Constantly on the hunt for fun morning meeting games that will engage your upper elementary students? I used to be too. These 10 games will...
Read for some fun ways to include social-emotional learning into your morning meeting routines and how to structure your week.
I use these posters to reinforce restorative practices with my students. Great topics to discuss during your morning meetings too! 4 restorative practice posters included: ⭐I Can Fix My Problems ⭐How Can I Do Better Next Time ⭐My Choices Impact How Others Feel ⭐I Am An Important Part Of My Classroom Community *This product comes as a PDF file Follow me to be notified for product deals - Click here If you like this product, please leave feedback at my TPT store and earn credits towards future TPT purchases! Fonts provided by: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Amy-Groesbeck Clipart provided by: www.edu-clips.com #restorative practices posters
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Morning Meeting is the best part of the day in my 4th-grade classroom, and I want to share some of my fourth graders’ favorite morning meeting activities. These morning meeting activities are ones that we use all year to work on teamwork, classroom community, and just having fun building relationships together! Use these Morning […]
A daily closing circle will build classroom community. Students will maintain positive relationships while collaborating and having fun.
Daily Morning Meeting Prompts for building a strong Classroom Community These digital morning meeting slides are perfect for kicking off your day with a fun community-building activity! These prompts will help students get to know each other, connect, and provide a positive start to your day in the classroom. Each set provides 50 daily prompts of meaningful and fun questions to get students talking with and getting to know each other. You'll also get a list of all of the prompts if you wish to write them on a white board instead of projecting them each morning. This is a PowerPoint file that can be projected to a screen or board, or used digitally with students during distance learning! ⭐ Try two weeks for FREE here! ⭐Save 25% by purchasing the year-long bundle of Community Building Slides! ⭐ -OR- Try these Morning Meeting Digital Class Games! Check out all of the Morning Meeting Prompts sets: • Morning Meeting Prompts - Quarter 1 • Morning Meeting Prompts - Quarter 2 • Morning Meeting Prompts - Quarter 3 • Morning Meeting Prompts - Quarter 4
Are you a morning person, or not so much? Whether we like them or not, mornings set the tone for the day. A lazy, sluggish start usually translates into a
7 ways to build classroom community and teach social-emotional skills each day during an SEL morning meeting.
Five simple ways to tweak morning meetings for upper elementary to help build a strong class community and student-student relationships.
Discover engaging morning meeting activities for kindergarten, (+ ideas for virtual learning). Have fun building your classroom community!
Morning Meetings with a connection to Our Class is a Family and A Letter From Your Teacher, for year-long classroom community building.
September Morning Meeting Slides - What's included?4 weeks, 20 daysEach day includes a greeting, share, activity and messageBlank slides available for you to customizeAlternate slides available for different activities"At a Glance" slide with all days/activities on one page to find things easier ...
Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!
Use these morning meeting questions for kids to start each day off with thoughtfulness and a sense of classroom community.
By Presto Plans With the pressure for secondary teachers to meet curriculum expectations in such a limited time, building a classroom community can sometimes be put on the back burner. What many teachers don’t realize is that by intentionally taking time to build a positive community in your classroom, you can ease the challenges of classroom management, improve student attitude toward learning, and create an environment where students feel welcomed and supported. Below are my 5 favorite ways to build classroom community in middle and high school. Establish a positive classroom community by having students complete short activities that encourage kindness, collaboration, teamwork, expression, and the sharing of ideas and opinions. These challenges don’t need to take up a lot of time. Have them last 5-10 minutes. They can be used daily as a bell-ringer, weekly as a fun Friday activity, or even randomly when you finish class a few minutes early! How it works: The teacher sets up a "Classroom Challenge" bulletin board display that includes 20 hidden activity prompts. Once a challenge is revealed, the teacher finds the corresponding activity, passes it out to the class, and they are ready to go! Here are a few of the prompts I include in my challenge to give you an idea of the types of activities can help build community: • Write a thank you card for someone you appreciate. • Talk for one minute to a partner about the topic you receive from your teacher. • Write a top 10 list on the topic of your choice. • Imagine you are stuck on a deserted island. Pick one book, one movie, and one other item to bring. • Play a game of 20 questions with a partner. You know that nostalgic feeling you get when