CLASSROOM SET UP DAY 1 | first year teacher

hello everyone and welcome back to miss nelson middle school today i am doing my first official day of classroom setup i have already been in my classroom twice the first time was just to meet the teacher i'm taking over for and get curriculum and then the second time was just kind of unloading things i think i posted a video about that i will link that below if you haven't seen me just kind of moving things in if you want to just kind of see a rough thing of my classroom but today i'm going to go in there and basically purge out everything that's in there because there is still stuff in like the desk and like a few cabinets so i want to go through that and just see what i have maybe reorganize some stuff and then try to start to figure out where i want furniture desks are already in place they are already placed six feet apart so i can't move those but i kind of want to move around some of my bookshelves behind my teacher desk and then just kind of figure out some things like that so let's just get started with the day so i took one load in for my car but i need to take my sweatshirt off because it is just too hot in here like it is it's hot so my game plan right now is to bring in everything that i have for my car i have like a few stools and other supplies and a few books um i basically just put everything in this corner and i'm going to go through it i have to build the tendra rolling cart i want to do that today at least my clock is hung that was not hung last time and they primed my like this area right here because it was like a neon teal and it was really nice that they primed it for me i'm gonna paint it next time i believe maybe a few times from now but i'm just gonna kind of go through and make sure i know what i have so i'm just warning you guys it's gonna be a sweaty vlog i am hot so in an eyebrow but everything is in from my car so i'm just gonna start by taking these off so let's go so if anyone has any idea what people do with so many paper towels let me just show you um and there's two more rolls of paper towels on each kid's supply list so i'm gonna get about 30 at least more rolls what do you do with this many paper towels if you guys have any ideas please tell me but right now i'm just going to go through all of this stuff i think i'm just going to make a pile of like trash and keep and then figure out where to organize it because i don't want it just thrown here i really should have brought a trash bag but i'm just going to fill the trash cans that i have in my room because there is like pieces that are like this big of old border and like stuff that i'm not gonna use so and it's not something that i could give to another teacher like you can't lose this much of border you know and there's just a lot of posters that like i don't need or i made similar ones that are just you know updated there's some that are very old looking i have decided i don't know if it's gonna stay this way but for right now i've decided that i am going through all of those like supply things and just seeing what works and doesn't like there's glue sticks in there and expo markers and highlighters and i'm making a mess over here but i've decided i'm gonna put them i think in here for right now these are really the only bins i have and this is probably not gonna be permanent because i know markers in here is not gonna work because kids are gonna not put the cap on and then it's just gonna color these but for now this is what i'm gonna do just to keep it a little more organized until i get some more bins so let's go put these in there so i've been going through this bag of markers so i sacrificed one of the anchor chart papers because i didn't have any other paper and so if you can see here i've just been um drawing to figure out what um works and doesn't and i just have a trash bag next to me and i am throwing away anything that is dried out because i don't know why there's just a bag of markers like they weren't in anything and so like half of them have like like it'll be a purple marker with like a blue lid and i'm like where did this like come from or they're just completely dried out and so there's actually a lot that i've saved um there's a lot that do work but then there's also a lot in this trash can that don't so when i'm done going through this bag i am going to put the markers in one of the little white bins and again they're not going to stay there forever because i don't want marker all over these bins um i was hoping to use these bins more for like behind my desk in my little bookshelves to organize things but for right now we're making do once i am done with the markers like the actual like coloring markers i am going to actually i was right now that was the last one so if you want to look like this trash can is full of markers and these are the ones that i ended up saving so now i have a bin this is like a mixed bin of things that i just threw in here i'm gonna go through and do the same thing with the expo markers and we'll see how many i actually have which will be nice to have extra of these like this this is what i expected black it looks brand new like the chisel is actually perfect but um yeah so let's get rid of all those um so not too bad i have a few that actually do work which is awesome and i'm going to put them in the little i already started one of brand new ones so i'm gonna put these all in there so now this bin that i have is all expo markers and then i have a bin of a glue which i really don't have much i have two half full things of liquid glue and three glue sticks so i guess blue is gonna be on my list and then i have this set of markers now i'm done organizing those supplies mostly i'm gonna move on to this little like cabinet i have down here i don't really know what to do with it i'm hoping to put all the rest of the tissue boxes that are on top of my bookshelves in here but i really only have this one place open so i'm gonna try to like rearrange some things and see if i can get as much in here as i can [Music] i'm stuck because that cabinet is full and i still have about hmm 20 rolls of um paper towels and i think like eight boxes of kleenex i need to get like a big storage container for them because i have all of the storage space right here but i don't want just rolls of paper towels and rolls of toilet paper um i mean tissues i'm hoping to get that taken care of soon but obviously that's not for today because i don't have anything else that i could do with it so for now i'm going to go through this cabinet because there's more stuff in there probably stuff i don't need and then go through my desk because there's still a few things that were left in there so [Music] so the closet basically cleaned out i'm sorry this lighting is so bad i have this wall of windows which is a beautiful but there's no curtains and so i have to face this way to film but basically i don't know what to do with this stuff i'm gonna ask the janitor if he is gonna take it to storage because i have let me show