Classroom Mini Makeover

hello it is wednesday i'm at about a quarter to 12 and i am on my way to walmart which is not really a place i go to very frequently because i'm more of a target girl just because i know my way around target but i have been challenged to make over like a small area in my classroom um with a very defined budget of 200 and um all items come from walmart so i am a little stressed about this so i've had people ask questions in the past when i've shared like my classroom tours and all of that like what the process is or how do i decide what i want it to look like um and i've actually made a video in regards to that and i'll link it in the description box um and then i've had people also say um when they see like little corners of my condo that i should like do interior design on the side and i always say that i don't know that i could do it for somebody else because i don't really have a defined process i just know what i like and i just have images in my mind and i have just been lucky enough i think to be able to bring the images that i have in my mind to life but i don't to me there's no rhyme or reason as to how that happens i think i've just gotten lucky is basically what i'm saying so i'm nervous about this right now a because it's so confined to one place and so for me when i'm putting a room or a house or whatever together stuff is coming from all different places so i'm a little nervous because it's confined to one place i do have some things that i already have purchased that may kind of help with the situation and that it's a very defined budget and in the last couple days i've just been perusing walmart on the internet like on their website and i've stopped at a walmart or two to see what they have because i do have a vision like i do have an idea in mind and i have yet to see the things that i need in walmart to bring that vision to life so i'm going out and i'm trying again today um and i'm nervous for those reasons and i'm nervous because i also have a deadline this all has to occur within a very specific period of time and i just don't know if i'm capable of doing that um and i'm gonna have to probably enlist the help of my brother and or my dad if i need something put together or assistance with getting things hung so i thought it would be entertaining interesting to document the process um and i honestly don't even know if this will ever air because i don't know what's gonna happen from here um so that's what this is about i'm documenting the process i'm getting ready to head to walmart i'm gonna go in there and take my time and not panic i might have to continue to look at multiple walmarts um there's not a whole lot in my area and i'm definitely not going to be like going all over the world to all the walmarts that i can find um so i'm just gonna try and make do with what is available to me so here we go [Music] okay it is some time later it's um after three o'clock and i am obviously back from walmart um it was a successful walmart trip overall i panicked in the beginning and i'll show you guys everything that i bought a little bit later she's all in the car right now and i just don't feel like taking it out um but i was a little panicked at first because i was looking for some picture frames because one of the things i'm going to be doing is framing this tpt product that i got from kim at elementary in the mitten and um i need all the frames to match and i need 14 of them and there were not 14 of any one kind of frame so i had to take a deep breath and improvise i found 14 frames not all 14 are exactly the same but i was able to get two different frames and like map out like a pattern that i'll put on the wall so that i can get the frames the good news about that is the frames that i didn't see at first but ended up having to get because i had to get or use what was available were on clearance and they were only four dollars so that was a big savings for me um so i picked up the items that i the bulk of the items that i think i needed at walmart i stayed under 200 i only spent 187 dollars so i have about 10 to spare and so um that part is done i feel very confident about what i'm envisioning for those frames um because what i mean really what could go wrong but now i think i'm going to go um look at home goods because while i was at walmart they had this technically it was a tv stand that would work well in my classroom because i want to do something else with the um uh the refrigerator in the microwave in my classroom and i was thinking about putting the microwave there so they had this really nice tv stand but they didn't have it in stock they only had the display i came well i came home to eat lunch but then also to see if they had it um online and they don't have that one online they had some that were similar but i needed in a certain period of time i like i need it today or by tomorrow or friday at the latest and none of them were going to be here in time so i'm going to go do some hunting i'm going to look at home goods to see if i can find something to accent the purchases that i made at walmart today so that's what i'm about to do i'm feeling much better about this whole challenge that i did yesterday yesterday i wasn't feeling or even this morning this morning i wasn't feeling so sure of myself so i am off to home goods right jenny oh right now it's um what time is it um let's say 5 30. it's 5 30 ish so my intention was to go to home goods i think i said when i left though i realized well maybe i can just go to target maybe target has something uh similar to what i saw at walmart and it's