want to preface this by saying I'm probably not going to link things down in the description box below because a lot of the things that I have are from teachers pay teachers and if you want them all you have to do is kind of search for that specific thing and you will most likely see what I purchased. So let's go. Okay so I'm gonna start the tour right here by the front door. So clearly I have the front door there and this little area is just a regular desk and I have a wobble seat down here. This is kind of my cool-off area. It also says keep calm and let it go. So this is kind of where I send students that are having a hard time focusing or making good decisions and they kind of just come back here and sit for a while and then when they're ready to return to class they can come back. So it also holds my hand sanitizer, my bathroom stick jar and then I actually spray my students off with water when they come in from recess and lunch because it is so hot they are basically dying when they come in so I spray them off. As we move to the left we have our main hub of the room and this is basically where everything goes as we're learning. So here I have some math vocabulary. I've got our anchor chart that we've been working with and then if you move this way we have ELA and as the year progresses this will obviously add more to it. There will be more vocabulary, more anchor charts, more silent teachers if you will and then directly underneath are my backpack hooks and this piece of wood was actually already in this room. I just mounted some backpack hooks that I got donated to me. I think you can get them on Amazon probably. I just mounted those onto this piece of wood and then my principal actually came in and hung this for me. So during the school day all of my students' backpacks are there and it kind of looks like it's leaning a little bit on this end so I'll have to go fix that but you get the idea. Continuing on this direction over here I have some information for students. This top basket is for work that we have done while they're absent so basically if I have any extras after I'm done passing things out I put it in here and then if students are absent they know that they can come to this little pouch and find everything that they missed and then down here are extra spelling words so if they have lost their list they can come here and get another one. I also have this pencil parking lot which I haven't really used yet. These are all the old pencils from last year but it looks like people have started taking some so I think I might address that when I get to a pencil problem I have not had a pencil problem yet so once I get to that I'll probably add that. Then over here I have my submission box for notebooks and I usually have it over there and I'll show you where it usually goes but because I am getting ready to look through those there over here by my desk I just have a filing cabinet and inside are just all the things that I would usually need like really quickly. I haven't really been in this drawer a lot so it's just kind of housing all my junk. Same thing with this one just kind of housing all the like little random things that are like mine personally and then this is my desk area which I'm never really at I don't even know why I have it. I think it's just kind of a place to like hold all my things because I usually sit over here. So this is just a chair that my mother-in-law gave me and I recovered the seat and then I just have these drawers here and they don't really have a lot in them. I've got some whiteboard markers up top some chargers my iPad is in there like a cleaner and I'm sure throughout the year I'll add more things in there but then on top I've just got some like things that I use all the time. I use this camera to take pictures and videos of my students because every year I like to do like a slideshow. These are some social emotional learning cards I've got my feedback notebook I've got some like IEP notebooks I've got my my school notebook so I take this with me to like meetings and stuff and then just some cute little containers for all my things. These are like students nurse cards a grading thing some planner stickers and some notebooks that I'll probably never use but they're ready done so of course I have them I've got some other little cute redone pieces here but basically this is my desk area up here I just have like kids birthdays and like spirit days and cute little things that I've been getting throughout the year. This table is from Ikea and the legs are the expandable legs and that's what I like about this area is that it's like up and I can stand there. Around I have these little fairy lights that I got at TJ Maxx and then I just have pictures of my little baby and my sweet hubby and then these are all my pins that I used to have on my lanyard but I actually took them off and I'm sticking them right there because my lanyard has cute little writing on it and I don't want it to be covered so that's that. Moving on over here I have the computer cart right now it kind of goes between mine and my team teacher's room and we've been using it more so it's just living in here right now and it's been working out behind it I have our technology rules and then this is hidden back here where this is like kind of where my stuff hangs out and then up here I just have some more cute little like decor that's fine there's that awesome Darth Vader I got this summer and then these are from teaching and so forth that clock does not work yet because I don't have a battery in it. Moving on over here I have my reading bookshelves this is where all my books live and then over this way is my small group area and I'll just kind of go through what's over here so I just have like a recycling box down there this is for like things that I don't want anymore but I'm not gonna throw them away so I'm just recycling them and then I've got my copy bin here with just some things that I might want to copy these stools I haven't brought out yet I will later on once we get into the real swing of flexible seating and my students earn them over here I just have some like random doodads I have one of my wax warmers the third grade because I'm the team lead so I keep the walkie-talkie in my rooms anytime anyone has duty they come in here and get that I love this little board it was quite the project to get it you know to cut out and everything but it ended up looking pretty good and then down here I just have some quick assessment tools these are my wax warmer smells I've got some like random extra things in their standards and then down here I just have like housing all the random crap this is like all extra decor and then I usually pull about six kids but right now I have only four chairs but I do have extra chairs that I can pull from that table because during a small group or intervention