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Stone Soup
This year my class
will be exploring the fable of Stone Soup. We will be reading
different versions and comparing them. We plan to have our own Stone
Soup luncheon on November 22.
See our
class pictures of Stone Soup Day
Stone Soup Ideas and
Components
Stone Soup poem
Cut and paste format
Shared
by someone on my mail list |
The Mysterious
Soup
A Folk Tale (beach version) |
Signing Vegetables
(our class is learning to sign)
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Stone Soup-
A
Readers Theatre |
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Click for
bigger picture |
Stone
Soup Kidspiration
Writing Project
Here is a
little template I made. Have students recall the
sequence of the story and place symbolic pictures in
each box. They then go to the writing page and
complete the project by writing in the rest of the
story. |
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Lesson |
Ideas |
Compare and Contrast different
versions
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Beach
versus--soldier version
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How Many People in the story
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Which vegetables were used
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Have students
sequence the story. for each part, students draw
illustrations. Then create a class book. |
WRITE ABOUT IT
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Students
write about the difference between the Beach Version
(and others) and
why that version is important (the old woman gets
the man to work, instead of other versions where the
woman/villagers provide the ingredients)
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What would it be like to be hungry all the time
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How could you manage traveling from place to
place not knowing if you would have something to
eat
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Create a Flannel Board Story
Student can use the teacher made flannel board
pieces from The Mysterious Soup or Byr-Back
Manor versions to retell the story.
Make a Graph
- all the
vegetables in the story
- Your
favorite vegetable
- the
favorite vegetable of all the students in the
class
Make a timeline of the story Draw a picture for
each section. |
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Making
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Connections |
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Homelessness |
Feeding the
Hungry |
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Fly Away Home
by
Eve Bunting,
Ronald Himler (Illustrator) |
Uncle Wille and the
Soup Kitchen
by
Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan (Illustrator) |
I have scoured
around and found some great materials and links. Here they are...
Stone Soup esl Lessons
Six Traits Lessons-Stone
Soup
Stone soup story Bag
Bry-Back Manor
Pictures
Stone soup
Recipe lesson
Learning to Give
Thanksgiving Story-stone soup
Nutrition Unit
Stone soup Party-Homeschool
stone
Soup game
B&W veggie clip art
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| The
crock pot's all ready and steamed up.. |
While we wait, we
enjoy partner reading. |
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| Yumm
this is good.. |
There is
always a clown in every bunch! |
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