2023 Classroom Set Up Vlog Part 2

hi welcome to part two of my classroom setup this will cover days two and three of me working in my classroom and getting it back together I started out today just by moving all the furniture that was left like my standing desk my assistant teacher's desk things around the kidney table that I use it was a productive day in regards to just getting my classroom back in order I've got my rocking chair over here small group table for my assistant there standing desk there that big desk I talked about in the day one setup way in that corner student tables Cubbies my small group table here I've made some changes from the last time we talked it's probably been about an hour so I want to show you them I was debating what to do for my turn and tray situation and so this is a little shelf on Wheels it has a dry erase board in the front and so I put that in between those shelves so it's along the cubby wall recess toys will still go next to it and then all of my drawer carts will be together over there last year I used the drawer cards to organize the upcoming packets from our curriculum and I plan to do that again this year we'll see if it changes but it's all together now then I just have some extra table space back behind the kidney table that I can keep projects or other things on these shelves are still currently a hot mess from the end of the year but this will just have teacher supplies and other things this will always kind of be a mess but at least it's a hidden mess from the door and the rest of the room this shelf right now is a cluttered mess but in a future video be organized to hold all of the things I need to do calendar and morning meeting each day I also swapped out the blue chairs for some stools that another teacher wasn't using anymore I'm very excited about this change to put this play stand over by the standing desk and large desk over there because I can slide it out and the students are even able to slide it out so then they can use it as a market or a restaurant or whatever they want it to be during recess time I can't decide if I'm going to use these shelves to hold like pencils and Clorox wipes and just our everyday sort of things I can't decide if that's going to be the side that's shown or if I will have just a plain fabric side shown I'm also thinking about painting it let me know what you think I should do with this if I should paint it or not add fabric flip it around I don't know I'm gonna spend this time cleaning up these areas so that way next time I come in I can make a different mess if you're a teacher you know exactly what I mean [Music] love moving piles from one area and just putting them in a pile somewhere else foreign it makes you feel so productive yet I'm really accomplishing nothing here yes I'm putting some things back where they belong but I'm really just moving files to create files elsewhere I wasn't just taking those things off screen I was putting them in my closet this lovely closet is a part of my classroom and I'm very grateful for it because many classrooms run short on storage but I've got a lot so this is what it looks like [Music] then we come back out to my classroom oh it's looking so much better now the biggest question I have right now is where do I put these blocks I think I want to change the container I might put them under that blue table that I'm going to be painting white I think that's the main question of what's left in regards to where things go in my room as I was moving the blocks over here I realized I have a perfect spot for them come with me thank you foreign [Music] I feel great with the progress I made today I feel great walking out of here because now my classroom's like put together it's just not decorated or organized with all the little things yet but it looks like a classroom let me show you again here's this View [Music] looks great right and then here's this view I think it looks really good hey on today three I just organized the Reese's toys and had lunch with my sisters my nephew came he played with the toys for a little bit and I just I feel good about my classroom I know I keep saying that but I think I loved my last year in first grade so much that I just have so much hope for what this year is going to bring and I hope you feel that way about your school year too it is such a joyful profession when you're in the environment that you love so I just I just hope you have a good school year too I'm very excited with the realization I made for my recess toys so remember how I moved this shelf over here for my turn in trays it actually works out perfectly because it's on Wheels I can turn it around and that's where we can store the recess toys that are in boxes let me show you so there's the Shelf with exposed recessed toys but then turn this around which is very easy the kids can do it and there are the boxes of recess toys but I can hide that clutter I just by turning it around oops and then it's just a white dry erase board I love when things just work out perfectly like that also Amazon Prime days are currently tomorrow and the next day I don't know when I'll post this but that's what I'm filming and I really want to buy things but I'm buying things just for the sake of buying them so or I would be so I'm trying not to so then I can save money because I'd be spending money I really shouldn't I'm sure you can relate as a teacher so I hope Amazon Prime days go well for you if you're looking for something or I hope that you have restraint to hold back if you really shouldn't be buying things so happy Amazon Prime season now I'm going to start to put together this stuff on my standing desk if I'm looking over the camera it's because I'm looking at it so I'm going to be putting out my laptop my Riser that my laptop goes on and all the things I use when I'm standing in that area using the document camera and teaching so come with me over there and might do a little