CLASSROOM SETUP DAY 1!! - Classroom Haul + Organizing 

Can we talk about how this human is setting up a classroom & filming said setup while being NINE MONTHS PREGNANT. A true superhero.

I used to want allllll the bins but with Covid this past year I was forced to have a rolling cart and absolutely no firniture( we switched classrooms all day instead of students) and I found out that I loved it! No bulletin boards, no nothing except for a few things on my cart. I had a small 3 drawer organizer for paper, pens and electronic stuff, a teacher toolbox for office supplies, and 2 drawers that were deep. I’d put any extra paper in that and the other was for my junk. Doc cam, masks, hole punches, stapler etc. it was literally all on a rolling cart. I gave students notebooks and graded them at desks and called it done. So much reduced paper flow and omg it was the best. I want to keep that cart forever. I still kept crayons markers etc in shoe bins in a corner but otherwise, that was it!

Shelley, I just have to tell you...I have grown up in classrooms since my mom was an elementary teacher. I have a history of teachers behind me but I've been discouraged to become a teacher because of present day society. I am afraid of the parents who neglect to help their children, administration who wouldn't support me as well as a plethora of other valid concerns. I looked into dozens of other jobs and after years of feeling lost, I am going back to school to become a teacher. You have truly inspired me and I have truly looked up to you through each vlog you upload. I know this isn't an easy career but I think I can make a difference. Thank you for giving me confidence that I CAN do this and be good at it too. Congratulations on baby boy #2 ♡

Her: "I said I wasn't gonna ramble for too long" Me: *Loves the rambling*

Just to be clear it was not even 30 years ago that a woman this far into her pregnancy would be considered unable to teach in many states because the shape of her body would be considered too disturbing for students.

I just got out of school on June 21st. So, seeing you already getting ready to go back is crazy. Good luck. I’ve been teaching for 25 years. Next year will be my 13th year in 2nd grade. I love watching these videos because it lets me see how teachers in other parts of the country do things.

I’m working toward being a teacher which is my dream job, and watching your videos give me so much joy and excitement! 💕

Over half way through the video I’m like “wait! Is that a flat screen TV?!” What happened to the roll in TVs?!

Congrats on your pregnancy, I can’t believe school is starting again, I’m so excited for back to school videos etc. ❤️❤️

Our teacher journeys are crazy similar. I too am going into my 5th year and I am going to 2nd grade this year. I have pretty much taught a different grade level each year and I am hoping 2nd is my jam. I’m really excited about it. My classroom theme is also the exact same this year. Black with somewhat of a rainbow color scheme, but I also HATE red and use pink instead. I think I’ve commented on a few videos in the past - I would love to hear your comparison of the older grades to younger grades or tips you have for new 2nd grade teachers. I love your videos! Thanks for sharing your teaching life with us! You’re great!

I’m switching classrooms again this year…. Third times the charm! You know what that means, classroom set up videos and hauls! Thanks for sharing your room. I’ll be sure to share mine when I finish my summer grad classes ❤️

I have my first interview this upcoming Friday for a 2nd grade position & I’m truly hoping I get hired! Trying to not get my hopes up to not get disappointed but hoping for the best! It’s always been one of my dreams to be able to set up my classroom. I love your videos & getting inspired 🤗

The thought of going back to school after 2 years is so exciting!! Your amazing! ❤️

I am right there with you! Going into my 9th year of teaching and have moved rooms every single year…. I look forward to the day (hopefully next year) when I don’t have to move! Thank you for doing what you do and inviting us in to share the journey ❤️

It’s so weird seeing others setting up for the new school year where in the uk we haven’t even finished the 2020-2021 year!

Yes!!! I love black with pops of color! This is what I m planning for my future classroom!

Haven’t started setting up yet. Trying my best to stay in vacation mode until the last week of July. First contract day is the 29th. School starts Aug 5th. Videos will be up as soon as I do start though LOL. Right now I’m just buying a whole bunch of things filling up our spare room 🤣

My favorite type of season!! Yay can’t wait to see the final project!!

I love that you are adding more color!!

I just got hired as a 2nd grade teacher!! I've been watching you all throughout my time in college and I can't wait for my first year of teaching. Watching this will give me lots of ideas for how to set up my classroom!! ❤️

Always love watching your videos Shelley. Have a safe delivery, too. Blessings to you 🙏💐

Wow I’ve been with you all 5 years! I love your classroom set ups and your definitely a superwoman doing this 9 months pregnant !!

I can’t believe that it’s already this time of year!!

i look forward to this series from you every year! ahhhhh love youuuuu❤️❤️❤️

I LOVE THAT BLACK/WHITE BORDER!!! I really like your thinking in what your doing with your classroom this year! Can't wait to see the finished results!

Going into my first year of teaching and I am so excited!! I am teaching 2nd grade and I actually just moved from Ohio to California to pursue my dreams. We start soon since it is a year-round school and I definitely feel overwhelmed but your videos are so helpful to watch!

