There are a couple of things I do to manage supplies. During the first week of school I have each student pick a colored pencil pouch (the ones that have the three binder holes). I write their name and student number on the top with sharpie. In each pouch, they have their own personal set of supplies (doesn't include things like rulers or scissors) and they are responsible for grabbing their pencil pouches in the morning. I reward students with extra/cool supplies as the year goes on. Another thing I do is each student in a team has a number 1-5 (depending on the group size). I will call a random number to grab a particular supply. For example, I would say "Number one come grab scissors. Number two come grab enough paper for your group. " I do GLAD in my classroom and I LOVE it! It's quite a bit of prep but so worth it! Anyway, sorry for the long comment but I hope that helps give you ideas!
Maybe hang the pencil pouches on the sides of the desks with the tiny command hooks since they have the three binder holes? And the hooks are so tiny they should be able to stick on the sides of the desks
I find it so fascinating to watch these videos. I work in 8th-10th grade in Norway, and we don't do anywhere near that amount of decorating and organization for our rooms. It looks super adorable though! Also how you all pay for your own stuff is literally mindblowing! Can't wait to follow your vlog from now on. First time watcher today :)
I've been enjoying your classroom set-up videos and absolutely love what you've achieved over many days. The smaller desk groupings of 4 and 5 look great.
When I was in school, my teacher had a pouch attached to the back of our chairs. I’m pretty sure you can just buy shower caddies from the dollar store (the kind you hang over the shower head, or something similar) and attach it to the back of your kids chairs! That way it can be personal for each of your students (:
My kids have a pencil pouch (the ones that can go in three ring binders) and they store in their desks. Stuff like scissors stay in a community bin like your white ones and we get them as needed.
My mentor teacher during student teaching was a GLAD trainer for our district and I was officially GLAD trained my first year. When I saw your videos for a first time naturally I was confused about the huge groups 😂😂 in my classroom I put the desks all facing in (so two kids are facing the same way on each side of the table groups) and I've noticed it saves space in the classroom and makes it easier to keep kids from touching each other. Being GLAD trained has really changed my life in terms of teaching I feel as a GLAD trained teacher I am better prepared and more effective as a teacher. So excited you had that opportunity :)
I have really enjoyed watching your beautiful classroom come together! Thanks for sharing! I just finished mine and one of our new coworkers called it her “happy place.” Thanks for the inspiration!
In one of my classes 2 years ago we had groups of 4 & 5 and to store supplies we put a space in the middle of the two desks that were sideways and put the bins that you want to use in the middle and it worked really well.
Yes! That is how I do my name tags, with velcro. I love it. It has worked amazingly. One thing to remember, that I forgot at first, be sure to place the velcro in the same spot on the back of each name tag. This makes changing desks much easier!
I had the same issues with name tags! Mr. D did an IG story about how he tells the kids at the beginning of the year that the person with the name tag that looks the nicest at the end of the year gets a prize. He doesn't tell them what it is, but gets them something good. I'm going to try that!
Love your videos. I know you posted a picture of your house on Instagram and I loved it!!! I would love to see more of your life outside of school too. Congrats on the new house
For group materials - snag some of those three tower drawers (like what you have) but in the smaller size! Worth the cost! One of my teachers back in the day used them, and they were legit. PS - I was on vacation in San Diego last month and while on a walk at La Jolla cove I recognized a voice from somewhere! Looked up and there you were! You seemed happy and busy with family or friends, so I didn’t want to interrupt, but so funny seeing you there. :) Love the channel and the vlogs. I’m an incoming college freshman and these videos make me wanna drop everything and become a teacher LOL! Have a great school year, and congrats on the pup and house!
Oh my god no way!!! You should have totally come up and said hi I love meeting other teachers/future teachers/nice people! Such a small world we live in :)
Woah, this is so awesome! I've never seen anyone else do this, and I really wish I had known this was out there. Because this is just so awesome holy cow
Pull your desks that are facing each other to be parallel with the front facing desks and put the supply drawers in the center. I used to do this and it worked amazingly!! I wish I had a picture.
