Here's how it works. Write on the word. Link up with Kate and then visit your buddy who linked before you. Your Five Minute Friday neighbor. And leave that writer a little encouragement!!
Ready. HA! It is 2 hours before the new prompt and I am only now sitting to write on last week's word, READY.
So, of course I am not ready. Really I never am. But when I think of ready this week, it brings baseball to my mind. My team, the Washington Nationals just clinched the National League East regular season title. WOOT! and in the process, Tyler Clippard pitched the 8th inning. His walk out music (when he comes out of the bullpen in DC) is "Ready or Not" by the Fugees.
Whenever we play hide and seek or tag or whatever thing the girls have dreamed up when we play outside, we start with "Ready or not..." and they crack up and say "Mama, that is Clippy's song. That makes us happy!!" I love how little things from the game show up in our every day lives. How phrases or tunes or colors permeate what we do and everything triggers a connection.
S (my 9 year old) tells me that this is what they practice in language arts. Text-to-text connections (how a book reminds you of something else you've read) and text-to-self connections (how something you read reminds you of something in your real life). She calls this life-to-Nats connections. When we see or do something and it reminds us of our baseball team.
So this week, we are READY. Ready for the playoffs to begin. Ready for some Nationals magic. Ready to stand up and cheer. Because as they're saying in DC this year ..."It's happening folks!" "YEAH BABY"
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