CLASSROOM SETUP DAY TWO | changing things up

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 classroom setup day two i just got to my classroom it is 9 15. yeah i've got a lot to do today i'm gonna see how much i can get done today i'm hoping to just kind of knock a bunch of stuff off of my list i actually have a few things that i purchased since i came in a few days ago i wanted to show you do a quick little haul before we get started um also before we get started i should say if you're new here i would love for you to subscribe stick around for all my future videos and for my second year journey i've been thinking a lot since i came in a few days ago about just more things to do more things to tweak i prepped some stuff at home so let's just show you all that i brought today so first i got four more black book bins because those teal book bins that are in my tier two area that i got from dollar tree um when i was at target they happen to have four black book bins which they never ever have neutrals at my target like ever and so i picked them up and i'm going to put these in my tier two spots because those dollar tree bookmans i forgot how not greater quality they are like they just are a lot smaller like they don't even fit a binder they're too small to fit normal sized things which is stupid um so i had a hard time fitting a couple of my tier two stuff in there and like they just kind of fall and they're wobbly and these i know are much better quality so i went ahead and picked these up they're gonna go in my tier two place i caved and i got the contact paper that is everywhere the first time i saw this i was so excited about it but i didn't pick it up because i didn't know where i would use it um and now i think i have a plan i'm not 100 committed with where i'm gonna put them but i know i'm going to i think cover my door but i don't know that i'm going to actually like peel off the back and stick it to the door i bought also some mounting tape it looked really strong i don't know if it's going to work well but it looks like this would like stick really really well so i'm thinking i'm gonna use this on the back instead of peeling it because i have a fear that i'm not gonna get it off of what i put it on and i would hate to like ruin my classroom door like that's a pretty big thing to ruin um if you watch my friend madison from mrs campbell's creators she had put contact paper on something uh if you know you know and she couldn't get it off and that is my fear that that would happen to me so i'm gonna try this instead of like peeling the backing off so i got two we'll see i know i want to do my door we'll see how difficult it is and how much i have left if we do any more than that i also was super excited to see these um i use these everywhere and i have some but every year like i want to stock up on them um so i use these as labels on literally everything i highly recommend like if you're going to stock up on one thing every summer let it be these and then the last thing i got is this scalloped border i don't know how i feel about it i think it looks kind of cute but i don't know it's either this or polka dots and i thought this was a little bit cuter and i don't think i have enough border to go around my door which is why i bought this then the last thing guys i've done a lot of reflecting since my last video with my cubbies and i went and bought some black and white ones from walmart because i just hate rainbow if you um didn't watch day one you probably should have said you need to go watch day one i'll link it um but that's my rainbow right now [Music] and i hate it did i need it no did i say i was not going to do it yes and i did it anyway i just think it's worth it and honestly at walmart they're only like 197 or something so they're a whole dollar cheaper than target so that's how i justified it this is the other thing i was reflecting on i think i'm going to leave these here i was really debating putting them in this um this over here and i think i decided that i'm going to keep them up here i might take the clipboards out so they're not quite as like bulky and leaning um and just put them in the container i had them in last year but i just don't think that that would serve the purpose that i need it to the whole reason i'm putting them up here is because i hated having them like on top of each other and in a crammed area i like this because they're spread out even though it's busy and it takes up like that whole counter space i think that those cubes would literally just be the exact same as what i did last year and i hated and i'm trying to fix so and then i thought about two maybe seeing if my mom could come up and go to the basement with me and help me bring up a fifth table and more chairs that's my thought process whenever i don't get done today i'm thinking i'm gonna come in one more like full day and then i have like a day i come in a couple hours if i don't get anything done or enough done all right let's go [Music] i think i like this the only thing that's like throwing me is these like this is not the same colors as that still not obsessed with it though i wonder here's what i'm gonna do let me see this if i take out all the teal will i love it let's see ah darn it see to me that makes more sense for my brain to look at i do have these um up here i already stole one so i could steal i have four left so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve five thirteen those four would be seventeen which would literally be the exact number of kids i have right now i want to have 20 but i could just try to find three more at walmart i might do that i think i want to do black i'm already like almost there why not just go full force you know darn it guys i said i wasn't gonna do that okay i think i'm gonna do that then i'm gonna put the labels on i need to decide i need two different labels i guess i'll show you i made these which are from that pack um in the classroom