M I S S

K E N D A L L
V I N E YA R D
S E C O N D
G R A D E
L A N G U A G E
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KENNETH GOODMAN GUIDES
MY THINKING 
Greeting
• Unpack belongings and sit together on the carpet 
• I will begin by calling on the last student who sat
down to start a count off
• That student will start a count off by starting
with 1, then the student next to them
continues: 2, 3, 4....and on the fifth student
everyone says "RED LIGHT" and the student
proceeds to tell us their name and something
fun their learned or did the day before. Then
the pattern repeats itself two more times to
allow for a total for three students to have
some talking time on the carpet. 
 Q&A

QUESTIONS ANSWERS 
• How does this introduction helps students learn names • This type of greeting helps the students become more familiar with
and develop a feeling of warmth with eachother?  eachothers names, faces, things they like to do, etc. Consistency
allows for people to get understand things fasters with a sense of
nornamlcy. 

• By starting each morning with a greeting the students are learning to

• What social skills might the children learn during this speak infrot of eachother. They learn how to talk when given the
greeting? opprotunity and to listen to others when it isn't their turn. 

• Behavior management is crutial when working with young and

impressionable students. Early on you should set boundaries and
• As a teacher, how does one effectively manage students rules as to how you expect a Morning Meeting to go, when students
listen, you should reward them and when they fail to listen a
during morning meeting time?  correction in behavior should be made and addressed. Walking back
and forth between the students to identify students who fail to follow
the rules will receive a tap on their shoulder to notify them a change
in behavior needs to be made. 
 Musical Ball Share
Circle
• Everyone gets together in a circle on the carpet
• Whoever the Morning Greeting ended on will be
given the ball to start
• Once I start the music the student with the ball will
start bouncing it back and forth to other students
• Whoever catches the ball when the music stops will
have to answer the question for that day
• The student will then pick 3 different students to ask
and answer questions to one other student 
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QUESTIONS
• What are community-building elements of this sharing?
• What social skills are children practicing?  speaking. It can be very difficult and nerve racking for
• How is the activity introduced?
ANSWERS
• Community-building elements are essential the sharing
section of a morning meeting. Tossing the ball around
gives the students a sense of trust and responsibility and
answering a question infront of the whole class builds a
feeling of unity between the students. 
• The most notable skill the students are learning is public
some students to speak infront of others, but introducing
this to them at a young age allows for trust and
confidence.
• To introuce this activity I will let the students know what
is expected of them ahead of time and have them
transition to a standing circle on the carpet. I will then
remind them of their instructions and pass the ball to the
student the greeting ended on and begin the music. 
ISPY Stick Game
• I will have to students sit back down on the carpet and I
will proceed to draw a name from the stick jar
• Whoever's name is drawn will pick an object in the room,
come to me and wisper it
• They will come up with 2 to 4 clues and tell the class 
• The class will have to guess what the object
• Repeat one more time
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QUESTIONS ANSWERS
• How does the teacher introduce this activity? • To introduce this I would first start off by acknowledging
the rules of this particular activity. I will then explain what
the activity is going to enatil. 
• What does the teacher do during the activity to manage • To manage the behavior I will be walking around the
behavior? room monitoring the students volume and hyper-activity
at this point. The students should try to stay in the same
spot as where they began the activty to
minimize continued movement. 

• What academic skills are being learned? • During this assignment the students will be using the
ability to describe and identify different objects seen
around a room. 
Morning • Grab a sticky note
• Wrtie something useful you learned and a happy from
Message  this morning 
• As a class we will pick 5 sticky notes from each side
and read off 5 useful things and 5 happy moments
from the morning
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QUESTIONS
• What are community-building elements of this message
and its benefits?
• What routines and behaviors do children need to learn in
order to be successful with the morning message?
• In what ways do the content of the message support the
academic curriculum and engage the learners?
ANSWERS
• In this activity we will be discussing key points and
elements that the students deemed important when going
throuhg a prior lesson.
• In order to be successful students will have to learn how
to work independently and remember key points of a prior
lesson that resonated with them. 
• The morning message supports the academic curriculum
and greatly engages the learners. It teaches them how to
utalize material learned and put it to use, while also
allowing them to share their bright discoveries.