This planner is so beautiful! Can I ask what program you used to make it? I've dabbled in canva a little but would love to make my own planner. I just love the format, font, and colors you used here!
I’d love to see a video how you decide how many days you teach a particular topic or unit. I’m just starting and have no clue how to decide what to teach or how to plan out what to teach.
I track day by day too! I was getting so discouraged by not getting through the lessons I planned. This is awesome, I've been meaning to start creating my planner but have been slacking 😂😭. Thanks for the motivation!
Oh awesome! It has seriously been the best thing I have done. I have gotten so much more done and feel so much better about where we are at. ❤️ you definitely should make yours!
I love it! Definitely interested in the binding video I also have problems deciding what counts as a school day. I tend to include outdoors and playground time in it as well and then it's just a jumble. I do reverse planning because there's just too much unknown when my daughter might randomly sleep 3 hours a day, or we go up to the mountains on a whim. I zoomed in on your teacher resource reading list 😅 I tried to read Brave Learner... I had to put it down though. Unpopular opinion, but her writing (maybe just in that book) is poor. But when I got to the part where she says she lived a nightmare because her son asked her to study the solar system/space and "why on earth would she want to do that?!?" (and then goes on to make the point looking into the telescope changed her mind), I had to put the book down. I didnt think it was possible for a person to consider studying space boring 😂 I just finished reading Simplicity Parenting. Completely resonated and the authors "prescription" for parenting (and life in general) is very much how my husband and I want to live our lives since before we even had a child. I think there were only a few things that I was like "mmmmm, maybe not" though, like only having two books on the floor and the rest in library. Impossible 😂 Maybe can add it to your no-buy reading list. Do you have any new recent recommendations for parenting/teacher resources?
I like reverse planning, I feel like I do that sort of with tracking everything. I just can’t do the detailed reverse planning where you write everything you did for the day. I would get off on a couple days and then it was just impossible for me to get back into it. I feel the same way. I consider so much to be a part of education and now we even do some sort of book work almost everyday even if it is just 10 minutes, so I have no idea how to keep track of attendance when the time actually comes. I have not finished it. I started it and then just wasn’t feeling it. I also wanted to do it as a live book club (which I still might do), but I was having so many internet issues that I gave up on that idea for awhile. I agree about not loving her writing. it is exactly the same as her speaking voice so I think for whatever reason that throws me off. I will have to get that book, it has been on my radar for awhile and I just haven’t gotten it. I will have to tell my husband to get it for me as a Christmas present of something. Thanks for giving me the push I needed with that book! I would have to say I love as parenting books, the whole brain child, and no drama discipline (same authors) It really changed how I parent and been a really positive change for our family. I also like the read aloud handbook. It makes me feel a little bit guilty at times, (I always feel like I could be reading more) but reading it really helped me change my focus for the year. Also I don’t have it yet but I supported a book on Kickstarter for project based learning that I am really excited about.
Omg I never use a planner for long. It just seems like to much going day by day. I love your resources and mom inspiring books list in the back..also love the tracking progress quarterly! Love the colors and simplicity of the tracking part and the 2 calender idea.. this is perfect for me. We are very go with the flow and my husband's schedule is crazy and varies too so our schooling often varies with it. I need this planner in my life! Please tell me you are working on getting this for sale!!!
Oh thank you so much! You seem so much like me! currently I am not doing anything to make this available. I will let you know if I end up making it usable!
That looks very organised! Such a good alternative to a day-by-day planner. I skew the other way and have my curriculum tasks planned out over 200 otherwise-unlabeled days. I cross the tasks off when we get to them and I know I'm aiming for the day 100 lessons to get crossed off somewhere mid-year but it doesn't stress me because who knows which day of the week day 100 is? It's somewhere mid-year and that's close enough for my tracking.
Oh that is a great way to do it! I feel like I am too “moody” for lack of a better word to not somewhat go with how I have been feeling. Do you always finish a whole day? Or do you sometimes only get a half day done? And if so how do you go from there? I hope that makes sense.
