CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION & DECLUTTER | prepping for classroom set up

[Music] hello everyone welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel my name is becky and i am a first year first grade teacher i am so excited for today's video because this is kind of like episode one or part one of my teacher classroom set up videos well kind of so in today's video this is actually filmed like quite some time so it is the end of june right now and this was filmed actually like the first week of june i just has taken me a while sorry my cat um but it took me a while to put these videos together and edit it but um this was kind of like a classroom declutter video so to cut you up to speed i just got hired this year obviously it's my first year and i am taking over for someone who is retiring and she was in the school for 36 years and she left like almost everything for me so lots of stuff for me to go through so this is kind of what this video is she left all of her classroom books for me which was super awesome but also a lot of work to go through so i spent like the first week of june just going through the classroom library and it took me pretty much the entire week and then the second week i went through all of her materials all of her math manipulatives all of her stuff that she had set up so that is what this video is and i am super excited and i just can't believe how much work i got done i am so grateful i actually had a lot of help i had my boyfriend trent and then my teacher friend laura came in and they both helped me go through everything they're both like organizing kings and queens they're awesome so thank you guys um but i'm super excited i hope that you guys like this video i realize i've never filmed an intro so that's why i'm kind of recapping this for you today and i hope you enjoy and yeah see you guys soon hello everyone it is friday june 4th so i came in yesterday and i didn't film anything because it was really just sorting books all day and i thought that would be kind of boring um but today hopefully we will finish the books we made a lot of progress yesterday and hopefully today that we can finish that up and then start working on these shelves behind here if not then i'll start working on those next week but i can show you all the organization and progress that we have made um yesterday and then hopefully it'll be finished today so these baskets right here are all the books that i am donating to the library um and then yesterday part of the reason why i didn't film is because i had one of my teen teachers here and she was helping me figure out what levels all of these books are that i'm keeping and then i started to sort through these picture books and try and categorize them yes it looks like a mess right now because of all the different categories that i have and i actually have one of my lovely teacher friends coming in today to help me categorize them because she's very good at that so we are going to be working on all of this today and hopefully i want to like sort through these make sure that all of the sets are together and then take out like the random ones that there's only like one or something left so we'll see what we get done today [Music] [Music] [Applause] i'm so excited here's all the progress we made today so we moved this over here and then i'm going to get rid of that we cleared out all the bookshelves over here finished organizing all of the books and they are now over there and then we got all the leveled books which i need to get different bins for them move to the table back fixed all that got all my holiday books separate and then here's what it looks like it looks so good and the next week we are going to work on all of this stuff over here and all the desk stuff i'm out of breath hello everyone it is monday june 7th and i am back in my classroom today and i am actually going to show you guys some of the stuff that we did last week and then kind of show you my plan for this week this is my last kind of full week that i was gonna spend going through everything i need to put some plastic coverings on everything because i'm pretty sure they're nearing um going around and cleaning all the rooms and mine i think is coming up soon so i want to make sure that it is ready and packed away so that they can shampoo all the floors and move everything out that they need to so um after this week i think i'm not going to come back until probably like mid july maybe not even end of july um i kind of need to get some things for bulletin boards and i want to have at least a little bit of a summer so um this is my last week hopefully and we'll see how much i can get done hopefully i can get it all done i have my friend coming in again this week to help me so everything should go pretty smoothly so i kind of showed you the other day all the things that we moved around so this is moved my library has cleared out and is now moved over here which i'm just so relieved that we got all this stuff done um and then here i have all my holiday books i'm still trying to figure out how i want to organize my holiday books if i want to keep them in crates like this or if i want to get some nicer bins for them i haven't decided but i'm tackling this whole wall this week um so if you can see i cleared out some stuff right here to make this kind of like my library and i was going to clear out this stuff right here too so this is all like indoor recess stuff so i was going to go through it see what i want to keep see what can go and i'm thinking i'm doing like a indoor recess cart or something i haven't decided but i'm gonna put all of like the leveled books right there so right now i just have them in these bins over here but i'm gonna get some bigger bins for them because some of them don't fit in the bins and these are my book bins for my kids um but i'm thinking of putting all the level books right there and then i want to go through my curriculum stuff and kind of move that over there and this right here is all math stuff that i need to go through and again see what i want to keep get rid of and i'm thinking of moving all of my math