CLASSROOM SETUP DAY 4: putting some finishing touches on the room and making sure it is ready to go!

it is monday morning and i'm not quite awake yet but i am excited to be back in my room today and have some time to work um we start off the morning with like some meetings and pd and then after lunch we have 12 to 3 to work in our classrooms so i tried to get a lot of stuff done last night because i spent the weekend at a bachelorette party and i knew i wouldn't have that much time but i did get a few things done i got a quote done that i can hang up there it's super simple and then i spray painted some more clipboards that i'm gonna hang up over there and i did a few other things i don't really remember but i am excited to get started so after lunch i'll start recording and i'll show you what i have to do i'm currently staring at the curtain that refuses to stay up i don't know what it is so i'm gonna need to find a solution for this these command strips have held it for two years and now all of a sudden it doesn't want to work so maybe some hot glue or something on this will keep it up i don't know maybe it's just that corner but it's really bothering me so we just finished our morning of trainings it was all about aubrey which is like an online platform where you can link to every other website that you use and google classroom which is mainly what we're going to be using and then you can make assessments on there and all that fun stuff so that was cool but i'm excited to now have the afternoon to work in my classroom i have a few more things that i want to set up mostly just like decorations but one thing that i'm super excited about is my bulletin board over by the door because i've had this vision in my head for a while and i said that i was gonna make it this summer and then obviously i waited to the last second but i made it this weekend so that still counts basically it was more of an idea for when the kids could get up and move like pre-covered because i made little qr codes on the little posters but since the kids have to stay in their desks this year it probably won't go exactly how i imagined but you could use it in other ways too which i will show you guys once i show you the whole finished bulletin board so since i teach math and science and i kind of focus on being a maker i wanted to make a board of all like different makers and problem solvers scientists engineers stuff like that so what i did was i found different people girls guys different um ethnicities backgrounds stuff like that who all have to do with either math or science so you can see i did like hashtag inventor architect hashtag um where's the engineer chemist stuff like that and i only made nine to start but i will be making more and adding it to the bundle so i will put these nine up on the board and then hopefully every few months i'll switch them out with some new ones but what they are are little qr codes that take you to a video or a book about this person so some of them are youtube videos where they're just reading a book about that person and then some of them i couldn't find books that go with them so they just are a little video for kids about that inventor or that scientist or that mathematician so just to give them more of a pop of color since they are black and white i'm going to center them in the middle of these different colored pieces of paper most of them are blue and then i have two coral ones i'll probably end up taping down the corners just because they get like a little bit wrinkly or they blow in the wind so i'm gonna put these all on there and then i will show you what the finished product looks like [Music] so this is what it looks like all hung up i still want to print out letters that go right there that i'm either going to say like makers or squad or something funny i don't know but i love the way it turned out so ideally kids who are finished early or maybe want something extra to do after centers they'd get the ipad or they'd get their chromebook they could come up scan the qr and then it takes them to a story about rube goldberg or any of the other ones once i get that all packaged up and put together in a pdf i will upload it on tpt as a freebie because i do not own this picture so it has to be free but i'm also going to make a product where it goes along with that so for example it might be questions about one of the books that they read maybe about the inventor and then also i want to make kind of like a open-ended project where maybe they could do a little research project about one of the inventors or something like that for extra credit or as an early finisher activity something like that so i will let you guys know on instagram when i have that all posted so in one of my last videos i showed you guys this mailbox that last year i used for student folders but obviously they can't come over here this year so somebody commented and said you could organize your paper in there and i love that idea i don't have a ton of each color but i still think it would look pretty and it would give me something to put in here so it's not just an empty white [Music] hey also speaking of tpt they're doing another back to school sale tomorrow just like a last chance in case you didn't get something you wanted so i'm gonna give away a 10 gift card to tpt um all you have to do is comment on this video and tell me when you go back to school and how you're going back to school if it's virtual if you're in the classroom if you have no idea yet so um yeah comment below and tell me that and i will try and pick one winner tomorrow or maybe the next day i don't know you might miss the sale with a gift card but you can still use the gift card so comment below and tell me that and i'll pick one of you to win a 10 tbt gift card okay also this has nothing to do with classroom setup but i just ordered this book on amazon and it came yesterday and i'm already obsessed with it thinking of all the back to school things i could do with it it's called our class as a family it's by shannon olsen it was 10 bucks on amazon i think but it is so super cute and it's all about how your family doesn't just have to be the people at home it can be any group that loves you and you know looks out for you and just cute stuff like that and on the back it says family isn't always your relatives