Ridgeline Montessori

Ridgeline's fall favorite tradition, Stone Soup day, will be on Friday, November 22. Stone Soup is a fable that illustrates the importance of sharing and cooperation. Ridgeline students and their families re-enact these values when they bring and prepare foods on veggie slicing day, Thursday, November 21, for our community meal the following day. We need a lot of volunteers to help make this event happen!

On Stone Soup day we will need:
- 5 cooks to make the soup with all of the pre-sliced veggies
- help preparing and delivering baskets of donated bread for each classroom
- soup servers
- an all day "general" helper
-dishwashers and a clean-up crew

Volunteers that help with Stone Soup day are invited to stay and partake in enjoying a bowl of soup too. Please sign-up below for the role that works best for you below.

Here is a version of the Stone Soup fable:

Once upon a time, somewhere in Eastern Europe, there was a great famine. People jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a peddler drove his wagon into a village, sold a few of his wares, and began asking questions as if he planned to stay the night. "There's not a bite to eat in the whole province,” he was told. "Better keep on moving on."

"Oh I have everything I need,” he said. "In fact, I was thinking of making some stone soup to share with all of you." He pulled an iron cauldron from his wagon, filled it with water, and built a fire under it. Then, with great ceremony, he drew an ordinary-looking stone from a velvet bag and dropped it into the water.

By now, hearing the rumor of food, most of the villagers had come to the square or watched from their windows. As the peddler sniffed the "broth" and licked his lips in anticipation, hunger began to overcome their skepticism.

"Ahh,” the peddler said to himself rather loudly, "I do like a tasty soup. Of course, stone soup with CABBAGE - that's to beat."

Soon a villager approached hesitantly, holding a cabbage he'd retrieved from its hiding place, and added it to the pot. "Capital!" cried the peddler. "You know, I once had stone soup with cabbage and a bit of salt beef as well, and it was fit for a king."

The village butcher managed to find some salt beef…and so it went, through potatoes, onions, carrots, mushrooms, and so on, until there was indeed a delicious meal for all.