Hi everyone, I had posted a couple of days ago that I had done a lesson using Moonbear's Skyfire for schema.
Well, yesterday I was doing a read-aloud with my first graders with the book The Alphabet Mystery. For those of you who are unfamilar with the book, the lower case letters of the alphabet do roll call every night before going to bed and discover that little x is missing. They go in search of little x and find out that he ran away because the owner of the letters never use him. The letters tell him he needs to come back because the owner is going to use him 4 times tomorrow for his mother's birthday. I stopped here and told my students I was confused. I wrote "Happy Birthday Mom!" on a tablet on my chart stand . Then I said to them puzzled, "I don't see where you could use the letter "x"". Several hands shot up and told me that he was going to use the letter "x" for kisses. "Really I said. Do you think that's going to happen?" Then one little girl raised her hand and told me "Mrs. Barra, the reason your confused is because using the letter "x" for kisses is not in your schema" I did all that I could to not burst out laughing. It was so rewarding that one child got it!! Felicia _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
