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Hi, I teach Kinder as well!! I don't know if you've turned your letters for Open Court around yet. But you have to turn your cards back around. You have to turn the cards to the pictures side as you teach them

6:20 OMG What a great idea! I've never seen anyone do this!! It is genius!! 💖💖💖

the room looks really pretty. The sit spots on that black carpet is rather cute. I thought it was made that way so good job.

Your room looks adorable!!! 💖💖

It’s looking so cute! I’m looking forward to the next one!

Your classroom is starting to look great! One tip I have is that everything in a teacher store is pricey. Check out your local thrift stores for games, toys, books and even items for your dramatic play area. Also, don't be afraid to send out a wish list to your parents. I change out my dramatic play area about every 3 or 4 weeks. I let parents know the theme and ask them to send in any items that we might be able to use. (ex: food boxes and containers for a grocery store, pizza boxes and fliers for a pizza restaurant, band aids and medical supplies for a doctor office, etc.) Most parents are happy to help out! I look forward to watching more of your videos!

Your room is looking amazing

Your room looks amazing. Lucky kids to have such a beautiful space. 💗💗

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If you use painters tape on the wall and hot glue on that painters tape for the better than paper to stick to, that works great.

Your room is looking wonderful! It's cute, welcoming, and functional, which is important. Cloud idea - if you go over some of the lines with a thick black permanent marker in the clouds from Life is Sweet in kindergarten, the clouds would pop even more. 😉 I absolutely love your crayon colors and numbers bulletin board - it looks great together on one board. Im sure your kindergarteners will reference it all the time. K-5 art teacher

I used hot glue on my walls and it stayed up all year. If I could attach a picture here I would. Your room is looking good! I hope you have a wonderful school year!

It’s all coming together!

Glad the “is” made it up! 😂

How did you make your Puffy ball READ letters? Your room looks fantastic!! I’m stealing the triple border look!!!

For the extra bulletin board paper get a wrapping paper tote to put it in so it hides it

Your classroom is turning out so cute and functional. It was so nice of your parents to come in and help you set up. Do you by chance remember where you got your crayon posters? Keep up the great work!

Found it oddly satisfying to watch you mop the wall. It's always terrific to be on the good side of custodians! Looking forward to seeing more of your new adventure.

Hey!! I'm a teacher in Southern Alabama! I'm teaching kindergarten this year as well. It's my third year teaching. I taught 3rd grade my first year and i taught pre k my second year. I'm subbing because I'm excited to follow your journey!

Dad was right, Benny is soooo cute. I start set up next week, I might do a quick video and add in my doggie too.

Aw, I love the cloud covers ❤❤❤ but yes, def. wait til people are around before hanging the other clouds ☁️

Love the black and white polka dots! It’s always great to have helpers. ☺️

Love the Benny cameo also!

Coming together very nicely!!!

Where did you get the read sign ❤

Welcome to kindergarten! I teach K in California and I love it! My advice is to take a lot of time to explain, model and practice all of your classroom expectations. You will need to show them how to sit on the rug, how to line up, how to hold a pencil correctly, how to use a glue stick, how to use scissors, how to use the school bathroom, etc. Most of them know nothing about school unless they went to preschool or TK. Also, they will all want your undivided attention 24/7. Teach them what you expect from a "good listener". Learn some fingerplays and songs. When the kids are talking a lot or not listening and you want to get their attention, sit down and start singing a song or doing a fingerplay. The kids will stop what they are doing and start singing along. Dr. Jean has many wonderful videos for you to use. The first month will be exciting and exhausting, but you will survive and it gets easier. The best thing about kindergarten is seeing the amazing academic and social-emotional growth throughout the year! Good luck!

You should get rainbow Velcro dots to go on your carpet. They are pretty inexpensive and work great to give littles a visual of where to sit or stand. I usually refer to teaching Kindergarten as teaching them how to be human. Most, at least in my area have never been to school before, so visuals, routines and expectations are crucial to control the chaos. Edit: I wrote this comment before I saw that you have the Velcro spots. 😂

Your classroom looks wonderful! I have been enjoying your set up videos. Keep up the great work and I hope that you enjoy kindergarten!

Looks great! I’m looking forward to seeing more!

Maybe use the book bins above the hooks to store their clothes and lunch/snack boxes? I like to keep the children's "property" in one area.

