Batty for Bats

 Prior to reading our first book for the week, Bats by Gail Gibbons,  we made a chart that showed what we already knew about Bats, this is called our schema.

 

 After reading Bats, we wrote down our new learning.  WOW, was there a lot that we learned. 

Later in the week we read the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.  

We used our schema to make book to world connections.  

Stellaluna was a fruit bat, we know that fruit bats are Megabats and live in South America and Asia.  This was a book to world connection. 

Stelluna could see at night, we know that bats can see at night and some bats use echolocation to help navigate through the night sky.  This was another book to work connection that we made. 

Through our bat investigations we learned that Bats have senses like us humans, but they use them in very different ways.  One things specifically, is that bats have a very strong sense of smell.  Mother bats will use their sense of smell to locate and identify their baby.  Just like Stellaluna's mother did!

So we decided to test this out!  Mrs. Wanke gave each of us a cotton ball with different scents.  We had to use ONLY our sense of smell to find other classmates that had the same scent as us.  This was harder than expected and gave us an appreciation for how strong their sense of smell really is!