bit of an ASMR type of thing we'll start with the technology piece so this is my laptop Riser my laptop goes on it sometimes I keep it on there and then oftentimes I'll move it down here and pop it up like this I slide my remote for the smart TV under it then this is my document camera it's the brand ipivo I think i p e v o I really like it I like how small and compact it is but as some of you might experience when it's all the way up that's never typically high enough for a whole page or a packet or whatever I want to use it for so I put a a jar under it to raise it up so let me grab that so I put this jar under it and then I put it up on top I'll just collapse it for now but that also just adds some color to my standing desk I like to also keep my attention getting things over on this standing desk I also use them for mindfulness so let me show you what those are the things I use to get students attention are a Time one and then they get quiet and they freeze I really like this I use a doorbell it's not plugged in right now but that works really well they freeze when that goes off or it also is used like if they're working in groups or talking I like it because the chime that goes off I have it set maybe it's like a 10 second chime and so it gives them time to finish what they were saying and to get quiet before it's over that's a good tip and then this singing bowl which is used for mindfulness and they take a few deep breaths that was a quick one I can do it better than that but uh I really like that singing goal [Music] so let's see how I want to arrange this pencil sharpener and wax can go next to each other I like to have the markers and pins all together this marble jar is used for whole class Behavior incentives basket rosaries I like to have over here so that's what we're looking at now this is a new change in this corner I hung up the dry erase board on this wall and I added this blue table here with a bench because one they can sit at this bench and read when it's just like free reading time but they could also come over here and this can be like a workspace if a student just needs a break from their peers because don't we all need a break from people sometimes so I think this is an excellent addition and change to this area [Music] things included on my calendar Shelf are days of the week the dates in the month weather these are the calendar events that I will put up on the calendar then we've got the how many days of school we've been in I need to put them in order because some somehow they're like way out of order right now okay well there's how many days we've been in school they put that up on the calendar each day then we have years months liturgical Seasons which is a Catholic thing it's what season we're in currently in the church and then actual season then our discussion today and that is really fun I really recommend doing that if you don't already money we use for various things throughout the year during calendar time these sticks are used for place value for how many days we've been in school Dory fantasma gory which is the cutest children's read aloud books we went through all of them this year this prayers before the Bell book I really like it there's a prayer for each day and it's super simple if you want you can pause and look at what some examples are then I have a Bible down there stories of the Saints and then Saint a day last year I didn't do a saint a day every day it's just not something that I put in our routine I'd love to but I just didn't but if I needed five minutes here or there of just a filler we would pick one out and read about it so the shelf that I'm covering with contact paper right now is going to be used for all of those catholic books that I have I don't like the dingy musty gold color that it is right now so I'm adding the white just to freshen it up and give it more of a clean new look the job of contact paper that I'm doing is kind of janky but it'll just blend in once it's all done so I'm not too worried about it the first books going on here are all part of a series and sorry that was really loud um I love these books and the kids love them too um I think they might be my favorite Christian books in the classroom and those aren't Catholic specific they're very good I'm also going to put books from a different series on the Shelf next to them or somewhere else I'm creating this as I go maybe and then this last series the next set of books that I'm going to put are books that have to do with Saints so I'm gonna put these right here this set of books all have to do with mass and the Eucharist so I'm going to put these here the look of this shelf will change throughout the year I know for sure now I'm going to add General Catholic or Christian books that I will put on the bottom I love these two books they're from the same author I'm gonna prop those up down here for now and then I will put some Bibles down below foreign here's the look of this shelf right now as I get other things or move things from different areas in my room it will change the look but right now it's a bookshelf of my Christian catholic books if you liked this video come back for part three where I've organized my library or finish organizing it and do some more decorating I'm excited with how my classroom is turning out I hope yours is coming along but yeah thanks for joining this journey and I will see you next time oh yeah also subscribe so my video will pop up for you thanks

Channel: Hey Kelli Ann

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Keywords: 2023 Classroom Set Up Days 2 & 3, 2023 classroom, 2023 classroom set up, classroom set up, first grade classroom, first grade, 1st grade, classroom vlog, teacher vlog, catholic school teacher, catholic teacher, classroom furniture, classroom organization

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Length: 15min 21sec (921 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 10 2023