Adding circles for recent posts under each post

I am trying to add a snippet for a few recent posts under each blog post on my site with the Spun theme, but I think I need to somehow enable the CSS code for it. So far I have added the following snippet to the single post php code,

<?php
    $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
    $recentPosts->query('showposts=5');
?>
<?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>

					<?php
						get_template_part( 'content', 'home' );
					?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

but then I get a bunch of giant square thumbnails. Any ideas on what the next step would be to get the formatting right?