Generous: Is There Enough?

The children were very excited this morning to show me the vegetable they brought. I showed Bela what I brought to contribute . . . a stone. "A stone! That's crazy!" he exclaimed. Tyreese forgot to bring a vegetable and his mom called to say that he had carrots in his lunch but kind Tyreese had already thought to take them from his lunch kit and add them to our tray.

Some of the children are familiar with the story Stone Soup; a community hides their food, unwilling to share with the strangers in town for fear they haven't got enough. It would seem that almost every culture has a version of this story - we'll explore a few more in the coming weeks and compare similarities and differences.

The children happily chatted as they cut vegetables and we discussed who would eat the soup. 

"Let's share with everyone, that would be generous." Tyreese

"But what about the kids that aren't here today. We should save some 

soup so they can have some when they're here." Sofia

After all the vegetables were cut Billy wanted to cut the stone. Bela initiated sharing his knowledge that stones can't be cut and showed Billy. The other children wanted to try too and indeed a stone cannot be cut . . . or at least not with a butter knife!