Building classroom community

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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…

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.

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

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

Building a strong classroom community is vital for helping our students to thrive. Today, I'll be reviewing my favorite classroom community activities.

Are you looking for a way to spread kindness in your classroom or something to do during your morning meeting time? This post will help you build a strong classroom community in less than a minute each day! I love starting this community building tradition during the first weeks back to school.

Classroom community building activities for the elementary classroom. Tips to help your students bond during the first week of school.

Here are 5 creative and easy-to-implement ideas for building a strong classroom community in middle and high school ELA.