8 Morning Routines - How To Make Time For Relationship Building With Students - Classroom Management

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Teachers Making The Basics Fun
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Published 2023-02-26
The first minutes of your day in kindergarten and first grade are what set the tone for your classroom. There are 8 morning routines and procedures that will make your morning run so smoothly that you will have ample time to do the most important thing you can do with your students, talk to them.
Building relationships with your students first thing in the morning takes time. But what if you don’t have the time to talk with each of your students?
Get the step by step walk through of the first 30-40 minutes of my day as a kindergarten and first grade teacher.
I turned the chaos into a time both me and my students loved.
PS If you are counting there’s actually 10 tips you are getting to make your morning routine in your classroom amazing.
Let me know if you have any questions.

00:00 intro
00:29 Confessions of a teacher
01:29 Tips on setting up your ideal environment
02:43 Tips on entering the classroom
03:29 Tips on independent housekeeping chores
04:44 Tips on the independent morning work routines
05:04 Warning - Be wise about what you do with the extra time you will have
06:51 How I talked with each kid every morning
07:31 Tips on what to do with early finishers
08:42 Tips on how to use music to facilitate transitions
09:46 Tips on a class chant for the morning routine
10:40 Tips on ramping up the greeting song
11:48 Tips on daily schedule explanation
13:20 Beyond the morning routine… what’s next?
14:15 Angie tells more about herself and blessings to you!!
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**Special thanks to Dawn The Singing Nurse for the awesome music. Check out her channel. youtube.com/c/DawnGinese
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All Comments (21)
  • @dj008802
    Yes please on the morning message. Thank you!
  • @jocelynbeltran6781
    I'm a kindergarten teacher for 14 years now and this will be an additional tool for me of my teaching methods. Thanks a lot ❤❤❤!
  • @Snail320
    Thank you! I've taught first grade for 25 years and am thinking of retiring. I also taught other lower grades, including kindergarten for 20 years before that! Yep, I'm OLD! It's getting harder every year to get the routine going. Last year it took me 2 or more solid months of relationship building to establish what used to take me two weeks! Covid has changed a lot of things. Almost every teacher now has 1-5 children who are victims of trauma or lack any social skills at all! These children tend to have melt-downs or aggressive acting out that causes us to have to "empty the room". There is virtually no support from our district or admin in the form of boots on the ground. These kids need one on one guidance to move along with the rest of the kids, but so far they aren't getting it! The second issue we are facing is lack of parent involvement and chronic tardiness / absenteeism. The families got the idea during Covid (at least in good old California) that they didn't need to DO ANYTHING. We were out of school for 18 months at least and during that time the train really came off the rails. Unfortunately, the powers at the district office are all about equity (everyone should learn the same things at the same time at the same pace- no allowance for differences in maturity), on top of a whole lot of testing. Kinders and first graders take a mountain of tests and teachers spend a whole lot of time "looking at the numbers and letting them guide what you teach". When my admin. was looking at some numbers with me for my first graders, she pointed to some "concerning" numbers and asked what I was going to do about them. I told her that kids weren't numbers and I already knew from working with them how they were progressing and what instruction they needed. I pointed to my head and said "all I need to know about my kids is in here". I got a cold stare. I could literally write a book about how bad things are, but the bottom line is through it all, I still enjoy the times when the "light bulb comes on" and I get the high-fives and hugs! Hard to leave that!!
  • @amietrudnowski534
    Thank you for all the great ideas on how to lay the foundation for an amazing day! ❤
  • @funnyhaha389
    Thank you so much for this! I'm forward becoming a kindergarten teacher but i don't know how to really set up everything, and how to act. Your videos has been so much help for me and I'm very grateful!!
  • @debbieoconnor6971
    You are wonderful. This is my second year in first grade after 15 years of preschool, yet I’m still figuring out how to do everything. Thank you!
  • @y.corona492
    Yes, please, on the morning message. Thank you!
  • @heidehurd9380
    absolutely looking forward to you sharing your morning message and meeting pro tips :) :)
  • @stefanievillanueva4972
    Yes please, for the morning message! I just found your videos are they are great. Thank you!