Video of The Day
Do you need more ideas for Morning Meeting? A Video of The Day during Morning Meeting is the next step to creating stronger connections and inferencing skills with your students. Using visuals like a Video of Day with teaching is important because visuals or videos keep students engaged and students are able to see their learning before doing the work. The work can be modeled with a visual on the board and students are going to be able to follow along with more than just talking. Using a video during Morning Meeting will lead to students having deeper conversations with what they noticed in the video. Students make connections on a daily basis with shows and videos on their phones. Therefore, students will be able to create connections and inferences with the videos on the screen because they do it every day with their own devices.
Morning Meeting Prompts
There is a higher engagement with visuals during Morning Meeting because students will be able to focus on the task at a higher level. When you ask a question or read a scenario without a visual, students may tune you out or not understand what you are asking. When you ask a question with a video, more students will understand compared to just asking a question because you are reaching visual and auditory learners. The videos are also very short which correlates well with students’ attention span.
Morning Meeting Sharing
You will be able to raise academic achievement with students by using a Video of The Day because students will be exposed to reading strategy skills on a daily basis. Students will learn to create inferences, connections, observations, and to read closely. When students are doing this as part of their daily routine, it will become a habit to practice those reading strategies in other areas of their lives as well. As a teacher, you will teach that when students create connections and inferences with what they are observing, those skills can carry over to their reading. Students will create observations, connections, and inferences while they are reading.
When I used a daily visual during Morning Meeting and created the learning bridge to their independent reading, students started to make REAL connections to their reading. Therefore, their reading scores improved on their standardized assessments and students gained multiple reading levels. Of course, reading workshop and guided reading attributed to those gains as well, but this was the first year I really implemented Morning Meeting. Our grade level was able to close the academic achievement gap by the winter of that school year.
Morning Meeting Classroom
Behavioral problems are reduced in classrooms that implement Morning Meeting with fidelity. Behavior issues are reduced because the teacher creates genuine connections with their students every single morning. For example, in my classroom students had deep discussions with each other after they listened to their classmate answer a question of the day or when they created an inference after viewing the picture of the day. The discussions led us to get to know each other better on a personal level which strengthened our relationships. The strengthened relationships allowed for a safe space for students who felt heard and respected. Now my students did have off days and there was a select number of times I did have to call the office, but for most of the school year, my students were well behaved. Some of these students had a rough year the year before, and I know that something had to have changed their behavior for the better when they entered second grade.
Morning Meeting Questions
Students can do the greeting with the other Morning Meeting activities like Morning Meeting Questions and students can do this all while eating breakfast. If you want to build strong relationships and work on closing the reading gap with your kids, click the link to purchase one or all three of the editable Video of The Day series.
If you end up liking The Video of The Day series, try my most popular product to use in the classroom, Morning Meeting Questions. Another one to add to your Morning Meeting routine is our Picture of The Day.
I wholeheartedly believe that this Morning Meeting routine transformed our classroom into a respectful and collaborative place that everyone wanted to be at.
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