time I only have two humans sitting over there so I can actually pull two chairs over but over here I have and I think I showed you guys this in my last video but I have things for small groups it's not complete yet because as I'm going on pulling things these are all of my like read-aloud books down here our small group whiteboards markers and erasers and then these are reading materials and this one will have math and then up top I just have like pencils and highlighters for close reading and then I have my teacher planner and my teacher addition this is all kind of ready for when my team teacher and I plan because we usually plan either here or in her room and then this is my small group area again this is kind of like my accumulation station so I have my two bar top tables like I said and then I have all of my big whiteboards which I actually did buy from Home Depot and they did cut them for me and then I have a mini whiteboard here and just in case I want it and then I keep my anchor chart paper here just because it's a great place to keep it standing up straight just another place to store junk in here we've got the guardian of the classroom Darth Vader let me just do a quick just do a quick pan of this space okay moving on so in this direction is kind of my little station my little hub this underneath here is where I keep all of my student supplies and I only reach over here if we need it the kids know that they're not allowed in here except to grab glue sponges and I usually take them out ahead of time so they don't really need to come in here but all of this is organized I have like markers post-its paper clips like basically anything supplies-wise is down under here and then up on top here I have all of my weekly drawers I have my tool box all my rooted in reading stuff is in here I have planning stuff and professional stuff then I have some six-minute solutions here I have like master copies of things that I use all the time that I make copies of all the time up here and then I have just like these are like reading or math centers that I need to copy that I use all the time but I don't have them like like these are the masters and I pull from these all the time and then up here are my is my resource library which I haven't really been adding into I need to get better at doing that and then up here I keep the math and reading centers that I'm finished with that I already copied on colored paper and like laminated they're being kept in here so that next year all I have to do is like pull from these and actually plan on getting like one of these for each domain in re or in ELA and in math that way I can just like label it reading informational text you know like whatever the domain is you guys know what those are and then just up top I have some like random things more random things over here I have a space for student work and I am going to do some stuff over there I promise it's just not there yet and then I have my giant Kerplunk my inbox and I have my reminder here so one of these is for reading response journals and the other one is for regular work but they're kind of just throwing their work in both of them which is fine my red one would usually go here for notebooks and then over here I just have the centers that I'm currently using and I kind of already explained this in my last video so if you want to know what I do for math and reading centers you can go to my reading my centers and small groups vlog and then down here just like I said random storage this is like all extra things for if I got a new student like book bins and binders and notebooks and then these are like extra center things I put all my centers in big ziploc bags and so those are there ready to go and then underneath here is just more storage which I don't really need to show you guys because it's just all the things that would be like in a cabinet you know like extra notebooks and other things that like some STEM activity stuff is down under there and then moving on this direction I have my college corner which is all ASU themed and I do have a picture of my grandma and her twin sister they actually both graduated from the exact same college as me 50 years earlier so they were actually guests at my graduation ceremony so there they are with me I've got my marquee here which you can't really there you go and then next to it I just have my smart smart spot book which I got from polka dots please I think and I just put this together so that if I have a student who isn't using their smart spots correctly I can reference them to come back and read the book and then I also have tissues and my three hundred and sixty five days of wonder book then as we pan this direction I just have my huge white board which I did outline with lights some flexible seating things I'm not having anyone sitting here though I haven't been because it's kind of bowing in the middle and that's not really safe I don't really have a whole lot in those yet but I'm sure I will I got this cute little thing from Walmart I saw this on Instagram I forget who it was but I really like this I use it to hold my speaker and then like extra markers but this is the whiteboard my schedule cards actually just made by myself on PowerPoint and I put in some bitmojis for all of them and then I've got more flexible seating items in this bucket I have a front station so if I'm doing anything up front I can just kind of plop things there my secret word of the day is what I use instead of go so like okay I say okay we're gonna move to our smart spots ready whoop whoop instead of like go and I changed the word every day smart board does not work as a smart board it's just a board that's projected on I'm working on getting a cord so I can actually use it as a smart board but for now these are misfits classroom rules and I just printed them as reminders instead of rules because I do have my seven rules my whole brain teaching rules and they're most important to me so over here is just my roll board and calendar and then once we get in the multiplication as the students master their facts I'll be writing their names in here and then Jennifer actually has this in her room and I love the idea it's to remind students to explain further when they answer a question by saying because and then I have my time to be kind I think the original person that did this was teaching in Wonderland and I really like it this is crooked so I need to fix that panning over here to my cabinets I just have some things being stored up top not gonna show you what's in the cabinets because it doesn't matter all I'll tell you is over here is basically all math manipulatives signs and posters I've got some privacy folders in there and then old curriculum that came with the school is in this one then I've just got like paper paper and then random stuff so I keep my class jobs under the