you are reminiscing with your friends about times past? Bring that into your room with “Classroom Throwbacks.” Students use small cards to write down funny, interesting, and memorable moments that happen within the classroom and put it in the “Classroom Thowbacks” jar/box. You can have students fill out the cards randomly, or you can pass them out from time to time, put students in small groups, and have them fill the cards out with a couple memories. Once the throwback jar starts to accumulate some cards, you can begin sharing them in class. You might consider sharing one a week for a “Throwback Thursday” activity. Grab this free resource by clicking here. I once had a principal who left notes of appreciation (and a small treat) in teachers’ mailboxes for little things she had noticed them doing (staying late at school working, helping out at an after-school event, giving extra help at lunch etc.). It was such a small gesture, but it had a dramatic impact on the morale of the staff. Build this same kind of morale in your classroom by finding ways to celebrate your students for the things you see them doing that deserve some praise and appreciation. There are lots of ways you can do this. You can post student work in your classroom, call or email parents to brag up those students who don’t often get a pat on the back, or even have a student of the month/week display for those who deserve special recognition! I also like to keep funny cards tucked away in my desk for those occasions where a student surprises or impresses me. Ask for volunteers for “student paparazzi”. Their job is to take pictures of students in the classroom and send them to you via email to print and post. Of course, students should only take pictures when you deem it appropriate. They could take some before and after the bell rings or during a class activity (when appropriate and with permission) or at the end of the period if class finishes up a couple minutes early. When you post the pictures in your classroom, consider framing them! I pick up low-cost frames at the dollar store and put them in different locations in my classroom (on the wall, on my desk, on the desk at the front of my room, on a bookshelf). No need to go use expensive photo paper. Simply print the pictures on regular letter paper to fit the frame's size (pictures below from the classrooms of @CamilaCdipietro and @Tarafarah7) Framed photos create a home-like, family atmosphere where students feel welcomed and accepted. If you have a classroom website or social media account, you could also post the pictures there as long as you have parent media release permission forms. Providing students with an opportunity to reflect on the positive moments of the week and look forward to the next week is another way to help foster classroom community. One way you can do this is by starting a weekly tradition called “Friday 5-4-3-2-1”. Students fill out the sheet by jotting down 5 things that made them smile, 4 words to describe the week, 3 things they have planned for the weekend, 2 things they learned, and 1 goal they have. Give students a few minutes to fill it out and have them share with a partner, a small group, or have a whole class discussion. If you’d like to try this out with your students, you can download it for free here. You can also choose to make up your own 5 prompts, as a blank version is included! Just write the prompts on the board and students can fill it out. Looking for more ways to promote class community? Find more ideas below! Student-Teacher Conferences from The SuperHERO Teacher Classroom Community Bell-Ringers from The Daring English Teacher The Kindness Project from Room 213 Do you have any other ideas for fostering a positive classroom community? Click the comments button at the top of the post and share your ideas! SaveSave SaveSave
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Classroom community building activities and free ideas and lesson plans to kick off the school year or implement at any time.
Are you looking for some new, fun morning greetings for students? These 10 greetings are the perfect addition to your morning meeting!
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
Find activities and tips on how to build a classroom community, so each student feels welcomed, loved, and comfortable coming to school.
Use technology daily warm ups as a way to inject some tech into your classroom every day. If you are using technology regularly in the classroom or are a technology teacher with a cart or a lab, check out how these technology daily warm ups can build classroom community, augment your digital citizenship discussions, and help students practice coding, design thinking, get energized, and more! Time is the biggest roadblock to having meaningful discussions about technology with students, even though technology is a huge part of students' lives in and outside of the classroom. If you are a classroom teacher
Looking to build community, engage students, keep students on track for the day, and show gratitude? Then you are ready to run morning meetings like a boss!
Here are useful professional resources and activities that can help you transform your classroom into a Responsive Classroom right from the start.
Morning Meeting Activity Ideas for the virtual, in-person, and hybrid classroom. Includes a FREE digital planning page!
