Community lessons

Teach student about their communities, the people that make up each community, and what their roles are as members of each community.

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!

Get your students outside this school year! We have some tried and true ideas and teacher tips to help you teach your students outside. You'll find information about how to use tools found in nature to supplement math lessons, and activities for reading, social studies, science, and more! Start enjoying the benefits of bringing the outdoors into your school day!

Community Activities in Kindergarten | Creative Kindergarten

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you are one of my kiddos reading this, have mom or dad print it off for you and get busy!! :) We've done many of these activities already, but it is still a great summer time filler! The unit contains 30 pages of poems, drawing and writing activities, anchor chart activities, a mini book for kids to make, citizenship, community workers, map skill activities…

Foster teamwork and collaboration with the Community Building Puzzle! This interactive activity is perfect for helping students learn the importance of working together to achieve a common goal. Ideal for the beginning of the school year or any time you want to strengthen classroom bonds, this puzzle promotes communication, problem-solving, and a sense of community. Make your classroom a supportive and connected environment with this engaging and fun activity!

Community Helpers Anchor Chart

A kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teaching blog. I focus on writing, grammar, reading, and social studies.

So, probably my last community project for a while. After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and work on some plant and animal science topics for a while. It's been fun gathering the information, and designing the templates for these cute community projects though! Hope you like them! If you want to pick yourself up a copy of the templates and get your students working on building their own communities, they're available (with some worksheets thrown in…