Stone soup is a classic folktale that is listed on the 2nd grade common core reading list. Along with our leveled books, we also offer awardwinning audio programs from some of the most popular professional storytellers and differentiated lesson plans for kindergarten through. Worksheets worksheets games games lesson plans create your own. Do your students read stone soup around thanksgiving i love these activities to go along with some versions of stone soup. First graders examine the use of logic, deduction, and inference to determine the answers to riddles. They spread the joy of sharing in this timeless tale of stone soup. Students will apply the problem solving skills of logic, deduction, and. Unit 3 week 1 the real story of stone soup stone soup poem. Muth introductory informational text and vocabulary, text of the story with vocabulary highlighted, postreading questions with targeted skills identified. Students create first grade soup and bring in the ingredients needed for the soup. From lesson plans to book suggestions, these websites have a lot to offer for anyone who wants to encourage children to write.
Share this story with your young reader to build basic. Boost your first graders reading comprehension by using a. A simple act of courage lesson plans and teaching resources. Muth introductory informational text and vocabulary, text of the story with vocabulary highlighted, postreading questions. Muth lesson plans and teaching resources stone soup by jon j. Students will apply the problem solving skills of logic, deduction, and inference when answering riddles. The gingerbread boy greenberg, melanie hope my fathers luncheonette hennessy, b. Access thousands of highquality, free k12 articles, and create online assignments with them for your students.
Incorporate recipes into other areas of the curriculum. We started first thing in the morning and put all the ingredients. Use this classic story to teach shared writing, science and even art to your preschool students. Stone soup 4 of 5 first grade follow up activities continued. In this literature and math lesson, 1st graders read the book and list the foods that were used in the soup.
Stone soup scriptshort play script for kids and teens. I love the literature and art based activities over on the scholastic website. Plant a small vegetable garden containing specific vegetables. The night before the activity, i chopped up a yellow onion, 2 cloves of garlic, and one large pink lady apple.
Friendship soup and stone soup classroom lesson plan. After reading stone soup, it would be a lot of fun to have your students perform the story with a readers theater production. Once youve read the story, or better yet several versions of it, youre ready for a fun stone soup activity. Students will read an informational text summarizing the. We compared the characters and noticed they were all different but that the main idea stayed the same, so it was easy to map out a beginning, middle and end. Stone soup activities by jean warren preschool express dc. Pam keeping life creativefirst grade teaching ideas. Stone soup book a and preschool fall or winter lesson plan. This stone soup lesson plan is suitable for 1st grade. Stone soups printable guide for educators provides suggestions for activating student thinking. I sauteed them until they were translucent and transferred the ingredients into a tupperware. Stone soup miniunit from second grade schmooze this stone soup miniunit is perfect for any k, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade classroom.
Stone soup lesson plan for 1st grade lesson planet. All of these activities have been used in my classroom. The classic childrens fable stone soup is all about sharing. I told my students that when we ate our soup, whoever got the stone in their bowl got to make the first. First we put in a nice clean stone, to make our vegetable soup. Students create first grade soup and bring in the ingredients. Browse stone soup resources on teachers pay teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources. This beloved folktale and accompanying reproducibles and activities build skills in comprehension, critical and creative thinking, and writing. I have done this unit 4 of the 5 years i taught first. Students will write riddles by identifying salient details and summarizing distinctive attributes.
First grade writing first grade reading kindergarten lesson plans kindergarten reading book clubs book club books benchmark literacy mentor. They listen to a teacher read aloud of heather forests, stone soup before discussing the story which gauges their comprehension. One of the literary big ideas that we have been focusing on during our read alouds is. We just celebrated thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago and with my students talking about weather changes brrrr what better book to read than one on soup. On november 14, 1960, first grade student ruby bridges became the first african american child to integrate the allwhite.
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. In this version, retold by heather forest, youll follow characters through a village in the mountains and. Inform students they will each be writing their own riddle about a vegetable. Reading is fundamental stone soups printable guide for educators provides suggestions for activating student thinking before, during and after reading. No prep lesson for a classic great lesson with no prep needed. Improve kids vocabulary and reading skills with this fun shorty story as they find out how a magic stone transforms a town in stone soup. When two weary travelers come into a wealthy village, all the inhabitants deny them a. Help your students summarize and identify the moral in stone soup with this lesson plan. Ela and fun activities included for centers or the whole class.
This unit is aligned to 2nd grade common core standards, but can be used in many grades. Retold by heather forest illustrated by susan gaber. Muthstone soup by heather forestthis pack includes. I have done this unit 4 of the 5 years i taught first grade and both my. Read about how a magic stone transforms a town in stone soup, a fun short story for kids. Stone soup printables, classroom activities, teacher resources. There is a stone soup comic strip, a dungeon crawl stone soup which is an opensource singleplayer, roleplaying rogue like game. The story stone soup has many different versions, but all versions have the same moral.
Stone soup and the following activities are a wonderful way to start a. Character ed stone soup cooperation lesson no prep. Stone soup folktale handouts by msmireishere 3rd grade reading, kindergarten reading. In case you want to make the soup in your classroom, heres the recipe. First we put in a nice clean stone, nice clean stone, nice clean stone. 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. Stone soup script royaltyfree play version of the story, stone soup. Kids will love putting this stone soup story back together, a great reading comprehension exercise.
Improve your students reading comprehension with readworks. Stone soup is a great book to read this time of year. I will draw upon their back ground knowledge to help them understand the story of stone soup. History of the stone soup folktale from 1720 to now, by.
Its been retold many times, notably by marcia brown, ann mcgovern and jon j. Stone soup by heather forest, is an enlightening story about sharing and the effect it can have on others. This would be a great book to read to 3rd graders as it presents the importance of sharing and helping others in need. Create decorations for the celebrate good timesstone soup celebration gear the difficulty of the decorations toward grade levels involved. These lesson plan ideas for the book stone soup are sure to be a hit with your preschoolers. 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. Use this lesson plan, worksheet, and graphic organizer to support your students reading of stone soup. This story is simple yet with moral and is sure to. Stone soup printables, classroom activities, teacher.
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