closer and it's probably going to be cheaper because i have the target red debit card so i went to target and they had nothing remotely close to what i was looking for which was disappointing and so then i was like okay maybe i'll just go home or maybe i'll go to a different walmart um and then i said well let me just go to homegoods since that's what i was going to do anyway because at the end of the day the reason why i decided to go to home goods is because i really need something that's just going to be available today i don't have time for it to be shipped or anything like that because i have to get the ball rolling so i can get everything put together and ready to be shared so i decided to go to homegoods to see what they had and i'm glad i did i feel like there's like a glare on my glasses or the camera's not focusing so i decided to go to home goods uh just to see if they had anything and i'm glad i did i was getting a little discouraged but like when you are looking for something here's one of my tips um with decorating and finding items for your house or your classroom or whatever the case may be like you really have to take your time and go through every square inch of the store because just when you think you see everything there is something hiding not hiding but just not in clear sight and so you may miss it and that's what happened to me when i went to homegoods so i looked around the furniture section was like okay i don't really see anything here that's gonna work for what i'm looking for in the classroom and then i happen to just say let me just walk around to the back side of this area and lo and behold i saw a table that i thought would actually work and what's nice about this table is that it can um it's made so that you can fold it in and make it more narrow or fold some pieces out and make it more wide and so i found it and it was much cheaper than what um i saw at walmart earlier today so that was a bonus and so i decided to go ahead and purchase it i didn't bring it home with me because it's bigger and it's not in a box um and i don't have any room in my car right now and i don't even know if my car is long enough for it so i'm gonna have to like bribe my brother and my dad to help me out with that so they're holding it at home goods until the 15th but i'll definitely get it before then because i have to have this whole trans baby transformation done by them so i'm going to show you what else i got now when i accepted this challenge um with we are teachers i don't know if i ever said that i'm doing this um challenge courtesy of we are teachers um when i accept this challenge i was like oh no this is like how floodgates get open for me when it comes to decorating so i was like i'm gonna try my hardest to stick to uh the 200 uh donation or i don't really know what to call it the 200 uh jump start that they offered me with walmart and just keep it close to that um but that didn't happen i spent a little bit more than that because once i even get a taste of like getting a space together then i just kind of like get stuck in the process and i'm sorry but not sorry because i really do want this section of my classroom to be better so i'm gonna show you what i got from home goods and walmart and then that will probably be all that i do for this today and as far as this vlog is concerned i don't know if it's gonna be one just a one blog deal or it'll be two parts i think at most it would be two parts we'll just have to see um so i don't know like i didn't really i wasn't planning on doing this or i wasn't planning on vlogging this process to the last minute because i thought it would be fun so let's start with walmart first and then this is in no particular order so um what i'm doing is i'm redoing the small group area and so i have a chair um that is a few years old i've had it for years and it's wooden and i just like to have cushion in the chair when i sit on it so i saw this pillow it says is this upside down it says my happy place um and it's yellow and gray and so i got it and my classroom in a lot of ways is my happy place so i got that really as like a back for myself when i'm sitting in that chair so that is that this i just picked up on a whim i don't even know where i plan to put this i don't have that thought out at all this was not a part of my vision but i got it because i like the way that it looks it's a tree and i thought you know maybe i should get that it's you know the learning tree i don't know it's stretch but i got this from walmart i think this was like 24. um if it works great if it doesn't it will go back because i absolutely have my receipt tucked away in a very safe place in case i need to return anything for any reason the next things that i'm going to show you this is not all of them you don't need to see all of them because they all look exactly the same but this is what i knew i was going to walmart to look for so um my vision is to create like this gallery wall i don't know if it's really a gallery because it's going to be pretty symmetrical this wall with um framed images of these posters that kim from elementary in the mitten created um that are of activists of different kinds uh activists from different backgrounds i should say and i definitely want to and plan to have a activist project to start the school year in my class i'm going to be using a product from caffeinated educate and i will try and remember to link that product in the description box so i need it 14 frames because there are 14 people so when i went to walmart the other day to peruse and panic i was looking for frames