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Below is a description of each of the components of morning meetings. Along with the description, I will be giving examples for each component. Please feel free to add any of your favorites to my list. I will be including links to videos so you can see it in action. My ideas have come from a variety of resources, inluding the various books on morning meetings. They are listed on the additional resources page. Please check them out. They are awesome resources.

Greeting

What is it? Students will greet each other by name each day. There are many different ways for the students to greet each other.

Samples: Roll Call One Minute Greeting ET Greeting Good Day [|Picture Greeting] [|One Minute Greeting] [|Butterfly Greeting]

Further ideas or tips:

Sharing

What is it? The students will share something important to them with the class. Teachers can also assign a topic for the sharing to be centered around.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">After the student shares with the class, he or she will ask the other students if there are any questions or comments. The student will then call upon a designated number of students to either offer and comment or ask a question relating to their share. Expectations will be set ahead of time on how this is accomplished. All questions and comments must stay on target with the topic at hand.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Samples:

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|Responsive Classroom sharing sample] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|Sharing sample]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Further ideas or tips:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Sharing Topic Ideas:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">What is... <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">something you like about yourself? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">something you do well? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">your favorite room in your home and why? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">a good neighbor?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Activity

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">What is it?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Activities can be used to practice social skills or promote academic content.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Samples: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|Toe to Toe activity] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Sparkle

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Further ideas or tips: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">It seems like there is never enough time for teaching content. I try to focus on activities that have some type of academic content. A great resource for this I Have, Who Has. I use activities that focus on language arts, math and science.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Message

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">What is it? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Morning messages are a great way to increase literacy skills while teaching content and learning more about your students.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Samples:

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">Further ideas or tips: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">One of the things I've been trying to teach my second graders is to read carefully and make sure you know what the question is really asking. What information is it looking for? On September 28th, one of the sentences I used in the message was "Today is the _th Tuesday in September." The students then had to figure out which number went on the blank line. Inevitably, everyone thought 28th. We had a long talk about determining what was being asked, how many DAYS or how many TUESDAYS? I repeated the same activity in October and about half of the class got it. In November I decided to change it up. I did it on a Tuesday but instead of saying, "Today is the Tuesday", I said, "Today is the _ day...". As the students were reading the message and trying to figure it out I kept reminding them to look for what the question was asking for. Again, about half of the students got it. The next week I did the statement again, but went back to asking for the Tuesday. Almost all of the class got it this time. We have continued to have discussions and they are seeing how important it is to read carefully and find out what the question is really asking.