Classroom community

Here are some of my favorite tried and true activities to help build community in the classroom and classroom traditions.

Create a circle of trust.

Here are some of my favorite tried and true activities to help build community in the classroom and classroom traditions.

How do you build community during the first few days of school? Do students know what their roles are, how to make friends, and how their parents can help

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

Looking for new community building ideas for the elementary classroom? These activities work any time in the school year and are a big hit!

This was such a cool idea. I love that the goal is to get settled cozy and ready to work. Ellen Murfin

Teach kids empathy and compassion through mindful, fun lessons, discussions, and activities that build social awareness and community.

With Thanksgiving heading our way, I love to do things to remind my kids of the many blessings we have. There is so much in our lives to be thankful for. I created this little Gratitude Game to play with them, and we have been having loads of fun with it! What is The Gratitude …

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…