Class Meetings for Preschoolers

Question:  

At what age can children participate in class meetings? 

Answer: 

I do class meetings every morning with my little preschool group (made up entirely of 3.5 yr olds), and it’s really a class meeting/circle time hybrid.  Every morning one of the children is the “meeting leader” and starts off our good morning song (in the two languages of their choice).  Then they check the weather and give a report.  Next we give compliments and appreciations (they are so fabulous at this, gives me goose bumps… we learned this by sharing something we had done ourselves that we felt good about, then noticing things that our friends had done that we felt good about and appreciating it).  Then we either play a game based on one of the PD student activities, simplified and made