BUNDLE: Classroom Community Building: All About My Name, Culture & Identity

THREE products to celebrate cultural diversity & student individuality. Use these resources to help promote a safe and inclusive classroom community. I hope these activities are a springboard for deeper conversations on the importance of cultural awareness, diversity, self-identity, and acceptance. Visit my blog to read more on this topic!

Want to purchase just one or two of these products?

All About My Name

All About My Culture

All About My Identity

These products include:

1. Templates that give your students space to share the background of their names, cultural identity and self-identity

2. Reflection questions

3. Various templates and activities to choose from

Use these no prep products to help you:

*celebrate student diversity, individuality

*celebrate cultural diversity

*help students learn about themselves

*build confidence in your students

*build cultural awareness and honor diversity

*build a safe and inclusive classroom environment

*teach the importance of correctly pronouncing, remembering, and using the names of others

*teach the importance of cultural diversity

*teach the importance of understanding how our identities are shaped by society and our experiences

ALL THREE products include PDF & Google Slides versions (templates with sentences starters and without)

All About My Name & Culture include a Flipbook (different format with similar but modified content)

Product 1: All About My Name

I grew up disliking my name for a multitude of reasons. Why couldn’t my parents have named me something easy? I had major anxiety on the first day of school when the teacher would call attendance for the first time. It got worse in middle school because then I had 3 teachers... and don’t even get me started on the anxiety that ensued on the first day of high school, with 7 different opportunities for someone to mispronounce your name in front of all your peers. My 11th grade English teacher mispronounced my name for probably half the year when eventually my entire class corrected her... in unison. I wish I would have had the confidence to stand up for myself much earlier. Obviously, it happens when someone hears a unique name for the first time, but it’s so important for our students to understand the importance of learning the names of their peers, addressing them by their names, working to ensure they are pronouncing them the way they were meant to be pronounced and understanding the culture and identity that a name holds. This product is meant to guide you and your students in starting this conversation.

Product 2: All About My Culture

This cultural diversity activity allows students to learn, think about & share their culture with their classroom community. It is so important for our students to be exposed to and learn about various cultures. It builds understanding, love, compassion, tolerance and brings to light diversity within humanity that should be celebrated. This product is meant to guide you and your students in starting this conversation.

Product 3: All About My Identity

This student identity activity is a great way to celebrate your students and build an inclusive and safe classroom environment. Why is student identity important? Celebrating student identity in the classroom is crucial for students to feel like they belong. The way in which a person identifies influences the decisions they make in life, therefore, the more students understand and build confidence in themselves, the more authentically they can live. Use this student identity activity resource to help your students build a positive self-identity by giving them opportunities to explore and better understand themselves. Then, give them the space to share with each other.

Read more about some of these activities on my blog here: 2 Fun and Engaging Cultural Diversity Activities to Use in Your Classroom

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XO Nahal

***DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BUNDLE IF YOU'VE ALREADY PURCHASED ALL ABOUT MY NAME, ALL ABOUT MY CULTURE, OR ALL ABOUT MY IDENTITY INDIVIDUALLY***