CLASSROOM SETUP 2020: Day One! | Made For Second Grade

[Applause] wow [Music] i made it i am so happy to be in here um it's really clean which is amazing but yeah i don't know what i'm gonna do we'll see there's a lot to do so kim very kindly left me her rolly cart so i am on the way to lug some stuff in [Music] you guys i literally just brought in that one load and i'm already roasting because our school has no ac so i turned on my giant box fan in the corner but i only have one fan here ah you know you forget these things when you miss the warm months of the spring let me tell ya so i just realized my like curtains that usually go on my window are gone and i don't see them anywhere in here or in my storage so i'm like hmm hopefully they're somewhere um the ones by my library are still there but for some reason the ones on this side are not so that's interesting [Music] okay so what i'm going to do first is i've got all my mini erasers and i am going to move them into my containers from dollar tree [Music] look at them all they're so pretty this is probably you know meaning that i have too many but that's okay right you can always give them out as prizes okay so now i'm going to work on this area that has my calendar and my schedule my little cart right here and then my display shelf and my learning targets i want to get that cleaned up i'm going to take out the learning targets put away those books right here and then i'm going to put out some for the beginning of the year it has also now officially become ponytail time because i am very warm so [Music] so i started filling up with my shelf with my top 10 read alouds for back to school i actually made a video about these like last week and so if you want to hear more about any of these titles or why i like them or what i teach with them um that video will be linked down below otherwise you can get a sneak peek here so i just wanted to mention that really quick and now i'm going to fill in the gaps with some other books so i realized some of my other favorites are out in my car still so i just added four more for now and then i will fill in the very top shelf and maybe a couple of these smaller gaps when i come in another day because i'm not gonna go walk all the way out to get them but i remembered i have a ton of books in my trunk and i picked some of my favorite read-alouds so stay tuned to see what else will get put on the display shelf for the beginning of the year so my next job is going to be unpacking all of those new books that i brought in from the boxes so what i did was i cleared a couple of shelves in this cupboard which is why the book boxes are all wonky these are mostly my seasonal books that i put out on my display shelf so i am going to put them in here for now just like not in book boxes or anything and then maybe later i will put them out i just don't know what i'm going to do about my library this year because it's getting really really full so i'll kind of show you guys what i mean and why i don't know where else to put them except for here oh those cupboards they were just showing you are over there by the door and then right now my library starts here those are all books by topic so like pets cats and dogs farm animals and then over here is all of like the chapter books um or some of them are grouped by author but really that's only mo willems and that goes all the way over here and then i also have a different spot for all my non-fiction books but i'm like out of shelf space so i don't know what i'm gonna do because normally i would get a different shelf but like with this year i'm supposed to theoretically be taking stuff out instead of bringing it in so i don't know what i'm gonna do but i think for now i'm just gonna put some books um in those cupboards and then i can kind of rotate some of my books this year maybe because even my back room is like chocked full um it's a very good problem to have obviously and you know i'm gonna keep buying more books because books are so important i don't need to tell you guys you already know but yeah so i'm gonna try to put those away and then figure out hopefully a better way to like put them out i might have to turn in one of those cupboards into like part of our library that the kids can check out from but i don't know how i would do that just because i don't know we'll see [Music] so i got all the new hardcovers in there i just did the hardcover ones because then i can actually read the spine pretty easily i don't want to put the paperbacks in there so i think i'm going to put those in a book box and then tuck those in this space right here as i was unpacking my books i found my breathe like a bear board book that i ordered this summer and i am actually putting that inside my calm down kit so this is what my calm down kit looks like and i wanted to show you guys because i don't know if it'll stay the same this year like i'm not sure exactly how this is gonna work i have a feeling that this guy's gonna have to go for sure but um i just wanted to show you guys what i normally have in there anyways so i usually have a book for the kids to read um i have three in here so this one is my new one which i think this will be really nice because it is a board book so if i need to like wipe it down i can but i also usually keep get happy in there and um if you're angry and you know it so both of these books are you can see a g and then this one's only a d so most of my kids can read this one like without support or at least get the general idea because it's very familiar words and then this one