200+ Morning Meeting Questions! Attendance Questions, Brain Breaks, Bell Ringers

How to build a positive class community with so little time? These 200+ daily questions are engaging, boost rapport and relationships, and are perfect for upper primary, middle, and high school. Use them as a brain break, bell ringer activity, attendance questions, tutor time activities, or just to fill in the 5 minutes of dead-air time that can often be the cause of chaos. 

This is so much more than just a bunch of questions, this is a part of your proactive classroom management approach.

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What’s Included:

✓ 160 everyday questions: No themes, just everyday questions. Some a little silly, some thought-provoking, but all of them geared to getting students engaged and talking!

✓ 40 holiday-themed questions for you to pick and choose from:
-10 Halloween questions
-10 Christmas questions
-5 Valentines day question
-20 general holiday questions (non-denominational)
-5 Easter questions

✓ More being added to and updated over time! Receive all updates I make into the future!

Why Every Teacher Needs These 200+ Questions:

♡ With over 200 questions, they will last you the entire year! That’s a lot of heavy lifting in that first 5 minutes of the lesson (or the final 5!!)

♡ Encourages small daily interactions that foster a sense of belonging, community, and felt safety.

♡ More than just a bunchof silly questions, they support student engagement and learning while reducing conflict and disruptions.

♡ These engaging games can be seamlessly integrated into each lesson without taking much time—a 5-minute investment for huge impact.

♡ Help students develop crucial social and emotional skills that translate into better relationships with peers and a more collaborative class culture!

How you can use these Questions:

✏️ Back to School: Use as fun and low-stakes icebreaker games on the first day back at the start of the year (or to ease back in at the start of a new term).
✏️ Brain Breaks: Quick, fun, and engaging 5-minute brain breaks.
✏️ Ongoing Community Building: Develop a positive class community throughout the year by using one (or a few) slides a day as attendance questions or as a part of your morning meeting.
✏️ Starter Activities: Use as bell-ringer tasks or morning work to get students warmed up and ready for the lesson or day.
✏️ Engaging and appropriate game for class parties: Need a student-friendly game for a class party or the end of the year? Here it is!
✏️ Filling in a little bit of time: Use to fill in those 5 minutes of ‘dead-air’ time in a structured way, reducing disruptions and chaos (in a way that still gets students thinking and collaborating!!)

A range of questions providing opportunities for students to show critical thinking, creativity, imagination, and compassion.

Sample Questions: 

✏ What do children know more than adults about?

✏ If all electricity was cut off for a week, what would you do for fun?

✏ What do you think is the best thing about being the age you are right now?

✏ Is a hot dog a sandwich or taco?

✏ If you live to be 100 years old, what would you like to say you accomplished?

✏ Describe your perfect 3 course meal. What would you have for your starter, main, and dessert?

✏ If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

✏ If you could time travel, would you go to the past or the future, and what would you do?

✏ Is it more important for us to explore space, or explore the ocean?

✏ Should teachers wear a school uniform as well? Why?

✏ Would it be more useful to talk to plants or to animals? Why?

✏ If you could go back 100 years and only deliver one message, what would it be?

✏ If you could outlaw one thing in the world, what would it be and why?