Classroom Setup | Unpacking my New Classroom | Day 1

[Music] stay still dummy okay yes [Music] the boys and i along with my mother-in-law were able to come in and bring i think like two loads we had a truckload and then we filled up my car with some boxes and then we've kind of spent and this was something that i did not think that i was gonna do was unpack all the boxes my problem with trying to do one box at a time is that i always forget how much stuff i have and what i have going on so i had ian help me unload some of the boxes blaine was putting away some of the books which was really nice and then we try to keep them in the category of the boxes and spread them out on the table and so you can kind of see there is a little bit of a mess going on but it is an organized mess uh and then i started trying to figure out where am i going to put things have a couple of dilemmas one the cabinets sorry i'm taking you guys on a little loop here all of these cabinets they're very shallow and so the containers that i have that look like this those are like the shoe box containers i can't fit them this way so unfortunately i have to put them this way because i don't have a lot more cabinet space like this is pretty much it so i put some of my craft stuff that i did have that because we don't have all the boxes yet and then we were able to get some containers here for some of the office supplies because my previous school i had a drawer system that had all of my supplies in it so that was pretty nice i didn't have to worry about it but that meant that i needed to get some containers for that i have some of these organized at the moment which are like activities games resources like that um and we're gonna cross our fingers and just hope that this all works out so the boys have been really good helpers we are not done for the night so i think what we're gonna plan to do is lock up for right now we're gonna head to um go grab something to eat and then hopefully we can bring another load and try to get more things unpacked the kids are looking at me like you are psychotic cannot believe you're making us do this um but so that is kind of the game plan for right now i am a hot sweaty mess and i'm about to get super hangry because i don't think i've eaten much today yeah it's a big oh so we're gonna go and head that way and then i will um check back in with you guys later so it is the next day and we are at the school i've already done a little bit of work this morning i actually got here earlier than my family um to just unload some of the boxes that we brought over last night today we are going to attempt to try to bring everything else over i have until three o'clock before i have to get into a meeting online with michelle from pocketful of primary and so we're just gonna hustle it we're gonna do some work i've been rearranging my classroom a little bit to get a feel for the furniture how much space i end up having because i just don't know if i'm gonna bring everything in for my old classroom this one is just a little bit smaller and then i also wanted to just get as much things organized as possible that's kind of the whole goal get the things out of the boxes get it organized and figure out what i want to keep and what i don't want to keep so let's help go back in and get back to being sweaty and nasty because that's what i feel like this is this whole time is gonna end up being so the boys are currently here helping to bring in um a lot of the boxes and just kind of furniture items that i still have in the garage have my in-laws slowly but surely we are getting a lot of progress there is where is he where is he where is he there he is um so slowly but surely we are getting a lot of progress i am feeling pretty good about some of my cabinets in the storage i am currently just keeping a spot back here down at the very bottom to house all of the materials that i'm not really sure what i want to do with yet some of this i might be getting rid of some of it i might end up putting in storage i'm not really 100 sure but that's kind of where those items are going everything else while it might seem a little chaotic is getting a little bit more organized so feeling pretty good about it all so i am currently working on putting away some of my library books um into the really pretty shelf that's kind of already built in and i have a little bit of a dilemma i don't know if this is going to one fit all the books that i have because i do have a lot of books which is essential for an ela teacher and then two my picture books are not fitting as nicely as i would like so here you can see i've already started adding in some of my books when i organize my library it's done by genres um these are my picture books you can see some of them are too tall i could move the shelf down one more to see if that would end up helping and it probably would that's just a whole ton of work that i'm not ready for right now i just like to be able to get my books out of the boxes so for now i'm just gonna keep putting all the books that's probably not the best choice many other people would be like nope i would try to figure out the shelves first right now i just want boxes out of my room and then i can organize and structure and make sure everything else really fits i'm feeling good about the other areas my books is like a whole other beast so so far so good with the library it's looking pretty nice i still have a lot more books to go but i'm pretty happy with it so far i may be able to fit my all my picture books i'm not really sure but i might so that is started to look so much better i've also started to clear out um this section over here so originally i had a lot of materials on this side um the things that are here currently i need to find big container storage for there and also up there and the reason why is because nothing really fits in my cabinets so here's one of the cabinets currently this is like activities games um some craft material that's really big these i like like this is the spoons i have yo-yos all sorts of things in there some containers and some like fun hats that i end up saving there so i have those in here and in this closet i started putting my book club books so i have kind of these these are super flimsy but they work um i just didn't want to buy anything right now until i feel really good about it so these are my book club books they're about too deep so you can see that there's