a Post It and bring it to Morning Meeting.
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Monday
Greeting:
Activity: charades
Sharing: Chart: Today is a great day because
News and Announcements:
Greeting: Good Morning” Greeting.
Some variations to use early in the year:
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 With
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Activity:
a wave
a salute
a bow
a thumbs up
a peace sign
News and Announcements:
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Wednesday
GreetingActivity – Game: Zoom
Community
Coconut- This game incorporates Rock, Paper, Scissors into the following characters and actions:
Coconut (walking on knees or squatting with bent knees)
Palm Tree (swaying arms overhead)
Volcano (jumping using arms as lava)
King or Queen Kamehameha (doing a princess wave)
All players start as a coconut. They find another coconut and play Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Whoever wins
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evolves and becomes a palm tree, whoever loses remains a coconut. Palm trees then find other palm trees and
repeat the Rock, Paper, and Scissors. The winner goes on to being a volcano and the loser becomes a coconut.
Players try to move up to king or queen, but the game is continuous. Time the activity
New and Announcements:
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Greeting: Greeting-sit according to the compound word match
Activity: charades: act out compound words:
Activity: with groups
Dear Future Citizens of the World,
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Friday
Greeting:
Activity:
New and Announcements:
Message:
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Greeting:
Activity:
Coconut- This game incorporates Rock, Paper, Scissors into the following characters and actions:
Coconut (walking on knees or squatting with bent knees)
Palm Tree (swaying arms overhead)
Volcano (jumping using arms as lava)
King or Queen Kamehameha (doing a princess wave)
All players start as a coconut. They find another coconut and play Rock, Paper, and Scissors. Whoever wins,
evolves and becomes a palm tree, whoever loses remains a coconut. Palm trees then find other palm trees and
repeat the Rock, Paper, and Scissors. The winner goes on to being a volcano and the loser becomes a coconut.
Players try to move up to king or queen, but the game is continuous. Time the activity
message
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Dear Learners,
News and announcements
Greeting
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Activity:
Category Snap- The group sits in a circle. The leader starts a rhythm using a sequence of knee slap, handclap, and right-hand
finger snap, left-hand finger snap. The leader then announces a category, such as fruits, on the right-hand finger snap and names an
example, such as apples, with the left-hand finger snap. The next person in the circle must be ready to name the leader’s fruit with the
right-hand finger snap and then a different fruit with the left-hand finger snap: knee slap, hand clap, “apples, and apricots.” The play
continues around the circle. Once an item has been named, it cannot be used again.
Good Morning,
Greeting- One minute
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Activity:. Incorporations In this activity, students will form and reform groups as quickly as possible. The leader hits a gong or rings a
bell and then gives directions for forming groups, such as “Get into groups of three”. The leader hits the gong again and gives a
different direction: “Get into groups where everyone is wearing something the same color”. The activity moves very quickly
Good Morning,
Greeting: Baseball
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Activity:. Alphabet Story The first person in the circle starts to tell a story with a sentence beginning with the letter “A”; Aunt Helen
came to my house the other day,” for example. The next person in the circle continues, adding a sentence that begins with “B”: “Buddy,
her terrier, came with her.” The class continues through the alphabet until everyone has added to the story.
Good Morning Dreamers,
Answer the question below in your Writers Notebook:
If you were in a fairy tale which would you rather do? climb a beanstalk, take goodies to grandma, dance with the prince
Next, start to writer your own fairy tale-but take an original fairy tale and change it.
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Greeting
Greet your students as:
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cookies
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mathematicians
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readers
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spellers
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artists
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students
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friends
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animal experts
Activity:. Mirror Image (middle, upper)
The teacher asks pairs of children to stand face-to-face. One child in each pair is the designated “mirror.” This child observes his/her
partner very closely and tries to imitate the partner’s movements simultaneously, as though the partner were looking in a mirror.
Good Morning or Bonjour,
That is Good Morning in French. What is a country that you would love to visit—in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, or South America.
Who? Write it in your Writers Notebook and bring it to Morning Meeting.
Greeting
Activity:. Game: Zoom
Variations/Extensions:
Dear Thinkers and Debaters,
What do you think? Should students be allowed to chew gum in school? Why or why not? Please make sure you write your
answer in your Writers Notebook and explain why! Use evidence!
Greeting
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Activity:.
and so on.
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Good Morning
Greeting
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Activity:.
Game: Clown Got Sick, The
How to Play: This is a simple call and response game which keeps all players active. Repeat the following group chant and
action sequence around the circle.
Student: The clown got sick.
Group: “How did the clown get sick?”
Student: “The clown got sick by doing this.” (action)
Group: “The clown got sick by doing this!” (group repeats the action)
All players keep doing the action until the next action is introduced. Players enjoy inventing the actions and being involved
throughout the game.
Good Morning,
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