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The book won the Caldecott Honor Medal.
Tired and hungry soldiers are heading to a small village. The peasants who live in the village know the soldiers will be hungry and are afraid to share their food for fear they themselves will go hungry. So they hide their food. When the soldiers ask for help, they are given good reasons why the villagers cannot share. The soldiers realize they will have to outwit the villagers. In the end, the entire village shares in a feast!
Preschoolers will love the repetitiveness and predictability of this remake of an old French tale. Mothers will appreciate the lesson in hospitality. And all young folks will enjoy making their own version of stone soup!
Suggestions
- Retell the story in your own words.
- Write down a list of the ingredients that go into the soup.
- Narrate or write down in order the way to make stone soup.
- Make your own stone soup using the recipe you have just created.
- Older students can assess the final nutritional content of the soup.
- The villagers thanked the soldiers for all that they had taught them.
Teacher should probably bring the cooked meat if you're going to include it.
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Looking for interactive, hands-on activities to revive a winter weary preschool or elementary age curriculum?
Make a Stone Soup word wall, using words from the story.
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This product includes a six step recipe with a visual for each step, a visual ingredient/shopping list, sequencing cards, and retell/reflection cards.
Explore raw vegetable colors, textures, and structure. Encourage kids into writing creatively to produce funny or silly recipes. Draw plant diagrams.
Stone Soup is a fun read-aloud by Marcia Brown found on many homeschool reading lists.
This soup recipe includes all of the ingredients mentioned in Marcia Brown’s version of the tale. Cooking with children and writing and following recipes make excellent math lesson plans.
For science lesson plans, explore food groups or edible plant parts (carrots and potatoes--roots, onions--bulb, celery--stem and leaves, cabbage--leaves, pepper--seeds).
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Stone Soup is a European folk tale retold by Marcia Brown in her Caldecott Honor 1947 picture book.
Ingredients include: cooked meat, milk, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, onions, salt, pepper and stones. Please purchase additional licenses if you plan on sharing this resource with other teachers/classrooms. You may not upload this resource to any online sites without permission.