like this so they had them but they only had a few so these are for eight by tens and the paper is eight and a half by eleven so this is as close as i can get and we're just gonna make it work um and so i wanted to have these frame but they didn't have 14 of them so i went today hoping that maybe magically in the last couple days they did have 14 and they didn't um so i was panicking um and then i again said let me just calm down let me just do a good thorough walk around this area i even had asked an employee at walmart to scan this to see if they were any in the back and she said nope you have all of them and as she was scanning i happened to look and i saw these okay at first there we go at first i was like no i don't like these i didn't necessarily gravitate towards this like pattern or texturing here because i was like that's kind of like old lady stuff in my opinion and my classroom i want it to be more modern then it just kind of grew on me because i said i can kind of mix these two frames together and this frame will modernize this frame and i also like this because it has like a very faint like tan coloring on it which will match um some of the accent pieces of furniture in my classroom and the best part is these were on clearance these were only four dollars so i bought ten of these at four dollars and four of these and i want to say these were like eight dollars so it ended up being better for me to buy these because that made my money go a lot further so i have 14 of those frames and i think that was all that i bought from walmart so that's it for walmart i went to home goods i can't show you the table because it's at home goods but i will show you the other things that i technically wasn't going there to get but found myself getting to kind of decorate the table and i know that's not important to some but it's important to me so bear with me so first i found this sign that says um well i didn't find this first but this is the first thing i'm showing you i found this sign that said don't wish for it work for it i thought that was a good message to have in the classroom um what i want to do at the table is ultimately eventually i also want to have a coffee maker in my classroom just to save me some time in the morning so my thoughts have this on the desk also it says coffee first you people later i thought that was funny and this one is wrapped up nicely i don't really want to unwrap it so there's something else there's another uh wall hanging i'm not gonna pick it out because it does have glass on it and i want to protect it because i can be clumsy so i got those things from home goods i also found [Music] this plant here that i plan to put on the mystery table that you don't see so i got that and i these are also wrapped i think i can unwrap these this i'm surprised i got because i was so anti this and i kind of still am because i feel like people are so obsessive that it makes me like stray away from it but it will be a cute little accent piece if i can get it open i found this little sign a ray done sign like it's very cliche i've never had one before i don't even know if this is a thing anymore um but it just says make today amazing [Applause] another positive sign to have in the classroom and the last thing or the last two things this is a little cup if you have a home goods i don't know if you guys i'm sure you do know um they are really good about just putting a ton of random stuff as you wait in line at the register and there's always something that you see so i found this um i plan to put sweetener in this so like i use stevia or splenda for my coffee let's see if it will focus all right there we go i was trying to get it to focus um so i bought this and my intention is to put sweetener in here like stevia packets splenda stuff like that so it says live love teach so you know i i i had to have that um so i got that and then the very last thing that i got from home goods i'm gonna have to get up and roll it around here maybe i can reach around and grab it let's um by the time this vlog goes up i will know exactly what the school year is going to look like at least as far as we know it uh because that decision should be coming out sometime this week one of the things that has been talked about quite a bit for middle school teachers is that instead of our kids switching from one class to the next so i have in a normal school year i have two main groups of kids one group is called my homeroom class and they're just called my homeroom classes i see them first thing in the morning i teach them language arts and social studies and then after lunch i switch and i get my second group of kids and they are referred to as my switch class um and they start with my partner teacher in the morning and so then we switch after lunch hence the name switch class um and so instead of those groups of kids moving around the talk is that me and my partner teacher will be switching so she'll come in my room to teach the kids and then i'll go into her room to teach the group of kids that we hadn't seen earlier that day so um we will need to be mold so i saw this little rolling cart at home good so i picked it up just in case um i'm pretty sure that's what's going to happen but if it doesn't for some reason then that will be going back because that's the only reason that i bought it for so that's my little haul um and so since this is the last day and i've had this question before about like the process i go through with setting up my classroom so i am at the point in my process where i just have ideas in my mind like in my mind i can see what