Kept coming up short

I've got five months to do a single unit in one of my books. I've struggled to fill up all my classes with meaningful material. I try to avoid games at all cost. I do the workbook materials in class with my students so that I can correct their mistakes as they work. I gave them full homework assignments based on tiny parts of their units that I prepared on my own ahead of time just to have enough of a lesson for the day. I'm doing anything I can with the materials provided to teach the best I can and still kept coming up short.

Then one of my students holds up an entirely different book and says, "Hey, why don't we use this reading book any more?"

The look on my face must have been worth a picture or two. They had a reading book the entire time no one mentioned or got out of their bags for me to stumble upon the entire time since I've taken over this class. The teacher before me must have failed to mention this in her planning papers as I had no idea I had any more material to work with. Had I known I had something else I would have been coasting through the past few weeks instead of struggling for material. It would have made the entire difference.

GAH!

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