Bat Week in Mrs. Gentile's Class!

Well the bats arrived and we had a blast learning about them!  

These are some of the books we read:  

We did some creative writing and pretended we were bats.  But before we got started we first thought of some great word choices.  As a class we came up with adjectives that described bats.  We described tiny Bumblebee  Bats  as well as giant Flying Fox Bats.  I wrote the students ideas down onto a large bat that I had cut out.

The students then chose eight words to write on their individual adjective page.  They needed to choose two of their adjectives to use in their writing about bats!

We also wrote three nonfictional details about bats and made a mobile that we hung in the hall.  Here's a picture of our upside down Into the Night fictional stories as well as our mobiles.

A better picture of the bat mobiles are in last weeks post.   Another fun activity was playing our echolocation game.  We went outside and formed a large circle.  We chose a bat and four insects to be in the middle.  We blindfolded our bat so that he/she had to use their ears to catch the insects.  The bat would call out "bug" and the insects had to answer with "bat".  They continued to call back and forth to each other as our bat tried to tag one of the bugs.  We watched various clips on different types of bats and ended our bat week with Magic School Bus Going Batty.  You can find a lot of the fun adjective activities and other fun pages in my  Bats! Into the Night!  - just follow the link to my TpT store.

Next week ... bring on the spiders!  I will be using a lot of things from my packet Spiders!  Into the Web!