FAMILY MORNING MEETINGS
Weekly collections for parents
March 23, 2020
SEL INSTRUCTION
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing the interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success.
People with strong social-emotional skills are better able to cope with everyday challenges and benefit academically, professionally, and socially. In BISD, each student begins their day with a morning meeting for direct SEL instruction. In this document, you will find recommended activities for morning meetings that you can do at home. It is HIGHLY recommended that you include everyone in the house during your morning meetings, everyone can participate at their own level. This is great FAMILY time!
With continuous SEL instruction...
Children thrive. Schools win. Workplaces benefit. Society strengthens. All due to social-emotional learning.
MORNING MEETING FORMAT
Morning Meetings are an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically. Each morning, students and teachers gather together in a circle for twenty to thirty minutes and interact with one another during four purposeful components:
- Greeting: Students and teachers (parents) greet one other by name.
- Sharing: Students share information about important events in their lives. Listeners often offer empathetic comments or ask clarifying questions.
- Group Activity: Everyone participates in a brief, lively activity that fosters group cohesion and helps students practice social and academic skills (for example, reciting a poem, dancing, singing, or playing a game).
- Morning Message: Students read and interact with a short message written by their teacher.
MORNING MEETING GREETING
SHARING
What puts you in a good mood?
Travel to Tuesday:
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Wannabe Wednesday:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Thankful Thursday:
What are you thankful for today?
Feel Good Friday:
What is something NICE you are going to do for someone today?
MORNING MEETING ACTIVITIES
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Reaching out...
THURSDAY
SHARE
Share about a time you saw someone that looked lonely, how did you help?
FRIDAY
CHORE SWAP
MORNING MESSAGES
MONDAY:
“Be nice. And if you can’t do that, just don’t be mean.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
TUESDAY:
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
Wednesday:
“It takes two to have a fight.”
Roberta M. Gilbert
THURSDAY:
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Stephen Hawking
FRIDAY:
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell