MY CLASSROOM TOUR | FOURTH GRADE

hey guys welcome back to my channel I apologize for this angle I have my camera on like a little mini tripod and it's just kind of sitting on the dash of my car so I try to get it as level as I could oh hi there's my neighbor watching me fill myself in my car so a lot of you have asked for a classroom tour on Instagram for me to upload on my channel and I have never done this before this will be my fourth year teaching and I love watching classroom tours I think that you can get a lot of fun ideas and it's always fun for me as a teacher to kind of see the way that other teachers set up their classroom and all that fun stuff so with the school year starting very soon I thought that I would go up and share with you guys my classroom I've been in the same classroom since I started teaching so that's been really nice not having to like move rooms or change anything up too drastically so I will go ahead and share that with you guys Bryce's home with Channing so I'm able to go out and do this for a little bit so I hope you guys enjoy and get some fun ideas okay so starting here this is like right when you come into my room and this is I used to use this for mail boxes but I don't know anymore this just has their math binder for the year that I've just put in there and then every student is assigned a number and this is actually where they sign in for the day so I'll have like a class list here that's labeled Monday through Friday and so as soon as they come around that corner they stand here find their name just mark an X on Monday whatever day it is and then that way it lets me know that they're here so then they walk into their classroom and hang up their backpack so I'm able to quickly glance at this and see who hasn't signed in I'll double-check that they are in the classroom tell them they forgot to sign in and then this is just a really quick way for me to see who is upset and who is here for the day and then I love this little quote board that I've put up with this arrow I just needed something kind of cute to put out in this hallway so this is just right outside of my door so then this is right when you walk into my classroom and this is just kind of an overview of everything so I'll just kind of start here and work my way around nothing special here of just the sink area cabinets everything like that I do have a Keurig in here and then a mini-fridge that's where I like to keep my lunch box for the day and coffee creamer all that stuff just anything that needs to say cold if I bring a snack whatever it's been really nice having a mini fridge I don't always keep my phone and purse here that's just where I put it while I made this video this area right here when you come in it's just kind of like my personal board so I just have like personal pictures on this bulletin board and some fun quotes this is my personal desk it actually was like my great grandma's I believe so it's very old but I don't sit here this isn't like a teacher desk to me I really don't even know why I have a chair there I chair there because I never sit there I say here which I'll show you guys in a minute so this is new that I got for this year and there are so many uses for these things but what I'm going to be using it for is for like days of the week to put like copies in so like all the plans and copies for Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday and then I just have some extra drawers at the bottom that I haven't really figured out what to do it there just kind of storage right now so that's really nice and convenient right next to that desk and then on my desk just basic pens markers picture quote and then lots of file folders I don't have anything in them yet not sure what I'm going to use them for but they're there for whatever I need this little cart I love this is from Ikea and I have tape and hole puncher down there stapler this is the remote to the projector and then just a bunch of random Scissors little notepads post-its just kind of a hodgepodge of different things in here but things that you know you grab for a lot so that is also just next to that whole area so this area right here I had a lot of people ask me where I got this podium and this is from Ikea and this is normally like if I were to sit this is normally where I sit so I use this for my laptop in the morning if kids are gathering here sometimes I'll sit here and talk with them it just kind of depends sometimes if I need to like get to the board or something and I need to just have my computer here I'll move this chair completely out of the way so it's just by itself and that's not in the way so this chair moves back and forth a lot these lights are new this year I love them I feel like I've seen a couple of classrooms like this lately and I have been wanting to do this these lights I got from Michaels and I got two sets so they just connect right up there in the middle if you know me you know that this sign is extremely true this is my math board and I just have kind of what we're going to be teaching them in math at the beginning of the year these will change out based on what we're learning this rocking chair was actually my brothers when he was a baby it was in his nursery and my mom gave it to me my very first year teaching so this is where I do my read Aloud's and then they will sit here on the carpet in front of me this is a random desk here right now there's some copy 32 put away but this desk is used if a kid needs to go to like I think spot or buddy room or whatever this is just kind of an area where they can collect themselves and kind of process something that they did wrong so that is there just in case and then no I on the opposite side of the store I will show you guys kind of an overview from this side so this is the VIP area and this will see just two students but I have a third chair and I have two key rings of notecards one of them has boy names one of them has girl names and then it just kind of goes along with our special schedule so every four days it switches so for four days a boy and a girl get to sit wherever they want at this table all day even when I've asked them to come to the carpet they get to sit here they just get little special privileges they're kind of you know helpers of the teacher and they also get a pack of gum so they really enjoy that I love this little area right here this is new this year I got these chairs from Ikea the table from Ikea and the rug from Walmart and so it's just kind of a extra area in the room for when they want to do read itself or give them the option to sit around the room this is just kind of an extra spot for them to sit and then this board right above it I just have my whole pack of anger tarts right here to use throughout the year this will eventually come off because I'll put some anger charts just stuck up on that bulletin board to fill it and then take it down and put up whatever is relevant at the time this is our PBL board for project-based learning I put up like the standards and the name of what our project is gonna be called so that is there for them for a reference these are birthdays over here and then this is a desk from Ikea now this is typically the desk I'll sit out if I'm going to sit at a desk this is where I grade their papers we like to create a lot of their papers