Congratulations on the new house! They must’ve seen how great you guys are through your letter. Appreciate you taking us through this journey with the TH-cam and IG crew. Gives me more confidence when I start. Wish me luck about to start student teaching on the 13th!!!!
do the drawer systems come with wheels? I was thinking you could push them against the back wall and mark each drawer system with a number corresponding with each group. then a helper from each table could just roll their group's supplies over when needed
My old social studies teacher stacked the blue and green crates you hav won top of each other to put in front of each crate... it ended up working really well!
Maybe a shoe organizer hung on the side of the grouped desk can be used for the group supplies. Shoe organizers can be cut to size.... which can save $. hope that helps
i remember in grade school they would always use clear packing tape for our name tags and then we would move the whole desk😂 but we also had the desks with the storage for our stuff on the side. the name tags always got ripped off and messed up even though they were laminated lol. it might be unavoidable
I know you hate caddies, however I have two large crates stacked vertically next to a 3 drawer set (like yours). The caddies go in these crates and I have labelled where it goes. So great!
Love your videos. Congrats on the new house and pup! Here is a tip for leftover used supplies (color pencils, crayons, etc.) Give them out to your students at the end of the school year. That's what I've done every year and it has been a great. No need to sort through all of it.
So happy for you on your house and the new addition to your family! I am going to try individual pencil pouches this year with a label attached to each pair of scissors and numbers on the glue sticks. Each will get five pencils for the week. Then THEY are responsible for keeping them sharp. The pencil pouches are 87 cents at Wal-Mart.
They store scissors, pencils, and glue sticks in the pouch in their desk. We've been in school for almost two weeks now and it's worked out really well. I like the pouches much better than what I used before, pencil boxes. I'm sure it also depends on the class. Students are told they must sharpen their own pencils in the morning before school or when we are cleaning up at the end of the day. It's been so great! A few have BEGGED me to let them sharpen their pencils during the day because they forgot in the morning. I say, "No, you will have to borrow one." It's been AWESOME!
for storing group materials you could push those two front desks out and put the container storage thing between both desks, it might take up too much room though.
Love your setup. I would suggest separating the desks so that you can put the storage towers between them. That way they aren't taking up walking space.
I got so excited when I saw the notification pop up!! I love your videos and you and a couple other teachers are inspiring me to become a teacher. Love ya! Have a good day!
yayayy so glad you got the house!! and you are getting an aussie right?! heaven!! what camera do you use!!? i am soo jealous of how spacious your room is!
I’ve used supply caddies and sets of drawers, and I honestly don’t like any of them for group supplies! In the end, I just scatter like 3/4 caddies around the room and put enough scissors, glue etc in each one, and then kids just go and get what they need and put it back. And the. I have supply tidy as one of my jobs, and two kids go around at the end of the day, pick up anything left lying around, and tidy up the caddies. Works better than anything else I’ve tried!!
Idea! The group of 5 with the lonely island (the one you didn’t like in one of your first few videos) you can turn that desk 90 degrees and put the white bin in front of that desk. If that makes sense? So everything looks symmetrical.
I use clear contact paper to put numbers on my chairs in my library. Obviously you would have to actually move the desks rather than just move nametags, but it holds up pretty well. The hardest part is keeping the kids from picking at it. But most do really well and a few just need a gentle reminder to leave it alone. Congrats on your house and dog! :)
Congratulations on the house and the puppy!!! So so happy for you! And I beg you, please come teach my husband how to organize! I've tried and he ignores me, so 50% of our bedroom is chaos and 50% is slightly chaotic, but it's an organized chaos. Lmao!
hi! love your classroom, and totally using it as my inspiration for my first room! I was looking for contact paper like the one you used on your filing cabinet, its so cute! where did you get yours???
Oh wow! Love the color scheme and black desktops. I have to ask... what camera are you using? it’s so clear. it seems like I could reach in and touch any object. Love it! ❤️ hope you have a wonderful year!
Maybe for group materials you could use wheeled carts like the blue one you have. Or maybe you could put the drawers you have in a different area and simplify them
Great video!! I put a tiny dot of hot glue on the corners of my name tags. They just pop off when I need to change them out. The glue pops right off too. :-)
The storage drawers do not have to be centered in between the two desks ... you can move it over so that your pathway is more spacious. :) also... if you bribe your kids with a candy bar.. or something else ... if their name plates look nice at the end of the year.. they respect the name plate more.
