Good Classmate Worksheet

Learning how to treat the people around you is one of the first lessons of the school year, and it is a skill that has to be taught rather than assumed. This good classmate worksheet gives 1st graders a concrete way to name the behaviors that build a kind classroom. Instead of hearing “be nice” one more time, students look at six real actions — listening, helping, sharing, grabbing, shouting, teasing — and decide for themselves which ones belong to a good classmate and which ones do not. Sorting the words turns an abstract value into something a six-year-old can see, say, and practice.

This 1st grade back to school worksheet works beautifully in the first weeks of school, during a morning meeting, or any time a class needs a reset on how they treat one another. Part A gives students a word bank and two labeled boxes to sort into, so they read each word, think about it, and write it where it belongs. Part B moves from words to situations: two short classroom scenarios ask students to fill in the bubble beside the kind choice. Read the directions together as a class, let students work independently, then bring everyone back to talk through their answers — the discussion is where most of the learning happens.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 1 six-word sorting activity with a word bank and two labeled columns
• 2 fill-in-the-bubble classroom situation questions

There are three reasons this good classmate worksheet helps students learn the skill. First, sorting forces a decision — a child cannot place a word without judging the behavior behind it, which is far more active than listening to a rule. Second, writing the words out builds the vocabulary students need to describe their own choices later, so “he grabbed it” and “she shared” become language they own. Third, the situation questions ask students to apply the idea to a moment that could happen in their own classroom that afternoon, which is the step that moves character education from a poster on the wall into actual behavior.

Teachers and parents can extend this lesson in simple ways. Turn the two columns into an anchor chart and let the class add new words to it all year. Act out the Part B situations as short role plays, then ask the group what the kind choice felt like from both sides. Catch students being good classmates and name the behavior out loud using the words from the word bank. At home, use the same two categories at the dinner table to talk through something that happened during the day. A class kindness jar, a weekly “good classmate” shout-out, or a partner-of-the-week rotation all keep the language alive long after the page is finished.

Related Resources

• Get to Know Your Super Classmates Back to School Activity
• Good Citizenship Worksheet – People Examples
• Express Your Feelings Character Education Activity
• Character Songs by Have Fun Teaching (YouTube)