I read through the lesson and thought it would be perfect to help my little firsties schema. I totally wish someone was watching as I did my lesson. It was perfect. It went the way you always want your lesson to go. I did the part with the shoes, and we made an anchor chart. It was a lot of fun. I had the kids rolling with laughter as we talked about my stinky, smelly, hiking boots going to a wedding or my high heels huffing through the forest.
We also made the T-chart with a place that the students were familiar with and a place they were not. I chose our aquatic center, because I knew most of them had been there. I had my students do a think pair share. They were so excited talking about their favorite part, what they like to do, ect. Then we wrote their thoughts on the T chart. Next I wrote Yellowstone on the other side of the T chart and had them think pair share. They were so quiet... when I asked about their thoughts, all I got was stones and yellow. We then talked about why they were so quiet and how important schema is for helping us understand the story.
They were so curious about what Yellowstone was, I found a short book on it and read it to them. Then we watched Old Faithful on youtube. They loved it.... I can't wait to try some of the other ideas in this lesson.
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