Bat week is always one of my favorite weeks of the year! We had so much fun learning all about bats this week, reading bat books, singing bat songs, and completing bat activities! We began our week learning all about different types of bats and the foods that they eat. We learned that some bats eat insects and that one bat can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour! The kids cut & glued 600 mosquitoes to dinner plates to represent an insect-eating bat's dinner. Can you tell how shocked they were to find out that one bat could consume 600 mosquitoes in an hour? Their faces are priceless! We also made these amazing bat diagrams. One of the text features that we study in 2nd grade is a diagram. We learn how to use a diagram when we are reading non-fiction text. The kids drew and labeled their own bats. I was so impressed with their artistic ability that I had to display them in the room. Our bats are now hanging on the clotheslines above us while we learn! On Thursday, we read the book Stellaluna about a little bat who is separated from her mother after an owl attack. Stellaluna lives with a family of birds until she is reunited with her mother. We have been focusing on what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. After reading Stellaluna, we recalled what happened in the story and made these awesome BME bat hats. Students wrote what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story and included those details around the outside of their bat hat. On the front, they made these cute (some were a little creepy) bats! Finally, we wrapped up the week with a final bat project. We put all of the information that we learned into this really cool project. We included four different types of bats, foods that bats eat, a mini bat diagram, things that bats help with such as eating mosquitoes and pollinating flowers, and how they use echolocation! You can see these hanging in the hallway outside our classroom!
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AuthorMrs. Brunt is a third grade teacher at Whiteford Elementary. Archives
July 2019
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