Bats! Bats! Bats!

We've read several bat books, and learned from videos and a virtual field trip too.

Here's a playlist of bat videos that we have either watched together or are using in stations to learn about bats.

Here are some of the things we learned already ...

Readers use mental images to help them make meaningful connections, visualize what's happening in a story, and remember information and stories to retell.

Here are some of our fantastic mental images about bats.

Some bats eat other animals. This bat is eating a small frog.

Mental images change as we read different things. 

Scientists call bats Chiroptera - which means hand-wing in Greek. Here's a mental image of a scientist calling a bat by its scientific name.

Here's a mental image of what echolocation might look like. 

Here's a bat in the night sky getting ready to eat insects!

Want to see more of our mental images and learning about bats? Visit our Kidblog where students post their own thinking! We'd love for you to leave us a comment with your thoughts!