Stone Soup

Goals Targeted:
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Answering detail questions after reading a passage
- Stating the main idea
- Identifying Colors

While November is short month for school, I didn't want to go straight to Thanksgiving themes the first week. I revisited the short story Stone Soup, and figured it would be great to introduce the idea of sharing as a precursor to the holiday themes.

Scholastic has the story you can print to create a small book. It was super handy to have pictures that went with the story, as many of my clients are not able to read but the pictures help them follow along.

After reading the story together, we began the Stone Soup game. Each student has their own pot they will fill with ingredients to create their own stone soup. After answering their question correctly they rolled a die that had a different color for each side. The ingredients I printed correspond to the colors on the die. (Below I show a game board that can be used for the same idea with the colors) At the end of the game who ever had the most ingredients was the winner.

As with other books I've used before, I labeled targets in my copy of the book. I underlined words that could be used for antonyms/synonyms, and created questions asking about the main idea and details of the book.

Drink of the Day: I have been feeling a little under the weather, so I am sticking to tea. Today it is Papaya Passionfruit black tea with a dollop of honey.