Robert McCloskey - Day 2 Blueberries for Sal

Book Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

**This week we are doing books by Robert McCloskey so we will always begin with Reading instead of Phonics/Writing**

Reading

Preparation:
Materials

Blueberries for Sal  by Robert McCloskey

Teaching:

1.  Read Blueberries for Sal.
2.  Explain what characters are. Discuss which two characters are alike (mom and mother bear, Sal and little bear). How are they alike?  How are they different?

Phonics/Writing
Preparation:
Make rhyming words cards with words from the book - print words with picture, cut out and glue on to 3X5 cards

(Sal, Pal, Bear, chair, eat, feet, hill, mill, whale, pail, clue, blue)

 Materials

Rhyming Cards

Teaching:

1.  Play a matching game with your child matching the rhymes.
2.  Separate the cards into piles of "Endings look alike," and "Endings that look different."  We like to          send the endings that are spelled differently to "jail."
3.  Point to the words and talk about the different ways we spell the same sound (bear/chair, whale/pail)

**Writing - have your child practice writing the letter "B", both capital and lower case.**

Math

Preparation:

Create 2 large pictures of pails.  Draw 8 cirlces on each bucket.
Cut several circles out of blue paper that match the size of the circles on pails

Materials

Pails
Blue circles
Spinner

Teaching:

1.      You'll be playing the game "Sal's Blueberry Bucket."
2.  Take turns spinning and adding blueberries to your bucket.  WHoever fills in their 8 circles first, wins.
3.  As you play ask questions such as, "How many more blueberries do you need to win?"

Exploration

Preparation:

Materials

2 cups blueberries
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 TBSP corn starch
1/4 cup water

Teaching:

1.   Place blueberries (I used frozen) in a medium saucepan.  Add sugar, cinnamon, cornstarch and toss blueberries.  Add water.  Let child help add ingredients.
2.  Have adult cook blueberries.  When cool, eat your "canned blueberries" like Sal and her mother.

Art

Preparation

Materials

paper
blue paint
white paint
black paint
paintbrush

Teaching:

1.      Show your child the Robert McCloskey books for hte week.  POInt out that McCloskey uses only 1-2 colors to draw his pictures.
2.  Have your child paint a picture using blue paint.  He can mix black or white paint into the blue to vary the shades of blue.