What to do for Morning Meeting – questions, games, activities, ideas for YOUR classroom

Morning Meeting is an essential time for EVERY classroom!

I want to preface this post saying that any part of a virtual morning meeting can also be done in person – these ideas ALL WORK for both – which is awesome!

If you know about morning meetings and just want some quick morning meeting ideas – here is your list!

What is a virtual Morning Meeting?

Morning meetings usually have a specific structure: greeting, share, activity, message. (Responsive Classroom)

I have an entire Morning Meeting Workshop that walks through how I did morning class meetings with my students!

Like the exact structure, with exclusive templates and everything to make it easy peasy!

Why should you have class meetings?! Morning meetings are so important to set the tone for the day, build social-emotional learning, allow fun and connection for students and the teacher!

What are the best distance learning morning meeting games and activities?

Let’s dive right into the best virtual morning meeting games, but remember they work for in person too – just screen share and go!

We’re focusing on just the morning meeting activity portion but remember if you want to make your ideal Morning Meeting schedule and structure – sign up for the workshop!

This FREEbie has the whole list ….like all of my faves from EVER

Let’s break down some great morning meeting activities!

  1. Movement Activities – these morning meeting activity games all get students moving which is so important!
    1. Would you Rather (with movement)
    2. Scavenger Hunts
    3. Exercise Videos

2. Humor Activities: Get students laughing and feeling connected by sharing funny concepts.

  • Joke of the Day
  • Mad Libs – Funny Fill Ins
  • Holiday of the Day (Talk Like a Pirate Day, National Pizza Day, etc…)

3. Connection Activities: Arguably the most important – protecting time for important discussion and learning around students and classroom community.

Virtual Morning Meeting, In person class meetings are non negotiable for the classroom.

Connecting with students everyday (with everything already pre-done) and student-led is key!

Join me to see how to have the best mornings, get some teacher joy back, and deeply connect with students!

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