Bullet Journaling for Beginners

A bullet journal is a blank dot gridded book where you can design an open gateway to a world of endless possibilities with no limitations on functionality or design. A bullet journal can be used to keep track of goals, assignments, feelings, food, and habits, to name a few. Maybe you need to keep track of your running times for cross country or keep a running list of to-dos for college acceptance. Visual and written notes for your favorite subjects are a great way to retain information. Make a collection for that in your journal. Did your bestie recommend a new show to binge-watch? You can keep a collection of that too.

Students do not need prior skills for participating in this class, just a willingness to want to learn ways of time management, draw cool designs, focus on gratitude, stay on top of assignments, sports events, band practice…etc. 

In the first few minutes of class, we will define a bullet journal and the terms associated with a bullet journal. Students will look at a PowerPoint presentation and reference Teacher Mayo’s bullet journals to see what can be achieved in bullet journaling. Afterward, we will have a group discussion on making a bullet journal work for their life. This discussion will include goal setting, daily gratitude practice, habit tracking, and creating lists of things to broaden their minds and horizons.

Then students will explore the many avenues and forms a bullet journal can take by brainstorming different sections and collections they can include in their bullet journal to best suit them.

Finally, students will start a design on one calendar month and include one of the sections we discussed: to-do list, habit tracker, daily gratitude, and one collection they would like to start and follow.