Classroom Transformation + End of Year ORGANIZATION!

hey guys welcome back to my channel if you are brand new here my name is shelly i am a second grade teacher in northern california and as you can tell by the title of this video my classroom has definitely taken some turns and i thought it would be fun today to pick up the camera because i have a lot of work to get done it is officially may the school year is coming to an end i am in purge organize clean mode especially for next year because i will be gone the entire first half of the next year on maternity leave so i want to be as ready organized prepped as possible moving into the next year so that being said i wanted to pick you guys up as i worked today so as you can see i have my little workstation set up i have all of these bins which we will use to organize i have my cricut station set up i want to create a couple of things and i want to show you how i have thus far transformed my room if you have been here so if you have been here for this year you know that we are back i have all of my kids in the classroom four days a week only half of the day and with that posed the problem of fitting 22 desks in here and so what i had to do was completely shift my classroom originally when we came back in separate cohorts everyone was facing this wall and that didn't work so what i had to do was basically transform my whole classroom i had to flip everything that was over here and move it to this wall which i mostly did i want to wrap that up today and then i set up my desks let me do a quick pan around to show you exactly what i did alrighty so as you can see all of my desks are now facing this way so all the kids can see the tv i moved all of my ikea bins up front here and now i have this little space to use um for like a direct teaching area i did keep a couple of ikea bins over here and then i moved my small group table even though we can't do small group back here so this is my kind of workstation with that transformation came these walls everything that was over here is now over here so i've moved my calendar my voice levels all of this fun stuff up front the last thing i have to move are all of my voice levels but as you can see these are not the easiest thing to move because these are made out of vinyl so i'm actually going to re-cut these with my cricut which i will show you a little bit later so then all of that will be moved to the front and then i moved all of my anchor charts over here as well as our writing process and spelling words which is blank so the first thing i want to do are recreate my voice level stickers with my cricut show you guys that whole process and then i really want to start organizing and filing just so i can feel a little bit better going into next year for my long term sub but hopefully you guys will enjoy that process as well you can see how i'm going to organize for next year you're needing any organization help maybe what i'm going to be doing is something that you might want to try so if any of that sounds exciting to you go ahead and keep on watching [Music] all right first thing i need to do is remove these old voice levels i have had a zillion of you ask me how i made these and where they came from so this template is actually from miss fifth they're supposed to be posters and i use them as a template to cut them out on my cricut which i will show you in just a little bit um so these are made out of vinyl and then these are just magnetic lights that i can easily move so what i'm gonna have to do first is take all this vinyl off and then recreate these [Music] all right so all of the vinyl is removed here and then i moved my lights over here so now i just need to create and cut the new stickers to place up here all right so before i show you exactly how i use my cricut to cut you guys know if you've been here for a long time i have been a huge advocate for cricket since day one my machine was like the first thing i purchased for myself my first year teaching i think it was like my gift to myself so many of you always dm me and you're like is it worth it is the cricket worth it and my answer to you is yes i have used my cricut all year every year that i've taught it is 100 worth the investment because it is the biggest time saver you will ever use in the classroom as you know as teachers we do a lot of cutting we do a lot of laminating and the cricut does all the cutting for you let me just show you some things in my classroom that i have used my cricut for and has literally saved me hours worth of work all right let's head over here all of my big letters for any signs that i create i use my cricut to cut out i no longer have to print laminate and then cut them i literally just put the paper in and it cuts those letters all of my bulletin board headings i cut out with my cricut which is nice because if you use intricate fonts like this like you don't have to try and get in all the spaces it's amazing so i use it for these i used it to make all of my really big letters from bulletin boards so writing i used it to cut out in math i use it for my reading one i also used it for my wow work up here any intricate cutting i use my cricut for so you can imagine that i was really excited when they reached out to work with me because as you know i only talk about brands that i actually can get behind and i have been a supporter of cricut since day one so i was very excited when they offered to sponsor this video and now i get to show you exactly how i use my cricut to make things like these vinyl letters i also use my cricut for other vinyl things that i've actually taken down because i didn't end up needing this year but if you go back to any of my older classroom setup vlogs you will see the cricut make several appearances all right enough blabbing this is my workspace for today this is where i house all of my cricut stuff as you can see i'm a hoarder so today i'm using the cricut maker to make my new vinyl letters it's beautiful the first thing you need to do is choose a color vinyl i had my old ones in black i talked about potentially like redesigning my classroom next year but my school is going through a full modernization in the next three years so i'm like i don't want to do a whole new theme so i think i'm going to stick to the blue and green theme maybe i kind of want to add some extra bright colors hold on let me choose my colors and i'll be back all right i think this is what i'm going to go with these are all vinyls that i just have obviously because my colors are blue and green so i'm gonna do my zero one two three all in a different color i personally love working with