Who Grew My Soup
By: Tom Darbyshire
Imagine this. You’re sitting down at the table and your mom
brings you a bowl of veggie soup for supper. You of course hate vegetables and
do not want to eat this soup. While staring at the chunky ingredients found in the
soup you begin to wonder “Who grew my soup?” Well, in this fun rhyming story
you quickly learn about where the soup is grown through the tale of a young
curious boy. Phin begins his journey with a man who takes him to each farm
seeing where the vegetables are grown.
“His eyes popped,
His jaw dropped,
He fumbled his spoon.
From the sky cam a flying tomato balloon!”
“The pilot, in goggles, was shouting hello,
From a rather large cooking pot hanging below.
“Hop in!
Hurry up!
Climb aboard!
Tallyho!”
Mr. Matto was the name of his “soup”ervisor who took him on his journey to make him
“soup”er wiser! They traveled to different farms all over and with each visit
Phin thought a little harder. At the end of this trip he decided to give this
soup a chance.
“He swallowed,
He sighed…
He knew he’d been beaten.
That soup was the best thing that he’d ever eaten!
Phin said, “Hey how come we’ve never had his before?”
His mom, she just laughed, then she served him some more.”
Phin learned to love his soup because he thought of it
differently than he had before. With this activity students can use this book
as an example for their activity.
This activity can be
done not only with Who Grew My Soup
but also with any book that you are reading in your classroom or the children
are reading individually. With this
synthesizing activity the children can be given this worksheet or can be drawn
on a poster board and done as a whole. But before starting the kids would write
down what they were first thinking by maybe just looking at pictures or hearing
the title of the book. After that they will write about, When I was reading, I
was thinking, this can be what they generalize about the story from existing
knowledge they already have and know. Then at the end they will write about
what they were thinking and how they formed new line of thinking or perspective
on a situation. Then they are to write the title of the story at the bottom
where labeled at when finished.
"This book is very cute and will be great to use in my future classroom. I love this activity because it not only makes kids pay attention while reading but also makes them continue to think and grow new perspectives."-Dianne
" I thought this book was great with out activity because it shows the boy thinking of things different using what he knew and had learned."-Mallory
