CLASSROOM SETUP DAY THREE | all the organization

hey y'all welcome back to my channel if you're new here my name is emma i'm a second year first grade teacher and this is a three of classroom set up i am currently on my way to school it's already 10 30 this morning i was just not feeling it and i'm still not really feeling it i am officially almost done with my summer like this is my last week i'm just feeling less motivated than the last couple times i've gone i really think though that i might be able to get it all done today if not like most of it i have a very long to-do list that i will share with you once i get to school i'm currently pulling in to sonic because i need some motivation hi can i have a bacon breakfast burrito and a vanilla diet coke yes [Music] you guys i just walked in and i'm already annoyed look oh my gosh you're kidding me look at this this took me so long to make straight that's so annoying to be fair i didn't have high hopes i used velcro dots so i could like switch them out but they're not like the stickiest it's fine i have other things i can use i just have to now add that to my list today i just wrote down everything i want to do maybe not necessarily today hopefully today but this is like all i have left before the start of school these are all things like in my classroom that i need to do classroom setup wise so i need to fix my tier 2 chart i want to move my morning routine which i'll show you where that's going to go i want to write my first 25 words on the word wall so that that's done i have a little lunch menu set up i want to put up any decorations for the cafe i made a junior teacher spot in line i want to tape to the ground i want to sort through my library books see what i don't want and what i want to donate and just kind of organize it a little bit better i want to put together my little foam square spots and then i want to organize my supply closet and then over here these are like the organization things that are going to take me a while but that are really stressing me out but i really want to get done today so i want to take inventory of all of the centers that i already have and then i want to i need to do this i need to replace the math and phonics games in their cart for back to school i want to plan out my centers and then i want to organize and label them mainly these three are for my maternity sub so that that's just taken care of i already have a system in place for her and it'll be easy for me to plan from home or at least plan like far in advance because it's all already organized for me so this is going to take me a while but i really really want to get this done before school starts because i know when school starts i will not have the time to do that i kind of want to start with the center stuff just because like i said it's a weighing so heavy on my mind and it's stressing me out and it's been stressing me out for a long time um and i just think if i could get that done it would really motivate me to do everything else and also the other things won't take me very long but this will [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this is the current setup so what i've done is made all of the games on this table these are all of the write the rooms or like center cards that i have made um more worksheets things like that and then these are all my bingo boards or like connect four and so i'm entering them in this is very extra but i'm entering them in by topic and then what i have for each topic just to make my life easier when i'm planning and then i can kind of see what topic like i need more in this is just very helpful for my brain so i'm gonna keep working on this and then i'm gonna try to organize them by topic i think [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right it's fixed and i also added this um so my thought is i will write with like a dry erase marker the groups um this way in case they happen to forget which group they're in it's just always here or if like there's a sub or whatever um and then also if i need to change out my groups it'll be really easy and i won't have to like reprint anything so i think this area is all done [Music] i'm not gonna lie you guys getting a little bit overwhelmed with like this like i just came in and made everything worse um but i just sent a ton of copies to the printer of some more games and i think if i can just figure out a way to get them all organized they're all planned like i have all of them kind of like taken accounted for in an inventory so i know what i have for like four vowel teams i know what board games i've printed or puzzle games or center cards that i have for vowel teams and that will be really helpful but now one i need to go like get i made a couple extra stuff and then i need to figure out how to organize it i'm thinking of using these scrapbook cases i have two extra i'm thinking of using those and me putting each subject in either a big like gallon ziplock baggie or the little like mesh zipper baggies that i use for these um these bags but those are kind of thick and i don't know if they will fit very many in those scrapbook cases they also have this i guess i could just shove a bunch of stuff in this big tub we'll see i'm just like over this and i need to get it done this is going to be one of the first like phonics games that they will have in the early finisher drawer for phonics games um and i think also if they finish the second like the word games portion because sometimes it's just like center activities and i worry that they'll finish and not have anything to do they will also be able to play a phonics game so all this stuff is kind of stuff that i keep in that drawer anyway just like phonics games but this is what i'm gonna do for the first couple of weeks just something really simple and i love these dry erase sleeves um and inside i put their one dice and their counters and honestly i might do a third in case they want three players um in case i have an odd number of students so there's the first one the other one i printed this is bingo so they'll try to get like five in a row [Music] so [Music] [Music] alrighty so i think i kind of found a system maybe you don't when this warrior starts i'll hate it but i'll show you kind of what i did so you know my system over here and it's not pretty because it doesn't need to be but this is what i've got so far these just would not fit in those cases which is fine so i divided it up and literally just wrote on like notecard so it's not pretty um and then everything inside has to do with that topic so sight words obviously this one is a little bit full i'll just kind of show you a little bit and all of these are like correlated with our curriculum so a lot of it if not all of it i had from last year that we did as we went like as we learned about sneaky i made write the rooms and board games and found different things and saved them so now they're all together so that the week or like the few weeks that we're teaching about sneaky all i have to do is pull this out and i have a bunch of resources to use for centers or extra practice um digraphs compound words again this is not like pretty i could make pretty labels but you know it'll work for now and then i can store it either over there or i honestly i might have some room underneath here so there's that all i have extra are these three games i have this this is a great game and i really want to try to find more like this i have a couple of my amazon wishlist but i've got a like rhyming puzzle that was left in my room and this game so and then i'm working on a bunch of stuff over here i printed out a couple