Critical Thinking: Morning Work Warm-Ups

Morning Work: Homeroom Warm-Up for Grades 5-8

This resource is a helpful tool for your morning routine with intermediate/middle school students! Students can have a special notebook that they use each day for this task, they could use mini whiteboards, or whatever routine works best for your group. Start the day with a bit of fun and a consistent routine. This will set the tone for the learning to come!

This powerpoint presentation includes activities for each day of the week with enough for one whole term (60 days!).

The slides are editable, so you can make more for future terms. You could also ask students to help make more slides as an activity for early finishers.

Questions address many areas of the curriculum:

Math Monday: On Monday your students will encounter word problems and prompts about ratio, area, money math, patterns, logic puzzles, and more! These will be a great review for previously learned information or they could prompt a quick mini-lesson for new material.

Trivia Tuesday for Science and Social Studies On Tuesday your students will be asked questions about geography, grammar, biology, financial literacy and more! Each question is designed to address an area of the curriculum from prior or future years.

Would You Rather Wednesday for critical thinking Wednesday might become your students' favourite. These prompts will stimulate some great class debates and discussions and help students see issues from both sides. There is no right answer, students just need to provide evidence for their opinions.

Thesaurus Thursday to increase vocabulary On Thursday your students will work to think of synonyms for over-used words: like the dreaded "nice".

Focus Friday with puzzles and games End your week with fun puzzles and games that will get kids thinking and collaborating with one another.

These activities are great for distance learning or in-class learning.

A total of 61 slides.