Morning Meeting Activities play a crucial role in setting the tone for the day ahead in elementary classrooms. They offer a valuable opportunity to reinforce academic skills, foster a sense of community, and much more.
Morning Meeting is particularly beneficial because it:
- Begins the day positively,
- Encourages the practice of speaking and listening skills,
- Helps students ease into their daily routine,
- Provides a fun and engaging start to the morning.
During these activities, students not only enjoy playing games but also have the chance to review existing academic skills or explore new ones. Personally, I find math activities particularly effective during Morning Meeting, as they allow my students to gain additional practice with various math skills and standards.
In this post, I’ll share three of my favorite Math activities that students can enjoy and benefit from during Morning Meeting.
Noggle
Noggle is an amazing activity that you can differentiate to meet the needs of your grade level and/or students. For this activity, students are looking at a table of numbers and they have to create as many number sentences as they can. The trick in this activity is the numbers have to be touching. I typically have students do this activity independently and tell them they’re trying to beat their score from last time.
This can be used to create addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division sentences. The numbers can be small or large and students can even use multiple numbers. I challenge my students to create an addition sentence with multiple addends.
Digit Place
Digit Place is a great game to use for building number sense and place value! This game can alo be differentiated and used at different grade levels.
Here’s how you play:
- You make 3 columns on the white board – Guess | Digits | Place
- I also put up numbers 0-9 so we can cross off numbers after we eliminate them – there is a lot of strategy in this game too.
- You think of a secret number that the kids will have to figure out – this can be 2-digit, 3-digit, 4-digit, etc – depending on your class’s needs.
- Your students will guess a number. *Let’s say my secret number is 352. They guess 201. I will then write their guess in the guess column and write a 1 in the digits and a 0 in the place because they got one of the digits correct (2), but that digit was not in the correct place.
- We keep going until we get to the correct number
*This game has some strategy to it too. I will often have students figure out if the guess all of one number it can help us quickly figure out what the 3 digits are. For example, if they guess 999 and I say 0 numbers are correct – then we know 9 isn’t one of the numbers.
Ways to Make
Ways to Make is another math activity that can be differentiated. For this activity, students are coming up with as many ways as they can think of to make a certain number.
For example – the number 10 could be made up with 5 + 5 or 20 – 10. Students could also use place value, tallies, coins (dime, 2 nickels, 10 pennies) to represent the number.
Students can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, money, and more to help them represent the numbers. The goal like Noggle is for them to come up with as many ways as they can!
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If you are looking for more activities, check out these resources of ready-to-go activities in my TPT Store:
Morning Meeting Activities – Volume 1
Themed Morning Meeting Activities – Year-Long Bundle
Generic Morning Meeting Activities – Year-Long Bundle
I also have a few blog posts with further activity ideas…
How to Engage and Energize with Your Morning Meeting Activities
Top 3 ELA Morning Meeting Activities
4 Ways to Include Academics Into Your Morning Meeting
