Bats! Bats! Bats!

The children really enjoyed learning about bats this week. We read lots of nonfiction. The children shared their knowledge of bats by making a bat tree map. Then the children made a TLC bat picture and dictated bat facts for the pictures. These are displayed in the hallway. They made bat wrist puppets and wrote a sentence about their bats.

Bat Facts

The children listened to Stellaluna and then made paper bag Stellaluna puppets. They completed sentences telling about Stellaluna and glued these on the back of the puppets. We read about owls one day and made a diagram comparing owls and bats, telling how they were alike and different.



Since school began, the children have been reading to themselves (Read to Self time) every day for longer periods each day. They are up to 12 minutes of reading time now. This week they learned the procedures for reading to a friend (Read to Someone time). Partners sit EEKK, elbow to elbow and knee to knee. They take turns reading to each other, either from the same book or different books. Mrs. B and I move around the room listening to different pairs read. The children did a great job for their first Read to Someone time. From now on, we will alternate between Read to Self and Read to Someone.