Classroom culture building activities

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!

There are lots of ways to build classroom culture. Check out this blog post with a ton of them and start creating your classroom "family"!

This is an activity that would be great to do with any age. By using paint, markers, crayons, etc this activity can be done many different ways. It still allows the students to showcase what they think the look like and how that represents where they came from. You can also have students present their plates to their classmates which would allow for them to give more background on where they are from and how they feel about it. By hanging them in the classroom it is a great way to show them…

Create a positive classroom culture in your classroom with these five activities

Explore these fun and informative ideas to build a strong classroom community in primary grades! From student jobs to team building activities, foster a sense of belonging in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. These classroom community lessons to build friendship, respect, and kindness will help you create a learning environment where students thrive. Grab the FREE classroom community activities and respect scenario role play task cards to get you started!

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

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.

This is a worksheet that can also be used as classroom decoration.

By Presto Plans With the pressure for secondary teachers to meet curriculum expectations in such a limited time, building a classroom community can sometimes be put on the back burner. What many teachers don’t realize is that by intentionally taking time to build a positive community in your classroom, you can ease the challenges of classroom management, improve student attitude toward learning, and create an environment where students feel welcomed and supported. Below are my 5 favorite…