... on Monday!
Keeping Up With Mrs. Harris and Kreative in Kinder are doing an Erin Condren Giveaway on their pages for this week's Plan With Me Sunday!
This week is the back to school edition of this linky, so I'm going to show you my teacher planner, and how I have it set up!
I have always struggled to find teacher planner peace. You can read more about that in my teacher planner post from last year!
I know two things about what I need in a teacher planner:
1. It has to be a physical, I-can-hold-it-in-my-hands, thing. I CAN NOT do online lesson planning. I have to be able to write it down.
2. It has to be pre-bound. Binders or arc systems don't work for me... I end up taking out pages and losing them, or not ever putting them in at all!
This year I am trying the Bloom Daily Planner - Teacher Planner
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| Find it HERE! |
There are a few things that I love about this planner!
1. It meets the above requirements of being a paper-pencil planner and it is spiral bound
2. It is colorful
3. It will fit my needs as a small group teacher (not pre-labeled with subjects I don't teach!)
4. Each monthly spread has a goal setting page before and a goal reflection page after along with space to take notes.
5. The monthly spreads are all together in the front and the weekly pages are all together in the back. This is something new for me this year. Whenever I have made my own I put the weekly pages behind the monthly spread, but I find that I really don't use the monthly spreads that much! So I'm going to use this cute book clip my sister made me to mark my spot in my weekly plans!
So here is what I did for set up since the planner comes undated!
Step 1 - go to Hobby Lobby for the Following items:
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| Available Here and Here - or in the scrapbooking section of Hobby Lobby |
Step 2 - go to Michael's for the Following Washi Tape Tube:
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| Not available online at this time - but you can find it in store! |
Step 3: Turn on Netflix and get comfy!
Step 4: Using the 'Create your own Calendar Sticker Pack' from Hobby Lobby Date your Monthly pages.
Step 5: Using the Calendar Date Stickers - date your weekly pages. I only put dates on the weeks I was in school (I skipped the weeks of Christmas Break, Winter Break and Spring Break). I suggest writing the dates on post-it notes and sticking it to each weekly spread first.
Step 6: Start having fun with Washi Tape! I used Washi Tape on my monthly and weekly spreads to mark when we had days off or vacations. I also used the additional stickers from the 'Create your own Calendar Sticker Pack' to mark whether it was a day off or vacation, and to mark holidays! I also plan to use 4 different colors of Washi Tape to tape the edges of my weekly spreads to mark the 4 different marking periods. I haven't done this yet though because our marking period dates have not come out yet and while I could make an educated guess - I don't want to be wrong!
Step 7: Start writing lesson plans! I haven't done this yet either. I don't start until September so this step will have to wait... but I am ready for it!
What do you use for a planner? Are you a Paper and Pencil or Digital Planner? Binder? Arc? Spiral? Print it yourself or Purchase? Color or Black and white?
Are you on instagram? Link up with me (@michelle_alltogether) to show off your teacher planner and use #MyTeacherPlanner
Here's Mine:
And here's a blank one for you!
And don't forget to check out Keeping Up With Mrs. Harris and Kreative in Kinder to check out everyone else's Plan With Me Sunday!
