Classroom community activities

Every year that I walk into a classroom, I have the same goal: build our class into warm, welcoming community that functions like a great, big extended family. We build classroom traditions and routine that help us to achieve this community, and it has worked year after year! Here are some of my favorite tried and true activities to help build community in an upper elementary (third, fourth, fifth) grade classroom.

7 Classroom Community Building Activities 7 easy community building activities for the classroom. Get students feeling connected and engaged with closing circles, compliments, community service, lunch bunch and more.

One thing that I never did much of until this year was focus on building a strong classroom community. I felt like I had good relationships with my students, but I realized I wasn’t very good at fostering my students’ relationships with their peers. How important that is! If students aren’t valuing and respecting each other, then it can be really hard to get much accomplished during the day. So this year, after learning more about Responsive Classroom and building classroom community, I…

Classroom community building activities and free ideas and lesson plans to kick off the school year or implement at any time.

During the first few days of school, building classroom community is crucial. Here are some anchor charts that we create during the first week.

Learn 5 ways to create an engaging communities unit for your students. Teach them facts about their community and other communities! They will learn about types of communities, community helpers, services and buildings in their communities, and more!

Looking to foster relationships among your students during back to school? This blog post is filled with fun Getting to Know You activities for kids! From icebreakers to games, get creative ideas to promote friendship and community in the classroom. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, or 2nd grade, these activities encourage communication through making friendship bracelets. Explore these free back to school activities for exciting ways to build connections.

Community building in the classroom is one of the most important things we do as teachers! Here are some awesome community building activities.

This collection of ideas for building a positive classroom environment are fun, easy, and effective. Check out ways to build community in the upper elementary and middle school classroom. You'll find the best ways to promote positivity in the classroom with this round-up of positive classroom environment activities.

Building classroom community is an essential part of having a great school year so everyone will feel welcome, included, and supported.

This resource will help teach your students all about friendship and becoming a classroom community at the beginning of the year. Included are activities, worksheets, bulletin boards, and real classroom images to help you at the beginning of the year.

Whether it's the beginning of the school year or anytime in the middle--this is one of my favorite activities to do with students. As much as school is about reading, writing, math, science, social studies, PE, art, music, and all the subjects--it's even more about the relationships that students build with their peers. No classroom is perfect because we are all learning! We start off with FRIENDSHIP TOWERS. At first I have some building blocks (you can use Jenga blocks, unifix cubes, really…

Building relationships with your grade 4 5 6 students should be your number one priority for a productive and engaging back to school class.

Whether you are planning a theme day friendship party in your classroom or want to establish a positive community here we share our favorite friendship games and activities for your elementary classroom. Perfect games for Valentine's Day party and more. From get to know you activities to friendship soup here is everything you need to build a community in your elementary classroom. Check out these games here!

This past week we have been discussing what belonging to a community means, what communities we belong to (families, class/school, neighbourhoods, sports teams), and the people and places within these communities. We began by discussing the different places we would find in our community and why they are important. Then students had a chance to …

Check out several engaging ways to easily build classroom community and connections with your students. Prioritize relationships over content!

Click through to find great ideas you can use to improve student behavior half-way through the school year in your 2nd-8th grade classroom.

It's important to help new kindergarteners feel welcome, safe, and included in the classroom community. In this post, I'm sharing five tips for building community in kindergarten, along with a fun community building activity for kindergarten. Click here to take a closer look at this back to school icebreaker activity for kindergarten.

By helping build a positive classroom community a teacher can foster kindness, respect, and belonging in the room-- which will help cut down on classroom management issues #positiveclassroom #classroomideas #behaviormanagement #classroommanagement