First Week of School Activities- Create Your Own Country

Create Your Own Country

To help create a supportive classroom environment, we like to complete many different team building activities. One of these is our Classroom Country project. As a class, we discuss that our classroom is like a country and we need to work together to help our country be the best it can be. We discuss what we value as a class- honest, hard work, patience, etc. We then discuss how flags are designed to represent the values and history of the country. For example, our flag has 50 stars to represent the 50 states, thirteen stripes to represent the 13 colonies, red to represent the blood shed for our freedom, etc. We look at about four different countries and their flags to learn more about symbols. Students are then broken into groups of two or three to design a flag that would represent their class. They are given a sheet of color meanings to help them. Students must create a flag and write a good paragraph describing their flag and what it means. We then read all about the flags and vote on one to represent us. This flag then hangs in our classroom for the year.