What are the dimensions of your iris labels and name tags? Also, what font did you use for the name tags? Last, what did you use to hang your lights around the smart board?
Which Iris labels are you referring to?? My name tags are 3.5 by 10 about. The font for the name tags is KG Blank Space Solid. And I just used tape to hang the lights! Hope this helps!! :)
I'm sorry I still don't know which ones you are referring to! The ones that are holding my supplemental math things? Or the big IB Curriculum ones? Sorry!!!
No worries! Go to 4:12 in the video. In the back on your metal looking shelf is a white iris case that they are in. I'm wanting to make labels to go inside them like you have. I hope this helps.
I save a lot of time/$ by writing student names on the desk with colorful Sharpie paint markers. The name only comes off by writing over it with a dry erase marker. Love your channel.
I think in the groups where there’s 5 kids, move the 5th desk over to one side and put the white bins by there, it looks like it will fit! Also, with the name tags- maybe get strips of Velcro and put two close to the ends so you wouldn’t be able to see them even if they were off center a bit
Maybe put the name tag pocket holders on the back of the chairs, so that when they move seats or need to look at their name tag they can just take it out of the pocket and put it in a new chair
I was a custodian for a middle school and the only name tags that stayed on the desk and that were nice we're the ones that we put on the side of the desk
I use those IKea carts for my groups. I also tell the kids who ever has the nicest name tag at the end of the year gets a prize. Jealous that your classroom is almost done. Our building is getting a new Hvac system and we are not allowed in our building until August 8th and school starts Aug. 13.
Your a great teacher you organize the whole classroom our school is a massive mess ew I hate it.. I wish I can volunteer to organize the whole classroom I’m going to do it once the summer vacation ends
i'm not even a teacher, but watching this series is so theraputic
There are a couple of things I do to manage supplies. During the first week of school I have each student pick a colored pencil pouch (the ones that have the three binder holes). I write their name and student number on the top with sharpie. In each pouch, they have their own personal set of supplies (doesn't include things like rulers or scissors) and they are responsible for grabbing their pencil pouches in the morning. I reward students with extra/cool supplies as the year goes on. Another thing I do is each student in a team has a number 1-5 (depending on the group size). I will call a random number to grab a particular supply. For example, I would say "Number one come grab scissors. Number two come grab enough paper for your group. " I do GLAD in my classroom and I LOVE it! It's quite a bit of prep but so worth it! Anyway, sorry for the long comment but I hope that helps give you ideas!
Donna Docouto I like your organization strategy. Ideas for my classroom.
Maybe hang the pencil pouches on the sides of the desks with the tiny command hooks since they have the three binder holes? And the hooks are so tiny they should be able to stick on the sides of the desks
How do you store them?
Lexi Michelle the whole point is to teach them responsibility to come and get them in the morning
What is glad
I find it so fascinating to watch these videos. I work in 8th-10th grade in Norway, and we don't do anywhere near that amount of decorating and organization for our rooms. It looks super adorable though! Also how you all pay for your own stuff is literally mindblowing! Can't wait to follow your vlog from now on. First time watcher today :)
Congratulations on the house! Many Blessings as you embark on new beginnings.
Yay! I'm so happy that you got the house! Congratulations! 😀 Very exciting things happening! Your room is looking fabulous!
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I’m not even a teacher, but for some reason I’ve been loving watching your classroom set up vids! I love how colourful you make your classroom!!
I've been enjoying your classroom set-up videos and absolutely love what you've achieved over many days. The smaller desk groupings of 4 and 5 look great.
When I was in school, my teacher had a pouch attached to the back of our chairs. I’m pretty sure you can just buy shower caddies from the dollar store (the kind you hang over the shower head, or something similar) and attach it to the back of your kids chairs! That way it can be personal for each of your students (:
This vlog gets me psyched for the floors to be waxed and to be let into my building!
You could get a wide over door shoe organizer and cut the rows up for group supplies and mount them to the desk sides
My kids have a pencil pouch (the ones that can go in three ring binders) and they store in their desks. Stuff like scissors stay in a community bin like your white ones and we get them as needed.
For supplies you could use the same bins as you used for your library.
