FIFTH GRADE CLASSROOM SET UP | BACK TO SCHOOL

hello welcome to my classroom today is August 21st and we finally got the go-ahead that we've come into our classrooms and start setting I haven't been here since of the last day of school so a little nervous right now they use our school for like summer camp and summer school programs and all things of that nature so I literally have not been here since like June 25th when we got out the last school year so it's gonna it's gonna be a lot of work I thought that I would take you guys along for the ride and show you the before aspect and the after aspect do like a little transition and hopefully it looks really really nice right now it is an absolute hot mess also we have a brand new principal I only met her maybe five minutes on like the very last two days of school I don't want her to know that I have a huge tube channel so this is a very very risky every single principal that I've ever had knew that I had YouTube channel they were completely fine with it but I just like to keep my professional life separate from my youtube life like my teacher life separate from my YouTube life so I'm gonna attempt to film as much as I possibly can today without having my principal know but I know that she's in the building right now and I know that she's doing like rounds coming around really meeting the teacher so it's gonna be pretty interesting let's just get on into it I'm gonna show you what the classroom looks like right now it's not terrible we have very old classrooms and very odd shaped classrooms so we're gonna make the best of it and we're going to do whatever we possibly can to make this space a happy space for the students to learn have fun grow and just live their best live so let's go okay so without showing too much personal information this is what my classroom looks like beforehand it's pretty bare right now it's like a triangle shaped classroom very very odd not a lot of space and we have typically 26 kids every single year so it's always kind of like a struggle to try to get all the students in a space that's nice and roomy for them sometimes we have like three students per table sometimes we have like six students per table so my first goal is to get all of these tables in a spot make sure it's nice and roomy and then I'm going to start like decorating setting up copies on their tables this is all the stuff that I have right now so here are all their cubbies over here are just bags and bags and bags full of things that I got for the year over here is a mailbox for the students fall they're working and for us to pull their work in we want them to take home over here we have a chalkboard that is from literally within 1950s over here we have a nice new smart board and then right over there we have a whiteboard so let's get on into it you all right not too bad that only took about a half hour I got all the tables to where I want them to be I put all the chairs at each of the tables put all of the actual cubbies of the students books and notebooks and etc go into then I have to put their little student station cubbies on top of all of their desks I have one of these student station copies for each one of the tables then I have to take that rug put it right over here right in the center that's like a little flexible seating s cork station for the students and then I bought each of the kids a notebook so I'm going to put it right in front of their desks you I also got each of the students one of these my name is tags to help us get to know the students to help the students get to know each other I put these on their desk for the first week I mention this in my teacher hall video I will link that in the description below where I show you all the supplies that I bought for my new academic school year I keep these on their desk for just about a week and then I tell them to take them off to bring them home or choose them as bookmarks because if you are a teacher you will totally understand this within the second week of school these are all doodled all over and they're ripped and they're cut and they're put into all these different little pieces and it just drives by OCD wild so hopefully by the second week of school I already know all the students names typically by the second day of school I already know all the students names so I just keep these up there for a week and then they can use these as bookmarks they can use these in their cubbies they can use these for whatever they want they just can't keep them on their desk to do the lawn let's talk about this super super clean carpet do you think the summer staff forgot to clean it look at this oh it's so disgusting and I have to leave a note to have somebody wash it and clean it because it's just not fair to the students they have to sit down on this dirty dirty carpet like look at that there's stains in it paper all over it dirt everywhere they wax the floors and the floors look amazing but this carpet not on point are you guys ready for it are you ready for my desk that is probably older than I am I am 30 years old and this desk it's probably like 50 years old I really really want to go to Ikea and buy a nice white clean modern teacher desk but I just cannot fathom spending another penny on this academic school year I probably spent over $500 thus far so I just I literally cannot even fathom spending another penny on this classroom so we're gonna be resourceful and we are going to repurpose this old Escalade look at it it might not look as bad on the camera let me tell you it's not good it's not so I bought some contact paper and I'm hoping to turn this desk from like drab to semi fab let's see if I can make it from like a 2 to a solid 8.5 I lost the scissors I've only been doing this for about five minutes and I already lost the scissors how is that even possible and I'm just