Two learning activities that extend the classic story of how a young vagabond gets an old lady to feed him by making soup from a stone. Explore classroom activities, puzzles, teacher resources and enrichment pdfs for this book. International about scholastic customer service contact us. Students use their brainstorming skills as they think of reasons why the villagers would hide their food form the soldiers. Three monks travel to a village that has suffered the ravages of famine, floods, and war on a quest to discover happiness. Motivate reluctant and struggling young writers to express themselveseither for the magazine or as regular bloggers for the website. The travelers then start to demonstrate their special recipe for a magical soup, using a stone as a starter.
Formerly known as scholastic printables, we offer printable activities for any subject. A guide for using stone soup in the classroom paperback. We read the actual stone soup book first, and then talked about how we were going to make our own stone soup at. Use the experience of making stone soup together to write. They are similar stories, but also have a lot of differences which make them perfect book choices to do compare and contrast lessons with your. The soldiers tell the villagers that they will make soup from three. Creative writing guide lesson plan penguin random house.
Challenge your students to create their best work for possible publication. Before we begin making plans for our soup, lets explore how a hungry little boy with a round, smooth, stone created stone soup that was tasty. Help your students summarize and identify the moral in stone soup with this lesson plan. Stone soup is a well known story, but one i somehow managed to miss with the older girls. What is the last named vegetable added to the soup. Jan 11, 2016 stone soup by heather forest, is an enlightening story about sharing and the effect it can have on others. One that i finished today is the story of how we made stone soup last week. Muth introductory informational text and vocabulary, text of the story with vocabulary highlighted, postreading questions with targeted skills identified. All they need is a carrot, which a young girl volunteers. The attachment includes 36 weeks of ela common core lesson plans aligned to the 2nd grade c.
Through the boys clever ways, the lone ingredient is soon joined by onions, carrots, beef bones, and more. Students then participate in readers theater to promote reading. Whimsical illustrations and text with helpful repetition describe how a young vagabond gets an old lady to feed him by making soup from a stone. Honestly, i accidentally purchased this book for my daughter recently because her teacher did a stone soup lesson and the book she used was really cute. I think in the original tale the travellers who ask for food and are refused are soldiers, but in this young childs version the characters are all animals. In this version, retold by heather forest, youll follow characters through a village in the mountains and. Its simple, safe to do and the kids go crazy over it. In this thanksgiving activity lesson, students discuss the stone soup story about pilgrims. Stone soup and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle. Stone soup reading fluency scholastic storyworks jr. Marie and henri arrive in town and go from house to house asking for food and then a pot.
Children who read this story will find the tale funny and clever while they read about the young man tricking the woman. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and. Stone soup by heather forest, is an enlightening story about sharing and the effect it can have on others. Stone soup suggested activities from new hampshire public television. As a point of discussing diversity when you and your students prepare the soup, you should discuss dietary laws, vegetarian and vegan diets as a matter of choice and practice. The lesson plan is geared towards grades 5th through 8th and can be used for skill development, comprehension development andor exploration into the writing process. Includes a letter to the family, questions, an illustrated story page, and an answer key. Its for younger children, but we bet youll find inspiration for your classroom. Stone soup vocabulary arts and humanities flashcards. Lets think about tasty soups, tasty ingredients and what could possibly make stone soup taste good. Here is a free printable pdf of marcia browns stone soup. The activities include a generic version of the folktale, or can be used with your favorite version of the story, such as.
Ask the students to pay close attention to all of the terrific ingredients the boy tricked the old lady into putting in the soup. You and your students are just back from winter break an ideal time to reinforce the importance of sharing in your classroom. Stone soup is a great book to read this time of year. The people in one small village didnt have enough to eat, and definitely not enough to store away for the winter. I didnt encounter this story until fairly recently. By recognizing diversity issues, it is not necessary to include it in the recipe. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. I asked questions to make sure that the students have understood the book and its message. Read it again and encourage the children to repeat after you. When the monks entice them to make soup from stones, the villagers discover how much they have to give.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Enjoy three of my favorite childrens picture books in. Stone soup and the following activities are a wonderful way to start. Stone soup 4 of 6 second grade follow up activities continued. People were afraid their families would go hungry, so they hid the small amounts of food they did have. Use this lesson plan, worksheet, and graphic organizer to support your students reading of stone soup. The story shows how the simplest idea can make something good happen in the long run.
I had read the 1947 marcia brown version of stone soup as a kid, which is about a village in europe. Kids will love putting this stone soup story back together, a great way to help them build reading comprehension skills. Plus, the little people love to read class books that have their pictures in them. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. Here are some free printable stone soup extension activities. Stone soup activities for second grade the best types of stone 2nd grade class. Improve your students reading comprehension with readworks. Exciting lesson ideas, classroom strategies, teaching tips, book lists, videos, and. Students will enjoy this classic tale with a cast of delightful characters.
The villagers have grown suspicious and distrustful so they. Invite each group to choose one of the following scenes to act out. Teacher to teacher ideas in the top teaching blog scholastic. A lovely way to build reading skills whilst encouraging discussion and active participation. You can turn this storybook into a reallife cooking experience and make stone soup a vegetable soup cooked with a sanitized rock. The villagers hide their food and inform the soldiers that they do not have a place for them to sleep. Each page provides a line of the story and a picture for kids to color. I read the folktale stone soup aloud to my students, focusing on the fact that the soup made the entire town happy at the end. Detailed illustrations and highfrequency words support emergent readers. A guide for using stone soup in the classroom paperback this reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, and crosscurriculum activities for using marcia browns stone soup in the classroom. Explore the story with the sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch in a. Making stone soup in preschoolteaching the little people. Friendship soup and stone soup classroom lesson plan. A scholastic top teacher blogger has a whole lesson plan on stone soup here.
