Classroom community building 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!

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.

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

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!

Building a classroom community is the most important thing to establish within your classroom. You want your students to have a sense of community and belonging to their school family from Day 1. Establishing a classroom that feels safe, supportive, and welcoming is my number one goal. Check out my top 10 Classroom Community Must Haves! You will see how I build that strong culture with games, team-building activities, and establishing classroom norms, rules, & expectations.

The 9 fun and low prep classroom team building games are the perfect addition to your class and will have your students asking for more!

Try these engaging activities to build classroom community during the first week of school, including STEM, books, icebreakers, and games that help with social skills and developing friendships.

Want to help build a positive and supportive classroom community? I have 5 awesome team building activities that are perfect for the elementary 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.

Morning Meeting is the best part of the day in my 4th-grade classroom, and I want to share some of my fourth graders’ favorite morning meeting activities. These morning meeting activities are ones that we use all year to work on teamwork, classroom community, and just having fun building relationships together! Use these Morning […]