Are you using morning meeting and looking for ways to freshen up the structure and get more benefits out of that time?
In this blog post, I'll be sharing some exciting and interactive morning meeting games that you can play with your students at any time of year. Whether you're looking for a quick icebreaker or a longer team-building activity, I've got you covered. So, grab your coffee and let's get started!
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Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!
In this blog post, I'll be sharing some exciting and interactive morning meeting games that you can play with your students at any time of year. Whether you're looking for a quick icebreaker or a longer team-building activity, I've got you covered. So, grab your coffee and let's get started!
Five simple steps for leading a morning meeting or circle time focused on social emotional learning in the classroom. Morning meeting is the ideal time to build relationships with students while also teaching critical SEL skills like empathy, self-awareness, and decision-making!
Take time to ponder questions that go beyond the curriculum.
Social emotional lessons through quick games? YES PLEASE!! The Morning Meeting Activities are significant to: The challenge of implementing daily morning meeting activities is that many of the activities require time to model, explain, and practice the activity with the class. Once this initial teaching of the game happens the students should be able to...
Social emotional lessons through quick games? YES PLEASE!! The Morning Meeting Activities are significant to: The challenge of implementing daily morning meeting activities is that many of the activities require time to model, explain, and practice the activity with the class. Once this initial teaching of the game happens the students should be able to...
If your morning meeting routine feels a bit stale, I offer 20+ ideas in this post for a fresh set of morning meeting ideas.
Social emotional lessons through quick games? YES PLEASE!! The Morning Meeting Activities are significant to: The challenge of implementing daily morning meeting activities is that many of the activities require time to model, explain, and practice the activity with the class. Once this initial teaching of the game happens the students should be able to...
Help your students become more empathetic and compassionate with these social emotional learning lessons and activity ideas that are perfect for back to school or for building classroom community any time of the year. Pull out a copy of Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson and your students will be re
Take time to ponder questions that go beyond the curriculum.
Ask me about my favorite part of our school day? Morning Meeting. What (do I believe) has the biggest impact on my classroom culture/community? Morning Meeting. How do I build relationships with 25 different students? Morning Meeting. Where do I find the time for my students to build relationships with their peers? Morning Meeting. How ... Read more
In this blog post, I'll be sharing some exciting and interactive morning meeting games that you can play with your students at any time of year. Whether you're looking for a quick icebreaker or a longer team-building activity, I've got you covered. So, grab your coffee and let's get started!
Morning meeting is great, and it's even better when you feel prepared for it. Save this post for a go-to list of morning meeting activities you can use!
Self-regulation skills are one of the biggest keys for success for students in the classroom. These are some of the skills that help students focus during lessons, wait their turn to share in group activities, transition to a new task when time is up, and start tasks right away. Self-regulation skil
Use these simple morning meeting games to start your school day right. Kids will love the games, and you will love how easy they are to use!
