Blueberries for Sal

Summary: ->Book

The story concerns a little girl, named Sal who goes out blueberry picking with her mother. At the same time Sal and her mother are blueberry picking, a mother bear and her cub are out hunting for blueberries to eat and fill themselves up for the winter.

As the story continues, little Sal, and the bear cub, both lose track of their mothers as they stop and eat blueberries. Sal finds herself following the mother bear and the bear cub follows little Sal's mother. When the mother bear and Sal's mother realize who is really behind them, they run away in search of their own children. 

The end of the story finds the bear and bear cub, and little Sal and her mother, safely back together again. Blueberries For Sal is the heartwarming story of the love between a parent and child-- be that parent and child human or animal!

Blueberries for Sal(小塞爾采藍莓)講的是小賽爾和媽媽一起去山上采藍莓預備過冬，跟著媽媽從山的左邊沿著一條長長的長長的斜坡往上走，邊走邊找藍莓，其實，小賽爾基本是邊走邊吃了，他手裡提溜的那個小鐵罐裡，永遠都只有兩三顆藍莓，其餘的都填五臟廟了。
而幾乎與此同時，在山的右邊，一隻小熊跟著媽媽沿著另一條長長的長長的山坡往上走。冬天來了，他們需要盡可能多吃點藍莓，儲存脂肪，以便過冬。
兩位媽媽都在忙於采藍莓，自然有點疏忽了對孩子的照看。兩個孩子也都忙於吃草莓，自然也忘記了緊跟媽媽的腳步。看到兩個孩子慢慢落單，意識到落單後開始找媽媽，我們懸著的心撲通撲通直跳啊~~~~
如果小賽爾不小心碰到了熊媽媽怎麼辦？如果小熊找到的是小賽爾的媽媽怎麼辦？

Objectives :

1 Children will explore parent-child relationships

2 Children will investigate the differences between child and adult behaviors

3 Children will learn about the importance of following safety rules

Word to Knows:

Clump

Hustle

Crow

Tramp

Stump

Partridge

Canning

Munch

Gulp

Tremendous

Gasp

Word Scramble

1. INUMOANT __________________

2. AREB __________________

3. LPIA __________________

4. KPIC __________________

5. UHMNC _______________

6. EHOTMR _______________

7. HDLCI ________________

8. WRTINE _______________

9. RKCO ________________

10. ERBISER ________________

11. YRUBEELBR ______________

12. WWSALOL ________________

13. TIEKAMS ________________

ANSWERS

1. MOUNTAIN

2. BEAR

3. PAIL

4. PICK

5. MUNCH

6. MOTHER

7. CHILD

8. WINTER

9. ROCK

10. BERRIES

11. BLUEBERRY

12. SWALLOW

13. MISTAKE

Read the story and discuss together:

1. Do you think the Mother Bear was afraid of Sal? Why or why not?

2. Can you make the sound the blueberries made when dropped in the bucket?

3. Why would Sal’s mother run away from Little Bear?

4. Have you ever picked berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries…)?

Find/Name some states where you could pick these fruits? (Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin,

Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon, California…)

5. Name as many things as you can that are made with blueberries.

6. Why did Mother Bear want Little Bear to eat lots of berries?

7. Would blueberries be a great food for you to eat and why or why not?

8. How would you have felt if you were Sal when she saw she was following Mother Bear?

9. What was Sal’s breakfast? Have you ever made anything with blueberries? Pancakes? Muffins? Scones? After reading, why not try?!

10 Prepare muffins, scones, and Cornmeal Cake or Pancakes and invite parents, friends,

or neighbors for tea or coffee or breakfast or a snack.

Reading Activities:

1. For Junior

2. For General level

3. For Senior

Recall Questions
Ask the following questions to check children's understanding of the story.

1. What is the title of this book? (The title is Blueberries for Sal.)
2. Who is Sal? (Sal is the little girl.)
3. Where do Mother and Sal go to pick blueberries? (They go to Blueberry Hill.)
4. Who else comes to pick blueberries? (Little Bear and his mother come to pick blueberries.)
5. What happens to Little Bear and Little Sal? (They get mixed up and start following the wrong mother.)
6. How does Mother Bear figure out that Sal is behind her, not Little Bear? (She hears the sound of the berries going into the pail and she wonders what made the noise.)
7. How does Sal's mother figure out that Little Bear is behind her, not Sal? (She turns around when Little Bear eats a big mouthful of berries from her pail.)
8. How does this story end? (Mother Bear finds Little Bear and Mother finds Little Sal. Everyone goes home.)

Blueberries for Sal Reading Activities For General

Blueberries for Sal Reading Activities For Senior

Blueberries for Sal  
by Robert McCloskey. Viking, 1978. 
Activities ©2003 Nancy Polette

ABOUT THE BOOK A mother and her child go berry picking on Blueberry Hill. Mother wants to can the berries for winter. A mother bear and her cub go berry eating on Blueberry Hill at the same time. Mother Bear wants her cub to eat lots of berries to get ready for winter. Imagine the surprised mothers when they turn around to find each other's children behind them! Both mothers walked quickly away...mother to find Sal and Mother Bear to find her cub. All ends happily when mothers and children do find each other.

SINGING THE STORY  Fill in the missing words. Sing the song to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". Oh, Sal and her (1) M _____________________________ went walking All over the Blueberry (2) H ______________________________________ They wanted to pick sweet, ripe (3) b ______________________________ And each had a tin pail to fill. Chorus Mother picked and She filled up her (4) p ____________________________ to the very top Sal dropped (5) b ______________________________________ The sound that they made was ker-plop. A bear and her (6) c ________________________ they went walking To find lots of good things to (7) e _______________________________ The next thing they knew they got parted Then Sal and the Mother (8) b _____________________________ meet. The baby bear followed Sal's (9) m _______________________________ Who thought (10) S __________________________ was walking behind Both mothers took off to go hunting Their own little children to find.

JOURNAL WRITING Directions: Choose one of the sentence starters below. Finish the sentence and write two more sentences about the topic. 1. Picking berries can be fun when... 2. A baby bear needs its mother because... 3. Walking in the woods... 4. Getting lost from your mother... 5. Things to make with blueberries... 6. Sounds that bears make are.... 7. Sounds that children make are.... 8. Things to do to prepare for winter...

DISCUSSING THE STORY1. Did Sal's mother expect her to fill her pail with berries? Why or why not? 2. Why was Mother Bear afraid of Sal? 3. Why did Sal's mother run away from Little Bear? 4. How many things can you name that are made of blueberries? 5. Why did Mother Bear want Little Bear to eat lots of berries? 6. How do you think Sal felt when she saw she was following Mother Bear?

SEQUENCING, CAPITALIZATION, PUNCTUATIONDirections: Cut apart the story strips and place in correct order to tell the story. Add capital letters and punctuation marks where needed. 1. blueberry hill to pick berries 2. and finally found their children 3. blueberry hill to eat berries 4. mother bear and little bear went to 5. both mothers looked for 6. mother and sal went to 7. little bear followed sals mother 8. sal followed mother bear

LEARNING ABOUT BEARS From the encyclopedia or a book about bears, find out what bears eat. Make a list. What bears eat: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Choose another forest animal. Find out what it eats. Make a list. What ____________________ eat: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Use the pattern below to report your information: If I had the appetite of a bear, I would eat _____________________ And ____________________________ But I wouldn't eat ______________________ Because only ___________________ eat that. Example: If I had the appetite of a wart hog, I would eat roots, plants, bird's eggs And even small animals. But I wouldn't eat caribou Because wolves eat that.

[Story book] Blueberries For Sal