Morning Meeting Plan Facilitators: Emmy Roberts, Katie Goetz, Nia Ruiz

Date: 11/15/22

Social Objective(s): What will students know or be able to do socially as a result of this meeting?

Students will be able to introduce themselves and greet each other while following the theme of
thankfulness during the morning meeting.

Academic Objective(s): What will students know or be able to do academically as a result of this
meeting?

Students will be able to identify 5 characteristics about themselves which they are thankful for in
order to demonstrate and learn about gratitude.

Assessment: How will you know the students have met your objectives? What will you see students
do/what will you hear students say that will demonstrate their learning of your content?

We will know that students have met the objective once we see that the students have written 5
things on each of their turkey’s feathers to represent 5 things about themselves which they are
thankful for. We will see and hear students recognizing things about themselves which they
appreciate to demonstrate that they have learned the content which we are sharing with them.

MEETING MANAGEMENT ● To transition to the meeting area, students will assist in

pushing the tables against the walls to create space. At
*How will you transition
the end of the morning message, we will have students
to the meeting area?
push chairs and tables back to their original spot so that
*How will you arrange they are able to work on the activity.
yourself and the students ● The teacher and students will be arranged sitting on the
(location in the floor in a circle for the message/greeting/sharing portion
classroom, seating during of the meeting.
the read-aloud)? ○ Students may sit in a chair if they prefer!
● One process/procedure which will we use is the
*What processes & procedure of the morning meeting which students have
procedures will you use? learned throughout the year. This consists of everyone
sitting down in a circle together and greeting one
*How will you gain another. A second procedure that goes along with this is
student attention? the procedure of the class repeating back “Good morning
*How will you [name]”, to the person who introduces themselves and
communicate those says good morning.
Morning Meeting Plan Facilitators: Emmy Roberts, Katie Goetz, Nia Ruiz
Date: 11/15/22

procedures and your
expectations to students?
*How will you intervene
if students are not
meeting the behavior
expectations?
● In order to gain student attention, the teacher will call
out, “Pumpkin spice,” and then have students respond
with, “and everything nice!” These directions will be
given to students before using the attention grabber so
that they understand what to do when the attention
grabber is used.
● The procedures and expectations will be communicated
to students at the start of class before we begin with the
morning meeting. We will set goals for the students so
that they understand what they are working towards,
that way they are more likely to fulfill the expectations.
● If students are not meeting the behavior expectations,
we will intervene by using the attention grabber
mentioned above. If the students still continue to not
meet the behavior expectations, the teacher might go
over and redirect them to quiet down and focus on the
task at hand without calling them out in front of the
entire class.

What skills or processes ● I’m expecting students to know how to use scissors,
are you expecting of respond to attention getters, and write sentences using
students that might need sentence starters.
to be taught? (Ex. How to
talk to a partner, how to
listen to a partner, what
to do when you hear an
attention getter, etc.)

Greeting ● All students will be given a bag of m&m’s and will sit in a circle on
the floor.

● We will go in order of the circle, with students starting by saying

*What will you say & do?
*What will students say
& do?
“Good morning” when it’s their turn and their classmates
responding with “Good morning, name”
○ We will challenge the class to not say their own name,
giving them the opportunity to show their knowledge of
their classmates’ names.

Share ● Students will pull one m&m out of their bag randomly after the
greeting.

● Based on the color of their m&m, they will answer a question:

*What will you say & do?
Morning Meeting Plan Facilitators: Emmy Roberts, Katie Goetz, Nia Ruiz
Date: 11/15/22

*What will students say ○ Orange - Name a person you are thankful for.
& do?
○ Green - Name a place you are thankful for.

○ Yellow - Name a food you are thankful for.

○ Blue - Name something that starts with the first letter of

your name that you are thankful for.

○ Red - Name a thing you are thankful for.

○ Brown - Name something about this class that you are

thankful for.

Group Activity ● Students will create hand turkeys using construction paper and
scissors.

● On each feather/finger on the turkey, they will write five things

*What will you say & do?
about themselves that they are thankful for.
*What will students say
& do?

Morning Message ● Our morning message will be a quote from Winnie the Pooh
about gratitude. This message will say, “Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large
*What will the text of amount of gratitude.” - A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
your message be?
● The message will be displayed on the screen for all students to
*How will you review the see so that the message can be accurately communicated to
message with students – students. To review the message, the teacher will read it aloud to
what will you say & do? the students. While this is happening, students should be
What will students say & remaining quiet and listening to the teacher read the message.
do?