Instead of asking How was your day? you might like to ask some of the questions below.

1. What made you smile today?
2. Can you tell me an example of kindness you saw/showed?
3. Was there an example of unkindness? How did you respond?
4. What was the book about that your teacher read?
5. Did anyone do anything silly to make you laugh?
6. What did you do that was creative?
7. What is the most popular game at break?
8. What was the best thing that happened today?
9. Did you help anyone today?
10. Did you tell anyone “thank you?”
11. Who did you sit with at lunch?
12. What made you laugh?
13. Did you learn something you didn’t understand?
14. Who inspired you today?
15. What is something you heard that surprised you?
16. What is something you saw that made you think?
17. Who did you play with today?
18. Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday.
19. What is something that challenged you?
20. What questions did you ask at school today?
21. Tell us your top two things from the day (before you can be excused from the dinner table!).
22. What are you looking forward to tomorrow?
23. What are you reading?
24. What was the hardest rule to follow today?
25. Teach me something I don’t know.
26. If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?
27. What made your teacher smile? 
28. What kind of person were you today?
29. What made you feel happy?
30. What made you feel proud?
31. What made you feel loved?
32. Did you learn any new words today?
33. What do you hope to do before school is finished for the year?
34. If you switched places with your teacher tomorrow, what would you teach the class?