I decided to read two different stories in this step: Avocado feels a pit worried by Brenda S. Miles in classes 3 and 4 and The Whatifs by Emily Kilgore in classes 5, 6 and 7.
The worried little avocado called Avi made my students sympathize with his fears and loneliness and inspired them to come up with great ideas how to help him.
The older students recognized that a lot of "whatifs" reside in all of us: they are negative thoughts and negative feelings about something we feel we have no control over. We had a workshop to try to turn negative whatifs into positive ones in order to recognize the patterns which influence the quality of our lives and choices in a bad way.
The students from five classes also had a lovely meeting with an Italian school from Poggibonsi in Tuscany.
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