Third Grade Classroom Setup Day 7 | Library & Centers | 2018-2019

this is real teacher tired right here [Music] good morning guys welcome to day seven out classroom setup it will fish officially have been a week of days that I've been in my classroom however today is going to be a little bit different but before I get into that hi my name is Breanna I am a third year third grade teacher in North Carolina and I'm setting up a new classroom because I used to teach fourth grade and I'm moving down to third so welcome so it's 7:30 this is the earliest I've been on my way to school but my team is actually meeting today to plan so I think either until 11:00 or 12:00 I won't be able to film because I'll be working and I don't know how the rest of the day is gonna go after that depends how many people are around so more towards the end today will be good though let's just get the show on the road because I want to go get a McDonald's coffee because I did not like my sheets let's go hey guys so I haven't blogged today at all and I'm honestly about to leave soon I didn't really do that much I but I'll show you right now what I did and I'll probably just add this clip to my vlog for tomorrow okay so first of all I just thought about this I was looking and I saw these little caddies I have I have to figure out where I got them I think they're from Big Lots I like how they have lids so kids can't just come over here and stick their hand in it and take something away they have to actually take the time to go through through it and I like how I can fit two on top of each other because then I can store a lot more out here than I would be able to if I just did those four bins so I think I'm going to move my materials over to those and I'm going to check back in my video and see exactly where I got those my videos from last year see if I can get about three more because unfortunately five would not fit across so once they're in here I would spread them out a little bit but that is my goal I think that is so much more aesthetically pleasing not like that's important but it also leaves me a lot more room to store a lot more stuff so that's one thing I did get my yearly supply from the office so we're allowed to get two of each color Expo I just went ahead and got them because Expo markers are on my kids supply list but I always tend to run low so they're just good to have I got staples I've got some tape rolls I got some jumbo paper clips a whiteout and new sticky clips so I'm going to go ahead and put sticky clips up on my twister board a lot of people said or actually one person said I should do the mini paper clips I mean the mini clothes pins but I don't want to buy anything else I'm just gonna do sticky clips before I do that you see this wall I've been contemplating a lot about this obviously they're just thumbtacked up there right now and I'm totally going to staple them into the wall so they're not going crazy but these are my kids book bingo boards and I printed them on a strobe rights paper at first if you follow me on Instagram I had them on this wall here and I will insert a picture as to what that looks like I kind of feel like this looks a tad more chaotic what I'm going to do tonight take the bingo board and see if I can print to to a page and make it smaller this is just taking up so much unnecessary space for what this is like book bingo is a motivation overboard system and I don't want it to take over my whole classroom so that's where I'm at with that let's see what else have I done I move all these over here so I could see that space I have labeled in organized seven more book bins this is not how it's going to look on my shelf but I did need the pink basket for the Magic Treehouse because I have a lot of them I got those together but I still feel like there's so much going on in this area I mean I've reduced it a lot it just still feels like a lot these four stacks are all baby-sitters club and some people were asking me or we're telling me not to get rid of the baby-sitters club because they're so hard to find I won't necessarily like get rid of them because I used to love those books I know how great they are but I think the little sister ones are much more appropriate for third graders and then if my kids really show interest in it maybe I'll bring out the other ones it's just Colette err and they're really old copies that look old and like I've said in the past I don't want my library to look ugly like I want it to be appealing to the kids so they want to read so that's my plan with those I actually might do that right now because that'll take such a big chunk away and it'll make my organizational heart happy I moved this pink bucket over here so I moved my little fair sign up I got this idea from Maylene miss Cole's campers she has a freebie in her store but hers is like her classroom theme so I just made mine with the game clipart so there's a extension or a power strip in here that's not supposed to be there my kids mailbox type things so when I was talking about purging books let me show you the ones that got rid of so I either had these I had multiple copies of and these were the ones that didn't look as nice this one is just not a pretty book and then the Magic Treehouse ones I had multiple copies as well and in the past I would have just kept them because then two kids can read it at the same time but you see how many Magic Tree House books I have like that's a lot I also got my calendar pieces laminated I am waiting to cut these out put my calendar up over here when it's here the air vent is right there so it blows it down now I may have a solution to that coming in the mail like I mentioned in my last video I'm maybe working a little bit with Velcro so like the actual company that will be pretty interesting to see different products they have and I'm excited to show you guys that so that's why I haven't cut these out yet because I want to put the velcro on them while they're all here before I cut them out and cut them loose so I'm gonna wait on my velcro shipment oh I brought a magic eraser so I think what I'm going to do is my lab desks that are pretty dirty the bottom ones I'm going to see if they can come clean and I'm also going to see if my drawers can come clean and I think that's pretty much it so I was sitting here thinking why would a pack come with five bins it didn't it came with six or I bought six so that was just in my cabinet holding many erasers so I just grabbed one of my other empty containers and toss them all in there so now I really don't have to buy more of those because I can put something else