Classroom community building activities

Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers. Here were our plans for our community theme: And here are the details for each activity: Making Inferences: Madelynn loves

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

A hands-on approach to building your community. Children love constructing and being able to walk through their community. Real photos help teach mapping and community buildings.

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…

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 …

DIY Paper Ornaments: Handmade Holiday Decor

Building a classroom community where students feel included, valued, and supported is every teacher's dream. As educators, we want our stu...

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.

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

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…