I watch these every year they are seriously my favourite videos!! I just Graduated high school and i’m starting university this fall to start my journey to become an elementary school teacher and i am SO excited I can’t wait to be a teacher and I hope to as close to as amazing as you are!!! 💜💜

I wish I could go set up. I have a new classroom in a brand new building at my school and am ready to get in there and SET UP but we haven't gotten approval yet. Thanks for the inspo!

I’m on year 24 and I am still trying to find the perfect organizational system for me and I only teach one subject. You will constantly evolve even if you are in the same room for the rest of your career. Love what you are adding to your room this year

It’s crazy to think I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning of college and now I am setting up a classroom of my very own🎉🎉

Even though I'm just going into college to become a teacher these types of videos are so exciting

I have been using bright rainbow colors for years and for management it has been wonderful!

Congrats on your second baby! I’ve been enjoying our videos, you’re such a passionate teacher. Greetings from Bolivia !!!

love these! omg third year here and I did so much better last year but now it is a new school and new grade. I love this rolling carts for IEP goal work.

For me, I used something to organize papers for the subjects for the week. I used two 12x12 sterilite drawers that were designed for scrapbooking but you could totally use the cart. I had one bin for writing, one for math, one for phonics (I taught first grade), one for assessments, one for interventions, and, one for art. I would put all my paper for the week in friday so it was ready on monday. I liked it because if we didn't get to something I could look at what we still needed to do at my end of week prep. It was easy to clean weekly and I didn't really get overloaded with stacks of papers even though the paper was still there. I would use book binders to group the work for each day. If the students finished early as a class I could pull out the next assignment. If the assignment didn't get finished I would collect the work back up and put a binder clip on the work and put it back in the drawer for the next day.

I love your classroom setup videos! 💚 I can’t wait to watch more!

The best time of the year!!!!!🥳🖤

loved this vlog, looking forward to the whole series!

I love the change of t colors! The younger kids will love that!

I loved watching this!!!

As a first year teacher who will be teaching second grade in the fall, I'm very excited for this series!

been watching you since the very beginning and now i'm about to be a first year teacher in 2nd grade!! i am beyond excited and also very nervous to get into my classroom! i get to start setting up on the 20th and the first day of school will be august 4th :)

I’m going into my 8th year of teaching here in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. My first three were in second grade and I’m now headed into my fifth year of gifted third grade! I don’t typically work on setting up over the summer, but today was set up day for summer school (which starts on Monday) and we’ve been told we don’t have to pack up after summer school as our rooms are clean already, so I got a decent head start on setting up for the year as well as summer school today and it feels good.

Can we just talk about how beautiful your classroom is 😳the view…omgggg I wish my middle school had that.

I love those carts! GREAT VIDEO

This is my 3rd year watching your classroom setup ❤

Congrats I love watching your classroom setup videos and your other videos

Yay! Welcome back 😁 1st grade teacher in South Florida 👋🏽

Look at you go! Powerful woman!!🤍

I love the color scheme you chose this year😍

I love your vlog! Congrats on your 2nd baby. This is my 18th year and I’ve had 14 different classrooms, 7 schools, 2 districts- taught k, 1, 2, 6, hi-c, and librarian. 😬👍 Teaching is such a fun adventure!

Can't wait for more classroom setup 😍😍 I will start the new school year on august 24th 😊

I have that same border in my room! Love it!!

I love how the teachers are able to benefit from RU-vid ❤️

I'm starting my 20th year of teaching and have been in the same class/teach same for majority of that time, but I'm still always changing things up...trying something new, etc. I want to be working in my room since we start back in 3 weeks, but they haven't waxed my classroom yet. Good luck and thank you.

I was waiting for you to start your set up vlogs and have been watching since almost the very beginning.

👋💜Hello there!! 1st grade teacher here and new to your channel!! It’s currently a Saturday so I am binge watching your videos LOL! I currently started my classroom set up this week along with my little sister who also teaches 1st grade. We officially start work on 7/27 and first day of school is 8/2. Sooo we are excited to return in person since the entire 2020-2021 year was distance learning on Zoom. So glad I found you! 🌺

I've been waiting on this video!

I teach from Albuquerque, NM and this is my second year teaching 1st grade. First year was crazy, but I’m looking forward to this year!!

Love it! 😍

Are we not going to talk about how she build it by herself?

I love these videos!!!

We don't start school until Sept 8th this year so I won't be setting up until August - BUT I also, every year, have moved buildings and grade levels. I'm starting my third year of teaching and my third year of teaching a new grade haha I did Kinder, then moved to a new building and did 2nd, then moved back to my first building and will be teaching 4th. Hopefully I stay - but I have a whole new room to decorate and new grade curriculum to learn and plan and prep for. SO - I'm right there with you!

Wow! I have officially been watching you for a year 😱🥰

I teach in Ontario, Canada and when we go on Maternity leave (we can take 12-18 months) we take everything that is ours personally home (or we make sure it somewhere safe in the school) and completely turn over the classroom to the supply teacher. It is theirs for the 12-18 months. I didn’t plan one day of work, I didn’t set up, nothing. I left for my first leave in April and just left my long range plans, then came back at the end of the year and packed and didn’t do any school work for the entire next school year. My second was born in September and I packed up and left in June and didn’t do a thing for that school year either. We are considered on leave and we are responsible for nothing while we are.

