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Morning Meeting

Morning Meeting
A book is shared and enjoyed in Morning Meeting.

Morning Meeting
A teacher responds to a child's problem in Morning Meeting.

Morning Meeting
A teacher finds out more about a child's plan for the day in House Group Morning Meeting.

Morning Meeting
A teacher helps a child read someone's name from the chalkboard sign-up for Primary Group Morning Meeting.

Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting moves toward a live butterfly sharing. Morning Meeting is recorded in Nursery school, to lend importance to children's words. Also, children get acquainted with the written word and will often have teachers read back to them what they said.

Morning Meeting is an important time of the day at Play Mountain Place. There are Morning Meetings in each of the age groups, so it is a consistent structure in the lives of the children throughout their years at PMP. The format for Morning Meeting includes three main categories to Morning Meeting: Problems, Plans and Sharings.

In the Problems part of the meeting, everyone is encouraged to talk about problems they have in the group setting building interdependence, empathy and insight with each other.

Next, ideas for activities are presented, what we call our Plans part of the meeting. Plans for study, special exploration, skill development and for play are given equally serious respect and consideration.

The Sharings part of the meeting is the part where children bring a personal sharing to the group. This can be an item, like a shell they found at the beach, a special toy, or a book or what often gets called a “talking sharing” which may be about a trip they took, something they saw, or read, or experienced that they want to share with the group.