Morning routines

1/31/2019

First day of school today! Back into the swing of things with my brand new 23 Year 3 students. Such a great feeling meeting those new people who will soon spend all day in my classroom.

Beginning of the year is always vital for building routines and getting those set in place for your class. This builds a strong foundation for all that you do in class, with one of mine being our morning routines! I have always used this template as a morning routine greeting to get students excited and up to date with coming to school on that day.

I use a Google slide deck to share the above information with my students everyday!
Each day has a slide with:
-a fun GIF
-date
-message
-bitmoji sticker for fun
-other short notes with information that could relate to students or their parents that come in

I find that my students rely on this to be shown in the morning and love coming in to view the GIF or the Bitmoji sticker! A great way to build routines and share notes for everyone coming in in the morning. They then go off and find an activity or something set up that I might have for the morning.

To make yourself a copy of this template to use in your classroom click here. Simply update your own items to the template and you're away!

9 Comments

Alida Maritz

2/1/2019 06:01:24 am

HI Jordan, hope you are well, thank you for sharing your awesome ideas. We are looking into live reporting on Seesaw this year. Are you using skills with your class? We set it up with the LLP, but was wondering, what do you do when parents are not able to sign up to seesaw. Do you still write a report for those parents?
Have a great term!! Alida

Mrs Priestley ICT

2/1/2019 07:16:48 pm

Hi Alida,
Thanks for your message! So glad you like them.
I am not personally using Seesaw skills at the moment no. I have done in the past and it was great when doing reporting. If parents haven't signed on I will usually do a printed version as they wouldn't see anything.
Have a great term also!

Renee

2/2/2019 06:28:29 pm

What a fantastic template - thank you so much.
I was expecting the instructions on how to create this awesome page so was quite delighted to discover the template!!!
All set for day one on Monday.

2/3/2019 02:21:35 pm

Hi Renee,
Thanks for your message! So glad you find it useful! Super excited you have been able to use it for your students as well! Good luck for your first day :)

Emma

2/3/2019 08:46:37 pm

This is amazing, we have been looking at doing something just like this so your timing is incredible!

You may have covered this elsewhere but I'm new to your site, how do I remove the white background from my Bitmoji. Am quite tech savvy but unsure of how to do this.

Thanks

4/16/2019 12:03:04 pm

Hi Emma, you should be able to download the Bitmoji from the chrome extension without the background. If you use the app it will have the background but dragging it onto your screen from the chrome extension will have it without the white.

Claire

4/16/2019 03:51:13 am

Hello this is an amazing resource, thank you for sharing it. I wonder if you could help as I’m having some trouble editing the shared slides. I’m new to Google slides so please excuse me if I’m being really stupid. Thanks in advance, Claire

4/16/2019 12:04:09 pm

Hi Claire. You will want to make a copy of this resource for yourself. So please go file >> make a copy and it will make a copy for yourself in your own google drive. You will then be able to edit the resource for yourself.

4/17/2019 11:49:48 pm

Thanks so much :)

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