Students in Ms. Janz's sixth grade Language Arts class have been conducting Peace Circles since September to promote community, foster lasting relationships, develop an understanding of others values and beliefs and build communication skills and confidence. These valuable lessons have helped the students learn and use social awareness and interpersonal skills by discussing what matters to them, keeping a sense of perspective, understanding how to interact with each other and show respect, evaluating right versus wrong and talking about individual life experiences. Circles appear in many aspects of life such as family, friends, and communities. As a group, the class contributed to everyone's mandala (circle) to create a beautiful keepsake to remember their circle of friends.