Bartholomew Bats!


Our school is located in Round Rock, Texas which is near Austin. Austin and Round Rock both have huge populations of Mexican Free Tailed Bats that live under our bridges. A colony of bats lives beneath the Ann Richards/Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin and in Round Rock, another colony resides under the Interstate 35 bridge over McNeil Road. Each evening from March to about October, the bats fly out from beneath the bridge and search for insects to eat. The emergence of the bats is a wonder to watch. We are also thankful that all these millions of bats eat the bugs by our homes.

Our class mascot is the Bat to honor the mammals that live so close to us and help us. (also because Bat and Bartholomew both start with the letter B!) The bats in Central Texas live together in a group and help take care of the young. Then they migrate together as a team. Our class will also live together in our classroom, work together as a team, and help each other out. We are the Bartholomew Bats!





Monday, June 21, 2010

Math Blogs Galore!

While looking for a quality math blog, I found http://letsplaymath.net/ which led me to many, many more math blogs!

This particular blog seemed very kid/parent/teacher friendly which is awesome and linked to some great online games. I really love the free rice games-http://www.freerice.com/index.php?&t=400292116800&s=Multiplication%20Table. You practice math, grammar, geography, etc...For every correct answer, the website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

I also loved reading the posts from Math Mama on her blog. Let me know what you think about these math blogs and how they were useful (or could be useful) to you.
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2 comments:

ahintz said...

Fantastic! I enjoyed reading your posts and appreciate you highlighting different subject areas and blogs that are resources for each. If you want to hyperlink text to make it go to the site when clicked on follow these steps: 1. highlight the words you want to be the link. 2. Click on the little link icon (when you mouse over it, it says link) looks like one grey link. 3. Where it says URL enter the full address starting with http://. Keep up the great work!!
~Angie

June 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM
Gail said...

All I can say is WOW!!! You have gone a lot further with this than I have. I love the design. I can see that you have put a lot of time and effort into this project. I can't wait to see what else you add to it

June 23, 2010 at 4:06 PM

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