I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than others. Sprinkled throughout the year, I love to teach my students mind games. These mind games are ones that can only be done…

Team-building activities in the middle school classroom are a great way to build relationships at the beginning of the school year!

A positive team building activity for any class. A great activity for Spanish class before Thanksgiving.

As we begin a new year together it's very important that we are all comfortable working together to accomplish both academic and social task...

These trendy and easy indoor youth group games for teens are fun for building connections and engagement with your church group.

This is the first year that I have done this activity with my kids. I decided to do this because this year I am focusing on incorporating more 21st Century Skills into activities and assignments. …

Fun Friday in the classroom is one of my favorite parts of our classroom schedule. Setting up fun Friday stations that allows your students to build relationships with peers is a great fun Friday idea. Doing math games or literacy games along with student awards is so much fun. You can also use some of these ideas for indoor recess as well. These student approved, hands-on activities make for great incentives and can be used as a classroom management strategy in your elementary classroom.

Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!

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With my yearbook and journalism classes, I want to make sure that all of my staffers and editors feel like an equal, important part of our little classroom