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What's a . I am a llama. llama. ?. Ecuador. Peru. Bolivia. Chile. The Andes Mountains. I live in the Andes Mountains in northern South America where the weather never gets too hot. We are used as pack animals in the mountains. A close relative is the alpaca. I am an alpaca .
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What's a I am a llama. llama ?
Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile The Andes Mountains I live in the Andes Mountains in northern South America where the weather never gets too hot.
A close relative is the alpaca. I am an alpaca.
Some people who own llamas and alpacas shear their fleece. They use a spinning machine to make yarn. Then they knit the yarn to make clothes.
S p i n n i n g Y a r n rugs hats Sweaters
Now many people in the USA are raising llamas and alpacas.
Would you rather have an alpaca? To choose an alpaca Click on the picture Or would you rather have a llama? To choose the llama Click on the picture
Thanks for choosing a llama! Some books about llamas are: Click on me when you are finished The Llama's Secret: A Peruvian Legend (Legends of the World)by Argentina Palacios, Charles Reasoner (Illustrator) How Llama Saved the Day: A Story from Peru (First-Start Legends)at Your Brother, by Janet Palazzo-Craig, Charles Reasoner (Illustrator) Stop Spitting Life Lessons ofa Rocky Mountain Llama by Diane White-Crane (Illustrator); Harley by Star Livingstone, Molly Bang (Illustrator); Llama in Pajamas by Gisela Voss
Thanks for choosing an alpaca! Some books about alpacas are: Click on me when you are finished Hats On For Polka Dot by Kathleen Sampson Not many books about alpacas. Maybe you could write some?
COMPARISON CHART For BRAINSTORMING SESSION DIFFERENT DIFFERENT SAME DIFFERENT DIFFERENT BEAR BAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT
Times Assessed and Rated Comments Assessment Criteria Makes predictions about a story after looking at illustrations and hearing the title Draws pictures of animals that do belong in a category. Answers questions about what animals should be excluded from a category. Answers yes and no questions using physical signaling. Uses creative and critical thinking by contributing ideas during cooperative grouping. CHECK – OFF LIST TO USE FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS (p1. of 2) Student Name: _________________________________________________ Assessment date Directions: ØUse a check marks (√ ) to indicate an acceptable performance ØUse a zeros (0) to indicate a performance that did not meet criteria ØNo marks indicate no contribution
STUDENT BOOK-MAKING SAMPLE (As a group, students have decided to use two animals.) Bears do sleep at night. Bats do not. (teacher makes last pages for book) But both bears and bats like to sleep in a cave.
UNIT ASSESSMENT CHART (p. 1 of 2) Student Name__________________________________________ Assessment date_________________________________ This is what I predicted This is what you had to do: YOU NEED PRACTICE SUGGESTED PRACTICE ☺ Follow directions for book making: Drawing pictures ☺ YOU ARE GREAT! ☺ Follow direction for book making: Telling the teacher what to write ☺ ☺ Organize the information: Draws or gives the idea for an animal for the group description ☺ Directions: Do this together in small groups or individually üRead the criteria to the student that you will be assessing and give examples üLet student predict what he expects to earn. üLet the student color a face in the PREDICTED column one for each row üAssess by highlighting a face in column YOU ARE GREAT or YOU NEED PRACTICE üWhen choosing YOU NEED PRACTICE make a suggestion of a method so he can improve.
UNIT ASSESSMENT CHART (p. 2 of 2) ☺ Cooperates in group contributing ideas ☺ ☺ Cooperates in group shares ideas about categorizing animals ☺ ☺ Cooperates in group: Takes turns drawing and coloring ☺