CLASSROOM SETUP DAY FOUR | Decorating My First Classroom

you guys welcome back to my channel if you are new here my name is Emma and the first year first grade teacher and today is classroom setup day 4 so today's Friday it is the last day this week that I'm going into my classroom I'm trying to start today off better in the end yesterday ended haven't watched yesterday's videos or if you haven't watched any of my setup videos make sure you watch all of those before you watch this video but yesterday I was not feeling well and I left at like 1:30 which is early for me you know I'm very organized and I like to make lists and so today's goals are to hang all of the things on my walls like my number line my alphabet line all that kind of stuff I want to do those today I want to get that dumb shoe organizer done today I have a plan hopefully it works if it doesn't we're we're scratching it I think that's it I think hanging things will take quite a long time as I have a lot to hang this is all of my load for the day so much smaller than usual so everything I own is in my classroom now which is great let's just go to school [Music] [Music] he's so currently in the paper room I have a bunch of counters that I received for my like math manipulatives but I don't know what I need to put them in and instead of having like hand out handfuls every time or Carol how many they need I'm just gonna put them in I was gonna put them in containers but I don't want to buy organs here so then put them in little Ziploc bags looking for like the snack size cuz that makes sense and they have zero snack size in here and they're all this sandwich size which is fine but I feel like that's kind of wasteful but there's literally like a plethora of sandwich bags so that is the update all right here's the next Alana I have this sign and it says welcome to our classroom I can't find the tape I keep studying things out and then I forget where I put them anyways I have that sign and I really think I want to hang it up here originally I thought it would be really pretty if I put it like this or is it this better than paper bulletin board it's white wood and I love it put that like all the way up here if I had extra but I didn't have extra so alright so we're gonna try it I don't know if it's going to work at all I really feel like it's not going to the other banners I have that's like this I had to use command hooks and in like tie the string to the end and it that's the only way I feel like it would have worked and I don't have enough like stickies to put on the back of my command hooks to make that work so we're just gonna see or maybe I can staple or pushpin it will see I don't maybe well we'll see okay so far sailing is working I can promise you right now it is it's not going to be centered please don't judge me because you don't have the time or that energy for that but hopefully it will hold [Music] well I try to add this cute little tassel to make it something extra now I'm just thinking but that's not really gonna work just one it's gonna get shut in that door and two it just looks kind of like I don't feel like it looks right with that somebody that down I thought maybe I could hang it maybe I could just I don't feel stable up to this I don't think it's gonna staple and then it could like hang one five two one there and then one there's what the welcome to our classroom looks like it's not perfect but I think it's cute I might move those two words a little bit more together I feel like those are as good as they're gonna get though um you I could buy curtains to cover these that's what the previous teacher did I just really don't feel like buying a rod and measuring and buying the curtains and she said somebody made them for her and that's just not something I want to do so maybe if I could make these tassels come right here and not be in anybody's way then that would kind of hide my stuff because I still would have quite a bit of room to for me to get back in there so let's try that [Music] there is what that looks like I just I think I like this side better than I like this side but I don't know how but that's string like barely made it from both sides so I don't know if the strings are just different lengths or what all right so let me catch you up a little bit I'm sitting in my rocking chair actually this is the first time I've ever sat on a chair and it's kind of crazy it is 138 I had a crazy long to-do list today and it's only 138 I'm almost done with it I need to decorate my door so my mom put paper and border on my door earlier this week and then I have a little quote that says the future of the world is in this classroom and I have that so I'm gonna add that to my door I think faster you have a couple random Little posters left that I could hang random spots but I don't want it to be too much I feel like it's kind of kind of like on the edge too much you know something and I just not had anything else oh I wanna get my desk area fixed so the end of setup day 3 which is today no today is day 4 so the end of day 3 which if you haven't seen that video you probably should watch it before lunch this one but anyways I talked about my desk and that was like the last thing you really did before he left for the day and then last night after I got home one of my co-workers texted me and said that they were ordering more kidney tables and so I would be getting one that means that this table is gonna go so I'm thinking what I'm gonna do is I am literally just going to keep everything the same but instead of having that that long table it's just gonna be a kiddy table coming out instead so I need to make sure that everything back there is like organized and everything is off my table everything's out of the way so that when I come back hopefully those will be like here and I can just take that table downstairs and grab a kidney table and it's already that's exciting because I'm I'm okay with the rectangle but like I would much rather have a Guinea table [Music] so there is what we've got I do I like it it's also down pouring and thunderstorm outside which I had no idea until I went out in the hallway for a second and then I looked down the hall at the door and I was like oh it's pouring I had no idea cuz I have no one knows it's like I had this really really sad thought earlier when I was actually doing my door display what if no kids get to ever be in this classroom and I know that ever is like a very dramatic word but I just mean like what if I'm doing all of this and we don't even come to school to be honest I fully believe that this pandemic is not over I really feel like and maybe this is partially because Michaels a nurse and I feel like he sees it very firsthand and so I kind of like the news is kind of over it but like we're not because he sees it every day so anyways I really feel like and so does he that this is not done and that school will not be normal even if we start school in August obviously like