Morning Meeting Questions for Kids, Kindergarten to Grade 5

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If you were a bug, what bug would you be?

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Follow-up Where would you live? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.

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Morning Meeting Questions for Kids, Kindergarten to Grade 5: how it works

The question on screen is today's share, and Next question deals another. These 200 morning meeting questions for kids cover kindergarten to grade 5: 20 for each month from September to June, in five kinds, each with a second question behind Show follow-up.

Month first, then grade band

Under Month or kind, press this month: January leaves the 20 January morning meeting questions, about fresh starts and goals, and March leaves the March questions, about wind, kites and luck. Easy is the set of morning meeting questions for kindergarten, 80 cards of 12 words or fewer. Medium (70) suits grades 1 and 2, Hard (50) grades 3 to 5.

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Sharing questions for morning meeting, three ways

Responsive Classroom describes three sharing formats, and these morning meeting share questions fit each. Around the circle, everyone answers in a few words, which suits the first weeks of school. In partner sharing, pairs talk at once, a gentler start for children shy of the whole group. In dialogue sharing, one student shares and then asks for questions and comments; a card gives a child with no news a topic. Game Night Generator is not connected with Responsive Classroom.

Tips
  • For whiteboard questions, write an Easy card on the board before the bell: morning questions for kids to answer in marker as they arrive.
  • Funny holds 40 fun morning meeting questions, such as what a pair of mittens would argue about. With Hard it leaves ten fun morning questions for students in grades 3 to 5.
  • The deck forgets what it dealt after twelve hours, so keep your place by working down the month in the list.

Questions and answers

Are there questions for each season?

Yes, and no card names a holiday. For winter morning meeting questions, take December to February; for spring morning meeting questions, March to May. The November morning meeting questions are about thanks and cozy spots, and the March morning meeting questions ask what you would see from a kite.

Are the feelings cards SEL questions for kids?

Yes: Feelings and friendship holds 40, eight under each of the five areas CASEL names, from self-awareness to responsible decision-making. They ask about people in general, such as what good friends do for each other, so no child has to report a bad day. They are conversation, not curriculum or counselling.

How do I show the whole class a card?

Zoom the browser on the classroom screen until the card fills it; there is no full-screen or print button. All 200 questions are listed under the deck by month, with kind, grade band and follow-up. For a quick vote, open the this or that questions for kids.

All 200 questions

September 20

  • How can you tell that a classmate wants to join in? Follow-up: What could you do next? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • How do you feel on the first day of something new? Follow-up: What helps with that feeling? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • How do you learn the name of someone you have not met yet? Follow-up: What helps you remember it? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • If desks could walk, where would yours go at night, and what would it bring back? Follow-up: How would you know it had been out? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If our class had a flag, what would be on it? Follow-up: What colors would it be? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If our classroom floated like a boat, where would we sail? Follow-up: What would we see first? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If our school had to move to a very strange place, where should it go and why? Follow-up: What would recess be like there? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • What animal would be the worst at sitting in a circle? Follow-up: What would it do? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What color do you reach for first when you draw? Follow-up: What do you draw with it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What could a person do to calm down when first-week nerves show up? Follow-up: Which idea would you try first? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • What do you hope we do at school today? Follow-up: What makes that part so good? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What is a fun way to say good morning to a friend? Follow-up: Can you show us? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What is one promise our class could make to each other for this year? Follow-up: What would keeping it look like on a hard day? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is one rule that would help everyone in our class learn? Follow-up: How would it help? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the best book someone has read out loud to you? Follow-up: Which part do you remember best? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What kind of project do you like best: building, writing, drawing or performing? Why? Follow-up: What was the last one you did? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What new page would you add to a book you know? Follow-up: What happens on it? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • What should visitors notice first when they walk into our room? Follow-up: What could we do to make sure they do? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What would be a funny thing to find in a backpack? Follow-up: How did it get in there? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would school be like if all the teachers were cats? Follow-up: What would the homework be? Funny, grade 1 and up.

