So Many Different Kinds of Bats

Did you know there are about 1,400 different species of bats in the world! And they are found all over the world except in extreme hot or cold areas like severe desert or polar regions. Bats have a pretty bad reputation with most folks! There are a LOT of misconceptions about bats (mostly because of some old Hollywood vampire movies!) Bats are actually quite beneficial to the world, especially in agriculture. Bats are super pollinators. Over 300 different kinds of fruits are pollinated by bats. Without them, we would not have mangoes, bananas, and avocados.  (Goodbye, avocado toast!) Bats also spread the seeds for figs, nuts, and cacao plants , the main ingredient in chocolate! We can thank bats for CHOCOLATE!!! What? That really ups the importance of bats for me! Another added benefit of bats is they can eat their body weight in insects! That’s thousands of insects that won’t be biting us because they became dinner for bats. Think about it….bats are nocturnal and are out at night at the same time as those nasty mosquitoes! Because of bats, we have a lot less mosquito bites! Yay, bats!

Bats make a great unit of study in October

The last week of October is Bat Week. This is a time to celebrate the awesomeness of bats! We love to study bats in October because of their connection to Halloween but mostly because they are sooooo fascinating! We have written a best selling unit of study called Baffling Bats. It is loaded with non-fiction text that will inform your students about interesting facts regarding bats. There are Beginning Readers, comprehension worksheets with short paragraphs and a few questions, Take-Home interactive printables, ABC order worksheets, pocket chart cards, Vocabulary building activities and soooo much more. This is everything you need to do a 2+ week unit study of bats, Click BAFFLING BATS to find it at our store. Check out the detailed Preview to see everything that is included. (P.S. This product has 325 5-star ratings!!)

Need a Song about Bats? Who doesn’t?

Since we LOVE to sing with our students and really believe they learn and retain much more content through music we wrote a song called “All About Bats”. Not confident about singing? Don’t worry! This comes with a mini-movie where the pages of the book turn while we sing the lyrics (easily sung to the tune “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”. Check out these pictures to see just a few of the items that come with this packet. Click All About Bats to see it at our TPT store!

Beginning Readers about Bats

Because reading is such a critical skill we must spend a lot of our instructional minutes every day focusing on developing early reading skills. Why not engage your students in a topic they will enjoy learning about while reading some just-right level of text? Here is a packet of Beginning Readers and extension activities that will engage your students while they learn something new and exciting! Click Beginning Readers- BATS to find this product.

Still need more activities for a Bat Theme?

This 120-page Bat packet is loaded with great activities to fill out any Bat-themed study. It has beginning readers, pocket chart cards, interactive printables, math practice pages, and even some fun BUMP games for practicing math facts. The BUMP games are editable so you can change the numbers and increase the skills that are being practiced. Your students will LOVE “bumping” their friends off their numbers in this lively game! Don’t miss out on this jam-packed product!

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