Weekend Warriors Necessity – MY WEEKLY CHECKLIST!

Hey hey, friends!! 🙂 I’m SO SO excited to be linking up with my fabulously talented Weekend Warrior bloggy friends again this month to bring you November Necessities!!

As I started thinking about all of the NECESSITIES that get me through a day – heck, an HOUR in my classroom full of 29 second graders, I came up with quite a few . . . .

my cell phone –

my dear, dear MacBook Pro –

Star to the Bucks –

Mr. Sketch –

my EC planner –

Truth: I NEED all of those things listed above. {ok, ok, so I taught a lesson on needs vs. wants this week and those PROBABLY don’t fit the same definition for NEEDS as I taught my kiddos.  #sorrynotsorry}

Additional truth: One of my VERY first TPT products is the one I get the most use out of – ALSO a need when it comes to lesson planning organization sanity for my Type A personality 🙂

What is it, you ask?! . . . . It’s simple, really.  But OH so very effective for me.  It’s my Weekly Planning Checklist!

Like many, many parts of my life, my lesson planning involves a routine.  Truly, I don’t know how else I would do it! So as I planned week after week after week after week…. I realized that I was writing the SAME things on my to do list week after week after week after week…. until I got smart.  I thought – OH! I can type it up! I can make copies of my planning TO DOs that are routined and don’t change much from week to week, and I can have blank copies on my planning clipboard ready to grab and start fresh when I plan each week!

When I first joined the wonderful world of instagram {follow me HERE!}, I posted my idea of NOT rewriting my lists of lists each week when I sat down to plan . . . here’s my original post of my original list complete with its original fonts…

… And as the new year rolled around, and I don’t have the same to-dos from week to week, I’ve been able to edit those to-dos because this checklist is complete editable, too!

It’s SUCH a time saver when it comes to making copies, too! In the picture above, you can see my scribble notes under the grammar and writing copies.  As a plan, I jot down what copies I will need for which day of the week.  Then, when I create, print, and copy them, I know exactly which day of the week folder to put them in in my days of the week drawer organizer behind my desk where I keep my copies for the week that you can see below and read more about {here}.  All I have to do is look to see which day of the week I jotted down the copy beside, and add it to that folder after I’ve copied it! (and add an original to my planning binders, of course!!)

If the weekly check list sounds like something that might help you stay focused and organized as you plan, my weekly check list pack also includes a variety of lists and planning sheets that might work out for you even better than the weekly planning check list! You can see the lists included in the image below!

I PROMISE that it’s a time saver and an organizational magician when it comes to planning each week.  It has been SO helpful to me, and I’ve gotten SO much fabulous feedback from my teacher friends in all different grade levels who use this each week!! I hope you find it helpful, too!

Check back tomorrow to see a November Necessity tip and trick that I’ve discovered that I don’t know HOW I ever created a product without!! It’s pretty fabulous! I can’t wait to share it with you all!

Now, go and check out my fabulous Weekend Warriors’ posts today to see what their November Necessities are, too!! 🙂 Thanks for reading, friends! <3

A Burst of First	Hippo Hooray for Second Grade	Creative Lesson Cafe	Sailing Into Second
Bright Concepts 4 Teachers	Crayons and Whimsy	Primarily Speaking	Second Grade Perks
Lucky To Be In First	Saddle Up Second Grade	A Sunny Day In First Grade	The Tutu Teacher
First Grade Smiles