Hello friends! This is the final week for The Morning Meeting and it is all about the Morning Message. This is the fourth and final component of the morning meeting. If you would like to see my reflections on the first 3 components see them here: Greeting, Sharing, and Group Activity. This chapter lays out the purpose for the morning message (which I love examining the purpose first...otherwise why do we bother?). Morning message is meant to: Build community through shared written information Develop and reinforce language arts, math, and other academic skills in a meaningful and interactive way. Eases the transition into the rest of the day and builds students' excitement about the day's learning. Shared Written Information: The morning message is just that...a message written to the class to convey information about the day. I love, love, love that it is a thoughtful way to build community. Students are addressed as a whole group, no one is left out, and everyone starts their day on a positive "note". Of course in kinder they won't be reading these right off the bat but later in the year I know they will be ready for that! This year sometime after Winter break they started reading the problem of the day without me. I loved seeing their independent reading skills come to life before my eyes and this is just another opportunity for that! Reinforce Content: The letter to class is a way to bring content into the morning meeting. Focus on science, math, language arts, you name it! Whatever your class is working on you can include those things in the morning meeting. I am already thinking about how fun our Wednesday messages will be with Wacky Wednesday (our science/unit day)! Planning it out will be key for sure (and I'll get to that in a minute!) Ease the Transition into the rest of the day: We are BIG on enthusiasm at our school. It is actually one of our "Attitudes" that we focus on throughout the year. Our enthusiasm for learning comes from activities like this. My favorite idea from this chapter was on page 182, "Morning message gains its power from the interactions it generates-teacher communicating with students and students communicating with one another..." That is the key and one of the main reasons I started reading this book in the first place! I wanted that start to our day that creates an environment that fosters open communication in a loving and kind way. That really is the most important thing we can do for our class! OK....so I hinted at planning a couple of paragraphs ago and I've been giving this a lot of thought. I want a place I can plan out my morning meeting so that I am ready to go and not struggling to think of things to do 2 minutes before the bell rings (do I know me or what??). The end of every chapter has a lot to choose from as far as sharing, group activity, and morning message goes so it should be pretty simple to make a plan. Here is what I came up with: I know I won't really need a spot for the greeting but I thought a place to write some reflections about how the greeting is going would be nice. I will write in the name of the sharing activity and group activity and jot down the morning message in the spaces provided. The only thing this will "add" to my weekly planning will be writing out the morning message. I will definitely want to have those written down on chart paper before the week begins. So that's it! Originally I said I would wrap up this book next week but I think I'm ready to move on. I am going to get started on the other two books I bought at the beginning of summer, The First 6 Weeks of School from the Responsive Classroom and also 80 Morning Meeting Ideas by Susan Lattanzi Roser. These both will help with my planning and focus on how to implement once school begins. Next up on my reading list is TDQ: Text-Dependent Questions by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. Their names are sounding familiar to me...anyway..Mrs. Wills' Kindergarten is hosting a book study not only on her blog but in a FB group too. How cool is that? Here are the details: Link up on FB HERE AND.....I am still planning on reading a few more before the summer is up. I have to squeeze it all in now otherwise it would never happen! Thanks for stopping by today! Remember you can keep up with on Instagram as Learning with Mrs. Langley and FB too.
Do you enjoy the benefits of morning meeting but dread the prep and planning that go into it? Is your morning meeting routine getting stale? This electronic morning meeting--now compatible with Google Slides--is pre-planned so you have 40 weeks of morning meeting right at your fingertips! Almost ZERO prep, and the messages are totally customizable! The best part? NO PRINTING, NO PAPER—it’s all on your whiteboard in colorful displays for students to engage in each component of morning meeting! Want to try it for a week before buying? Click HERE to download! Looking for a version for older kids? Check out the 3-5 morning meeting here! The morning meeting bundle is organized into 40 weeks of Morning Meeting sessions. Each week includes 5 days. Each day includes: •Morning Message• Each message slide now comes as a totally editable slide for you to type your messages for your class! This way, messages can be personalized and timely, touching upon current classroom events and learning topics. Insert fun fonts and images for the ultimate student engagement! •Greeting• Greetings are fun & engaging and are done in partners or whole groups. There are 35 different greetings that are recycled throughout the year so students have a ton of variation but also get to know each greeting’s expectations to ensure for a smooth morning meeting. •Share• 180 unique share topics engage students’ thinking and also allow them to practice good listening skills as an audience and build more