I’m in northern Ca too. Love your videos

Um wow! I'm in exactly the same spot as you! I haven't changed grades or schools for 4 years, but my school did renos over this summer, still not done, I'm due in two weeks, I want my classroom prepped and ready for my sub and I've been meeting with my sub to make sure she is comfortable with the curriculum. Unfortunately, it is a race to see what happens first, classroom done so I can unpack and organize or labor and baby!

I love your opening lol

I am SO impressed that you have so much energy and are setting everything up. What a champ!

Haha, this is currently me! I'm due in July and moving to school! I'm trying to plan stuff already ahead of time that way; the only thing I have left to plan is season planning, curriculum stuff, and stuff for August to the beginning of September! Ugh, baby steps!

lmao even though i’m still a student going into my freshman year of highschool, i still enjoy these videos :)

I love watching your videos. I am a certified K-5 teacher with my masters in reading. I’ve taught for 18 years (K, 2, and 1/2 year in 5th when COVID came out. I have anxiety extremely bad as well as depression. So I decided to come out of the classroom and be a para. However, I’m thinking about getting my media specialist to become a school librarian. I teach in South Georgia and I’m married to a police officer.

I don’t know if this would be helpful for you or not, but I use a 15 drawer cart for my papers. The five drawers on the left side are deeper and those are for my upcoming copies for each subject. The 10 drawers on the right are for Monday-Friday copies and “extras” for absent students.

I'm 8 months pregnant and will also be getting into the classroom tomorrow to set up my room for my maternity sub. Very exciting, but overwhelming experience. I'm making my husband come with me because my stamina, too, caps out at about 2 hours. This will be my eighth year teaching, but my first year in this new room. In my 8 years, it will be my fifth different room and my 4th different grade level. Change is fun! Thanks for sharing your adventures. I'm very curious how you and your teammate are going to be using those cup caddies.

I spray paint with Rustolian on plastic. Works pretty well.

I literally relate to you so much. This is my fourth year and I’m on classroom setup 5 (I moved schools after the start of year two)😭😅

Rainbow them in your classroom fun things

Your awesome to be getting everything done while 9 months pregnant! But I get it-I would want everything all set too. I’m a 7th grade math teacher. This will be my 11th year. My school is switching from a Jr High to a Middle school this year..and because of that they moved all the teachers around. We literally all had to move our stuff on the last day of school-so I have a new classroom just down the hall from my old one. I just had to dump all my stuff in there and leave because they were doing a deep cleaning of the school. I think I can now get back into that room though…and I’m trying to motivate myself to get there and set up my new room by watching others do it👍😂

Love your videos

Because enrollment is still ongoing, I won't know which classroom I'll be in for another 2 weeks. 😱 I love setting my classroom up in early to mid-July. We start early August. I'm trying not to stress about it.

Shelley, we got ALL new desks last March for our primary classes (at OVO), so you may want to check with the DO for the ones that could replace the trapezoid desks that are making you crazy! Enjoy some time off comin' up here with your new little one...

Can you make a video of how you make your wall letters using your cricket and what fine you used? Love your videos!

Also this will help me for home school

I wonder if you could keep the current cart you already have and spray paint the drawers black. You could even swap the and put half of the rainbow drawers and half the black drawers in each just to break up the traditional rainbow.

Hi Shelley! Can you do a video about changing schools and the process of all that? What made you decide to switch and how did you feel about starting over? Also, please make a vid about all the things I should know about 2nd grade! I am moving from 4th to 2nd!

You could spray paint the bins on the old cart that you have if you wanted to keep it.

I use the double drawer one for math manipulatives

I wish I lived in Southern California so I could do my internship with you! I love your videos! You give so much information and helpful tips😊

Wow you guys go back early huh!! I’m from Canada

Just an idea 💡 use the rainbow and white cart mix match and label it with each students name foe their work

You are a saint! Setting up your room nine months pregnant! Wow.

This will be my 12th year teaching and my 7th year in my current grade level and classroom ... And I still don't have my organization worked out. 😆

Omg I haven’t been on here for awhile and now you’re pregnant!? Wow congrats !

Omg that went so fast! 4 weeks out! How dose it go by so fast!

Congratulations🎉 v

It’s my first year teaching and I will be in 5th grade! Any tips for classroom setup and planning is appreciated!!!

I love the rolling carts! However… they don’t hold heavy stuff that well (like TEs). Hope it works for you I’m going into my 7th year teaching! I’m at Orlando FL and I’ll have an intern (student teacher) for the 1st time

Do you have a tutorial for what you did for your middle school? I love your style and would love to revamp my room for middle schoolers!

What are those file holders with numbers on the white board? You got this! I’m moving to CO this month and will have about two weeks to set up 🥳 my first year with first grade 🤩💕

I am in NC WE WILL BE starting achool Aug 9 I love your channel. Your creative and exciting energy is needed! Baby 2? Love 💘 that!