Morning activities for kindergarten

Looking for some quick morning meeting games and activities for your classroom? Use these 8 simple games to spice up your morning meeting routine. Your kindergarten, first grade and second grade students will enjoy these engaging games - and may even practice some academic skills in the process. You will get lots of morning meeting ideas in this post.

I’ve got some quick and easy activities to help calm your morning routine with just five minutes of prep so you can include them in your Breakfast Invitations!

Morning Meeting Activities will help students fall in love with school! Help students become life longer learners by implementing morning meeting!

Using morning tubs instead of worksheets for morning work changed my morning routine from chaotic to calm. Learn how to organize your morning tubs with materials to provide students with opportunities to practice social skills and fine motor skills. My morning tubs also double as indoor recess activities and choice time options which makes life even easier when those things pop up.

Morning meeting in kindergarten is such an important part of the day. Use these free morning meeting question handouts to lead discussions with your students. Morning meeting helps to build a positive community with your students. Click to read about the morning meeting steps we use in kindergarten and get these free morning meeting handouts.

Are your mornings chaotic? Are you looking for engaging activities that your students can explore independently? Come read about how kindergarten morning tubs took my mornings from stressful to stress free and how they can help you too!

Discover active and alternative ideas to morning work to create a soft start to your day. Use a morning choice board during arrival time to give preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children open-ended choices to start their day. Activities include building, sketching, yoga, writing news, reading books, puzzles, writing in a journal, telling a story and more. For easy set up, place materials in tubs or bins and set them on tables for kids to enjoy upon entering the classroom each…

Are you looking for morning work that is more than worksheets? Would you like to be able to use your math manipulatives like pattern blocks, counting bears and base 10 blocks more effectively? Check out how using math manipulatives for morning work is not busy work but instead crucial math skill practice.

Find out how to create a morning meeting routine in kindergarten that will set your day up for success! Includes free morning meeting greetings.

Note: This post was previously published under the name “Kindergarten Morning Activities”, but I’ve since renamed them as “Morning Kits”. The activities and supplies needed are the same! During the summer of 2020, it became clear that traditional morning tubs were not going to be an option for many teachers that school year for a […]

Looking for hands-on, easy to prep morning tub ideas for kindergarten that use basic classroom supplies? These activity ideas will transform your mornings from chaos to consistency so you can reap all the benefits of morning tubs. Read on to see a list of my favorite manipulatives to guide students through their learning!

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Why Morning Invitations? I started them because my children are early risers and I am sooo not a morning person. Morning invitations allowed us to: Start our morning slowly Start our morning quietly-ish Start our morning creatively (and often bookishly) What is a Morning Invitation So this slow, quiet, creative, bookish morning sounds nice, but […]

Master your classroom management in kindergarten with a solid morning routine. Check out how to easily set a routine for your students to promote learning, cooperation, and independence. #ClassroomManagement #Kindergarten #MrsRichardsonsClass

A great explanation of what Morning Meeting looks like in an early elementary classroom. #morninmeeting #kindergarten #preschool #prek #firstgrade #teachglittergrow

Find 45 different morning meeting activities for kindergarten (and preschool and first grade, too!) Includes several ways to adapt morning meeting (and greetings) to a virtual meeting on Zoom or Google Meet. These free, fun ideas are perfect for the classroom or distance learning. Use these morning meeting activities in your student-centered, responsive classroom. You will love how the contribute to classroom community! #MorningMeeting #MorningGreetings #PrimaryDelight

Students learn best if they're motivated in the classroom. Create that kind of environment through these Morning Meeting Activities! Made for Kindergarten students, this resource will ensure that your students will hang on to the lessons on the day!

In Kindergarten, I always loved starting the day with a great good morning song! We all sang along, sometimes we got up and danced, and it always seemed to put a smile on our faces. Click the link to find some of my favorite good morning songs for preschoolers and kindergarteners. I hope you and your kids love these good morning songs for kids as much as my students and I did.

These engaging circle time activities focus on multisensory learning, incorporating age-appropriate attention and self-regulation strategies.

Are you sick of using worksheets for morning work? If so, you are going to want to check out this blog post where I share 3 alternatives for worksheets. These first grade morning work ideas are engaging and fun for kids. Using morning tubs or morning journals where students use daily writing prompts are great a way to incorporate learning without having it be boring. Learn more about these morning work ideas now!