How do you plan...

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Okay... planning.

I am a binder kind of girl.  I have tried so many pre-made plan books, binders, etc. over the past 9 years... so many.  The awful planner you get from  the school, an adorable planner from CTP, that I had to write the exact same things in every week, over and over and over... It wasn't until I became a Reading Recovery teacher that I fell in love with the binder.  Something about keeping all my lessons in a binder, being able to add pages, etc. etc. etc.

Fast Forward to today.

I make my own planning pages.  I hate having my guided reading and weekly planning in separate places.  I have been teaching long enough now my plans are more like reminder notes, I don't need a lot of space.  (The first few years of teaching my plans were.... detailed... very, very, very detailed.  This system would not have worked then.)

Here are a few snippets of my planning system.

Above: Pictures of my planner.  I chose to print in black/white (just to save some ink) but if you click on my planning labels to the side or just out my TpT store you can find lots of my planning pages for FREE!  Happy Planning.

Sidenote: I go back to school on Monday, eek.  So much to do.  I am hoping to post a classroom tour over the weekend of the finished room.