A Little More On Morning Meetings

A comment on morning meetings....
I have already talked about what morning meetings are and their benefits. They are this fantastic tool teachers can use in their classroom to promote class unity and bonds among the class. The other day three  of my classmates and myself presented our version of a morning meeting. Each of use took a part of the meeting. We decided to use Disney as our theme. I love Disney as a whole, it promotes dreaming and seeing beyond our front door.
Brianna Call was in charge of greetings. She created a darling introduction song based off of The Toy Story. It went as followed:

"You've got a friend in me

You've got a friend in me

You've got trouble, I've got them too

There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you

We'll stick together and see it through

You've got a friend in me

You've got a friend in me"

 

Ashleigh was in charge of the sharing time and she did a lightning share. She had three people sign up to share about their favorite Disney movie. Each person shared what movie they liked most and why. They allowed the whole class to ask three questions about their share and that was all.

Leah was in charge of the activity. She created a Disney style Celebrity game. At the beginning of class she gave each person a red or orange bracelet creating two teams. The Celebrity game is played similarly to charades. Each team has one person from the their team that tries to get the whole team to guess as many Disney characters in one minute. The game was broken into three rounds:

1. The first was that they could only use descriptive words for the character. They couldn't say their name or any nick names.
2. The second round was similar to the first, but they could only use one word to describe the character. Again they couldn't say any names.
3. The last round was purely charades. They had to act out the character for the team.

The last part of our morning meeting was the News and Announcements. That was done by me. I created a poster that had four Disney ecosystems. As the students walked in they were to mark which ecosystem they would like to live in. For my time I talked about what each ecosystem was and what movies they could be found in. I also passed around two other ecosystems that were not on the poster. We also graphed the different ecosystems according to everyone preference. I thought that this part could lead well into a science, social studies, or math lesson and transition the class from morning meeting to actually class time.   

Ecosystems I used:

 

Morning Meetings with a theme can be so fun and students may be able to relate to subjects better. Everyone knows Disney and it could be used in a variety of ways.