Wade into First Grade

Quentin the Quality Penguin is waiting to welcome my first graders.  I am going to take their pictures on the first day of school and  glue them on the ice floes.

Our Reading Corner

This is our reading area with our books in baskets and animals to read with.So excited to have a real Quentin to go with our book about Quentin's first day at school!  Quentin the Quality Penguin will watch over the students everyday to see which "Quality" student he will go home with.  He has a journal that the students will write about their adventures with Quentin at their homes.  We read these journal entries everyday.  My students even put toys and things in the bag for Quentin.  Quentin has helped our behavior improve 100%.   If you are interested in having your own Quentin let me know.  You can get his book at our TPT store.

This is how I found my classroom.  I even had a copier in my room. I have a lot to do to be ready for my students next week.  I guess I better roll up my sleeves and get busy.  Hopefully, the copier will find a new home.

Great Teaching Sessions!

My daughter and I presented 3 sessions of how we use our songs and products in the classroom to K and First Grade teachers today.  I was so excited to see how well the teachers responded.  Their comments were very kind and we were thrilled to have our products purchased as an extra bonus!

I was most excited about one of the men in our session.  He started out saying that he didn't feel comfortable using music in his classroom.  At the end of the session, he purchased a CD and said that he could definitely do this now.  Wow!  what a wonderful compliment to us!

It was a great experience!

These are a few sheets we shared from our coin bundle found on Teacherspayteachers.

BIG BACK TO SCHOOL SALE!

We are so excited to tell you that everything in our store will be on sale Aug.18-20!  We hope you will check out the products in our store and if you like anything you see that you will follow us at our store so you will get all the updates of all of our new songs and products:)

Stay tuned for more posts on what will be going on in my classroom as school begins.

Our future producers are looking pretty good!

We sang "Goods and Services" and completed the bundle  from our SOL Train Learning unit called "Ride into Goods and Services".   My students learned about consumers and producers and making financial choices. They had so much fun working on designs and wrote about what they would be producing at the end of the unit.  I was amazed at how well they thought about their designs and the materials they brought in to make them!  Check out the Goods and Services Unit in our store.

This one little girl just touched my heart when she "produced" this doll.  She doesn't have very much at home and was so excited to finally have a doll to play with.  So amazing how she could be resourceful with what I provided!

 This student even brought in a shell that looked like the unicorn's horn.

                             This robot  was bigger than his producer!

This student brought in red dots for the eyes of this robot that shoots out lasers.  He is standing on his spy cam. 

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!