Master I's planning

I am done Master I is all planned for and ready to go. I have a loose plan for the year, but am well nutted out and ready for term 1. Pictures are fun so lets go...

 The new weekly timetable to use as a very rough guide

My weekly journal/planners. I have pasted the weeks plan on the left and I will hopefully be reminded by the blank page on the right to jot down some notes about the week. This was something I lacked last year and sometimes forgot to go back over topics that needed it.

My subject planners, I numbered the sleeves 1-10 and this is where the worksheets or plans for each week are kept. I found this a great tool to spot gaps or weeks that were too overloaded. On my weekly planners things appeared even but as I filled the folders I could see some weeks had a much heavier workload.

The 2014 planner, pretty in blue.

First stop in the planner, the outcome proformas. I planned with these so I could see that the resources I had chosen would cover everything. I certainly do not recommend this as the planning method for everyone but for me it works. And yes I have rammed odd shaped pegs into the square boxes, by changing the shape of the boxes rather than the pegs.

My English planner. This is the subject I struggle most to teach. Not because I lack skill, but more because I see it as the key, the pinnacle to all other learning and life. This is the place I fear most about stuffing up. There are so many little nooks and crannies in English that I spend a lot more time planning so I can hopefully cover it all well.

Master I's reading log. not for the books he reads, but for the books we read with him. I thought it would be interesting to see how many and what books we have read at the end of the year,

Master I's daily reading log. If he reads to us each day he gets a sticker, if he reads everyday he gets a reward at the end of the month. We are onto our 3rd month of this system. The current reward is to chose a matchbox car from the confiscated pile (they were not looking after them so I took them away). I have enough cars to last us years, but I am sure we will need a new reward for motivation soon.

Day 1 ready in his new tray. Each fortnight he will get a new bookmark with his new spelling words.

The bulk of this years resources. There are still some on the way in the post.