This is Quentin the Quality Penguin.  He goes home with a quality student every night and the student writes about what he did at their house and reads it to the class the next day.  This is his read aloud book that teaches students how to be quality students.  It is just one of the items that are included in our back to school bundle.  It also has a fun and upbeat MP3 song that our students love to sing and dance to.  Our Sept. calendar pieces have his picture on them and our students got excited to see him on them.  He is really helping us to be "Quality" students.  My students also love earning the Quentin dollars for good behavior and doing extra work.  They are a freebie on our TPT store.  If you would be interested in buying a stuffed Quentin the Quality Penguin for your class, just let us know. 

This is Quentin dancing to his new rap about bully prevention.  Check it out at our store.

This is a book that your students can illustrate as they learn to be quality students.  My first grader did a great job illustrating her book.

Already making connections!;)

My students have been singing our Quality Student song and learning vocabulary on our calendar pieces.  Today our word was understand and one of my students said,"that is u understanding towards others from our song!"  It was so exciting to see them already making connections after just singing the song a few times.  Calendar pieces and song can be found in our TPT store.  We will have vocabulary words on all our calendar pieces for every month.  October will be out next week.  

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.