i want but i don't know if what i see in my mind is feasible in the classroom and so it's the the nerve-wracking part where i'm like okay you have some great ideas but you don't have anything measured um you're just going off of estimations of the amount of space that you think you have and you better hope that when you go in there that it all works out otherwise you're going to be stuck especially for something like this where i'm working under a deadline so uh the first thing that i do when i'm putting my classroom together is i think of like what do i want to feel how do i want to feel and nine times out of ten i want to feel calm so i try and think of colors and things that i could put in the classroom to make me feel calm and i always want to feel like maybe i'm at home so notice like a lot of things that i buy are things that you would probably not probably things that are really intended for your home and then i just visualize how i want it laid out i don't measure or anything like that um which is not the best thing but like i said earlier it's always worked out for me so if it ain't broke don't fix it so that's where i'm at i'm a little nervous um to see how it all turns out but that's all i have to say for today during this process i will check in with you tomorrow tomorrow i am going to go tomorrow i plan on getting the prints printed out that i'm going to frame and then going into my classroom i think to drop this stuff off um and then just kind of stand in the space and look at it to see if what i remember it to be like is actually so so we will chat tomorrow and i'm just going to forewarn you i might have on the same shirt tomorrow because i like this shirt and it's very comfortable so i just want to tell you that that is very possible so see you tomorrow well hello everybody it is day two of this makeover or i will say mini makeover challenge that i've been given by we are teachers yesterday i shopped i showed you guys what i got um i didn't get to show you everything from home goods because it was wrapped up in paper i brought it down to my classroom and i've unwrapped it so that everything is out so i can show you those things i think i didn't get to show you this so this was the sign that was wrapped and it says we rise by lifting others just like that and i feel like there was something else i think it was this this that i didn't get to show you or maybe i did i don't know who who knows what i'm doing anymore um but the bottom line is i'm in my classroom now i wanted to get all this stuff dropped off i'm not going to do anything else today because my dad and my brother are going to help me out this weekend we're getting things hung and leveled but i wanted to show you if you've been watching my vlogs for a long time i wanted to show you the space because i don't think people know that i always hated this whole area of my classroom um and i just had to kind of give up on it because the school year started so if you notice this bookcase used to be over there by the phone and then these two bookcases because these are two separate bookcases that are just right next to each other these used to be right around there and i just moved those to the edge and my plan my goal is i found um let me flip it around so you're not just looking at that ugly gray wall um i saw this product that kim from elementary in the mitten had made where it was just different historical figures with quotes these are all people that you would consider to be activists and so i saw him and i was like oh that would be a great thing for me to add to that wall and it is related to a goal that i have in class anyway so i got those i'm going to frame them in the frames that i showed you yesterday this kind of frame or let's get it together this kind of frame and i'm going to have them arranged there so it's i'm thinking like two rows of seven and that is where my dad's help will come in i bought a table from home goods that i have to pick up and i'm thinking about buying a rug to go there because rugs always make things better that'll be my third rug in this classroom and is there such thing as too many rugs in a classroom i don't know like so we'll see um i did have a desk too i think i mentioned yesterday i bought a desk from walmart um and then when i got in here this morning i was like i don't have enough space over there for a table and a desk and so i took that back and saved myself some money so that just got sent back so i don't have anything really that needs to be put together which is always a relief so um what else did i do that i want to show you i am feeling better just with just with rearranging those two bookcases and the other thing that i want to show you is i move my microwave over here because the microwave used to be over on that wall and i'll be sure to link like the classroom tour video from last year so that you guys can see what i'm talking about as far as how i've rearranged things and the refrigerator used to be like in this corner with the microwave on top of it but i have then or since then moved the refrigerator in here which is where i always wanted it to be um so i moved it there in the corner i hated the refrigerator where it was because a i hated that corner anyway and b the refrigerator was on the floor so i always had to like bend down to get stuff out of it put stuff in it couldn't really see what i was doing which is why i knocked over a starbucks one day last year because i couldn't see um so i just prefer to have the refrigerator in here higher on that table and now it is and now i feel better so last night i went to