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MANDEL PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF WEST PALM BEACH
A SOUP OPERA
HOW TO USE A SOUP OPERA STORYTIME KIT
Things you'll need from your supplies for this storytime:
Shaker Eggs
Before the storytime:
Have children practice singing their line from the story using their best opera voice:
"I Can’t Eat the Soup!”
Use the link on the Virtual Storytime Page to watch A Soup Opera Storytime.
This page is password protected. Password has been provided by the program administrator.
After watching the storytime, use the components from the class Storytime Kits
provided by the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach to:
1. Enjoy Rhyme Cards with your class.
2. Practice the Word of the Week with your class.
3. Complete this week's craft.
4. Introduce this week's Literacy Tip into your curriculum.
STORYTIME WITH MS. JEANNE
The storytime for A Soup Opera Storytime is available on the Storytime Video Access
page of this website. This page is password protected and accessible only to preschools participating in the Mandel Public Library's Virtual Storytime and Kit program.
The password has been provided to you by the program coordinator.
BOOK: A SOUP OPERA
Author: Jim Gill
Illustrator: David Moose
A funny, musical story about a man's visit to a restaurant and his frustrating quest to eat a bowl of soup that enlists a whole cast of characters from a waiter to the President of the United States!
Kids will love to join in on the oft repeated refrain:
"What seems to be the problem here?"
"I can't eat the soup!"
RHYME #1: HERE IS THE BEEHIVE
HERE IS THE BEEHIVE…
Here is the beehive.
But where are the bees?
Hidden inside where nooobody sees!
WATCH! They will come out of their hive;
Count them, 1-2-3-4-5 (unfold and count each finger)
Bye-bye bees! (wave goodbye)
Printable Rhyme Cards Available Here
RHYME #2: PEAS PORRIDGE HOT
Peas porridge hot,
Peas porridge cold,
Peas porridge in the pot,
Nine days old.
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot,
Nine days old.
Printable Rhyme Cards Available Here
SOUP OPERA WORD OF THE WEEK
Use this week's Word of the Week, SOUP, to extend your learning:
1. Say and trace each letter of this week's word.
2. Sound out a word letter–by-letter.
3. Think of other words that rhyme with soup. These can be real words
or made-up ones that are silly and non-sensical!
Link to printable Word of the Week sheet here:
CRAFT
Children will collage A Soup Opera Soup Bowl craft with the supplies provided in the
Storytime Kit from the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach.
Directions:
1. Use glue stick to glue the black "broth" area to the soup bowl.
2. Glue different "good ingredients" onto the broth.
3. Have children discuss what "good ingredients" they added to their soup.
LITERACY TIP
Some children love to sit and listen to books, and some find other activities more interesting. Help your students enjoy books by having them participate. In this storytime, children can sing along with the characters in A Soup Opera. When asked "What seems to be the problem here?" encourage your students to respond "I can't eat the soup!" Ask children to join
in saying a repeated phrase in other books you read together.
Some other books with repetitive phrases include:
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow