Description
Want to build community within your classroom? This Beginning Bundle will help you get your community circles off the ground. It contains your first 5 circles and will help your students get to know one another, build trust, respect, and your circle values that will carry over as you do more circles over your school year.
Circle 1 Community Building Circle | Getting To Know You
Circle 2 Community Building Circle | Fitting Into Our Community
Circle 3 Community Building Circle | Establishing Our Core Values | Empathy
Circle 4 Community Building Circle | Community Respect | Empathy
Circle 5 Community Building Circle | Circle of Support | Empathy
The goals of Community Building Circles:
- Students will begin to create positive relationships with students who are similar and different from them.
- Students will identify ways to support each other in the classroom community.
Why Use These Lessons?
- Aligns with SEL standards and promotes emotional intelligence.
- Develops critical social-emotional skills in upper elementary and middle school students.
- Encourages empathy and community building within the school community.
- Provides student voice to all students in the classroom.
How To Use These Lessons:
- As a morning meeting
- As part of your SEL curriculum
- May also be used in a non-circle format as a classroom lesson
Contains:
✔ Aligned to ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors and CASEL Core Compentencies
✔ Detailed lesson plans with step-by-step instructions
✔ Check In Posters and Worksheets
✔ PowerPoints with complete circle prompts
More Social Skills Lessons:
❤️ Apologizing Social Skills Lesson
❤️ Conversations Social Skills Lesson
❤️ Expressing Empathy Social Skills Lesson
▶ Don't forget to follow along!
© Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials
Community Building Circles Beginning Bundle | Classroom Circles
Highlights
Description
Want to build community within your classroom? This Beginning Bundle will help you get your community circles off the ground. It contains your first 5 circles and will help your students get to know one another, build trust, respect, and your circle values that will carry over as you do more circles over your school year.
Circle 1 Community Building Circle | Getting To Know You
Circle 2 Community Building Circle | Fitting Into Our Community
Circle 3 Community Building Circle | Establishing Our Core Values | Empathy
Circle 4 Community Building Circle | Community Respect | Empathy
Circle 5 Community Building Circle | Circle of Support | Empathy
The goals of Community Building Circles:
- Students will begin to create positive relationships with students who are similar and different from them.
- Students will identify ways to support each other in the classroom community.
Why Use These Lessons?
- Aligns with SEL standards and promotes emotional intelligence.
- Develops critical social-emotional skills in upper elementary and middle school students.
- Encourages empathy and community building within the school community.
- Provides student voice to all students in the classroom.
How To Use These Lessons:
- As a morning meeting
- As part of your SEL curriculum
- May also be used in a non-circle format as a classroom lesson
Contains:
✔ Aligned to ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors and CASEL Core Compentencies
✔ Detailed lesson plans with step-by-step instructions
✔ Check In Posters and Worksheets
✔ PowerPoints with complete circle prompts
More Social Skills Lessons:
❤️ Apologizing Social Skills Lesson
❤️ Conversations Social Skills Lesson
❤️ Expressing Empathy Social Skills Lesson
▶ Don't forget to follow along!
© Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials




