Less than $5 Elementary School Classroom Community Activities (by rating)

Make back-to-school time exciting and engaging with this "Stand Up, Sit Down" Get to Know You game! This interactive back-to-school activity is designed to help teachers create a positive and inclusive classroom environment from day one. With over 70 slides packed with fun and thoughtful prompts, students can discover common interests, reflect on their summer experiences, and build connections with their classmates.

Why Should Teachers Buy This Resource?

1. Fosters Classroom Community: This game is an excellent tool for helping students feel comfortable and connected in a new environment. As students stand up for shared experiences, they’ll quickly find common ground with their peers, making it easier to form friendships and build a supportive classroom community.
2. Engaging Icebreaker: Perfect for the first week of school, this activity serves as an engaging icebreaker that gets students moving and interacting. It’s a great way to break the ice and reduce first-day jitters, making everyone feel more at ease.
3. Customizable and Flexible: With over 70 fully editable slides in PowerPoint, you have the flexibility to tailor the prompts to fit your unique classroom needs. Whether you want to add new questions or adjust the existing ones, this resource allows you to make it your own. Additionally, a PDF version is included for easy printing and immediate use.
4. Versatile Use: Beyond the first week, this game can be used throughout the year as a morning meeting activity, brain break, or even as a way to re-engage students after a long break. It’s a versatile resource that can adapt to various classroom situations.
5. Visually Appealing: The slides are designed with vibrant, student-friendly images that capture attention and keep students engaged. The visually appealing design helps make the game more enjoyable for younger students, ensuring they stay focused and involved.
6. Time-Saver for Teachers: This ready-to-use resource saves you valuable prep time. Simply open the PowerPoint or PDF, and you’re all set for a fun and interactive classroom activity. No need to spend hours coming up with icebreaker ideas—everything you need is right here.

Invest in this "Stand Up, Sit Down" Get to Know You game to set a positive tone for the school year, help your students build connections, and create a welcoming classroom environment. Whether you're teaching in-person or virtually, this game is a must-have for any elementary teacher looking to make the first days of school memorable and impactful.

SPANISH MORNING GREETING/GOODBYE CHOICES | DISTANCE LEARNING | MORNING MEETING - Looking for DIVERSITY & INCLUSION? MORNING MEETING GREETINGS POSTERS are perfect for posting by your door to use when greeting students, morning meeting greetings, or goodbyes! Morning Meeting Greetings are perfect for building classroom community! Students love choosing a morning greeting upon entering the room and starting their day off with some one on one attention from YOU!

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DOWNLOAD INLCUDES:

78 colorful posters in Spanish

13 different greetings

full sheet and smaller circles

lots of diversity

regular greetings and no contact greetings

with and without face masks

GREETINGS:

Air hug

Blow kiss

Bow

Curtsy

Elbow bump

Foot bump

Hat tip

Hip bump

Namaste

Salute

Spirit fingers

Wave

Wink

This Shoe Tying Life Skills activity is an engaging unit that teaches students the essential skills of tying knots and shoelaces, promoting fine motor development, independence, and basic life skills. Through hands-on activities, students will learn how to tie basic knots and progress to mastering the "bunny ears" method for Shoe Tying. The lessons are designed to be fun, and interactive, and build confidence as students practice knot-tying techniques, lacing, and shoe-tying step-by-step. This unit is perfect for young learners, helping them develop coordination and practical life skills while making learning fun!

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Help your students understand emotions in a fun and engaging way with this Monkey-Themed Emotions Matching Activity! This interactive resource introduces 10 different emotions displayed on adorable monkeys, making it easy for young learners to connect with and recognize how they feel. Each emotion is paired with a scenario, showing a situation when the monkey might feel that emotion, and students will match the scenario to the correct emotion card. This activity is perfect for helping children develop emotional awareness and understand how emotions affect themselves and others.

Contents:

• 10 emotion cards featuring monkeys expressing emotions like happy, mad, sad, silly, sick, surprised, tired, bored, crying, and worried
• 10 scenario cards that describe situations the monkeys experience, representing each emotion
• Printable and easy-to-use format, perfect for individual or group activities

How It’s Used: Students will read or listen to the scenarios and then match the correct monkey emotion card to each scenario. This activity helps children recognize and label emotions, offering a fun and visual way to discuss feelings and emotional responses. Great for small group activities, centers, or one-on-one learning.

Why You’ll Love It: This Monkey-Themed Emotions Matching Activity makes learning about feelings accessible and enjoyable for young learners. The use of playful monkeys adds a fun twist to social-emotional learning, keeping students engaged while building their understanding of emotions. It's a great resource for helping students identify emotions, express their feelings, and learn how to relate to others.