most of them can also read um because again it's very like simple so i try to keep books that i know that they can read with no support like obviously the calm down kit is not where we want them to have frustration with reading so these are two options that are very simple just to read and relax and not have to struggle with reading um this little guy was from five below and he's just like our squishy friend if you need a hug um like i said i think he might have to go this year which is too bad i do have a three minute timer in here that is generally about how long i give my kids for um a break although i will say i'm not like super strict on this like if they need to be there longer that's fine like they can take the time that they need but sometimes it helps them to just watch the sand and so if i know that they can probably handle coming back i will tell them like oh just flip the timer and then when it runs out join us again and for a lot of them three minutes is a good enough time um and then i also have a folder in here with some think sheets so when i send a child to the calm down kit i will have them fill out one of these if they choose to go by themselves they do not have to um i have had a few that have but normally they just like to use the other resources but if it is something where i'm asking them to take a break i will have them fill out a think sheet and then i just tuck it with my other pbis notes um and so i use these which came in a really good teacher's pay teachers resource that i can link down below if you are interested they are very nice and i think that in the kit they have like upper l versions of this too and then the last thing like a hand gripper exercise thing which also i got at five below um so these are nice because i tell them like this is when you're angry like you can really squeeze and pull this and it will not break so this is a good one i really recommend it and then the last two things are actually resources that i created and do have for sale on teachers pay teachers so i will link them below if you are interested but the first one is my set of calm cards now the version i'm selling is slightly a different color scheme but they are the same sayings what i do is i hole punch all these and hang them on a binder ring and as the kids flip through they can read the affirmations and the positive statement so for example i believe in myself i am special i am creative i can do better i am wanted i can do hard things so there are 28 different cards in my bundle and i sell them for two dollars so if you happen to be interested like i said i will link those below i also have these um animal themed calm down strategies so like i came up with different alliterations for the titles and they kind of go with the animal so the writing whale is write your teacher a note about how you are feeling um we have the lovable lion which is start the timer and draw a picture of something you love be ready to join the class when the timer is done um hedgehog hug give yourself a hug and think about all of the good things about you so there are a set of these i believe i have 15 of them i will leave a note below or like i said the link will be down there if you are interested so yeah um i just figured i would show you guys what i use for my calm down kit and then if that does change i will update you on what i do the one thing i am thinking is possibly printing out a set of these for all of my students so that way they can just have them like in their book box for when they're feeling frustrated um that is a possibility but i'm not sure what i will do with that yet so like i said if it changes i will let you know and for reference this is where my calm kit stays in my room it is kind of in this front corner over by the door hello you can see my reflection um but i have a little desk that is used as a rest stop normally this sign is in the hallway but they moved it when they were doing the cleaning but anyways um i have this here and then some restorative practices like eye messages and apologies and a feelings chart um it's over by the rest stop like i said and so that is where i keep it just kind of tucked away in a private corner of the room so as i was going through my back room i ended up finding all of these which the ones over here were all from a donors choose project and some of the ones right here and then the rest were from some scholastic orders so what i'm going to do with those is i'm going to go through and make a few new series bins for my classroom i don't have the labels yet but i will have to make those soon based on what different series i come up with in here so get excited because i will show you guys some new um books in just a little bit once i go through organizing them [Music] [Applause] so first i made three of these little bins now these are actually the cleaning buckets that are by sterilite that you can find at dollar tree i really like them to hold the series books that are like leveled reader size so i made one of all slat the cat because i have a lot of those and then i made one for sofia martinez because i have um quite a few of these both from donorschoose and a couple that i ordered from first book as well so she gets a series bucket now because i have a good amount of those and then i also made one for molly mac which is another series that i got from my donors choose project so those are the first three little buckets and i'm going to try to squeeze them up there i usually have book buddies in those gaps but with everything this year i don't think i'm going