september – 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)

Monthly Recaps

August Monthly Recap

September 6, 2020 floraj5604

Hello, everyone! I’m sorry I didn’t get any posts out during August! School caught me off guard, so I was a bit behind in the beginning. But now I’m all caught up, so I’m here for this post!

Books

This month I read a total of three books, which doesn’t really sound like a lot for a girl who loves to read. BUT, like I said before, I’ve been super busy with school. This month, I read:

Deluge : River of Time Series . I can’t tell you how much I LOVED this series! This was the final book of the series, and I read it super fast because it kept me on my toes the whole time! I won’t give a summary because this is the last book in the series. If you want to know what the book’s about, go read the series!
Keeper of the Lost Cities : Keeper of the Lost Cities #1. This is hands down one of my favorite series I’ve ever read. Even though it’s meant for kids in lower grades (I think middle school), I love this series TO PIECES! This series actually does not have all the books out yet, so if you don’t like cliffhangers and waiting to see what happens for a year, then you should just wait to read the series. The final book will be coming out next year, though. This November, book 8.5, Unlocked, will be coming out. I’ve been waiting for a year for this book, so trust me, I am READY.

Sophie Foster knew she wasn’t a normal girl, but she never would have guessed that she wasn’t human. When Sophie found out she was an elf, she had to leave everything behind and start over in a brand new world. Though she encounters many troubles in the time she spends in her new world, Sophie finally finds where she belongs.

Christy Miller : Volume #1. This series is also meant for middle school kids, but I still enjoy reading it.

When Christy Miller went to spend the summer at the beach with her aunt and uncle, she had no idea how much her life would change. Christy met new friends, had a fun time, but also learned some hard truths. That summer, she also started her new relationship with Jesus.

Writing

For the first three weeks of the month, I didn’t have time to write. However, I also didn’t really have the motivation to write.

But during the last week of August, something inside me sparked as I read through some of my writing. I wanted to continue the story; I felt the need to write. Know what I mean?

So, pretty much every day since then, I’ve taken about an hour every day to write. It’s also a nice break from school!

Art

I didn’t do very much art during August, but I did work on my diamond painting a little bit.

Bullet Journaling

In my August bullet journal, I did something much more simple than I usually do because I wanted to make sure that I had plenty of time to work on my schoolwork. I pretty much used the same layouts this month as well.

Above is a picture of my monthly page for September. It includes a calendar, some doodles, and spaces for goals, notes, books I will read during the month, and my money tracking.

Next is my mood tracker (well, it’s more of a day tracker, rating my day from 1 out of 5). I’ve drawn a bunch of leaves falling down the page, and once I’ve color coded the key at the bottom (the colors will be red, orange, yellow, green, and brown), I’ll just match how I felt the day went with the corresponding colors. (I’m excited for fall weather, as I’m sure you can tell from my fall-themed pages.)

Third is my Habit Tracker, which is as simple as always.

Finally, I have a brain dump, where I can just dump all the things floating around my mind. It’s not very organized, but it’s not really supposed to be.

Blogging

The only post I did this month was my summer update, and I did give you guys fair warning that I wouldn’t be able to post much this month.

Thank you for you patience!

I hope to have a couple more posts out for you this month.

Life

Life in August was pretty busy for me. I am taking a break from work at my dad’s shop, so that’s given me some extra time to get school work done.

I think I did mention in my last post that I would be having some dental work done, but it didn’t really end up being last month. If I can guess, it’ll probably happen this month or the next. That will set me back from a lot of things (school, writing, blogging, etc.), but I’m sure Ill be back on track as soon as I can.

Until Next Time . . .

That’s it for this post, everybody! I hope you enjoyed!

Next time I’ll let you guys take a look at the first two months of my School Bullet Journal!

Comment and let me know how August went for you! Also, feel free to let me know if you have any post requests!