Features:

• 10 monkey-themed emotion cards and matching scenario cards
• Focuses on identifying and understanding 10 key emotions
• Fun and visually engaging for young learners
• Helps build social-emotional awareness and empathy
• Easy to print, set up, and use in the classroom or at home

Who This is For:

• Preschool and kindergarten teachers looking to build emotional awareness in their students
• Homeschoolers needing a fun and interactive resource to teach emotions
• Parents seeking activities to help their children understand and express their feelings
• Daycare centers or counselors working on social-emotional development with young children
• Students who need extra practice with identifying emotions and relating them to everyday experiences.
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Teachers, stop spending tons of money on classroom boarder! Just print on cardstock, laminate if you want and you are good to go!

These boarders will go with your boho classroom dreams!

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Engage your students with this "Would You Rather" slide presentation, perfect for classroom icebreakers and getting-to-know-you activities especially for first day / back to school.

Ideal for the first day of school or anytime you want to break the ice and build a positive classroom environment, this resource requires no prep work—simply open the file in full screen mode and present the slides. [suitable for a wide range of ages and grade levels]

Recommendations: Ask students to discuss their choices in each round. You may pick a volunteer in each round to share why they choice their answer.

Key Features:

• 35 unique "Would You Rather" questions
• PDF format for easy viewing and presenting
• Designed for full screen presentation
• Perfect for classroom icebreakers and team-building activities
• Engages students and encourages interaction

More Back-to-School or Ice Breaker Games/Activities:
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Oops! Back-to-School Edition
Human Bingo

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❤️Looking for printable money you can use in your math centers or to help create a classroom economy this back to school season? Use back to school bucks to learn about counting money, adding & subtracting money, the value of money, responsibility, and how different items cost different amounts of money according to their value!

✏️Great for implementing a classroom management system at the beginning of the school year!

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✅Money sheets, coin sheets, and printable student wallets come in both color and black & white. You can opt to print on colored cardstock or have students color their money!

✅Seven cute animal back to school designs to choose from or mix and match!

✅Use the blank design to create your own by adding stickers, your students' faces etc. to the middle of the bills!

✅Create the student wallet by folding the sheet of paper in half and stapling the left and right sides, leaving an opening at the top.

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⭐️How to Use:

• Assign students little classroom jobs (line leader, calendar manager, caboose etc.) and decide how much class cash they can earn each day.

• Then, reward your students once a week (or as often as you choose) by allowing them to choose prizes from a prize box!

• Prizes can be physical, like stickers, pencils etc. or use prize coupons, like "Eat lunch with the teacher." or "Wear slippers for the day."

• You can also choose to deduct class cash for negative behavior, rather than taking away things like recess time, which is important for students.

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print on cardstock and cut!

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✅ Student Wallet: (1 page)

☑ Printable wallet (fold in half & staple)

✅ Coins: (5 pages)

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✅ Back to School Bucks: (49 pages)

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☑ Black & white set (55 pages)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

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Looking for a fun, engaging, and no-prep interactive digital resource to keep your students excited and connected before winter break? This Winter Break Community Building Interactive Slides resource is perfect for grades 5-8! Packed with 35 creative and festive activities, it promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and laughter in the classroom.

Key Features:

• Hear Me Out Challenges: Students debate their favorite holiday snacks, movies, and traditions.
• One Must Go: Fun dilemmas challenge students to make tough decisions about winter activities and treats.
• Mad Libs & Creative Writing: From silly holiday stories to cringe-worthy slang, students unleash their imagination.
• Reflective Writing Prompts: Encourage introspection with activities like bucket lists and favorite winter memories.
• Emoji Guessing Games: Decode holiday-themed phrases for a mix of fun and learning.
• Sleigh or Ohio? Students vote on whether winter traditions are "sleigh-worthy" or "cringe."

Suggested Uses:

• Holiday-themed Bell Ringers: Start your day with quick, interactive slides.
• Community Building Activities: Foster a positive, engaging classroom environment.
• Sub Plans: Easy-to-use, no-prep slides perfect for substitute teachers.
• Independent or Partner Work: Adaptable for individual or collaborative use.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Completely no-prep—just assign and go!
• Builds classroom community while keeping students engaged.
• Flexible and perfect for holiday fun during the busy lead-up to winter break.
• Encourages creativity, reflection, and discussion in a lighthearted way.

Make this winter season unforgettable for your students with this fun and interactive resource. Your classroom will love the mix of creativity and festive vibes!

