Each time, villagers run back home to get the ingredients they’d hidden.

As they start making the soup the soldiers begin asking for different ingredients: first salt and pepper, then carrots, and eventually beef. The curious villagers gather around the soldiers to see what they are going to do. They announce to the villagers that they will make Stone Soup. After stopping at many houses in search for food, the soldiers stop. The villagers see the soldiers coming and begin to hid all their food, they too are hungry. Tired and hungry, the soldiers decide to stop in a village in search of food and a place to sleep. The folktale Stone Soup by Marcia Brown tells the story of three soldiers on their way home from war. family involvement at home and in school.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM.

organizing classroom supplies and teaching materials.

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They even get to sleep in the priest's, baker's, and major's houses! Such men do not grow on bushes indeed! Art of two or three colors - brown, orange, and red - make for pleasant illustrations balanced with text all along the way. They eat and drink and dance and sing far into the night. Soon there are tables in the square and torches, and the peasants ask themselves if a feast like this does not require bread and a roast and cider. So it goes through sides of beef, potatoes, barley, milk. Marie thinks she could find a cabbage somewhere and comes back with three. But no use asking for what you don't have. Françoise thinks she has a carrot or two and brings an apron full. But oh, if there were carrots, it would be much better. After salt and pepper are asked for and provided, the soldiers say Stones like these generally make good soup.

This claim makes the people curious, and they readily supply a large pot, lots of water, a fire to boil the water, and then three large smooth stones. So the three proclaim that they will have to make stone soup. Family after family, when asked by the soldiers, claims to have no food to offer. The townsfolk see them coming and hide their food. Three soldiers are making their way home from war through foreign territory. This telling gives color to the common story. I know Marcia Brown from her lovely Once a Mouse.

Stone soup by marcia brown