right there so I placed these black small crates on the bottom here because they stack nicely too and I have a little blue one so I'm thinking if I get another little one I can put that there because these fit nicely and there are just little easels from the target dollar spot at a random point in time I bought them for open house or stations or something I went ahead and put all of my little sister books labeled and stamped ready to go and all of the rest of the baby-sitters club I just am storing in this tub for safekeeping yes I know it's very dusty so that makes this look a lot more manageable so that's all I'm going to do for today this morning from eight to twelve I did meet with the entire third grade team and we curriculum mapped for for for first quarter so what that means is we paced out week by week the standards that we're going to cover so first quarter goes from August to the end of October and that's all ready to go for all subjects we also decided how we're going to plan so what I love about this grade level is how they plan yes I get to teach all subjects but they break it up so that we're not planning everything we break it up into teams so I'm going to be on the math science and social studies team and then the other team is reading and writing and I decide to do to stick with math and science and social studies because it's what I know it's what I've planned in the past and I'm comfortable with it and I think I have really good ideas that I want to bring to the team and share and we may switch by halfway through the year so then I'll be planning reading so I can get a taste of that but for this year I thought stick with what I know I think that's where I'll be the most help so you know now I'm going to be like looking at that curriculum map and pulling resources and just getting prepared because ok so my room is coming together this is the first day that all the third grade teachers were here so they were coming in and they were really excited to see it because like I've said in like I said in my first video I'm the only eager person in the world not really but I have been here every single day since August first when they allow us to come in because I mean I'm not doing anything else it is my summer I could be relaxing but this is what I love and first of all being in a new room I had to get my things together and I feel like I've done that I feel like I'm much more organized than I have been any other year but that also comes from experience like I've taught in my own classroom for two years now I know the types of things that I need so that has made me a lot less anxious and a lot more understanding of where I need to put everything and what exactly I need to get and just how to organize my room and things like that I'm happy with what I accomplished I did actually get quite a bit done in my library and that's something I think I'm most excited for because I did have my entire library labeled last year but it wasn't all of the books like like I said I didn't open two whole bins of books and that's everything that I have including all my new books a lot of my students brought me their old books last year which is awesome that's why I got that whole Magic Treehouse collection I got a ton of Dork Diaries just fun books now Magic Treehouse is new but fun exciting books that the kids actually want to read have a ton of who was and where what where is where was I definitely have to make a separate bin just dedicated to those especially because they're a hot topic so you want them out and probably an I survived bin as well that's mostly what some of those stacks are it's just books that in the past I labeled as like historical fiction that I want I have enough now to give their own category that's a tip I have you don't have to label your books by every author or by every series if you only have two or three honestly if you have five of books in the series it's very tiny books I don't know I mean I think five and above you can start its own bin but if you don't have that many then I would either combine it like Judy Moody and Judy Blume put it together but if not I would keep it like I did with my who was and where was books in the beginning and I survived I put them all together in historical fiction so that's a tip I have for you guys I have these blue bins from Big Lots I have four of them but one of them broke last year so I think what I'm going to do is have two of them obviously not jutting out right here but possibly jutting out on the side somewhere one is going to be labeled hospital and the other one is going to be labeled return or something like that and this is the bin that the kids are going to put the books in when they are finished reading them and this is just a bin in case a book is breaking and kids think I need to bring some attention to it to fix it I am thinking this may not be enough space for a book return bin but if I have my librarians go through it at the end of the day every day I think they'll be able to keep up with it in the past I've used this clear bucket but it's ugly I can also use one of these crates which is a good idea I just liked how those match so that is it for my vlog today I know it was a little bit weird and very chatty but that's where I'm at in my classroom I hope you guys enjoyed hey guys I'm currently at the McDonald's drive-thru get in my iced coffee it's actually 10:40 - but it's Friday so my boyfriend doesn't work so we slept in a little bit and now he's coming to school with me he's in his car so he could leave and I can stay and get some things done I didn't put up my video from yesterday yet I haven't edited it I may put these two together but we'll see also I got to go today is setup day 7 8 today setup day 8 so we've come a long way since the beginning so let's go [Music] hey guys so it's been a little bit my boyfriend was here for majority of the early afternoon helping me with a lot of things which I will show you most of in a moment I brought in a magic eraser so he wiped down this drawer unit and the one over there and then we made smaller buh-bingo boards and I like them a lot a lot better and I feel like it adds color to the front of the room so I'm going to staple those down there and I'll show you that from the front in a moment and I think I'm gonna put like a title or like a reading quote right here and now I'm just over here working on my library my boyfriend and I sorted all of my like historical fiction biography books because I wasn't really sure how to lay them out this building is very echoey so that's why you hear people down the hallway and