Super Sweet

I am pretty pumped about my new Erin Condren Teacher Planner. 

I chose this cute apple design for my cover. I added my name and school too. 

What I really liked about this planner is that I was able to view a video of a teacher flipping through the entire thing so I could see the various pages and what is offered. It's difficult to find a planner that suits my needs, so I usually make my own. I decided that finally becoming Dr. Sneaker merited a splurge. And by splurge I mean spending a whopping $77.35 on this baby (which will either be deducted from graduation money or reimbursed by my school district since it is indeed a school related expense). 

The base price is $59.00, but I got some add-ons including extra double-page checklist spreads ($7.50) and a pen holder  ($2.50) plus shipping ($8.35). 

It was so excited to receive this pretty baby in the mail that I already started filling in dates based on my school year calendar. 

Take a look...

Colorful tabs to make everything easily accessible. 

  I will definitely be adding some items to these Year at a Glance pages today when I meet with my Kinder team. 

 This is the layout for weekly plans. Lots of open space. I don't think I could fit all my plans on these pages if I taught full day, but for half day I will surely be able to write down everything within the spaces. I already jotted a few notes for first day activities. 

 These are the pages that I ordered lots of extras. I plan to use them for checking in HW, documenting data from my behavior chart, and organizing assessment data for report cards. I think I will section them off so I have a bunch of pages for each grading period. 

I love all the little teachery quotes throughout the planner. Colorful and inspirational.

Although definitely not a reasonable cost for a teacher's budget, I do think that this was a fun splurge. Will I buy one every year? That depends on how it works out, but I definitely like it. I am always striving to be more organized and I think this will help me to have all the info I need in one place. There are also many pages for notes after each monthly calendar which will be great for meetings. That way when I take notes, I won't lose the rando piece of paper I bring because I can write them in my planner and then refer back to them if needed at a later time. I also love the graph paper because I can keep track of my seating arrangements and keep a record of it so I don't (gasp) put a child at the same color table twice during the year!