school – The HeartWord Way

Hello, everybody! Today I’m going to be posting about my new bullet journal: my school bullet journal! And yes, I do realize that school has been going for two months now, but as I have explained in my previous posts, I have been really busy recently.

Starting Pages

These pages are the ones that I’ll be using all year long. By the way, I’m sorry these pictures aren’t very good. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I used my driveway as my background 🤦‍♀️.

First off, I have my cover page. It’s just a little introductory page that gives a title for my bullet journal. About the girl . . . I’m not a very good artist, ok? I do my best.

Here I have my key. I’ve listed all of my courses and assigned different symbols for each one. I did end up changing it a little later on, so that’s why there’s also color tallies next to each course. I also have symbols for each type of assignment that my school does: lessons, quizzes, projects, and tests. In blue I’ve listed my key for tasks and events. Below that, I’ve written down how many dots and spaces are on each row vertically and horizontally.

This is my calendar for the year. It has all of my school events listed on it. For this page, I actually just cut out and glued on all the parts from a paper I printed off from my school website. I thought it would be easier to do that instead of writing out all of the events. I also color coded each type of event at the bottom on the page.

Cue the change in time! Apparently I took these pictures at a different time than the previous ones were taken 🤦‍♀️. Next, I have my Index page. I also have two other pages after this one dedicated to my index, but I thought it wasn’t really necessary to show since it’s the same thing that’s on this page.

Here, I have my first grade log. I’m hoping it’ll last until I finish the third chapter of each of my courses. At the top, I have my title, dates I’ll use these pages, and my grading scale. The rest of these two pages are dedicated to recording the grades for my lessons. When I first started using this page, I had intended to use the symbols that I had created on the key page to signify which course got which grade. But do you see how small those spaces are? Yeah, that did not work. So, I assigned colors for each course instead. Now I can just do a tally for each course.

These are the third and fourth pages of my grade log. Here I’ll record the grades for the rest of my lessons, and also my quizzes, tests, and projects.

August Pages

For my first August page, I have my calendar. On these pages, I also have spaces for notes, goals, and events that will happen during the month. Also, I’ve written out one of my favorite quotes: “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” I don’t know who came up with that quote, but thank you.

And now I start my weekly spreads. Each spread has spaces for each day, a mini-calendar, notes, study plans, events happening during the week and next week, a space to write out my memory verse, and a space for to-dos.

On To September!

I decided to do a title page for September. If you can’t tell, I am DEFINITELY excited for fall. This tree is just starting to drop leaves, and I’m hoping that’s what’s actually going to happen this month. I really love the atmosphere of fall.

This month’s calendar is different from last month’s. I decided to downsize my calendar and leave more space for other things. On this page, I have spaces for projects I have during the month, tests I have, my Spanish plan, goals, and notes.

And now I have my weekly spreads. This is the spread that I have really come to like for my weeks. Other than spaces for each day, I also have spaces for notes, things that are happening during the week, and to-dos.

Wow! That was a LOT! I really should have done this post sooner, but alas. These pages aren’t the best that I’ve created, but I was in a rush to create these before school started. I hope they inspired and/or helped you!

A Few Announcements

Before I sign off, I have a few quick things to mention.

I have been absent from my blog for most of September, as I am sure you have noticed. However, I am working on a few posts that I hope to get out soon. Hang in there!

The month of September was my two year blog anniversary! Yay! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for two years (probably because I haven’t done that many posts 😉 )!

Be on the lookout for a review of my month of September in the next week or so!

Signing Off . . .

Did you enjoy my spreads? Do you have a school bullet journal? Let me know in the comments! I’d love to chat with you!

Thanks for reading! Happy writing!

But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” (Matthew 4:4 NLT)

Hello, friends!

Recently, I was thinking about the fact that this year, I’ll be a sophomore (eek!!). I decided I would like to have a few pages in my bullet journal that would help me keep track of grades, time spent studying, and when my tests are coming up. So, I did some browsing on Pinterest, and came up with a few ideas. Today, I’m going to share them with you. I had wanted to publish this post much earlier than I did, so I apologize if this post is out after you have started school.

First, I decided I need a place to write out general information about my upcoming year. So I designed this page. (Just so you know, I used red and blue a lot because those are the colors you see on notebook paper. I thought it would be a nice back-to-school theme.)

Of course at the top, I have my heading (which I am really proud of, by the way :)). The space underneath is divided into several different sections. The first section (going from left to right) is a space for me to write down all of the courses I’ll be taking this year. The second section is where I will write down the teachers for each course, and in the third section I’ll write down any extra information about the teachers (like email addresses, phone numbers, etc.). Finally, I decided to color code all of my subjects using stars. So on the final column, I’ll put a star for each subject in different colors (you’ll see where this comes in later). At the bottom, I did a small calendar and a section to write down important dates (tests, projects, due dates, etc.).

Next, I decided I wanted to have a space to log my grades. So, I created my Grade Log.

As you can see, at the top of my page I have my heading, and next to it is the grading scale my school is going to use (I thought it would be handy to have). The rest of the two pages is divided into Tests, Quizzes, HW (homework), HW Continued, and Projects/Labs (Science Labs). This is where a lot of the color coding comes in. This next part may be a little confusing, so just bear with me.

At the top of each section, I have it labeled. Underneath that is a grade scale that goes from A+ to F. Along the side are some numbers. Let’s say the section we’re looking at is the Tests section. The numbers along the side go from 1-5. So, say I’ve just completed my math test for chapter one and I got a 98 (yay!). So I would go to the number one (since it was chapter one), go across to the A+ and draw a pink star (pink would be the color for math). Hopefully that makes sense. 🙂

This page was my hardest page because I had to figure out a not-too-confusing layout. Unfortunately, I think it’s still a bit confusing.

Next, I decided to do a Study Log.

Underneath my heading on this page, I have seven boxes. They read (from left to right): 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes, 20 Minutes, 30 Minutes, 45 Minutes, 1 Hour, and More. And along the side I have the numbers 15-31. Let’s pretend I just studied history for 20 minutes on my first day of school (August 15). So, I would go to the number 15, go across to 20 Minutes, and do an orange star (orange would be the color for history). Studying logged!

And that’s all the pages I came up with.

Did those make sense to you? Do you think you’ll try them? Can you think of any more good pages? Have you started school yet? Let me know in the comments! Next time (not sure when that will be), I’ll give you a few tips on having discipline in your writing.

I hope you have a fantastic school year! Thanks for reading! Happy writing!

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 ESV

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