Incredible Morning Meeting Social Emotional Skills
Morning Meeting is the perfect time to model, practice, and promote the use of social emotional skills in your classroom! Students benefit from the natural integration of morning meeting social emotional skills while they are having fun.
How does Morning Meeting teach these skills?
While students are participating in the four parts of morning meeting, the directions that they are given and the activities that are facilitated are aimed at enhancing social emotional development.
I do not directly teach the meaning of social emotional skills during or in relation to morning meeting. I allow the magic of morning meeting to take the reigns and students to learn from their experiences.
This happens from:
- student interactions with each other
- from the actions students do during their participation
- the way students need to think in various situations
- how students respond and react to adverse situations
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Social Emotional Integration
The routines and procedures of each part of meeting naturally fosters and promotes the skills explained below for social emotional development. Click on the picture to start implementing that part of morning meeting in your classroom.
However, the greetings and activities that you choose to use with your class can focus more specifically on particular social emotional learning skills.
These skills include:
- teamwork
- self awareness
- respect
- self control
- leadership
- good sportsmanship
- kindness
- perseverance
- assertiveness
- creativity
- growth mindset
- getting to know each other
I have pre-planned a WHOLE YEAR of morning meeting social emotional learning opportunities for you! Each week is themed by one of the social emotional skills I listed above. So the greetings, share topics, and activities all related to cultivating that part of students’ social emotional development.
During Morning Meeting, I reinforce when I see appropriate social skills being used. For example, if a student would get out of a game I might say “Bobby I noticed that you showed good sportsmanship that round when you got out.” I like to recognize the use of appropriate social emotional skills whenever possible during the day but these themes weeks help to keep me focused!
I also work in picture books related to the morning meeting social emotional skill that week. I do not say that we are practicing respect in morning meeting and this book talks about being respectful. I let those types of connections form naturally. I do not like to make morning meeting feel too much like learning, I like to keep it as a special fun part of the day that every student loves.
