Class 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.

Looking for lesson plans and strategies for building a strong classroom community in your elementary classroom? These activities and suggested books are perfect for your students during the first week of school and all year long, too! Use these ideas and free printables during your morning meeting or any time as ice breakers and strategies to help build your class community in fun and engaging ways! Click to learn more!

Engaging Team-Building Activities for the High School Classroom - Engage your students in a fun, new routine: Team-Building Tuesday! Bring your class together and create a positive classroom culture by sharing these activities with your students. I use these team-building activities in my high school journalism and yearbook classes. Classroom Activities | Team Building Activities | Team Building for Teens | Yearbook Activities | Journalism Activities

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.

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.

Paper Bag Dramatics: A fun activity for Team Building and Developing Community. Here's an idea that can be used just about anywhere at any time. It encourages groups to solve problems, think creatively, and work as a team.

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.

Looking for a great back to school team-building activity for your students? Saving Sam is great for team-building and problem solving with your students! It's easy to differentiate by grades and inexpensive. Read more in my post "5 Team Building Activities in the Middle School Classroom Students Love!"

Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!

Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community.. #CultofPedagogyPin

How to Build Classroom Community and Teach Mindfulness in your classroom using the book Ishi! It's a simple activity that you can refer to all year long. Mindfulness is a great way to create a calm classroom, help students manage stress and control their attention.

So, probably my last community project for a while. After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and work on some plant and animal science topics for a while. It's been fun gathering the information, and designing the templates for these cute community projects though! Hope you like them! If you want to pick yourself up a copy of the templates and get your students working on building their own communities, they're available (with some worksheets thrown in…

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

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.

A selection of fun team building activities for the classroom for teachers to use. If you have been on Think About Such Things you have probably seen my other team building posts. Even though I

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

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.

All students want to feel part of their classroom community. Here are four activities to help them feel welcomed and comfortable.