Easily run a daily morning meeting with this 100% editable and low-prep classroom meeting resource for the ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR with ready-to-go slides and printable morning meeting cards that target important social-emotional learning topics. ⭐️You will have all that you need to engage your students with greetings that build classroom community, questions and sharing topics for discussions, and fun social emotional learning activities & games each day. ⭐️This SEL resource includes everything you need to engage and connect with kids and make a HUGE impact in only 15 minutes a day! You will have daily morning meeting slides for the entire school year that target important emotional awareness and social skills topics. ⭐Grab the bundle & SAVE $$$ - 50% off!⭐️ The mind+heart Morning Meeting BUNDLE gives you an entire YEAR’S WORTH of SEL morning meeting slides for every day and every month of the school year. SAVE $$$ by buying the monthly meeting slides and cards separately. Important social-emotional learning topics with daily themes, greetings, questions, and activities. ❤️Mindful Monday ❤️Take-Charge Tuesday ❤️Wise Wednesday ❤️Thoughtful Thursday ❤️Friendly Friday What the Mind+Heart SEL Morning Meeting Resource Includes: 11 months of morning meeting slides (August-June) Each month has four weeks of editable slides (105 slides for each month) A variety of greetings, sharing questions, and activities ready to go! EDITABLE morning messages for you to customize BONUS #1: Printable morning meeting cards for every slide in PDF format BONUS #2: Printable planners to organize your meetings BONUS #3: Printable morning meeting expectations, rules, & routine posters to help you teach and review before your meeting ✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this bundle provides: the types of slides, the variety of greetings, questions, and activities, as well as the extra bonus tools to make your meetings a breeze! Using these SEL Morning Meeting resources is EASY! ✔️This morning meeting resource is planned & ready to go! ✔️Simply download and open the morning meeting Powerpoint templates or PDF document you want to use. Project it onto your whiteboard, screen, or smartboard. ✔️Use the editable morning meeting Google Slides with the click of a button! ✔️Type in your daily morning message, and the rest is ready to go! ✔️Optional: Pull the slides up on a computer or use the included printable cards. What months and themes are included in the mind+heart Social Emotional Learning Morning Meeting resource BUNDLE? ✏️August SEL Morning Meeting – Back to school theme ✏️September SEL Morning Meeting – Apples theme ✏️October SEL Morning Meeting – Both Fall & Halloween themes ✏️November SEL Morning Meeting – Fall & Thanksgiving theme ✏️December SEL Morning Meeting – Christmas theme ✏️January SEL Morning Meeting – Winter theme ✏️February SEL Morning Meeting – Valentine’s Day theme ✏️March SEL Morning Meeting – Spring theme ✏️April SEL Morning Meeting – Earth Day theme ✏️May SEL Morning Meeting – Bugs in Nature theme ✏️June SEL Morning Meeting – Beach theme All about the mind+heart SEL Morning Meeting resource for K-2: The mind+heart SEL Morning Meeting resource aligns with the CASEL framework of the 5 core competencies for SEL (self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship skills), as well as other state SEL initiatives. It also follows the Responsive Classroom organization of a morning meeting with a greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message. The ultimate goal of this resource is to help teachers incorporate SEL into the classroom during short chunks of available time. With its low-prep format, teachers can easily post and flip through the daily slides that will guide and lead the classroom meeting seamlessly and effectively. Through a daily classroom meeting, the classroom environment will be enhanced, relationships will develop, and your community will grow. Daily classroom meetings can and will dramatically change the climate of your classroom for the better! Children will connect with and learn about peers and develop social skills, while openly sharing about themselves and developing self-awareness at the same time. ❤️Why YOU need this morning meeting resource! (IMPORTANT FEATURES) It covers the most important topics we often do not have time to teach (SEL ones). It provides materials for meaningful discussions and impactful activities that build important social and emotional skills and grow your classroom community. It is entirely editable, so you can customize and change any wording to suit your needs. It provides variety and does not simply repeat the same greetings, questions, and activities each month. Some will be repeated to build familiarity, but others will be switched up to keep things fresh and engaging! It is 100% paperless for those wanting to display the slides daily without extra prep! TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Breanna B. says, "Our SEL curriculum was pulled from our school and I’ve been looking for something new to implement ever since, I’ve been using this bundle for the past week and the kids LOVE it. It is their favorite part of the day, and mine! I use the PowerPoint slides but I also printed, laminated, and placed the cards on a binder ring for quick access! I love the themes and it makes our morning meetings brainless for me and engaging for them! A 10-15 minute daily meeting has made such a difference in their attitudes towards each other and improves behavior. Hardly any teacher prep required." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dina F. says, "We use this resource daily in my classroom. It allows us to begin our morning in an organized and constructed way. Love the activities included in the morning meeting and would recommend this resource." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Luanne P. says, "I just recently purchased this resource and it has made my planning for my morning meetings so much easier! Students are enjoying the different shares, greetings, and activities. I love that I can edit the slides to meet our classroom needs. Thank you for sharing this wonderful resource!" Looking to build more SEL into your week? 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Morning greetings choices signs for Kindergarten and video examples of teachers using a morning greeting system with their students.
Try these engaging activities to build classroom community during the first week of school, including STEM, books, icebreakers, and games that help with social skills and developing friendships.
