Stone Soup Feast!
/ Abby ThompsonThe Whales had a very exciting week leading up to Stone Soup Day. The Whales have been having a fantastic week in their reading group. They have gotten new books, practiced choral reading, and have been working on independent reading. They have new books in their book bags and they are doing an AMAZING job sounding out words and rereading when they got stuck on words. During classroom choice, the Whales have been practicing making sentences and reading their sentences to a teacher. We have been checking to make sure our sentences make sense and that we are reading it how the punctuation tells us to read the sentence.
The Whales have been really enjoying their music sessions with Ms. McKenzie. They are learning words like forte, piano, and legato. They are learning the beginning of reading music notes. This week in music, the Whales drew on a banner the things that they are grateful for in their life. Check out their banner art hanging above their cubbies.
Bring what you’ve got, throw it in the pot, we’re making stone soup!!! The Whales worked as a community to chop all of the veggies that went into our stone soup, as well as fruit and cheese! It was a tough job but they got it done! Ms. Shelby added our ingredients into the big pot. While the soup cooked, the Whales gathered into a gratitude circle. We went around the circle and each shared some things that we are grateful for. Many Whales shared they are grateful for their family, pets, and school. Later in the day we got together with all of the other classrooms to hear Mr. Mark read Stone Soup. After listening to Stone Soup, we walked to the atelier and ate with all of our ELC friends. The whole school smelled amazing and the Whales all took an adventure bite of the soup. A huge shoutout to our parent volunteers, Ms. Ren, and our head chef Ms. Shelby. Stone Soup would not happen without them! Ask your Whale what their favorite part of stone soup was!