@@LoveLearningEveryday makes sense haha. No, we don't do a whole day of lessons every day. Today, we did half of lesson 8 in maths, lesson 7 in Ckla skills and lesson 8 in Ckla listening and learning. If it bothers me, I'll just see if she'll do half a lesson of maths and a lesson of skills without a read-aloud story to 'catch up' but it doesn't bother me. She'll want to redo the listening and learning lessons from the stories and fables unit several times each, so there's flexibility for not crossing off a new one each day at that point. Eventually we'll get to the end haha. And this 'year' only has 144 days planned anyway due to it being 'preschool' still. We school any day she asks for it, which is 3-5 days a week. Case-in-point it's Sunday and we've done our fifth straight day of school today. It doesn't take long so we can still do school for an hour while daddy's home and it doesn't impact our plans much. On a related note, I won't bother with actual attendance because crossing off the 200 (or 144 in this case) days of lessons makes a strong case that I've met attendance requirements.
I really like the tracker idea....I write my own curriculum so using a tracker would be a little bit less straightforward. I think I’ll try to figure out how to implement that tracker system somehow in my planner. Perhaps tracking subject area....
@@LoveLearningEveryday I do write all the subjects myself, though I write my curriculum around unit studies/Main Lesson blocks structure inspired by Waldorf Schools, so the subjects are not fully separate but are all integrated around a central theme. It took a lot of trial and error before I finally worked out a curriculum structure that I can use for any unit study, but now it makes planning a lot easier. I also have 4 kids (though only 2 are old enough for schooling right now) so writing my own curriculum/unit studies lets me only have to plan one curriculum, but I can adjust the workload for each child which is nice. Recording what we do is always time consuming so I am always happy to find great tips like yours here for clearly tracking what we've been doing quickly and efficiently. I just found your channel but love it already👍
@@searose6192 I would love to learn how to do this. I am just starting and worried about trying to teach 2 kids on different levels so they both get what they need and are challenged appropriately. I don't have a teaching background and need some good resources on how to do this, and proper planning, and record everything that's necessary for the state. I just found this channel so hoping to find a lot here. Like what I've seen so far.
This planner is so beautiful! Can I ask what program you used to make it? I've dabbled in canva a little but would love to make my own planner. I just love the format, font, and colors you used here!
I’d love to see a video how you decide how many days you teach a particular topic or unit. I’m just starting and have no clue how to decide what to teach or how to plan out what to teach.
I luv the weekly focus pages!
I track day by day too! I was getting so discouraged by not getting through the lessons I planned. This is awesome, I've been meaning to start creating my planner but have been slacking 😂😭. Thanks for the motivation!
Oh awesome! It has seriously been the best thing I have done. I have gotten so much more done and feel so much better about where we are at. ❤️ you definitely should make yours!
I love it! Definitely interested in the binding video
I also have problems deciding what counts as a school day. I tend to include outdoors and playground time in it as well and then it's just a jumble.
I do reverse planning because there's just too much unknown when my daughter might randomly sleep 3 hours a day, or we go up to the mountains on a whim.
I zoomed in on your teacher resource reading list 😅
I tried to read Brave Learner... I had to put it down though. Unpopular opinion, but her writing (maybe just in that book) is poor. But when I got to the part where she says she lived a nightmare because her son asked her to study the solar system/space and "why on earth would she want to do that?!?" (and then goes on to make the point looking into the telescope changed her mind), I had to put the book down. I didnt think it was possible for a person to consider studying space boring 😂
I just finished reading Simplicity Parenting. Completely resonated and the authors "prescription" for parenting (and life in general) is very much how my husband and I want to live our lives since before we even had a child. I think there were only a few things that I was like "mmmmm, maybe not" though, like only having two books on the floor and the rest in library. Impossible 😂
Maybe can add it to your no-buy reading list.
Do you have any new recent recommendations for parenting/teacher resources?
I like reverse planning, I feel like I do that sort of with tracking everything. I just can’t do the detailed reverse planning where you write everything you did for the day. I would get off on a couple days and then it was just impossible for me to get back into it.
I feel the same way. I consider so much to be a part of education and now we even do some sort of book work almost everyday even if it is just 10 minutes, so I have no idea how to keep track of attendance when the time actually comes.
I have not finished it. I started it and then just wasn’t feeling it. I also wanted to do it as a live book club (which I still might do), but I was having so many internet issues that I gave up on that idea for awhile. I agree about not loving her writing. it is exactly the same as her speaking voice so I think for whatever reason that throws me off.
