Monday, December 12, 2011

Morning Message




One of the things I have come to love is Morning Message.  It's a 20 minutes block of time in the morning where we come together on the carpet to read, review, and enjoy a message.  It contains so many skills that we revisit and reinforce.   Morning Message has become an essential to my teaching day.  I believe it brings so much together for each learner.  Here's how it looks...

Marvelous Monday...Editing capitals and punctuation
Tangled Tuesday...unscrambling spelling and high frequency words or sentences
Wacky Wednesday...crazy mispellings, homophones, mistakes, grammar skills, etc
Thinking Thursday...math skills
Fun Friday...jokes, closure questions from Social Studies/Science

There are so many resources about Morning Message.  I have borrowed and stolen so many to make something that fits our first grade classroom.  My favorite part of each message is the ending special saying for our "Deputy of the Day" or student of the day.  I send the messages home each day with that student.  I've been told by former students and their parents that those messages stay up for months and months.  That makes it all worth it!!!

4 comments:

  1. I would love to know more about your morning message. I love what you have here! How do you go about selecting your content? Do you have some kind of document or resource? I would love to know.

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  2. I love these ideas. I would love more information too and know where you found your ideas or if u have any pointers Thank u for sharing please email me dmarino@woboe.org
    Danielle

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  3. Hi. I teach first grade (French immersion) and love this idea. What does your morning message class period look like? Everyone sitting together on the floor, at their desks? Does this time include morning calendar or are they separate times? Are your messages prepared the night before or do you write it with the students?
    Thanks so much

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    1. Hi Nathalie! I'm super curious to know where you teach with French immersion. That's something I've always been interested in since I decided to be a teacher. Please let me know the name of the school? Thanks!
      PS: Je m'appelle Nathalie aussi! :)

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