In the Lower School, morning meeting is a time for teachers and students to begin their day with a greeting and daily routines that engage students. Students feel comfortable expressing their feelings and setting goals for what they would like to accomplish that day. In addition, language arts and math are integrated into morning meeting through the morning message calendar work, and other stimulating activities. Morning meeting helps build students’ sight vocabulary, thinking skills, and reinforces concepts already taught. Each classroom has a schedule that children can read so they know what their day will entail. This helps each child to develop time management skills and to pace themselves for what the day will hold. Meetings held in the morning and throughout the day as a homeroom class also serve to gauge the successes and struggles that students experience as they develop emotionally and socially into independent thinkers and decision-makers.
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