October 20

  • If leaves fell up instead of down, what problems would that cause? Follow-up: Who would have to fix them? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you stayed awake all night like an owl, what would you watch? Follow-up: What would you hear? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If you were a leaf, where would the wind take you? Follow-up: What would you see on the way? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you were a scarecrow with a whole field to watch, how would you pass the time? Follow-up: Which bird would you let stay? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
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October, continued

  • What can you do when you have to wait a long time? Follow-up: Which idea works best in line? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What class routine could you teach to a new student? Follow-up: What is the first step? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What color leaf would you pick up and keep? Follow-up: Where would you keep it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What does a group need to do so that everyone gets a fair turn to talk? Follow-up: Which part is hardest? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What face would you put on a pumpkin? Follow-up: Can you make that face? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What have we learned this month that surprised you? Follow-up: What did you think before? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is something our class is good at? Follow-up: How did we get good at it? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What is something that feels a little scary but also fun? Follow-up: How do you know when it is too scary? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the best costume you have ever seen? Follow-up: What made it great? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What should a spider knit with its web? Follow-up: Who is it for? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What smell tells you it is fall? Follow-up: Where do you smell it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What would a silly scarecrow wear on its head? Follow-up: Would the crows laugh? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would be the funniest thing to find inside a pumpkin? Follow-up: What would you do with it? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What would you do if you found something that was not yours? Follow-up: Who could help you? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • Which season do you think is the most interesting to be outdoors in, and why? Follow-up: What would you show someone who disagrees? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • Why might two people feel differently about the same spooky story? Follow-up: How could they still enjoy it together? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.

November 20

  • How can you show a friend you like them? Follow-up: How do friends show you? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • How can you tell when someone needs help but has not asked? Follow-up: What is a kind way to offer? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • How could our class thank the people who keep our school clean? Follow-up: What could we do this week? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • If animals held a harvest feast, which animal should host it and what would be served? Follow-up: Who would not be invited? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If our class made one giant soup, what should go in it? Follow-up: What should stay out? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If you flew south with the birds, what would you see? Follow-up: Where would you stop to rest? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you had to wear a coat made of one food, which food would work best and why? Follow-up: What would go wrong in the rain? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you were a squirrel, what would you hide for winter? Follow-up: Where would you hide it? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What do we use every day in class that you would miss? Follow-up: What could we use in its place? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a skill you are glad someone took the time to teach you? Follow-up: How long did it take to learn? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is one thing about our class that you would not want to change, and why? Follow-up: What would be lost if it changed? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is something you are proud you can do on your own? Follow-up: Who taught you the first step? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the coziest spot you can think of? Follow-up: What would you do there? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What is the silliest thing to put in a pie? Follow-up: Who would eat it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What sound are you thankful for? Follow-up: When do you hear it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What would a squirrel pack for a day at school? Follow-up: What would it forget? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What would a turkey order at a restaurant? Follow-up: What would it never order? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • When is it better to share something, and when is it fair to keep it for yourself? Follow-up: Can you give an example of each? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • Which school helper has the job that looks like the most fun? Follow-up: What would be the hard part? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • Who helped you at school this week? Follow-up: What did they do? About our class, kindergarten and up.

December 20

  • If a frozen river was a road, where would you skate to? Follow-up: Who would you meet on the way? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If the sun set at lunchtime every day, how would school have to change? Follow-up: What would get better? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If winter had a complaint box, what would people, animals and trees put in it? Follow-up: Who would read the notes? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you were a snowflake, where would you land? Follow-up: How long would you last? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What can you give a friend that does not come from a store? Follow-up: Which one could you give today? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What does a happy friend look like and sound like? Follow-up: How about a tired friend? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What gift could you make from just paper and tape? Follow-up: Who would you give it to? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • What helps you stay patient when something exciting is coming? Follow-up: What makes the wait harder? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a kind thing we could do for another class? Follow-up: Which class should we pick? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What is a winter tradition at our school or in our town that you enjoy? Follow-up: How would you explain it to a visitor? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is something our class has gotten better at since September? Follow-up: What helped us improve? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is something you made by hand that you were happy to give away? Follow-up: How did you make it? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the best thing to build out of snow? Follow-up: How big would you make it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What kind of giving feels best to you: time, help, or something you made? Why? Follow-up: Which is hardest to give? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • What lights do you like to look at in winter? Follow-up: What colors are they? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What should our class keep doing in the new year, and what should we drop? Follow-up: What would we put in its place? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What song should our class learn to sing together? Follow-up: Who could teach it? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What would a moose do at recess? Follow-up: Who would play with it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would a pair of mittens argue about? Follow-up: Who would win? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What would a snowman do on a day off? Follow-up: Where would it go? Funny, kindergarten and up.