more for like back to school so i've got a backpack beginning sound center where they like match the beginning sounds and then i'm also doing a real nonsense word like sort so i'm going to do these and or cut them and like file them and stuff and then on my computer this is kind of what it's looking like so i like scoped out this it probably will change but i just wanted to kind of see what i did not have stuff for so these are all the topics in blevins which is how i use how i like scope everything i love it um it really worked for me last year so there's all the topics these are the things that i have that i could use that week and then i just did like all of the topics over on the left and then i sorted everything that i have that covers that topic so then as i'm planning whether it's for myself at home and i'm not here like physically to see it or if i'm even in person i think this will be so helpful that when we're going over um like cbc words i know exactly what i have and if i'm not like satisfied or if one of these things is not really what i'm looking for i can make something if that makes any sense so glad that that's done-ish let's look at my to-do list everything i have left is now just stuff around the room so i think i'm going to just sit down knock out all this stuff i brought this so i need to put all of this up i need to cut those centers and then we'll see how much more i can do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] i'm getting out of here it's 3 20. i did not finish everything on my list but the only things that i'm looking at on my list are my word wall which will literally take me like a minute um so i can do that another time i did not get around to organizing my closet but it's really not looking that bad let me show you it's really not that bad um and the other thing i didn't get to is i did not get to sort through my books because i have all of these extra books that i don't have they're either read alouds for certain things or i don't have the room for them in my library so i like rotate through um but even like some of my bins are just so stuffed full that the bins are like i don't know if you can even tell see how it's like curved and it's hard for them to get it out and i don't know there are a lot of these books that i just know they didn't really like and i think it would be better to like sort through the ones that they're not a fan of and save some space that did not happen today and that's okay um that's like the only thing i did not get done and that was not a priority it was just something i've been wanting to do i also did not take that stuff to the work room because i want to i think wait until our first work day with like my team and kind of let them go through it first and then i will take it to the work room and i can definitely do those things in between planning with my team and making copies for the first week and stuff like i don't have a ton of time which is why i had to start coming in now but we'll have a little bit of time so i'll walk you around and show you what i did it wasn't anything like crazy today it was just so much organization but i am done i am not coming back in until i have to and that feels really good because i just want to enjoy the rest of my summer so let me show you everything i did and then i'm going to go home i went ahead and updated the cafe i hate this is my banner that used to be up here and i actually like it over here i just took out the colors i didn't like i made this on powerpoint and i found this as a freebie online so it's not anything like special but just gives a little something i put this cart here um because i was actually planning on getting rid of it because i have the other one over here and i was planning on getting rid of this one but when i was talking with my teammate today we were talking about ipads we will be getting a class set of ipads this year that will stay here last year they went home because of covet obviously but this year we're gonna get like 20 ipads that have to stay in our room so i think that's going to be my ipad cart hopefully that will work out i went ahead and put together my square spots i use these in place of rugs last year in my library and my cooldown spot and then i also had a bunch that they could take when they were like silent reading or doing like center work so i want to reuse these again this year for those reasons for silent reading or if they're at like their tier two they can come grab a spot just so they have something comfortable to sit on these are just like those foam like workout mats i love those i put these little signs up i was going to put these over here um i saw kim from elementary in the mitten put them with like clipboards on her bulletin board and i loved that idea but i just don't know how i would get it to stay on here x then i was gonna move this to the back of this and honestly it was just one of those projects that wasn't worth my time and wasn't worth trying to figure out so this is going to stay for now um i don't think anything over here is different hopefully when i come back in a week this does not fall down and then under here those are the games that did not fit and then down here those are all my centers that i organized today i don't think anything over here is different oh i added these i don't know if i like them but i just found these really cute play quotes and i thought um this is like the most colorful area so i thought it kind of went there i think that's literally all i did but that took so much time especially those centers and like my whole system on my computer but it feels so good to have that done y'all have no idea i just want to be as prepared as possible going into this year because i kind of know what to expect as a second year teacher and i really want to have everything like all the kinks from last year worked out before i go on maternity leave in december i just don't want to stress about it even like when we go back to school next like in the next couple weeks i don't want to stress about like trying to figure all these kinks out i want them to be ironed out obviously some things are going to change and some things i'm going to have to continue to adapt of course like me scoping all that out is great but that doesn't mean that's exactly what's going to happen it's just nice to feel like i've kind of got a head start let me tell you all my second year is already looking so much better and smoother than my first year so i think that's the end of day three and i think that's the only classroom you set up it only took me three days this year it really only took me two to like set my classroom up this was just a lot of organization so if you enjoyed this year's setup make sure that you give this video a thumbs up make sure that you subscribe if you're not already so you don't miss the rest of my videos if you want to see what my classroom looked like when i came in last year and it took me much longer go watch my setup playlist from last year i will link that for you thank you so much for being here for watching my videos and supporting me and i will see you in my next video which will be me going back to school crazy bye friends [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Elementary with Emma

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Keywords: classroom setup, classroom organization, first year teacher, elementary with emma, organization, first grade teacher, first grade teacher classroom setup, new teacher

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Length: 22min 29sec (1349 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 08 2021