Class meetings

My first job at a school very much believed in the power of Morning Meeting. I was able to meld my Morning Meeting time into a tradition.

Looking for lesson plans and strategies for building a strong classroom community in your elementary classroom? These activities and suggested books are perfect for your students during the first week of school and all year long, too! Use these ideas and free printables during your morning meeting or any time as ice breakers and strategies to help build your class community in fun and engaging ways! Click to learn more!

Integrating art and content in the ELA classroom. Tips and resources.

Grab your FREE List of Morning Meeting Share Questions from Team J's Classroom Fun. This list includes 20 fun and engaging questions to use with your class during share. Click through to grab this Morning Meeting FREEBIE.

Knowing how to build classroom community is one of the essential components of a successful school year for teachers and students.

I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than oth…

Try these six easy classroom games for those times when you have a few minutes left of class.

A list of 105 morning meeting sharing ideas that you can use right away during morning meeting as a great class community builder.

Morning meetings (a.k.a. tutor time / form time / advisory period - it has many names!) is an extremely powerful way to start the school day with your students. It sets your students off on the right foot. It gives them a routine that is safe and predict

Morning meetings can support social-emotional learning in all the best ways! Use some of these morning meeting ideas to work on social-emotional skills and community building to give your day a positive start. (morning routine, elementary, SEL, class meeting, classroom community, morning meeting routines)