{"id":644,"date":"2009-05-24T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T03:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-11-27T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T22:55:48","slug":"stone-soup-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Stone Soup stART and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Read \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stone Soup\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Marcia Brown.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture book classic that has remained one of Marcia Brown’s most popular and enduring books. This story, about three hungry soldiers who outwit the greedy inhabitants of a village into providing them with a feast, is based on an old French tale.<\/span><\/p>\n

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a. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the villagers want to feed the soldiers?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

b. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where did the villagers hide their milk?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

c. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What enabled the soldiers to trick the villagers into adding<\/span><\/p>\n

ingredients to the soup?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

d. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Had the king really dined with the soldiers?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

e. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In whose house did the soldiers sleep when the feast had ended?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Art Activity<\/span><\/strong>: Draw pictures of all the vegetables that were in Stone Soup.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Language Activity<\/span><\/strong>: Play the memory game using vegetables for soup. Example: When I make stone soup I put in a stone. Next person: when I make stone soup I put in a stone and carrots. Continue repeating and adding on with each person.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hands-on Activity<\/span><\/strong>: Make and serve vegetable soup for your family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Early Math Activity<\/span><\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>(sorting and discrimination): Edible, Non-edible: Collect an assortment of items both edible and non-edible and bring them to your large group in a sack. Provide a large pot and a basket in order to sort the items. As each item is pulled out of the sack the children tell you if it is something you eat or something you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat. If it is something you eat, put it in the pot. If it is something you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat, put it in the sack. When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finished you can count to see which contains more items, the pot or the basket.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nutrition and Health Activity<\/span><\/strong>: <\/span>Have child \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>name the ingredients that were used to make the soup.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The ingredients list will include water, seasonings, potatoes, milk, carrots, onions, and meat.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Ask students to recall what other foods were served with Stone Soup in the story.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Display a a Food Guide Pyramid.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Explain the categories on the Food Guide Pyramid.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Explain that the Food Guide Pyramid gives us information to keep us healthy.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Explain that although there are no bad foods and all foods can be a part of a healthy diet, there are five major food groups that are needed in a healthy diet.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Identify the five major food groups.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Explain that eating the foods from the five food groups keeps the body healthy.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We need food from the five major food groups.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We do not need the food in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Use Sparingly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d group.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>However, we may want foods from this group.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Discuss the difference between needs and wants.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Recall the list of ingredients and items served with the soup.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Discuss if the meal the soilders had in the end contained all five food groups. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0 Read \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stone Soup\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Marcia Brown.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture book classic that has remained one of Marcia Brown’s most popular and enduring books. This story, about three hungry soldiers who outwit the greedy inhabitants of a village into providing them with a feast, is based on an old French tale. \u00c2\u00a0 Comprehension\/Thinking Skills \u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,15,9,49],"tags":[114,212,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}