How do your CT's conduct morning meeting and how do the students respond? Does your CT give "brain breaks" by allowing the children to dance along or play with the Interactive Whiteboard?
Monday, November 21, 2016
Morning Meeting
My partner and I had the chance to conduct our own morning meeting! We started by greeting the class and having them greet each other with a "butterfly float away handshake". We have a "helper of the day" who gets to show the class how to do the calendar and count the number of days they have been in school. This is the most important part of the classroom management as the students are getting ready to settle down into the classroom for the day. After morning meeting, our CT had us "dance" and get the wiggles out with the class. This is where she incorporates the Interactive Whiteboard. She usually plays a song and has a short clip play where it shows the students the dance moves so they know how to follow along. It really helps with their self-control and creates a fun learning environment.
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Our CT conducts a pretty similar Morning Meeting everyday. We first start with the greeting which vary each day, then they move into the sharing section, then to the activity, and finally we finish up with reading the morning message which is read by the entire class.
ReplyDeleteMy partner and I have also had the opportunity to be apart of a few morning meetings during the past couple weeks and now for next week we are preparing the Morning Meeting for each day (Monday-Friday). I am very anxious to be planning and organizing all of these morning meetings but it will give me a good feel for how to organize them in the future when it comes time to do it in my own classroom.