October is such a fun month in our classroom for many reasons. One of my favorite reasons is our connection with reading and Halloween. Over the month of October we do a big study on nonfiction texts.
We started out our month-long nonfiction study on bats. At the beginning of the week our class used our "schema" to make an anchor chart on our prior knowledge of bats. As the week went on we looked at various nonfiction sources to learn more about bats. As we looked at every different source we added to our anchor chart. Throughout the week we focused on 3 vocabulary words:
echolocation
wingspan
and nocturnal
Some of the sources we used are:
1. Books
2. Scholastic News Article
3. Bat reading passage and questions
4. And a kid favorite video on Echolocation. Be sure to check it out, but one warning it is quite catchy. I caught myself singing it a few times around the house this week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr-Y2Tt8gFE
As the week conclude our anchor chart became quite full. During this week students jotted down their own facts they had been learning about bats and created their own "All About Bats" fact sheet. On Friday they each LOVED creating their own bat book! It was a fun week full of bats.
Here are a few examples of our first grade hall full of bats!
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