The Ring of Small Fires: discussion sheet

Part 3 · 4.4 minute read-aloud · distributed support

A fable about sustaining many small acts of care through wind, distance, and disagreement.

Start here

What changes when the keeper replaces one great fire with a ring of small fires?

Go further

What support can help a kindness survive wind and loneliness? The fires are story images; what would safe support look like without children tending a real flame?

Look, notice, or draw

Find one choice, object, or gesture that shows distributed support. Draw it or note two details from the words or picture.

Read the story: https://youngmachines.org/read/fables/the-ring-of-small-fires/

Readers may answer from the story, invent an example, answer privately, or pass.