Finn’s class spent the last couple of days before their [week-long] Thanksgiving break learning about the Stone Soup story, making Stone Soup and, on Friday, making butter and eating the soup. I volunteered to help with the butter-making and it was a fun — and exhausting — three hours at school.
First, the adults ran around getting things ready, while Finn’s teacher, Ms. Jessica, handled the regular early morning stuff. It was someone’s birthday so they did the “birthday shower” and the kids wrote out birthday wishes for her. Here is Finn’s table working on their birthday wishes.
Then the butter-making began. We put small amounts of heaving whipping cream into baby food jars and the kids started shaking.
They did a lot of jumping, light shaking and complaining their arms hurt, but eventually the cream turned into butter and some leftover milk. The kids drank (or at least tried) the milk and then ate some of the butter on crackers. Next up after recess they got to try the Stone Soup they’d made the day before. Finn had loved cutting up carrots and celery for the soup the day before and he gobbled up his portion and asked if we could make Stone Soup at home.
