Stone Soup

sf said:

I didn't grow up with it, but I've known the story for so long that I
feel like I did.

What makes me wonder is the comic strip.... what the heck is that all
about? It's not in my newspaper as far as I know, so I guess it's
time for Andy to post one or two strips.

sf,

Here's a link to the Stone Soup comic strip with some background info.
Don't know how it relates to the story that was relayed here but
anyway...

http://www.ucomics.com/stonesoup/

All the best,

Andy

Tara said:

Ranee Mueller said:

It reminds me to make sure we tell the story to our kids. The
version I heard growing up was a little bit different than the version
Dan posted, but close enough.

Fewer and fewer kids know traditional stories -- folktales, fairy
tales, fables, Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit. They just don't hear them.
It's a shame; I think our society loses something when we don't share
stories and have that common language to draw from.

OB food: I remember a Peter Rabbit cookbook I checked out from the
library when I was maybe in first grade. It had a recipe for Mr.
McGregor's vegetable soup that contained shredded cabbage. We had
never put cabbage in vegetable soup before, but my mom made that
recipe for me and it was delicious.

Our first grade reading book contains the story "From Seeds to
Zucchini." I have never had a student who had tasted a zucchini, so
each year I bring a raw zucchini and let everyone taste it sliced and
dipped in ranch dressing. Some students are very skittish about
trying it. I tell everyone to try a tiny bite. Most like it after
trying it. Everything is good with ranch dressing!

Tara

Oh Tara..was Mr McGregor the one with the Maggie Muggins character in
the book. I remember that from my childhood (late 40's - early 50's)

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:55:39 -0800, sf <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Where do you teach, Tara, and why don't I see you in k12.chat.teacher?

I teach near Atlanta. I taught first grade until this year. Now I
teach EIP (Early Intervention Program) reading and math to grades 2
through 5. I'll have to give the teacher newsgroup a look.

Tara

biig said:

Oh Tara..was Mr McGregor the one with the Maggie Muggins character in
the book. I remember that from my childhood (late 40's - early 50's)

I don't know Maggie Muggins! Mr. McGregor is the farmer in Peter
Rabbit.

Tara

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:52:40 -0800, sf <[email hidden]>
connected the dots and wrote:

~On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:03:15 -0800, Ranee Mueller wrote:
~
~> In article <[email hidden]>, Andy <q>
~> wrote:
~>
~> > Dan,
~> >
~> > Nice story!
~> >
~> > There's a comic strip called "Stone Soup" and I always wondered
what it
~> > meant.
~> >
~> > Thanks,
~> >
~> > Andy
~>
~> Did you really grow up never hearing that story? I can't
imagine.
~>
~> Regards,
~> Ranee
~>
~I didn't grow up with it, but I've known the story for so long that I
~feel like I did.
~
~What makes me wonder is the comic strip.... what the heck is that all
~about? It's not in my newspaper as far as I know, so I guess it's
~time for Andy to post one or two strips.

Probably because they keep throwing this that and the other into the
mix, and end up with a family.

maxine in ri