Morning Meeting in Kindergarten

Last week I shared my Kindergarten schedule. Today I wanted to share our morning routine. It is probably our most productive 30 minutes of the day.  We cover a lot of different skills and it grows and changes throughout the year.

Here is an overview
1. Morning Message
2. Alphabet chart/ blends and digraphs chart
3. Sight words, sight word exercises
4. Song
5. Calendar Math


1. Morning Message:  Here is peek at my morning message right now, it will change over time. Here is one weeks morning message ready to go on Monday. We keep the same message for the week. I use different colors for each sentence right now.

                       
Monday: The kids come up and fill in the missing letters in the sight words.  We also make the sounds in words to find missing sounds.  For example, we made all the sounds in the word 'him' to decide that short i was missing.

Tuesday: Punctuation and capitalization. Here we talk about the different types of punctuation and add them to the message. Then we circle the first letter of each sentence and talk our capitalization.

Wednesday:  I always end with a question and on Wednesday, we graph the answer to the question in a variety of ways.

Thursday: This day we may do a variety of things, including:
         -counting the words or sentences
          -picking words and counting their syllables
          -picking words and finding words that rhyme
          -finding all the words that start with a certain letter

Our Friday schedule varies a lot and morning message isn't always a part of it.

2. Charts:  In the beginning we only identify letters on the chart, then add sounds, after Christmas we add blends and digraphs.

3. Sight words: By now, it's time to get up and move. We exercise to our sight words.  We jump, kick, hop, march, etc... to each letter.  Occasionally we play a sight word game. We read sight word poems from this chart, they love these poems:




4. Song- This is just for fun, any song will do!

5. Calendar Math: Date, weather, seasons, days of the week, counting the days on 10's frames, review the rules, counting in a variety of ways, patterns, and other skills as needed!

Pattern practice goes across the bottom.

The teal chevron calendar pieces can be found in our TPT store  here and here.

Thanks for stopping by! I would love to hear about your favorite morning routines!

Jill