Morning Meetings

Sylvia Allan the principal at Vineyard Elementary spoke to us today about Morning Meetings in class. It was awesome! I wasn't sure what she was going to say about it for two hours, but she had really good stories and insight about morning meetings. I was at her school last semester for my field and got to experience her Monday morning meetings she does with the whole school. All the kids loved it. They all danced, cheered for their house, and had a good time. It even got me pumped for the rest of the week! I love her excitement and enthusiasm!

The components of Morning Meeting are:

• Class Creed
• Greeting (Monday only)
• Pledge
• Memorization
• Class Business
• Vegetables
• Dessert
• Medicine
• News
• Share
• Class Cheer

Although morning meetings can be amazing things and unite a class as they learn, if done the wrong way they can have a very negative effect. Two critical tips for teachers to know are:

1. Never sit at your desk during morning meeting, it is not planning time.
2. It is not a therapy session for you or the students.

I love the idea of having morning meetings in my future classroom and I definitely want to. I love the sense of unity it brings to a class.  I love the idea of students working together and helping each other out! I told my husband about our class today and some of the stories Sylvia Allan shared, he was very impressed and said, "you should have morning meetings when you're a teacher"

Morning Meetings are the only time of the day that 100% of the students are successful!!