Take Turns to be Kind.......

We have been singing the Quality Student song in summer school and today one of my students was giving another student a cup of water.  She said she was"taking turns to be kind."  This is a verse from the song.  It is so cool to see students applying what they learn from our songs!  Wow!

Great Connections Today!

I was so excited to see my students make connections after we sang our songs from SOL Train Learning today!
We sang "Quality Student" song and when one of my students was fussing about another student's voice today, I reminded him of "U" Understanding Toward Others" and he said, "ok, I will try."
He went back to his table and continued working for the rest of the time.

We sang "Wants and Needs" and the song says," to choose one thing and focus on your needs." and one of my sweet little girls was in my reading group and she said, "I have to remember to choose one thing to get at the movie theatre this week." She had already related to choosing one thing to get and not get everything she wanted to get at the movies.  Her parents will be happy!

These are our cute community helper finger puppets that are included in our Community Helper Unit found on Teachers pay Teachers.  My student wanted me to video tape her singing our Community helper MP3 song while she did a show and she wanted me to put it on You Tube.  How cute is she!

So my students decided they wanted to do a puppet show with their community helper finger puppets today.  We used the pictures from our unit on Community Helpers and taped them on tagboard and set up on boxes.  They had so fun dancing around with the Community Helper song.

I am so sorry for any of you who tried to go to TPT to purchase this unit and couldn't find it.  We just took it down to add a couple of MP3 songs and make the unit better.  It has been activated so please try again!  Thanks!!

These are our cute community helper finger puppets that are included in our Community Helper Unit.  We made them after we sang our MP3 song called Community Helpers.  Both are in our TPT store.  My student was so excited to make them and she asked me if she could sing the song and do a show.  She wanted me to put it on You Tube. How cute is she!

Summer School Writing

Last week we started reading True Dog Stories.  We would read a chapter a day.  Then during center rotations, my students started writing their own true animal stories.  They wrote some every day.  We edited them and published them today.  The students were also very excited to make their animals to go with their books.  I was very proud of their hard work!

I know it's been awhile since I've been on here.  Wanted to catch you up on all the cool things my kids have been doing with the S.O.L. Train songs.

(Top) We learned "Spend a Little, Save a Little," and one of my kids used the exact words from the song for his piggy bank project.  I think the song really helped him understand the concept of saving money.








(Bottom) One of the students understood the concept of chores from the song and wrote a word problem.                                                                            I am so proud!

After we learned the" Community Helper" song, we made a big book.  Here are a few samples.

"Quality Students"  was one of my students' favorite songs this year.  We had fun doing the motions as we danced to the song.  My students learned all about what quality meant and they learned to spell it.  One of the students asked if we could make a book about quality students, so we did!  I was excited to see one of my ESOL students use words from the song when he did his page(top left)  He was always saying "Quality Students do it right!"