Call for  Empty Bowl Help….Please Share fresh Celery to Help Others

The Empty Bowl Dinner is coming up soon on Sunday, February 21^st, from 4-7 p.m.in the Westview Cafeteria. Please join us at our 6^th bi-annual event as we help others by fighting hunger. No reservations are needed, and after a simple meal, you will be able to take home a lovely handcrafted ceramic bowl made by someone in the community.  

The kindergarteners have been very busy participating and  learning how they too can use their creative abilities to help others. They skillfully and very determinably used their fingertips by pressing them into the clay to make cute flowers. The lovely draped bowl shapes were then glazed by the 2^nd graders. They also took on the glazing of the 4^th grade made bowls, with attached feet and handles, by learning about and using color families of opaque glazes.

In addition to their creative ceramic endeavors, all the SSFS students are being asked to contribute to our pot of Stone Soup for the dinner! Do you know the fable of Stone Soup?  There are many versions of this old traditional fable, but all conclude with a tasty dinner, made by a little of this and a little of that, all shared with generosity.

A hungry person enters a town and asks for a bit of dinner, however, the villagers deny having enough food to share. So, the man pulls out a stone from his knapsack, and invites everyone to partake in the soup he plans to make with a pot of water and the stone. Amazed, the townspeople start to contribute by adding just a little bit of flavor to his wonderful magical soup made with just a stone: a carrot here, an onion there, and soon, the cauldron is brimming with delicious vegetables. A delicious soup for the whole community made from everyone’s sharing! A version of the story will be read to all LS students before the dinner.

In making our plans for the dinner, we are asking the K’s to each bring in bunches of celery hearts for our soup. We will a have cooler in front of the carpool circle the days between February 8^th -19^th, as well as a box at Pam’s desk.

I greatly appreciate your participation and support with this wonderful signature SSFS project. I look forward to seeing you at the dinner.