CLASSROOM SETUP DAY 6 | GETTING CLOSE! | Elementary Classroom Setup 2021

[Music] hello sweet friends welcome to a new vlog if you are new here my name is kim this fall i'll be teaching second grade in west michigan i believe this is day six of classroom setup at this point i have a whole playlist down below today is actually extra exciting because this vlog is being sponsored by cricket which i love qriket if you've been watching my setup vlogs you've probably seen one or two qriket projects in my classroom already and i'm going to share some more of those with you today and i just have a long laundry list of things that i want to get done so i do feel pretty good about where my classroom's at so far but i also have a long way to go and i'm hoping to get some things accomplished today so if you are not already following me on social media i am elementary in the mitten basically everywhere i would love for you to check me out on instagram on tik tok on all the fun places [Music] okay so the project that i'm the most excited about is definitely not one that needs to be done before school starts but i'm also really excited about it so we're gonna do it anyways so i got this really fun i think it's called a muktub or a muk bucket it's 70 quarts and so it's this big old bucket i got this from a tractor supply store and it took me a while of looking around to find one that's all just completely smooth on the sides so i wanted one that's smooth on the sides because i am going to be adding vinyl to this and i want it to say book buddies i've seen that all over pinterest it looks so cute and i am ready to make my own so i'm gonna have it say book buddies on the front of it and then i'm gonna put all of my stuffed animals in here so that way if we're able to use those this year which i haven't gotten an okay about that yet but i am crossing my fingers that we can use stuffed animals then we could do that as either like a reward or just like a fun thing to do to encourage the kids to read and just you know have some fun in the classroom because who doesn't like a good stuffed animal moment so i would put all my stuffed animals in here and then the kids could read to them around the room and yes i actually did that when i taught fourth grade and we had so much fun with it so i know my second graders would love it as well so i'm super excited to add that vinyl on here and i just think it's gonna look so cute with all my little stuffed animals in there so that's my big project that's the project that i like really want to get done today and then i have a couple like little projects as well and then just some organizational things i need to do around my room today people are starting to come in a lot more and so i've been trying to like slowly condense my room and have it not look quite so messy because otherwise it's kind of embarrassing when people come in and there's stuff like literally everywhere so i'm gonna keep working on that keep working on making my room a little bit less messy so it's less embarrassing when people come in but yeah i think my room's looking pretty good so far like i said still a long way to go but that's okay so let's go ahead and work on this project first and then we'll see where life takes us after that the qriket explorer 3 can fit into every facet of your life it accurately cuts over 100 materials including everything from iron-on to vinyl to paper to specialty materials like glitter paper cork and bonded fabric i'm gonna pop up on the screen right now so you can see a bunch of the different materials that are available to be cut within the design space qriket has a great value for investment as well with a variety of materials it can cut as well as its ability to draw and score using a scoring stylus the qriket explorer 3 has many different possibilities it can be used in your personal life for gifting to personalization to home court making a bunch of different things for your classroom like i use it for once you start making you'll see that it's well worth the investment the qriket explorer 3 is also super easy to set up which makes it easy for you to get started with making your projects right away the qriket design space is available on desktop and mobile you can design and make from anywhere quickly and easily [Music] do [Music] do [Music] i love it [Music] okay i just finished the book buddies little basket and it is so cute i love it and i have some more little book buddies at home but i keep forgetting to bring them in so i definitely have enough for it to be filled all the way up but right now i just don't have them all here so that's why there's like extra room but it's so cute and i'm just really really hoping we can actually use these this year and if not we can look at them and maybe i can show them during like morning meeting or something like that when i do read alouds who knows but i just think they're so cute so i love this idea and the vinyl worked great on there this was one of my first times using the smart vinyl on the cricut and it worked really really well for this project so yay if i can find this bucket online i'll try to link it below because it did take me a while to find one that had the smooth edges um but if not i just got it from a local like farm tractor supply co in like the pet food area so definitely check your local your local farm and truck stores does everybody have a local farm and truck store is that like a west michigan thing i'm not really sure about that okay so the next thing that i'm going to work on is adding more of my professional development books to that shelf above my desk area i love love that built-in storage i feel like i've said that in every single video but i'm just like so excited to have that and i had a bunch of my pd books at home but i brought them in so i'm gonna work on putting them up and i'm just doing them in color order because i feel like it will look aesthetically pleasing but also then it will be easy for me to find the books that i'm looking for because most of them i know what the covers look like so here we go [Music] okay so a slight plot twist it is actually the next day now which is why i'm wearing something different this shirt is so cute it's actually from my friend emma she is made by emma k on etsy and she's wonderful and she also makes like youtube videos and she's just great so definitely check her out i will link her below but yes it is the next day and that is because last night i just had a sudden moment where i'm like oh my gosh i am so tired and i could not be bothered to pick up my camera again i couldn't be bothered to put anything away i just like up and left and went home and slept and it was great but