10 Ideas Build Classroom Community Virtually for YOUR distance learning classroom

Virtual classroom community where do you start? Online Team Building, positive student relationships, social emotional learning and student well being all are extremely important concerns as school is restarting.

If you are distance learning and looking for some classroom community ideas here’s a round up of back to school virtual community building ideas.

To take your classroom community to the next level and fully engage students in content, you have to check out this Distance Learning Engagement Workshop.

Walking you through strategies to teach ANYTHING and be excited and have amazing lesson plans your students will love!

Build Classroom Community Day 1 with FREE lesson plans and ideas!

Use this great framework to help plan your first days of school distance learning.

Positive relationships and building a classroom community is an entire focus and a list of ideas of how to do that from Day 1 if you are distance learning.

Student Mask Classroom Community Ideas

Now this might seem a little off but lots of these student mask wearing ideas really takes into account what your classroom looks like.

At some point during the year, this is likely and with ready to go ideas you can build student relationships when you return to the building.

Distance Learning All About Me

All about me activities for distance learning are a great way to build community with a new group of students!

These are my top to favorites that work for distance learning!

Classroom Community Building through Families

Connecting with students starts with families even before the school year starts!

A great way to begin a positive student (and family!) relationship is to send a postcard – or have available for pickup if families pick up supplies/books.

Below is a FREE Editable one you can use. It’s even tech-themed! Change the picture, add a QR code, change the topics to ones relevant to you!

Classroom Community Through Read Alouds

These two books are amazing back to school books. Record ahead and send to families or read on a Zoom or Google Meet call with students.

Books are a familiar part of school so a read aloud is fostering student connection, building social emotional for distance learning and more.

Community Building in school with student check in

Checking in with students is an important part of school. While at home, monitoring how students are doing can easily be done with a Google Form.

I love these FREE ones that help you do just that!

Fun No Pressure Light-Hearted classroom community ideas!

Games make learning fun. When you play Scattegories, Battleship or more students are focusing on the relationships with teacher and peers which leads to a foundation that will expand with content you provide.

These Distance Learning Games are NO PREP!

Distance Learning Classroom Jobs

These FREE distance Learning Jobs are great to initiate responsibility for students and mimic classroom jobs with a twist.

Building a classroom community and promoting values of responsibility. These would make a great addition that would transition to in person teaching as well.

Virtual Morning Meetings to help support social emotional learning of distance learning students

Morning meetings, greetings, and discussion are a crucial start to each school day. Moving them to an online format is easier for students to connect but still feel supported and learn important social emotional pieces that relate to the current situation.

This virtual morning meeting post is helpful for how to set up and get started!

Students will build relationships through connection and time spent with peers and their teacher.

Virtual Classroom Team Building

Invite your students (and families?) to join and learn about each other. Kristin has many ways you can do that! and all are digital!

Would you rather….. build a monster…. did you know…… class talent show….. ad libs and more!

I love these ideas and how they are SO EASY to incorporate and could last for weeks!