Monday, July 22, 2013

Back to School Notebook for the teacher

So, I decided this year that with the variety of meetings and training that I attend each school year that it would be useful to have all my information in one place where I store all of the information that is given to me. I got the idea here.

My 3-ring binder doesn't look as good as hers, and I am going to wait for the year to start to label my dividers, but I have the essentials to get ready for a new school year.  I went ahead and used a 1 1/2" binder.  I am going to slip my planner in the front pocket.  Also, I'm going to print out my education Pinterest boards so I have all of my information right there for when I get board at inservice.  Hahaha.

How to print Pinterest boards here.

At the front of my binder I have a pencil pouch with some oversized index cards & post it notes in case I need to bookmark something or if I have a good idea/remember I need to do something in the class the next day.  There are some pens, a Sharpie, and thin Crayola markers.  In PreK, you never know when you might need to color something.  ;)  I also think those will come in handy with my planner.  I plan to add some White Out too.


Underneath you'll notice the Five Star notebook to take whatever notes I need to.  It will be a good place to brainstorm for my lesson plans as well.

I already had some basic dividers.  


I spruced them up with some scrapbooking paper.  I glued the paper to the front with a glue stick, cut off the excess, and punched the holes wtih a 3-ring hole punch.  They turned out cute!


At first I used the excess paper (They were 12 x 12 sheets) on the back of the divider to make a two sections in case I wanted to make a chart or put a few quotes there.


I opted on the rest of them to leave the vertical paper off so that I would have more room.  


I slipped the rest of the paper in the back sleeve of the binder to make it look nicer.  It may be replaced later by something official.  I like this for the time being.


After the pencil pouch & notebook, here are the dividers ready to go.


After that I took a pocket folder and cut it in half and trimmed it down to fit in the notebook.  Use a 3-ring hole punch if needed.  I turned it around so both pockets faces towards me.  Trim accordingly if the pocket folder already has hole punched.  I can put handouts, etc. in these.  We have a tendency to get things at our staff meeting that are supposed to go in our files in the classroom.  This will be a good place to temporarily store them.



Something I may do is write some of these reminders & encouragements on the back of the dividers' (or print them out and glue them!)





That's all I have for now!


1 comment:

  1. I LOVE your notebook set-up! You have more "time" to get more organizational items in place this year since you have many curriculum/lesson plans under your belt. I will be praying it will be lots of fun teaching this year because you do such a great job of it. Looking forward to seeing more of your ideas.

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