Morning meeting time daily starts our day off with connections and building our classroom community!

Here is a great website with ideas for your morning meeting for students of all ages!
https://www.centervention.com/morning-meeting-questions/

I do a Monday morning check in that I call rose and thorn moments. Students have the option to share happy moments (rose) and sad moments (thorns). I pass an artificial rose to the speaker.

I have used Michael R Kay’s idea of “burn 5 minutes” periodically to allow the first five minutes, once a week for students to gather and chat about anything they want with whoever they want, knowing that I would walk around and be part of their conversations. In order for the talk to be free, I needed to develop a trusting relationship with students and to create an environment of sharing and talking, free from judgment and filled with joy.