I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Relationships

Essential Question:

How did you feel when you were “lost”?

Bridge:

Being Found

Content:

"Blueberries for Sal" by Robert McCloskey

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To enhance the children’s understanding of the special relationships that exist between mothers and their children.

Activity: Have the children interview their moms for “lost stories,” stories about someone being lost and then found, preferably someone the child knows.

Assessment: Degree of interest shown by the children

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have the children share their mom’s stories about being lost and being found.

Activity: Have the children tell their mom’s stories to each other, either with a partner or in small groups.

Assessment: The fun and drama of the stories and the interest of the children

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To help the children represent the essence of the notion of being found.

Activity: Have the children create a visual of being found when you’ve been lost.

Assessment: The details of the picture and the tone of relief and happiness depicted.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To understand and enjoy the book

Activity: Read the story Blueberries for Sal.

Assessment: Attentiveness and understanding on the part of the children.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To elicit from the children the details of the book.

Activity: Ask the following questions:
When Sal and Little Bear realized they were lost, what were their mothers doing?
How did their mothers find them?
What were the two mothers going to do with the blueberries?

Assessment: Accuracy of the answers.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To have the children relive the experience of finding and being found by sounds.

Activity: Have the children draw three noises that tell them where their mothers are and three noises that tell their mothers where they are.

Assessment: The relevance of the drawings and the richness of the details

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To have the children reflect on the special relationship between mothers and children.

Activity: Have the children do the following reflection orally:
Complete this sentence, “Mothers are…”

Assessment: The understanding of the specialness of mother’s caring presence

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To have the children act on their understanding of how their mothers care for them.

Activity: Have the children write and deliver a message to their moms based on their reflections in Quadrant Four, Left Mode.

Assessment: Completion and enjoyment of the task.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: