Morning Meeting
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2003

I wanted to add
this information to the website since I've had several people
request further information, but I didn't know exactly where to put
it. So I just created a whole new page. Problem solved!
:) If you have further questions, email me and I'll be glad to
try and answer them and then post the answers here as well.
This is a
picture of my Teaching Wall where our Morning Meeting is centered.
The
Teaching Wall is attached to strips that were built into the classroom.
I have each component for our Morning Meeting numbered, to help me stay on task.
Pledge
Read a book that
corresponds to theme
1) ABCs & alphabet
sounds song (on song chart)
2) Word Wall (on an
opposite wall that you can't see)
3) Calendar
4) Days of the Week
5) Months of the Year
6) Write the date 2
ways on laminated sentence strips with a Vis-a-Via
7) Graph the Weather
(which is missing in the picture)
8) Write a sentence on
a laminated sentence strip with a Vis-a-Via
9) Count to 100, count
backwards from 10, count by 10s to 100, later we'll add counting by 5s
10) Time: Tell the
time and write it on a laminated card with a Vis-a-Via (can't see this in
pic)
11) Money in the Bank
(except that we now use a money pocketchart) The money corresponds
to the date: 17th = 17 cents
12) Tally Marks
corresponding to date (this I've changed to
ordinals)
13) Pattern (add to it
daily, start a new one each Mon)
14) Days in School
using Place Value Chart
15) Temperature
16) Number Pattern
17) Shapes
18) Daily Graphing
Question coordinates with theme
Sing color words songs
from
song charts using cassette (Frog Street
Press)
Review poems in pocketcharts
Get
the mail from
class mailbox
Read
emergent readers
More pictures at
My
Room
For Morning Meeting my
students sit at the round table and face the Teaching Wall. We
quickly go through each component of the Meeting. I try to get
through it as quickly as possible. Some days I stop to introduce a higher
level skill, so we spend a minute or two longer. (usually has to do with
the calendar) The faster we move through the information, the more
interested the kids are.
The ABCs we just recite while I point with a pointer. I still have some
that can't say them and some that still don't recognize them, so this is
good for both. We also sing a song that incorporates the sounds (the
Alphabet Sounds Song on the
Literacy Connections page).
When we write a sentence, I choose a student to give me a sentence. Their
sentence might be "I like a red cake." (when we were doing The Birthday
Cake) The group tells me how to spell the words, including capital
letters, spacing, and punctuation. I write it on the laminated sentence
strip with a vis-a-via pen. I help them out when needed. This is a great
time to work on spacing, capitalization, punctuation, language, decoding,
sight words, and available resources. By available resources I mean we
talk about where we can look in the classroom for words we don't know how
to spell ... sight words on Word Wall, "red" & "cake" from The Birthday
Cake pocketchart. When they use these resources on their own, I tell them
to "Kiss their brain!" (from Dr. Jean) They love to do that. We just
touch our head and give an air smooch! :)
During Writing Workshop, they copy the sentence from the wall, and then
write two more sentences of their own. If you're teaching Ks, they may
not be able to do this. We started out the year drawing a picture and
writing about it. I conference with each one when they're finished. We
go over "corrections", but I don't tell them that. We've advanced up to
where we're at now. We just started on the two sentences. They're not
doing so hot on the two sentences. Although they did great copying the
sentence and writing ONE sentence of their own. Writing TWO sentences is
still a little scary to them. But we're moving along and I'm proud of
them.
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