School Age Storytime:
“Soup’s On” K-2 Bedminster School
Featuring soup stories and songs, incorporating fiction and
non-fiction, concepts of alphabet, emotions, and months of the year, and
participatory storytelling of a classic folk tale.
Kdg only: Book: Growing Vegetable Soup – Lois
Ehlert (vocabulary, non-fiction concepts of gardening & food prep)
“Piggy Back” Song/Action: This is the Way we…
make the Soup (lyrics for this and all other songs
below) (reinforces sequencing)
All classes: Interactive
story with props (pot, puppets, & veggies): Stone
Soup (Participatory storytelling, mentioned old story many
variants – I use the Ann McGovern version with old lady and young man - script and
songs here: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/02/school-age-storytime-soups-on.html)
Song/Flannel: "Alphabet Soup" by Tom
Chapin (reinforces alphabet)
Book: Mean Soup – Betsy Everitt (A great idea for a difficult day – could also
make "Mean Cheerios!") (Alternative: That is NOT a Good Idea --
Mo Willems)
Song: "If you are happy and you know
it…" .. sad, angry, excited, etc.
Book : Monkey Soup – Louis Sachar – author of Sideways
Stories from Wayside School (child makes her father a special kind of
soup to help get him well – silly!) Don't try this at home!
Book/Cards/Song: Chicken Soup with Rice –
Maurice Sendak, tune by Carole King from “Really Rosie” concept: the names
of the months (Watch on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJ0FDplzjk
, more tracks from the musical here: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=really+rosie)
Book (1st & 2nd grade): Armadilly Chili – Helen Ketterman (Armadillo fails to get help from her
friends in chili preparation but when they return with "sackfulls of
apologies plus apple cider, cornbread, and brownies, she finds sharing dinner
with friends is best of all. This is a folktale variant of "Little Red Hen"
– which I challenged students to identify midway through the story.)
Song/Action: “Doing the Chocolate Shake”
(chocolate soup)