Start your year and everyday with a positive and welcoming tone!

Good Morning! Would you like a big bear hug? A happening high five? Or just a simple smile and hello? These morning greeting allow your students to choose how they would like to be greeted every morning!

These colorful and clever signs will create a positive learning environment and allow you to build relationships with your students before they even enter the classroom! What a motivator to learn!

Post in on the door as you welcome student into class. They will point to their greeting of choice as they enter the room. They can choose from these greeting gestures: hug, wave, high five, fist bump, hand shake and smile.

What makes these unique? Each greeting comes with a whimsical alliteration description!

Great for Back to School!

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Included:

• 10 "Good Morning" Header Options
• 18 Greeting Choices on Pastel Circles- Regular and Social Distance Choices
• 4 Print & Go Posters with "Good Morning" and 6 Greeting Choices

Embark on a captivating journey to discover the essence of Thai language with our set of 90 Flashcards. Dive into the vibrant world of Thai vocabulary, organized into three engaging categories: fruits and vegetables, delicious foods, and fascinating animals. Each flashcard is thoughtfully designed to enhance your learning experience, making it an enjoyable and effective way to explore the richness of the Thai language.

Editable Student Name Tags

I have been using these name badges in my classroom for the past 3 years. I love the feedback I get from Substitute Teachers when they tell me how much they appreciate having students names at the ready. Personalised Name Tags for each student makes for clear communication. Classroom management goes so much more smoothly when everyone knows each other's names.

And we all know, a happy Sub will keep coming back! And in these crazy times, that means everything!

Who can use these name tags:

Teachers of any grade from K-6 can definitely benefit from having these names at the ready. New teachers learning student names at Back To School time. Teachers on long term contract may want these handy name tags when they know they will only be around a few weeks.

I keep a note in my Substitute Emergency plans to let them know where to find the Clip-on Tags in my room.

Where to keep them:

I keep mine attached to student cubby bins so that they know where to find their stuff at the beginning of the year when we are just getting accustomed to the new classroom.

They are so proud the first time they put them on! They feel so 'professional'!

How to use the name tags:

-Open the file

-Fill in Teacher name and room number on the first slide

-Immediately click on the slide, right click, and duplicate slide so you have enough cards for your number of students

-Now fill in student names, copy, cut, and laminate

-using a hole punch make two holes just below the top line side by side

-slip through a snap clip so students can clip the tags to their clothes

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students identify themselves to new teachers so even those who lack confidence can be identified
2. Substitute teachers feel comfortable when they have all the student names available
3. Safe communication during emergency procedures
4. Students who are out of the classroom can be safely returned to class by other staff members
5. Students can be identified by visiting guests and presenters

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Use our All About Owl Theme Activities Begining of the year for students to celebrate themselves! Print and distribute this wonderful activity sheet anytime!

Create a personal connection in your classroom with these owl all-about-me Back to school worksheets, These sheets are an excellent resource for teachers to learn more about their students, fostering a deeper understanding of each child’s unique personality.

This collection includes a range of activities, from filling out favorite hobbies and family details to drawing self-portraits and mapping out personal goals. Each worksheet is designed to encourage students to share aspects of their lives, promoting a sense of self-awareness and community in the classroom!

If your class enjoyed this Back to school Activities then have a look at some more resources to :

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Make your class time more enjoyable and productive. Get this bundle of morning routines printable to make your morning time with the kids enjoyable and engaging. You can use this to have a theme each day of your routine with the kids.

This product contains PNG and PDF format which is good for a month.

Mondays

- Marvelous Monday

- Meaningful Monday

- Mindset Monday

- Mystery Monday

Tuesdays

- Try It Tuesday

- Tasty Tuesday

- Treasure Tuesday

- Talent Tuesday

Wednesdays

- Wonderful Wednesday

- Wishful Wednesday

- Warmhearted Wednesday

- Wacky Wednesday

Thursdays

- Terrific Thursday

- Throwback Thursday

- Thankful Thursday

- Things to Bring Thursday

Fridays

- Fantastic Friday

- Finally Friday

- Funny Friday

- Furious Friday

Are you a parent, caretaker, or classroom teacher who is trying to find ways to integrate self care into your students and your day? In this self care toolkit, you will receive

- 3 different breaths to practice: Star Tracing Breath, Gratitude Breath, and Power of the Sun Breath

- A Kid-Friendly Sun Salutation sequence with a poem

- 2 Daily Practice Journals (Healthy Habits Tracker and Morning Routine Tracker)

- A Mindful Hand Wash Meditation

- 5 Breath Space Maker Transition activity (Helpful for classroom teachers!)

