Summary:
A visitor comes to a town and finds out the people who live there do not like to share. He begins making some stone soup and asks the town to contribute ingredients, hoping it may bring the town together. They enjoyed it so much that even after the visitor left, the town continued to share and make stone soup.

Personal Reaction: The story was simple but sweet and it would be perfect to read to a class that may have trouble sharing.

Classroom Extension:
1)We could have each student bring an ingredient from home and we can make our own stone soup.
2) We can talk about the importance of sharing, group children into pairs and have them share a set of paints, crayons, blocks, etc and have them both use it during an activity. ( )

Summary: A traveler comes to a small town where no one shares anything. He begins to make "stone soup," putting a stone in a big pot of water. He claims that vegetables would really make the soup come together. So a villager decides to add some of their vegetables. Then the traveler goes on saying "this would make it better.. This, too..." until all of the villagers come together to make the most wonderful soup they've ever tasted.

Personal Reaction: The version of Stone Soup that I read is an easy reader, so it's shorter and simple than most versions. But I like the message it gives - that when a group comes together, and every person gives something unique to a project, great things can e accomplished.

Classroom Extensions:
1. In class, we could make our own version of "stone soup." Each student can bring a small baggie of clean, chopped vegetables from home to add to a pot, which will include a thoroughly washed stone. Each student adds their vegetables to the pot and when it's done, the soup is shared.

2. Let the students look at a collection of many stones. As they use magnifying glasses and their hands to see and feel the stones, have them describe each stone, using special descriptive words (smooth, rough, sharp, etc...).

Summary:
A man wanders into a town hungry as can be. He soon finds out that no one in the town is willing to share food with him. The man then begins to make Stone Soup which then makes the people in the town come together and share. The result of this soup makes this town more willing to share with each other and a new found love for Stone Soup.

Personal Reaction:
I was very intrigued by this book. It has such a good story to it and can be very helpful in teaching children the importance of sharing. Stone Soup sounds delicious!

Classroom Extension Ideas:

1. Have everyone in your class signed up to bring in a special food and after reading the story your class can have a party in which everyone in the class shares their special food with the others.

2. Split the students up into groups and give them poster board and have them make their own stone soup amongst each other in the group. Hang the posters around the classroom to show their artwork.

summary: A visitor visits a small town, when he got there it was a town full of rude people that did not like to share.He asked around for food and no one was willing to help. He started to make soup on his own. As he was making soup everyone started to join in and bring him different items to go in his soup. In the end the visitor makes the town and town full of sharing people.

Personal Reaction: I loved this book. As a child it was one of my favorites. This is a great book for young kids that are starting to learn to share or that are having problems sharing.

classroom extention: making stone soup with the class.

Stone Soup is about a man visiting a small village and he has no food. He asks members of the village if they have any food and they will not share with him. He builds a big fire with a big pot on top of it filled with water. He starts saying that the only thing better with stone soup is cabbage, then carrots, onions ect. Each time he mentions another ingredient, someone from the villiage gladly shares with him. In the end when the soup is all made, he in return shares with everyone that shared with him.

I had not read this story in several years. I love how it ends and everyone is sharing with the visitor and they dont even realize it. I think this story shows and excellent example of sharing.

Classroom activities: I would read this story to my class and have each child bring a specific food item to share with the class. I feel this would help demonstrate sharing with each other. This would also make the story come more alive for the class. My second activity would be to have the students share with the class what they like to share with others. They could do this by getting infront of the class or decorating pictures.