Classroom community building 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.

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

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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.

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.

Increase your classroom community this school year with these 9 fun team building challenges and exercises for kids. Here we share 9 fun ideas for school that are great for the back to school season, classroom parties, and will help develop critical thinking skills too. Use these engaging exercises with your 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students this year. From board games to minute to win it challenges find it all here.

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

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…

Building a classroom community in kindergarten isn't always easy. Here are ten practical teaching and classroom management tips to help.

Kids use team work to create this wheel.

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

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

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

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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.

Books to build classroom community to establish a solid foundation for students to build on throughout the school year.

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

Students these days are inundated with a world full of negative images, whether through social media, television, or peers. The school environment can be an extension of that world, or it can be a safe haven of strong relationships, kindness, generosity, and tolerance. So how, as teachers, can we create such a positive learning space?