Morning Meeting Activity

Last week in my 1st grade classroom I was assigned to do the activity portion of Morning Meeting. My activity that I chose was to write word pairs with the same end rhymes. Then, I would pass one card out to each student and have them wait until all of the cards were passed out. After that, I had the students go find their partner with the same end rhyme, but I had them try to do it quietly so everyone could hear what  word a student was saying if they told another student. I would also time the students so that when they did the activity the first day, the days after they would try to beat their time from previous days. When I did this activity the first day it was very compelling to me because, you would hear each students using phonics and break up the sounds of the words if they didn't know it. Throughout the week the students progressed drastically in how quick they completed the activity.