you there is all of this bulletin board paper but it's not what i'm using like these cardboard are all bright yellow like i took it down the other day i was here but like it was all just bright yellow on every bulletin board don't want those these are all the literature posters and like english posters i'm going to go through them don't think there's really anything i want in there but if there is i'll save it if not i'm just gonna i don't know see if anyone else wants them and then this whole like stack of bulletin board paper but again it's like not colors that i want or things that i want in here i might be able to keep more paper towels and things there's some papers i don't know what to do with these i might probably just give those away there's some paper in it here i have a bunch of pencils which is nice i'm probably gonna put a few more of the school supplies that i brought in there and then this one is completely empty and then this the teacher said she used these for subs they're literally all worksheets which i don't want i'm just gonna keep them until i go through them in case there's like one good worksheet out of all there but i'm not having them do worksheets all day long when there's a sub just my preference but i'm not doing it there are days where i'm gonna want worksheets if i do have a sub and i'm gonna like pick out a few of those like just to do but not an all-day thing like there's stacks and stacks in there but i also found glue in there i think this is a new box i hope so if not i'm gonna go put them in that little um glue thing that i had out of all of those posters i saved three which i'm not even gonna put up i'm just gonna use them as inspiration to make something that i like um there's just a poetry genres one and then genres of literature and then like other like better words for like good nice so on i already have something like that i'm just gonna make it a little bit more in depth like those ones are but honestly the rest i just don't know what to do with like i don't know i'm gonna leave them aside for right now until i figure out what i should do with them because there's a bunch and i'm not gonna use them but i don't want them to go to waste and just be thrown away i'm going to the desk and it's like this i'm not going to use like what in the world i so i hate throwing it away but i'm it's not yeah my plan is just go through this stuff and actually put it in my teacher toolbox right here because i want to be able to have this free for like other of my stuff and like other things i need since i already have like the spot for all of it i might as well use it i think it is now time to set up my rolling cart so i'm going to try to start that i only have a screwdriver with me i hope that's all i need i didn't even think about like maybe needing something else i don't know i don't think so but i'm just going to get started with that my rolling cart is done here it is except i don't have a hot glue gun with me and i was gonna hot glue the labels um that i made for it onto there but i guess that's gonna be like a next week project i am planning on coming today is friday i am planning on coming on wednesday and so maybe i will bring one then so i can finish this up but for now this is just gonna um i don't know where this is gonna live for forever so i'm just gonna put it over there i guess i don't know i just have no clue where to put it i still haven't figured out what i want to do with like my behind my desk area so i have this little bookshelf right now and i'm keeping that there for sure because there's a door right here which isn't the door they use like they don't really go out that door um but i have this right here right now and i don't really want it there because i don't really like that it like blocks the like bulletin board it doesn't i'm not gonna really use that bulletin board that much it's gonna be like my about me one since it's behind my desk um but i just i don't know if i like it there tell me what you guys think let me show you from over here don't mind this mess there's just a lot going on but i have this bulletin board which i'll use my desk is right here the rest of the class is over here so i'm going to i don't know exactly what i'm keeping on there yet but i have a random dolly just for moving things so don't even think about that but i can't tell if i like this here or not i don't think i like it but then i'd probably just put my like rolling cart here and i guess that would fit a lot basically below there so i could probably switch the rolling card out once i finish that and then like put it over there um tell me what you guys think because i don't know and then i also have this other bookshelf which i haven't decided what i'm putting on it again i don't really know what i'm using this whiteboard for moral of the story i still don't know there's so much to do i've been here for about well i think it's like a little after one and i got here at like 10 30 so i've been here for almost three hours i'm probably gonna leave soon because i do have some other plans later today and it's about 40 minutes from the school is about 40 minutes from where i live so it's kind of a trek so i'm probably just going to find some finishing last minute touches i have like a bag of things that i'm like bringing back with me so i'm just going to try to like see what else i need to bring back with me throw out as much garbage as i can i realize there's like three posters up really high that i can't reach so i might leave a note for um the janitor to he's like everything he's like the janitor the handyman he's like amazing i talked to him for like 30 minutes and he's the sweetest guy so i might leave a note for him to try to remove those posters for me because they're so old that there's like no color on them um not to me with the shoulder that they're black and white but like they're faded beyond belief so i might have him remove those i might just again go through find any last minute things that i need him to do or like move and i'm leaving this room a mess which i hate but i just don't even know what else to do today like i was so excited to be here and don't get me wrong i'm still so excited but now i'm just like oh my god there's so much i need to buy still like i'm realizing how much storage bins i need and like organizational things for my desk like there's just stuff everywhere like it's literally just all over the place i hate leaving it messy but we're just gonna kind of start to pack things up it's now a little bit after 1 30 and i'm going to i think just show you guys what the room looks like i'm pretty much like packed up and done for right now i like need to figure out more i guess i basically just need to do more planning before i come back next week and figure out exactly where i want to put things how i want to organize them all of that kind of stuff so let me just like i'm going to walk around there and kind of show you guys what it's looking like and after like my first official day of setup i have been in my room