Hello friends! Welcome to Storytime with The Met.
My name is Christina and I'm so glad to see each of you.
Every thursday we'll be gathering together
to read a book and do an activity so find a cozy spot and let's get started!
We'll start with our Storytime song just like we do at the Museum. It
goes to the tune of "this old man." So we'll start on the
count of three: one two three!
Welcome friends, get ready get set, for Storytime at The
Met, where we love to read and sing and look at works of art and
picture books. We'll use our eyes to look and see, we'll use our ears to
hear stories. Now we'll take a seat and give a shhh.
Let's begin with our first book. Great job everyone! So our book today
is called The Sandwich Swap. It's written by Her Majesty
Queen Rania Al Abdullah with Kelly DiPuccio and illustrated by Tricia Tusa.
It all began with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
and it ended with a hummus sandwich. Salma and Lily were best friends at
school.
They drew pictures together. Do any of you like to draw pictures? I
like to draw pictures.
They played on the swings together.
They jumped rope together. What activities do you see
that children are playing on these pages? What do you notice?
And they ate their lunch together What foods do you see in this picture? I
see that people are eating a lot of different foods.
But just what they ate was a little different.
Lily ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
every day for lunch. Salma ate a hummus and pita sandwich every day for lunch
and although Lily never said it out loud, she thought Salma's sandwich
looked weird and yucky. She felt terrible that her friend had to
eat that icky chickpea paste every day.
Ew. Yuck. And although Salma never said it out
loud, she thought Lily's sandwich looked strange
and gross. She just felt awful that her friend had to eat that gooey
peanut paste every day. Ew. Gross. Are there any foods that you
think are gross or yucky?
Then one day lily just couldn't hold back those pesky thoughts
any longer "Your sandwich looks kind of yucky," she
blurted out. "What did you say?" Salma asked, thinking
she must have misunderstood her friend. "I said, your sandwich looks yucky."
Salma frowned. She looked down at the thin soft bread and she
thought of her beautiful smiling mother as she carefully cut Salma's sandwich
into two neat halves that morning. Her hurt feelings turned mad
"Yeah, well, your sandwich looks gross and it smells
bad too," Salma snapped back. Lily looked surprised. She sniffed
the thick squishy bread and she thought of her dad and his silly apron
whistling as he cut Lily's sandwich into two perfect triangles that morning.
Lily scowled. "It does not smell bad." "Does too!" Ew... yuck!"
"Ew... gross!"
That afternoon the friends did not draw pictures together. They did not swing
together and they did not jump rope together
either. The next day Salma ate her lunch at one
table and Lily ate her lunch at another.
Meanwhile, the peanut butter versus hummus story had
spread and everyone began choosing sides. Each side had something not so nice to
say to the other. Peanut butter breath! Jelly heads!
Garlic breath! Chickpea brains! Pretty soon the rude insults had nothing
to do at all with peanut butter or hummus.
You're weird! You're stupid! You look funny!
You dress dumb! And then it happened. Somebody yells
food fight!
Peanut butter and hummus sandwiches and other lunch favorites
began flying back and forth between both sides of the lunchroom.
They stuck to the walls, they stuck to the ceiling,
they stuck to the lunch lady. Oh no! When the sandwiches were all gone
pudding cups and applesauce and carrot sticks took flight. Salma
and Lily looked at one another from across
the rowdy splattered room. They both felt ashamed by what they saw.
What kinds of food do you see on this page?
I see a lot of different kinds of food all over.
They both felt really ashamed when the principal
called them into her office after they had helped
clean up the mess. The following day Salma set her lunch down across from
Lily's. The two girls nibbled on their
sandwiches in silence. Finally Lily got up the courage to speak.
"Would you like to try a bite of my peanut butter and jelly?"
Salma grinned. "Sure. Why not? Would you like to try my hummus and pita?"
Lily laughed. "I'd like that." "On the count of three!"
"Okay on the count of three!" Can we help them count to three?
One, two, three!
Mmmm! Yummy! "Hey, this is delicious!" "And this is heavenly!" The girls giggled.
And hugged. And traded sandwiches. After lunch, Salma and Lily met with the
principal again. This time they were there to suggest a
very special event for the whole school.
Let's see what it is.
Wow!
What kinds of food do you see here? What do you see happening? I see lots of
people sharing their food and enjoying each other's food.
And that's how it all began with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
and it ended with a hummus and pita sandwich.
The end! Thank you so much for joining me in
reading that book. I hope you enjoyed that story.
Thinking about food and how we share our food and our culture
has me thinking of a painting in the Museum's collection.
It's called The Afternoon Meal or La Merienda.
Looking at that painting, what do you notice?
What colors do you see? What kinds of food do you see here?
If you could step inside that painting what would you do?
What might you eat? Thinking about this further, I wanted to share
a food that I like to eat as an afternoon snack, banana ice cream
so you'll need a banana, at least one, and then you'll cut the
banana into small slices. Now,
here comes the hard part. You'll have to wait.
you'll have to stick those slices of banana in your freezer
at least for a couple of hours if not for overnight or
several hours. Once they come out of the freezer
you can stick those banana slices in a food processor or blender
and just press go! Then at first it will get a little crumbly
but then it will get nice and smooth like ice cream and that's all from one
banana. If you want, though, you can add some
different flavors. So here I have my banana ice cream
and in one of them I added peanut butter and honey
and another I added cocoa powder to make it chocolatey.
So you can customize it and add what you'd like.
I hope you enjoy. Thank you so much for joining me for Storytime today. We hope
to see you again soon.
Goodbye!