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!





Thursday, September 16, 2010

Author Visit on Tuesday-Phil Bildner

Next Tuesday, Phil Bildner, a famous children's author, will be coming to have a writing camp day with our fourth grade classes. In the children's Thursday folders is an order form with pictures of his books in case you would like to purchase one. He will sign them.

Mr. Bildner came last year and was wonderful! The children were engaged and very excited about writing.

I will be showing Mr. Bildner's website to the class tomorrow and we will read some of his books as a class and individually.

http://www.philbildner.com/index.html


Thanks,
Pam Bartholomew
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Unknown said...

Looking forward to Tuesday! Gonna be a blast!

September 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM

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