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!





Friday, March 13, 2015

Newsletter

Hi,

We worked very hard to complete our Texas Hero projects. The children were creative, focused, patient, and cooperative. They worked together, helped each other, and patiently waited for conferences with me. It was wonderful and the projects look great.

If your child wasn't in class today or didn't finish, they can either finish over the spring break week or stay after school for tutorials on Monday, March 23 to complete the project. We won't have time in class to work on them. We will begin presentations on Tuesday, March 24 in the afternoon, so they will need the three objects (or pictures/drawings of objects) that represent their person's life for the presentation.

Be sure to read at least 100 minutes over spring break for our Reading Challenge. Make at least 20 minutes I-Station. Explore Storia also. Our class (and a few other classes in school) has a trial of Storia to test before we considering purchasing it for our school. Let us know what you think of Storia (good and bad) to help with our decision. Storia log in is- www.storiaschool.com. Username-(child's first name)-smit128 for example: pam-smit128. Your child has a little paper with the initial password. Then he/she will be asked to change their password-use their birthdate then they will remember it. IF you have any questions about Storia or trouble with logging in, email mariah_smith@roundrockisd.org

Return reading logs on Monday, March 23. Prizes for reading over 100 minutes will be given out on Tuesday. Readers with most minutes will choose first.

Have a wonderful spring break! Have fun, enjoy your family, read, rest, come back to school ready for WRITING CAMP!!!!!

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Pam
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