my morning meeting (long)
Posted by: lvteaching #115001
This is how I did my morning meeting when I taught first grade. The first few weeks you really have to model/guide them, but after that, they completely take over.
I started the morning by sitting in the chair in the meeting area. The kids would stay at their seats until I started singing, kids would stand up, push in chairs, and come to carpet, bringing with them their weather graphs and their "very special weather marker".
Everybody have a seat, have a seat, have a seat,
Everybody come and have a seat on the floor.
Not on the ceiling, not on the door,
Everybody come and have a seat on the floor.
By the time we were done singing, children were in a circle on the floor. I would have moved to the floor with them. We would do a greeting to one anot...
In my first grade classroom, I use morning meeting in an educational way. We all sit on the rug and begin with the Calendar. Students have to state the day of the week, the month and the date. On to weather. We keep track of the daily weather. I use a 100 chart for how many days we have been in school. I also do D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language). I write an incorrect sentence on the board...for example...the boy likes to ride his bike.....I call on students to tell me that the "T" on the needs to be uppercase and they have to tell me the reason...beginning of a sentence...then they get to come up and correct it. We also use morning meeting to go over the words of the week. I find this very effective in my classroom.
Morning Meeting
Posted by: Em #80182
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 ect... I do my math in the afternoon meeti...
This is pretty easy. During my morning meeting, I have someone go to the window and check the weather out. While they're heading out there, we sing this song=) Hope this is something you like!
Weather Song (to the tune of "Oh My Darling") Whats the weather? Whats the weather? Whats the weather, everyone? Is it windy? Is it cloudy? Is there rain? Or is there sun?
Weather Helper, Weather Helper What's the weather outside? Go and look out the window, Tell us what you see outside. What's the weather? What's the weather? What's the weather tell everyone. Is it windy? Is it cloudy? Is there rain? or is there sun?
calendar tricks
Posted by: Beth #87257
The tune to the months song that I use is Ten Little Indians. January, February, March and April May, June, July and August September, October, November and December These are the months of the year.
I also use a song to the tune of Clementine (Oh my darlin...)to teach the days of the week:
There are seven days, There are seven days, There are seven days in a week. Sunday, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