going to show you guys right here I already messed up I already messed up I'm not meant to be a home decorator or an interior designer I'm not going to quit my day job being a teacher because clearly I had one job one job and I can't even execute that correctly so I'm gonna get execution like a - I'm gonna give looks like honestly from here it looks really good up close there's bubbles everywhere but from afar she looks good she looks good so we're just gonna if we're gonna keep on moving on and I'll show you guys what it looks like when I'm all done like honestly people are gonna walk into this classroom and be like oh my gosh they're over paying this teacher because she can afford a marble desk in her classroom she looks good she looks real good I love it I think it came out amazing if you look like really really close you can see like all bumps and you could see that it's kind of wrinkly but from afar it really does look good I got that contact paper off of Amazon I think it was six or seven dollars a roll and it took me just about four rolls I have a little bit left over but all-in-all I love her so I'm gonna start decorating the top of this now I'm gonna put like all of my pens and my pencils my frames and all of my colorful things to make the classroom look a little brighter and a little more vibrant and just a little bit more engaging so much it was way better I anticipated I bought two packages from the target dollar spot area and they were $3 package and they covered perfectly around the desk oh my god seriously add so much color exactly what I wanted it's so freakin cute I think that the students gonna love it but more important I love it like I love it so so much I love so here is a better look of what the teacher desk looks like I'm obsessed right now I have a picture of Adam and I that's literally four years old I think this was from our very first trip to Disney where a Magic Kingdom I'm gonna probably swap this out with a wedding picture really soon but I just love this picture we look like little baby bees then I have my rainbow pencil holder I have a bunch of paper clips and some pom-pom paper clips that I made in my DIY back to school supply video I will link that in the description below I also have a little white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland it's a pen but I don't really use it I use it more for decoration and to show the students might love for Disney they will find out how much I love Disney within the first two days of school then I have a little porcelain pencil Don my friend Kayla got me I have a little block wooden calendar a little paper area where the students put all of their finished work I have another little wooden box I have all of my coloring supplies in here right now I just have some colored pencils but I'll end up putting like markers in here and crayons and just all of like the teacher coloring supplies I'm sorry I don't know why then I had a calculator a pair of scissors all of my pens these are the best pens in the whole world I've expressed that a million times on my channel before they are the paper made ink joy pens of the best my teacher a planner notebook I mentioned is also like my OCD I hate planners so I like to just start off with a blank canvas and make my own so I'll do all my grades in here I'll do all the student information in here etc then I have a stapler I have my hand sanitizer or as the students like to call it the Hana Tizer and I also have the Lysol wipes I want to buy a brand new stapler pair of scissors and a bunch of things that are just like a little bit more colorful but yeah this is what the desk looks like we love it's been about three hours and I feel like I've gotten a lot accomplished I really like the way that the classroom looks so far all the desks look perfect all the tables look really nice next up I'm gonna work on the bulletin boards with my co partner so we already have all of the not contact paper but it's just like the paper on the bulletin boards and now I'm gonna put the borders up and then start to put up like all the information that's gonna go on all the bulletins here it's pretty open I'm just throwing a question out there you guys want to answer in the comments below if you know a place where I can get really cheap like colorful beanbags or lounge chairs that are like super discounted because I'm already going back on what I just said where I didn't want to spend not even another penny this year but I think it would be really nice to have some flexible seating right over here we could put some lounge chairs or some beanbags the kids can just do their work on a clipboard or they can do some reading they can do some testing so if you guys know of any places whether online or in an actual store that they have like colorful beanbags lounge chairs anything of that nature please let me know in the comments below because I would love to order them or just have them sent to my school see if my school has any funding that I can like get them or persuade them to buy it for me very unlikely but this whole entire area would be really really nice to like a flexible seating area oh you'd like to put like another little carpet over here as well while you're at it please do me a favor and comment down below say Allison do not buy any more contact paper look at this back area I hate the yellow I hate how dusty it is I hate how corroded it looks look at this area right here you're kidding me so gross I really really really just want to buy a bunch of contact paper and redo and repurpose and remodel this whole back area and put like the white marble contact paper on top of here - it would look so nice but it's gonna end up costing me like another hundred dollars so just you know just encourage me down below by saying Allison don't do it it's not worth it Thanks we got the mailbox