Community builders elementary

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!

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

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.

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

Routines for building classroom community in any grade level in just 15 minutes a day!

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?

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 love building blocks! Try out something new with these building blocks activities preschool edition! Even young children will love the building challenge! #buildingblocksactivitiesforpreschool #buildingblocksactivitiespreschool #STEM #STEMactivitieselementary

I've met my kiddos. They are AMAZING! So different from last year's group of students. I can already tell that we're going to have an