some back there so i have book club books here along with my social studies books which i'm pretty sure that i have to use so i'm going to keep that there i also had some social studies kind of these like small readers uh [Music] i don't know how i'm gonna use those um but for right now i place them in here i will end up getting some file folders to be able to organize these just a little bit better but that's going to be housed in that little spot and then in these drawers so i wasn't able to fit the containers long wise to be able to get more in but this works i mean so this is a lot of my craft stuff here i need to get a different bin for this this has like field trip stuff so i have those in there which that could probably go into like that storage that's up there because i don't use those very often so i'm kind of trying to use that top spot for like back stock this is still pretty empty i have some materials in here that i use a lot cups paint plates for when we do book tastings and then this is where my office supplies start so i have some of my off office supplies here and then i have the rest of them on this side and then for my teacher area i've decided to do this spot since this is where i'm going to be at most of the time and i have it organized by ben so i'm trying to right now i know i have some here but currently i'm trying to figure out if this is going to work i really like those but those are flip and expansive so i'm not sure if i'm going to be able to do them but right now i have like social studies like reading uh this is like grammar writing this is just like morning meeting type of text that i can use and then of course i have like the lucy hawkins books that were already in the classroom so that's kind of this space here as far as this space i know it looks chaotic oh my gosh it looks worse on a screen guys um but i did start putting out my trays that i use for organizing some of my binders that i'll use um i have my my book that i wrote just start learning in your kids um that's gonna be there so slowly but surely i'm getting things organized very very slowly another day inside of my classroom and today it's going to be all about trying to get as much organized as possible and off of my countertops i don't have a ton of time to be in my room today because yesterday the boys and i ended up taking just a day trip um to get away to relax kind of and we took the boys to the beach it's about three hours away from us and so they had a lovely time um i have a little bit of a raccoon face from that but because we were out all day yesterday and tomorrow michelle from pocafola primary is going to be flying in i have to clean my house so i need to make sure that i have good linens for her everything's fresh and clean and i know she tells me never to worry about it but i always do so between that yesterday's trip um i only have a few hours today so that i can go home and clean now i did go ahead and i went to target and i purchased some bins that i think would be really good to utilize that blank space above my cabinets so the goal is to try to see if those are going to work if they're going to fit i can purchase a few more of some of the clear ones that i have but let's go ahead head on into the classroom and see how much we can get done today okay so these are the bins that i currently have i ended up getting these little sterilite bins here's kind of the sizing for the measurements um i know it says 14 inches the space that i want to use it for is up here and it's 13 inches so i'm hoping that it's due to the lid portion of it so we're going to see if these end up working i'm going to place them up there and see if that works these two are much bigger and i went with the color for this one and what these are going to do is house materials up there so clear on this side and then the colored one on this side oh i will be very honest i didn't make a ton of progress today my teacher partner came in i was able to meet her chat with her for a little bit she showed me a couple of things in the school and it was just really good to get to know her so the only things that i've done is i have cleared up some of the space that is over here so this is much more clean i even got rid of the boxes that were all down there so you can kind of see where the stools are all set up i did get one of the bins up here filled up the other one does not have anything in it i think i still need to grab a couple of things from the garage at my in-laws house but i wanted to show you guys so i wanted to show you my room so here are the books we did bring in the desk up here for my laptop and then i have my easel and then i also have the desk semi setup so this is currently what i have it looking like and then i also placed this ikea cube shelf here this is going to house some books just because there is not enough space in those shelves over there for all of my books so i'm going to create some bins with the bins they're going to kind of change throughout the year maybe having some that are more thematic um even putting some like teachers favorites you know scary stories sports people like i might add some pieces here so that's going to be what that goes i love the bins up here this looks great they worked out perfect unfortunately one of my bins doesn't have the little latch in the front so i need to go and return that so i have that here to go and return but other than that i mean that still looks scary but it's definitely getting better so that is where i'm at right now is just getting things moved in getting things organized is first priority as much as i want to start decorating and putting up everything else i need stuff cleared off so i'm not going to come back um right now this week this is kind of it for me and i'm not going to come back until next week so next week hopefully i will be able to finally get my things like completely organized and start getting some of my bulletin boards going which i'm very excited about so i hope that you guys enjoyed this video please be sure to give it a thumbs up like subscribe and also make sure to hit that notification bell so you can get notified the next time i upload a new video thank you guys so much for watching and joining me on this new classroom setup journey i'll see you all next time bye

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Length: 16min 5sec (965 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 31 2022