Morning routine preschool classroom

Learn how to easily create a kindergarten morning routine that builds classroom community, sets the expectations for the day, and reviews important skills.

In my first fews years of teaching if you would have asked me what my favorite part of the day was I would have never said the morning. My morning routine used to be the opposite of calm with worksheets for morning work and kids constantly getting up to ask me to read them the directions. Once I shi

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Morning meeting in kindergarten is such an important part of the day. Use these free morning meeting question handouts to lead discussions with your students. Morning meeting helps to build a positive community with your students. Click to read about the morning meeting steps we use in kindergarten and get these free morning meeting handouts.

Arrival Routine Picture schedule

This visual, step by step, easy to follow directions will teach your little ones what to do when they first come into the classroom each morning. What I like about using pocket charts for teaching routine is that you can teach the steps, one at a time. You can turn all the sentence strips around and as you introduce each step you turn it one by one. This helps the little ones focus on one step at a time. Notice how I kept the words simple so most of them can read, but also supported the…

Establish a preschool morning routine for your classroom beginning from the first day of school. Use the free printable chart to help!

Are you looking for preschool morning meeting ideas? What is a morning meeting? What does it look like in a preschool or pre-k classroom? How do you get started with a morning meeting? Here you'll find the answers to all these questions and more!

Discover active and alternative ideas to morning work to create a soft start to your day. Use a morning choice board during arrival time to give preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children open-ended choices to start their day. Activities include building, sketching, yoga, writing news, reading books, puzzles, writing in a journal, telling a story and more. For easy set up, place materials in tubs or bins and set them on tables for kids to enjoy upon entering the classroom each…