During the week before the holiday break, Kaylin and I were in charge of the morning meetings on Monday and Tuesday. Our CT gave us some ideas on what we can do with the kindergartners. She keeps the greeting and the activity the same all week long! I find this important because then students can master the morning greetings and activities. I love that she sets them up for success. We had to find something simple enough to have the students do, but also creative enough to challenge their brains.
I've heard of my other classmates doing morning meetings multiple times each week, and after doing my own morning meeting, I wish I would have done more! It was really exciting to lead the students and find activities for them to greet and share with each other.
Morning meetings are really fun. I have done a couple with my partner. My cooperating teacher likes to do greetings on Mondays only, I wish she would do them throughout the week. Her morning meetings have also been scattered recently due to technical difficulties and that really messes up the morning.
ReplyDeleteI did my first morning meeting on Tuesday and it's a lot of work trying to keep the attention of elementary school students! I'm glad yours went well though, I'm so glad we practiced doing them in our ED class before going out into the field. I feel like that helped me a lot when doing mine! I also wish I would have been able to do them more often, but at least we got to do one (or two) :)
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