Green Circle Follow-up Activities

Follow-up ideas for the Green Circle Curriculum

1. Make a large green circle on a bulletin board. Put smaller full body photos of each child inside the Green Circle. Children can use this board as a tool to express their feelings of inclusion and exclusion. Children can place their person outside of the circle to symbolize feeling left out among their friends. This can invite discussion to explore how others can collaborate to help the child regain feelings of inclusion.

2. Make a mobile from a hula hoop with everyone’s name and/or drawing and/or photo 
hanging from it. Put these photos around the room, attach them to building blocks, and 
make puzzles out of their photos.

3. Make a portfolio notebook for each child containing individual photos of the child’s 
experiences with their friends and examples of the child’s symbolic representations. 

4. Have children make Green Circle pages completing unfinished sentences and include
these in the child’s portfolio notebook. These may include the following:

I feel inside my family circle when
I feel outside of my family circle when
I feel inside my circle of friends when
I feel left out of my circle of friends when
Others know I am inside of my circle because
Others know I am left out of my circle because
I let someone in my circle when
I am unique because
I made a mistake when
Something that is easy for me to do is
Something that is difficult for me to do is
I gave someone a compliment when
I feel lonely when 

5. Have children trace each other on paper. Inside the figures, have children draw their physical characteristics and things that make them unique, things that make them happy and sad.

6. Take opportunities to share photographs and stories about each child, their family and heritage. If possible, their families can join them to help share this information with the child’s classmates. Have each child draw a family picture. Have the class write a story about each child expressing compliments and positive traits of each classmate. Add  these to the child’s portfolios.

7. Role play positive social skills such as, complimenting and including another in play.

8. Revisit child’s experiences in inclusion and exclusion by showing photographic and written documents of these experiences to introduce solution tools toward inclusion of others.

9. Act out the Churkendoose story.

10. Learn the Green Circle song and sing it regularly holding hands in a circle. Make up new verses.

11. Use complimentary literature to teach social awareness and acceptance.