Today she’s the one who climbs the mountain, makes the jam, and is making plans for a dual major in agriculture and entrepreneurship in college. One daughter (my now-16-year-old homesteader) recently told me that she would love to sit and stare at it when she was a toddler, wishing she could step into Sal’s kitchen. SPEND time discussing the details of the final illustration of Blueberries for Sal. I truly hope they are a blessing to your family. Today I’m happy to share many of these great resources with you. Little did I know how amazingly delicious homemade wild blueberry jam is!īut I DID know we loved this book, so we spent many fun afternoons doing activities relating to this classic children’s book.

Little did I know that my Blueberries for Sal lover would take a walk up a nearby mountain with me, pail in hand, many times each summer and pick her own blueberries to can for winter. Little did I know, a decade ago, that God would one day call our family to uproot ourselves from Mid-Atlantic suburbia to start a rural New England homestead. Read the disclosures and terms for more information. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. One of the most treasured of all our family’s picture book unit studies centered around a sweet story about an adventurous girl and her mom who go picking blueberries together on a mountain slope in Maine: Blueberries for Sal.ĭisclosure: *This post may include affiliate links. I realized I might as well be teaching them little things about the topic, the author, or the story if I was going to loose my mind enjoy reading it 228 times. Those wonderful dog-eared books became part of who my daughters are today, as young adults.

When we found one they loved, we of course read them again and again. Nothing we did had more of an impact on them than reading a favorite classic book together. Picture book unit studies were my favorite part of homeschooling when my daughters were young.

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey