Morning Meeting Greetings

As you know, we have a morning meeting (or afternoon meeting, depending on our schedule) each day in my classroom.  We love saying hello in many different ways!  Here are a few ways we've been greeting each other lately.  If you want to use them in your classroom, just click on the image for a freebie.

Dice Roll

Roll the dice and  find the sum (or difference, depending on the skill you're practicing).  

Count that many people around the circle.

Shake hands with the person you end on.

I use giant dice for this.  I got these as a gift from an AMAZING PE teacher who used them in his class:

And I bought these at Mardel for when we are just starting out.  They also work well in the lower grades.  You can also use them to build number sense.  So, instead of finding the sum, you could roll 1 die and count that many people to greet.

 

Who Rocks the House?

Say this chant, with each child taking a turn dancing in the center of the circle.

Who rocks the house?

(Child's name) rocks the house!

And when (child's name) rocks the house,

She rocks it

all the way down!

 Hickety Pickety Bumble Bee

Hello in Many Languages

Choose a language.  Choose a person to start.

The person who is starting turns to the person next to him/her and says, "Hello (child's name)" in the selected language.

The greeting is then passed around the circle.

A few ways to say hello: jambo, hola, bonjour, hodi, kon'nichiwa

Multidigit Addition Match Up

Each person takes 1 card and solves the addition problem on it.

Students sit in a circle and take turns greeting the person with the matching sum.

Note: Some of the cards intentional have similar sums to help scholars work on accuracy.  We do this as a whole group the first few times, so we can double check our work.  After that, we might solve and find the person matching sum without sitting in a circle.