Engage your students in social emotional learning activities to encourage social emotional development, character education, community building, and warm-fuzzy teaching moments with this social-emotional learning curriculum 😊. With a strong focus on common themes in literature, your morning meetings or social emotional lessons will have a structure and flow that allows students' thinking to build and your classroom community to strengthen and grow positively!

The ✨17 themes✨ include:

➡️ Set 1: Belonging, Kindness, Compassion, Perseverance, Conflict & Compromise

➡️ Set 2: Integrity, Happiness, Goal Setting, Gratitude, Individuality

➡️ Set 3: Courage, Friendship, Managing Emotions, Responsibility, Intrinsic Motivation

➡️ Growth Mindset

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN EACH SEL MORNING MEETING THEME SET:

✨ TEACHER SUPPORT

➥ an outline for getting started with theme-in-literature based morning meeting routines

➥ a teacher overview with suggested read alouds, discussion questions, activities and extension ideas, and linked online resources

➥ 15 days of printable and editable lesson plans

✨ BULLETIN BOARD MATERIALS

➥ themed bulletin board sets that include related quotes and key vocabulary words (comes in color and ink-saving versions) and decorative quotation posters

➥ student journal pages that include activities, student self-assessments, reflections, and discussion prompts

✨ STUDENT JOURNALS

➥ theme cover and key vocabulary pages

➥ discussion prompts

➥ self-reflection and goal setting

➥ symbolism, compare and contrast, and other extension activities

➥ quotation analysis journal prompts

✨ DIGITAL COMPONENTS

➥ Morning Meeting SEL Google Slides for the Teacher

➥ Morning Meeting SEL Google Slides Notebooks for Students

➥ Editable Lesson Plans

With these SEL Morning Meeting Activities, you are able to incorporate social emotional development and classroom community building while targeting common themes in literature and your grade level's ELA standards. Students who experience this resource develop a strong understanding of themes in literature because this and other ELA skills are integrated into the morning meeting routine!

Ignite your students’ interests and growth with discussions and experiences specifically designed to strengthen their social emotional development:

📚 picture book read alouds

💡 whole group discussions

💻 videos and song lyrics

✍️ quote analysis

📓 self-assessment and goal setting

😎 personal reflection through journal prompts

⭐️ and tons of suggested extension activities!

You won't be disappointed in the time you spend with these upper elementary morning meeting lessons!

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Just want a mini-bundle? Find them here!

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #1

Belonging Theme

Kindness Theme

Conflict & Compromise Theme

Perseverance Theme

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #2

Integrity Theme

Happiness Theme

Goal Setting Theme

Individuality/Being Yourself Theme

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #3

Friendship Theme

Courage Theme

Intrinsic Motivation Theme

Managing Emotions Theme

Responsibility Theme

Growth Mindset

➥ Learn more about my Framework for Theme-Based Morning Meetings and if you have any questions, please reach out at tarheelstateteacher@gmail.com or use the Q/A here!

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