Themes
Used 
The use of a theme for three or four sessions enables a virtue to be explored and reinforced in various ways. In the Sharing Circles program we carefully select themes that relate to the specific developmental level of the preschoolers and that relate to the lives of the children that participate.
The themes that we have used to date include the following and you can see from the sequential lesson plans that these have built on each other.
Select a theme to see lesson plans used in Sharing Circles.
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Caring is giving love and attention to people and things that matter to you. When you are about people you say and do things that help them.
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Cleanliness
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Cleanliness means washing often, keeping your body clean, wearing clean clothes, being polite and keeping your room tidy. |
Creativity
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Creativity is the power of imagination and the way to use your gifts to bring new things into the world. |
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Feelings are the emotions and reactions within our hearts to things that are happening around us.
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Friendliness is taking an interest in other people, being warm and courteous. When you are friendly, you happily share the things you have.
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Giving is when we share and offer things or our time to help and support others.
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Helpfulness is being of service to someone. When you are being helpful you do useful things that make a difference.
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Kindness is showing you care, doing some good to make life better for others. It is being thoughtful about people’s needs.
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Love is caring for someone, wanting to be near them and wanting to share with them. It is a special feeling that fills your heart
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Me refers to learning about who I am and how I am the same as others while having differences.
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Orderliness is being neat, and living with a sense of harmony. It is having place for things you use and keeping them there so that you can use them whenever you need to.
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Patience is quiet hope and expectation based on trust that, in the end, everything will be all right. Patience means waiting.
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Prayerfulness
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Prayerfulness
is quite reflection in the presence of your creator.
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The senses are the faculties within our body that assist us to respond to and know our environment.
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Sharing is when we give and offer things or our time to help and support others.
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Unity is a very powerful virtue and brings with it great strength. It is a way of seeing the universe as one, designed by the One Who created us all. Unity brings harmony.
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Virtues are the good qualities or ‘gems’ within each of us that help us to communicate and develop bonds together.
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(description of virtues from the Virtues Project Inc)