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, January 4, 2012

Wow! Amazing Holiday Reading Logs!!!!!

Hi,

I am soooo impressed with your children. Everyone read over the required 200 minutes over the holiday break. Madi read the most amount of time (14 hours) and Aden was close to her (14 hours 25 minutes)! The majority of the class read at least 5 hours! Incredible! Keep up the great work!

The last two days have been wonderful! We have all worked hard on some challenging things (equivalent fractions using fraction circles, a little bit of finding a common denominator, lots of exploring with forces) and have reviewed expectations. Everyone seems to be trying their best and that is great!

We are finishing up studying forces and are beginning to examine properties of soil. We need everyone to bring a handful of dirt from your yard in a plastic bag with your child's name on the bag. We will doing some explorations using the soil tomorrow afternoon. It will be messy but fun!

Reminder-Science Checkpoint 1 due tomorrow.

Pen Pals coming to visit on Tuesday, Jan. 10 to make clay bowls for the Empty Bowl Project on April 14. Our bowls will be donated for this event and all money raised will go to the Round Rock Serving Center.

Writing Club-next Thursday, Jan. 12

The FCE Service Club will be volunteering at the Round Rock Serving Center on Saturday, Jan. 6 from 10-11 am. We would love to see you there!

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks for all your support at home.

Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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