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!





Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Back to School Night-Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6:00 pm

Hi,

This is a reminder that Back to School Night is tomorrow night. (Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria) We will all meet there and Mrs. Lehnick will be talking to you about school wide items. Then Kari Maurer, our 4th grade team facilitator, will talk to all of you about some general fourth grade things. We will then come back to the classroom and you can ask some more specific 4th grade questions at this time. You will also be able to see some of your child's work and try to figure out which "bioglyph" is his/her drawing.

A bioglyph is a symbolic representation of a face. The symbols represent observable things like gender, eye color, hair color, and hair length. There are also symbols that require an interview. We interviewed each other and collected data. Tomorrow we will use the data that we collected through our observations and our interviews to help determine which bioglyph belongs to which child. Interview information included favorite color, number of brothers and sisters, birthday month and day, how they get to school, number of pets, and attitude about science. We will see if you can use our key and figure out which bioglyph represents your child.

You will also have the opportunity to write a note to your child and leave it on his/her desk for the morning. (Don't tell. Let them be surprised!)

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow and I am having a great time in class with your children!

Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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