Shower caddies for group supplies? But like away on a shelf so it isn't distracting and someone could get it each time
My mentor teacher during student teaching was a GLAD trainer for our district and I was officially GLAD trained my first year. When I saw your videos for a first time naturally I was confused about the huge groups 😂😂 in my classroom I put the desks all facing in (so two kids are facing the same way on each side of the table groups) and I've noticed it saves space in the classroom and makes it easier to keep kids from touching each other.
Being GLAD trained has really changed my life in terms of teaching I feel as a GLAD trained teacher I am better prepared and more effective as a teacher. So excited you had that opportunity :)
I can't believe how much storage and shelving units you have! How wonderful!! :)
It’s been so cool seeing ur classroom come together!! Love it! ❤️
pocketful of primary has the drawer system that you were thinking about! her floor arrangement worked really well with the stand up drawers.
For the group supplies you move the desks where there space between them and slide the clear drawer bin between
She hearted my comment! ♥️ @earlyEdventures
"They're laminated so they can't really destroy them"...hahaha... Challenge accepted.
jodie piper hahaha I know who am I kidding
So happy for you on the hpuse and puppy! I also love how your room is coming along!
Congrats on the new house (& puppy) Shelley! I have really enjoyed this series and am looking forward to new vlogs in the fall! Keep it up ☺️
I have really enjoyed watching your beautiful classroom come together! Thanks for sharing! I just finished mine and one of our new coworkers called it her “happy place.” Thanks for the inspiration!
In one of my classes 2 years ago we had groups of 4 & 5 and to store supplies we put a space in the middle of the two desks that were sideways and put the bins that you want to use in the middle and it worked really well.
Yes! That is how I do my name tags, with velcro. I love it. It has worked amazingly. One thing to remember, that I forgot at first, be sure to place the velcro in the same spot on the back of each name tag. This makes changing desks much easier!
for group supplies, maybe DIY large pockets that fall on the d\side of the table!
Yayayay!!! Congrats on your new house!! I saw your new house on your Instagram!! It’s so cute!
I had the same issues with name tags! Mr. D did an IG story about how he tells the kids at the beginning of the year that the person with the name tag that looks the nicest at the end of the year gets a prize. He doesn't tell them what it is, but gets them something good. I'm going to try that!
LOVE that idea!!!
I remember my teacher doing that in elementary school 😂 but you should watch out for some kids destroying their peers' name tags on purpose to win
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Love your videos. I know you posted a picture of your house on Instagram and I loved it!!! I would love to see more of your life outside of school too. Congrats on the new house
Congrats on the new house and puppy!! What an exciting time!
The shelters in LA are completely full so please rescue!!
YAY! congrats on the house & dog! I had my fingers crossed for you guys!! exciting!
For group materials - snag some of those three tower drawers (like what you have) but in the smaller size! Worth the cost! One of my teachers back in the day used them, and they were legit.
PS - I was on vacation in San Diego last month and while on a walk at La Jolla cove I recognized a voice from somewhere! Looked up and there you were! You seemed happy and busy with family or friends, so I didn’t want to interrupt, but so funny seeing you there. :)
Love the channel and the vlogs. I’m an incoming college freshman and these videos make me wanna drop everything and become a teacher LOL! Have a great school year, and congrats on the pup and house!
Oh my god no way!!! You should have totally come up and said hi I love meeting other teachers/future teachers/nice people! Such a small world we live in :)
Woah, this is so awesome! I've never seen anyone else do this, and I really wish I had known this was out there. Because this is just so awesome holy cow
Pull your desks that are facing each other to be parallel with the front facing desks and put the supply drawers in the center. I used to do this and it worked amazingly!! I wish I had a picture.
Congratulations on the new house! They must’ve seen how great you guys are through your letter. Appreciate you taking us through this journey with the TH-cam and IG crew. Gives me more confidence when I start. Wish me luck about to start student teaching on the 13th!!!!
GOOD LUCK!!! You're going to do great :)
do the drawer systems come with wheels? I was thinking you could push them against the back wall and mark each drawer system with a number corresponding with each group. then a helper from each table could just roll their group's supplies over when needed
My old social studies teacher stacked the blue and green crates you hav won top of each other to put in front of each crate... it ended up working really well!