sink and again those are bitmojis this is all hand sanitizer that I got at the beginning of the year that I'm saving up over here is where so my children my students water bottles actually live on this counter during the day to my cuties left them here but I keep them over here that way if they need a drink they can just ask and come over and get a drink from their water bottle and then I put my little pencil thing over here with tissue and then this cute little guy from Target and then I do have one of my wax warmers over here as well I'm actually gonna turn it off then up here I've got my pencil sharpener and my crayon sharpener which has been a godsend because we've been using crayons like crazy and then I have our cubbies which look like a hot mess but guys third graders the room is clean and their stuff is put where it belongs and that is all I care about this is a student who's not here anymore this one looks really good number six that looks like nine that should be flipped upside down and then up here I have all of our avid binders and then up here I have these two posters from teaching and so forth and I just blew them up and put them in frames and I reference them all the time when I'm teaching reading or when we're talking about growth mindset over here we did a plant unit last week and I thought it would be cuter to display all of their work in the window so that everyone could enjoy them instead of just on the board where we could enjoy them okay now I'll talk about all the flexible seating options I don't get real fancy with my flexible seating because it's expensive so I utilize what I have so I just have this small rectangular table with regular chairs and then on each of the table groups I have one of these little plants from Ikea I actually just stuck them in there because it was like too much on top and then I have scissors and crayons in here these were from Walmart they were dollar and I just keep the crayons in there and then on each table I also have classroom rules just rewritten so I have this seating which is just regular chairs and then over here is the floor seating with cushions over there is more floor seating with cushions this is my teaching station I'll show you that in a second these are more floor seats with the inflatable cushions back here this is designed to be a standing space and I do need to get it raised a little bit because most the kids are just sitting at it but I do have chairs underneath in case the students do want to sit and then there's another space right there this is mostly reserved for when a student needs to be removed from the area this one is my ottomans and I need to get a new one and replace that one because it's broken but there's just more storage in these ottomans as well and then when it's not an intervention time so anytime before lunch the students may sit back here as well so really I don't have like flexible seating I have open seating at tables either in a chair standing or sitting on the floor I just let my students choose where they're gonna sit throughout the day so nothing really and I do have some table desk or lap desks as well so it like flexible seating doesn't have to cost you a lot of money you can literally do it with tables and the floor and chairs and having them stand the idea behind flexible seating is just having them choose where they're gonna sit for that time I have enough seating in here for 30 people so it is pretty spaced out I only have 23 students so it is we have a lot of room and it's really nice so I'm gonna talk about my teaching station really fast and then that will conclude my classroom tour so I just have my IKEA table behind my students and I really like this because I can have a student sit back here and kind of lead while I'm walking around and I kind of jump from back here to up front and it's just nice because I can be behind the students instead of in front of them with my back turned so my back is never to them because if I'm standing back here I can see all of their papers I can see all of their whiteboards and nobody can hide anything from me because I can see from behind them so I just have my supply caddy here with my remotes my clickers my grabbers which are our PBIS tickets and then I have whiteboard markers basically everything that the students would need I have here as a model like so if I say okay we're gonna use a pencil we have a pencil pretty much everything you need a whiteboard for modeling I have my Lenovo I do have a set of speakers hi and then I have a cart here that has lots of items on it I have my weekly plans in here and I just keep them in a sheet protector with a little binder clip and I just kind of hook it to the cart I also have my students like login information for the computers and prodigy and like a class list so if I ever need to like check their numbers these are all the bathroom sticks that I need to pass back I have my example binder in here and then this is just where I keep all of my things so basically everything they have I have so I am modeling organization as well so I have a math book these are my stamps I use them for writing so whenever like as we're doing process writing I'm giving them stamps for each part of the process so like for one paragraph I gave them this stamp and then today I said okay if you have all six stamps that means you're done and they could play typing game and then I have a book that I'm currently reading because my students have books they're currently reading so sometimes I'll say okay pull out our books we're gonna do silent reading and I'll actually sit and read a book as well or at least pretend to read a book down here I have more things that I might use like pencils and markers and then down here I just have some collaborative structuring materials so some like partnering cards these are from I forget what they're called they sent these to me as a gift and these are just for brain breaks and then I have some like other brain breaks down here and some games that we can just play so and then this microphone is for like if I use any like noise level monitors this is nice to have right here so that's what this looks like and I do have students that sit along the cord and I just made sure at the beginning of the year that I told them you know it's really important that you guys don't mess with the cord it's not safe and they do really well I don't have any problems with the cord so I think I covered everything in the room just gonna do a quick 360 and guys that is my third grade classroom for the school year of 2018 2019 I love my room it's my dream room and I honestly there I couldn't change anything I it's like everything I ever wanted so thank you guys for watching hopefully you stayed till the end and if you have any questions as always ask them in the comments below and I will see you guys in the next video bye