it's the ones who accept you for who you are the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what like how cute so i will for sure be reading this on our first or second week back and be doing a little project with it kind of about how our class could be a family maybe about their families at home and just have that discussion with them on last week's vlog i asked you guys for a quote that i could have put up there and you guys gave me tons of good quotes but i wanted to keep it something simple that could just be really big across there i didn't want it to be too many letters because one it takes forever to cut them out on the cricut and two i wanted you to be able to read it from anywhere in the room so i'll show you what i went with once i spread these letters out i did all black except for one word it's a four letter word i made it in my classroom colors so let me spread this out and then i'll show you what the quote says so i decided on the quote you can do hard things just because it's simple and it's true and i feel like it's going to be a good reminder for them and me as well so i'm gonna hang that up there and hopefully it fits i also need to move that little blue thing up a little bit because it's sagging [Music] hey [Music] [Music] okay as you probably just saw in that time lapse that was way harder than i thought and i definitely made the letters way too big but if i have time i might go back and make the you can do smaller on my cricut but i like the heart how it is and the things is over there by itself so you can't really tell but this section over here is definitely a little tight so before i finish doing a few other things in my room i figured i should probably get my stuff together for tomorrow because starting tomorrow we have four days of pd and we're combining with a couple other districts it's all over zoo and different people from each school are presenting and you kind of get to choose which ones you want to go to based on your grade level and tomorrow i present which is fun but also terrifying because i've never really presented before my little session is on edulastic it is an assessment website kind of like aubrey which we just learned about today so maybe i'll use aubrey this year but because i used edge elastic last year one of the coaches asked me to present on it so i'm kind of nervous but i'm glad it's a resume not like stand up in front of people and do it that would be even more terrifying but basically all i'm gonna do is walk them through how to sign up for an account how to make an assessment and then the cool parts about edulastic which i think are being able to see their scores like live and see which question they're on see if they're getting them correct having the kids go back and fix the ones that they didn't get correct so i feel like i'm prepared but i'm sure tomorrow at 1 30 i'm gonna be freaking out so last year i just had a big plain blue wall over there and it said maker space and then i had my little create cart over there with all my stem bins at the bottom but this year i wanted to make it a little more colorful so i painted that wall and then i kind of changed the saying i just had to change a few letters to make it we are makers instead so i'm going to hang that up and then put together my maker space but i already started a video all about how i'm redoing my makerspace so if you want to see footage from that you're going to have to wait and watch that video because i'm not going to include it in this video i just helped rachel move a bunch of books upstairs because we're not allowed to use them this year so we just put them in storage but when i came back my principal was in here taping my little section of the floor off which is just so funny to me because this is my table and this green line here is the line that i can't leave and the kids can't come in i'm pretty happy with the progress i made today i got that quote up finished my maker space which you can see in another video and then obviously i put those up which i really like i do want to put something above it but i'm not sure what word i want to put there and then over the weekend slash this week i'm going to buy big frames to put up there so that i can fill them with some quotes i think i'm going to get them blown up at like cvs or walgreens or something and then over here i'm pretty much done i do need to organize that a little bit oh and hang that dang curtain back up because it keeps falling but other than that it's pretty set up i think i'm gonna head out and go to target and get a new teacher backpack i've had this one for a while now and i know that the teacher instagram is like blowing up about it now but i don't like that it opens like this it's kind of annoying like i try and get stuff out and it gets stuck and it's just kind of getting old and beat up but i'm gonna go see if i can find a cute one and if i do i'll show you guys what i get i just left target and i had no luck finding a backpack all the ones that i liked there were like 40 bucks for like a leather backpack and i don't think they're the best material so i might have to look on amazon or i might just have to wait until they go on sale or something but since today's clayton's birthday all i got was this card it says it's your birthday cool beans super cheesy but it was so cheap like since when did cards become so expensive this was two dollars and it was like the cheapest one so that's annoying and then i just got him gum and sour patch kids because he always gets mad when i buy him gifts he's like don't spend money on me but like i feel like he has to have something i don't know or else it looks like i forgot his birthday so i got that and we are going to go to cooper's talk for dinner tonight so hopefully i can get home and still edit this video and post it because it's probably the last classroom setup vlog i'll do this year once it's all finished i'll just do a classroom tour and then also i have to post my makerspace video but other than that this is probably it for classroom setup this year so i hope you guys enjoyed these videos and make sure you subscribe to my channel so you don't miss anything else

Channel: Courtney Curtis

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Length: 13min 3sec (783 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020