again like i've said but i've not done anything i've just dropped things on a table and left or picked up curriculum so this is my first day actually going through the classroom seeing what i have like what's in cabinets what's where and so today again it doesn't really look like much got done but i feel like i just kind of more cleaned out and have a better idea of what i have here is an overview so the desks again like i said are already placed where they will be this is dictionaries class sets of books these are books that belong to the school like belong to basically my classroom and then i'm going to reorganize them so this one is all of my books um i didn't realize there were this many books which is awesome i knew that there was some but i didn't realize this many and then this is all the textbooks they really don't ever use them but they have to kind of be here so they're just here i found all of these things which i need to put over by my desk and then this i still need to go through it's like weird games that i have to figure out what are for if i even want them then these are whiteboards which is awesome i didn't know we had any but they're definitely beat up i wanted whiteboard clipboards which are on my amazon wishlist still so if you would be gracious enough i'd be so glad because i want to get rid of these and i want to do work outside as much as we can since i will be in person we kind of have to get out of the classroom and into like fresh open air as much as possible so you having the clipboard whiteboards would be awesome and then this again i don't really know what's going on here there's like an advent calendar and then there's like scissors and then more paper towels here there's some like random vocabulary books that i need to go through and then wipes tissues this was the part that i organized i organized all of the um whiteboard markers actual markers glue sticks colored pencils and um watercolors these were all open i might try to combine a few of them so i have less just open things and then again way more paper towels don't know what to do with them at least they're cleared up from off there because that was driving me nuts and so here's the classroom over there i have a whiteboard this is my one whiteboard that isn't magnetic which i don't understand but then i have smartboard which i don't know if it works or not the teacher before me said it like doesn't work but i don't know if what she was using it for um i haven't tested it out and then this is where my projector and everything else is gonna go again all the kids desks this whiteboard is magnetic thank gosh this if you saw my last video this was like a neon teal color and luckily oh my god it was so sweet the handyman janitor steve whatever you want to call him he um primed it for me so he's gonna do another coat of primer and then he repainted this have to go through here again another bulletin board don't know what i'm doing with all this i have to figure out where i want my file cabinet or even if i want it at all but i left him a little note that basically said you can like leave it for now because we talked about maybe taking it out i still don't know if i want it or not more textbooks i don't know i'm gonna go through all these and see if i even need all of this stuff because a lot of us from like 1990s and early 2000s which obviously is pretty obsolete and then i put the little like celebrate success or like the treasure chest over there more white boards again we talked please let me know down below i think i'm gonna switch that out with the rolling cart but i don't know for sure tell me what you think if it would look good or not my desk is right here i'm going to do the contact paper on here like the that's right there that same messy polka dot i'm going to put around the desk because if you can tell it's kind of like taped up and beat up um i have all of this stuff on my desk which i need to figure out what to do with i was going to hang these cartons up along all these windows but i do not have enough so don't know what to do about that and then i have another bookshelf again and the drawer the time drawer cart which i am going to put the labels on next time i come have to lay down the rug under my desk um but i'm probably just gonna put it in like the back more like where my feet are just in case like i want to take my shoes off like after the end of the day to while i'm still working and then i have this which is basically empty right now it is like there's like nothing really in it so i do enjoy this for all the storage because i have a lot left to put away which is all right here and so i have some like random stuff this is like turning boxes and other like random things that i have started to print and laminate and then these posters which these are the ones that i did save but i'm going to kind of revamp and make them you know printed out prettier but i like these for inspiration and then the birthday sign which i need to find a place for over there and then i have it in this one basket but again i need to figure out what i'm doing with everything first and then these books i have a few things up here these lights i'm going to put up once it's all painted in the front because i'm gonna put it around like the look like wall or board up there and then this is finally organized with all of the paper towels wipes everything and then these are all empty i'm gonna put name tags on each one of these so each kid has a designated little cubby they do have lockers which are out that door but um i figured for like water bottles or like other random supplies if i do designate like one whiteboard to a kid to make sure that they're not like touching all these other whiteboards then i'm going to put them each in their cubby i have to figure out all my kids first to figure out name tags and everything obviously but then these are a few more books and some games and this is just like a random little container and this random little thing basically there's a lot left to do um i've said it before but i feel like i got nothing done today like it looks like nothing got done but i feel like a little bit better at least because it's all cleaned out and like ready to actually start prepping and like organizing my stuff and getting all of the old stuff out have a bag that i need to throw in the trash but i think that is all for today guys and i will see you guys probably with another video in between my next classroom setup but if not i'll see you in classroom setup day two which is going to be next week so i hope you guys enjoy and i'll see you all soon bye

Channel: House to Happy Home

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Keywords: Teacher, middle school teacher, elementary teacher, elementary, middle school, Ms. Mills, Classroom, Classroom tour, classroom haul, first year teacher, English teacher, classroom set up, classroom set up day 1, classroom set up series

Id: VIjZK852SFg

Length: 24min 6sec (1446 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 19 2020