Morning meetings

My first job at a school very much believed in the power of Morning Meeting. I was able to meld my Morning Meeting time into a tradition.

Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!

Grab your FREE List of Morning Meeting Share Questions from Team J's Classroom Fun. This list includes 20 fun and engaging questions to use with your class during share. Click through to grab this Morning Meeting FREEBIE.

Morning meetings can support social-emotional learning in all the best ways! Use some of these morning meeting ideas to work on social-emotional skills and community building to give your day a positive start. (morning routine, elementary, SEL, class meeting, classroom community, morning meeting routines)

Daily Morning Meeting Prompts for building a strong Classroom CommunityThese 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…

My students love to talk. #chattiestclassever But I don’t want them to just be talkers. I want them to be thinkers too. And, I want them to be able to support what they’re thinking with reasons. That’s when I started using discussion starters. Keep reading to find out how you can try discussion starters FREE. ... Read more

One fun way to start the day and get everyone talking is by using would you rather morning meeting questions

Morning meeting in kindergarten is such an important part of the day. Use these free morning meeting question handouts to lead discussions with your students. Morning meeting helps to build a positive community with your students. Click to read about the morning meeting steps we use in kindergarten and get these free morning meeting handouts.

The first component of Morning Meeting (the greeting) is really important because it lets kids feel welcome in their class. These 4 Morning Meeting greetings are supposed to be useful for any teacher of any subject area. Whether you teach a special area class, like art or music, or you teach a specific content area or grade, my hope is that these activities can be used and adapted to your liking depending on what you want to do with your class. This one can be as easy or hard as you want it…

Knowing how to build classroom community is one of the essential components of a successful school year for teachers and students.