prep video that i did and they would look really cute with black and white i just don't know if it'd be like too busy and then i also made these which is what i used last year um i just they were kids like drew on them and kind of tore them up so they needed new ones anyway um i printed some more of these so i might like try both i know this is like not quite as busy but this is so cute and a lot of my stuff around my room is starting to look like this so i feel like it would go like tie everything in really well all right so i'm gonna do that and then i just got off the phone with my mother and i think she's gonna come down maybe move up like a table we can get that out of the way and then i think she might help me with my door because i cannot do that on my own that is the plan [Music] so what i'm doing is so extra you guys i'm taking the black um cuppies from up here that i use for supplies these are from amazon but they look the exact same um and i'm using them down here and then instead of putting colored bins up there for supplies because that like defeats the whole purpose of it all being black and white i'm taking my ikea bins right here the clear ones from my morning choice and i'm gonna put morning choice in these pretty teal ones [Applause] it'll be like clear up here and then black and white down here extra but it'll be worth okay here's what it looks like i still need to get a white one here and here and that will be um 18. now i have all these bins so i need to like go through a number of these and then put everything in the right cubby and here's what the teal bins look like in morning choice i really really like it um i definitely obviously really prefer black and white but i still want to have some color because i'm a first grade classroom and they're kids and so i like that like all of our play stuff is still very colorful and bright these are the labels that i used last year and these are the labels that i made this year i don't want it to be too busy but i really like these yeah i mean come on i've gotta go with these they're just so cute [Music] as i am um putting things in these bins i'm gonna go ahead and try to show you everything that goes in those bins so this is the first thing i'm not gonna like talk through every single thing but here's the first thing [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] it is almost three o'clock so it has been several hours since i spoke with you last my mom just left and they have one more thing i really want to do and then i'm gonna get out of here i just ran the copier and have a bunch of copies going for my early finisher drawer just because i was going through and organizing some stuff and papers and a lot of it was coloring pages that are going to go in that early finisher drawer so i figured before i like file them away i'll just make my copies put them in the drawer for like the first month of school and then i'll be done with that so those are going right now and then the only other thing i want to do is put out all of my chairs because i think i like my tables how they are um and i got a fifth table by the way i don't think i filmed that we got a fifth table from the basement it's this one i'm laying my arms on it is too tall currently so i'm gonna have to have the custodian lowered at some point it was literally like the only table that was left in the basement that wasn't claimed so um hopefully it will work i want to put all my chairs out i think i some more though i want to put them out make sure i like everything how it is and then run to the basement and grab a few more chairs i will also show you of course like before i leave everything that we did today because even though i've i've tried to like film everything everything kind of took a lot longer today like we worked for hours and only did a couple things but i am feeling good and i think if i can get my chairs done that will pretty much make my room done that doesn't mean i'm like ready to walk in on the first day whatsoever so i will probably need to come back at least one more day and like really do a bunch of deep organizing okay chairs get my copies and then i'll show you what i've done so i was able to do them by color so i'm going to leave those stacked until they can lower this because there's no point i think i have all my blue um and all my yellow so i need one more pink and two more green so fingers crossed that they will have that in the basement [Music] i hate the basement it's terrifying [Music] that was a lot harder than i expected it to be i had the same problem i had with my table every time i would find one it would be marked for somebody else which is fine but i had to really dig to um find the ones i'm looking for you know that aren't like wobbly or super old but also that aren't too big because there's a lot of different sizes down there and i want like all the same size you know like the size for a first grader so that was a little bit harder than i thought and i could not get the tennis balls off the bottom um and one of my chairs it looks ridiculous i could not get the tennis balls off um of the bottom and it's like super old and it was literally the only green one left that wasn't like for big kids and the seat is a different color but the top is green and i'm not gonna worry about it because it's not worth it so let me show you what it looks like leaving day two i can't believe i'm out of breath sorry i can't believe it it's only day two let me give you a quick pan then i'll walk you around [Music] okay so let's start over here here's my wonky chair that has a yellow seat but you know if it's pushed in or if they're sitting in it you can't really tell and i cannot get these off so i'll deal with that another time um but yep here's my layout like i said i need to lower this table hopefully they'll do that for me um i like this layout i kept debating if i wanted to change it up from last year because this is what i had except this