Our Adventures with Before Five in a Row - Blueberries for Sal

This week we are rowing the classic story Blueberries for Sal.  This story has so many great lessons and things to learn, from staying with your parent, to making food from what we grow, learning all about bears, etc. 

 

Although we did not have any blueberries in season to pick we did find raspberries and decided that it was just as good!  We were lucky to have extended family in town as well this past week so we were able to include them on our fun as well!  Plus, our children's Grama graciously made some yummy jam with all of the raspberries that we picked!

 

We also have continued our kind of on-going theme, learning about Bears from our book last week (We're Going on a Bear Hunt) and also the study we are doing on North America with Explore the Continents and two of the books we are reading with that program The Biggest Bear and The Three Snow Bears.  This week we talked all about hibernation, what bears like to eat and all of the different types of bears.  We even went to the zoo to look at some of the bears!

 

We continued with some fun learning activities from Homeschool Creations this week!  The boys worked together to match up the numerical numbers and written numbers for how many blueberries were in the pails and put them in order!

 

 

We made fun directional books of "Where Is Little Bear?" using glue sticks to paste little bear in different directions (near, under, above, next to, going up, etc) on each page.

 

 

We then continued with the rhyming pages, what is different pages, what letter different words begin with and tracing words and lines!

 

 

From the Before Five in a Row manual this week our Bible lesson was from Ruth 1:16 "Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay."  This was a great way to talk about how in Blueberries for Sal the little girl Sal and the Little Bear both got lost from their mothers and how dangerous it is to be separated from a parent.  We also discussed how God will always be with us and never leave!

 

We also did an activity for math where we put small objects in a pail and counted them as we added them or took them away.  We then did math games such as "If you pick three berries, and eat two of them, how many do you have left?"  Again, we had such a fun week of learning!  I am so blessed to be with these young men to watch them learn about and explore the world!

 

 

 

 

See more books that we have "Rowed" on our Homeschool Page!