We spent time this week reading and exploring books about bats. JDaniel and I really love the book Baby Bat's Lullaby by Julia Noonan. We spend a lot of time together just the way the mother and child bat do in this book. The mother bat shares with her child many of the things he does during the day that make him special.
This lovely book's words flow as you read and the rhyming text draws you into their day. I love how the mother bat loves her baby. The pictures and the words both share that message.
What did we do to explore this book?
Bat Text Guide
I created a bat text guide for JDaniel to use while we read the book. We used the guide in several different ways. His first job to turn the guide sideways and pull in under the text as I read the story.
JDaniel's second was to go through the book with me and look for action words in the story a second time.
Next he had to help me look for rhyming words.
If you are looking for more information on using a reading guide or viewer, you will find some on this post I wrote for the Kid's Activities Blog called Simple and Fun Strategies for Reading.
Stained Glass Bats
I cut out bats and added shape cutouts to the bats. There was a rectangle bat, a circle bat and a triangle bat. JDaniel's job was to cut out tissue paper squares to use for the bats.
When we both had our parts of the craft ready, JDaniel glued the tissue paper squares to the back of the bats covering the shape cutouts I had made.
Alphabet Bats
JDaniel was given some bats with alphabet letters on their tummies. He was asked to hang them on a tomato cage so the letter would be facing the right direction. The bats have clothes pins glued to the back of them to allow them to be attached to the tomato cage.
Here are some wonderful book exploration posts from last week:
I love the elephant Living Life Intentionally create to go with the book Elmer.
Reading Confetti created an amazing paper
Light Up Pumpkin to go with the book Spooky Boo!
How have you been exploring books this week?
I've always been fond of bats. Your ideas are so fun!
ReplyDeleteOK I love the stained glass bats, and the rainbow Elmer. We haven't read baby bat's Lullaby I'll have to look for it.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of the bats hanging on the tomato cage! Cool!
ReplyDeletelove the bat craft, the book looks adroable!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea and something my boys would enjoy doing!
ReplyDeleteI'm back we also like Stellaluna.
ReplyDeleteI like the viewing tool. We are working on our letters and word recognition, so this is perfect!
ReplyDeleteThe stained glass bats are cute! I've seen it done with apples and pumpkins.. but I guess the sky is the limit when doing something like that. I wouldn't mind those bats 'flying' in our house : )
ReplyDeleteI linked up our own bat craft to go along with Gail Gibbons, "Bats" book. Have a great weekend!
How cute are the stained glass bats! Thanks for hosting another great Link party!
ReplyDeleteAren't those stained glass bats so cute!!?!? I love your review, it introduced me to new ideas and stuff! I will also join the hop because there seems to be great posts out there too!
ReplyDeleteThe alphabet bats are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI love your bats!
ReplyDeleteThose abc bats are so cool!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow funny, I was thinking about sharing text viewers too. Yours are so cute.
ReplyDeletethose bats are too cool... the teacher did a candy corn game today matching the letters... it was neat and showed me that we need to work on Broxtons lowercase letters...
ReplyDeleteLOVE this!!! Pinning to my literacy board :)
ReplyDeleteI love the stained bats! So cute!
ReplyDeleteI like them as text viewers, great idea! Love elmer too! :D
ReplyDeleteWhat a great collection of bat projects. I was just reading a bat book with my children and they would love to do some of these.
ReplyDeleteI love the illustrations in this book. Bat crafts are so cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks for featuring our Elmer Elephant craft!! We had so much fun with it =-)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your bats!! What a fun idea to hang them on the tomoato cage - it looks super fun. Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a GREAT weekend,
Beth =-)
Those shape bats are absolutely adorable!
ReplyDeleteYour bats are so cute. I love the idea of using the tomato cage!
ReplyDeleteI love all the bat crafts, fantastic. x
ReplyDeleteI love this book, and the clever little bat reading helper! I have read it to my niece, and she loves it too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute sounding story! I love the stained glass bats!
ReplyDeleteLooks like some fun crafts. When my son was in preschool we cut out bats and taped them onto mini KitKat bars for the Halloween party. After the kids ate the candy they could stick a couple of fingers in the wrapper and move it up and down causing the wings to flap!
ReplyDeleteLove your activities this week! The bat word viewer is so creative!
ReplyDeleteLove this post...the book looks adorable and all of the activities are so creative!
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