Implementing circle time activities into Turkish national preschool program

AbstractCircle time is a time for children to share their personal feelings and ideas about anything important to them. Encouraging children to express their feelings and making sincere choices help them to enhance self-esteem more effectively than a system of external rewards. Besides that, circle time activities are used to scaffold concept development, physical education, personal development, and emergent literacy. Although circle time has been widely used by western countries; Turkish pre-school program does not include circle time activities and its applications. This study aims to determine whether circle time activities will increase children's use of concepts