I don’t remember the last time I took a sick day. Sometimes I take a half day for a doctor’s appointment, but I am not very often sick enough to miss school.
I wasn’t sure I was going to stay home, but when I woke this morning at 6, I couldn’t move without coughing. I called my boss and told him I couldn’t come in. Today is my “crazy” day when I have 4 tech classes and Literacy. They better get me a good sub.
I am working on my lesson plans for Literacy right now. The kids are going to read a story called A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams. It is a great story about a grandmother, a mother, and a little girl. They have lost everything in a house fire. The story is about how they save money to buy a new chair. My major concern about reading this story is that one of my students lost everything in a house fire a few weeks ago. I hope that she will be okay with this story, especially since I am not there. I am also sorry that we have to do this story this week. The spelling pattern in the workbook r-controlled a, which is the spelling pattern we were going to do next, but because it is a short week (because of the snowday, we had Friday on Monday) we aren’t doing spelling. Oh well, another week I suppose.
Now I must finish my lessons and fire them off to school.
I loathe having to take sick days too. I think it is because as educators, we also are also nurturing mothers. Even if we don’t like all of them all of the time, we tend to love our little “works in progress.” It’s also difficult to find a good sub, especially at the last minute.
Hope you are feeling better soon!