Monday Made It {Teacher Plan Book}

Happy Monday!

Today I'm linking up with the fabulous Tara from 4th Grade Frolics for her Monday Made it!

I finally got around to putting together my Plan book for this upcoming school year. 

So far, I've created a new plan book every summer. You can check out my past planner post here and here.

This year I wanted to go for a bright and colorful book with some awesome Melonheadz clipart! 

I am soooo happy with the way this book turned out- My heart feels happy every time I look at it :) 

It took me quite awhile to print, but it is definitely worth it to print on your own! Once I was done printing, I took it to Office Max to get bound. It only cost me around $4.00!

If you are interested in purchasing this planner, I will have it on sale for the rest of today in my TPT Shop!

Monday Made It #1: Lesson Plan Book

Hi Guys! 

I'm linking up with Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics for her very first Monday Made It of the summer!! 

I am so excited. Now that it is summer, I hope to get a lot of things made and this linky always helps!! 

First up on my to-do list was to create my teacher planner for the upcoming school year. 

This is my plan book from last year. 

I wanted a facelift so here is the new one:

 Divider page

Student Information Sheets

Yearly Plans

Monthly planning pages

Weekly lesson planning pages

Note taking pages

As you can tell from both this year and last  years planner..I love bright colors. The best thing about this year's planner is that if you're not into the bright colors, the file actually has 6 different color options. So basically, you're getting 6 different teacher planners for the price of 1!  If you're interested I have it on sale in my TpT shop for the rest of this week….

I am absolutely in love with this years lesson planning book and would love to give away a copy to one of my sweet followers!! Enter using the rafflecopter below :) I will choose a winner next week Monday 6/9. 

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Good luck! 

Currently: July and 50% off Lesson Plan books!!

Hi Everyone!

Although it's only the 2nd of July..I feel like I'm late to the Currently party!! Of course, it's got to be a group of teachers who are super on it and get this thing done a.s.a.p! :P 

I'm linking up with Farley again for this months currently. Seriously?? Does July need to come this quickly?? Every summer when July hits I come to the realization that my summer is pretty much over..I pretty much spend the entire month of July working on getting ready for the new school year. Wait, what am I talking about? I've spent the whole summer doing that! lol! Oh, the life of a teacher I tell ya...and people think that we have summers off?! 

Anyways..here's my currently!

Listening: To the fiance frying some turkey bacon. I love being able to actually sit down with him during the summer for breakfast!!

Loving: Who doesn't love summer, right?! I'm loving that I have all the time in the world to do whatever I want- although it still feels like I don't have enough time in a day! BUT..I love that we're headed off to the beach today for another fishing adventure! Hopefully I catch something...

Thinking: As I'm eating breakfast...I can't stop thinking about the yummy food we'll be eating for lunch and dinner. Yes, I'm constantly thinking about food...lol. We're going to be trying this place He'eia Pier for lunch and the picture on yelp look SO GOOD!
Follow me here on instagram to follow all of my teaching and food adventures here in paradise.
I'll be posting a pic of my lunch..and crossing fingers to be posting a catch for today!!

Wanting: there to be one more summer of vacation. I'm not ready to go back yet!

Needing: To continue working out and eating healthy so that I can shed some pounds. I've put so much weight on since I started teaching..it's crazy! I guess it doesn't help when everyday the kids tell me how good I like...when I really don't! lol Plus, I need to trim down for my wedding, which is still tbd.

Tips, tricks, or hints: Do what works for you!! Don't try to recreate something that you've seen and liked from someone else. Don't try to meet other peoples expectations for products or blogging...Do what you will use in your own classroom, post what works well for you..and what didn't! People love to hear about success stories but I think that they also like to hear about those not so good moments...because hey, we all have them!

ALSO..If you've made it all the way down here...

My bright colored lesson plan book is on sale in my TPT store until Thursday midnight Hawaii time for only $3.50!  If you missed it..take a look at my blog post where I give you a detailed look at what's inside..

I also have a black, white and gray version that is quite similar but saves on a TON of ink. This is also available in my TPT store for only $3.50

Until next time!!

Monday Made It #2: Lesson Plan Book!!

Hey Everyone!!

I'm so happy/proud to be posting my second Monday Made it...2 weeks in a row! Hopefully I'll also have something to share next week as well. Linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics for this week's Monday Made it! 

