Our Daily MORNING MEETING

With the help of our curriculum from Funshine Express, we have a wonderful "morning meeting" to start off our school/play day. Before I get started, I would like to welcome our newest Tiny Treasure, Blake!

Sweet "baby Blake", as all of our girls call him, started here with us September 24th. Everybody is in love with him already!

Now back to our morning meeting! All of our friends have made it to school by 9am. As the children arrive there are usually cartoons on, and they get free play at stations or get to color. We eat breakfast at 8:30. Then we clean up, take a potty break and brush our teeth. Then around 9am we sit down for our Morning Meeting. 

We first do our "Attendance Chart":

I love the display that Funshine Express sent us for the attendance chart. Each child has a little mouse with their name on it. We sing our "welcome song" to each student and they get to put their mouse in the woodlands field to "play with their friends". As each child puts their mouse in the woodlands, they tell us something they did the day before at their home. 

After attendance we move onto the calendar. One child is picked as the calendar helper. They come up and we count how many days have been in the month so far and they add the current date onto the calendar:

We sing the "Days Of The Week" song and the "Months Of The Year" song. After the calendar we move onto the weather! One of the older children get to be the meteorologist and they also get to pick an assistant (one of the toddlers). They go together and inspect the current weather outside:

They discuss how the sky looks and the older child moves the weather chart arrow to the right weather and add the weather card to the day. The younger child has their own weather chart (bottom chart) where they add our friends to the appropriate weather. Funshine Express did an amazing job on the weather chart organization. I love that I have 2 separate charts accommodating both age groups. Here is a close up of the charts:

Then we move onto the current color, shape, number, and letter. We also have an assigned helper for this too. We have a pointer that the child gets to use to point to each item when we talk about it. Below is the wall display for this part:

At this point, we have a smooth transition into a "practice sheet" or another provided activity that "piggy backs" on our monthly studies.

 Funshine Express has really made our entire day run smoothly. I am beyond satisfied with the quality of the displays and how the kids have gotten into a great routine every day. They are just as excited about the curriculum as I am. And the parents are loving how much the children are learning. 

If you are interested in enriching your (or any) child's life by adding Funshine Express to your daily activities, be sure enter BBT15 at checkout to get $20 off of your order! This is for NEW CUSTOMERS only!