to so i'll be able to fit a couple more books on the shelf which will be nice also put some in these small crates i get these for a dollar at walmart and these are the crates that i like to put in my cube shelves so i made one for this book series which is called greetings from somewhere and these are about like two kids who go to like real places around the world so it's kind of like magic tree house vibes um so these looked really fun and i did get these from my donors choose i also made a basket for this series called the kingdom of renly um these are more fantasy based stories which i have never read any of these before so i'm gonna have to like preview them before i like you know put them out but they looked really really good and these were also funded by my donors choose project from last year next up i made a bin for dogman now these are definitely higher than a second grade level but the kids really do enjoy them and though they are not maybe my favorite i think that they can be really motivating for some kids and i don't have a problem with them so i ended up getting the first six books and i did get these for free with my scholastic points so i ended up redeeming like a ton of points to get this set which originally was like fifty dollars almost so i was very glad to have saved up some points and i know the kids will be very excited about these i also made a series basket for bad guys again kind of like dogma and they're not necessarily my favorites but the kids do get very motivated to read them they're kind of graphic novel comic e not so sure what i'm gonna do it because i have three of these keen afford books that came from donorschoose which are so cute and then i also have like six of these mobi shinobi readers that are from scholastic and it's i want to make like a small basket for the moby shinobi to go on like that top shelf that i showed you guys but for king of ford i only have three so i don't want to use a whole basket so i might mix it with one of my other chapter books that doesn't have as many just because i think there's only three in the series so far and i think that i have all of them and i'd like to keep getting more but so far it's just not going to be enough to take up a whole bin on the shelf and that i have a bin for is zoe and sassafras so i got um these from donors chews but i also got a like free pack of um one of them from scholastic so i have quite a few of one of the books and then i have like one of the other ones so i think i have books one through six and these are adorable zoe's like a little scientist i think she is so cute and i am excited to put these out and then last but not least these are a few piles where well for first of all that one is just like random needs to go all around the library but then i have fly guy pedro and katie woo owl diaries princess black and yasmine and all of those already have a place on my shelf so i just have to put them in their buckets [Music] guys i have so many books and it's so hot in here that's like the theme for this video too many books and hot in here if we learned two things today okay so it looks pretty good they actually fit quite well over there so i just need to make a few labels i could probably squeeze in one more if i really needed to but then i think it might be at risk of falling over so i'm happy with that i think that that looks really good all right so it is about 3 30 now and i think i'm just gonna do some last minute tidying up clean a couple bulletin boards maybe take out my non-fiction books and then i think i'm gonna call it a day for day number one so i feel pretty good about what i have gotten accomplished today i just did like easy things to kind of like enjoy my day you know like things that i want to do right now and things that like make me happy and then i'll probably have to do the more tedious stuff like probably next week um but yeah i am just gonna clean up and then i think i'm gonna call it a day you guys i just realized some things remember how i was like where are my curtains oh wait wrong way are you kidding like they went i was ready to like send an email to our custodian be like hi please help like imagine if i would have done that that would have been so embarrassing like there they are shining bright looking good [Music] so i put my non-fiction books on the middle shelf and i cannot decide how i feel about that last year they were up top now they're in the middle but the thing is i can only fit two on the shelf and i wish i could fit three then i would definitely put them down there so i don't know we'll see all right you guys so i am all set for today i am in my car now enjoying the air conditioning on my face um i'm happy with what i got accomplished i just did mostly the more fun things that i was looking forward to doing today um i definitely have a lot of organizing of like my drawer and my teacher desk and all that kind of stuff which i don't enjoy quite as much but i put that off for next time so i had a good time today but anyways this is gonna be the first of a few of these videos so if you enjoyed please subscribe so that you don't miss the next one or two or three or four who knows um but thank you very much for watching if you do not already follow me on instagram you can find that link in the down bar below as well as my teachers pay teachers amazon storefront and wishlist and any other links that are relevant to this video thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you soon

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Published: Fri Aug 14 2020