Heston

I don't have morning meeting but I do get to greet our students. I think it is so important to greet each child by name and chit-chat. Keyon seems to enjoy this one on one interaction. 

Salone

Salone

Right on time. I was getting bored myself and talked to the kids about it. I will be introducing the names of things in the classroom on cards we can put on those things in German. I have used a few phrases with them and I am amazed at how quickly they pick up, especially the ones you least expect to. I also changed the activity to "Would You Rather..." questions which always makes for a lively discussion

Gortz

Gortz

Great ideas.  I
could see the "Say your Name" game used in a lot of ways  For example,  Say a theme or say a traIt...    Say a word and we will spell it back to you...

Hall

Hall

We were getting bored too. At the beginning of the year, we learned how to say Hello in multiple languages and the kids loved trying to pronounce them. I think I will look up some more languages and use those again once a week. 

Fiore

Fiore

My morning meeting routine has definitely gotten stale, as it's become my daily pulpit to preach the importance of listening and following directions.  I recently changed things up and started showing Channel One News, because my homeroom students were painfully unaware of current events.  I like the idea from the article of the "Say your name and when you do, we will say it back to you!" greeting. I'll try to incorporate this into my routine.

Port

Port

We have just changed our Morning Meeting up by adding in some calming/meditation/breathing activities from stopbreaththink and gonoodle.  I do like the Hullabaloo idea from the article and may add that in after Spring Break.

Gura

Gura

Morning meeting has gotten pretty repetitive at this point in the school year. Every day I let the students know of important or different things going on so that they are prepared. They also enjoy getting up and greeting each other. I usually set the tone for the greeting like, "say goodmorning to five friends in a silly voice" or "greet someone with a compliment." I try to have a different greeting every day but it's hard to come up with so many. I have been trying to look at different resources for more greeting ideas to start the day. Or even activities to go along with our character focuses. 

Figueroa

Figueroa

I try to keep morning meeting fun and creative, sometimes choosing the activities, and others allowing students to be decision makers and choose the entire flow for the day's meeting. I try to keep things interesting by talking about the excitement and fears for this final year at Bella or by introducing new dance moves and having a dance party. This week I am going to introduce silent greetings and mindful meditations.  

Mr. L

Mr. L 

I like the hullabaloo idea we did that last year. This year's class is very interested in ChannelOne News and we often spend our meeting chatting about ChannelOne, looking up more information and what we saw, and we also participate in the online polls. I've never in my life had fifth/sixth graders this interested in politics and the goings on of the world. They like it so much I can threaten to take away ChannelOne and they snap out of whatever crazy funk they're in. At this point I think letting the kids pick what we're going to do might help keep things from getting stale. 

Mr. K

Mr. K

I like the name game.  I use the good morning tunnel from our ice breakers; the students like it.  A variation of the name game I do is the students toss a beach ball to another classmate after you say their name. Once they catch it you tell them good morning.
I have been using morning meeting to make announcements and to explore my students feelings, emotions, and interactions.  We have been exploring feelings over the last few weeks.  For the next few weeks I am going to teach my students about composure, encouragement, assertiveness, choices, positive intent, empathy, and consequences. 

Grimes

Grimes

I don't really do a morning meeting in the gym, but I do greet the students at the door when they walk in. I think greeting them by their name is important  way to start their day and asking how their weekend was or if they did anything fun the night before. I always try and catch the crabby ones before they head upstairs and try and shake it out of them. 

Westfall

Westfall

We just added a morning "get started" rap to our meeting and we all LOVE it!! The kids get excited to dance after we review our regular routines!!

Davis

Davis

Our morning greetings last for the entire month.  By the time they get it down pact, it is time to learn a new one anyway.  We have also restarted repeating the greetings we learned at the beginning of the year.  I think they were excited to do tunnel greetings again, we hadn't done them since September. They definitely change the tunnel greeting each morning by doing different dances as they walk down the line. 

Ford

Ford

Even though I don't do a morning meeting, I try to communicate and smile to every student in the morning.  Like Grimes, I focus more energy on the sudents who appear in distress to help them change the day before it begins.

Hill

Hill

We are going to start a morning message to go along with our meeting.  It will focus on sight words and we will have the students read the message.  We also started doing  stretching at the end of the meeting do get their minds focused and ready to learn

Fuck that was what i was planing

Fuck that was what i was planing