vinyl because as you saw it's super easy to just pull off surfaces but the cricut maker can literally cut over 300 different fabrics i personally the most often use vinyl and card stock because card stock is what i make all of my signs out of but it can literally cut the thinnest things like crepe paper or like chantilly lace to like super super super dense fabrics flannels leather all kinds of different materials which is insane so even if you're not a teacher and you're just like super crafty definitely worth it such a time saver all right now that i've picked out my vinyl the second step is to go to the qriket design space which is the software that we use to create the actual cuts and then we plug it in and we watch her work so the first thing i need to do is pull up these pdfs so these voice levels i downloaded from teachers pay teachers i will link them down below i already have them in my uploads so again these are just pdfs and you upload them straight to the design space and then you can just click on it and it will insert right into the workspace which is what i'm gonna do right now and it's so easy once you get in here this software is super user friendly you're just going to resize it to whatever you want up in the top right corner you're going to click make it and then once you have it placed wherever you feel the best you're going to click through and then this is where you're going to select the material it only shows a few when you click browse on all materials it shows all 300 it's insane so i'm using vinyl i'm going to click on vinyl after that all i need to do is load everything into my cricut and click cut [Music] okay i moved over to the floor i'm totally a floor worker okay so now that they're cut you can't really see but the vinyl it obviously doesn't cut all the way through because watch what happens when i peel and there you go so i'm just going to turn or turn you around and stick this up on the board [Music] all right my friends so there you go a project that probably would have taken me two hours without my cricket is done in about 15 minutes and i'm obsessed so if you guys have ever been on the fence about whether or not you should get a cricut let this be your sign because this machine has literally saved my life in the classroom not only can it cut but it can draw it can engrave and do it it can do a ton of really helpful things it is super easy to set up extremely user-friendly and it saves you so much time i can't remember about them enough like i said you know that i've loved them for years so i will have all of the qriket information listed for you down below if you are interested go check it out but for now i'm going to pack her up because i have some other things that i want to get done to get this classroom organized and ready to go for the end of this year and next year okay so the next big thing on my to-do list is to get organized and file now if you've been here for a while i feel like i'm a broken record but this year i recently got rid of my filing cabinet and i got um where is it that little scanner over there so i can digitally file everything on my computer i'll link that video down below if you're interested but i have found that there are still some paper copies of things that i just want to have um just for like a quick grab easy access so i have about 12 bins over here and this is where i'm going to store some of those things so i spend some time kind of choosing categories a lot of them are going to be like samples of art projects that i've done or samples of writing that i've done other projects assessments centers things like that where i don't have to like cut and prep it every single time so i have a basket over here of things that i need to be filed so i am going to put them in their bins and then i'm going to create labels i don't really want to show you how i make the labels because i've made several videos about that i will link those down below but then i will laminate cut those out but then i will stick those labels in and then i'll call it quits for the day i have an iep in like an hour and a half and i'm starving and the baby is like kicking my ribs like feeding me mom so i am going to put you guys down and i'm going to get to work [Music] all right so these are the labels i created i make everything on powerpoint because i know you're gonna ask the font the capital font is kg blank space solid in all caps and then the more script font is um from miss fifth and this one is bb choose kindness so i am going to print these out cut them stick them on these bins and start filing so it's the next day turns out my iep was earlier than i thought so i had to run but um i am back in the classroom it's the next day i was able to print out i don't know what i just did with them there we are i was able to print out all of my labels so this morning before the kids show up i'm just going to get those cut taped and file so enjoy the show [Music] alrighty these are done i love the way that they look this is all stuff from sixth grade that i just never went through um so i will do that another time but this is perfect for me and my brain again i have digitized most things but there are some things that i'm just going to need to grab or that i won't want to prep a hundred times over so this system i think is going to work out really well for me there are definitely some of these bins that are actually completely empty because given that this year was 90 online i didn't actually get to prep or like do a lot of these things centers games things like that but i know that i will in the future so i'm hoping my future self will be happy that i did this all right friends that's all i really have for you for this vlog i think as i kind of wrap up the year and start organizing my room i will definitely take you along for the ride it is going to be a process i did get word that i am teaching second grade and i don't have to change classrooms that being said there's still things that i want to change and get ready for my sub also i'm thinking about doing an entire prepping for maternity leave series so give me a thumbs up let me know down below if that's something that you're interested in it's much different than my last experience because sixth grade was departmentalized we're second grade i'm teaching literally everything so definitely a different experience and i'm not starting the year with them so let me know if you want to see that so i'm going to go ahead and end this vlog here i love you guys so much and i will see you in the next video bye

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Published: Wed May 19 2021