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Supporting Restless Students During Morning Meeting

February 2002

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I teach first grade. I find that by the end of Morning Meeting, my students tend to be fidgety and restless, so I’ve been taking them out for recess after meeting and before starting the rest of the day. That seems to help them. They come back in more settled and ready to get to work. My principal, however, has said that this isn’t a productive use of time. What do you think? Do you have any information on what time of day is best for recess?

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Two Practices, Two Purposes: Morning Meeting and Read-Alouds
Read-alouds are a powerful and joyful part of the elementary classroom. They offer a unique opportunity to foster classroom connection and deepen students’ social, behavioral, and academic learning. Why Not ...
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Message Ideas Morning Meeting
4 Tips for Writing Morning Meeting Messages
Morning Meeting is a daily gathering that helps children transition into the school day, build community, and practice academic and social skills. One key component of Morning Meeting is the ...
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Families Positive Community
Morning Meeting Begins at 7:15 p.m.!

It's back-to-school night at Flanders Elementary School in East Lyme, Connecticut. As parents and guardians arrive at Andy Dousis's fourth grade classroom, he welcomes them warmly and invites them to read the news and announcement chart that is addressed to them.

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Lost Tooth Poem: A Morning Meeting Group Activity Idea
Here’s a Morning Meeting activity idea that will help K-2 students practice word recognition, reading poetry, rhyming, and keeping a steady beat. Lost Tooth Poem Children will relate to this poem ...
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Encore! A Morning Meeting Group Activity Idea
Here’s a Morning Meeting activity idea from 80 Morning Meeting Ideas for Grades 3–6 that will help students practice cooperation, vocabulary, and recall. Encore! Students team up to connect vocabulary words with ...
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Keeping Morning Meeting Greetings Fresh and Fun
After doing many Morning Meetings, teachers often wonder how to keep the sense of comfortable routine while also varying the meetings enough to keep students (and adults) interested and engaged. Greetings can be especially important because they set the tone for the whole meeting—and the whole day. Here are answers to questions teachers frequently ask about greetings. (The answers apply to the group activity component, too.)
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Activity Ideas Morning Meeting
Backward Day Handshake: A Morning Meeting Greeting Idea
Here’s a Morning Meeting greeting idea that will help students practice sequencing and sentence structure. Backward Day Handshake Greeting Students pass along a friendly handshake, but say the greeting backward. ...
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Easy Ways to Vary Morning Meeting Greetings
How can you keep the sense of comfortable routine while also varying Morning Meetings enough to keep students (and adults) interested and engaged? Greetings can set the tone for the whole meeting—and the whole day.
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Getting Started Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting: A Soft Place to Land

When Eric's father died suddenly just before a long weekend, Morning Meeting gave our school the safe structure we needed to help this second grader and his schoolmates cope with the tragedy.

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Themed Sharing during Morning Meeting
Question: Do you have a theme that you like to use occasionally to guide Sharing during Morning Meeting? What makes it work well with your students?
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Just Like Me: A Morning Meeting Group Activity
Group activities involve the entire class, including teachers, which helps build a sense of belonging and community. It allows students and teachers to get to know one another and practice ...
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