CABINET DISASTER: clean out my CLASSROOM cabinets with me!

[Music] good morning y'all i am at school it is 6 30 and i left my classroom a mess so i'm gonna try to clean this up or at least shove it back into the closet again before the kids get here i could go through some of these things all this stays these are things that i bought from carson delosa that i never have used so we'll see if i keep those or donate those i can go through all this stuff because i know what we use and then i think i'm gonna test out all these markers i'll probably do that first kind of decide what i'm gonna do with all this stuff i have plenty of room to store things so i have to take a look at that bottom shelf and then this whole side which also isn't that much it's just a lot of bags and stuff and this down here is basically m class which has to stay and then boxes of legos so i can't really touch that stuff but i kind of want to make that shelf stuff that i don't need like ever that way since it's on the bottom i don't worry about it i did buy new facial sponges at dollar tree yesterday and so what i'm doing is i'm just cutting off the tag that is on one of them in the pack which is extremely annoying but i use these as my students dry erase erasers i've used them every year i think i kept the same ones my first two years of teaching but since then i just purchased new ones every year i mean i buy like six packs so it's six dollars nothing crazy and i just think they're super thin but they're also thick enough that they actually make an effort i've been repurchasing them for years i like them much better than things like this i just feel like these take up so much space and they're unnecessary i'll see if i could fit them here because eventually they're gonna go in my kids pencil boxes and they have to use just an extra one until i make the pencil boxes i ended up storing all of my pipe cleaners in this longer like paper bin i know it's crazy that i have so many pipe cleaners but these have just been donated for class parties so i took them all out of the bag and now i know i have them we can use them in the future all of this stuff and these cotton balls and stuff were in a big shopping bag like i'm never gonna remember that i have it so i love that i did this i think i'm realizing that one of these shelves is going to have to be dedicated to party and craft supplies but at least that means i can keep all of this stuff in one area so i know where it is if i ever need cotton balls i'll know where they are if i ever need food coloring i'll know where it is i went ahead and put the treat bags in the little party bin because that's really the only time that i would use those and then i took my brown paper bags and i stuffed them in this bottom one i know that doesn't look the greatest when the cabinet's open but i don't know if i really care that much i think i'm also going to move these envelopes down to be next to it so it's like balanced out we use those throughout the year on projects and things and i always forget i have them because in the past i've stored them with my ziploc bags and that's just not accessible and they don't fit in a smaller bin like this and i just feel like it's silly to take up space on the shelf for those when they can slide and fit right there and they're like malleable so like they can push against the door and they'll be okay i have my pipe cleaner bin i went ahead and put my wooden dowels in here because they're the same exact size and that's those are the only ones i have they just fit perfectly and it makes the most sense i made a bin full of cotton balls and i do actually have even more over here so we'll see how many my kids use for the stem project today and then i could stuff this some more i didn't want to put the like special ones in there so i feel like i want to put those in a little bin i know that's a little bit dramatic maybe i'll end up splitting this half and half like because i can squish them that's it so far oh i got this bin because i took all of the pencils that were in it out of it these were ones what i was doing last year was so silly during like the beginning of the school year with like covert restrictions every time kids needed new pencils instead of sharpening them i would literally take their pencil and just give them a brand new one so these are basically brand new pencils so i'm just going to sharpen them all and then i'm going to store them obviously in my sharpened pencil bin so and i have plenty of room in there so that's perfect i did end up using one of my extra bins as well this is all the velcro that was in that shipping box yesterday so that's all in there this stuff is just thrown in here but i did wipe down these two shelves so i'm going to put some stuff in here i think i'm going to make this shelf the party shelf because it's at a weird height i want access to these really quick before the kids get here i did just lower the shelf it was a time i thought i was going to have to move this whole thing because this door couldn't open all the way and i started moving it and it was a very difficult process but luckily i wiggled it in so that's good because i wanted these two to stack on top of each other and they were like just tight enough when it was one higher this bottom shelf so i had room so i lowered it so this is going to be all my party and craft supplies that is where we're at i did end up putting all the cotton balls in here because i'm like we're not wasting space i think for now i'm going to put all the because this is a bag of yarn which we use at the beginning of the year i think i'm going to put yarn and ribbon in this box hey y'all it is now after school and thank goodness because i was struggling today i'm on my third cup of coffee and i had my teami and i mean i'm running on four hours of sleep from last night four hours from the night before so it's been wild but i've accomplished a lot today so let me show you i'm gonna get to put these materials away now because the kids have built their contraptions here their assignment was to protect a photo so you know this makes sense this sometimes i'm not really sure so i can clean up my materials put them where they need to be i went ahead and sharpened all of the pencils because we had a new sharpener in the supply room so i got a beautiful blue sharpener that works amazing i wish i still had more pencils to show you but i'm going to leave these pencils here in the sharp container i got these from target i also got this sprinkle tray from target two years ago i want to say maybe last year even but i'm not going to let the kids use the sharpener first of all i hate when they use it while i'm teaching and it's just loud and a distraction although this one let me show you it's it's beautiful and they all look like fresh ticonderogas it's amazing like pre-sharpened ones so for the rest of summer school which is two days i'm gonna have them put their dole pencils here and then take a sharp pencil and i'm going to do this next year as well i'm not going to have my kid sharpen i may have a pencil sharpener job i do it in the morning or in the afternoons but other than that they're the only person who will touch it other than me because it needs to stay nice here are all the sharpened pencils i threw away the ones with not so great so this one's not amazing don't come for me but i kept most of them so that is good this is looking more full so i'm going to go ahead and put this back in the cabinet which i believe i'm basically done organizing so let's talk about this well i don't want to fully talk about it till i'm done but i placed my student erasers right here so i will be able to move those to my kids pencil boxes once i create them which would be nice because i need a couple extra spots i have some dry shampoo and some air freshener room freshener in here they used to be sitting up here but they can't stand here so it made so much more sense to keep them here i also have like my advil here so i'd rather put this one up high but that's fine it'll be there for now i have extra band-aids extra double-sided tape this is removable double-sided tape i got it through my fundraiser so we'll see how that is and then i have my brown bags my envelopes i moved them to the bottom i have paper straws in here because i'm like i don't know where else to store them i use these for activities in math my paper clips i'm like oh duh of course put them in here that's all set i do have to go through this bag but i went ahead and i hung all of my bags here they used to be like shoved in there and it's just a mess i have my laptop bag in there i have a donut face mask from one of my students my pig slippers i have my space suit i have my space backpack which i use for field trips i have my umbrella extra hangers my rain jacket from yesterday so i'll take that home and then on this side i just have some skeletons and gallon man those are just hanging up nicely i have organized and decluttered this area so in this basket which i believe is probably from like dollar general i have a bunch of those fun socks kids give them to me as gifts all the time i have gloves in here and a hat and then some other random holiday accessories just in case i need them and i obviously don't want to keep them at home so that's going back there i don't know what else i want to put up here but i like the empty space i still need to work on all of this because i want my new containers but i think i've already showed you this craft and party shelf this down here is going to stay the way it is because this is all old m-class maybe it'll be able to be moved out of my classroom this year because we're not using any of this anymore and it's all digital anyway old blurt beans i'm just leaving that there and then we have lego bins i did consolidate all of the pre-prepped materials that belong in this classroom to one little bin so that's nice there's a bunch of stuff like i have to take an inventory to know what i have because there's just a lot in there my pencils obviously go in here these t-shirts i might keep down there at the bottom because i don't know what else i would put there and they're not something i need to access all the time i still have my popsicle sticks because i am changing my container when i get my new ones i have all this random stuff in this container for now i mean it's only a couple items those styrofoam balls the little easels food coloring and my lanyards i just moved them out of the way have a bunch of ornaments which i think this was on the bottom shelf before i honestly think i'm just going to keep it there perfect because i mean those are hard to store that's fine i have some pumps i want to keep one in my recess bin i think they're for my yoga ball stools and maybe my wobble cushions so i might keep them actually i have the perfect place in this basket these are from hobby lobby perfect i never even pumped these up and the kids sit on them so i probably should pump them up i did go ahead and keep these time for kids i was just i'm like i can't get rid of this so i have all my old time for kids and scholastic news in my easel drawer right there so those i can either pull for small groups the only good thing about the time for kids is its second grade level so i could pull those for my lower readers other than that text feature hunt i let the summer school kids pick some today to take home so leaving that the way it is so right when i like was in college got out of college i was so inspired to have a just like writing station writing center right in corner area with a bunch of different prompts and stuff and i did buy this at one of the carson d'alossa warehouse sales and i thought this was really neat it's like the different world records and then there's a bunch of writing prompts that go with it i feel like this would be cool to kind of like put a new card in there every week for my writing center i guess i have to figure out like where would i want to keep this if i'm pulling from it weekly it's like i don't need it behind my desk if it's up front in like my cabinet like i have enough space to set it in there so i'll probably set it in there and then the other thing i have is this dollars and kids money management made fun which is really neat and it has like little activities that you can do to like teach kids different things about money but i'm just like money's not in our standard i might just give this away because i've had it for years and never used it and it's just taking up space but also it's not taking up that much space so that cabinet is basically ready to go there's a ton of open space which is awesome i can almost move things from this one over here but i think i'm going to start organizing maybe one or two shelves in here i do have like my recess stuff which let me know down below how you guys store your indoor recess items because i honestly hate letting my kids go into my cabinet and them trying to store it is just crazy so let me know what you do because i need a new system let's head over to that cabinet and see what we can accomplish today all right so i really feel like it's not as bad as it looks there's just stuff that i've pulled out that i've just thrown kind of in the front but everything really has a place because like behind these i need to fix the order of those but i have all of my little containers i don't necessarily love these because they're red but they're in the cabinet so who cares i have these like i need to move judy where should i store judy i don't know not here i have all these little number tiles which i love i used to use these i'm trying to think for what maybe like rounding i don't know they're literally just a tile with zero through nine on them that is awesome and then back there i have see i have room for more little containers in