Yet Another Sunday Spent Working

There's a load of clean laundry waiting for me in the dryer, but I've just finished my lesson plans, and I'm taking a breather for a few minutes. Lesson plans have taken quite a bit of my time today; I'll still use the old basal this week and that necessitates creating quite a few things on my own. A vocabulary chart to introduce this week's words, a center activity involving a written response, a detailed example page of the written response (a friendly letter). All of this takes time and I'd rather be reading than working on reading, but I'd always rather be reading. There are 17 notebooks awaiting grading, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm knackered.