Morning meeting slides: put the class prompt on screen and the teaching notes beside it

Your slide contains the greeting, the sharing instructions, three reminders, and the whole day's schedule. The class needs the next sentence to act on. Give each part of the morning meeting one visible prompt, with a separate note for the adult leading it. Keep tomorrow's date and lesson details easy to replace.

Try this original fictional four-screen rehearsal. It uses a shape-sorting topic; it is not a record of a meeting that happened. The class, date, accessibility arrangements, and actual lesson plan are not supplied.

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1. Greeting — “Good morning. Greet the next person by name.” Leader note: confirm the class's agreed participation options first, including how a learner can indicate their name or pass a turn.
2. Sharing — “Name one thing you noticed on your way here.” Leader note: model a short, ordinary observation and invite a listening response. Do not require a personal disclosure to complete the slide.
3. Group activity — “Circle, triangle, square, circle. Which shape appears twice?” Leader note: the authored sequence contains two circles, one triangle, and one square. Invite an explanation using the displayed words or your actual classroom materials.
4. Morning message — “Today we will compare shapes before we count them. Date: ______.” Leader note: replace the proposed learning task with the day's actual task and tell the class what to do after the meeting.

These are editable teaching prompts rather than a packaged curriculum. The source words and expected shape count are visible so a colleague can check the activity without guessing what an illustration represents.

Keep the four parts recognizable

Responsive Classroom describes Morning Meeting through greeting, sharing, group activity, and a morning message. Its morning message is written by the teacher and read with the class. The example above borrows that organizational distinction; the wording, shape task, and leader notes are independently authored.

Do not turn the four labels into four copies of the same question. The greeting names the interaction to begin. Sharing offers something to listen to. The activity gives the group a common task. The message connects the gathering to the work ahead. Review the actual prompts with those purposes in mind.

The prepared HTML example moves between four screens. It does not collect learner answers, call on children, measure participation, or decide whether the class is ready. The adult still leads the real meeting and changes the pace.

Prepare the details that change each day

Leave a short preparation record outside the projected prompt:

Class, date and actual learning task:
Greeting and agreed participation options:
Sharing prompt and listening response:
Group activity, required materials and checked answer:
Morning message and next classroom action:
Leader notes, language supports and changes to make:

Check the activity answer before projecting the slides. Here, “circle” appears twice in a four-item sequence. If you replace a shape or add a fifth item, revisit the leader note rather than carrying yesterday's answer into today's task.

Keep essential participation instructions visible to the people who need them. A hidden leader note cannot substitute for explaining the activity to learners. If you intend to project the deck, check the text from the back of the actual room; the two browser sizes used for the example do not establish classroom viewing distance.

Copy a deck request with your lesson details

Create one complete HTML morning-meeting presentation.
Class/date and actual next learning task: [SUPPLY]
Greeting and participation options: [PASTE]
Sharing prompt and listening instruction: [PASTE]
Group activity, source material and checked answer: [PASTE]
Teacher's morning message and next action: [PASTE]
Leader notes and access/language arrangements: [PASTE]

Give greeting, sharing, group activity and morning message their
own screens. Separate learner-facing prompts from leader notes.
Keep unknown dates blank. Include previous/next navigation with
clear first/last boundaries and a readable screen number.
Do not invent learner responses, attendance or learning outcomes.
Use local styles and no external assets, storage or answer scoring.
Return complete HTML and the unresolved preparation questions.

A classroom bingo activity gives learners separate game cards; this deck gives the leader a shared sequence of prompts. Before the class arrives, rehearse the transitions, replace the example message with the real day's work, and put the materials for the next task where learners will use them.