Happy Tuesday ya’ll! I hope everyone had a terrific day!
I have had so many requests for video lessons…seriously, so many! SO….I just had to make it happen. I got permission from 14/15 parents and the boss man and so here is my first video lesson! We will be working to improve the quality and recording but for now, you can finally see us in action!
What you will see is our morning meeting routine. I am a huge proponent of morning meeting. It builds community, it brings us together to celebrate the start of our day and it gets our brains thinking about school in a fun and interactive way! Morning meeting is also a great way to hit on some Common Core standards in a quick and repetitive way!!!
This is exactly what it looks like every day. I didn’t edit or coach the ‘staches. I hit record on the MacStache and away we went! Our morning meeting has a greeting, sharing, an activity and morning message. What you see is of course happening now because of lots of practice and scaffolding! The writing of the message is slowly released to the ‘staches over time. We start with 1 letter missing and slowly build up to what you see now, the whole greeting of the message missing!
The activities change daily, as does the person writing the message. But we follow the same pattern and routine. Please leave comments with questions you have after viewing the video and I will write a post to answer the questions.
If you’re interested in more morning meeting ideas, click the links! These links will provide you with information on morning messages, activities and other fun and intriguing tidbits related to morning meeting.
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8 comments
Fabulous Greg. Simply Fabulous. Your administrators are spot on when they call you a rock star.
Love it.
-Sarah
A Rocky Top Teacher
WOW!!! You have it going on. Like I said already, I would love to visit your class. I wish my administration could see good teachers like you to know I'm only doing what other K. teachers do, not upper grades. Keep up the good work.
That was awesome! I do have a few questions…Do your students have assigned spots? Is this your only share time, or do you have a “show and tell” What is the significance of the thumbs up? Any tricks for teaching them to ask questions and not make statements (like I went to ____, I did that or I have that). Your students seemed in a hurry when you were done. What comes next?
Terri Izatt
KinderKapers
This is our only share time and the thumbs up means we have a question. We do not have assigned seats. The questions have taken time to master! We had a lot of statements at the beginning so we talk about question words and we talk about how questions need answers! Hope this helps! They were in a hurry because after the morning meeting we sing some songs, so they were ready to sing and dance!!
Loved the video! Thank you for sharing! Your staches' are adorable and hilarious! 🙂
Did I miss the 5 am deadline on the newsletter? 🙁 Sad face!! I follow you on everything else, so I can't believe I wasn't receiving your newsletter already.
Thank you so much for letting us see your classroom in action. It seriously is such a big help and inspiration! You rock!
Great video!!!! I am so stealing your routine for my Kinders!!!!
Mrs. Spriggs’ Kindergarten Pond
So…I have been following you on Instagram and read your blog religiously. I dream of one day meeting THE Mr.Greg! Anyway I was SUPER excited to watch your video… I have been hoping to see you in action!
I watched your video last night and I was so pumped! I couldn’t sleep! I was planning out in my head how I was going to incorporate this morning meeting idea into my daily routine. I tried it today… it was a SLAM DUNK!!
18 out of my 23 students don’t speak English… when they came in they couldn’t even put words together to speak a sentence. They didn’t know simple words like dog, cat, bathroom- you get the drift. They have come such a long way since then but still have trouble speaking in proper and complete sentences. I wish I could have seen this in September. If I would have started doing this back then my students would be so much better off!
I told my students all about you and your morning meeting idea today before we tried it out. I was amazed at how well it went. They were trying so hard to speak in complete sentences and ask/answer questions in complete sentences. They were correcting each other and helping each other- it was team work like I had never seen before! The share/question portion of the meeting was such a fun, non-intimidating way to really reinforce oral language with my kinders.
They also had a lot of fun with the mixed up sentences. Again, they were working together and really workin’ their brain muscles to listen carefully to make sure the sentence sounded right (it’s really hard for them because sometimes it doesn’t sound right but they can’t tell the difference because they speak using broken English and it sounds right to them).
One of my kids said “Tell Mr.Greg we love his morning meeting.” That being said- morning meeting was a HIT and I will continue to do this EVERY morning! Thanks for all the wonderful ideas and inspiration you provide me with each and every day!