Pondering questions...

So I have been reading a couple of Literacy books for the on-line book study over at www.thinkingofteaching.blogspot.com (100 Minutes) and I have been reading The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller to gear up for a book study on Reading in the Wild over at http://thebrownbagteacher.blogspot.com. At the same time I have ventured into another on-line book study with www.theprimarygal.blogspot.com for a book called Guided Math.

Holly cow...what have I gotten myself into?

So as I am reading these books I am finding that the literacy books seem to focus everything around literacy and the math books focus everything around math. So my question is... how do you determine what is the most important?

For me, I think Literacy but I am sure if you ask a "math-minded" teacher they would say math. My problem that I am having at this point is that one of the books is talking about morning work and that it needs to be independent reading time, another book is talking about morning work being math centered so do you base your morning work off of both?

My son's current 5th grade teacher does a morning work activity sheet that is double sided, one for literacy work and one for math work. Is this the "happy medium"?

I would love your thoughts!