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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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…

Discover tips and activities to transform your classroom into an inclusive and positive classroom community.

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

Just like a morning meeting is important to build classroom community, a closing circle is another responsive classroom technique perfect for elementary students. The fun activities will help students to connect, collaborate, and maintain positive relationships.

Use these amazing children's books to build a strong classroom community in your preschool or kindergarten class this year. Great SEL books.

Social Contract for students in their classroom

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Collaborative tasks help students learn to work together toward the classroom community they want to achieve. Read more about how we use collaborative tasks to build classroom community and learn more about the types of tasks we use. Deceloping a classroom community is one of the best ways to build classroom management and get to learning right away.