January 20

  • How can you cheer on a friend who is working toward a goal that is hard for them? Follow-up: What should you not say? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • If this year had a name, not a number, what would it be? Follow-up: Why that name? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If you could add a thirteenth month to the year, where would it go and what is it for? Follow-up: What would you name it? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you had to hibernate in one room of the school, which room would you pick and why? Follow-up: What would you hear through the door? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you slept all winter like a bear, what would you miss? Follow-up: What would you not miss? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you were a penguin, what would you do all day? Follow-up: Who would be in your group? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What can you do when something is hard and you want to quit? Follow-up: Who could you ask? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What do you like best about a brand-new year? Follow-up: What stays the same? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What does it feel like when you finally get something right? Follow-up: What did it take to get there? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a goal our whole class could work on together? Follow-up: How would we know we got there? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a goal you reached once, and what did you do to reach it? Follow-up: What nearly stopped you? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is a good choice you made this week? Follow-up: How did you know it was a good one? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What is a silly goal for a cat this year? Follow-up: Will the cat keep it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What is one thing we should add to our morning meeting? Follow-up: When would we do it? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What is one way our classroom could be more peaceful? Follow-up: When in the day do we need it most? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the best thing about coming back to school after a break? Follow-up: What is the hardest thing? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What makes a goal a good goal, and not just a wish? Follow-up: Can you turn a wish into a goal? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What would a polar bear bring for show and tell? Follow-up: What would the class ask it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would be a terrible name for a sled, and a great one? Follow-up: Which would go faster? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • Which cold-weather animal do you like best? Follow-up: How does it stay warm? Favorites, kindergarten and up.

February 20

  • If kindness made a sound every time it happened, what sound should it be, and why? Follow-up: Where would it be loudest? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If our class had 100 minutes to do anything for the school, how should we spend them? Follow-up: What would we need? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you saw your shadow do a dance, what would you do? Follow-up: What dance would it do? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you were 100 years old, what would you tell kids about today? Follow-up: What would surprise them? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • What can you do if two of your friends are not getting along? Follow-up: When should you get a grown-up? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What can you say to someone who is sitting alone? Follow-up: What if they want to stay alone? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What could our class collect 100 of to count the 100th day? Follow-up: Where would we put them? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What could you do 100 times and still not get bored? Follow-up: How long would it take? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What do good friends do for each other? Follow-up: What do they not do? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What does being a good listener look like in our circle? Follow-up: What does it sound like? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What if your shadow ran away? Where would it go? Follow-up: How would you get it back? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What is a groundhog really doing down in its burrow all winter? Follow-up: What is on its wall? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What is one small act of kindness that could spread through the whole school? Follow-up: How would we start it? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the difference between a friend who is fun and a friend you can trust? Follow-up: Can one friend be both? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the nicest thing someone has said to you? Follow-up: How did it make you feel? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What is your favorite way to be kind without using any words? Follow-up: When did you last do it? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What makes our class a good place to be? Follow-up: What could make it even better? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What would be silly to count all the way to 100? Follow-up: Who would check your count? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • Who at school should get a kind note today? Follow-up: What would the note say? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • Who is a person from history you admire, and what did they do? Follow-up: What would you ask them? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.