especially math test and stuff like that right in front of them so I will sit back there and then as they finish their test they will just make a line right here and I grade it right in front of them for instant feedback and then they go back and put it in their data binders so that is usually the only purpose for this table but sometimes I do have kids that ask to sit here during silent reading time so it is a popular spot to sit that's for sure over here I just have some more lamps my son see picture of Channing and then just little pieces of decor here there's protractors and rulers down there and then this is like a little conflict Lord where a student can kind of show off a student if they did something kind of above and beyond they take this and what's right race marker they write the name at the top so blink you rock because and they write their reason and then it's just kind of on display for everybody else to see we do incorporate the seven Habits in our school so all the seven habits are listed there this is the library bucket for library days for them to return their books in and then this board right here just kind of our schedule little decor pieces and then classroom jobs I usually just kind of rotate these through so I'll just start beginning of my list all the way down and then it'll just rotate every week this is our ela board and we focus a lot on evidence-based terms on fourth grades so I keep this up pretty much all year long and then I do have another whiteboard on the backside of my classroom so over here I have this little sign that says family and what my students do is they bring a four by six picture of them and their family at the very beginning of the year and I put them all on display here and it's up all year long just to show that we're all family and they love that I have already gotten it started with a picture of my little family right here is just kind of our calendar for the month I don't really have anything on it yet except for first day of school which is on the 15th and then down here we focus a lot on Mark Twain's it's a big goal for students to read a lot of Mark Twain's and so we try to track them as a whole class so as they've read them as we read them for maybe a reload or something I'll keep a tally in this box and we try to have a goal in mind and so this is just a visual for them to see kind of where we're at right here I'm just going to list like some objectives so I have math meaning writing science and social studies we actually tie in with reading for the most part so I'm just going to kind of put what we're doing in those subjects and then reminders right here any reminders that they need to jot down on their data by north end of the day to make sure that they remember and I just did that with washi tape I know they are not the straightest lines don't kill me and then right here I don't have a huge selection of books for a library these really aren't even organized and to specific sections I've come to find out that fourth graders don't really care about the books that I have in my classroom because they have the library which is just down the hall like super close to us and we visit that at least once a week so this is just kind of a selection for them if they need a book immediately or something like that so I guess just a very tiny classroom library with the classroom rules and then just little decor pieces right there and these are all of the mark twain's for 2018-2019 my coworker made this chair for all of our team and I think it's so cute she just paint and so whenever it's someone's birthday they get to sit in that chair for the day and I think it's so adorable so right here is just kind of a mix of random supplies of mine that I have right now that I really don't know where to put anywhere else so that's there right now I have some headphones they come with earbuds but I have just a couple on hand because never feels they lose their ear buds or they just I don't know so these are there if they need them and then this is their cubby space and then where they hang their backpacks so you will notice that I don't have desks in my room they're all tables so where they keep all of their stuff is in their cubby so I have it marked them yet but I'll put their name inside the front of their mailbox and that's where they keep their folders and things like that and then I also have black crates for them to put like markers crayons whatever they want in there so they can kind of sort that however they want to and they know to kind of grab what they need for the day before they sit down but during transition time they are able to come over here and grab what they need and then go sit back down we are one to one with Chromebooks here for third through fifth graders so each one of them it gets a Chromebook to keep for this full year and take home and use in the classroom so that is awesome and then up here I just have some little posters on theme because we focus a lot on that and just some other weaning skills over here and then just a little colorful banner at the top so over here is just my tall closet that I use the most and then I just have a behavior system here and then just another set of posters on types of sentences and then back to the front of the room I have passes on hearings here so if they want to visit the nurse or see the counselor or something like that they can just go up there open the keyring take a slip off put it back and fill it out and give it to me so that is just handy for them right there and then the last thing I forgot to share with you guys is just this shelf right here in kind of the middle of the room and this just kind of keeps pencils I have sensi things down here I bought these like little laptop or lap desks that they can use around the room I only have three of them right now this basket right here I use to put any extra papers so if they lose something they come dig through that pile if they were absent stuff like that I have kind of a classroom set of some glue stick scissors markers crayons they all come with our own so this won't be needed too often and then up here I just have clipboards on hand these cute little signs that I got from Target dollar spot this is also from target dollar spot I just have some like sharpies and mr. sketch markers and stuff in that and then this is the turnin tray so where they turn their homework every Monday or anything else that I need for them to turn in for me to grade and that is pretty much it you guys if you have any questions about my room that you would like to know that I maybe didn't go over just leave them in the comments down below and I will make sure to try to answer them thank you guys so much for watching this video please give it a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe if you are not already and I will see you at my next video bye guys [Music] [Laughter]

Channel: Tiffany Nicole

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Keywords: classroom, tour, classroom tour, school, school year, teacher, teacher classroom, elementary, fourth grade, fourth, fourth grade teacher, 2018-2019 classroom tour, classroom decor, class decoration, 4thgrade, year, ideas, k-5

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Length: 17min 50sec (1070 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 05 2018