?

I am a llama.

Peru

Ecuador

Bolivia

ChileThe 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.

They use a spinning machine to make yarn. Then they knit the yarn to make clothes.

Some people who own llamas and alpacas

shear

their fleece.

 

Sweaters

hatsrugs

Y a r nS p i n n i n g

Now many people in the USA are raising llamas

and alpacas.

Would you rather have an alpaca?

Or would you rather have a llama?

To choose an To choose an alpacaalpaca

Click on the picture

To choose the To choose the llamallama

Click on the picture

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 of a Rocky Mountain Llama by Diane White-Crane (Illustrator);

Harley by Star Livingstone, Molly Bang (Illustrator);

Llama in Pajamas by Gisela Voss

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?

Click on me when you are

finished

 

  

COMPARISON CHARTFor BRAINSTORMING SESSION

DIFFERENT

DIFFERENT

DIFFERENT

DIFFERENT

DIFFERENT

DIFFERENT

SAME

BEAR BAT

CHECK – OFF LISTTO USE FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS (p1. of 2)

Student Name: _________________________________________________ Assessment dateDirections:      Use a check marks (√ ) to indicate an acceptable performance      Use a zeros (0) to indicate a performance that did not meet criteria     No marks indicate no contributionTimes

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.

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.

 

Directions: Do this together in small groups or individually      Read the criteria to the student that you will be assessing and give examples      Let student predict what he expects to earn.       Let the student color a face in the PREDICTED column one for each row       Assess by highlighting a face in column YOU ARE GREAT or YOU NEED PRACTICE      When choosing YOU NEED PRACTICE make a suggestion of a method so he can improve. 

This is what I predicted

This is what you had to do:

YOU ARE

GREAT!

YOU NEED

PRACTICE

SUGGESTED

PRACTICE

☺Follow directions for book making:Drawing pictures ☺  

☺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 ☺  

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 ☺