Benefits of working together

For group time this week, we focused our attention on recording and discussing the benefits of working together. 

We read a couple of versions of the story "The Stone Soup", and some children noticed that most of the people in the story didn't know about sharing with others. Through different situations, people were tricked into sharing their vegetables when some characters introduced the "Stone soup" idea. No one else had heard of such a thing as a soup made out of stone, so their curiosity brought them together. One by one, they were all intrigued into tasting the soup made out of stone, without realizing that the delicious taste actually came from the vegetables they all brought to share and add to the stone soup. 

Esme "I think that they all found out how good it feels to share." 

Kesler and Angela "Let's make our own stone soup and share it with everyone." 

The children brought vegetables to school and we all worked together to wash, peel and cut them all. The smell was very inviting and everyone was very thankful that the Wind group chose to be generous and share the soup. 

Esme "Mom and dad never heard of stone soup. They don't think that it will taste yummy." 

Grace "The vegetables and some friendship ingredients like love will make our soup taste delicious." 

Friendship ingredients were also added to the soup: one spoon of sharing; one cup of love; one cup of laughter and one cup of caring. These were only some of the qualities that the children articulated. 

Our next tasks are to capture pictures of examples where friends work together throughout the day and to show an understanding of the different ways friendship is shown by describing what is happening in the photos.