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!





Saturday, September 12, 2015

Week 3-Great week!

Hello Bat Families,

Happy Grandparents' Day! It was wonderful to see such love and support of our children. We appreciate you being here!

Our week was fun and busy. We only had four days, but we packed a lot into each day.

Service Club begins on Monday, September 14 from 2:45-3:45 in room 512. (Our classroom) I am excited to get this group started this year. We will have a guest speaker, Mrs. Dennis, who will give the children information about a toy drive to bring awareness to OMS and give toys to the children at Dell's Hospital. We will also volunteer once a month at the Round Rock Serving Center. Our first visit will be on Saturday, September 24 from 9-10. Email me and let me know if you and your family are able to come, so I can let them know our numbers. Your child can come to volunteer, even if they are unable to be part of our FCE Service Club.

Reading-
*Continued to set up reading workshop and work on individual testing,
*Discussed what readers do to stay focused and think about the text w/proof
*Don't read like a curmudgeon! Read with understanding and expression.

Writing-
*plan and write small moment, seed stories
*add details to tell what you saw, heard, tasted,smelled, touched, and felt
*reread and revise

Social Studies-

*wrote about our favorite region
*worked together to create team names and flags
*Problem Solving challenge-use materials in bag (rubber bands, mailing labels, paper plates, paper, pipe cleaners) They had to imagine they were creating a rope to rescue a hiker who fell off the edge. Points were awarded by working together positively, 5 pts for every foot of rope, 25 pts if rope can stay together when people hold the ends.

Spelling-
*last week-their, there, they're, its, it's (plus individual words) New lists will come out on Monday.

Vocabulary will begin this week. Practice each day.There will be a test on Friday.

We talked about 9/11 today. Eventhough this is a sad day from history, we can remind ourselves to help others and turn it into a day of hope. We also read 14 Cows for America. Ask your child about it. We watched two videos and they are attached here.

http://video.scholastic.com/services/player/bcpid858992059001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAFv844g~,BASb5BU03X-I8zjhaYyMRNzgkSvpc3CO&bctid=1123712711001

http://www.scholastic.com/911day/

The children also wrote a bit about 9/11 also.

Dates to remember:

Monday, September 14-Service Club 2:45-3:45, Chick-Fil-A Night 5 pm Pflugerville

Tuesday, September 15-Sr. Choir Interest Meeting-3pm, TAG Night-6pm

Friday, September 16-Homework packet is due, Reading Response Letter is due.
spelling test,

Wednesday, September 24-Early Release Day 12:45


Have a wonderful weekend! See you on Monday. Thank you for sharing your child with me.

Pam
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