Erin Condren Teacher Planner

-
Erin Condren Teacher Planner

Erin Condren Teacher Planner!! It has finally arrived…and I am in hesitant love.  The cover I chose is awesome.  The layout and additional page protectors, perfect.  However, I do not know if I am loving the new design pages.

This is my third teacher planner from Erin Condren, and I was so excited when it was time to order my planner.  As usual, it took me wayyyy to long to choose a cover design.  In the end, I went with the same cover that I got last year, I just changed one of the colors. And I love the way the color came out (you can check out my cover here).

Additionally, I had my planner begin in August, because in NJ, we start back in September, which means that I really start planning in August (let’s be serious, I start planning for the new school year before the last school year ends).  I love that Erin Condren provides stickers for the dates, so I do not have to write them in…andddd that those colors match each month’s color theme.  I also had added three extra sheet protectors, because I like to keep several pages for easy reference (including my class schedule, standards, and curriculum pacing guides for grades 3-6…yes I teach 4 different grades).

Yet, there is one thing I am not in love with…the new lesson plan layout.  In previous years, there was an adorable apple on the top next to the week #, and they had individual rounded rectangles for each day of the weeks’ lessons.  Now there is no apple (I really thought that it was cute) and the little rectangles are gone, and they are replaced with thick lines that separate each page.  I am not saying that I do not like it, I am just not in love with it (yet).

I hope that I will begin to love every aspect of this planner as I have in the past.  In fact, it may just be that I hate change, and that I need to get used to the new design.  Either way, I will use my Erin Condren Teacher Planner every single day this coming school year.  Some may say that I am “old school,” but I need to be able to write down my objectives for each lesson, kinda like a to-do list for each of my classes, and erase and move things around as necessary.

I will definitely post an update, once I go back to school and I am using my Erin Condren Teacher Planner every single day.

You can check you my reveal video (my first YouTube video!!) here.

-Rachel


Location: New Jersey, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Teaching While Sick...

-
Image
Teaching while sick …           Of all the professions in the world (that are non-medical of course), I think that teaching may be the one that has the highest illness rate.  Why you ask???  Because we work with kids!  I have not been able to blog for the past several weeks, because I have been really run down.  Typically, I will start my day at the gym, teach all day, and then work for a couple of hours on TPT, and then finally unwind watching some TV after dinner.  BUT … over the past two weeks, I have barely been able to make it to school each day.           At the beginning of each school year, I tend to get sick, whether with a sinus infection, or with really bad allergies.  However, this year, my aliment is more of a general run-down feeling that does not want to leave me.  And I am comforted in knowing that I am not alone.  Dragging ourselves into school when we are sick, is something that we have all experienced.  And honestly, it is easier to come to work
Read more

Never Stop Learning...

-
Image
Never Stop Learning… I teach my students to be lifelong readers and writers.   I do not just tell my students to do this, I show them that I too am a lifelong learner.   Andddd I definitely learned that was this week. I learn new things every day about Teachers Pay Teachers   and being a   Teacher Author.   THANK GOODNESS for YouTube! Without YouTube,   Instagram, and blogs, I may have given up by now. But I am determined.   One of the main things that I gained from this week’s journey, was being able to create a PowerPoint that can be edited, while still adhering to copyrights and permissions for fonts and clip art.   This is an option on many products that are created by GREAT sellers, and I was struggling with figuring it out. One of my own fatal flaws (that I am all too aware of) is needing to figure things out on my own.   Although it is a flaw, it is also a great way to learn; I learn by breaking things down {AND} through trial and error.   BUT...why work h
Read more

December Writing Activities

-
Image
December Writing Activities Oh December!  I love the month of December!  The classroom is full of fun activities and possibilities.  However, if you do not have a good timeline {or game plan}, December can be a NIGHTMARE! I am a planner.  I have plans for upcoming lessons at least three weeks ahead of time!  As a Title 1 ELA teacher, I get to design creative lessons and activities that help my learners grow as READERS and WRITERS!  I do not have a set curriculum or even an anthology to use.  Now to some, this may seem daunting and more work…but I see it as limitless!  I get to design all of our activities, projects, and assignments, AND they are aligned to the standards, as well as the objectives that my kiddos need.  For this month, I wanted to focus on creative writing.  Writing is one of my favorite subjects to teach, because it allows the students to show their imagination!   As a child {and even now} I LOVE to write!   I’ve always had notebooks filled with
Read more