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Circle Topic Suggestions

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These are circle topic suggestions to get to know each other better:

 
Describe to us in one word how you’re feeling today.

 What do you do well?

How has circle time changed our class?
 
What would you like to talk about today?

What is your favourite thing to do?

What is your favourite colour?
 
When you grow up, what do you want to be?

What is your favourite toy?

Have you taken a trip anywhere and where?

What are you going to do tonight?

If you could invent something, what would it be and what would it do?

What is your favourite hobby?

What is your favourite book?

What is your favourite kind of ice cream?

What is your favourite food?

What is your favourite sport?

Who is your best friend?

Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?

If you could be an animal, what would you be?

If you could change something about your weekend, what would it be?

Compliment the person to your right.

What is your favourite knock, knock joke?

Which room in the house is your favourite?

What is your favourite tv show?

What makes a good friend?

What goal can you set for yourself for just today?

Please share something great about your weekend.

What do you like about our school?

What makes you happy?

What makes you sad?

Why should we follow the rules?

Name someone in the class that helped you this week.

I like summer because…

I’m looking forward to…

What other student worked hard today?

Please share with us one thing that you will do during this class and one thing 
that you will try to NOT do.

Please share a time you acted responsibly.

What goal can you set to help yourself act more responsibly?

What do you like most about yourself?

Would you pick you for a friend?

What goal can you set to become a better person?

In what way are you a good friend to others?

What do you think are your two best qualities?
 
What are you most proud of?

Describe a time when you cooperated with someone at home to accomplish a
task.

Describe a time when you cooperated with someone at school to accomplish a
task.

What are some challenges to working cooperatively with people?

Have you ever had to work really hard and persevere to accomplish
something?

Describe a time when you felt compassion for someone.
  
Describe a time when someone treated you compassionately.

What are ways we can show compassion to others?
   
You’ve just won the lottery. You’re a millionaire. What are the first 3 things 
you would buy?

You’re stranded on a desert island. But you had time to pack. What did you take 
if you could only take 3 things?
 
You find a genie lamp. You rub it and you are granted 3 wishes. But they have to be 
for other people. What would you wish for?
 
Life was just discovered on the planet Miep. You were chosen to represent earth.
What  3 gifts would you give to the Miepians on behalf of earth?

If you could have lunch with anyone, who would you have lunch with?

If you could play any musical instrument, what would it be?

If you could paint your home one colour, what would it be?

You and your family were asked to cook dinner for Martians visiting the earth. What   would you cook?

What fictional character from a book would you like to be your friend?


 

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