What are your students batty about? Reading or writing? Math or music? Science or spelling? Autumn or art? Whatever it is, you can create a batty bulletin board to showcase their work.
DIRECTIONS
Invite students to choose and read a book about bats. One of the books listed below might be an appropriate choice for your primary students.
Bats, by Gail Gibbons
Bat Loves the Night, by Nicola Davies
The Bat-Poet, by Randall Jarrell, illustrated by Maurice Sendac
Ask each student to write a paragraph about the book he or she has read. Students might describe a character in the book, write a brief summary of the story, list five facts about bats, and so on.
Provide each student with a bat shape book page printed on white drawing
paper (Click here
for the bat shape-book template.), and a slightly larger bat shape cut
from black construction paper.
Have students copy the final draft of their paragraphs on a shape book page, and then glue that page to a black construction paper bat.
Display the bats on a bulletin board titled "Batty About Books."
Even if you're not an artist, you can create pictures of just
about anything you want for your bulletin board displays.
Find the picture you want to use in a coloring book or similar
source, and then use an overhead transparency to enlarge it
to the appropriate size. To enlarge your picture, put a transparency
sheet over it and use a marker to trace the outline. Then
project your tracing onto a large piece of paper and retrace
the outline in pencil. Use a black permanent marker to outline
the picture, and then decorate it with crayons, markers, wrapping
paper, paint, and/or fabric.
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