yeah i just totally hit a wall and sometimes that happens i feel like especially when i'm working here by myself i kind of like lose track of time and and it just happens eventually so that's what happened last night but now i am back here i'm only planning on staying here for maybe a couple hours this morning i don't want to stay here all day but i do just have a couple projects that i was wanting to get done that were on my mind and so i think i'm gonna work on those and i really want to get the desks arranged but i don't know if i'm going to do that today or not i still would really love to have tables but i don't know if that is going to be doable it sounds like we don't have any extra tables in the building and so i would have to like reach out district-wide and see if maintenance would be willing to bring some over and i don't know if i'm going to mess with that or not but yes i do have all these desks and so i might try to arrange them maybe today maybe not today but i want to kind of start to get a feel for like what it's going to look like once the kids are in here because i'm getting pretty close like i definitely still have a lot of work to do the library is the thing that's stressing me out the most because there's so much work to do there but honestly i feel like it's looking pretty good so anyways okay let's go ahead and get these couple projects done so i'm not here all day i did pick up a mcdonald's diet coke on the way because you know they're my favorite if you know you know they're just like so far superior to all of their diet cokes and i think i'm gonna put my headphones in maybe listen to an audio book maybe watch some youtube videos and then we're gonna do some projects so here we go okay so my first project i'm going to do is definitely not one that i need to have done right away but it's one that i'm excited about so i'm going to do it i ordered this ballot box or comment card box from amazon and it has like a little lock right here and then it opens up and i actually have another one of these that's like a wood that i've shown before but i use that one for things i wish my teacher knew and the kids can just like write me little notes well i had the idea to do a secret shout out box with another one which i've had a bunch of friends who are teachers do like shout out boxes like my best friend melissa who's made for second grade i don't know if she still does it but i feel like she used to have like a little photo box or whatever that you get from like michael's or hobby lobby or wherever and she used to have the kids put shoutouts in there i'm pretty sure i feel like that's what she used that box for but i might be wrong melissa let us know in the comments if you're here but anyways i've seen a bunch of people do shout outs but i had the idea to do secret shout outs and i'm not saying i'm like the first one to ever think of this i'm sure it's like all over pinterest but it just like popped into my brain when i was taking a shower and so that's where i have my best ideas and in the car and so anyways i'm gonna put vinyl on here that says secret shout outs and then i made these little cards which i stuck these on my tpt for free so i will link them below if you're interested but they're just little cute secret shout out cards and the kids can give each other a little shout out and then i had the idea that if they want to spoil the secret they can write their name on the back and then i can say out loud who wrote the secret shout out so um my idea for this is i will pull this over during morning meeting probably every day because i feel like it would definitely help to build like classroom community and i can put shout outs in there as well so like if the kids aren't really writing them like i can just start writing them and that will be nice because then it'll be like holding me accountable like i have to be saying really good things about the students and hyping them up and stuff and like looking for those opportunities to like notice good things if that makes sense so anyways i will have this with me at morning meeting every day and i'll pull out maybe one or two or three of these little shout outs and read them out loud and then we'll celebrate that person whether it's like clapping for that person or going like or like whatever it might be when i was a coach for girls on the run we had like all these energizers that we would do so like little cheers and chants and stuff that we would do for the girls so maybe i'll even teach them some of those i don't know exactly how it will go but i just feel like it will definitely help to build our classroom community and help us to be like looking out for really good things about each other and then i just think it's good practice for the kids too and it gets them writing and all the fun stuff so yes i'm really excited about this but what i'm going to do right now is add some vinyl onto the front of this that just says secret shout out and it's going to be so cute and i might also add some on the top i don't know we'll see okay let's do this [Music] so uh [Music] [Music] um okay so i just finished putting together this cute little magic scrap bin and i love how it turned out i think it's so so cute and if you have any ideas for other things i should put in here let me know i don't know if these wipes will stay in here because i don't know if i really want the kids using them but i just stuck them in there for now and then i have a couple of these little what do you even call these dustpans right dustbands so this is one that normally i use but i decided to get it out because i think the students can take leadership and ownership of cleaning up their space they usually do such a good job with it so i have a big one and then i have these two little ones from a local dollar store and i just love it so i do magic scrub at the end of every day and it just helps us to clean up the room and i always have a student choose the magic scraps so they just choose something that's out of place around the room and then you know whoever ends up choosing it ends up getting like a team point or whatever it might be so anyways i absolutely love it i think it turned out so cute and then i have my secret shout outs right beside it and this is what i'm thinking i will use for my student center it's not all put together yet so i won't show you it yet but actually that might be a good thing to do right now maybe start getting this set up a little bit so yes i love how this looks though i think that these are so cute and i will put all the fonts in the description box if you're interested oh also i keep forgetting that i need to finish putting white border in that little