Digital Morning Circle Time Activities & Calendar for Special Ed Prek & Elem.

Get your students engaged in circle time and whole group activities with this digital calendar for morning meeting for preschool and elementary special education! It comes ready to use with no printing necessary, making it a quick and easy way to get started with your morning routine.

This set includes 23 colorful and engaging slides for use with a projector, tablet or computer via Google SlidesTM and PowerPointTM. Plus it has print response cards and manipulatives for those students who need more concrete options.

❤️ To save you a ton of time and effort, there are also copy and paste lesson plans for each activity in the set, so you can easily customize the experience for your students.

With digital slides for calendar time, songs, stories, and print response cards, this starter kit has everything you need to run an engaging and functional morning meeting or circle time. Don't miss out on this essential tool for teachers! 

✅Check out the preview to find a FREE set of response cards for days of the week at the end!!

Looking for a print version? Grab the bundle of the print version plus this digital one here.

Circle time activities included:

• Lesson Plan Swipe Sheets - grab all the information you need for your lesson plans from the handy swipe sheet for each activity.  Relevant core curriculum standards are included and objectives are provided for easy adaptation to your state standards.
  
• Digital Calendar Months - Calendar months are included with decorations for events related to that month. I included 2 versions of October and December to accommodate schools in which holiday materials are not allowed.
  
• Digital Calendar Dates - Calendar date cards to teach date/number identification as well as understanding of home and school. This set  includes 34 holiday visuals and special occasions (e.g., field day, special Olympics) with the following.  The materials are designed let you have students determine whether they are (or will be) at home or at school, create themes with the calendar dates (e.g., pumpkins for October) and create patterns within the dates using multiple picture dates.  In this set you’ll find:
  • 2 Visual Holding Pages / Slides (1 with matching visuals for placeholders and 1 blank)
  • 4 plain numeral sets, 
  • 10 seasonal and holiday picture number sets (ice cream, rocket, school bus, pumpkin, heart, car, rainbow, yellow leaf, 4-leaf clover and Christmas stocking)
  • Home and School visuals

Days of the Week - include Yesterday was, Today is and Tomorrow will be visuals with symbols, Days of the week with symbols to complete them.

• Days of the Week Sequencing includes a slide for putting colored names of the days in order.  Response cards for students to each find the day of the week and show the teacher are also included.
  
• Morning Meeting Schedule - includes 2 slides (one titled Morning Meeting and one titled Circle Time) and 10 printable or moveable digital cards for each activity contained in the kit as well as class jobs so that students can predict the routine.
  
• How I Came to School - 2 options for slides plus moveable cards of bus, van, walk, bike, and car for choosing and counting how everyone came to school. Both slides allow for graphing if you start putting pieces at the bottom of the page.
  
• Who’s Here - 2 digital slides  for a Who’s Here board along with at home and at school visuals for students to check in
  • Plus it includes a a template for creating your own visuals with students’ photos and names. Or choose from a variety of clip art students you can personalize with their names
    
• Girls or Boys? Use digital moveable pieces for students to choose boy or girl or use their pictures from the who’s here board. Students can count the boys and girls in class and create a number sentence for the total.  The slide also serves as a horizontal bar graph.
  
• Which is More?  This slide is included so students can identify themselves by different characteristics (e.g., wearing sneakers, wearing red) and complete the number sentence.  This is perfect for students who memorize how many boys and girls are usually in class.

• Communication / Choice Boards - A song board for storing visuals of song choices and a story board and title for storing and presenting visuals to choose stories.  There are 9 story choice pictures and 7 song choice pictures as moving pieces on the slides.
  
• Story Supports - Story moving digital pieces and slides for There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Little Miss Muffet. Print cards are also provided for students who need to make more concrete choices and sequencing.

• Song Supports - Slides and moveable sequencing pictures for 5 Little Ducks and Wheels on the Bus
  
• How Do I Feel Today? -  a slide for students to use visuals of themselves (or the clips art from the Who’s Here Board) to share how they feel and then count / graph results. Print visuals for students to make choices are also provided
  
• 5-Point Scale Self-Regulation Check in - 1 slide of a 5-Point scale students can check in with their picture or write their name on the slide.  It also includes 12 moveable and printable coping strategies for bringing their number down to 1 or 2. This version also includes response cards for students to each identify their number.
  
• Exercise Board - 2 options for exercise boards and schedules with pictures of exercises. Plus printable exercise choices to use as needed.
  
• Weather - Students move the visuals to show temperature and conditions or can choose from printable pictures. Also includes 2 types of response cards for students to each identify the weather simultaneously rather than taking turns.
  
• An extra slide and video tutorial link for adding your own slides with the same background and headings. This is included in the PowerPoint of the file as well as the Google Slides version, but note that you will not be able to use the same font as the title in Google Slides. Directions for working with it in PowerPoint are included.

Save time with this special education morning meeting kit jam packed with circle time activities. Everything you need to get your circle time up and running is included: song choice board, storyboards, visuals, and more! Simply print and go or load up the slides to your interactive whiteboard!! 

❤️Your students will LOVE the stories and songs and they will remain engaged while learning throughout the entire morning meeting!

✅ Download the preview to check out exactly what is included! 

***Please note that this product has some utility with TpT's digital tool but some pieces require cutting out moving pieces. The digital version is offered in PowerPointTM and Google SlidesTM***

For more circle and morning meeting activities check these out!

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⭐ Preschool Circle Time Songs & Nursery Rhymes Activities for Early Childhood

⭐ Preschool*Elementary Circle CHRISTMAS ADD-ON KIT (special ed.,autism)

⭐ Preschool-Elementary Morning Meeting or Circle Thanksgiving ADD-ON KIT

© Christine Reeve

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one classroom. They may not be copied for additional classes without purchasing

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