Morning meetings are a crucial part of the school day, especially for elementary teachers. It sets the tone for the day and allows teachers to connect with their students on a personal level. One way to make morning meetings more engaging is by incorporating morning meeting questions. These questions can help students reflect, share, and build connections with each other. Here are some morning meeting questions that you can use throughout the school year.
Why Use Morning Meeting Questions?
Morning meetings are essential for helping students transition from home to school mode. By asking thought-provoking questions, teachers can set the stage for the day, foreshadow upcoming events, and encourage creative and critical thinking. Morning meeting questions also give students a chance to share, develop conversation and listening skills, and find connections with their peers.
Morning Meeting Questions To Help Kids Plan
1. What’s one important thing you need to accomplish today?
2. What’s something fun you’re looking forward to doing today?
3. Pick something difficult you’d like to tackle in the week/month/year ahead. What is it?
4. If someone gave you $100, how much would you save? How much would you spend right away, and what would you spend it on?
5. When you look back on today before you go to bed tonight, what do you hope you’ll see?
6. What’s the next book you want to read?
7. What is one thing you’d like to learn today?
8. What school subject is challenging you the most right now, and how can you overcome the challenges?
9. What’s a question that you want answered?
10. How do you plan to spend time this weekend?
11. What achievable goal can you set for yourself today?
12. Set a goal: How many people will you sincerely compliment today?
Morning Meeting Questions To Encourage Sharing
13. What’s the best place you’ve ever visited?
14. What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
15. If you could change one thing about yourself overnight, what would it be?
16. What’s your favorite smell?
17. What do you like to daydream about?
18. What is your favorite time of year?
19. What’s your favorite holiday?
20. What’s your favorite book? Movie? TV show? Song?
21. If you could paint your bedroom a new color, what would it be?
22. What is most worrying to you about the world right now?
23. Would you like to run for president? Why or why not?
24. What’s your favorite genre of book?
25. How do you want to celebrate your next birthday?
Inspirational Morning Meeting Questions
26. Of everything you want to achieve, what do you think will be the hardest?
27. If you could live someplace else for a year, where would it be?
28. What’s your dream vacation?
29. How do you help others?
30. What motivates you?
31. How do you make yourself do something you really don’t want to do?
32. What would you like to be famous for?
33. What inspirational quote do you think everyone should hear?
34. Who do you most admire?
35. What are you most grateful for?
36. What songs or music do you listen to when you’re happy? Sad?
37. What’s one thing that always makes you feel better?
38. Can money buy happiness?
39. What makes a good leader?
40. If you could teach your classmates how to do something, what would it be?
41. What has been your proudest moment so far?
42. What makes you unique?
43. What do you like most about your best friend?
44. Who is the kindest person you know?
45. What makes you a good friend?
46. If you could go back in time to three years ago, what advice would you give yourself?
47. What’s one thing you’ve only done once but would like to do again?
48. What makes you feel loved?
49. Would you rather be the best player on a losing team or the worst player on a winning team?
50. Why is it important to try your best?
51. If you could spend a year anywhere in the world, where would you go?
52. What color represents you?
53. What is the nicest thing someone has done for you recently?
54. Can you tell us a time when someone showed kindness to you or when you were kind to someone else?
Fun Morning Meeting Questions
55. What animal do you think would make the best president?
56. If you were a superhero, what would your superpower and name be?
57. Would you rather wear shoes that are two sizes too small or four sizes too big?
58. Do you put the cereal in the bowl first or the milk?
59. When you’re getting dressed, which do you do: sock-shoe, sock-shoe, or sock-sock, shoe-shoe?
60. Which day is really the first day of the week, Sunday or Monday?
61. What’s the worst possible (edible) thing to put on a pizza?
62. If you could rename our school, what would you call it?
63. If you could fly, where would you go?
64. If you could be a book character, who would you be?
65. Would you rather eat pancakes or waffles?
66. How would you survive in a zombie apocalypse?
67. If you had a theme song, what would it be?
68. Would you rather be able to talk to animals or read people’s minds?
69. Would you move to Mars if we built a colony there?
70. If you suddenly found out dogs could talk, what question would you ask them?
71. What are the best burger toppings?
72. Would you ever go skydiving?
73. If you could be any cartoon character, who would it be?
74. What’s the best condiment to pair with french fries?
75. What are the ingredients in the perfect ice cream sundae?
76. If you could create a new emoji, what would it be?
77. If you could travel to any national park, which national park would you visit?
78. What is one animal you would like to see up close?
79. What would you name your band, and what kind of music would you play?
80. If you had a time machine, would you travel to the past or the future?
81. Who’s the best superhero and why?
82. If you could skip school today and do something else, what would it be?
83. At what age do you think people are really “old”?
84. If you could pick a new name, what would it be?
85. If you could switch places with your pet for a day, what would your day be like?
86. If you were given permission to make a mess, what would you do?
87. If you could make a toy of yours come to life, which toy would you choose and why?
88. If you could have a robot to help you, what would you tell it to do?
89. What’s the weirdest food combination that tastes good to you?
90. If you could make one chore disappear, which would it be?
91. If you could be the size of a bug for a day, what would you do?
92. What is the best way to spend a snow day?
93. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever found outdoors?
94. Can you think of an invention that would make life more fun? What would it be?
95. What animal trait (jumping high, running, etc.) would you like to have and why?
96. If you could go on a field trip anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Morning Meeting Questions To Start the Week
97. What are you planning to do during recess this week?
98. What are you looking forward to this week?
99. If you could have a superpower this week, what would it be and why?
100. What is a goal you have for yourself this week?
101. What is something you’d like to learn more about this week?
102. What is something outside of school that you are looking forward to this week?
103. How do you plan to relax after school this week?
104. Think about a goal you have. What progress can you make toward that goal this week?
105. What is a question that you have for your future self?
106. What is the most memorable school event you have attended?
107. If you could spend your week with one fictional character, who would it be?
108. If you were the teacher this week, what is one thing you would definitely plan?
109. What is your favorite thing to do during outdoor recess? What about indoor recess?
Morning Meeting Questions To End the Week
110. What is something you’re proud of accomplishing this week?
111. What is something that made you smile this morning or yesterday?
112. What challenged you this week? How did you tackle that challenge?
113. How did you solve a problem this week?
114. What was the coolest thing you learned in school this week?
115. What piece of advice would you give to yourself?
116. What is one funny thing that happened to you this week?
117. What is your favorite thing to do outside of school?
118. If you could go back in time and relive one moment from this week, what would it be?
119. Can you think of how someone made a difference in your life this week, or how you made a difference in someone else’s life?
120. What is something you appreciate about yourself?
121. Do you have a funny story from this week that you want to share?
122. Think about a goal you have set. What progress did you make toward that goal this week?
123. How have you changed your perspective this week?
124. How was your thinking challenged this week?
125. What have you learned from a mistake or failure this week (or before this week)?
126. If you could spend your weekend in any fictional land, where would you go?
127. What is your best feature right now?
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