I will have to get that book, it has been on my radar for awhile and I just haven’t gotten it. I will have to tell my husband to get it for me as a Christmas present of something. Thanks for giving me the push I needed with that book!
I would have to say I love as parenting books, the whole brain child, and no drama discipline (same authors) It really changed how I parent and been a really positive change for our family. I also like the read aloud handbook. It makes me feel a little bit guilty at times, (I always feel like I could be reading more) but reading it really helped me change my focus for the year. Also I don’t have it yet but I supported a book on Kickstarter for project based learning that I am really excited about.
I LOVE THE QUOTE in the cover!!!
oh thanks I love it too. My husband says it reads a little complicated (since I altered it from a matilda quote) but oh well it is for me. haha.
I've never seen that type of binding before. That's really cool.
Omg I never use a planner for long. It just seems like to much going day by day. I love your resources and mom inspiring books list in the back..also love the tracking progress quarterly! Love the colors and simplicity of the tracking part and the 2 calender idea.. this is perfect for me. We are very go with the flow and my husband's schedule is crazy and varies too so our schooling often varies with it. I need this planner in my life! Please tell me you are working on getting this for sale!!!
Oh thank you so much! You seem so much like me! currently I am not doing anything to make this available. I will let you know if I end up making it usable!
You must be stationed near me. I recognize those field trips. LOL Are you still in the area or PCS'd already?
That looks very organised! Such a good alternative to a day-by-day planner. I skew the other way and have my curriculum tasks planned out over 200 otherwise-unlabeled days. I cross the tasks off when we get to them and I know I'm aiming for the day 100 lessons to get crossed off somewhere mid-year but it doesn't stress me because who knows which day of the week day 100 is? It's somewhere mid-year and that's close enough for my tracking.
Oh that is a great way to do it! I feel like I am too “moody” for lack of a better word to not somewhat go with how I have been feeling. Do you always finish a whole day? Or do you sometimes only get a half day done? And if so how do you go from there? I hope that makes sense.
@@LoveLearningEveryday makes sense haha. No, we don't do a whole day of lessons every day. Today, we did half of lesson 8 in maths, lesson 7 in Ckla skills and lesson 8 in Ckla listening and learning. If it bothers me, I'll just see if she'll do half a lesson of maths and a lesson of skills without a read-aloud story to 'catch up' but it doesn't bother me. She'll want to redo the listening and learning lessons from the stories and fables unit several times each, so there's flexibility for not crossing off a new one each day at that point. Eventually we'll get to the end haha. And this 'year' only has 144 days planned anyway due to it being 'preschool' still. We school any day she asks for it, which is 3-5 days a week. Case-in-point it's Sunday and we've done our fifth straight day of school today. It doesn't take long so we can still do school for an hour while daddy's home and it doesn't impact our plans much.
On a related note, I won't bother with actual attendance because crossing off the 200 (or 144 in this case) days of lessons makes a strong case that I've met attendance requirements.
I love this so much! Will you be selling these? If so, I’m interested in buying!!
I really like the tracker idea....I write my own curriculum so using a tracker would be a little bit less straightforward. I think I’ll try to figure out how to implement that tracker system somehow in my planner. Perhaps tracking subject area....
Oh thank you! And that is so neat! What all do you create? Do you do every subject yourself?
@@LoveLearningEveryday I do write all the subjects myself, though I write my curriculum around unit studies/Main Lesson blocks structure inspired by Waldorf Schools, so the subjects are not fully separate but are all integrated around a central theme. It took a lot of trial and error before I finally worked out a curriculum structure that I can use for any unit study, but now it makes planning a lot easier. I also have 4 kids (though only 2 are old enough for schooling right now) so writing my own curriculum/unit studies lets me only have to plan one curriculum, but I can adjust the workload for each child which is nice.
Recording what we do is always time consuming so I am always happy to find great tips like yours here for clearly tracking what we've been doing quickly and efficiently. I just found your channel but love it already👍
@@searose6192 I would love to learn how to do this. I am just starting and worried about trying to teach 2 kids on different levels so they both get what they need and are challenged appropriately. I don't have a teaching background and need some good resources on how to do this, and proper planning, and record everything that's necessary for the state. I just found this channel so hoping to find a lot here. Like what I've seen so far.