Make Me Smile Monday
Students think of a way to put a smile on another student's face. It could be a student in our own classroom, or a student from another classroom. The student thinks of an action or behavior they can do that would help another student feel happy and smile. The student's write their ideas on a sticky note and add it to the chart paper. Then, throughout the day I ask the students to reflect and think if they have made someone smile yet. It is a great activity to encourage students to think about others and how their actions affect other people.
Magic Monday
Students think of something that makes them special, unique, different, and/or something they are proud of. This can be difficult for your students at first, but by giving examples about yourself will allow your students to dig deep down within themselves and share. For example I told my students "What makes me special is that I have an older sister and a younger brother." This helped my students think about their family dynamics and what was special about them. After a few Monday's with this prompt and guiding my students to think about what they are proud about, their answers became more detailed and more specific. It was a great prompt that encouraged my students to share what they are proud about and to celebrate their accomplishments and differences.
Reach for the Moon Monday
This is a new prompt that I am going to try in the new school year this fall. With this prompt students are encouraged to think about their goals and dreams for themselves. It can be a goal or dream for the day, week, month, year, or for a lifetime! It is a great prompt to get students thinking about what they want to achieve and then think about the steps necessary to make that goal or dream happen. You can instruct your students to think of a goal/dream for a specific time period if you want all of your student answers to be based on the same time period. This prompt can be particularly helpful for your older students to help them identify their strengths and interests and how they want to incorporate those into their future employment options.
Mood Monday
This is another new prompt that I am going to implement into my morning work this year. With this prompt, the students respond by writing what their current mood is and why. This is where my feelings poster that hangs in my room will come in handy. Students, especially our younger ones, can struggle with identifying what type of feeling or mood they are in. They can easily identify being happy, sad, or angry, but can they identify when they are bored, excited, scared, worried, tired, etc.? Having students start their day by identifying their current mood and giving a reason for that mood is vital in our students beginning their social emotional learning journey. When students can identify their mood and validate it, others can then appreciate one another and create a better understanding for how a mood changes how someone may behave.
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