All the kids that have the honor of saying that they had Miss Meacham as their first grade teacher will remember reading the story Stone soup and then getting to go over to our house and actually make the soup and eat it for lunch! If you've never read the book, the story is about this traveler who comes to a village and is so hungry that he goes door to door asking people for some food, only to be turned away empty handed. He has an idea and goes to the center of the village and tells everyone of this delicious soup that he is going to make called Stone Soup that is made from a single 'magic' stone! He tells them that the soup would taste even better if he had some potatos to put in it and then someone offers him some potatoes...then he says it would taste even better if it had some onions.....and so on until the entire town of people that had slammed their doors on him, end up coming together to make this big pot of soup and then he drops in the stone and they all share big bowls of Stone Soup!
So we have made Stone Soup here at Day Care a couple of times and the kids always ask for it because it is actually SO good! So all the kids brought a different ingredient with them on Friday and we made two big pots of soup! (Bill said to be sure and make a lot because he loves it so much!)
THe kids all took a turn coming up and dropping their veggies in and then I brought out my 'magic stone' and plopped it in! It's so cute because the kids really do believe there is something about the stone that makes it just so yummy! All the soup is is a bunch of different kinds of veggies, beef stock and taco meat! Simple yet delectable! They each had two bowls of soup and I made little sample cups of it for the parents to have a taste when they came for pick up that afternoon.
The other day Bill said that he had a craving for Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies so we made some of those on Friday too! I found this really great recipe for them that uses some maple syrup and that adds just the perfect touch!
Yummy! The kids got to take baggies of cookies home with them to share with their families. By the end of the day I was completely exhausted! :) It was a day well spent*
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