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Build a positive classroom community from the very first day of school with this Our Class Is a Family printable activity pack
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Our Class Is a Family: Back-to-School Classroom Community Activities

A free back-to-school pack that builds a kind, welcoming classroom community, with rules, kindness, feelings and friendship activities for PreK–2.

Suitable for
Preschool–2nd Grade
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Learning goals

  • Understand that everyone belongs and plays a part in the classroom family
  • Recognize kind and unkind words and choices
  • Learn and practice classroom rules and expectations
  • Name and match feelings
  • Build fine motor skills through tracing, cutting and puzzles

Preview pages

What’s included

  • Our Class Is a Family coloring and writing page
  • Everyone Belongs drawing and tracing activity
  • Kind Words tracing worksheet and Kind or Unkind? matching activity
  • Classroom Choices cut-and-paste sorting activity
  • Our Classroom Rules tracing page and Our Class Promise signature activity
  • What Makes a Good Classmate? worksheet and Classroom Rules Maze
  • Count Our Classroom Supplies math activity
  • School Family Sorting cut-and-paste worksheet
  • Helping Hands scissor practice and Feelings in Our Classroom matching
  • A Friend in My Class drawing and writing page
  • Build the Class Family puzzle and Kindness Roll and Color game
  • I Can Help Our Class reflection and Our Classroom Family certificate
  • 20 pages in total

Materials and preparation

  • Crayons or markers
  • Pencils
  • Scissors
  • Glue sticks
  • A die (for the Kindness Roll and Color game)

Print the pages you need for the first days of school. The Class Promise and the certificate work well printed on card stock, and the puzzle can be laminated for reuse.

How to use it

  1. Read and color the Our Class Is a Family page together and talk about what makes a family.
  2. Practice kind words, then sort kind and unkind choices with the matching and cut-and-paste pages.
  3. Trace the classroom rules together and let every child sign the Class Promise.
  4. Use the maze, counting page, puzzle and Roll and Color game as centers or early-finisher activities.
  5. Finish the week with the reflection page and give each child a Classroom Family certificate.

Classroom idea

Display the signed Class Promise next to your classroom rules and refer back to it during the first weeks, when children need a reminder about kind choices.

Adaptations

  • PreK: do the pages together as a group and focus on talking, coloring and tracing.
  • 1st–2nd grade: add a sentence to the drawing pages and discuss the Class Promise in more detail.
  • Use the feelings matching page during morning meeting or SEL lessons.

Questions

Is it really free?

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Is an answer key included?

No. The activities are open-ended or quick to check, so no answer key is included.

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