CLASSROOM SETUP Day 2 - Organizing + Making Labels 

Chuckled at the color comment. I was a school nurse and I had 5 schools to cover. I color coded them to keep me sane. My son was in 9th grade and loved the color idea. We color coded his notebooks, folders-everything. He had a whiteboard where he would write down homework/projects and that was color coded too. He had certain classes with colors-science was green, math was blue, French was red.

If only our laminators really went that fast 😂 ❤

I can’t thank you enough! This is exactly what I needed. I am changing classrooms and have a lot of stuff to organize!

I had my baby last August so work was NOT on my mind last summer. I’m moving classrooms, moving grade levels, and full of energy for getting ready for this school year!

I live for these videos 😍 you make me want to get back in my classroom, but they won’t let us in until August! Can you do a video of things teachers can do to get ready for the year without being in the classroom? Also would love to see how you lesson plan!

ahhhh it’s my fave time of year!!! I’m in my 4th year of university and will be starting my bachelor of education program in a year or 2!!

I love your organization videos!! I would love to see a prep with me video for the first couple weeks back to school! :)

Always sooo excited to see a new vlog posted from you!! Thank you for sharing your thought process - love it!!

Loving the thought process. Thanks for sharing!

i can listen to you all day. Your thought process is amazing and inspiring!

Hiii! Are you going to have a video going through the daily schedule you plan on using? I am going into my 4th year teaching two grades and it’s so hard to find time to get everything done! Curious to see what your schedule will look like! ☺️ I teach 3rd and 4th grade!! ❤️

appreciate all the advice!!

this is my favourite time of the year as i love these videos of yours!!!!!!

3rd year! I love this part of teaching lol finally got start in my classroom. Definitely have watched your videos several times lol ❤❤

Loving your hair!! Keep the videos coming!! This will be my 5th year teaching fourth grade!

I arranged my u-table & teacher desk(really just a long white table) into the J-shape last year, but I dropped the curve part of the J more away from the teacher desk, so it was easy to go back & forth with fewer steps. LOVE your videos...thank you!

OMG I would love to have those cabinets!! My classroom has very few and the ones it has are stuffed with things.

I love the matching labels and bins! Color coding has saved my life with a combo. I'm going into my second year teaching a 2/3, and I color code EVERYTHING! 2nd is always green and 3rd is always blue. It helps both me and the students stay organized and figure out what belongs to each grade level 😂 I am excited to see how you'll structure your day! I got into a good groove last year but there still isn't enough time for all the things!

I love the indoor recess labels I need to do that. My recess toys and games are a hot mess haha thanks for the ideas.

Hey there! Not Cal girl as well! I taught a 2/3 combo and I used the 12x12 scrapbook containers to hold my benchmark units and all of the supplemental materials (focus wall etc). Because each TRS is 2 units I only needed 6 for each grade level. I felt these stacked well! I love your classroom though! All that storage is a dream!!! Good luck to you this coming year!

Science is green, math is red, social studies is blue, English/writing is yellow. Haha

Shelly, I had to use those "rings" and hole punch my labels to make them stick to baskets. Just a suggestion. Love your new digs!!

I literally want to meet you in person you seem so chill

You changed my life I didn’t even think about using a hot glue gun on my bins😂

This reminds me that I need a paper cutter.

I love TWIG science!

NIOCE!

I love your videos! Where did you get your teacher desk from? If you have a link for it, would you please share? Thank you

I clicked on the link for the "Ultimate Classroom Setup Guide" but it takes me to your link tree but no choice for the setup guide, only parent parent conference checklist freebie, RU-vid channel, and Amazon wish list must haves. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise.

On those Big Lots baskets, you could use zip ties to keep your labels on too...

I LOVE all of you labels!! Are you able to sell the indoor recess game labels in your TpT store? I wasn't sure because of copyright and using the actual logo. If so, I would LOVE to buy them!

15 year teacher veteran here. 5 classrooms and multiple grade levels. Do you need both tables? I only have my small groups table now and use it as a desk area with some shelves behind it for my teacher things. If you got rid of one table it might free up space and allow for more layout options.

When I color code the subjects it's: Reading = red(It's alliterative.); Science=green( like plantscand nature ); Social Studies =blue( blue water in geography, the blue in the American flag); and Math =yellow( It's the only primary color I hadn't used yet ). used orange for Writing, too. When I've taught K-1st, I used those colors on the respective bulletin boards with the same border, most times. When I have taught 2nd- middle school, I usually choose 1 paper color and 1 kind of border for all the boards. When I've taught middle school, I only taught 1 subject, so I color coded my 4 mods: Red- my homeroom( It's my second favorite color. If I made them my favorite, blue, I fear I would favor them slightly. My 2nd mod was green( I don't realky like green, but they were my least challenging class, so sweet. It balanced it out.) The 3rd mod was yellow, and the 4th was blue(I was a morning person back then and was dragging by the end of the day. So, I gave them my favorite color because it gave me something to look forward to. 🙂

I usually have my desk flat against the wall and my kidney table kind of turned outwards facing the middle of the class and it's always leaves space for my teacher stuff and my corner, saves space and if I'm doing something on the document camera I can have a kid sit next to me if they're causing trouble

How do you store your board games? Love your setup videos!

I would love to know how a split classroom works. How are the lessons being taught? I’ve never had any experience with them because they don’t have split classes in the schools I have experience with. Thanks!!

Where did you get that size cutter? I like it😃.

First off love the videos. I’m going to be teaching 4th grade self contained, can you please share your insight on teaching self contained classes. This is my first year teaching. Please help

This is off topic but with maternity leave are you still panning for the sub? Or is that like a grade level team task?

What will your schedule look like? How are you teaching both?

Hello, I’m curious. Are combo classes a common thing in Cali? What is the purpose behind it? To not have to hire another teacher to split the grade levels up? It just seems like it is an unfair situation to everyone involved. Lots of small group instruction means the kids get less teacher time, attention, and feedback. I am having a hard time understanding why admin would think that would be what’s best for kids?

I use glue dots on all my labels /bins and i have only had 1 fall off in 4 yrs

You remind me of Alexa PenaVega when you wear your hair up in a bun!

16 is what you call a full class mine consists of 32😭. I love your videos tho !

Heyyy great classroom setup! Please heart my comment I love ur vids

Is your Canon an inkjet or laser printer?

Are those color bins from lakeshore?

Do you have those labels for sale? I couldn’t find them.

Do you follow MrsCallsCampers? A couple years ago she taught a K/1 combo but had really good ideas on how to set up her day and organized if you are still looking for tips!