Classroom Setup Part 5 | Teacher Desk Tour & Finishing Touches | High School Teacher

if this is discouraging to you first of all I'm sorry that is not my intention secondly just remember I'm going into year 12 I'm going to year 12 and I am a human pack rat like I have a lot of stuff that I've just held on to so make sure that you kind of keep that in mind hi guys welcome back to the cafe in the classroom if you haven't been here before I am Marie I'm a high school English language arts teacher and today I am going into my classroom to do some finishing touches I'm gonna work on getting the last bits of organization done in my like teacher desk area there are a couple of things I need to put up I am a mom as you can hear she's upset that she already ate her breakfast and it is no longer in the wrapper because it is now in her belly anyways we are doing a quick Home Depot run to grab a couple of things and then I have some fun projects that I am doing like little last-minute things in my classroom that I'm excited to show [Music] I have found what I'm looking for and the best part is actually a four pack for a dollar fifty so that it's exciting music see if there's anything else I need it's cold let's get out of here Oh looks like 80 degrees outside and it's about 7:30 a.m. so let's enjoy being cold cool [Music] so um it's just like make lunch and there are a few things that I forgot like half of the reason that I went in today was to hook up a couple of lamps helps if you bring the lamps um but I'm really excited to show you guys cuz we're gonna go back in a little bit this afternoon the different projects that we are working on such as just like little things like putting up some posters that I bought on Teachers Pay Teachers and putting up these really cute little letters that I got from the target these cute letters that I got from the target dollar spot you know that's ones that they have it said like right we learned I got the ones that say write and read and since my customers are primary colors obviously I spray-painted them with this like copper it just paint that we just have in the garage um and they look really good as a place that I can put up my bulletin boards but things are really trying to come together and I'm excited to show you guys the progress the project that I was talking about at Home Depot is like a roll of paper that is up on the wall that I can write the like table of contents for each entry in our composition book so that's gonna be really cool so that kids can keep up and see what all of the assignments and classwork are and stay like in order with everything so I'll show you that and I'll probably get that started and I'll start writing on it so that it's just like ready for the beginning of the year and I'm trying to think oh and I'm gonna give you a tour of my teacher desk area because I've got that almost totally like organized and put together so I'm excited things are coming together my first like official workday is in a couple of days I have like a new teacher orientation which is kind of funny cuz I've worked at the school for ten years but I yes I am new because I'm coming back and are a bunch of new teachers this year we've had a bunch of new hires so I'm excited eat meat like some new faces and like and then Friday is my first official work day and then next week we have Monday Tuesday work days and next Wednesday is the first day school so things are happening it's I've been invited to a tea party so I'm gonna have to check in with you guys in a minute I'm gonna go join my tea party and then I'll check in with you again we're back at school well this is a beautiful tea party where do I sit oh that's Minnie seat where does mommy sit lovely thank you so much for having me what kind of tea do we have today I'm kind of tea are we drinking you forgot is it Earl Grey peppermint chamomile Oh his mom ran had a tea it's tea all right let's drink our tea hello everybody we are back in the classroom it's just a little man in me this time because my daughter had to take an apple but I can show you what I've been working on today there are a couple things one is the project with paper that you can see behind me and I'll show you exactly how I did it and it was super simple and then I saw on Instagram an even easier way to do it so FYI alrighty the very first project that I was working on today is this big roll of paper that you see up here and this is just one of those rolls of paper that goes in like then the IKEA easel right it's just way up there so the way that it is put in are with those clips that I got earlier today and what they do is they come with a little s hook but I was realizing that the S hook was going to very easily let go of the little teeny baby curtain rod that I have it on so instead I use little binder rings and they're kind of great and then here so it starts way up there comes all the way down and to keep it from moving around you can see it's kind of wiggling a little bit I just put a binder clip on each side and then pin to that into the wall so that it does and the weight of the paper here was pulling the whole thing down but here we go and I'll just like hop up on a chair whenever I need to add something to the top and it's going to be a running tally of all the things that we have in our composition book so that kids can keep up with classwork and what's missing there okay guys so here it says write and then I'll show you on the other side it says read these are just those letters that they had at the dollar spot that everybody loved that were in primary colors but instead of primary colors which are nowhere in this whole room I spray-painted them which is kind of amazing