and science and everything over here so that's kind of the plan for today you can see i have all of this math stuff on the floor that i still need to go through it's kind of a hot mess but we will see what we can get done today and then see what we'll get down to the rest of the week [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello everyone it is wednesday june 9th and it is currently like 6 46 in the afternoon so i've been here all day i didn't film anything because it was really just tedious like organizing stuff i have my friend laura here with me today and we're doing a bunch of like math stuff so all this is math i just bought a bunch of bins so i will show you what everything looks like it looks a lot different than the last time i filmed but i promise we're making some progress okay so here's all of the math stuff i have like my geo boards i have these dice dominoes all the stuff and all of that was right here so i'm hoping that all this will only take up one once we get it all condensed these are just random things that we found containers but we're actually going to the container store tomorrow so hopefully we can find some more stuff um holiday books are still the same i decided to put like random stuff up there for now and i'll probably store like tissues hand sanitizer wipes up there when the kids come this is still the same but i got bins for these went through legos we have our stem cart here that we went through there's not as much in there now and then yesterday i think you saw me putting it together but i never showed you um the end result but here is the recess card i'm really excited about this so i have two empty drawers which i was going to get like food and maybe like a doctor kit but everything else we have like a bunch of lincoln logs legos these connects down here the magnetic blocks we have a tea set and then all of this stuff i just got a bin right here that's just going to sit on the floor and all of this stuff i got today so these are going to be book bins for the level books these are going to be book bins to replace those colored ones right there and then i got these tupperware containers um for these math things right here i'm gonna give each kid their own set and then clipboards because my clipboards were a mess and then when we were going through math stuff we found a bunch of like cards so i was gonna put all the cards in there so they're not in their own individual bags and then we had more math cards so i was gonna put them in these cute little cases so that is our to do for the night and hopefully we can get a good bit done [Music] you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning and happy friday so much is going on in this room so um i want to say wednesday and thursday i didn't get a ton of clips we went to the container store yesterday and bought so many containers but sadly i kind of messed up and i didn't write down all the stuff that i needed and we kind of guessed and we didn't get all the things that we needed so we're gonna go back to the container store today but i thought i would show you everything that's going on in here because i'm not gonna lie it looks fantastic um we got the desks set up and everything well i'm not sure if this is how we want it we kind of just wanted to see what it would look like i heard that i'm getting 24 students i don't know if that's right but that's a lot of kids so i'm trying to figure out how the desks will work with the setup that i have in mind i am excited though this giant desk that i said i kind of wanted a new one they found a new one for me so this isn't it they are going to switch it i think july or something so the desk will be smaller but i will show you all the organization that we've gotten done because it looks so good so first off all the desks i am if i'm getting 24 like they told me i am two desks short back there um but when you walk in we have this don't mind some of this stuff we kind of tried to move it out of the way that's going home with me all that stuff is going to be taken out and of course those doors are going to be closed and then here is the circle table for guided reading i heard that they didn't have any more horseshoe tables that they know of her right now so i think i'm going to end up just having to use that circle table um i like this cart but since i have so many desks in here i kind of wanted to get rid of it off the floor so i got bins for all of these up here and then that is we have what's called a number corner it's like a math thing that we don't have to do so i think i'm going to wait until next year since i kind of want to get my feet wet before i start doing everything we have our lovely recess cart stem cart big books and then over here is where like the most progress is going on it looks so good so here we have the library i got all new bins for like everything um i have a bunch of cubes over there that's gonna be put away i have a little like calming basket which i think i'm gonna get a new basket but i love the idea of having like a little calming corner or a basket or something and then i just moved all of my stuff that i had into this like cubby where all like the coats and the book bags and stuff is gonna go because i need to have everything done by today and um actually put plastic up on the walls to like cover the shelves and everything so that it is ready to go when they clean this is like probably one of my favorite containers that we got it is like divided come uh it's a divided container and we split up all the different cubes based on the color call me crazy but i think it looks beautiful and we got containers for everything else all the science stuff is there math stuff is all here i tried to get a bin for the greenhouse that one actually and it was just a hair too small so i'm gonna get a new one these ones are my holiday books i got these like filing bins to put my holiday books in and i still haven't decided what i want to do with those books and then i filled up all of these containers right here so that each one of my kids can have a set and then i have this also is all the stuff that we forgot to get containers for