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!





Monday, August 28, 2017

Decorated Writer's Notebooks due on Tuesday

Hi,

I hope that you were able to stay dry over the weekend and that your friends and family around Texas are safe.

Because of the 2 Hour Delay, our day was a little mixed up.  The kids did an amazing job being flexible and working hard.  

Decorated Writer's Notebooks are due tomorrow (8/29).  The decorations should include:
            First name on the front
            Photos, drawings, stickers, etc.. of important people to student
            Photos, drawings, stickers, etc.. of important places to student
            Photos, drawings, stickers, etc.. of important things to student

RRISD has a motto this year that is "We are ONE Family".  We will include photos of the students' families, my family, our classroom family, our school family, etc.. They will be hung on the wall, so they may get lost or accidentally ruined, so please send us copies, not originals.  Thank you in advance!

Tomorrow, the students will receive a paper to fill out with your help.  It is about cultural awareness and family traditions.  We will use the information to display countries that our ancestors are from as well as to use later in the year for poetry, writing, and social studies. It will also help us to get to know each other better.  Please return the paper by Wednesday, if possible, so that we can create our map/bulletin board.

Be sure that your child is reading everyday and is recording reading on his/her reading logs in the homework folder.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Thanks,
Pam