here this shelf is basically organized it's a little dusty obviously this doesn't go here this is stuff that i took off my walls and never did anything with so i have these two scrapbooking cases that i'm gonna shove this stuff in because that holds like decor pieces you know what ended up happening a lot of this is from when we shut down in 2020 and like i have all this birthday stuff which i need to find a spot to put up next year i love this and it's all laminated and very nice but i didn't take this stuff down in my classroom our assistant did because the assistants had to still come work to get paid but like we were not allowed in the classroom so they broke down our classrooms for us so i never ended up taking this out this year because it wasn't priority you know gotta put that away all this play-doh i'm honestly gonna trash it because it is years old and it is hard all right so i'm in the process of clearing that top shelf because i have all of my scrapbooking cases with my math centers that go up there and then my task cards are over here so these bins are usually not there and then these base 10 blocks are not there i need to get more containers for those base 10 blocks but like i really want the one with the three dividers and i can't find them anywhere anymore so if you've been able to find them let me know i got some from dollar tree way back when but they haven't been around since so not sure there but it literally pains me to get rid of these because when i had my circus classroom i was like oh my gosh these look like a carousel like they are perfect for my table groups but like i don't do group supplies anymore i was on the hunt for another one of these which is why i have a yellow one up front from really good stuff which was 20 and they sell these every year and they update them and they make them better and better so it's like i don't need to hold on to them because they take up so much space like these are not easy to store i'm not really using them i might keep two because i do use one as like a little guided reading caddy however like the ball fell off the bottom of this one so it doesn't even stand correctly i love this color because it matches my classroom and i definitely don't want the red i like the green because it's bright but also isn't technically really i don't know it doesn't matter because it's donuts so i could really use any color so this one has a bunch of fidgets in it which i got from the target dollar spot and clearly kids have written on it i need to go through it and throw some away because they got very gross some of them like these stress balls okay yeah that like that that's trash our guidance counselors made us like a calm down caddy last year with new fidgets so i don't necessarily need these so i'll go through and toss some of these so i won't need it for that purpose anymore but like i was saying i like to have one for guided reading i used to have expos or just small group in general xbows highlighters pencils and then i had erasers in here i'm doing the expos next year that have the erasers already on them so i could put something else like sticky notes would probably be a good idea to put in one of them so i definitely want this at my table but i might choose a different color i don't know i'll think about it so i'll hold on to them but i'll just leave them out here for now because like why am i gonna keep things that i have to store that i'm literally not going to use that if i really want one i could pay three dollars and buy another one like it's not that big of a deal the other thing i have in here is a bunch of notepad notepads so again with this has to do with the writing center have kids write on different fun things so i have to find somewhere else to store this i also this is one of the baskets i spray painted because i couldn't find a black one that's funny so i need to write down about these containers moving down see everything is kind of just tossed in here i think i organized it by like math manipulatives and then this was science and then this was indoor recess so i kind of just want to like pull everything out and then put it all back in but again waiting on my new bins is going to be helpful i kind of want more of these little ones i like these little ones because i have a lot of little things that i could put in there and then i have like these random bins which is fine but like you know my teacher heart type a personality just wants them all to match clearly indoor recess is a hot mess down here so tell me what to do instead because i had like puzzles in baggies in these bins i had board games they were all nice but the kids don't know how to put them back even if i show them like it's just the cabinet's too deep maybe if i put them on like just indoor recess on one side that way they don't have to reach i don't know let me know what you guys think but i think i'm gonna pause there for today because i don't have it in me to remove everything from here i'll bring those back i know i need to look out for those so and then i need to decide on my caddy at least that's a place to start i'm probably going to end this video here so that is it for classroom setup day one i guess we could call this since i'm organizing my cabinets and that is something very important organization is honestly everything i think part of the reason this past school year that i felt so overwhelmed and stressed constantly is because i knew that that cabinet looked like that like i dreaded opening that thing it's a start i'm really happy about the other cabinet i love that there's no more random things in there and they all have a place and when everything has a place life is just so much better so it will also be a lot nicer when the kids are gone and all their stuff is gone and i can just spread out i have two more days until summer school is over and then i can't get back into my classroom until like august 6th so i'm just trying to do everything i can to be ahead of the game because these are like simple tasks that like you don't want to think about when it's back to school time you know you just want everything to be organized thank you guys so much for watching please make sure you are subscribed turn on my notifications so you don't miss any more classroom setup videos or any videos for me in the future make sure you give this video a thumbs up so it reaches as many teachers as possible make sure you're following me on instagram because i do try to update there every day as well sometimes we chat about things that i don't chat about on youtube and also i've been doing weekly instagram lives just to hang out with y'all and catch up and chat and you know do whatever so i will see you somewhere else sometime soon see you next time thanks for watching bye

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Length: 23min 6sec (1386 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 29 2021