Morning Meeting Questions Wheel
A morning meeting sets the tone for the whole day, and the sharing part works best when the question is easy to answer and different every morning. This wheel holds 30 open questions for kids, such as what are you looking forward to today, what's your favourite kind of weather and if you were the teacher today, what would we learn. Spin one as students settle into the circle, let a few share, and keep everyone listening for something they have in common. Because the wheel chooses, the same question doesn't come up every Monday, and nobody has to think of a new one before the bell.
Updated by Talha Shahid
What is a morning meeting questions wheel?
A morning meeting questions wheel is a spinner of sharing questions for the start of the school day, when a class gathers to greet each other and set the tone before lessons begin. Morning meetings are part of many elementary classroom routines, and the sharing question is the part a wheel keeps fresh. The Classroom Wheels morning meeting questions wheel holds 30 open, kid-friendly questions without right answers, such as what are you looking forward to today, what's one kind thing you could do today and if you had a robot helper, what job would it do. Teachers spin a question as students settle into the circle, go round with a pass allowed, or write the question on the board before the bell so students can think as they arrive. Every question has the same chance on each spin, questions can be added or reworded in Edit entries, and the wheel is free with no signup.
How do you use the morning meeting questions wheel?
- The wheel is ready with 30 entries. Press Spin, click the wheel or press Space, and the result appears in the middle.
- Open Edit entries to change the list for your class, or press Use my class instead to spin your students' names.
- Press Present (or F) to show just the wheel on the board. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings if you don't want repeats.
Ways to use it in class
- Greeting and share: after the morning greeting, spin a question and go round the circle, with a pass allowed for anyone who wants it.
- Find a match: students listen for someone whose answer is like theirs and give them a thumbs up across the circle.
- Question of the day board: spin before the bell and write the question on the board so students can think about it as they arrive.
Put this wheel on your class website
Paste this code into Google Sites (Insert, then Embed), a class blog or your learning platform, and students can use the wheel there. It shows just the wheel, with no ads, and loads nothing about your students.
What's on the morning meeting questions wheel?
All 30 entries, ready to spin. Edit them on the wheel above to fit your class.
- What are you looking forward to today?
- How are you feeling this morning, and why?
- What's one thing you did after school yesterday?
- If you could have any superpower today, what would it be?
- What's your favourite breakfast?
- What's something new you learned recently?
- Who is someone who makes you laugh?
- What was the best thing that happened this week?
- If you could visit anywhere today, where would you go?
- What's one goal you have for today?
- What's your favourite way to relax?
- What animal would you like to be today, and why?
- What's a song that always cheers you up?
- What would you do with an extra hour today?
- What's one thing you're grateful for this morning?
- What's your favourite thing about our class?
- If you could invent a new holiday, what would it celebrate?
- What's a game you love to play at recess?
- What's your favourite kind of weather, and why?
- What's a food you've never tried but want to?
- What's one kind thing you could do today?
- What's the best book or show you've seen lately?
- If you were the teacher today, what would we learn?
- What's a talent you'd like to show the class?
- What makes a good morning for you?
- What's your favourite season, and why?
- If you had a robot helper, what job would it do?
- What's one word to describe how you slept?
- What's something that made you proud recently?
- What's a question you'd like to ask the class?
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Questions teachers ask
Can I change what's on the morning meeting questions wheel?
Yes. The Morning Meeting Questions Wheel starts with the 30 entries listed above. Open Edit entries to add, remove or reword any of them, one per line. Your changes last until you leave the page, and Restore brings back the original list.
Can I spin my students' names instead?
Yes. Press Use my class instead to swap the morning meeting questions wheel's entries for your saved class, with absent students left off. Press the back button in the same place to return to the 30 entries.
Is every entry on the morning meeting questions wheel equally likely?
Yes. Each of the 30 entries has the same 1 in 30 chance on every spin: the result is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator before the wheel moves. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings to go through every entry once before any repeats.
Will ads show on my projector?
No. Press Present (or F) and the screen shows only the wheel and the Spin button, in large type for the back of the room.