Last week we talked all about arrival and making it a great day from the moment students walk in the door. If you missed that e-mail, you can see a blog post all about it here. If you thought those steps set you up for a productive day with students, the next part of the morning routine is going to make your day even better! Without further ado I present, Morning Meeting! Morning Meeting consists of four main parts: Greeting Every student is greeted by name. Sure, you might have shared a killer greeting with each kid as they walked through the door but this gives students an opportunity to practice each other’s names (which is something we do a lot of at the beginning of the year), making direct eye contact, and a good handshake all while building a sense of community and comradery amongst classmates. Share There are many ways that students can share. Sharing can be about a specific topic or some days you can let students share about whatever is on their mind. This is a fantastic time for students to practice speaking in complete sentences, public speaking, and listening to others. Activities These activities can be simple, such as singing a song with hand motions, or more complex where everyone is participating in a "game" where they are up and moving around the classroom. I like to try and choose teambuilding activities instead of competitive ones so that everyone is starting their day on a positive note. They can be based on an academic skill or just used as a way to "get the wiggles out". All that matters is that students are engaged and working to build a classroom community. Morning Message This can be as simple as a message that you write to your students and read back to them or you can use it as an opportunity to pack a huge academic punch and get in a ton of skills in a short amount of time. I like to do my morning message the second way 😉 so that is a whole other blog post that you can find here! Do you have a morning meeting in your classroom? I would love to hear what some of your favorite greetings and activities are!
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Wondering what to do in morning meeting with K-1 students? Learn how to engage kids effectively with the 4 components of a responsive classroom morning meeting.
Well folks, it's about that time. Perhaps for some, you are already back. The first week of school....ahhh....it's exhilarating, it's fun, it's busy....and....it's downright exhausting. What am I going to do without my mid-morning nap? And my mid-afternoon nap? Hopefully, I have some ideas for you to use here to ease that transition back. I think setting the tone with Morning Meeting is the most important part of the day. It is the one area of the day that I have more flexibility with and it a time for students and I to connect. In following with a Responsive Classroom approach Morning Meeting in my classroom has 4 components: 1. Greeting 2. Share 3. Activity 4. Message Sometimes, the 4 components may become a bit intertwined based on time and the nature of the activities. I allocate about 30-40 minutes for Morning Morning and it always incorporates a read-aloud as well. Usually, the read aloud is a picture book of some kind. Let's break down the four components and give you some ideas for each... I keep greetings very low key at first, as students are still getting to know one another and the classroom rules. Therefore, physical contact is limited and is gradually built up, depending on what your class can handle. Here are some ideas: 1. Name Game: Everyone sits in a circle. Start with your arms Criss-crossed arms to make an X across your shoulders and then uncross them and tap your thighs. As students to repeat this motion. Once mastered, start saying student names as you go around the circle "My name is Mrs. Pettersen, Mrs. Pettersen, Mrs. Pettersen. My name is Mrs. Pettersen and what's your name?" The person to my right says his/her name and we repeat "His name is Justin, Justin, Justin. His name is Justin, Justin, Justin, etc. This continues until everyone in the class has had a turn. The last person is the teacher "Her name is Sara, Sara, Sara. Her name is Sara and we're all here!" The kinesthetic motion helps students to remember names. 2. Walk and Greet: Teachers says greets each student by walking up to each student (not in order) waving and smiling and making eye contact. Ask students "What did you notice?" when you are done. You are looking for students to notice that you made eye contact, that you gave a friendly wave without touching and that you smiled. This exercise models for students how you expect them to greet one another for morning meeting. Tell them so. 3. Ball Roll: Roll a small ball to a student after you say good morning "Good morning, Sam." Sam responds and I roll the ball to him. Then he rolls the ball to a student. It is important to review rules and expectations with the ball before beginning this activity. 4. Mirror, Mirror: Greet a student with a motion and have them repeat that motion. If you are silent, they are silent. They then repeat the same motion to a classmate of their choice. 5. Mirror, Mirrored: Play the same way as above, but this time the after the student mimics your motion, they make up their own motion for a classmate to follow. Greetings continue with each student making up their own greeting motions. 6. Hola!: Greet one another in a different language. Instead of saying "Good morning, the teacher greets a student with a greeting in a different language such as "Hola, Lila". Lila then does the same with another classmate. Switch it up as the year goes on with different languages. 7. Round Robin: Model how to shake hands using the right hand and how to shake appropriately without hurting a classmate. Then do a "round robin" greet" where the teacher shakes hands with the person to the right of them, that person shakes hands with the person to the right of them and so on until everyone has been greeted. 