March 20

  • Design the worst kite ever. What is it made of, and what happens when it flies? Follow-up: Would you still fly it? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • How do you settle down after a loud, busy recess? Follow-up: What could our class try together? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • How might a new student feel joining a class in March, and what would help them? Follow-up: What could you do on day one? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • If the wind could carry one message for you, what would it say? Follow-up: Who should hear it? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If wind could be bottled and saved for later, what would you use it for? Follow-up: What would you write on the label? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you could slide down a rainbow, where would you land? Follow-up: Which color would you pick? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What color is missing from the rainbow? Follow-up: Where should it go? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What do you like best about the days getting longer? Follow-up: What will you do with the extra light? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What do you like to do on a windy day? Follow-up: What does the wind do to your plan? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What in our classroom needs a spring cleaning? Follow-up: Who wants to help? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is one problem in our classroom that we could solve ourselves, and how? Follow-up: Who would need to agree? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you? Follow-up: Was it luck, or did you help it along? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What kind of weather do you like to watch from a window, and what do you notice? Follow-up: What changes first? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What makes you feel brave? Follow-up: When did you last feel that way? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What makes you feel lucky to be in our class? Follow-up: Who else feels that way? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What would a frog think of all this spring mud? Follow-up: What would it build? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What would you not want the wind to blow away? Follow-up: Where would it end up? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would you see if you rode on a kite? Follow-up: How would you get down? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • When someone wins a game, is it luck or hard work? Follow-up: Does it change how the others should act? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • Where in our classroom would a plant be happiest? Follow-up: Who would look after it? About our class, grade 1 and up.

April 20

  • How can our class help the Earth this week? Follow-up: What do we need to start? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • How can you tell when teasing has stopped being fun for someone? Follow-up: What can you do then? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • If a puddle was a door, where would it lead? Follow-up: Would you jump in? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If worms had a school under the grass, what would they learn? Follow-up: What would recess be like? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you could talk to a tree, what would you ask it? Follow-up: What might it ask you? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If you were in charge of the Earth for one day, what would you fix first? Follow-up: What would be harder than it sounds? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • What can you do when you feel grumpy? Follow-up: What can a friend do to help? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • What do you like best about the Earth? Follow-up: How can we take care of it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What do you like to do in the rain? Follow-up: What do you do when it stops? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What in our classroom could we reuse instead of throwing away? Follow-up: What could it become? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a good rule for telling jokes in our class? Follow-up: What should happen if a joke stings? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What is a place outdoors that you think is worth protecting, and why? Follow-up: Who looks after it now? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is one habit our class could change that would make less trash? Follow-up: How would we remember to do it? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the best joke you know that is kind to everyone? Follow-up: Who told it to you? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What is the funniest thing that could jump out of a puddle? Follow-up: What does it want? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What small thing can a kid do to take care of nature? Follow-up: How often could you do it? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What would a duck wear in the rain? Follow-up: Does a duck need it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would a very grumpy cloud write in a letter to the sun? Follow-up: How would the sun answer? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • What would it be silly to water every day? Follow-up: What would happen to it? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • When has being wrong about something turned out to be a good thing for you? Follow-up: What did you learn from it? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.

May 20

  • How can you be kind to a very small animal? Follow-up: How do you think it feels near you? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • How do you stay focused when it is sunny out and the year is almost over? Follow-up: What could our class do about it? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • If flowers could choose their own names, what would a dandelion call itself and why? Follow-up: What would a cactus pick? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you built a nest for yourself, what would you make it from? Follow-up: Where would you put it? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If you could follow a bee for a whole day, what do you think you would learn? Follow-up: What would be hard to keep up with? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • If you were a bug, what bug would you be? Follow-up: Where would you live? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If you were as tall as a tree, what would you see? Follow-up: What would be tricky? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What can you do to fix things after you hurt a friend's feelings? Follow-up: What if they need more time? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What do you ask yourself before you make a big choice? Follow-up: Who helps you think it through? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • What event should our class invent for field day? Follow-up: How do you win it? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What flower or tree do you like best? Follow-up: Where have you seen one? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What game do you hope we play on field day? Follow-up: What makes it fun for everybody? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • What game would bugs play at recess? Follow-up: Which bug would win? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What have we learned this year about working in groups? Follow-up: What do we still get wrong? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is a silly name for a butterfly? Follow-up: What would it name you? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What is the best thing to find under a rock? Follow-up: Should you put the rock back? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What is the best thing we have made in class this year? Follow-up: What would you change about it now? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What outdoor place near our school do you like best, and what do you do there? Follow-up: What lives there? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.
  • What would a bird think of the way people build houses? Follow-up: What would it fix? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • What would you like our class to do outside? Follow-up: What would we need to bring? About our class, kindergarten and up.

