The document outlines a morning meeting plan with the objectives of students introducing themselves while following a theme of thankfulness, and identifying 5 things they are thankful for about themselves. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing 5 things they are thankful for on turkey feathers. The meeting will include greeting one another, sharing what they are thankful for based on M&M colors pulled, and creating hand turkeys listing 5 things about themselves they are thankful for. The morning message focuses on gratitude and will be displayed for students to see and the teacher to review aloud.
The document outlines a morning meeting plan with the objectives of students introducing themselves while following a theme of thankfulness, and identifying 5 things they are thankful for about themselves. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing 5 things they are thankful for on turkey feathers. The meeting will include greeting one another, sharing what they are thankful for based on M&M colors pulled, and creating hand turkeys listing 5 things about themselves they are thankful for. The morning message focuses on gratitude and will be displayed for students to see and the teacher to review aloud.
The document outlines a morning meeting plan with the objectives of students introducing themselves while following a theme of thankfulness, and identifying 5 things they are thankful for about themselves. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing 5 things they are thankful for on turkey feathers. The meeting will include greeting one another, sharing what they are thankful for based on M&M colors pulled, and creating hand turkeys listing 5 things about themselves they are thankful for. The morning message focuses on gratitude and will be displayed for students to see and the teacher to review aloud.
The document outlines a morning meeting plan with the objectives of students introducing themselves while following a theme of thankfulness, and identifying 5 things they are thankful for about themselves. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing 5 things they are thankful for on turkey feathers. The meeting will include greeting one another, sharing what they are thankful for based on M&M colors pulled, and creating hand turkeys listing 5 things about themselves they are thankful for. The morning message focuses on gratitude and will be displayed for students to see and the teacher to review aloud.
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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 ● In order to gain student attention, the teacher will call expectations to students? out, “Pumpkin spice,” and then have students respond with, “and everything nice!” These directions will be *How will you intervene given to students before using the attention grabber so if students are not that they understand what to do when the attention meeting the behavior grabber is used. expectations? ● 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? “Good morning” when it’s their turn and their classmates *What will students say responding with “Good morning, name” & do? ○ 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?
(London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 420) Luis Dieulefait, Gerd Faltings, D. R. Heath-Brown, Yu. v. Manin, B. Z. Moroz, Jean-Pierre Wintenberger - Arithmetic and Geometry-Cambridge Univers