8. Meet and Greet: Students pull a name from a hat and greet that student. 9. Guess Who: Using the info gained from the share activity below the teacher pulls a name from a hat (without letting students see the name). Give the students clues on whose name was pulled "This student likes to play soccer. She has 2 brothers and a dog." 10. Sing this song or chant it as a rhyme: "If your name starts with A turn around. If your name with B touch the ground. If your name then down and touch your knee. If your name starts with D say "that's me!" If your name starts with E reach up high. If your name starts with F touch the sky. If your name starts with G that wave up here to me If your name starts with H say "Yippee!" If your name starts I wink your eye. If your name starts with J pretend to fly. If your name starts with K then move and start to sway If your name starts with L say "Good Day!" If your name starts with M touch your head If your name starts with N start to bend If your name starts with O bend down and touch your toe If your name starts with P say "That's me!" If your name starts Q touch your shoe. If your name starts with R stay where you are If your name starts with T wave up here at me If your name starts with U say Yoo-hoo!" If your name starts with V say "Who me?" If your name starts X say "Oh yes?" If your name starts with Y please don't cry. If your name starts with Z say "End with me." O.k....I'm just going to put this out there....I don't like Sharing. There. I said it. Not sharing as in....I don't like to give my things to others. No, not that kind. I don't like having a Share time in the classroom. I just feel like it terms into "This is what I have and you don't so I'm going to stand up here and tell you all about it and make you feel bad so you can go home and tell your parents and beg them to buy it for you too" time. Therefore, Share time in the classroom for me has to have a bit more direction and purpose. In the beginning of school, Share time consists of us getting to know everyone so everyone takes home a brown paper bag with this little poem attached. We’d like to get to know a little about you So fill this bag with photos, a small toy, a momento or two. Bring your bag to school on _______ Know what you want to share and say. We can’t wait to see what’s in your bag On your sharing day! Each student gets assigned a day (actually I assign 2-3 students per day) to share their bag and tell us about themselves. This All About Me Paper Bag Activity is a FREEBIE in my store. You can grab it here. During the remainder of the year, share time is a time when students can share something that they made or earned (such as an aware, trophy, etc) or an addition to their family (such as a new family member or pet). If someone returns from a vacation, they can share their travel journal with us during Share time too. 1. Four Corners: Designate 4 separate corners of your classroom. Choose one student volunteer to close his/her eyes. The remainder of the class will walk quietly to a corner. The student with his/her closed chooses a corner number and any students in that corner are out and must come sit down. 2. Four Corners 2: Play the same as Four Corners except students go together to a corner based on your directions "Go to corner number 1 if you have a dog. Go to corner number 2 if you have a cat. Go to corner number 3 if you have both a dog and a cat. Go to corner number 4 if you don't have a dog or a cat." 3. Sticky Numbers: One student is given a sticky note with a number written on it. He/She must ask her classmates questions about the number in order to guess it. Questions may be "Is it greater than 10? Is an even number?,etc? 4. Warm Winds: Students sit in a circle. One students is the volunteer and asks a common attribute such as "A warm wind blows for anyone who likes pizza." Anyone who likes pizza must then get up and switch places with someone else. Last person standing is the next volunteer. 5. 7 Up: Played just like the traditional game. 7 people choose 7 people who are seated at a table with their heads down. Those7 people who are chosen try to guess who chose them. If guessed correctly, they can then be "it." 6. Back to School: Get to know staff in your school with these Back to School Trading Cards. Give to staff ahead of time or place them in the mailbox. Take students on a tour and collect the cards as your tour. Kids just love collecting cards! They can learn who the staff members are, their names, and their job responsibilities at the same time! 7. Would you Rather: Kids LOVE "Would you rather?" games. You can do a few and then ask a student volunteer to do some. 8. Circle: Students sit in a circle. Send one student out of the room. Choose one student volunteer to be "it". This student makes a pattern of repeated motions. the remainder of the class copies the motions. Call the student who was sent out to come back in. This student now has to guess who is it. I am so bad about writing morning messages. As I'm making photocopies, catching up on who watched "The Bachelor" last night, setting out morning work, making sure I have work set for the parent volunteer I kept saying to myself "I need to write the morning message." Well...9 times of of 10 the students were walking in and I was either A. Writing the message right there and then OR B. Still hadn't written in Morning messages have always been my nemesis but I do they think they are so important for my early readers. Soooo... I spent a lot of time going through the curriculum and creating a YEAR's worth of morning messages that I can always have on my computer so I could just pop it on and BAM! There they are ....every day. I never have to write a morning message again! Literally all I do is turn on my SmartBoard and my morning message for each day is right there! When I have a sub, I just leave her my login directions for my computer and it's a piece of cake. I love how it's review for my students. They are editable too so you can adapt them however you want. To pin for later:
