A forum friend had the wonderful idea of putting together Student Agenda Books or Student Planners.  What a grand idea!  So I thought I'd do the same.

I picked up cute little binders with matching tab dividers at Walmart.  A different binder style for each child.  I also scanned the dividers to have possible backgrounds for other printouts.

The book is constructed as follows:

Curriculum Key in the very front.

1st Tab:  Monthly Calendar.  I put this together in PowerPoint using the Title + Object layout.  The Title is the name of the month plus a scripture of choice.  The Object is an Excel Spreadsheet, with short cells across the top for the name of the days & tall cells below for the day boxes.  I then typed the number of the date & any holiday or occasion in each cell justifying it to the top left.  I added clipart from the Microsoft website formatting the picture using the watermark feature (but adjusting slightly).

2nd Tab:  Weekly Agenda Sheets.  I put this together in Excel making each column a day.  The top half of the column has their assignments input by me for neatness sake and the bottom half is blank & lined to write any activities, appointments, etc they have that day.  There are 6 wide columns for each day (Sat & Sun sharing a column) and 6 very thin columns to check off assignmnets.  Cell A1 has the heading "Week of:" and the dates.  Such as "Week of: March 13 - March 19"

3rd Tab:  Student References:  So far I have included a commonly misspelled words document & a percent/decimal/fraction equivalent chart (courtesy of DonnaYoung.org).  I will continue to add to this section as the need arises.

4th Tab:  Contacts.  I have added lined loose leaf paper for the kids to compile contact information for all of their friends.  As these pages fill, I will enter them into a spreadsheet & print them.

5th Tab:  Personal Stuff.  This is for however they want to use it.  Jessica already has doodles, song lyrics, and journaling there.  I suppose Cassie will put her songs there as she writes them.  Jacob, well who knows.  He may not use it, but then I could show him how to track his favorite sports teams...

I have coordinated the fonts for the calendar, curriculum key & the agenda sheets.  This is also coordinated to each child so that each has their own font. 

For some samples of these books, visit http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mtbriere/album?.dir=7fa0&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos .

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