These self care toolkit worksheets have directions, fill-in-the-blank areas, and coloring areas!

This adorable backpack activity is a great way to get to know your students! I love to use this all about me activity for back to school or anytime I want to feature my students! This backpack craftivity has 2 sizes of varsity letters for multiple options and ways for your students to feature their names!

This backpack craft also doubles as a fun Bulletin Board set! You will get two bulletin board letter options! "Welcome Back!" and "All About Me"

This craft comes with the following:

• 1 black outline of a backpack
• All About Me page with an option to create a flip-up craft or to create a flip over craft. In the I am in ____ grade section you will also get these options: "I am in", "I am in Pre-K", "I am in Kindergarten", & "I am in ___ grade."
• Directions with photographs that's editable
• Bulletin Board Letters in 2 fonts that spell out "Welcome Back!" and "All About Me"

Each option means this is the perfect activity for any grade level. Students will also love having the patch like letters spell out their name!

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A simple icebreaker to get students moving, engaged, and connected with one another! Number the four corners of your classroom then follow the prompts on the presentation. Exit Ticket/Discussion included!

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This set features vocabulary related to a police officer. It can be used for a community helper unit.

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- 10 vocabulary words with real photos

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- 10 word label cards

List of vocabulary:

- Police officer

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Enhance your classroom mornings with our 30 Fall Printable Morning Meeting Question Cards designed specifically for 3rd to 5th graders. These engaging and thought-provoking cards are perfect for sparking discussions, building community, and encouraging critical thinking among students. Each card features a unique fall-themed question that promotes reflection, creativity, and conversation.

Product Details:

• Grade Level: 3rd-5th Grade
• Themes: Autumn, Fall, Seasonal Activities
• Format: Printable PDF

Features:

• 30 Unique Questions: Carefully crafted to suit the interests and comprehension levels of 3rd to 5th-grade students.
• Fall Themes: Includes questions about autumn activities, holidays, weather, and nature, fostering seasonal awareness and excitement.
• Printable: High-quality PDF format allows for easy printing and durability.
• Engaging Design: Colorful and appealing graphics that capture the essence of fall, making morning meetings more enjoyable.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for daily morning meetings, icebreaker activities, or discussion starters.

Examples of Questions:

• What is your favorite fall activity and why?
• What is your favorite fall food or treat?
• What colors do you think of when you think of fall, and why do you like them?
• What is your favorite fall memory?

Benefits:

Promotes Social Skills: Encourages students to share, listen, and respect different viewpoints.

Builds Classroom Community: Fosters a sense of belonging and camaraderie among students.

Stimulates Critical Thinking: Questions designed to provoke thoughtful responses and discussions.

Flexible Use: Perfect for both in-person and virtual classrooms.

Start your mornings with lively discussions and create a warm, inclusive classroom environment this fall with our 30 Fall Printable Morning Meeting Question Cards. Download and print today for an engaging start to each school day!

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Mindful Mazes for a Calming Corner: A Path to Relaxation and Focus

Transform your classroom's calming corner with these Mindful Mazes, a carefully designed collection of mazes aimed at promoting relaxation and focus. This booklet is the perfect addition to any calming corner, providing students with a fun and engaging way to practice mindfulness and enhance their wellbeing.

Key Features:

• 30 Unique Mazes: Each maze will guide students through a journey of mindfulness as they concentrate on reaching the finishing line.
• Mindfulness Prompts: Integrated mindfulness prompts help students connect with their breath and stay present as they navigate the mazes.
• Age-Appropriate Designs: Suitable for Year 3-6 students, ensuring the challenges are just right for their developmental level.
• Portable and Easy to Use: The booklet format makes it easy to add to your calming corner, allowing students to pick up and engage with the mazes at their own pace. Print multiple copies or a booklet for each student.

Benefits:

• Enhances Focus and Concentration: Mindful mazes help students improve their attention span and cognitive skills. Perfect for a calming corner!
• Reduces Stress and Anxiety: The calming nature of the mazes provides a soothing activity that can help alleviate stress and anxiety.
• Promotes Mindfulness: Encourages students to practice mindfulness, aiding in emotional regulation and overall well-being.
• Supports Social-Emotional Learning: A valuable tool for fostering a positive classroom environment and supporting social emotional development.

Ideal for teachers looking to create a nurturing and effective calming corner, this Mindful Mazes booklet is an essential resource for promoting peace and mindfulness in the classroom. Enhance your students' learning experience and wellbeing with this engaging and calming activity.

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