Congrats on an almost finished classroom! 🎆 Congrats to your husband and you on a house and a puppy! 💜❤️
Maybe a shoe organizer hung on the side of the grouped desk can be used for the group supplies. Shoe organizers can be cut to size.... which can save $. hope that helps
I am not an education major but I love your videos so much! Thank you for everything you do!
i remember in grade school they would always use clear packing tape for our name tags and then we would move the whole desk😂 but we also had the desks with the storage for our stuff on the side. the name tags always got ripped off and messed up even though they were laminated lol. it might be unavoidable
You should do some kind of hanging pockets for the group supplies. Low profile, hangs off the ends of the desks, easy access.
Congratulations on all of your adulthood accomplishments. This is a very exciting time!
I know you hate caddies, however I have two large crates stacked vertically next to a 3 drawer set (like yours). The caddies go in these crates and I have labelled where it goes. So great!
Love your videos. Congrats on the new house and pup! Here is a tip for leftover used supplies (color pencils, crayons, etc.) Give them out to your students at the end of the school year. That's what I've done every year and it has been a great. No need to sort through all of it.
If you slide the two desk that are facing each other apart slightly, the white drawers could fit in the space between?
I love your camera!!! Classroom looks great!
I had a cooperating teacher that used crate seats to store binders and folders!
So happy for you on your house and the new addition to your family! I am going to try individual pencil pouches this year with a label attached to each pair of scissors and numbers on the glue sticks. Each will get five pencils for the week. Then THEY are responsible for keeping them sharp. The pencil pouches are 87 cents at Wal-Mart.
Maybe I will try this! How do you store the pouches? Just in their desks?
They store scissors, pencils, and glue sticks in the pouch in their desk. We've been in school for almost two weeks now and it's worked out really well. I like the pouches much better than what I used before, pencil boxes. I'm sure it also depends on the class. Students are told they must sharpen their own pencils in the morning before school or when we are cleaning up at the end of the day. It's been so great! A few have BEGGED me to let them sharpen their pencils during the day because they forgot in the morning. I say, "No, you will have to borrow one." It's been AWESOME!
Have you thought iofseparating the end desks in the groups of four and sliding the white organizer in between hem maybe?
I am thinking about this, yes!
for storing group materials you could push those two front desks out and put the container storage thing between both desks, it might take up too much room though.
Love your setup. I would suggest separating the desks so that you can put the storage towers between them. That way they aren't taking up walking space.
Can u please do life vlogs including the pup, house and your hubby ps ilysm
Congrats on the new house! The classroom is looking great too. 😊
Congratulations on your new house! Trigger is so adorable 😍
I got so excited when I saw the notification pop up!! I love your videos and you and a couple other teachers are inspiring me to become a teacher. Love ya! Have a good day!
PS, Congrats on the new house and puppy :)
Your room is so nice! Congrats on the new house!!!
yayayy so glad you got the house!! and you are getting an aussie right?! heaven!! what camera do you use!!? i am soo jealous of how spacious your room is!
I watch you
Yes we are getting an Aussie!! I use a canon g7 x mark ii
I see you on all the teacher setup vids I watch
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Fun and cute classroom supplies make me happy
I bought your schedule cards on tpt and I love it! Thanks:)
I’ve used supply caddies and sets of drawers, and I honestly don’t like any of them for group supplies! In the end, I just scatter like 3/4 caddies around the room and put enough scissors, glue etc in each one, and then kids just go and get what they need and put it back. And the. I have supply tidy as one of my jobs, and two kids go around at the end of the day, pick up anything left lying around, and tidy up the caddies. Works better than anything else I’ve tried!!
Idea! The group of 5 with the lonely island (the one you didn’t like in one of your first few videos) you can turn that desk 90 degrees and put the white bin in front of that desk. If that makes sense? So everything looks symmetrical.
Congrats on your house and your dog! I'm super exited for the new class room tour! 🤗
I use clear contact paper to put numbers on my chairs in my library. Obviously you would have to actually move the desks rather than just move nametags, but it holds up pretty well. The hardest part is keeping the kids from picking at it. But most do really well and a few just need a gentle reminder to leave it alone. Congrats on your house and dog! :)
Congrats on the house and u will be in love with the Aussie. Ours is 15 and we love her.