was like low to the ground and they used scoops and then this was round and they used stools and then like one of these was like yoga balls and i just am not really feeling a flexible seating this year i'm keeping like the layout pretty much the same it's just all going to be like chairs and they'll all have little like yoga bands on the chairs so i don't know we'll see how it goes i'm not going to get rid of my options i just i want to just see how this goes so i like this and i feel like it feels pretty open i have plenty of room up here i don't know yet if i'm allowed to have a rug so i'm just gonna leave it for now none of this is different i did go ahead and pull these out just in case i need them um the biggest thing we got done today is my door so this used to be back behind my sink and you never saw it and i loved it i just never really found a good spot for it and i think it looks really cute on my door um and then i'm thinking of putting the names of my students on the outside of the door this year last year they were on the inside on little globes and it was fine um but then i feel like no one's really able to see it from the outside like who's in our classroom and i think that's what most people at least at my school do is they put it on the outside so that when it's shut you can see so i'm gonna i still need to do that once my class list is like finalized so this is the contact paper from target um it was kind of hard to put up we did not peel off the back we just used some like mounting tape and it's you know not the greatest job but it did okay and then the border is also from target and i just made this on powerpoint like these this banner is a font um like an ag font or a kg font i can't remember which but i just made it big and cut and laminated it it is kind of busy like the contact paper is really busy but i don't know i like it over here nothing is different and then here are what my bins end up looking like this is still all stuff that i need to go through and get rid of over here by my sink is looking a little bit different so um let's see oh i need to put this away i made their little birthday tub so when it's their birthday this is what they get to use but i forgot to put it away okay so swapped out the book bins which i prefer so much more um put the clipboards back over here instead of in their book bins because it was just too much so i'm gonna keep these over here because they're gonna need them probably for a lot of these anyway so i thought that's where i had them last year along with whiteboards um so i thought this would be a good home for them this is my tier 2 anchor chart pocket chart whatever you want to call it i somehow only printed four of these so i need to make another one which is super annoying but it's fine but i really like how this turned out i think it's pretty cute um it's not perfect don't judge me but i think it works well with like i don't know in the organization piece i think they'll be able to see pretty easily where they're supposed to go hopefully moving this way i added my little title up here and i did end up taking these off because i just i think it's gonna be too tall it might have been fine but it also was just a lot going on so i went ahead and put those two away and now i only have two four six eight nine and then the cafe is ten so that's what the chart is looking like and then their names will go on the sides i put labels on my art cart and again somehow i forgot one label which is super annoying i don't know how i do that here's my morning choice spins so these teal ones um replaced the those so i really actually like how this looks cool down spot um i moved my lamp back in here uh and i actually really like it because last year it was over there and sometimes kids would like walk into it or i don't know i like it over here um we were debating if i wanted to put this on the back but i don't know and then i went ahead and added the number labels to their book bins and i really like how those turned out it's the same ones from the same pack i've been using and then i also kind of organized this a little better so it had vinyl on it but honestly it was yellow because i ran out of white and i didn't like it very much and also um half of them were like incorrect like i made the vinyl last summer and then i just changed what i was using them for so um these are the exact same labels they're just obviously a lot bigger so this one has all of our curriculum copies all that kind of stuff this is where i keep student work like for their memory books for the end of the year student data and assessments this is my sub tub which i also added labels to like my binders um yeah i don't think anything is new over here at all so that is what we did again i feel like there wasn't like that's not a lot but it took so long i think i'm going to go ahead and get out of here it's 3 20. i'm tired i've been here since nine um if you enjoyed set up day two make sure you give this video a thumbs up make sure that you are subscribed so that you don't miss the rest of my first second your journey that is so sad i almost said first year journey next time i come in it won't be really like set up stuff it'll just be planning out curriculum and um like centers and all that kind of stuff and organization and planning and all that stuff i also need to put up their like name tags all that kind of stuff but like the layout is pretty much done whenever i come in i will vlog even if it's not like anything crazy even if i'm just organizing like i will vlog it but i can't believe it only took two days this year but they were long two days i will say make sure you're subscribed and thank you so much for watching thank you for being here for supporting me and i'll see you in my next video bye [Music] you

Channel: Elementary with Emma

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Length: 23min 11sec (1391 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 04 2021