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Morning Meeting Plans Week of Mon. 11 Fri. 15 Greeting Skip Die Greeting Children throw a die to find out the number of spaces to skip before greeting someone. For example, if the first child to greet someone throws a four, she will skip four people and greet the fifth person in the circle. The first greeter hands the die to the person she greets, takes that persons place in the circle, and sits down. The second greeter throws the die, and the greeting continues until everyone has been greeted.

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Activity March 11, 2013 Rocks, Paper, Scissors Objective: Students will be able to cheer one another while engaging in friendly competition Procedure: Discuss the importance of cheering on and supporting peers. Explain rules of Rocks, Paper, Scissors Paper beats Rock, Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beats Paper. Model a round. Next, model how the winner of a round moved on to a new competition while the loser follows that person around, cheering him/her on. Eventually, two students will be left with every student cheering one of them on.

Happy monday! Our morning messages this week mite look alittle crazy. can you identify eny mistakes I may have made. Love, Miss Castronovo

Objective: SWBAT identify and correct errors in the morning message

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Objective: SWBAT use eye contact when greeting partners. Standard: 2.2.4.A.2 Effective communication is the basis for strengthening interpersonal interactions and relationships and resolving conflicts. Procedure: Students greet each other in reverse alphabetical order by last name (reverse pin number) Ball Toss Greeting The first greeter greets someone, then gently throws, rolls, or bounces a ball to that child, who returns the greeting (but not the ball). The second child then chooses a new child to greet and to pass the ball to. The greeting continues in this way until everyone has been greeted once. The greeting ends when the ball

March 12, 2013 What Are You Doing? Dear Class Procedure: First person begins by acting out an Today hour poetry unit in reading action. The next player then approaches that begins! do you have a faverit person and asks What are you doing? Now, the poet? person who was acting something out responds by saying, I am (introduce different action). The Love next player must then act out whatever the other Miss Castronovo person responds with. Objective: SWBAT identify and correct errors in the morning message

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March 13, 2013 Objective: Students will be able to use eye Dear Class, contact, and will be able to focus on what is going on around them Can you round the following dollar amounts to the nearest Common Core Standards: Standard: 2.2.4.A.2 whole number? Effective communication is the basis for strengthening interpersonal interactions and 1.56 relationships and resolving conflicts. 6.37 2.90 Procedure: 1. Sit in a circle. Explain that as a car moves by Love, you quickly it says, "ZOOM". Each child is to say Miss Castronovo ZOOM while turning their head and passing it to their neighbor. Stop when ZOOM gets all around. 2. Next explain that "EEK" is the sound a car

Morning Meeting Plans Week of Mon. 11 Fri. 15 returns to the starter. Before the greeting begins, figure out how to indicate that someone has been greeted (for example, sitting down, putting hands behind back).

makes when it stops. When you want to say EEK, you hold out your arms straight! Whenever someone in the circle says EEK, the direction of ZOOM changes. 3. Only one EEK per person 4. Begin ZOOM again, turning heads until someone changes the direction with EEK. The object is to go as fast as you can, like a race car! Try to play until everyone has a chance to EEK 5. ZAP across the circle to change order. Only one ZAP per student. March 14, 2013 Pica Ferme Nada Dear Class, Today is Thursday march 14. I cant wait two see youre music concert tonight! I hope you have been practiceing! Love, Miss Castronovo SWBAT guess and say numbers using correct place value terminology Procedure Pica the numeral is in the mystery number, but it is not in the correct place Ferme the numeral and place are correct Nada the numeral is not in the mystery number at all One person thinks of a number Student guesses the mystery number Indicate which numerals are Pica, Ferme or Nada Continue until mystery number is discovered

Thurs Crazy Walk Greeting Each student thinks of a way to move across the circle. They could crab walk, disco walk, skip, hop on one foot, walk on their knees, etc. Choose one person to begin the greeting. The person who starts will pick someone from across the circle that is the opposite gender to greet. The first person then does her crazy walk across the circle and greets the other person with a handshake, and then returns to her seat. The greeting continues until everyone has been greeted. Fri Closed Eye Greeting Players shut their eyes and the teacher chooses someone to begin. The player who is chosen opens his eyes and says Good Morning ____________, to the player of his choice in the circle. When the player being greeted hears her name, she opens her eyes, returns the greeting, and then greets someone else whose eyes are still closed. The greetings continue until everyone has been greeted.

March 15, 2013 Around the World Dear Class, You all did such a grate job last nite! Did you no that today is Robbinsvilles birthday. Happy birthday, Robbinsville!! Love, Miss Castronovo
Objective: SWBAT able to recall and practice their subtraction and multiplication facts. Standard: CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.B.5 Apply properties of operations as
strategies to multiply and divide.2 Examples: If 6 4 = 24 is known, then 4 6 = 24 is also known. (Commutative property of multiplication.) 3 5 2 can be found by 3 5 = 15, then 15 2 = 30, or by 5 2 = 10, then 3 10 = 30. (Associative property of multiplication.) Knowing that 8 5 = 40 and 8 2 = 16, one can find 8 7 as 8 (5 + 2) = (8 5) + (8 2) = 40 + 16 = 56. (Distributive property.) CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ 3, 6 + 6 =

Materials: Fact Flashcards (subtraction and/or multiplication) Anticipatory Set: Connection Its Fact Friday! Procedure: Either whole class or split into two groups Students stand in a circle. Two students stand in the center The first of the two students to correctly say the difference or product of the problem shown on a flash card remains standing and

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challenges the next student. Continue until each student has had a turn or until time runs out Differentiation: Students may be separated into groups depending on their mathematics skill level (i.e. subtraction or multiplication). Assessment: Were students able to recall the majority of their facts quickly?