Rebekah Mills Year 2 Induction MORNING MEETING A GREAT WAY TO START THE DAY!

 Morning meeting is a a wonderful way to build classroom community.  Helps set the tone for the day and creates a daily routine that provides security and comfort for the students.  Morning meeting is the place where the students and teacher can share news about what's going on at home and at school.  Why do you have morning meeting? WHY MORNING MEETING!?

 Greeting  Greeting Cards  News & Announcements  Sharing  Group Activity  Activity Cards  Morning Message MAIN COMPONENTS

 Going over the basics:  Days of the Week  Today is…  Tomorrow will be…  Yesterday was…  Months of the year  Date  Example; Friday April 5, 2013 or  Weather  Weather Wheel ELEMENTARY/PRIMARY

 Money  Money Song  Graphing  Line graphs and bar graphs  Question of the Day  Use this opportunity to vote, have student input  Sight Words  Tally Marks  Time  Patterns  Temperature  Use the internet! Technology!  Exercises/Movement MOVING FORWARD… ELEMENTARY/PRIMARY

 Social Skills  Creating a Morning Message  Creating Jobs MOVING FORWARD…

 Changing morning meeting into homeroom  More conversations: minutes  Differentiate for all students: multiple groups, using pictures  Schedules  Work with students on building their own schedule and utilizing a calendar  Weather  Teach students to check weather using technology  Create more jobs  Cafeteria, mail room, vacuuming, cleaning tables, copy room, & laminating  Calendar  Teach them how to use a real calendar  Help them learn how to plan for the week – Exactly how we use a calendar SECONDARY

 Communication/daily sheet  Have them fill them out  Fill it out at the end of the day as their job.  Check out ULS!  Things to think about:  What skills are we looking for?  What is the purpose?  Gear your morning meeting toward their goals SECONDARY

JOB SECTION

STUDENTS PICKING THEIR JOB

EXERCISE/MOVEMENT

ASSESSMENT

 Check it Out! CHECK THIS OUT

"The time one commits to Morning Meeting is an investment which is repaid many times over... Morning Meeting is a microcosm of the way we wish our schools to be—communities full of learning, safe and respectful and challenging for all." —from The Morning Meeting Book THANK YOU