Sharing morning meeting questions each morning is important to build strong relationships with students. Students need morning meeting questions in the classroom to practice higher-order thinking skills and questions to understand, infer, categorize, and apply them to school and outside life. Students will become life-long learners and start their day off with critical thinking abilities to assist them for the rest of the day. 

“Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically.” –Responsive Classroom

“Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. In addition, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom.” –Centervention

Ideas for Morning Meeting

Students come into the classroom with their breakfast, and this allows students to chat with each other before we begin our day. Additionally, this helps students who are wanting to share about their night before or the weekend before are able to without interrupting a lesson. Afterward, we begin with our morning meeting. 

Our morning meeting starts with a picture of the day and students infer what is going on with the picture. The picture could be of a family in an airport, and students have to infer where they are at based on their experiences or background knowledge.

After, I put up the morning meeting questions on our smartboard. The questions are thought-provoking and allow students to deeply think about the answer without just answering yes or no. Every student has to answer and it is another way to get to know each other and build the strongest relationships possible. If we did not do our morning meeting question that day, students would let me know.

Morning Meeting Ideas

Students also look at a fact of the day. Students are shocked and fascinated by the amazing facts that they learn! I also seem to learn something new when I am showing the facts to the students as well! I bought a product off TPT that I use for our fact of the day, but I may create our own fact of the day. Also, we use a spelling meme where students have to pick out the misspelled word with a funny picture behind it. Students will try and correct the spelling as well. We also review one math and reading skill. The skills correlate to our standardized achievement tests.  It gives students a way to practice test-taking skills and review the standards without taking up much class time.

Morning Meeting Prompts

Morning Meeting sets the tone for the rest of the day for students. It is a way for students to take a break and not start the day with a rigorous activity.  Students will feel relaxed and be able to build relationships with their teacher and their peers each morning. It starts to become a part of the classroom routine and ritual. If we had an interruption in our morning meeting routine, students were not happy about it! Undoubtedly, students looked forward to that interaction with everyone because they all became a family.  I noticed that students were much kinder and respectful to each other after implementing morning meeting. Without a doubt, the last class I did this with was the most thoughtful, kind, and hard-working group of kids I have ever had the privilege of teaching.  I believe one of the factors that contributed to the class being the best class ever was the morning meeting ritual with the morning meeting questions! 

If you want to build the strongest relationships with your kids, click the link to purchase the editable Morning Meeting Question Google Slides. There are 185 Google Slides, one for every day of the school year! If you do not like a picture or a question, you can edit or change it! 

If you end up liking the Morning Meeting Google Slides, I will be posting our Picture of The Day Google Slides in just a few short weeks! Be on the lookout to build the strongest relationships with your kids and have your dream class!

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