i did pick up some for these i was gonna put them together in like little sets so that they're ready to go when we use them for group things and then i have some extras over there that i'm just gonna put in another container so this is all the stuff that we still have left to find containers for but we are going to the container store today so we will find it and this is kind of what the room looks like again i'm not set on the desks staying this way and actually i now that i've been like looking at it more i'm kind of toying with switching this circle table and my desk and having this be the reading corner and maybe my desk being over there i'm not sure that's something that i might decide once i get my new desk but that is all the progress we've made so far this entire week i like can't believe that we got this much done i mean seriously i would not have been able to do this on my own thankfully i had my friend laura here with me this whole entire week so thank you laura but we are going to go to the container store today and i'm sure you will get a last minute what everything looks like before i put up all the plastic and everything and then i'm going on vacation next week so it will be really nice to finally have all this done and then be able to start fresh um when i come back in july slash august [Music] i'm back from the container store and oh my goodness we finished it all it looks beautiful i have lara here with me she's gonna give you the final little tour before we have to make it ugly and put all the plastic up but it looks beautiful are you ready laura i'm ready what's this called again okay take it away um our information station yes this is the information station we have these cute little mailboxes here we have these pull out white boards and then we have our clipboards all in here we're gonna have this look super cute and pretty with like some kind of welcoming things on it when the school year starts and then if you follow me this way this is all of the guided reading books they're all leveled and ready to go we just have to get really pretty labels for them and then up top is the listening bones and then some miscellaneous math things and then over here is just curriculum and then we've got big books here we have our stem car which is really looked a little you know when we first got it now it looks amazing super organized like beautiful like um legos we've got some jenga we're gonna get some coloring sheets there's some board games this super fun cashier yeah um this is like a map that can roll out and then we have the library it's beautiful it took us forever like a week a week yeah yeah it took a really long time but it looks so good and then becky's beautiful rocking chair that if you've watched your older videos you see her when she does this it looks gorgeous um here we have some curriculum more um read aloud read aloud they're like they're like the teacher ones yes and then we get into a little bit more of the library because there are so many books they didn't all fit over there so and then we have guided reading kind of well what do you want level readers readers so these are the ones that kids will get to pick out and they get to put them in their own little book bins um this is much more curriculum type things yeah becky is going to have this be her station where she's just going to have like cleaning things tissues plastic bags hand sanitizer all that good stuff this will all look pretty decorative once we get back and we're actually allowed to make things look pretty independent because right now we have to cover it all that's just like to get it out of the way and then this took forever this is all math all math organization we're crazy we have things that are rainbow we have things that aren't rainbow um the little cards are in their own little decks which is super cute um everything has a bin it's wonderful we've got some holiday books over here a few more miscellaneous math things um this is more science down at the bottom and then just a lot of curriculum books that becky will need and then this huge desk is leaving because no one needs a desk this thing i'm so excited to get a different test right and then the desk set up we don't know now i'm toying with it we'll probably figure more out later i don't know we have to go mark everything and then it'll be ready to go for july august whenever i'm back so right after i showed you everything finished in the classroom i sadly had to pack it away and cover all the bookshelves so that our custodians could come in and deep clean the rooms and do the floors and the walls and all of that good stuff so i am done for now for at least a little while it took me two weeks to finish all of that between the library and then just seeing everything that i had it was a lot i am exhausted and thankfully i am going on vacation next week so i have a nice week break but um i do feel like i am really glad with how it turned out and i am especially thankful that when i go back in end of july august that it'll all be ready to go for me to set up all the boards and do a last-minute figuring out where everything goes and really deep dive into the curriculum so i'm so happy with it but if you stayed this long in the video thank you so much for watching hopefully you enjoyed a little bit of seeing the before and after of the room and i am sure that there will be many more videos to come of me uh finishing all the organization this was just like the pre-organizing and kind of decluttering so that is it for this video thank you guys for watching don't forget to like and subscribe and if you have any comments leave them down below and i will talk to you guys later bye

Channel: Inspiring Edventures

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Keywords: teacher, classroom set up, set up, classroom, declutter, organization and declutter, first grade, first grade teacher, first year teacher, classroom declutter and organization, 2021 school year, school, elementary, elementary school

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Length: 24min 0sec (1440 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 01 2021