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Morning Meeting
By Em

My morning meeting often varies, we always read a story, sing the days of the week song, I hand out cards with the days of the week on them and they hold them up as we sing that day, then we talk about what day it is today,
and ask which child has that day, and how we know (Sarah has Monday because I know it starts with M and her card starts with M. Then we do the calendar talk about the date, anything special that happens and the weather. We have a Morning Message, that I write (most people use a new one every day, I use the same one all week and we do different things with it each day), we read it, I

have a child point to the words. then we cirlce letters, blends, vowels, sight words, fill in missing words or letters, fill in punctuation etc.

I do my math in the afternoon meeting, we do a count to day 100, so each day the we figure out what number it is, then they helper comes up and I have gingerbread men precut from construction paper, they form the number while we help them by reciting hte number poem, then they give it a face and autograph it, I will put it up on the wall after school. Then we go to the 100 chart and count the days so far, on what we call zero the hero days we count by 10's, on days that end with 5 we count by 5's, on even numbered days we count by 2's and on odd unmbered days we count by 1's up to the number of the day, then we put a unit into our one's bag, or if it's a zero the hero day we kick out the units and put a rod in the 10's bag and count them.