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, December 19, 2013

Holiday Party tomorrow at 10:00 AM, Homework packets and reading logs are due. Holiday Reading Challenge will come home. Biography presentations begin tomorrow. Read more below.

Hi,

The class has been reading biographies and researching a person. They made flyers on a site called Smore.com. Many of the children have completed their Smore flyer and are ready to present their project tomorrow. (Jacob presented his today and did a great job!) If your child hasn't completed it, or if you want to go over it with them tonight, directions are below to locate it online.

Go to the FCE website, Our Teams, 4th Grade, Pam Bartholomew, Then go to the Bartholomew Bat Cave blog. At the Bat Cave, go to Reading/Writing Links then Smore is the first link.

Log in to Smore using your child's gmail account for the district.

Type s then your child's 6 digit number @student.roundrockisd.org (example: s123456@student.roundrockisd.org)

Password: your child's birthdate using 0, as needed. two digit month, two digit day and four digit year- (example: 01012004)

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks and enjoy! They have worked hard and their flyers look very good!

Have a great day!
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