up it looks really really good I like it a lot clearly I caved and decided to put the marbled contact paper all over this dingy little ledge ran out so now we have to order some more but my co partner said that he would order it this time and buy the rest so I have to finish doing the marbled contact people over there and then I have to finish this little area over here which I messed up and then we'll just do it all the way down the rest of the sludge from here oh my god I love my desk so much we did the bulletin boards so we have the border on this one we have the United States Maps like a little kind of like mediocre one up top and then a more intense in-depth one on the bottom we have our reading board with all of our spelling words and all of our vocabulary words for the week our student station where we ask the students questions they all have a number and then inside of their little cubbies they're a bunch of post-its they put their answer on the post-it and they put their answer right at the top here it could be like an academic question just like how are you feeling question a question about a certain subject etc over here we have our little calendar we're gonna put like important information on all the dates and then on the bottom we're gonna do our student of the week / student on the month next up like so tired so out of breath and just want to go home at this point next up we're gonna start putting all the felt on the bottom of the chairs each one of the tables will have a specific color so this might be like the blue table which means all of the chairs will have some blue felt on the bottom that way no student can say like oh that's my chair that's my chair we'll know that all of the blue chairs go to that table although maybe like pink chairs go over here green chairs over there etc etc and then I think I might be taking off for the day I think we got a lot done I'm like super impressed with how it looks right now we have a couple more things to do but they're pretty like minor things overall it's looking it looks really really good so all of the chairs are completely felted I love how each table has a different color I think it just makes the room look so vibrant and it gets like popping colors which just makes for like a really really nice learning environment we're pretty much done for the day they've been here maybe five hours which is not too bad for my first day I finished up this bulletin board this bulletin board put up maps I still have to work on this bulletin board which will be our math board back here will be our writing board and over here will be our science board or vice versa guys I seriously cannot get over this table or in hell I'm so freakin in love with it it's such a nice transformation this is exactly what I wanted and that's what the classroom looks like completely done I'm really happy with it for such a small classroom I feel like we made it nice and roomy we made it nice and open we made it nice and colorful to me and they said bright nice and vibrant and I just think it's gonna be like a really really nice space for the students to learn and have fun and make memories and make connections and just overall grow I know that sounds so corny but if you're a teacher you completely understand still disappointed about this carpet we need to get this carpet fixed ASAP and then we still have like tiny little things I have to set up the whiteboard I have to get everything set up for my smart board we need to bring in our computer cart that goes right over there I have to clean up that mess like that's a hot mess right over there and I also really want to make this into like a flexible seating area so I'm hoping like some beanbag chairs some lounge chairs some like no things to maybe lay down not 100% sure yet but I know that this little area over here I still need to work on this right here is our bathroom right there's our back room no no let me know you guys think I'm really really proud of it I think it looks really really nice day one done about maybe two or three more to go and again that's a wrap guys I feel so confident about today I am feeling this transition more than I have ever felt any transition in the past for all the years that I've been teaching this is probably the best that my classroom has ever looked it's just so bright it's so colorful I know that I sound like a broken record but that's like a big thing when you're a teacher especially if you're an elementary school teacher you want your classroom to be as bright and it's colorful and the lifting that you possibly can I think it looks so it looks so good like I'm really happy really knowing they're done but for day one like I'm done today I'll probably have to come in like two or three more times well from what I accomplished today like it's it's good it's looking good she's looking she's looking real nice if you guys like this video please make sure to give it a big thumbs up thank you guys so so much for watching let me know if you'd like to see more teacher related videos here on my channel I don't do a lot of teacher related videos here on my channel but it's definitely something I want to branch out a little bit more and kind of incorporate into my channel even like once a month do a teacher related video whether it's like a tips or tricks video or plan with me video or just like anything in that realm so just let me know if that's something you guys are interested and I love you guys to the moon and back if you are a teacher or a student watching this I would like to issue the very best of luck in your a brand new academic school year I hope it is the best year ever I love you guys so so much and I'll talk to you soon bye guys

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Length: 24min 42sec (1482 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 21 2018