bed with anxiety about like oh my god what if my vision doesn't work what if it doesn't come to life what if it just is not what i think it's going to be and then i had to calm myself down and say you know what latonya it's not going to be any worse than what it is you're not going to hate it any more than what you already hate it now it's only it's only up from here so that is the attitude that i'm gonna have but um i'm getting ready to go because it's time for me to eat lunch i'm very hungry but i want you guys to wish me luck i will continue to take you along on this process tomorrow i'm going to print out the posters and get them ready to be framed i think i'm going to do that in here and um after that i just got to wait until saturday because that's my brother and my dad are coming to help me get stuff hung and i should be done by sunday i should be totally done and that spot should look way better than what it does now so i guess i'll see you guys tomorrow [Music] [Music] hello it is now friday the next day it is almost noon um which is nice because i thought it was only like 11 and i'm hungry which means i get to eat soon uh but i went and worked out this morning at orange theory at 7 30 and after that i decided well i had already decided i headed over to officemax to print out the prints that i plan to put in these picture frames let me be careful because i don't want to break them these picture frames that i have uh for my classroom i was going to do it in my classroom when i left my classroom yesterday i thought i'll just come back tomorrow and get everything laminated and cut um in the classroom but i decided against that this morning there's nothing like being in the comfort of your own home with your dogs so i went and got that printed office max i had it printed on like not the thickest card stock but definitely not just regular laser printer paper um and so it cost me a total of four not fourteen dollars ten dollars i printed out 14 different sheets in full color and the reason why i chose to do that i think i said this yesterday but if i didn't i just wanted to make sure that the quality of the prints were going to be just right so here is what they look like so i just finished laminating them again this is a product from and i'll turn the camera this way so you can see them all this is a product from kim at elementary in the mitten she made these these are in her tpt store and i know um in recent days she's added more people to this package i think she was taking a request for a while um so this is just 14 of the ones that are available but i know that there's more so i decided to laminate them just to make them a little bit more sturdy and thick there's michelle obama oh michelle obama sorry uh one of my favorite people in the world so dolores huerta sonia sotomayor frida kahlo rosa parks and i think that's it so there's 14 of them all together depending on how this goes and what space i have i definitely wouldn't be opposed to uh redownloading it and printing out the additions that she's at at it but for the purpose of this little mini makeover i'm sticking with the 14 because i have 14 frames so i'm getting ready to cut them now and my first fear is just making sure that they are sized just right in these frames i'm not the best at cutting things straight so i'm getting ready to cut them get them in the frames and i'm not going to vlog that process because i really need to concentrate but i will show you like what one of them looks like when all is said and done so wish me luck all right i have finished prepping the posters and the frames i took my time i did a pretty good job some of them there's like little parts that are a little cut off but there's not really anything i can do about it um you still get the gist of the saying and you know i'm not going to stress too much about it so here is how they turned out uh this one is greta thornberg and you can see that this is the one style of the frame that i bought and then this is the other style that i have more of and i was mistaken i have six of these and eight of these i think is what ended up happening um so yeah overall i'm pretty i'm pretty happy with it i think it will be a nice addition to the wall i love the product again i will definitely try and remember to link this in the description box if i forget someone just let me know and i'll put it up there but that's all i'm doing for today because everything else now just requires me to get the help of my dad to get these hung up and i'm going to pick up the table from home goods tomorrow so that i don't just have it sitting in my car and that's really it so um i'm happy with it i'm getting ready to eat some lunch right now i'm going to enjoy the rest of my friday so more than likely unless something exciting happens in the name of this mini classroom makeover i will be talking to you from maybe not from my classroom we'll see but i will be talking to you at some point tomorrow but you'll definitely be in my classroom at some point tomorrow so anyway i'll talk to you tomorrow all right it's saturday it's about 2 30. i am heading to my classroom now to meet my dad to hang these pictures um this should be it this should be the final little bit of it so this morning after my workout at orange theory i went to home goods to pick up the table that i ended up purchasing i'm trying to think of like what all i've updated you guys on since i took that table back to walmart i decided to replace that with another rug from walmart so i did get that and then i have other stuff in my car that i just need to drop off uh in my