MORNING MEETING IDEAS

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MORNING MEETING IDEAS

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Горішньоплавнівської ЗОШ І-ІІІ ступенів № 1

Мізіна Олена Миколаївна

Горішні Плавні

2021 рік

Morning Meetings In Middle School.

   In upper grades, what should we do to focus our opening instructional moves on the deliberate creation and maintenance of a learning community, without sacrificing valuable instructional time?

   First, we have to recognize that we’ll get more out of our students if they feel safe, supported, and known well in our classrooms. The time spent building community will come back to us exponentially in fewer behavior issues and better student engagement.

Elements of Morning Meetings

    Responsive Classroom, a popular teaching framework that improves school culture through evidence-based practices, created morning meetings. Just like the name suggests, morning meetings take place at the start of the school day.

   Teachers allocate the first 20 minutes of class for constructive conversations and preparing students for the day ahead. During this time, students aren’t just “shooting the breeze.”

They’re actually building and practicing many important skills that are needed for academic success.

There are four basic components to morning meetings:

• Greetings, where teachers and students welcome each other
• Time for engaged sharing, where students and teachers share about something in their lives; the rest of the group practices active listening and asks follow-up questions
• Activities that promote teamwork and give students additional time to practice social and emotional skills
• A morning message, which is a short note from the teacher that explains the day’s events and objectives

Why Teach About Choices Each Person Has Control Over?

Recognizing what is in our control helps young people cultivate a strong internal locus of control and sense of self-efficacy, which are important building blocks for self-esteem, compassion towards self and others, having a growth mindset, and creating plans to work towards goals, hopes, and dreams.

This is a wonderful resource to use with middle school children that often times wonder what they control. Excellent resource to use with all kids.

Morning  meeting.

Game  «Colourful mood»

-Listen to music  and yourself.

What do you feel?

What colour do you imagine?

So…you showed up for red, for example…. Now tell me the name of the food…

Morning  meeting.

«Greetings in foreign languages» 

«Our next friend is… Lisa!

Let’s greet Lisa in Japanese.

Konichiwa, Lisa!»

Bonjour (bohn-Zhoor) is hello in French.
Czesc (Chesht) is hello in Polish.
Buon giorno (bwohn-JOR-noh) is hello in Italian.
Konichiwa (koh-Nee-chee-wah) is hello in Japanese.
Jambo (JAHM-bo) is hello in Swahili.
Hola (OH-la) is hello in Spanish.
Ni hao (nee-Ha-OW) is hello in Chinese.
Annyong ha shimnikka (An-YOH HASHim-ni-kah) is hello in Korean.
Al Salaam a’ alaykum (ahl sah-LAHM-ah-ah-LAY-Koom)) is hello in Arabic.

Morning  Meeting.

“Friendship”

    We know that the changes that 4th and 5th grade students go through often involve changing friendships, developing new friendships, and trying to understand how to navigate the social environment of growing up.  It’s definitely a perfect “opposites attract” story—and perfect for a “friends enrich our lives” discussion.

Morning  meeting.

“Would You Rather”

   We using “Would You Rather”or sometimes called “This or That”, where students have to decide between options as a morning meeting activity

Morning  meeting.

“Positive affirmations”

   These positive affirmations are designed to help the students in your classroom to have a positive attitude while taking a little brain break at the same time.  You can choose to have your students read them silently to themselves or chant them aloud as a class