My New Lesson Planner

It was time for a new lesson planner this year my previous one was not quite big enough and the box I used for holding daily lessons and printables broke again.

We use a workbox type system for school, I do my lesson plans for the week and put together all printables and worksheets we will use. Then each day I fill up his work cart with all the books and printables he needs for that day.  I wanted to combine both my lesson plans and worksheets we would use into one binder instead of the binder and file box system I was using. 

I have tried to go to a digital system for a lesson planner,  I use my computer and phone for every thing else including the family calendar but for whatever reason a paper planner works best for school.

First order of business was shopping for supplies. I love school/office supplies. I bought most of the supplies for this planner from Staples and I used my scrapbook supplies to dress it up a bit. I will be using it everyday might as well make it fun to look at.

I bought a 3” Staples Better Binder in fuchsia, a set of Staples Better dividers, 2 sets of Staples Clear Binder Pockets, and Zipper Binder Pocket.  I also bought a set of Paper mate Ink joy Pens from amazon.com. I love the Ink Joy pens.

Staples always has the binders on sale with their back to school sales and usually runs a trade your old binder in for $2.00 off a new binder. I love the Better Binders they are very sturdy and come in all kinds of pretty colors.

I used scrapbook paper and my cricut to make a cover for the binder and divider pages inside the binder. Most of the printables I use to make my planner are from Donna Young

 

First when you open the binder is the zipper binder with pens and post it notes and a 3 ring hole punch.

 

Next is a pocket page to add in quick papers I need to do something with and then is a cover sheet I laminated, the thicker paper makes flipping the pages in the binder easier

The next section is calendars, I have a yearly calendar, our school attendance page and a month to month calendar to write down what we did each month that is homeschool related.

Next section is my list section, Here I have a reading list where I try to write down all the books he reads through the year, I usually get about half of them written down. I also have a field trip page.

Next is course work. Here I have the list of textbooks we are using this semester and a key code for them.

Next is the lesson planner this is the section I use to write out our weekly lessons. I have used both the one page and the two page planner that Donna Young has on her site. I like them both I just prefer the one page a little better.

Next section is printables,here I have a master copy of pages we use everyday or weekly such as handwriting paper, reward chart (something new I am trying this year), daily calendar journal etc.

Next is the daily lessons, here is where I put all the worksheets and printables we will be using for the whole week. I have a pocket folder for each day of the week, as I make my lesson plans I add the papers I will need for each day. Every night I fill up his workbox cart with the work for the next day. It takes me a hour or so to do lesson plans for the whole week and with all the supplies together for the week it takes me less than 2 minutes to fill up his work cart every day.

And finally the last section is grades, receipts and the very last page is my letter from our umbrella school saying I am a verified teacher just in case I ever need it.

The back of the binder is a clip board I made for notes etc. The white note paper is laminated and I can use a dry erase marker on it.

Have a great day!