Morning Meeting Tips For Kindergarten & First Grade - Step-By-Step Routines and Procedures

Morning Meeting in kindergarten and first grade is one of the most important parts of the day.

We'll be covering seven essential parts of the morning meeting routine that will help you create a positive and engaging classroom environment.

First, we'll discuss transitioning kids to the morning meeting area. This part can be tricky, but with a few helpful tips and tricks, you'll have your students ready and excited for morning meeting fun and learning.

Next, we'll show you how to use songs and chants to guide the routine of your morning meeting. These fun and interactive activities are a great way to get your students involved and and focused.

After that, we'll go through how to do the daily morning message. This is a critical part of the morning meeting routine that allows you to pre-teach, reteach reading and math skills with your students in a fun and community minded way.

We'll also discuss using conversation and movement to help students stay engaged and learning during the morning meeting. These simple activities will keep your students focused and eager to learn.

In addition, we'll talk about how to pre-teach games during morning meeting. This is a fantastic way to get your students excited about upcoming activities and to build anticipation for the day ahead.

Lastly, we'll show you how to use morning meeting time to talk to your students about special events during the school day. This is a great way to build excitement and anticipation for upcoming events and to keep your students engaged and invested in their learning.

Overall, this video will provide you with all the tools and strategies you need to conduct a successful and engaging morning meeting for your students. So sit back, relax, and let's get started!

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[cutiebirdie]

I’m so grateful for your channel! You have fantastic ideas. I love how you give examples by actually demonstrating what you would actually say and do with the students. A lot of other YouTubers don’t do this. They tell you “what” but not “how” to actually implement them through demonstrations and how to actually talk to the students using helpful phrases. You also give solutions on what to say if students don’t want to do certain things. You also share what works and what doesn’t work in the classroom and how teachers could change it up.
Please do more videos on this. So many teachers and educators lack this teaching skills and ideas.

[thatheatnick]

Oh my god, this is exactly what I've needed my whole career. Why don't more teaching videos do it in this step by step format? amazing! Thank you!

[LeeahQueen]

I’m planning on homeschooling so I definitely am going to tune into your videos thanks !

[cletamonteiro]

Love the chant and the morning message for doing sight words. You are so good!

[melenaalsin]

Your videos are such a blessing for my student teaching term! Thank you! 😊

[JesseB]

This was my first year in K. I wish I had this at the beginning of this year! I will have to look up the resources and use what you've shared to revamp my morning meeting time. Thank you so much!

[cassandralytch-colter]

I am going back to K after teaching 3rd for 6 years. I am glad to have found your channel. Thank you so much for your experience and inspiration to help me transition back to what I love.

[madelinesanders]

I love the chant for when they first sit down for morning meeting!
I have the students do calendar in the morning and it really doesn’t work well. Only a few students were really engaged. I think I’ll change it up and use some of your tips and tricks.

[anntadams]

What a great great video!! I never comment, but this was just exceptional!! I have been trying for YEARS to embrace and improve my class meetings. I'm K-5 Resource Room ELA, I will use these ideas with my youngers!! Thank you so much!!!

[mommyofsmarties]

Starting 2nd grade in September, hoping to use some of these tips.

[BelindaDoMedina]

I absolutely love this video. I've watched this numerous times. Thank you! <3

[teachersara]

Thank you a lot 💚💚💚💚💚💚 That was very helpful for me

[ALICEWONG-vqcj]

Love everything that you share. Thanks for your knowledge.

[joelcooper]

I love the chant with the criss cross apple sauce. I will most definitely use this in my classroom !

[DawnGinese-TheSingingNurse]

🌺💥Making my class feel good about themselves, 💥letting them know that I expect great things from them, 💥doing some pre-teaching, 💥doing some review, 💥getting it done! …
Bam💥
Wish I was in Kindergarten again 😊
🎵💜Dawn

[rebekankelly]

I am so glad I found you! I've been teaching 5th grade for the past 12 years and I am changing to 1st in August. Definitely thumbs up on this video. I subscribed and am about to binge watch your other videos lol Thank you so much!

[joanarmas-pqtt]

can you please type in the chant. love it!!!

[manvirkaur]

Great video!
Is there a video of you doing actions for each sight word?

[besparkly]

So explicit!!! Incredible tips on such an important time of the day. Love, love how you model as though we are your class. You rock!

Especially love that beginning chant involving food. Did you create that?😄

[annieshaoli]

Doing calendar in the afternoon is definitely a good setup for kindergartners.