A critical part of our morning meeting each day is the greeting.  We have a variety of greetings in our repertoire, but I think the hands down favorite is the shoe greeting.  I will let your child describe this to you.

Another essential and much anticipated part of our meeting is sharing.  This is a great opportunity for children to practice speaking with a loud, clear, voice using details to describe the share. At the same time, the rest of the class is practicing really listening by sitting quietly, looking at the speaker, thinking about what the speaker is saying and trying to think of thoughtful comments or questions about the share.   Children who share may call on three people to ask a question or make a comment.  We are working on keeping our questions or comments specific and  focused on the share (it's very easy even for adults to make a comment that shifts the focus to us, rather than keeping it on the speaker).  Children are welcome to share objects or do a telling share, something I am particularly fond of as this requires slightly sharper listening skills while we make a picture in our minds.  I have not assigned specific share days, but children are limited to one share per week.