Students practice academic skills and build their sense of community by reading and discussing a daily message written by the teacher.
Virtual Logistics:
-Pre-recorded Video (1-2 minutes)
-Displayed PowerPoint Slide
Set a positive tone for the day
Provide a sense of recognition and belonging
Help children learn and use everyone's name
Virtual Logistics:
-Display a list of names in a random order and students greet the person below them on the list
-Students chose someone to greet until all students/teachers have been greeted
to develop and practice the skills of caring communication (ex. empathy and friendly interest)
to help children know others and be known, which is essential to their ability to empathize and to their sense of significance
to encourage habits of inquiry that are important to cognitive growth
to give opportunities for students to speak to a group
Virtual Logistics:
-Create a Share Schedule: teachers can assign students to share on a certain day of the week. Display share schedule in Google Classroom.
-Teacher’s choice: teachers can create their own share, chose a share that connects to academics, prompt students with a share idea when they are stuck
The whole class does a short activity together, building class cohesion through active participation.
Virtual Logistics:
-Use Google Meet features to encourage whole class participation (breakout rooms, hand raised, thumbs up/down, chat box)