classroom as well as the pictures that he's going to hang so my hope is that when all is said and done in there with my dad today that the vision that i had in my mind comes to life and that area in my classroom that i never really hated and pretty no that i never really liked and pretty much hated is now transformed into a beautiful space that i can look at and smile instead of look at and feel disappointed in myself so this is always the part of me putting a room together like this last little part where um you don't know if it's gonna work until you actually see it like that's where we're at uh now as i'm doing this there's a part of me that's like i don't even know if i'll get to enjoy this space because we know what next school is going to next school year is going to look like a couple of days ago thursday night is when we had our board meeting where our district announced what the plan was and so basically parents have three options to choose from one is hybrid where their child comes to school half the day either in the morning or in the afternoon um and then half the class comes in the morning half the class comes in the afternoon is really the best way for me to explain that and then they do work at home that i may or may not assign them i'm not going to purposely just assign them things to do at home if if there's nothing for them to do um so they can do that or they can do a hundred 100 distance learning which is virtual learning where they're learning from a teacher who could be any teacher in the district 100 of the time but they have to show up on a schedule like they have to be online at this time with these assignments and these deadlines and these due dates so much more stringent than what it was when we were doing distance learning from march on and then the third option is they can choose to participate in art districts home homeschool program which is different like they can kind of do their work as they see fit they make their own schedule it's a slightly different curriculum so those are the choices they have to choose from but that being said with the numbers spiking in different counties and surrounding school districts deciding to possibly just start online period and then see about going into the hybrid there is a possibility that that could happen to me i'm hoping that it doesn't uh because as you know if you've been watching me i hated teaching through the computer but if that's what i have to do then that is what i will do so there's a part of me that's like i might be doing all this and for nothing but eventually we'll be in the classroom so i keep telling myself that even if we don't go in today we'll go in eventually so i'm going to stop talking now because i have to unlock the gate to get into my school and the next time i chat with you i'll be in the classroom with my dad hanging pictures all right i've made it into my classroom my dad is here um this is the pictures that he's hanging for me so these are the posters that i laminated and i framed yesterday and because my dad is very particular and you need to be prepared i have laid out the pattern or how i want them on the wall so that's why they're laid out like this and he is just measuring things so that the pictures are centered to that empty space there so that's what my dad is here to do anytime i need something hung in my classroom i beg him to do it because he's really good at it so um that's what we're doing we're gonna figure this out and then i will show you the process or show you when it's all hanging down well hey it's after eight o'clock at night and [Music] i did not pick up the camera to show you where we ended the day now that didn't not happen because something went wrong in fact everything went relatively smoothly and according to plan um but when my dad finished hanging the pictures and some other things that i wanted him to hang i realized that i needed to do some cleaning and put some things away and by the time we were done i was just ready to go and i know i have to go back tomorrow because i will need to like tidy it up take some pictures and film a little clip that's genesis film a little clip um kind of wrapping things up for we are teachers so i figured i would share the final product with you guys tomorrow because i want to do it justice um so yeah but what ended up happening is he hung the pictures jenny and um i took a gander at everything to see if what my mind saw is what was now being seen in reality and for the most part it was but they were like little spots that needed some adjusting so my dad left i went to tj maxx to look for a couple of things to for the table and found one little thing another ray done item and i figured well if i have one piece on on that table then i might as well make it a complete uh look but i only have two things and then i went to hobby lobby and i picked up something i should show it to you um but i'm going to take it back i picked up something to kind of address this little corner of the area that was irritating me and it turned out that it was too big it was a good idea in theory but it was too big for the corner um and it didn't have anywhere else to fit so i did some rearranging i won't tell you what else i rearranged in my room to kind of fix that area um because i'll show it to you tomorrow and maybe i'll show you the thing that i'm taking back to hobby lobby tomorrow um i did find a chair at hobby lobby uh and a pillow so the pillow that i bought from walmart will be going back and then i went to target to see if they had little knickknacks and i picked up a plant and i think that's