it won't be normal because we have a lot [Music] of precautions that we're gonna have to take in case you didn't realize this video is filmed way before y'all are going to see it today is July 3rd you're not gonna see this until the end of July and so by then I will know the school is planned I will maybe something will have changed in our world by the end of July I don't know anyway so that all sparked with I was doing my door and they got really sad because I was like you know I don't even know that there's gonna be an open house this year I just feel like there won't be it and then I have the thought of like well what if none of my students even get to see this classroom like I have my class list I know hello slender I know a lot of them and like I'm so excited to have them in this classroom now that my classroom I think is although I'm here all by myself there is nobody else here so [Music] like kind of terrifying okay anyways I'm like spooked was I saying I just have to thought of like what if none of these sweet kids are ever in this classroom that is theirs like I put time and money and energy into this classroom because I want it to be like a safe place for my kids I don't do it so that I can have like you does classroom I do it because I fully believe that it matters what what environment you create for kids and anyway so it just like made me really sad to think that I did all of this and then like none of them are even gonna get to see it maybe and I don't I don't want to say like none of them are ever gonna get to see it but like we may not start being a write-off or we may not get the full year in here or you know there's just so many unknowns and your first year is already scary and already a lot to take to prepare for and so doing it with all this going on has just been very interesting also I'm having this say welcome to first grade and that also makes me like am I even going to get to like welcome them the first grade all right as I'm like looking around the room I think it's done guys obviously there are a couple little things and there's things that I don't have yet that I can't do and you know I personalize anything and it's not like done done but with what I have here I don't think there's anything else for me to do this week I think the next time I come I'll obviously I have a nice list of things I need to make and bring and label and all the things but for this week of setup I think I'm done guys just nuts so let me give you a quick not so quick overview of what I got done today and what my room looks like at the end of day four okay so we're gonna start at my door this is a quote that I rented the future of the world is in this classroom and then I'm gonna have little Globes or worlds with their names on them that I will put down here and like around and up there and it's just gonna be so cute so what the rolling cart is now in front of the door I've got my bathroom passes and the nurses pass right here if they leave the room this says this costume is better because you were in it and I just think it's a great reminder that I will reference when we're standing in line waiting to leave and then above my door is my favorite part you are loved and I just think that's another great reminder and I am well aware that students cannot read cursive but to be fair like they can't read so I'm gonna like have to tell them obviously without signs but I just think that's an awesome reminder and as soon as they know that that says you are loved every single time that we are lined up right here to leave that's what they will see and I love that then I've got this little poster it says our girls bathroom I need to make a sign that says girls and boys but this is the bathroom at pasta I made so they'll flip it if somebody's in there I finally figured out the shoe organizer the one on you guys I don't know why I did not think of this and literally I was sitting in bed last night and I was like oh my gosh why didn't I just staple it to the pocket so that's what I did it I think it looks great I was literally going to just write it in sharpie and I'm so glad that I thought of this so now you can see what my vision was this whole time so like each one will have this with a dry erase marker and eraser all numbered and then it will also have their this is like their rewards like their wallets full of their tokens or points or whatever you want to call it and then their headphones will just go right back here and it will be perfect and so this is ready and yes I literally numbered them so that it would kind of be like a little rainbow going down okay anyways just moving this way about this little welcome to our classroom sign and then these two little tassels I think once today sit there for a while and they kind of you know get a little loosened up it'll look a little bit cuter I really organized all of this stuff so let me kind of show you I even organized like which bands I used so the clear ones I used right here for school supplies and a neat obviously make a couple of labels so all of the like clear supplies but I love that this kind of covers it like even right now as I'm trying to show you I love that the tassel distracts you from all of the stuff anyways so all the school supplies have the clear bins I'll probably get some more of these when I went to Dollar Tree last night they weren't selling any white there and so hopefully that means are not like out more school supplies won't remember what's in here um oh those are like nametags whiteboards moved up there and this is all math manipulatives right here so I've got base ten blocks dice these are deal boards which would need to make little four counters which I showed you a little bit earlier what I was doing with those so I was given these bags and I divided them into individual a ziploc bag so that way and I want to use them with the students it is already done for me and I just hand out the baggies it is easy-peasy I've got my two pattern blocks oh no these are whiteboards what's in here Oh notebook paper is in here because it's with school supplies that makes sense notebook paper whiteboards this thing is empty it's just like it's full of a couple of extra containers I have this is all just like really very good stuff as well as these crates you don't want them use these for yet but like I just feel like there are so many purposes I'm not going to get rid of them there is no way so don't know to be to be determined no boxes aren't any different let's see coming this way my games are still here I put my book return bucket on top of my games because it took up too much space on the counter over there my rock is still here this was a banner that I got from the dollar spot last summer and I just have so many banners up that I didn't have anywhere to hang it and so I just unstrung it and I think it looks really really cute right there those are my little kovat safety posters I'm gonna get a little tray from the dollar spot