What a soup we ate at snack on Thursday! And we made soup paintings which I hope you'll put up in your kitchens -- and from their cue, welcome your children to take on small opportunities to "make soup together" -- both, pretend and real. Soup of course is about people coming together to share their offerings -- and the transformation that arises from that simple recipe for happiness. It's a fun "game to play" no matter how hot the stove REALLY gets.
Stone Soup describes this soup vision so wonderfully, so we are thankful to Grannie Annie (Finn's grandmother, from whose compost heap the our famous and now souped-and-devoured squash had grown). If you haven't already read it yourself, do.
To develop the themes of collectivity and offerings, I'd like to make a school-stone-vegetable-soup for the week before Thanksgiving, where each child brings at least one vegetable they've diced up with their families and we put them all together on one day.... and eat them cooked into soup.... either later that day or at the following class -- depending on cooking logistics. If anyone would love to do the "stove cooking" part of this, just shout! Note, the children do not eat A LOT of soup, so the vegetable contributions can be moderate in size.
Just planting a seed. What do you all think?
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