Social-Emotional Morning Meeting Greeting and Activity Ideas

Lead a daily Morning Meeting focused on social-emotional learning skills with this SEL Morning Meeting idea guide with over 180 ideas for greetings, sharing, fun activities, and engaging games. Make your morning meetings responsive to the needs of your students by using the SEL skill index to find activities for a specific skill, such as honesty or self-control. This is a collection of my most favorite, tried and true morning meeting ideas that bring joy and build community. Screen-free morning meetings foster human connection and social skills, emphasizing face-to-face interactions with eye contact and active listening. This Morning Meeting resource will make planning engaging morning meetings simple and stress-free!

This guide includes:

• 50+ Morning Meeting greeting ideas

• 70+ Morning Meeting sharing ideas

• 50+ Morning Meeting activity ideas

• Character strength/SEL skill index (easily find activities that practice a certain SEL skills such as honesty, self-control, or good sportsmanship)

• 10 sample morning messages to give inspiration and help with structure

• Daily and weekly planning templates

• Student-led planning page

• Emergency sharing templates

• Letter to families for the beginning of year

• Morning Meeting rules posters - 2 versions in color and B&W

• Setting up the Morning Meeting: a guide for beginners

• Troubleshooting Guide that answers 10 questions about common issues that may arise throughout the year with a Responsive Classroom lens and gives classroom management tips for managing the Morning Meeting

Create your morning meeting idea ring by cutting, hole-punching, and clipping the cards onto a ring for easy access during planning. Use color-coded card stock to organize greetings, activities, and other components for convenience. Whether you’re starting a new routine or refreshing your existing one, this resource will help make your Morning Meetings meaningful and fun!

Build up your classroom community one Morning Meeting at a time!

⭐In defense of a low-tech Morning Meeting:

• screen-free morning meetings foster human connection and social skills, emphasizing face-to-face interactions with eye contact and active listening

• balances technology use throughout the day - a break from screens at the start helps students ease into the day with a calm and grounded routine

• promotes focus and presence - without screens, students can be fully present and attentive to the people in the circle, a key component to relationship-building

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