Folk

Stone Soup by Heather Forest

After long days of travel two men came upon a village. They were hoping that in the village there would be someone kind enough to share a little food with them and even let them stay the night. They went through the whole village knocking on doors and no one would let them in and they all said that they had just enough food for themselves and none to spare. The travelers thought that these people were worse off than them if they had nothing to spare so they decided that they would make their special soup for the village. The people gathered not believing that these two men could make a soup to feed the whole village. The travelers would say that the soup would be great with a few vegetables, meat, etc. The people would run to their house to bring whatever ingredients they could find. With everyone contributing the soup was delicious and enough to feed the whole village. This is a great story about sharing. I think that this would be a great story to use in the classroom in the beginning of the year. I think that when we read this book I would tell the students that we all need to be willing to contribute our best actions, thoughts, and work to the classroom. If we all do our part and add our "ingredients" then we will have a successful classroom where the best learning takes place.