Classroom culture

I've mentioned this project/bulletin board a few times, and now that this year's group has done it, presented it, and I've (almost) finished reading their reports, I'm going to tell you more about it! We tweaked it this year, and I'm so happy with the results! We tied it into our social studies curriculum by telling the kiddos (and putting it on the instructions sheet for the parents) that we will learn throughout the year how California is made up of immigrants and migrants from many…

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

Peer feedback bulletin board. Discussion sentence stems.

There are many ways to celebrate diversity and honor a multicultural classroom. Help create a classroom environment that has students explore and appreciate other cultures and diversity. Allow students to break through cultural barriers, so they learn to appreciate different ways of celebrating or communicating, and bring the classroom community closer together.

Culture: Culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular group or society. Culture includes all of the things listed in this picture and how these things vary from place to place. Styles of clothes change because of the weather or because of the religion in certain areas. Celebrations change because of the different holidays people celebrate based on their religious or historic background. The food changes because of what kinds of food are plentiful in that area. (to be…

Multicultural Reading Corner

Postcards are coming from around the world for the geography unit. Here is where they will go. Flags from a Pinterest pin.

During the first few days of school, building classroom community is crucial. Here are some anchor charts that we create during the first week.

Do you have a chatty class? I am seeing lots of teachers asking for help with very talkative classes in different teacher groups. I have definitely had my share of chatty groups, but I really struggled with the group I had this year. I found that I really had to take a step back and reteach my classroom expectations. I do not expect students to be silent all the time, but I wanted them to understand when it's appropriate to talk to their friends and when it's not. It had gotten to the point…