Dive into 1st Grade!

So I know that I didn't keep my last promise about keeping the blog updated but so far this year is SOOO much smoother than last year. So my goal is to keep this updated, and update at least once a day! I will begin with just some pictures from my classroom.

These were taken right before school started and now I have a different seating arrangement, more students, and words on the word wall...and we're working on our 5th week of school while some schools are just starting...

The view from the front of my room looking towards the back door. The things on the floor are lillypads. The kids line up on these and they have helped make our lines very straight and nice looking!

My classroom library. Dive into a good book! The kids love to sit on the couch and I have 2 bean bags over there too.

The view from my door looking into my room. The front board area and carpet is where we have morning meeting and it's also where I do a lot of whole group instruction.

Dive into Mrs. Goldsby's 1st Grade! The outside of my door. The fish next to the door have the kids names on them!

it's been too long...

...it really has been way to long since my last post and really since a consistent sting of posts, not that anyone really reads this, but for me at least, it's been WAY TOO LONG!!

So much has gone on since I last posted...I have gotten my classroom ready for 1st graders, Drew and I went on a road trip, I got my hair chopped off, and so many other little things that have made this month so interesting...

Yet again, my goal is to write or post something each day and hopefully with my routine I will actually complete that task...

stream...and pictures

it's been wayyyyy too long...but i just can't seem to get back into the groove of posting.


school starts back soon-we can get into the building on the 15th to work, i plan on spending the 15th and 16th up there working and then no more until i have to be up there for inservice, we'll see how well that plan goes!!


wishing that i could get into East to work on my room and get all of my school stuff out of my living room and garage


drewby and i are taking care of my uncle's house while he is in new jersey working he has 2 dogs and 3 cats and it's been so much fun, another fun note-marv has offered us his house-to rent it for the same amount as our apartment but we would get another bedroom as well as a backyard and a garage...there's some work to be done and it would be a little while before we would move in but it's a promising thought

I found this blog through Kelly's Korner and started reading...it's a very emotional and touching story of a young couple who was injured in a horrible car accident. The wife is doing fine now but the husband suffered from a TBI and is still recovering. I can only imagine the courage and strength that this young couple must have and how difficult it must be...

please keep them in your prayers, along with all the other patients in the hospital where he is at

I really wish I knew where my camera was...right now my living room has 4 laundry baskets FULL of "little kid" teaching stuff. As you may know at the end of the last school year the ENTIRE school system got a huge overhaul...all the intermediate schools were being dissolved and returned to the elementary status where the grades would run K-5 in one school and the 6th graders would move up to the middle schools...My entire life I have wanted to teach the "little kids" I really never had a desire or passion or calling to teach the older ones and last year was a test to that...6th grade was so incredibly difficult and at the end of the year-I was given the opportunity to teach the "little ones"!! I could not be more excited and thrilled but I also could not be more nervous...the instructional coach said this to me the other day..."you do realize that you are responsbile for making sure EACH student is reading and ready for 2nd grade...and some of these kids never went to pre-K so Kinder was their first experience with school..." we went on talking about my new responsibilities and new expectations and I just could not help but continue to get sooooo excited!!!

I have some work with Lakeshore for next week and then after that I plan on spending lots of time working on materials and lesson plans, and activity ideas for my "little students" that will walk into my room come VERY EARLY august!!

I am so excited but still in need of So many prayers!!

"let all you do be done with love"

my family
well, only 1/2 of my family
so much love
so much compassion
if only the other 1/2 had been there