June 20

  • How can you stay friends with someone you will not see every day? Follow-up: What is one thing you could do this month? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • How do you feel about the year ending? Follow-up: Can you feel two ways at once? Feelings and friendship, kindergarten and up.
  • How is our class different now from the class that walked in last fall? Follow-up: What caused the change? About our class, grades 3 to 5.
  • If our class had a yearbook page, what picture belongs on it? Follow-up: What would the caption say? Imagine if, grade 1 and up.
  • If our class made a movie about this year, which scene would get the biggest laugh? Follow-up: What would the movie be called? Funny, grades 3 to 5.
  • If summer had a taste, what would it taste like? Follow-up: What about winter? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • If the lost and found could talk, what would it complain about? Follow-up: What has been in there the longest? Funny, grade 1 and up.
  • If you visited this classroom in ten years, what would you hope is still here? Follow-up: What should be gone? Imagine if, grades 3 to 5.
  • What helps a person handle feeling happy and sad at the same goodbye? Follow-up: Which idea would you try? Feelings and friendship, grades 3 to 5.
  • What is a silly way to stay cool? Follow-up: Would it work? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What is a word or saying that only our class would understand? Follow-up: How did it start? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What one thing from our classroom would you like to keep? Follow-up: Where would you put it? Imagine if, kindergarten and up.
  • What should we leave behind as a surprise for next year's class? Follow-up: Where should we hide it? About our class, grade 1 and up.
  • What was the best surprise at school this year? Follow-up: Who else was surprised? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What was the best thing we celebrated this year? Follow-up: How did we celebrate it? Favorites, kindergarten and up.
  • What will you miss about our class? Follow-up: What will you not miss? About our class, kindergarten and up.
  • What would our classroom do all summer if it came alive? Follow-up: What would the chairs do? Funny, kindergarten and up.
  • What would you do differently if this year started again? Follow-up: What would you keep the same? Feelings and friendship, grade 1 and up.
  • Which field trip, visitor or special day was the best this year? Follow-up: What do you remember most? Favorites, grade 1 and up.
  • Which project or lesson from this year are you proudest of, and what made it hard? Follow-up: What would you tell someone starting it? Favorites, grades 3 to 5.

How this list was compiled: Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors in September 2026; no question or follow-up is copied from another list. There are 20 questions for each month from September to June: four favorites, four imagine-ifs, four about the class, four on feelings and friendship and four funny ones. Every line was screened against the site blocklist for children's pages, and then for a whole class: nothing about a child's home, family, money, body, faith or vacations, nothing frightening, no holiday named, no real people and no would-you-rather cards. Levels are grade bands set by the editors: Easy is for kindergarten and up (12 words at most), Medium for grade 1 and up (14 words at most), Hard for grades 3 to 5. As a reading-level check, a script counted the words of each level against the Dolch word list, service words and nouns, as printed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch_word_list (read 2026-09-19), allowing plain endings such as -s, -ed and -ing: 79 percent of the running words in the Easy questions and 74 percent in the Medium questions are on the list. The 40 feelings and friendship questions are sorted by the editors, eight each, under the five areas named at https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/ (read 2026-09-19): self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making. They are classroom conversation only: not a curriculum, not a screening tool and not counselling. The three sharing formats named on the page (around-the-circle, partner and dialogue sharing) were read at https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/sharing-leads-to-learning/ and the four parts of Morning Meeting at https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/what-is-morning-meeting/ on 2026-09-19. This site is not connected with Responsive Classroom or CASEL. On 2026-09-19 a script compared every question with every other question deck on this site, including the attendance questions, the icebreaker questions for kids and the conversation starters for kids, and questions that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work