with I'll get really close on this one there's the read so here I'll close up so you can see a spray-paint of them with like the metal hammered look of a bronze so that's kind of awesome so over here on this side and you can see I already have one printed are gonna be the critical lens posters from teaching on her TPT store and I'll print the rest of them there are ten of them that come with along with like a little like title that goes across the top I'm gonna print them and laminate them and I'll put those up and then over here on this side I will when we started doing Writers Workshop and that sort of thing I have a whole bunch of posters and stuff that I've made that I will probably reprint and put up on here okay and now here we go we're going to take a tour of my teacher desk area so right now I have the fluorescents on just so there's enough light for filming because it's getting kind of dim outside but actually I added a couple more lamps to the back of the room and it's perfect in here there were some strings of lights that I had around this front board and one on the side that I took down because it was just thinking too much but as you're walking up you can see I've just got this little kitchen table it's the IKEA one that I talked about a couple of videos ago and in here I've got just a cute little crate with this is yes it's just a giant soup can with my scissors and a pencil sharpener and some tissues on hand and then this little caddy is from the target dollar spot and it's got all my pens and my like remote presenter my presenting remote thing yep those are words and then because I love to use that it's kind of awesome and then I'm not like tied to my computer running back and forth all the time when I'm presenting things so you can see here this is the old picture of my son when he was a baby for Easter and me yeah that's you so here underneath here underneath this table I have this rolling file unit and what I'm gonna keep in here is basically anything that I'm going to need on hand that's not like sensitive material so you can see I've got like master copies of things I mean this is all old stuff I've got some coarse writing stuff from some PD things that I had before when I was the drama teacher we went to festivals there's all that information I've got my old stuff in here now but it'll be good for just quick things that I think yep when I was observed from being evaluated it's got sub plans stuff like that because I don't have a full you can see right there it's what the chairs are backed up to that's the only file cabinet I have in the room just because I didn't need that many drawers actually because so much of my classroom and my stuff is digital so there you go don't mind the mess right here so this little guy goes under whoopsies so this little guy just tucks right under here and it's kind of great there's Wyatt making me a piece of art here I got this chair on SuperDuper clearance it was seriously like 25 bucks from you guessed it Target let me show you this big huge desk was already in here when I came in which was kind of amazing because I turned it around it was if you look back at my first like moving in and setup video and I was kind of figuring out what I was gonna do with this whole area this was like turned another way and it was just like really imposing in the room and I loved the way that it just frames the corner over here like if I back up you can really see I'm so let's just move over here from left to right I have my clock I hung a couple shelves that I had those are from Home Depot and they're seriously like under five dollars apiece but I already had them so I've one over here and then I've won all the way on the other side that you can see way over there um and this background is fabric and then this is just old pages crumpled up and then I double stick tape them that if you're a dollar spot stalker like myself you will recognize that little ruler guy I've got some silk flowers this has a bunch of cool little compartments and it's just Husky brand from Home Depot it's like 10 or 11 bucks and it's just to kind of hold little things that I'll need on hand like paper clips and pushpins and that's essential oils I'm I'm obsessed with The Wizard of Oz so there we go I would just got like little personal touches but not too much and even this I think some people would find to feel cluttered I just find it to feel warm and nice these three crates I mentioned in an earlier video as well but they are literally just the like 99-cent crates from Walmart the little mini guys and they're up with nails here I'll zoom in for you you see right there those two nails holding it up that's why I have super light books on them so like these are children's books that I used to teach grammar because we write children's books with grammar um and then there's just like a folder library of some of my favorite Shakespeare works and To Kill a Mockingbird found its way in there let's move along over here um this guy so this wire unit was already here when I got here but I think it's gonna be great for like I don't know other things that I need to file I don't know I might even get rid of it we'll see if I even need it because I have the thing under my desk under my table this letter sorter is from I want to say it's the recollections collection from Michaels I've had it for years and I just wasn't using it at home so then I went and I got these bins they're the project cases it's basically like a super skinny version of a scrapbook paper case and it fits perfectly right in here and these are gonna be where I keep my plans and my copies and stuff for the upcoming week so like this will be Monday Tuesday this be