that will hold the pencil sharpener but that's gonna go here and then here is all my coffee stuff I mean this way is the cool adaps corner and is still pretty much the same I think yeah pretty much the same this is pretty similar only thing that's different is I got these from my one of my team teachers and she told me that either her first grade to use most of first grade uses a lot of flexible seating and so she said that none of them really need this anymore and this was given to them by PTO a couple of years ago and so she asked if I wanted them and obviously I said yeah so I figured they could go here and I have a reward that they can purchase for flexible seating so now they can either choose from one of those or a scoop rocker or a stool and they're gonna live here so that when they're at this little station because one of these chairs was too tall for that table this will be perfect I was gonna do pillows but I'd have to go buy more pillows I don't have any so this is perfect I'll just sit right there and they'll create so I'm very very excited for those um I just kind of like cleared off this top shelf because it was stressing me out and so now that is a situated oh I moved this this was in there just feel like if a student needs to get an extra crown having them go like crawl through play area is just not probably the most efficient way to do it so just gonna keep that up here like I originally planned I put that little sign there I'll probably get a couple more things but stay sharp be yourself and be awesome today so how about is cute this is the same and now we are moving to my desk so these are now here and I think I like this and then this will be full of my binders here is a click ball overview what the front looks likes a lot going on so first thing was obviously I hung all of my number of posters I love them it worked out perfectly I really just started at 20 and hoped that it would be okay and it worked perfectly so I'm very very glad I love those my number line up there looks a little bit rough it's not centered it's not even that straight but y'all that was a feat man that was just I was not worth I'm out of time that it took so I'm not worried about it and I put my clock up it finally works and I got these cute little labels on there I just think those are so cute oh I've got my rules down here oh I guess I didn't have my calendar up I was just had it laid out the other day but this is my calendar I think it's so cute these command hooks worked hopefully when I come back they'll still be up got my little days of school science it will keep track and then I have all of my color posters over here again it's definitely not like centered but I'm not I'm not redoing it I'm not a perfectionist can you tell this is pretty similar and then if you panned this way so I have my little alphabet line which again not centered but it took me so long it was so hard to do and I had to use I had to like tie it to a command hook and I don't have any more like stickies for the back of that so not an option to fix that and these posters all of these this is like the alphabet line that we have to use for our curriculum and then these are all like the vowel sounds and thou teams and all that stuff it's kind of a lot like it kind of makes this whole wall a little bit much but I obviously have to have it and I'm happy that it fit pretty well I don't think any of this is different I did fill up my morning toys cards though so these are gonna be my morning choice options I'm going to get the little adhesive lables the target cells and on their dollar spot and I have labels already made but those are my first two and then those and these are do work and these are like little straight lacing things and here's a little overview [Music] all right you guys and getting ready to head out it's about 3:30 which is about the time I was hoping to leave today so that's awesome look how cute this house is aren't you guys I can't believe this okay anyways I need okay one thing that I have learned with this setup is you can never be too prepared make all the labels I have a ton of labels if you just saw up in that supply bin because I just made them because I knew I would need them make all your book bin labels and laminate them and cut them make your supplies your school supplies make anything you think you're gonna need make the label laminate it and cut it it was so nice I just had a huge binder clip of all my library labels and a binder clip of all my like supply VIN labels and I just pulled those out any time I would find that thing put it in a bit and I labeled it and it was done it just saved me so much time so I definitely recommend making a ton of labels ahead of time like don't want to leave because it's gonna be a while until I'm back and that makes me sad I waited to upload these setup videos because I wanted to upload them all at the same time I came this week every day because girl that I'm dating is out of town all week it makes me sad that I won't be here for a few weeks but to you guys you'll see my next edit video in a couple days like normal which is why I'm waiting to post these videos so that you see them all at the same time and they're not like several weeks apart like it is in real life I can't believe it I keep looking in this background and I'm like what about where I am like what's happening this is my classroom you guys I can't I need it in this vlog and to get out of here because I'm just stalling and it's still pouring rain and it's still kind of creepy in here so I need to go if you have not seen the rest of my setup videos make sure you go watch them I have a playlist on my channel of all of them so far if you liked it make sure that you like it and subscribe so you don't miss the rest of my videos setup is almost over but I'm going to document the rest of my first year journey and you won't want to miss it so make sure you subscribe enjoy our little family I cannot believe that they're this any of you guys who care about my life and my journey and I'm just like blown away every day I'm blown away how encouraging you guys are and how supportive you are and you genuinely like care about my journey and it's insane to me so thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here I can't believe I caution these guys I can't believe I just finished a full week of setup like what is my life okay okay you guys I will see you in the next video thank you for being here and watching this whole probably pretty long video my friend [Music]

Channel: Elementary with Emma

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Keywords: Classroom setup, first grade classroom setup, classroom decor, classroom organization, first year teacher vlog, classroom setup vlog, teacher vlog, classroom setup 2020, first year teacher, classroom haul, setup

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Length: 23min 59sec (1439 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 26 2020