Today I ran the Morning Meeting which began with students sitting in a circle and giving each other "thumb high-5s" - which looks like students about to play thumb wars, but end up giving high 5s to each other with their thumbs. They got a kick out of that.
I prompted the students with two discussion points, which each followed with a student-only discussion:
1) What do you do when you don't know know what to do in class? The students offered the following suggestions:
- look at the board to see if the instructions are written
- ask someone quietly at your table
- look around to see what others are working on
- (last resort) ask the teacher
2) How do you think we’re doing as a class at keeping our cubbies clean and our hallways clear?
- don't bring too much to school - only take one sweater, or one jacket
- make sure to empty it out at the end of the day
- place your backpack carefully on to the hook so that it doesn't fall off and out into the hallway
- make sure you're putting things into your own cubbie (many students found others' items in their cubbies)
- if you accidently knock something out of someone else's cubbie, pick it up.
At the end of the day, every single cubbie was EMPTY and the hallway was clear!
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