Classroom Community Building Activities | Teamwork & Communication

Teach your students about communicating, identifying their strengths, asking questions, and solving problems collectively with these activities that only take moments to complete but will build relationships and classroom community for the whole school year.

The activities can be done in any order and can be used throughout the year or as a way to get to know your new classroom full of students.

This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.

This classroom community-building resource includes:

• twelve fun and engaging activities that foster teamwork, collaboration, communication and relationships.
• instructions for all the activities with modifications for differentiation.
• Google Slides versions of the activities that involve writing. To access the digital version, download the PDF and click the link in the file.
• student examples or photos of activities that produce products.
• variety of activities including group work, writing, colouring, and collaborating.
• activities that can be done over and over again with the same students.
• activities that can be used any time of year.

Using these activities helped our classroom become a community. Check out the preview to see what will work in your classroom.

This activity supports:

• Alberta Physical Education and Wellness Curriculum Grades 4-6 ©2022.
• British Columbia Physical and Health Curricular Competencies for Grades 4-6.
• Saskatchewan Health Education Curriculum for Grades 4-6.
• any health and wellness curriculum.
• any classroom that is looking to build a healthy classroom community.

This unit is part of our health and wellness series. The other units are:

• Expected and Unexpected (setting classroom norms)
• Group Roles and Processes (working in a group, group norms)
• Building Positive Relationships (friendship, anti-bullying)
• Safety and Responsibility (first aid, injury prevention, recreational safety, transportation safety, emergency preparedness, consent)
• Digital Citizenship and Online Safety (safety and responsibility for online interactions)
• Wellness Choices (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, addictions, self-esteem, hygiene, peer pressure, maturing)
• Managing Feelings and Word Wall (social emotional learning)
• Life-Long Learning (listening, time management, goals, jobs, volunteers, decision making, perseverance, perspectives)
• Emotional Regulation Bingo (a social emotional learning game)
• Financial Literacy (currency, credits cards, banking practices, needs/wants, budgeting, consumer choices, savings, loans, and investments)
• Year Long Bundle (all of the units at a discount)

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What our ninjas have said about this resource:

***Great adjunct to my teamwork lessons! (Thanks Laura B!)

***Engaging and fun. Perfect for the first week of school. (Thank you Jennifer L!)

***So many awesome ideas!! Usable all year long - not just at the beginning. Thanks so much! (Thanks Cassandra K!)

Thank you for your consideration! Happy building relationships from the Brain Ninjas!