circle-time

circle-time is a skill for Claude Code from Jellypod-Inc/school-skills. It costs 238 tokens per session (2,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for circle time, the short morning meeting used in preschool and early elementary classrooms. It creates age-appropriate routines involving greetings, songs, calendars, weather, movement, stories, feelings, or closing activities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a 10-, 15-, or 20-minute PreK–2 meeting, including themes, group size, calendar or weather activities, and accommodations such as bilingual or sensory support.
Why use it?
It saves teachers from assembling a complete, timed opening routine and helps match activities to children's ages and classroom needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the school-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a 10-, 15-, or 20-minute PreK–2 meeting, including themes, group size, calendar or weather activities, and accommodations such as bilingual or sensory support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jellypod-inc/school-skills/circle-time
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Jellypod-Inc/school-skills --skill circle-time
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/school-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install school-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 238 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,268 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00238 $0.02268
Opus 5 $0.00119 $0.01134
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00227

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2e2f277ae685, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

circle-time scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/circle-time/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

circle-time

Plan ready-to-run PreK-2 morning meetings sized to a requested duration and calibrated to age. Every plan is printable and teacher-runnable without additional prep.

When to trigger

Use this skill whenever a user asks for a circle-time plan, morning meeting, opening routine, calendar/weather segment, greeting or closing song, or transition/SEL activity for PreK through 2nd grade. Teachers may phrase the request many ways — trust the description keywords, not a strict format. If the only thing missing is the age band, ask one clarifying question. Otherwise proceed with defaults.

Inputs

Parse these from the user's request:

  • Age band — PreK (3-4), K (5-6), 1st (6-7), 2nd (7-8). Required.
  • Theme — weather, feelings, letter/number of the day, seasonal, SEL topic, community helpers, nature, book-of-the-week. If absent, suggest two and pick one.
  • Duration — 10, 15, or 20 minutes. Default 15.
  • Group size — small (≤8), medium (9-15), large (16+). Default medium.
  • Accommodations — sensory, bilingual/ELL, mobility, nonverbal/AAC.
  • Calendar/weather included? — default yes for K-2, no for PreK.
  • Date / day-of-week — optional.

Age inference (check before asking)

Phrase Band
"preschool," "PreK," "3-year-olds," "daycare" PreK
"kindergarten," "kinder," "5-year-olds," "TK" K
"1st grade," "first graders" 1st
"2nd grade," "second graders" 2nd
"morning meeting" alone, no age ask once

If age is missing and you can't infer, ask ONE question:

Quick check — which age band? PreK · K · 1st · 2nd

Accept freeform ("PreK circle time about apples, 15 min, small group, sensory-sensitive child") or structured prompts.

Workflow

  1. Parse inputs; fill defaults.
  2. Compute per-segment time budget from the age calibration table below.
  3. Load references/tunes.md and compose original lyrics to a public-domain tune that matches the theme, age, and meter.
  4. Load references/books.md and pick one primary and one alternative picture book matching theme + age (title + author).
  5. Load references/finger-plays.md for movement; pick one that fits group size; always include a seated alternative.
  6. Load references/sel-frameworks.md and choose the check-in protocol (thumbs, colors, feelings wheel, one-word share) appropriate to age.
  7. Load references/transitions.md for one-line transition cues between every adjacent segment.
  8. If any accommodation is flagged, load references/accommodations.md and apply substitutions inline (not as footnotes).
  9. Assemble the markdown plan in the 8-section output order below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 238 tokens per session scan A 2e2f277ae685

Subscribe to this mod's changes

circle-time is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jellypod-Inc/school-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 238 tokens to every session and 2,268 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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