CONGRATS ON YOUR HOUSE. I love your videos ❤️ thanks for making videos for us to watch
Congratulations on the house and the puppy!!! So so happy for you! And I beg you, please come teach my husband how to organize! I've tried and he ignores me, so 50% of our bedroom is chaos and 50% is slightly chaotic, but it's an organized chaos. Lmao!
don’t do the big clear/white bins for the group supplies. takes too much space.
Congratulations on getting the house, very exciting!
Can you please let me know where you got the label adhesive pockets? I need those asap!
To store your group supplies, use the compartment plastic bins you have. Scissors, markers, color pencils etc in each individual compartment.
You should find like hanging organizers and hang it off the desks.
Love your videos!!!!💖💖💖
Where did you get your cube storage furniture?
Your class room is amazing! How did you come up with a colour theme or did the school tell you to do those colours? X
hi! love your classroom, and totally using it as my inspiration for my first room! I was looking for contact paper like the one you used on your filing cabinet, its so cute! where did you get yours???
dollar tree!!
Oh wow! Love the color scheme and black desktops. I have to ask... what camera are you using? it’s so clear. it seems like I could reach in and touch any object. Love it! ❤️ hope you have a wonderful year!
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You idea for a student log in card is brilliant!!!
Congrats on the house and the new addition to your family!
have you tried the smaller drawers you can sit on the table.
Maybe for group materials you could use wheeled carts like the blue one you have. Or maybe you could put the drawers you have in a different area and simplify them
Great video!! I put a tiny dot of hot glue on the corners of my name tags. They just pop off when I need to change them out. The glue pops right off too. :-)
The storage drawers do not have to be centered in between the two desks ... you can move it over so that your pathway is more spacious. :) also... if you bribe your kids with a candy bar.. or something else ... if their name plates look nice at the end of the year.. they respect the name plate more.
Did you take out your new green chairs??
What are the dimensions of your iris labels and name tags? Also, what font did you use for the name tags? Last, what did you use to hang your lights around the smart board?
Which Iris labels are you referring to?? My name tags are 3.5 by 10 about. The font for the name tags is KG Blank Space Solid. And I just used tape to hang the lights! Hope this helps!! :)
Thanks!!! The clear Iris bins behind your table. The ones from Michaels.
I'm sorry I still don't know which ones you are referring to! The ones that are holding my supplemental math things? Or the big IB Curriculum ones? Sorry!!!
No worries! Go to 4:12 in the video. In the back on your metal looking shelf is a white iris case that they are in. I'm wanting to make labels to go inside them like you have. I hope this helps.
I save a lot of time/$ by writing student names on the desk with colorful Sharpie paint markers. The name only comes off by writing over it with a dry erase marker. Love your channel.
Where did you find the adhesive pockets that you used to attach the login codes to your student's desks?
target dollar spot
I've been watching these setup videos and IM LOVING THEM 😄
you should hang a basket on the side of the desks for group supplies
Love the nametags, how or where did you get the template? I'd love to make some similar ones for my 3rd graders.
I made them, They are in my TpT store the link is in my bio
I think in the groups where there’s 5 kids, move the 5th desk over to one side and put the white bins by there, it looks like it will fit! Also, with the name tags- maybe get strips of Velcro and put two close to the ends so you wouldn’t be able to see them even if they were off center a bit
I used Velcro strips, one for each side and it works great for me last year. I teach second grade.
so excited for you! also just curious, how much do you pay out of pocket for outfitting your classroom??
Im so excited for you on the dog and the house! Congrats!
Maybe put the name tag pocket holders on the back of the chairs, so that when they move seats or need to look at their name tag they can just take it out of the pocket and put it in a new chair
I was a custodian for a middle school and the only name tags that stayed on the desk and that were nice we're the ones that we put on the side of the desk
What vlogging camera are you using? Looks great!
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I use those IKea carts for my groups. I also tell the kids who ever has the nicest name tag at the end of the year gets a prize. Jealous that your classroom is almost done. Our building is getting a new Hvac system and we are not allowed in our building until August 8th and school starts Aug. 13.
Instead of those big boxes beside the groups, get boxes that fit well under their chairs to put stuff in.
You are the creator on the rise on the TH-cam Trending page! Congrats! I have a screenshot!
Your a great teacher you organize the whole classroom our school is a massive mess ew I hate it.. I wish I can volunteer to organize the whole classroom I’m going to do it once the summer vacation ends