Wednesday Thursday this will be free because Friday is always gonna be book clubs and our genius our projects so I'm really excited about that and I'll label these and make them look all cute and I'll show you in my final actual like classroom tour I have kind of my wonderful oil diffusers because it's dank in here cuz no one was in here all summer long my dog cam and here these are the little like cork boards the whole square cork boards I have two of them and I think they're from a target dollar spot and I just printed a bunch of my family pictures and put them up there as a collage this is a letter board you guys will you comment below what should I say what should I say for the first day of school I I just can't even I have so many quotes around the room already that I can't like my creativity just died um and if you move over to the other side just this corner I did with the paper because I find that sometimes especially if the walls face each other this shiplap paper can be too much um I've got a little like letter hanging thing the paper clips that I've just had for a while a lot of this stuff you guys I just had so I know that's not that encouraging for those of you still starting out but like pass people what they have asked your mom see what's in their garage okay sorry we're losing our light here so that's the top of the table okay um let me get down here I'm going to show you now down below because if you notice there's not a place for me to put like my purse so this drawer unit was I think it's like a home depot brand once again just something I had but it's an idea of something that you could use and it just has these drawers and inside the drawers I've got like my coffee pods I've got my coffee pods I've got Forks the head is a very dwindling supply of bobby pins some wet-naps I got some cards and things but I just kind of have collected take whatever me to write a note I like to be a nice person sometimes and then down here in this bottom drawer I'm gonna put my purse in my lunchbox and then I've just got like I had a little kit of like personal items just for those looking to get at school but now here we go this little rolling guy is just stuff for my kids to play with like my actual own children to play with when they come over here is just a basket where I have sparkling water these are like the cheaper version those simply balance like the Target brand version of Lacroix I've got mini diet cokes for those afternoon headaches and then one of these Sterilite tubs that actually seals it's got the foam around so that critters don't get to any food so I'll arrange this a little bit better but that's kind of like my stash I think the last thing that I'll show you is these drawers which you have seen before if you saw some of my earlier videos and they are going to have labels on them but they are a place where kids can come and get supplies these baby wipes are for the board because they're great to clean the board with sorry the light keeps washing out completely but it's like tape and coloring supplies and yeah more pencils and pens will go in here apparently they're gonna need batteries in my estimation let's see what else do you have for kiddos oh yeah that's gonna be a fun project next week I've got index cards and paper glue and scissors um I have it back kind of behind here because then I can control a little bit of like how kids access all of that stuff it's absolutely for them to use this way I can like be there or it's at least a little bit out of the way so that kids aren't gonna make a huge mess with it you know what I mean so that is my desk area and I'm not gonna lie I kind of love it but a few of you have been asking like if I could show how I set all this up and like how I organize things cuz I think it's kind of hard when you just don't know what you don't know right start with the basics start with make sure you have a place to put your personal belongings your lunch your bag or your purse or whatever it is and make sure it's a place that's like kind of out-of-the-way tucked away so that it's not just like out here's my wallet um and make sure you've got a place for your own like your own supplies that kids are not going to be using so that you can kind of control the germs spread there you can see I'm getting a little bit sweaty I've been here all day um and then from there like personal touches really do make all the difference like these I'm looking at them right now these collages with my family on them like warm my heart and I just know on those days where I feel like the whole world is on my shoulders and like I can't do it all because there's so much there is so much demanded of us I'll be able to look at these pictures and you know I'll be rejuvenated a little bit and if I'm not completely rejuvenated okay guys next week I will have because it's a secret stash okay guys don't tell your kids if they come here obviously he says that kid is so silly um next week or later this week we'll see how much I get my life together I will do a full-blown classroom tour there's still a few little things little touches here and there like putting up the Little posters underneath the red sign putting up something under right um making a calendar on the calendar board you know little stuff like that that I need to do but I have some lesson planning to do and that takes precedence right now thank you guys so much for watching I hope this is informative it may be inspirational maybe give you some ideas that sort of thing and thank you for watching subscribe if you haven't 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Length: 18min 52sec (1132 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 15 2018