Is Your Mama a Llama?
This week was my first visit to my first grade classroom and it was a BLAST! There are so many wonderful things about working with first graders that I'm going to talk about, but first I want to give an overview of the visit. I chose to start out by reading the picture book Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guardino. This is an adorable book about a young llama that goes around asking other animals if their mama is a llama. The students were able to do a couple things to get them introduced to the idea of taking on different characters, such as mooing like the cow in the book or hopping like the kangaroo. After the story, I explained to them that right before I got to their class, I received a phonecall from a local zoo-owner, Mr. Hoot. Mr. Hoot recently had to hire all new zookeepers to take care of his animals. Unfortunately, none of the zookeepers have any experience with the animals they will be working with and he was wondering if we could help him by making a training video...