it um so i am done i believe i just got to go in rearranged clean up and then show you the finished product but i don't know like it's kind of embarrassing to say like right now i feel very worked up like very i don't know if it's anxiety or adrenaline because i always have this feeling when i'm like in the throes of like decorating something or putting something together and i'm at the point where it's just about done um and i always get the same like anxious feeling or feeling in my stomach and i don't think it's anxiety because what would i have to be anxious about because i'm done and i'm satisfied so i'm assuming it's adrenaline because i know that when i was in my classroom today like moving things around and coming up with the ideas i felt like this must be what an adrenaline rush is and for me to have an adrenaline rush over decorating things is kind of ridiculous but i think that's how i derive adrenaline so um i'm just checking in because i wanted to explain why you didn't see the classroom after my dad was working on hanging the pictures but i will show it to you tomorrow because i have to go back in there and then i will um wrap it up end up the blog um and that will be the end of that but i've had fun uh but again i have learned that once you once i get a little taste of decorating something are we doing something i really go all in and there's no stopping me so there's that but i'll see you guys okay guys it's sunday and i'm officially back in my classroom and i think we're done so last night i told you that i just was all over the place just feeling worked up i think i told you last night if i didn't i like ended the day just feeling like amped up i think it was like an adrenaline rush woke up this morning went to orange theory uh returned a pillow at walmart came back in here i had to clean up some things because i needed to take some pictures of everything for we are teachers then i went home and um got dressed and put on some makeup because i just filmed a video uh for a different project that i was working on that required me to look you know presentable and so here i am also to show you guys the finished product are you guys ready here it is there is the finished product it just it just looks so much better like even when i look at it here i'm just like yes this is much better um so i'll flip it around kind of talk through something so um where do i want to start so let's start here so again this bookcase was moved this used to be like smack dab in the middle of this wall i don't know why i thought that was my best option that was not my best moment i'm in terms of decoration decorating excuse me and then these are with the exception of this here i'm going to cover that because it does have some students on it that read sign is old and then all the little pictures around it are the three pictures around it are from walmart the picture behind my hand is um just a picture of my last group of elementary school students that was a gift to me and i want to keep it in the class just because you know that's kind of significant uh the other thing that happened is this plant if you really want to pay attention pay attention to details you will realize this plant used to be in my teacher corner over there and i'll show you what i put there instead but when i got everything in place it just felt like this needed like a plant or something here so i moved it there that's just my rolling cart that i got from hobby lobby to prepare myself for moving around as a teacher if that becomes necessary and then these are the prints from um elementary in the mitten that i got framed up my dad hung these up for me some of them might be a little off uh because you know these are frames that were on the cheaper side so the hooks on the back weren't exactly in the right or in the same spot um and then we ended up having to take the backs off um because these were all frames that were meant to be like on table so they all had this piece on it so we ended up having to take those off because it was making them like droop um so i like the way that that turned out and then this is the table that i couldn't show you guys from home goods uh so this is it in its wide form but if i wanted to narrow it this piece folds down and this piece folds down and then it would just be like the center piece uh as far as a little knickknacks i was looking for i got some paper baskets from walmart and here's my little my little ray done corner i can't believe that i have it but i did um but it worked like it matches like the look ended up getting the rug from walmart the chair is from home goods and that's pretty much it so this plant was sitting on the desk or on that table yesterday but i moved it here i put the coffee first sign there and then this lamp is replacing the plant that was there so if you've watched my vlogs this lamp used to be there but when i moved the plant from there i put that there and i actually just ordered a coat rack from amazon to put there because last year um i always got mad at myself for not having a coat wreck in the classroom to like hang my sweaters on or stuff like that so that's it i hope that you guys enjoyed going through this little mini makeover with me if you did give this video a thumbs up if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the comment section below and i will be sure to link the previous classroom tour video if you haven't seen that in case you're interested so thanks again for watching and i will talk to you guys soon bye you

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Published: Sat Aug 08 2020