I've been busy at work tweaking my plan book for next year. I currently have one up in my TPT Store  from last school year. Last years book was a black and white version..because I wanted to save my ink for all of the other wonderful things I had purchased and printed at home. This year, I decided to update the plan book because I wanted it to be fun and colorful, like my classroom theme for this coming school year! 

I took it to Office Max yesterday and got it bound..I LOVE how it turned out. I was so shocked that it cost less than $4.00 to get this book put together. 

Last summer, I decided to create my own plan book because I couldn't bring myself to paying an outrageous price at the teacher supply store for a plan book that I really didn't care for. The prices of those plain and not cute books are so expensive...so I decided why not create something that i like, and that has everything that I want/need in it?! 

I will go through each of the sections in this book. 

I had a few more sections that I had planned for...but unfortunately, I ran out of paper to print with and I was so anxious to just take it to get it bound...otherwise, I'd keep obsessing and adding things and this would be a never ending project!

The first section is this student information sheet. 

Behind are pages where you can fill out the following:

• Student and Parent's name (for those students who have different last names from their parents..it's always good to have it down just in case)
• Email address
•  Cell phone and home phone numbers
•  Allergies
• Extra Notes
• and a place where you can circle if the child is a bus rider, parent pick up, after school care, or other...

Next up is the Long Term Planning Section.

Here is where I will plan out what big ideas/standards will be taught during what month. 

This is always helpful for me to keep up with my pacing as I teach...and to make sure that I cover everything!!

Next comes the Monthly Calendar section...

I decided to use circles so that each year you can just go ahead and fill in the numbers for each month. 

This year, I've also decided to add a quote for each month. This is a very basic and plain calendar template but I plan on jazzing it up with colorful pens as I fill in all the gazillion things that teachers always have going on in their busy lives

Then comes the Grade Book

This is pretty self explanatory. The little line up at the top is where you can write down the date of the assignment/assessment..and then below you can either write down the assignment title and/or the standard. 

Lesson Plans

This is the template that I like to use for my lesson plans. The top has a spot where you can jot down the subject area. I like to leave this blank because sometimes my math block may take up 2-3 boxes depending on the day. This gives me some flexibility. 

I've also decided to add a Things to Do box at the ending of each lesson planning week.

I'm constantly making lists of all the things I have to do each week....but I am also constantly losing those lists and am having to remake them. This way..I won't lose them and it'll be all right there! 

The last section in my book is where I keep a list of my CC math and ela standards. 

Please note that when this product is uploaded to TPT, I will not be including standards for each grade level. You will need to find your own copies and add them in. 

I had planned on having one final section which would  have been Parent Communication. I ran out of paper so I couldn't include this in here but I'll probably bind another little book to keep track of my parent communication. This is where I wanted to document all the phone calls/emails that I made to parents and the purpose for the contact...Documentation is key and it's always a good thing to record when you do contact parents!!  

That's it for this week's Monday Made it!. I'm really happy with how my plan book turned out this year!! Hopefully I'll get this uploaded to TPT soon. I have a few more things to tweak on here and have to add in a credits page.

**Planner is now up in my TPT store!  It is marked down to $3.50 for today only!

My black and white version of this is also marked down to $3.50 until midnight Hawaii time :D  

Printable Plan Book

As I was going through the teacher supply store yesterday, I couldn't bring myself to paying $14 for a plan/record book that was so simple and nothing to my liking. I'm sure for those of you who live in the mainland, plan books aren't as much as they are here..everything seems to be way pricier here in Hawaii. Anyways, I made the choice to not purchase a plan book this year and create my own!

The plan book I created has 144 printable pages for you. The pages itself are very plain, because personally, I enjoy doodling in my planners and adding cute stickers :D Here's my first attempt at taking screen shots..I still need to work on positioning haha.

Anyways..this planner includes the following:
-Cover page (However, I will probably create my own with my new handy dandy cricut) :)
-Student information sheets
-2 different types of monthly calendars
--long term lesson planning pages
-40 weeks of lesson plan pages
-student grade book and record keeping pages

The awesome thing about this planner is that you can print them again and again. I originally started with numbers in the monthly calendar but decided to leave them blank so people can hand write them in. This way, you never have to purchase another teacher calendar from the rip off education stores :P  haha.

If you would like a copy of this plan book and want to get started way early before the year starts, head over to my tpt store! First 2 to comment and leave your email address for me can have a FREE copy of this :)

PS: I must say, with all of the fantastic quality products that all of you make and sell on tpt, I find myself being totally disappointed with the quality of workbooks and supplies at teacher supply stores. Am I the only one who feels this way??