It’s looking great! I love better than paper. I’ve had the same paper up 3 years. It’s so durable! If I had one little comment it would be to make the word know on your sign in block letters as well. You may use all or almost all those glue sticks- it takes them a bit to understand a dab of glue will do. 😂

Haven’t even watched the whole video and subscribed! 1- because its a fellow K teacher 2- because you identified your grade level almost immediately And 3 because Im excited to see what you do. Welcome to K! ❤️

I love your triple border. It looks great! I also teach K! It's so much fun! I've been doing a fun thing to hang their student work for the last several years. I hang a picture of their head with a small body (shirt, arms, and shorts) and behind the arms is a clothespin to hold their artwork. It looks super cute AND it's culturally responsive since they are automatically represented in the classroom! I'm sure you can find an example online. :) Looking forward to watching you this year!

I'm enjoying the transformation! I'm in the UK, we don't finish until July 19th.... sigh! I teach year 1 and 2 (5-6yr olds and 6-7yr olds) - how old are your Kindergarteners?

I've been enjoying your videos! What do you use to record and edit?

I'm using Better Than Paper this year and I'm super excited 🤩 Everything is looking fantastic!!!

Middle school teacher for 25 years so I have no great kindergarten tips but I love watching classroom set up videos. I'm excited to see how your room turns out. Thank you for taking us along on the journey 🎉

Another fellow Alabama teacher here! Northeast corner…where in North Alabama are you? (Or approximately if you don’t want to give away your exact location)

Such a sweet classroom. Might not be very helpful (because it could be taken negatively in terms of not taking you seriously as their teacher depending on how you portray it), but maybe you could tell your students that it is your first year as a kindergarten teacher too and use this to connect to them being new also?! Once again, could be potentially perceived either good or bad, though, maybe.

definitely do more timelapses :)

You will use more glue sticks than you think! 😅 Your classroom is looking great! I loved teaching kindergarten, I hope you do too!

Most primary grades have a Morning Message. It's usually on an easel or chart paper. It has the date and 2-4 sentences about what they were going to do that day or even ask a question of the day. I had taught older grades before then and knew what they would need to do in the future. So, I taught them punctuation using sounds. When we would see a period, we'd smack our lips and use our index finger to draw it in the air. For exclamation points, we'd say, "Boingggg!" and draw it in the air. Question marks we used a high-pitched questioning sound, and for commas, we'd make a sound like car brakes. My hope was when they had to write sentences in the higher grades, they'd remember those sounds and write accordingly.

Every day at Morning Meeting, we greeted each other in a special way. I usually take each student's picture the first day of school. I get them printed out. Then I put the pictures on index cards( I used the pastels.), write each child's name under the picture, and laminated them. I punched a hole at the bottom and put it on a ring so they're almost like flash cards. I even made one for myself with a picture of me in kindergarten. We would stand in a circle. Next, I would give the stack to the person whose pic was on top and say, " Good Morning, so andcso." S(he) would flip their picture and give it to the kid on the next card. If someone was absent, we'd say, " We miss you, so and so.,"We did that until everyone had been greeted. I mixed up the pix every few days to keep it fresh. As time went on, I taught them how to say Good Morning in several languages. Then, they had a choice of how to greet their classmates.

One of my center activities was " Read the Room". They worked in pairs( a peanut butter partner & a jelly partner). I gave them a yard or meter stick. They would take turns reading words as they touch them on all levels around the room. The stick was so they could reach the words at the top of the wall

For kindergarten, you have to "saturate" them with literacy. Put word cards that identify classroom objects so they can see how they're spelled.

I've taught kindergarten 3 1/4 times. One thing I did was set up a word wall. The first words I put on there were the students' names. It shoes them how to spell their names and their classmates ', too. It also gives them buy-in for learning new words. Or you could make a sound wall( based on the Science of Reading , which in style right now.

You're better than me to wipe down all your walls. If there are some stubborn stains that wouldn't come off, maybe you could try Mr. Clean's magic eraser? Just a suggestion.

Also, fellow Alabama teacher. I live in South AL but Im from the area around Fayette, Co. 🩵 loved the vlog!

I really like the shiny black paper you used on your bulletin boards. Where did you get that?!? ❤

I just finished my 7th year teaching kindergarten and am moving up to 5th grade for this upcoming school year. My biggest piece of advice is to be patient but firm. Set firm guidelines and expectations and always follow through. And LOTS of modeling! Have them mirror to show they understand. Many people think the littles are naive but they are very clever and know when and if they can push your boundaries. 😂