confident speakers for students who share! Sentence frame answer prompts are also given to guide the students’ responses. •Activity• Over 30 activities are included in this yearly bundle. Activities are engaging and cooperative in order to encourage teamwork and community-building. The same 30 activities are woven into morning meetings throughout the year so students get a ton of variety but also consistent expectations. •Calendar Prompts• Daily lists of questions to guide you through your own calendar routine This morning meeting model is designed to be quick & efficient. Each day’s outline contains an average of 10-15 minutes---that’s it! Messages, greetings, activities, and share components are designed to allow the teacher to set the time limit—they can go for as long or as short as you’d like! This format is predictable for students, which makes expectations clear and consistent and lowers the amount of time spent asking and answering questions about directions each day. Included in this pack, you will receive: •40 weeks of morning meetings (1,200 pages—that’s 5 slides per day of school) •Morning Meeting User Guide •Editable templates for Message, Greeting, Share, & Activity slides! If you'd like to try it for 1 week before purchasing, click HERE to download my free 1-week sample. Are you thrilled about going paperless? Check out these no-prep, best-selling products: •Knockout Games •Kindergarten Whiteboard Morning Journal •1st Grade Whiteboard Morning Journal •2nd & 3rd Grade Whiteboard Morning Journal •Paperless Afternoon Wrap-Up Meeting Thanks for visiting my store! I hope you come again soon :) Erin Waters Elementary Education www.elementaryedu.com Join my free VIP Club
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Friends~This file is filled with morning meeting ideas and activities! I just love starting my day with morning meetings. Be sure to check out the PREVIEW! I have been using them for years and they change every year. I am constantly adding and creating new songs, chants, cards, & guidelines for my classes. I put together some of my ideas that I have used over the years during my morning meetings. What's Included: This file is broken up into categories: Greeting, Sharing, Activity, and Reflection. The file walks you through setting up a basic morning meeting and gives you props to help you start making it your own. You will find the following included in this 54 page file. Class Poster My Morning Meeting Song Generating rules and rule printable for students Voting ideas and signal cards 5 Greeting idea sheets and 5 Around the World Greeting Cards 6 Generating Shares sheets and ideas Directions for discussing Behavior Objectives Printable Objective Poster 18 Printable Behavior Objective Cards Morning Poem Math Activity Ideas Doubles Rap Poem Reflection Activity with Journal Labels 11 different journal prompt strips to glue into reflection journals If you have ever wanted to try a morning meeting this file will get you off and running quickly. If you download, I would love for you to rate and leave feed back. Please consider becoming a follower of my TpT store so that you will receive notification when I post units and freebies. Thanks so much for supporting my dream of teaching and sharing ideas.
Take time to ponder questions that go beyond the curriculum.
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Morning meeting is great, and it's even better when you feel prepared for it. Save this post for a go-to list of morning meeting activities you can use!
Morning meeting is great, and it's even better when you feel prepared for it. Save this post for a go-to list of morning meeting activities you can use!
I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than oth…
Morning Meeting Games is the BEST way to start the day. Check out these games for morning meeting that students are sure to love!
Building a morning meeting toolbox to complement your morning meeting slides is going to save you so much time! Read this to make your own morning tub!
Wondering what to do during morning meeting time? Read about our morning meeting greetings and activities that you can implement in your classroom!
Three tips and 45 morning meeting greeting ideas that you can take and use today. Take the planning out of morning meeting!
Take time to ponder questions that go beyond the curriculum.
Build your classroom community and start the morning off with a morning meeting! Students will sit together in a circle and roll the cube and answer the question about themselves. This will give your students a chance to share more about their feelings, thoughts and individuality. This includes 1...
Starting your morning off with a positive tone is so important for your students. Discover how morning meetings can help you do this.
Item description Looking for ways to spice up your morning meeting? Try using these 23 morning meeting greetings and 17 activities that can be used in Responsive Classroom’s morning meetings for all ages. PRINT VERSION: I like to print these, laminate them and attach them to binder rings for quick and easy use. The activities are also GREAT ideas for indoor recess games. DIGITAL VERSION: You can display the digital version on any smart board or using any projector to your class day after day. This makes it easy for the class to vote upon which activity/greeting to do each day. Launching Morning Meeting? You might also be interested in my Morning Message Quote of the Day. This resource pairs perfectly with these greetings and activities for a no-prep, seamless morning meeting each day. Follow my MbT Store, check out my blog and follow me on Instagram for more updates, freebies and giveaways!
Morning Meeting Games is the BEST way to start the day. Check out these games for morning meeting that students are sure to love!