Based on an old french folktate, the story is about how three hungry soldiers outsmart the selfish and miserly people living in a village so that they find themselves making the soldiers a feast. Teaching preschoolers to share can be difficult, but this early childhood lesson plan on sharing can help. A great companion assignment to your class lesson about stone soup, this set of storybook pages help your class to recall the tale in their own book. Prepare the soup in class in a crock pot or on an electric burner. Written by marcia brown and illustrated by maricia brown. The story of stone soup once upon a time, there was a great famine which means there wasnt enough food to go around.
These stone soup activities were inspired by the classic childrens folktale. Images courtesy of publishers, organizations, and sometimes their twitter handles. When two weary travelers come into a wealthy village, all the inhabitants deny them a meal. Students make their own stone soup and then eat the soup. It is great for teaching students because the steps in the story go from. A stone soup lesson plan on sharing for preschoolers. Not to be outdone, another villager contributes a potato, and the soup grows as others bring corn, celery, and other vegetables and seasonings. A beautifullyillustrated retelling of a classic fairy tale, with interactive flipflaps adding to the action. These paired texts, stone soup and gertie birdie makes stew, help children compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. With prompting and support the swbat write an opinion story after listening to the story stone soup. The story stone soup has many different versions, but all versions have the same moral. I told my students that when we ate our soup, whoever got the stone in their bowl got to make the first wishprayer on the rock. With the help of his many animal friends, he will make stone soup.
Today im writing about a version of one of my favorite folk tales of all time stone soup. Folktale fiction, 71 words, level d grade 1, lexile 250l. Several books have been made from this classic storyline. Muth lesson plans and teaching resources stone soup by jon j. The hungry men contribute a stone to the soup and the townspeople contribute all the edible bits.
In this inspiring story about the strength people possess when they work together, muth takes a simple, beloved tale and adds his own fresh twist. Provide examples of exemplary poems, stories, and book. Theyll use logic and reasoning to help them figure out the sequence of the story. Teachers might wish to use our interviews with ya young adult authors in their classrooms. Inform students they will each be writing their own version of a favorite family recipe. Second graders complete activities using the story stone soup. Stone soup by marcia brown the book, originally published in 1945. As the soup heats, continue discussion about stone soup and the first thanksgiving. Read selected stories fromthe stone soup book of friendship stories and animal stories by young writers. Never go hungry again with this folk tale of soup made from stones. While on amazon purchasing other books i saw this and relying on my memory i thought this was the book she. Stone soup printables, classroom activities, teacher. Stone soup extension activities scholastic books for kids. Go on to the wolfs chicken stew by keiko kasza putnam, 1987 isbn 0399214003.
Stone soup, first edition abebooks shop for books, art. Encourage each child to add hisher ingredient and take a turn stirring the pot. The villagers have grown suspicious and distrustful so they shut their doors and refuse to welcome the visitors monks. Invite the parents to come share some of the stone soup on the day you make it. The book featured on our show was written by jon j. Instruct students to brainstorm about their recipe before passing out the recipe cards. To better illustrate the point that the problem in the story was solved by the soldiers teaching the peasants how to make a soup made out of stones, we added a magic stone to our stone soup.
See more ideas about stone soup, soup, book activities. This article contains a lesson using stone soup, as well as several activities designed to help preschoolers understand the importance of sharing. We use this book for a schoolwide lesson on learning what being supportive is and what collaboration is. What do you think stone soup would taste like if you didnt read the book yesterday. Stone soup 2 sams soup 23 word list and language structures 24 l hold up the book and point to the cover. Chicken soup with rice by maurice sendak scholastic, 1986 isbn 0685119084 is such fun that we can sing and chant it while we wait. Students determine the identity of a vegetable, either real or fake, and examine. Students read a story about soup made from stones and then make their own stone soup. Aside from the village people, who or what also enjoys a taste of the soup. Students will read an informational text summarizing the plot, discuss the lesson weaved into the story. We will write about our favorite soup after reading the story stone soup. Tired and hungry soldiers approach the villagers for food and a place to rest. This beloved folktale and accompanying reproducibles and activities build skills in comprehension, critical and creative thinking, and writing. What would stone soup taste like without any vegetables.
The two travelers publicly declare that they will make soup from a stone. Stone soup scholastic this book tells a clever story about a hungry young man and his journey with making stone soup. Access thousands of highquality, free k12 articles, and create online assignments with them for your students. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade. How did the boy trick the lady into making soup from stones that tastes great. Then, make a list of ingredients and directions on how to make this soup. Build an understanding of genre and audience through reading real, published works. Muthstone soup by heather forestthis pack includes. Out of curiosity, the villagers provide all the ingredients, onebyone. The magazine by children volume 11, number 1, september october 1982 mandel, gerry, william rubel and dana koegler, editors published by childrens art foundation, santa cruz, ca 1982. Fox is poor and hungry, but he has a clever solution to fix his problem. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Stone soup little classics and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
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