that's why I can't talk very loud so I kind of sorted it like I don't know what to do with my I survived books cuz I told you guys don't start a bucket if you don't have at least 5 and I have four right now but maybe I'll get some more so these are all my who was what was where was books so I'm gonna make a bin for them because I have definitely collected a good amount of those these are just like historical fiction stories these are historical fiction as well but they're more picture books these are biographies and those are a bunch of the if you lived in colonial times if you live during the Revolutionary War and a picture book of Thomas Jefferson just different things like that so I wanted to put all those together because I have a lot of them and they're really neat they're a little bit easier to I feel like there there definitely are a lot of words in there but there's also nice pictures and I feel like it's less intimidating than a chapter book especially for kids who are just starting to find their love of reading so that's what all these are I don't know if I want to put my I survived with my who was or just keep them in my historical fiction pile which I'll probably do or I may make someone was asking me and I wish I knew your name I would have said it but if I had an Amazon wish list and I didn't exactly know what that was but they said they usually donate to classrooms and they wanted to donate to my classroom now by no means do any of you have to like totally unnecessary but I did make like a little classroom wish list and I linked it down below so if you want to check that out you can but definitely not something you have to do and all someone was just asking so I made the link available but I think I'm gonna put like some I survived books on there to get my collection going that's mostly what I have on there is books for my library and there's the hair I have another bookshelf that's full and this one is getting there and that's all I've done I need to make labels and stickers for the ones that aren't because those are new categories my lights which fell again so I have to fix that I'm going to need to staple this up but I'm really happy with it it looks funky since it's not stapled in but tell me what you guys think that's my book bingo I'm gonna put like a reading quote there and that way the kids can reach it and put their stickers on it instead of being up there taking up space where I could put anchor charts or something so let me know what you think I have a stack of books that I'm getting rid of because I either have them or they're really old I'm sorry that the past two days haven't been much but I hope you guys enjoyed and I may come tomorrow our school is actually open for a little bit but we'll see good morning Litchfield mags oh my gosh if you guys know what that's from thumbs up this video anyway as you can see there are big bookshelves in my trunk they are the four cube I think they're the calyx yeah calyx kalle X the ones that people use as benches from Ikea they are not mine I didn't go that crazy yet they are my friends from grad school so I am headed to her classroom today and then I'm hoping to stop by mine before I do any of that I'm going to head to Walmart because I'm really into this dangly long tassel earring trend now and in school I wear my hair up a lot so I feel like that's an easy way to look really put together when you add those earrings in and the summer ones which are the bright colored ones are on clearance at Walmart for like one dollar each so we are headed there it's been a weird couple past few days that was not English but listen so we're getting down to the wire here like I still have so much time before school starts I don't start till the last week of August however the week before that we have professional development everyday I'm giving a professional development on Google classroom and yeah Monday and Tuesday actually I have other professional development next week the big stuff is basically done in my classroom yes I'm still working on my library which I really want to finish today that way I can make a list of the labels I need some stuff I need to like hang up and re fasten with other things because my light switches fell again so the sticky velcro it worked for some of them but not for number two no and little bits and pieces of like center organization I have to get together like how I want to organize that but the big stuff is done like if I needed to I could start school tomorrow it would blow my mind but I could do it so yeah I'm basically just having the conversations with my co-workers about like the first week of school and different things we do portfolios for kids we do em class which I've never done before which is basically like fountas and pinnell it's just a reading level running record system that I have to learn all about so lots of stuff so I'm just getting my head wrapped around wrapped around that and that's good like I've had like for our conversations yesterday but I needed that like I need to know this stuff and be mentally prepared I need to go get gas I need to go get earrings let's go hey guys so in the car again it's four o'clock and I'm back home because I spent the day with my friend helping her kind of organize her classroom and put out her desk and rearrange her furniture so I never got to go to mine and I'm kind of regretting that I mean I love helping her but I don't know if I'll be able to get to my class or Monday or Tuesday because I'm going to professional development we will see but I guess I'm gonna just chunk this in to the end of my now it's a three-day vlog here yeah it's so good to hang out with teacher friends because then you like kind of work through things and share your ideas and get ideas and oh it's just like YouTube I love it but I'm exhausted it's just been a long week being in my classroom every day so I'm ready to just relax on the couch with my boyfriend and watch a movie and just not do anything for the rest of the day so I'll honestly probably edit this video tomorrow I hope you guys enjoyed I know this wasn't really an exciting one but like I said we're getting down to the wire here so it's just the little stuff now lettin just be dealt with I hope you guys enjoyed don't forget to subscribe hit that notification bell so I do pop up in your subscription boxes give it a thumbs up and click around to watch my previous videos this is real teacher tired right here see you guys next week

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Length: 27min 4sec (1624 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 12 2018