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This book is about a young  boy and girl that are frightened by a thunderstorm. They want their mom to comfort them because they do not want to be alone. This is when their mom tells them about the invisible strings that everyone has. She talks about how everyone is connected by invisible strings that you can feel in your heart. These invisible strings can reach anywhere, even heaven. There mom tells them that even when she is angry at them or they have conflicts, the string is still there. The children finally go back to their beds feeling safe. They imagine all the invisible strings they have with friends and family. They see diverse people around the world connected with invisible strings, promoting a vision of global unity and empathy.

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Here is a cute end of the year lesson that you can do with students that connects to the book Invisible Strings. It helps students know that even after they leave your classroom that you are still there for them and that they are never alone.

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That time has come...the time for my final lesson of the year in my classes. My 3rd grade homerooms are pretty tight knit and family like, with many students feeling sadness and anxiety about leaving their homerooms for the great unknown of 4th grade. Enter: The Invisible String and a web of warm fuzzies.

I kicked off the lesson with a quick snowball fight, asking the students to list something they remembered learning from me/something I taught them for each round. It's a fun way to gather a little bit of data about "what stuck" with them. I also find activities like this to be enlightening because I get to see myself and my teaching through their eyes. For example, I'm not sure if I ever used the word "patience" in my lessons this year with them, but two of them wrote that I taught them patience. I was also really surprised by how many recalled the conflict escalator lesson - the visual seems to have been really meaningful for them.

In some rooms, I used the carousel activity instead, posting reflection questions around the room for them to respond to. Many of the students wrote about remembering and enjoying our lessons about Kelso's Choices and being an upstander - hurray! Note one kiddo's hope to go to "high school" - they're still working on their appropriate use of quotation marks!

Then came time for The Invisible String ! If you don't own this book yet, get it. It's so great for any type of missing someone. After reading, we briefly talk about how it connects to the end of the year - getting scared about something, missing people, and feeling connected to important people no matter what. Then we take turns passing a skein of yarn across the circle, saying kind words to one another. It starts with one student holding the end, picking a classmate across from them, and picking one of these (projected) sentence stems to finish for them. My super amazing co-counselor is the genius behind this activity!

The yarn gets passed to the next person, looped around their finger, and continues until everyone has had a turn and it goes back to the first person again. If the teacher isn't already sitting with us, I suggest a student pass it to him/her. We continue until the last person passes it to the first person. After we're done, we take a moment and marvel in the web of connection that we've created, and then I offer to cut the string so that each student can keep a piece for themselves. It is 'cheesy' but in the best way possible and truly brings out both positive feelings about the school year as well as some closure.

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The Invisible String - End of the Year Lesson

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That time has come...the time for my final lesson of the year in my classes. My 3rd grade homerooms are pretty tight knit and family like, with many students feeling sadness and anxiety about leaving their homerooms for the great unknown of 4th grade. Enter: The Invisible String and a web of warm fuzzies.

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I found this book last year and fell in love with it.This book is great because it sends the message that no one is ever alone, even when their loved one are not physically present. It is good for students that have just moved away from family or have experienced a loss. This book can even be used on the first day of school to show students that they are always connected to their parents, even when they can’t see them.

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The author of The Invisible String is Patrice Karst. She is a single mom and a popular inspirational speaker. She wrote The Invisible String and The Smile that Went Around the World, along with a couple other books. She has been a featured guest on hundreds of TV and radio shows.

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The illustrator of Invisible Strings is Geoff Stevenson. He is an author and an illustrator . Geoff is a former award-winning advertising copywriter and acted in the TV sitcom Scrubs. He has written for Nickelodeon in both Australia and America. He has illustrated for thirteen books.