The Morning Message

Almost every day I write a morning message that we read during our morning meeting. I change the format of this message after every student has the chance to be the leader of the day with that particular message. We have just started our 2nd round of leaders this week. The morning message serves many purposes: we come together as a group to read something about our day, students are echo reading each sentence, we are touching every word to model beginning reading skills, there are predictable words that will appear in at least 17 messages before changing, we can focus on one skill in the response portion of the message, and one student gets to bring the message home to read with his/her family. The words we are seeing this time around include: my, the, is, we, had, I, see, love (I forgot to write it on this message). While we are not formally introducing these words yet, students are starting to learn them in the context of daily exposure. The focus of this message was on writing, then reading names. I am continuing to work with students on writing their names in the correct format. There has been much improvement. Happy Weekend!