“It’s better to be prepared than to get ready.”  ―  Will Smith

There’s a bit of a semantical game with that quote.  I don’t particularly like it, but it’s useful enough and applicable enough for recent days. 

Luis bought me a health tracker ring that came yesterday, well two days ago by the time the mailer picks this up, so after one night of sleep and heartrate and respiratory tracking, and the various other trackings, my “readiness score” was a 77, which I didn’t think was too bad considering I haven’t slept a full night in over nine months now.  

Sleep was my worst metric and probably will be for a while still (though in fairness our son only woke once or twice, but a headache woke me multiple times).  This is much like my New Year’s goal metric of completing a lesson per month.  It is late mid-February and fail!  Worst metric of all the NY goals!  I do have all the meaty parts of the myth done, but it still needs to be edited multiple times and the student handouts still need to be made.  Other things just crop up that need more immediate doing.  How rude of those other things, haha.  

So here I am, neither prepared nor ready to post a new resource.  Sigh.  

I started my classroom adventures as a substitute and would be quite put out when I walked into a classroom where no plans were left.  Talk about unprepared and unready!  I’d never seen these children before so it was, usually, just downhill from there.  Those substitute years were around the genesis to TpT so it wasn’t as easy to pull things in a pinch.

Thankfully, those days are gone.  I may be behind in my lesson/unit readiness score, but at least I have other things to offer in the meantime!  So, if you need some ELA preparedness or some readiness for your classroom, I just may have something for you!

At the moment, these are the most trending lessons in my little store.

Happy Teaching!

M.D. Saints
Reading the Rapids
Liberty Dog Writing Co.

These two!  Always prepared and ready.  And more so now that they’re back to wearing their necklaces almost all the time.  I took them off because of the loud clanging when they shake themselves off in the night or early morning (no baby-waking help needed, thank you!), but now they wear them during the day and just get them removed for bed.  I had a frantic scare last week where I thought Novah had accidently been shut outside, in the front.  About 20 minutes had gone by since I had come in.  Turns out she was just dozing deep under and bed and I didn’t see her, but that didn’t stop me from beginning to screech her name as I dashed around our Hobbit Hole and yanked open the front door.  Poor girl came running out and thought she was in trouble, which of course she was not.  I was just glad she was inside!  Insert face palm here.  X)