corner right there so maybe i'll do that a quick second so i don't forget again a couple people commented on my last video they're like kim you still need to put the little white border over there so let's do this uh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] okay so i just finished moving the dust around they probably will move around again because i haven't found anything i like love but that's okay i figured i'd walk you around the classroom i'll show you what it's looking like i feel like it's finally starting to come together and look like it could potentially have kids in it which it will in just a few weeks so i'm gonna walk you around show you what it's looking like and then i think that will be all for this vlog already day six that means there at least will be seven days of classroom setup at this point okay so from my front door area nothing too different over here just a little piece of white border that needed to go up for you know the last week or so that's finally up and then i have my couple qriket projects over here my secret shoutouts my magic scrap and then desk area over here i don't think too much changed except for the books on top so books on top right here and then i also put my substitute station up there as well and i think it looks really really cute i love it and then over here i ended up putting a couple of desks in front of my desk and these desks won't be dust that students sit out all the time these will more just be here for like when we're working on partner work or on the room or stations or something then they could come work over here to just have like a different space to work at and then right now i have my beautiful new cricut over here oh my gosh it's just so pretty i love it so yes that is over here eventually i still want to put the we are family above here and then hang pictures but i haven't cut that out just yet so that will have to be in a future vlog and then from the front of the room this is what it's looking like so i try to arrange the desks so they would kind of work like tables because i would really love to have tables so i took a lesson from maylene who is mrs calls campers her first year of teaching she had desks and she turned them backwards so the kids couldn't use them and so i did the same thing because i would really love for the kids to not use the desks because i just don't think we need them i have seat sacks and then we'll have like book boxes and stuff and i just have different organizational systems and i feel like desks are just you know asking for trouble so i turn the dust around and so that's why i don't know if you can really tell on camera but they don't have access to like putting anything inside of the desk which is kind of nice so i'm thinking that i will have probably five different groups which i always call them teams so i'll have five teams of four i don't know how many students i'll have though i could have between 20 to 30 so i might have to have another group somewhere but this was just kind of me trying to get an idea of where everything was going to be so that's how i have it set up right now right now i have my smaller rug up here and then i'm thinking i'll put my bigger rug back there but right now it's still in storage so i haven't gotten that out just yet and i might you know flip-flop them i might have my big rug up here we'll just have to wait and see my stage is still out in the hallway but eventually it will come up right here so i left a spot for my stage and then i have just a couple stools on either side for either me to sit in or for students to sit in when they're sharing at the front of the room over here i haven't worked on this section too much but i have the canopy over here still i want to seal the dollhouse with some like mod podge or something but i haven't done that yet and then i put up this cute little sign that says second grade this basket i found at the thrift store i think it's so cute i love it i'm thinking i'll fill it with like books maybe and then i just have an extra desk there for right now this obviously is not gonna stay here but for now i just have a random table right there and then library is for another day i just feel like i've said that in like every single vlog but yes i have not tackled the library like at all yet but eventually i will and then i put my little picnic table over here with my wobble stools and i feel like that looks really cute i don't know for sure if it will stay there but you know i like it it looks good and then obviously over there that's just kind of a hot mess express right now i'm still waiting to hear if i'm able to bring in my couch if i'm allowed to bring in my couch then my couch will go over there and if not then i'll figure something else out so i'm not really sure about that then i have my calendar set up i have some extra chairs back here and then i have a ton of book boxes on this table and i still have to figure out how i'm gonna store those so if you have any ideas for how you store book boxes in your classroom like do you just put them on a bookshelf or do the students keep them at their desks or what do you do with them i would love to know in a comment below i'm thinking that my cute little book buddies tote will probably live back here it looks so cute and i still have more book buddies at home that i'll bring in eventually but i haven't yet and then one of my co-workers actually gave me the idea to put like a little fridge logo on there like a fridge brand so i might need to print that out and make that happen because i think that would be so so so cute so then from the back of the room i'll try to go nice and slow this is what it's looking like i feel like it looks so cute there's definitely still a lot of work to be done though it feels like every day i'm like getting closer but there's still just like so much work to do during classroom setup that is all for this vlog i really hope that you enjoyed it thank you again to qriket for sponsoring this vlog i had so much fun working with them and i'm always using my cricut in my classroom if you're interested in checking out qriket i'll have a link in the description box below so click that link to check that out and thank you for being here with me and helping me set up my classroom i always love reading all of your ideas for different things in my classroom and my comments below so thank you for always leaving those i love hearing what you guys are doing in your classroom and also the ideas you have for mine so feel free to leave a comment below also 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Length: 22min 34sec (1354 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 15 2021