Mrs. Stanford is having a very cool Linky and giveaway! It's all about how we plan - with a $25 Erin Condren GC to one lucky linker! I've always done my lesson plans by myself and I haven't ever purchased a planner. There are three reasons for this:
1. I can't ever fit all the details in those tiny boxes in normal teacher lesson plan books.
2. They are ugly. The ones our school provides is as boring as you can get. Blah!
3. I'm too cheap to buy a cute planner.
But.... I may have found my answer! So enjoy reading my post and the others in the Linky, but do not, under any circumstance go enter it yourself. That way I can win, get it? You'd be doing me a big favor. That's not very bucket-filler of me though, is it? Okay, fine, I want you to enter... really. I do.
I would really love to read some other peoples ideas on planning. Maybe I'll just suck it up and buy one of her planners for myself if I don't win.
I normally use a template that I make to plan my lessons.
You can click here to see last year's plans. Each day was two pages (or front & back) long, with every little thing listed. I like planning this way because I think it makes it easy for a substitute to walk in and follow the plans without too much trouble. I also have a sub folder that I leave extra plans in- just in case.
It takes a little time at the beginning of the year (or one of the 100 times I have to change the schedule), but weekly planning is pretty quick.
I know many teachers keep lesson plans from the previous year to look back at and help plan the new year. I never do this. I feel like every year I have a completely different class and I need to do things they way they need them (plus it drives me crazy to do things exactly the same way twice- seriously, I can't even stand to watch a movie that I like over again.) So, that's how I plan for school.
Now, my big life-altering (okay, maybe just for me) change....
This year I will be teaching a split 1st and 2nd grade class! Ahhhhh!!!! Our school couldn't afford to hire another teacher and our board decided (thankfully, I think) that the single class sizes were too large. This was the solution that was decided on and I got nominated to teach these kiddos. So, now that I told you how I plan, I think I'll have to totally change the way I do everything. I'm
a little majorly nervous about how to meet common core with both groups and how to teach 2 math lessons a day. I think Daily 5 will be a blessing with this situation, hopefully the first few weeks I can do very similar things with them since neither group has done Daily 5 before. So what other blogs out there are teachers that teach more than one grade? Because I. Need. Help. Please. Pretty please.
I did find Marvelous Multiagers and I'm about to send her a message... anyone know any others??? With only a week left, I'm freaking out! I would love some suggestions, so please send them my way! Schedules, plans, techniques- anything, really. Thanks all, I love ya!
I guess I need to change my blog to First (and 2nd) with Franklin, huh? I really didn't think I would ever teach a different grade!
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